The power of the American ideal comes not from Americans being a “particular people” with a common heritage—an ...

In 1858, after winning the Republican nomination for the Senate against incumbent Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln gave a speech that has stood the test of time because of the truth it laid plain ...

Civic engagement, individual and collective actions aimed at addressing public opportunities and challenges, is fundamental to constitutional republics in healthy societies.

The driving force on Capitol Hill is cowardice, as both GOPers and Dems confess to fear of violence. It wasn't always that ...

A bullet that grazed his ear and his extraordinary instant response became a defining moment, and for his supporters the ...

President Donald Trump touted malice for Democrats like Sens. Kelly and Gallego and Reps. Stanton & Ansari and all who didn't ...

The nation's founding document has been celebrated by leaders across the centuries, and it can still guide us today.

BLOOMINGTON — Almost 170 years after Abraham Lincoln delivered an impassioned speech against slavery at a political gathering in downtown Bloomington, a new mural within sight of the spot now ...

The fiery treatise against slavery that Abraham Lincoln delivered in Bloomington years before his presidency has become known as the "Lost Speech" as scholars long searched in vain for a ...

The 1860 Republican National Convention provided the young, burgeoning Chicago with perhaps its first real national recognition.

This digital rendering shows what would be a proposed mural to commemorate Lincoln’s “Lost Speech” on May 29, 1856. The mural is planned for the wall of the building that houses Rosie’s ...