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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858 44. “If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argumen ...

We had seen Abraham Lincoln in the solemn and isolated ... in Connecticut and Rhode Island earnestly invited him to make two or three speeches in each State. There appeared to be abundant ...