When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for his second inaugural in ... on a heavier piece of paper he folded down the ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Abraham Lincoln Joseph Cunningham Steve Beckett ... Club, is received. In the matter of making speeches I am a good (deal) pressed by invitations for almost all quarters; and while I hope to ...

When Abraham ... Lincoln could have celebrated the Union’s approaching victory or claimed a mandate for his policy goals. Instead, he adopted a conciliatory tone. He called on both sides to make ...

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I can see Alton’s Lincoln-Douglas Square from my bookshop window. On Oct. 15, 1858, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen ... as Lincoln’s “Electric Cord’ speech and was delivered on July 10.