The Washington Post20d
A famous Lincoln speech might bear his fingerprints
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 ...
The Washington Post20d
The second inaugural we need was delivered 160 years ago
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 ...
The State Journal-Register1mon
Author and historian Michael Burlingame to address Abraham Lincoln Banquet
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 ...
MinnPost19d
A brief history of presidential inaugural speeches, from George Washington to today
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.
The Pantagraph1mon
Bloomington likely first to name street for Abraham Lincoln
“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.