Unquestionably the Gettysburg Address was President Lincoln’s most eloquent speech. But it is not the most pertinent to the times we live in. As we experience the shattering partisan divide of this ...

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 leaving ...

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. Abraham ...

History came to life for eighth-grade students at Salisbury Academy as they studied and presented President Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address in a video project as part of Ford’s Theatre’s ...

Feb. 16—Before he was elected president, Abraham Lincoln visited the Montgomery County Courthouse in 1859. Lincoln, who had lost a bid for the U.S. Senate the year before to Stephen A. Douglas, ...

The nation was bitterly divided over slavery in 1860, when this political cartoon was published. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Bradford Vivian, Pennsylvania State University The ...

When Abraham Lincoln ran for president, he didn't campaign on his own behalf. That was deemed unseemly in the political climate of the 1860s. Instead, other speakers hit the hustings to tout the man ...

Many readers will recognize the speech "A House divided against itself will not stand," given by Abraham Lincoln in 1858, a couple of years before his presidency and the Civil War. He was speaking ...

Lincoln’s second inaugural address is one of the most consequential presidential speeches in U.S. history, both for its eloquence and its impact. At only 703 words, it was the third shortest inaugural ...

It’s another book on Abraham Lincoln, but this one, “His Greatest Speeches,” is for “a slow reader,” says its author, Diana Schaub, a professor at Loyola University, Maryland. In fact, she is the slow ...

MSNBC historian Michael Beschloss explained Thursday that President Biden’s speech in Philadelphia was inspired by presidential speeches before two of America’s biggest wars. He said on "All In with ...

The quote has been misconstrued from an 1838 Abraham Lincoln speech, according to fact-checking services Donald Trump's daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, misused an adage that's been wrongfully attributed ...