That All Men Are Created Equal” features bills of sale, reward posters and more to explain slavery’s role in the Civil War, ...

National Park Service employees dust the statue of President Abraham ... his second inaugural address from the west front of that building, he’d have been able to see the Lincoln Memorial ...

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 ...

When Donald Trump assumes office on Jan. 20 as the 47th president of the United States, he will mark the solemn occasion with an inaugural ... Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln when they assumed ...

Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address is considered by many to be the best speech ever given by an American president, even greater than his Gettysburg Address. At what Lincoln called "this ...

Afterwards, he addressed the nation with his inaugural address, in which he discussed Texas rejoining the union. Polk was the 11th President. Crowds flocked to the Capitol when Abraham Lincoln was ...

8. At Abraham Lincoln's second inauguration in 1865, Black men and women marched in the inaugural parade for the first time. 9. Barack Obama's 2008 inauguration was the largest attendance of any ...

While being sworn in, Obama placed his hand on a Bible held by his wife, Michelle—and it was the same Bible used by President Abraham Lincoln at his first inaugural. While being sworn-in as ...

a velvet volume used at President Abraham Lincoln's inauguration in 1861. With 76.9 million votes, the Republican replaced Joe Biden as President of the United States after he beat Democratic ...