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

Before he was elected president, Abraham Lincoln visited the Montgomery County Courthouse in 1859. Lincoln, who had lost a bid for the U.S. Senate the year before to Stephen A. Douglas, arrived in ...

When Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office for his second term as president, the United States was divided as never before or since. The Civil War had killed over 600,000 Americans, North and South.

I can see Alton’s Lincoln-Douglas Square from my bookshop window. On Oct. 15, 1858, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas engaged in the last of their seven debates as they contended for an ...

Ever wondered about the origins of the Abraham Lincoln sculpture seated on a bench in downtown Bloomington? Here's a look ...

KALAMAZOO, MI — After 167 years, President Abraham Lincoln has returned to the park where he gave his only public speech in the state of Michigan. Unveiled at the same time, 2 p.m., place ...

The speech is exhausted. The Civil War had been grinding on for almost four years, though it was nearly over by March 1865. Lincoln doesn’t spend much time discussing the conflict, saying that ...

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 ...