When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for his second inaugural in 1865, historians think he cut the sentences and paragraphs from a printed draft and pasted them onto the copy he planned ...

As early as 1849, Abraham Lincoln ... compensated for giving up their "property." Support was not forthcoming. In September of 1862, after the Union's victory at Antietam, Lincoln issued a ...

National Park Service employees dust the statue of President Abraham Lincoln at the ... inaugural address on the northern one. Lincoln gave that latter speech on the other side of the Capitol ...

He gave a speech. Every president since has followed ... have been applied to countless situations since Abraham Lincoln first uttered them in 1861. Not all inaugural addresses achieve greatness.

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln remains a tragic ... are two of his most revered speeches. Lincoln's story is remarkable in many ways, not least his rise ...

Renowned Abraham Lincoln ... the boundary of the Lincoln Home National Historic Site to include the proposed replica and the Elijah Iles House. Burlingame's banquet speech is titled ...

“It began at Bloomington Illinois — the little county seat with tree-skirted streets on a gentle hill that Lincoln loved; the scene of his celebrated 'Lost Speech,' the home of Jesse W.