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 ...

Mr. White was the author of Lincoln’s Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural, published by Simon and Schuster. Author Ronald White talked about President Lincoln and the Civil War, which focused ...

Those words are now carved in stone at the Lincoln Memorial. No other second inaugural address — and there have been 15 others — has achieved the renown that Lincoln’s has, though they have ...

Tens of thousands of spectators stood in the mire at the Capitol for Lincoln’s second inaugural address — although only those near the podium on the East Portico could hear him. In the ...

Frederick Douglass called it "a sacred effort," and Lincoln himself thought that his Second Inaugural, which offered a theodicy of the Civil War, was better than the Gettysburg Address.

It should be remembered as the "Golden Age of America" speech, but it will probably just be referenced as Trump’s Second Inaugural. It was Abraham Lincoln who borrowed from the Book of Proverbs ...

Early on, I landed on my top five: Lincoln’s first and second inaugural addresses, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first inaugural address and “Four Freedoms” State of the Union speech and John F.

The Lincoln Presidential Foundation is in debt, so it is putting more than 100 of its artifacts up for auction. The ...

At this second appearing to take the oath of the ... All dreaded it, all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the ...

Early on, I landed on my top five: Lincoln’s first and second inaugural addresses, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first inaugural address and “Four Freedoms” State of the Union speech and John F.