A famous Lincoln speech might bear his fingerprints
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 to ...
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Mural and contest in Bloomington to celebrate famed Lincoln speech
Happy birthday Abraham Lincoln. He’s 216. The McLean County Museum of History is hallmarking Lincoln’s Feb. 12 birthday with ...
Lincoln’s Radiothon Story
On an otherwise normal day last February, Lincoln’s Opa picked him up from the school bus stop at the end of the family’s ...
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THE RECEPTION AT CINCINNATI.; SPEECH OF MR. LINCOLN.
Mr. LINCOLN took a seat in a barouche drawn by six white horses, amid the deafening cheers of a vast concourse of people. The procession, in charge of MILES GREENWOOD, took up its march passing ...
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The second inaugural we need was delivered 160 years ago
Lincoln gave that latter speech on the other side of the Capitol from where inaugurations are now usually conducted. There’s a photo of the event, in the blurry, crowded style of the era.