When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for his second inaugural in ... on a heavier piece of paper he folded down the ...

Abraham Lincoln Joseph Cunningham Steve Beckett ... Club, is received. In the matter of making speeches I am a good (deal) pressed by invitations for almost all quarters; and while I hope to ...

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

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 ...

Abraham Lincoln ... I did not learn much from those speeches (except for FDR's first inaugural), but I learned a great deal from Lincoln's ten sentences. Now, 47 years later, as another tall ...

I can see Alton’s Lincoln-Douglas Square from my bookshop window. On Oct. 15, 1858, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen ... 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 ...

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

He was there to discuss the possibility of painting a 42-by-25-foot mural of Abraham ... Lincoln mural. On May 29, 1856, it was the site of what has since become known as “Lincoln’s Lost ...

In Ottawa, the site of his first debate with Stephen Douglas, Abraham ... War.” Lincoln would not have the first word — as the incumbent, Douglas got the initial opening speech — but he ...