I’m giving a Lincoln’s birthday party Sunday. The tallest guest will read a short speech. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden faces Congress for the speech of his presidency — the State of the Union.

Opinion In 1858, Lincoln made a mistake. President Biden, don’t make the same one. Lincoln’s opponents turned his ‘house divided’ speech against him.

‘Full house’ for speech. In 1854, Lincoln was here in Urbana as a circuit-riding lawyer of the 8th Judicial Circuit of Illinois. He would come to Urbana to handle clients’ business in our ...

On this day in 1896, William Jennings Bryan of Lincoln, Nebraska, delivered his famous “Cross of Gold” speech at the ...

Democracy was facing its toughest test 159 years ago and Abraham Lincoln's fine speech at Gettysburg was a turning point that saved it. It is impossible to read President Lincoln’s Gettysburg ...

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

This is how Henry Clay Whitney described the day that 170 years ago, on Oct. 24, 1854, when Abraham Lincoln gave a speech in the Champaign County Courthouse in opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Thousands of people fled the National Speech and Debate Tournament in Des Moines on Thursday after an intruder carrying a backpack walked on stage during the competition.