How Abraham Lincoln Found His Anti-Slavery Voice. Published May 20, 2017 at 7:10 AM EDT Updated May 25, ... Lincoln had found his voice. His speech, the lengthiest he ever delivered, ...

In 2006, a Lincoln reenactor came to Bronson Park and recited the Kalamazoo speech for the 150th Anniversary of Lincoln's visit. Former state Sen. Tom George produced a 40-minute documentary in ...

Lincoln's Greatest Speech Americans Have Never Heard. ... President Abraham Lincoln in his study in the 1860s. ... Among that sixteen were several of the most noted anti-slavery men of those times ...

NEW HAVEN -- It was 150 years ago that Abraham Lincoln, beginning his run as a possible presidential candidate, stopped in New Haven and gave a speech that addressed the problems of slavery and ...

On June 16, 1858, more than 160 years ago, a little-known politician delivered a speech at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield after he accepted his party's nomination for U.S. senator.

On this day in 1854, Abraham Lincoln, as a congressional candidate from Illinois, spoke out against the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which Congress had passed five months earlier. In his speech, the ...

Abraham Lincoln always thought slavery was unjust — but struggled with what to do once slavery ended. Historian Eric Foner traces how Lincoln's thoughts about slavery — and freed slaves ...

KALAMAZOO, MI — After 167 years, President Abraham Lincoln has returned to the park where he gave his only public speech in the state of Michigan. Unveiled at the same time, 2 p.m., place ...

In the 1850s, Abraham Lincoln's rhetoric was suffused with a profound sense of loss. He considered it shameful national backsliding that a new affirmative defense of slavery had arisen in the South.

OPINION Lincoln, Jefferson and Thanksgiving's anti-slavery roots Lincoln in proclaiming a day of Thanksgiving referenced our sins as the cause of our pain and distress ...

Many local residents have heard something about Abraham Lincoln’s so-called “Lost Speech,” delivered in downtown Bloomington on May 29, 1856. Yet most folks don’t know the story about the ...