When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for his second inaugural in 1865, historians think he cut the sentences and ...

President Abraham Lincoln offered a short but seminal vision of the past and promise of the United States in a speech known as the Gettysburg Address. The brief speech—just 272 words arranged ...

The fiery treatise against slavery that Abraham Lincoln delivered in Bloomington years before his presidency has become known as the "Lost Speech" as scholars long searched in vain for a transcript. A ...

Republican National Convention provided the young, burgeoning Chicago with perhaps its first real national recognition.

Memorial Day is an appropriate time to reread Abraham Lincoln’s sublime Gettysburg Address honoring Civil War dead.

On Oct. 15, 1858, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas engaged in ... This address is generally referred to as Lincoln’s “Electric Cord’ speech and was delivered on July 10.

Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858 44. “If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argumen ...

National Park Service employees dust the statue of President Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial ... Lincoln gave that latter speech on the other side of the Capitol from where inaugurations ...

When Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office for his ... inaugural address is one of the most consequential presidential speeches in U.S. history, both for its eloquence and its impact.