When Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office for his second term as president, the United States was divided as never before ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

As he was leaving the dais in the aftermath of President Trump’s first inaugural address ... high-minded speechifying of Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address (“With malice toward ...

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 ...