White Jr. wrote in his 2002 book “Lincoln’s Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural.” His address was “the prism through which he himself strained to see the light of God.” Lincoln ...

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Frederick Douglass called it "a sacred effort," and Lincoln himself thought that his Second Inaugural, which offered a theodicy of the Civil War, was better than the Gettysburg Address.

Those words are now carved in stone at the Lincoln Memorial. No other second inaugural address — and there have been 15 others — has achieved the renown that Lincoln’s has, though they have ...

Early on, I landed on my top five: Lincoln’s first and second inaugural addresses, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first inaugural address and “Four Freedoms” State of the Union speech and John F.

Lincoln’s second inaugural address is one of the most consequential presidential speeches in U.S. history, both for its eloquence and its impact. At only 703 words, it was the third shortest ...

A massive Abraham Lincoln auction, the most extensive sale of items from America's 16th president, yielded big prices ...

Vetters said Lincoln’s words from his second inaugural address are as powerful today as they were when Lincoln gave the speech March 4, 1965, as the Civil War was coming to a close, six weeks ...

At this second appearing to take the oath of the ... All dreaded it, all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the ...