To set the context: Lincoln spoke at Cooper Union on February 27, 1860. The speech was given in the dark shadow of John Brown’s raid, which had occurred in October 1859 and led to Brown’s ...

On February 27, 1860, Abraham Lincoln addressed the Young Men's Republican Union in Cooper Union's Great Hall arguing against allowing slavery in the Western territories. This electrifying speech ...

Author Harold Holzer discussed the significance of this address Abraham Lincoln made in New York City on February 27, 1860.

Lincoln knew both of those claims to be false and set about proving it in his Cooper Union Address. His challenge was daunting because the Founding Fathers were themselves a large group of men ...

Influential Abraham Lincoln quotes. 1. “Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.” —Cooper Union Address, New York, February 27, 1860 ...

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

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TRIBUTES TO LINCOLN AT COOPER UNION; Mayor McClellan, Joseph H. Choate, and Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott Honor His Memory. TABLET TO HIM UNVEILED Women Give One Commemorating His Cooper Union Speech at ...