Abraham Lincoln visited Cincinnati in 1861. Here's what he had to say
Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.
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The second inaugural we need was delivered 160 years ago
The distance between Lincoln’s speech and Monday’s inauguration felt further than the length of the Mall. It even felt further, somehow, than 160 years.
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Reject Trump’s ‘American carnage’ and choose Lincoln’s ‘better angels’
Lincoln’s first inaugural address was an all-out attempt ... What Trump did in his first inaugural speech was to paint a picture of a very dark reality, one that included not only “American ...
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A famous Lincoln speech might bear his fingerprints
When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for his second inaugural in 1865, historians think he cut the sentences and paragraphs from a printed draft and pasted them onto the copy he planned ...