Republican National Convention provided the young, burgeoning Chicago with perhaps its first real national recognition.

He led the country through the Civil War and worked to end slavery. His life was cut short early in his second term when he was assassinated. Abraham ... In the speech, Lincoln explained why ...

Defenders of slavery argued that the writers of the Declaration did not mean all mankind, but only white people. They were wrong, as John Hale and Abraham Lincoln explained. Lincoln saw that the ...

As early as 1849, Abraham Lincoln believed ... William Seward, Lincoln's secretary of state, commented, "We show our symapthy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them and ...

In this lesson, students interrogate their own assumptions about Abraham Lincoln ... outlawed slavery in America. His Gettysburg Address remains one of the most revered and quoted speeches in ...

When Abraham Lincoln took ... ourselves and with all nations.” Lincoln’s second inaugural address is one of the most consequential presidential speeches in U.S. history, both for its eloquence ...

Abraham Lincoln ... I did not learn much from those speeches (except for FDR's first inaugural), but I learned a great deal from Lincoln's ten sentences. Now, 47 years later, as another tall ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln ... In his acceptance speech, Lincoln criticized President Buchanan, denounced slavery, and declared "a house divided cannot ...