Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

I have told them that a house divided against itself cannot ... and you will live and die a better man.” Other speeches and writings evince Lincoln’s “fatalistic confidence in the ultimate ...

Lincoln’s election was itself evidence of the sectional discord that had ripped the United States apart during the 1850s, as slavery became a critical political and a moral issue. As Lincoln had ...

37 —Abraham Lincoln The Civil War was about slavery ... 41 The truth, as Lincoln suggested in his House Divided speech, was that this war would either cut the country in two or see it become ...

A house divided against itself cannot stand” is a quote from an Abraham Lincoln speech given in 1858. It was true then and it is still true today. We are continuing in a government shutdown that ...

When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for his second inaugural in 1865, historians think he cut the sentences and paragraphs from a printed draft and pasted them onto the copy he planned ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln ... his acceptance speech, Lincoln criticized President Buchanan, denounced slavery, and declared "a house divided cannot ...