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 Knox College students in Catherine Denial's course in Public History opened a window to the past, built up walls covered with posters and documents, and put on the costumes and attitudes of the 1850's. Their display of the Lincoln-Douglas Debate site at Knox was exhibited this month, and will be re-assembled twice in October 2008: for a gathering of scholars and history buffs at the Lincoln Colloquium, and again for Knox's Homecoming Weekend, Oct 31-Nov.1 |
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 Students pre-assembled the model on stage in Harbach Theatre, before moving it to the display area in the lobby of the Ford Center for Fine Arts. |
 Researching in the Knox College Archives, students found a document showing popular women's hair styles on the Knox campus in the 1800s. |
 Students move a trunk of period artifacts into place at the display. Eash student dressed as a person who would have been in the audience at the debate. |
 The display, which featured both local and national issues from the 1850s, drew visitors from campus and the Galesburg community. |
 History professor Catherine Denial, right, confers with a student in the class prior to the opening of the display. |
 David Nolan, one of the students in the class, goes "through college" the same way that Lincoln did, via a window in Old Main. |
 Old Main at Knox College today, a National Historic Landmark and the only building that remains from the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. On the day of the debate in October 1858, the debate platform was moved to the east side of the building, to shield the debaters from the wind. Because the platform blocked the door, Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas and others in the platform party had to climb through the window, just to the left of the door in this photograph. |
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Published on March 14, 2008
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