Threats of murder, marches to DC by militia, and kidnapping plots greeted Lincoln’s first inauguration. The tense ceremony, on the eve of Civil War, was held on the east front of the Capitol in ...

If Lincoln’s second inaugural address is No. 1, is there a No. 2? Advertisement "Franklin Roosevelt's second inaugural address was a particularly good one," Ritchie said.

The Nebraska volleyball team on Monday announced the details for its 2025 Fan Day, Red-White scrimmage and alumni match.

Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address is one of the most famous speeches for politicians calling for unity. Among the most famous lines: “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies.

Updated at 7:36 p.m. ET on January 17, 2021. When Abraham Lincoln stood on the Capitol steps in March 1865, to swear the oath of office for a second term and to deliver his second inaugural ...

President Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural ball was a fête to behold. On the evening of March 6, 1865 (two days after the inauguration), men escorted their ladies, one on each arm—the $10 ...

Lincoln inauguration, March 4, 1861 Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Benjamin B. French Album, LOT 12251 On November 6, 1860, a small group assembled at the east front of the ...

The Library of Congress on Wednesday unveiled three photo negatives -- long mislabeled -- of the crowd that gathered at the Capitol for Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address on March 4, 1865.

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 ...

Lincoln is often invoked by President Obama and the memorial's role in the civil rights movement also made it a powerful draw on a day that was not only Inauguration Day, but also Martin Luther ...

At his first inauguration in 2017, Mr. Trump did place his hand on the two Bibles — the family Bible and the Lincoln Bible — when he took the oath of office.

Description. Author Edward Achorn talked about President Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address in Washington, DC. Bell Ringer Assignment. Who were the four famous people at Lincoln’s inauguration?