The white-leather gloves are stained with blood from the night the slain president wore them to the theater.

When Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office for his second term as president, the United States was divided as never before or since. The Civil War had killed over 600,000 Americans, North and South.

iReport.com: Hear Douglass's descendants read Lincoln's second inaugural address After an abolitionist lecture tour in Ireland, Scotland and England, Douglass moved his family to Rochester ...

"For too long," says Ronald C. White, Jr., "Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address has lived under the shadow of the Gettysburg Address. And yet Lincoln thought this was his best effort." White does ...

Guests danced until 4:00 a.m. when President Abraham Lincoln held his second inaugural ball at the Patent Office Building, March 6, 1865. Illustrated London News, April 1865/National Portrait ...

His Gettysburg Address (1863) and Second Inaugural Address (1865) are two of his most revered speeches. Lincoln's story is remarkable in many ways, not least his rise from humble beginnings to the ...

Following is a transcript of the video. In the inscription of Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address, the word "future" started with an E instead of an F. The bottom part of the E was filled ...

But other than mentioning "the lash of the whip," an echo of Lincoln's towering second inaugural address, and "gathering clouds and raging storms," Obama did not seem to quote the 16th president.