I walked down the steps as a light snow started to fall. The distance between Lincoln’s speech and Monday’s inauguration felt further than the length of the Mall. It even felt further ...

Lincoln had led America through its bloodiest hours, and now, mere weeks after delivering a second inaugural and only days after the war's end, he appeared poised to preside over a sure-to-be ...

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.

“We present our readers in this issue the inaugural address of President Lincoln,” the Rochester City Post said in its March 16 edition. “It is sensible, straight-forward and ...