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, ...

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 ...

Just in case Abraham Lincoln ever wishes to give an encore performance of that famous speech he delivered in 1863 at ...

Speech at Philadelphia ... as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.” —Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858 44. “If a man will stand up and assert, and ...

Republican National Convention provided the young, burgeoning Chicago with perhaps its first real national recognition.

On Oct. 15, 1858, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas ... This address is generally referred to as Lincoln’s “Electric Cord’ speech and was delivered on July 10. Americans of that era ...

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 ...

National Park Service employees dust the statue of President Abraham Lincoln at the ... inaugural address on the northern one. Lincoln gave that latter speech on the other side of the Capitol ...

“I ask Abraham Lincoln to answer these questions ... Douglas then used his opening speech to put Lincoln on the defensive over the issue of Black equality. Douglas, who had held statewide ...

We had seen Abraham Lincoln in the solemn and isolated majesty of his real nature. We were so greatly affected that the committee adjourned for the day." While speaking of Lincoln nearly twenty ...