DEL MAR, Calif. -- Dick Tracy got an atom-powered two-way wrist radio in 1946. Marty Cooper never forgot it.

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.

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

Detail of portrait of President Abraham Lincoln by George Healey, 1869 ... his 1860 Cooper Union speech, his 1861 First Inaugural Address, his view of getting a job, ...

But he did. In 1859, he made a series of speeches in Ohio campaigning to be the Republican candidate for president in the 1860 election. In Cincinnati on Sept. 17, 1859, Lincoln spoke from the ...

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, ... The issue came to a boil in 1820, when Missouri was to be admitted to the Union as a slave state.