In 1858, after winning the Republican nomination for the Senate against incumbent Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln gave a speech that has stood the test of time because of the truth it laid plain ...

Abraham Lincoln made a stop at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Dayton in 1859. Log In. ... The Daily Dayton Journal, a Republican newspaper, described the speech this way: ...

I can see Alton’s Lincoln-Douglas Square from my bookshop window. On Oct. 15, 1858, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas engaged in the last of their seven debates as they contended for an ...

Today marks the 216th birthday of our first Republican president, ... Abraham Lincoln. ... his 1838 Lyceum speech, his 1860 Cooper Union speech, his 1861 First Inaugural Address, ...

The announcement that Hon. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, of Illinois, would deliver an address in Cooper Institute, last evening, drew thither a large and enthusiastic assemblage.

Lincoln Home National Historic Site's superintendent said "there was an amazing set of events that occurred" on May 17-18, 1860 at the Republican Convention that propelled Abraham Lincoln from ...

BLOOMINGTON — Almost 170 years after Abraham Lincoln delivered an impassioned speech against slavery at a political gathering in downtown Bloomington, a new mural within sight of the spot now ...

Troy Freeman of Free Sky Studios works on a mural commemorating Abraham Lincoln's "Lost Speech" in downtown Bloomington on Friday, May 23, 2025.

This digital rendering shows what would be a proposed mural to commemorate Lincoln’s “Lost Speech” on May 29, 1856. The mural is planned for the wall of the building that houses Rosie’s ...