When Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office for his second term as president, the United States was divided as never before ...

"For too long," says Ronald C. White, Jr., "Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address has lived under the shadow of the Gettysburg Address. And yet Lincoln thought this was his best effort." White does ...

Abraham Lincoln ... 20th-century inaugural addresses. I did not learn much from those speeches (except for FDR's first inaugural), but I learned a great deal from Lincoln's ten sentences.

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln remains a tragic historical ... His Gettysburg Address (1863) and Second Inaugural Address (1865) are two of his most revered ...

When Lincoln left Illinois and headed east for his inauguration, he told the crowd at the Springfield ... Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln are mammoth, yet simple to ...

Abraham Lincoln was met with a crowd of thousands when his whistle-stop tour arrived in Columbus, Ohio in 1861. It was during ...

he'll also be repeating it -- by placing his hand on the same Bible that Abraham Lincoln used during the inauguration of 1861. The Constitution does not require presidents to be sworn in on a ...

WASHINGTON — A look at the lineup of official inaugural events surrounding Donald Trump's second inauguration as ... by The University of Nebraska–Lincoln Combined Choirs Prelude: ''The ...