Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.
A war centered on slavery, on the insistence of Southerners in “wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces,” was inevitable in 1861 ... Lincoln’s speech and Monday’s ...
Images from the inauguration show President Trump did not put his hand on a Bible as he was sworn in by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. It is not required in the Constitution.
Complementing this deeply personal text is the iconic Lincoln Bible, a velvet-bound artifact first used in 1861 to inaugurate ... three times since Lincoln's inauguration: by President Obama ...
The one used for Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration in 1861 will be stacked with a timeworn copy given to Trump by his mother in 1955. Obama, in fact, twice used the Lincoln Bible — a burgundy ...
have been applied to countless situations since Abraham Lincoln first uttered them in 1861. Not all inaugural addresses achieve greatness. Some have been quite forgettable. But each of them has ...
President-elect Donald Trump will use two Bibles to culminate the 60th Presidential Inauguration. He is not the first to do ...
This year, Inauguration Day falls on Monday, Jan. 20. In honor of the day, you’ll find a collection of stirring Inauguration Day quotes spoken by U.S. presidents or poets during inaugurations dating ...
Trump took the oath of office on Monday immediately after Vice President JD Vance was sworn in by Associate Supreme Court ...
This striking gesture echos a precedent set by Obama, who also used two Bibles for his second inauguration ... is the iconic Lincoln Bible, a velvet-bound artifact first used in 1861 to inaugurate ...