Scurrying from caucus room to caucus room in search of his mislaid presidential nomination, Candidate Adlai Stevenson allowed himself to be poked, prodded, pushed and paraded until he felt, as he put ...

In the fading light of a hot summer day last week, Adlai Stevenson and a few friends left the Chicago Yacht Club, got into a taxi, and headed back to his living quarters at the Sheraton-Blackstone ...

Adlai Stevenson, who tried to "talk sense to the American people," was an old-fashioned intellectual who believed in long speeches and the power of words. But in 1952, Stevenson faced his Republican ...

“Let us have your top-of-the-head response toward Kennedy’s nomination. What do you think of the man?” The Voice queried 10 people in the creative professions on their attitude toward the Democratic ...

With less than a month to go in the 1952 presidential election, Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson, the governor of Illinois, landed his chartered plane in Spokane for a stump speech Oct. 15, 1952.

The semester was ending at Champaign-Urbana, as the train filled up with students dragging large duffel bags and backpacks, not to mention iced coffees topped with straws. I used the occasion of the ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Stevenson (Adlai) Center on Democracy has hosted 2 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 2008 Forum. The year with the highest average number of views per ...

BLOOMINGTON - A house that Illinois politician Adlai Stevenson I once lived in is headed for the auction block. A woman who owns the Bloomington home and several other properties lost them to ...

CHICAGO — Former U.S. Sen. Adlai E. Stevenson III, the fourth generation of an iconic Illinois Democratic political family to hold public office and who lost the closest governor’s race in state ...