American Document Series: Lincoln Douglas Debates: The House Divides San Francisco Film Festival-Special Jury

San Francisco Film Festival-Special Jury Award

Animation succinctly develops the relationship between the electronic structure of an atom and its properties

A courtroom dramatization set outside the normal boundaries imposed by time and space provides viewers with an opportunity to see and hear the issue of Manifest Destiny debated against Native American claims to open prairies and sacred lands

Brownian movement is seen

American Document Series: Lincoln Douglas Debates: The House Divides San Francisco Film Festival-Special JuryNewspaper reports of the events leading up to and following the Lincoln Douglas debates bring life to the underlying issues of the timesand the strong emotional current that precipitated Abraham Lincolns election to the Presidency just two years later. Although the question of slave or free states is at the forefront of the debates, the real issue of the day is easily evident: Who will decide any issue, the Federal government or the individual state?