As a Massachusetts senator during the years leading up to the Civil War, Sumner was a passionate and committed abolitionist.

Lincoln gave a series of speeches, including one in Peoria in the fall of 1854, the infamous "House Divided" speech in Springfield on June 16, 1858, and the Cooper Union speech in February 1860 in ...

When he visited New York in February 1860 to deliver at the Cooper Union the most important speech of his life to date, Lincoln also went to Mathew Brady’s studio for a portrait.

UNION LINCOLN CAMPAIGN CLUB.; MEETING AT COOPER INSTITUTE ENTHUSIASTIC DEMONSTRATION SPEECH OF GENERAL JAMES H. LANE Share full article March 31, 1864 The New York Times Archives ...

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

Abraham Lincoln (Probably) Didn’t Defy a Court Order as President Detail of portrait of President Abraham Lincoln by George Healey, 1869(White House Historical Association/via Wikimedia) ...

Abraham Lincoln’s Legendary Gettysburg Address Promised ‘Government of the People, by the People, for the People’ The president’s humble speech, delivered on this day in 1863, was filled ...

With Tuesday marking the 161st anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address, Lincoln historian Steve Beckett shares with us a speech he delivered last month to a large crowd in the ...

Also on view are printings of Lincoln’s speeches, including his 1860 Cooper Union address and his 1858 debates with Douglas for a seat in the United States Senate.

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