A mural celebrating 169 years since Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous "lost speech" in Bloomington was unveiled Thursday ...

"What happened in Bloomington 169 years ago ... ignited Lincoln's march to the presidency and eventually led to emancipation, ...

It’s the 160th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, issued on Jan. 1, 1863, by President Abraham Lincoln to declare ... King Jr. delivered in a 1962 speech about the significance ...

Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858 ... “You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional—I think differently.” ...

However, in his keynote address at the ... anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in 1876 and shows the former president holding a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation ...

They were enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation, in which President Abraham Lincoln decreed some enslaved ... back as Frederick Douglass' very famous speech in 1852 - "What To The Slave Is ...

22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation ... The proclamation did not, however, address the contentious issue of slavery within the nation’s border ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President ... In his inaugural address, delivered on March 4, 1861, Lincoln proclaimed that it was his duty to maintain the Union.

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 ...

There are a great many aspects to Lincoln ... Labor ideology, his emancipation of the slaves in D.C. and nationally, his model in endorsing candidates, his 1838 Lyceum speech, his 1860 Cooper ...