Abraham Lincoln’s two inaugural speeches were both historic and prophetic. Read some of the highlights of these landmark addresses. Lincoln became president in 1861 as the southern states were ...

Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: The 'greatest speech in the world' – that was only 273 words long. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863 ...

At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to ...

Ever wondered about the origins of the Abraham Lincoln sculpture seated on a bench in downtown Bloomington? Here's a look ...

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 ...

On April 11, 1865, two days after Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Ulysses S. Grant, President Abraham Lincoln gave the last speech of his life from a White House window to an exuberant crowd ...

So said Abraham Lincoln in his “House Divided” speech, given 165 years ago. Adam Carrington: How Abraham Lincoln’s ‘house divided’ speech does and doesn't apply to today Skip to main ...

Before he was elected president, Abraham Lincoln visited the Montgomery County Courthouse in 1859. Lincoln, who had lost a bid for the U.S. Senate the year before to Stephen A. Douglas, arrived in ...

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” So said Abraham Lincoln in his “House Divided” speech, given 165 years ago. Many describe contemporary America in the same terms. We’re a ...

So said Abraham Lincoln in his “House Divided” speech, given 165 years ago. Adam Carrington: How Abraham Lincoln’s ‘house divided’ speech does and doesn't apply to today Skip to main ...