Lincoln's "Lost Speech" has been called the most important event in Bloomington history, but the journey to a create a mural ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863 Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences.

Sam Waterston read Lincoln's First Inaugural Speech. Historian Susan Schulten discussed how this speech was received in the country and how Lincoln addressed secession and preservation of the Union.

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 ...

As the anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination approaches, a historian analyzes his last speech Lincoln wanted to talk directly to the people about his plan to restore the Union John Wilkes Booth ...

A month before his inauguration on March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln had a speech problem. Soon the President-elect, a man with only two years of federal service behind him, would take the oath of office ...

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.