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 ...

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 ...

The several Lincoln and Johnson Clubs of the District ... BATES made a brief congratulatory speech, and thus ended the night's proceedings.

When Abraham Lincoln took ... ourselves and with all nations.” Lincoln’s second inaugural address is one of the most consequential presidential speeches in U.S. history, both for its eloquence ...