Abraham Lincoln scholars Michael Burlingame, Noah Feldman, and Diana Schaub talked about the 16th president's speeches and what they revealed about his views on the Constitution. The National ...

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 ...

"I was 31 years old at the time I came down to Kalamazoo with my mother to hear him," one Cooper Township man recalled. "He stood on top of the mound in Bronson Park and it was one of the best ...

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 ...

Abraham Lincoln’s best-known speeches were the Gettysburg Address and his Second Inaugural Address. But a few weeks after the latter, on April 11, 1865, Lincoln stood on a White House balcony ...

The speech, which is etched in stone at the Lincoln Memorial, is a 700-word meditation on the war and its causes, slavery and the judgments of God, healing and peace.

Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Speech. Sam Waterston read Lincoln's First Inaugural Speech. Historian Susan Schulten discussed how this speech was received in the country and how Lincoln ...

Lincoln's "Lost Speech" has been called the most important event in Bloomington history, but the journey to a create a mural ...

On June 16, 1858, more than 160 years ago, a little-known politician delivered a speech at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield after he accepted his party's nomination for U.S. senator.

Though the world knows his Gettysburg Address, it was Abraham Lincoln's speech at a new technical college in New York City that helped propel him to national prominence.

In compliance with a custom as old as the government itself, I appear before you to address you briefly, and to take, in your presence, the oath prescribed by the Constitution of the United States ...

NEW BRUNSWICK – Abraham Lincoln gave his final speech from a window on the north portico of the White House on the evening of April 11, 1865. In it, ...