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

The Lincoln Presidential Foundation is in debt, so it is putting more than 100 of its artifacts up for auction. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Additionally, a rare first printing of Lincoln's second inaugural address is expected to go for at least $40,000. The speech was delivered on March 4, 1865, and contained just 700 words ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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.