KALAMAZOO, MI — When Abraham Lincoln came to Kalamazoo 156 years ago, he was a somewhat obscure, beardless lawyer, ... In 1956 on the 100th anniversary of Lincoln’s speech, ...

"I was 31 years old at the time I came down to Kalamazoo with my mother to hear him," one Cooper Township man recalled. "He stood on top of the mound in Bronson Park and it was one of the best ...

When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for his second inaugural in 1865, historians think he cut the sentences and ...

LANSING, MI -- On Abraham Lincoln's birthday this week, we published a story about how the 16th president coined the term 'Michigander.' It was nothing new: the bit of linguistic history had been ...

In the winter of 1865, near the close of the Civil War, a haggard-looking Abraham Lincoln took a printed draft of his upcoming second inaugural address and cut it to pieces. He sliced it into 27 ...

Abraham Lincoln made a stop at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Dayton in 1859. Log In. ... In honor of that visit, we went into the archives for more on Lincoln’s 1859 speech in Dayton.

Abraham Lincoln’s two inaugural speeches were both historic and prophetic. Read some of the highlights of these landmark addresses. Lincoln became president in 1861 as the southern states were ...

Abraham Lincoln scholars Michael Burlingame, Noah Feldman, and Diana Schaub talked about the 16th president's speeches and what they revealed about his views on the Constitution. The National ...

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.

Abraham Lincoln’s best-known speeches were the Gettysburg Address and his Second Inaugural Address. But a few weeks after the latter, on April 11, 1865, Lincoln stood on a White House balcony ...

Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: The 'greatest speech in the world' – that was only 273 words long. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863 ...

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 ...