The brief speech—just 272 words arranged into ten sentences—was part of a ... President Abraham Lincoln offered a short but ...

As America approaches 2025, Abraham Lincoln's prescient words about internal destruction of democracy resonate amid growing ...

Donald Trump may have crossed a new line but he isn’t the only potty-mouthed president, a tradition that dates all the way ...

He recalled President Abraham Lincoln’s speech and the events leading up to the American Civil War. "1860, this country was in big jeopardy. It was splitting apart. A house divided.

On this day in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, one of the most memorable speeches in American history.Lincoln’s speech, though just 271 words, served as a ...

Before he was elected president, Abraham Lincoln visited the Montgomery County Courthouse in 1859. ... In honor of that visit, we went into the archives for more on Lincoln’s 1859 speech in Dayton.

A portrait of former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is seen as U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about the situation in the Middle East, in the State Dining Room of the White House on May 31, 2024.

National Park Service employees dust the statue of President Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in May 2022. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post) I decided, the other evening, to walk to the ...

Abraham Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated. On April 14, 1865, Lincoln was shot by actor John Wilkes Booth while the president was watching a play at Ford’s Theatre.

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 ...