It’s another book on Abraham Lincoln, but this one, “His Greatest Speeches,” is for “a slow reader,” says its author, Diana Schaub, a professor at Loyola University, Maryland. In fact ...

Louis P. Masur, professor of history and American Studies in the Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences, analyzes the last speech and the circumstances surrounding it in Lincoln’s Last Speech ...

Abraham Lincoln was a master of exhibiting moral and political leadership through speech. Join AEI to discuss how Lincoln’s greatest speeches spur all Americans to embrace truth, charity, and ...

There are about 15,000 books on Abraham Lincoln — here are the 7 you should read. ... The book examines Lincoln's Gettysburg address in the context of its historical and cultural frame.

On March 4, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln stood at the U.S. Capitol to deliver his second inaugural address. Lincoln’s second inauguration came within days of the Union’s victory over the ...

A new book seeks to shed light on the impact and political controversies of one of the great figures in American history, Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln’s American Dream, a collection of essays by leading ...

Abraham Lincoln's speeches, both famous and now-forgotten, are among those collected in a new anthology, American Speeches. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption ...

Hearts quickened with anticipation as Abraham Lincoln appeared and began to speak. ... has produced a new book entitled Lincoln's Last Speech: Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisis of Reunion.

Pretty strong stuff for a speech nobody seems ever to have heard of. But then, the Cooper Union speech wasn't short, snappy and loaded with pithy sound-bites the way so much of Lincoln's later ...

Abraham Lincoln’s speech at Dayton’s Old Courthouse: ... according to the 1959 book “Mr. Lincoln Came to Dayton” by Lloyd Ostendorf.

LANSING, MI -- On Abraham Lincoln's birthday this week, we published a story about how the 16th president coined the term 'Michigander.' It was nothing new: the bit of linguistic history had been ...