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

Abraham Lincoln, the greatest American president ... Do we expect our presidents to memorize or improvise their most important speeches?) Lincoln also spoke with a Midwestern inflection that ...

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

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On April 15, 1865, the Civil War had just ended, the 16th U.S. president had been killed. How would Americans respond?

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.