• 48 Wisconsin Historical Society Library
• 9 Wisconsin Historical Society Archives
• 5 Memorial Library
• 4 Law Library
• 2 WHS State Archives Preservation Facility
• 1 College Library

• 146 Books
• 2 Microforms
• 1 Sound Recordings

• 1 Compact Discs

• 82 Politics and government
• 53 Slavery
• 31 Extension to the territories
• 27 Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858
• 16 History
• 13 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
• 12 United States
• 11 Squatter sovereignty
• 9 Compromise of 1850
• 8 Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861
• 7 Speeches, addresses, etc., American
• 6 Constitutional law
• 6 Kansas-Nebraska Act
• 6 Political career before 1861
• 6 Powers and duties
• 6 States' rights (American politics)
• 6 United States. Congress
• 5 Black, Jeremiah S. (Jeremiah Sullivan), 1810-1883
• 5 Campaign literature
• 5 Enslaved persons
• 5 Fugitive slave law (1850)
• 5 Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
• 5 Observations on Senator Douglas's views of popular sovereignty
• 4 Fugitive slaves
• 4 Kansas-Nebraska bill

• 50 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
• 9 United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Territories
• 6 Cutts, James Madison
• 6 United States
• 5 Johannsen, Robert W. (Robert Walter), 1925-2011
• 5 Sparks, Edwin Erle, 1860-1924
• 4 Brooks, Noah, 1830-1903
• 4 Choate, Joseph Hodges, 1832-1917
• 4 Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
• 4 Lapsley, Arthur Brooks
• 4 Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
• 4 Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906
• 4 Seward, William H. (William Henry), 1801-1872
• 3 Doherty, Mary Gertrude
• 3 Holzer, Harold
• 3 Terry, Schuyler B. (Schuyler Baldwin), 1883-
• 3 United States. Congress (33rd, 1st session : 1853-1854). Senate
• 3 United States. Congress (36th, 1st session : 1859-1860). Senate
• 2 Clay, Henry, 1777-1852
• 2 Dunbar, Wm. (William)
• 2 Fessenden, William Pitt, 1806-1869
• 2 Flint, Henry M. (Henry Martyn), 1829-1868
• 2 Jaffa, Harry V.
• 2 Putnam, George Haven, 1844-1930

• 101 United States
• 25 Kansas
• 11 Illinois
• 3 Ohio
• 3 Utah
• 2 Alton
• 2 America
• 2 Washington (D.C.)
• 2 États-Unis
• 1 Amérique
• 1 Freeport (Ill.)
• 1 Harpers Ferry
• 1 Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)
• 1 Louisiana
• 1 Nebraska
• 1 New Orleans
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