When Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office for his second term as president, the United States was divided as never before or since. The Civil War had killed over 600,000 Americans, North and South.

Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia that day to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at a home in ...

Lincoln was adaptable enough that he could have mastered modern modes of political speech—today's sound-bite culture—had he lived in this era. He had a talent for getting to the point.

It’s a comfort to remember that the virtues he embodied are fundamentally American.

City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams teased her potential broader political ambitions ... inside the Rose Auditorium at Jazz at Lincoln Center. The annual speech usually serves as a way for the ...

Early in his political career ... “I’ve tried for years to make him buy a new hat.” When Lincoln gave his famous speech at the Cooper Institute in New York in February of 1860, some ...

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