A mural celebrating 169 years since Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous "lost speech" in Bloomington was unveiled Thursday ...

"What happened in Bloomington 169 years ago ... ignited Lincoln's march to the presidency and eventually led to emancipation, ...

The 50-foot-tall mural of President Abraham Lincoln that graces ... the courtyard behind the Peoria County Courthouse since 2018, a spot where Lincoln once gave a speech on the ills of slavery ...

The fiery treatise against slavery that Abraham Lincoln delivered in Bloomington years before his presidency has become known as the "Lost Speech" as scholars long searched in vain for a transcript. A ...

In this careful, balanced look at Abraham Lincoln's stirring 1854 Peoria, Ill., speech, writer and historian Lehrman finds a ""prelude to greatness"" that put the little-known lawyer and ...

Abraham Lincoln Joseph Cunningham Steve Beckett ... Henry Whitney said it was the Peoria speech. When Lincoln was soliciting support for his U.S. Senate candidacy, on Dec. 15, 1854, he sent ...

Inscribed on the waterfall will be phrases from President Abraham Lincoln’s speech in Peoria from 1854. You will be able to sit on the structure as well, when it’s not running water.

Memorial Day is an appropriate time to reread Abraham Lincoln’s sublime Gettysburg Address honoring Civil War dead.

16—Before he was elected president, Abraham Lincoln visited the Montgomery County ... we went into the archives for a look at the speech. The Illinois lawyer, who was traveling from Columbus ...