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 to ...

pt. 1. Political oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War -- pt. 2. Political oratory from Abraham Lincoln to Bill Clinton v. 1. Political oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War -- Argument ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! 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 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 ...

Lisa talks with author Ronald White about President Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address. The speech was not well received at the time, but now it's considered one of the greatest presidential ...

Prologue -- "Peculiar ambition" 1831-1853 -- "Half slave and half free" 1854-1860 -- "The perpetuity of popular government" 1860-1861 -- "We cannot escape history" 1862 -- "A new birth of freedom" ...

Despite being president for only four years—from March 1861 to April 1865—Abraham Lincoln was incredibly influential. He led the nation through the dark days of the Civil War, wrote and delivered the ...

I will confess this upfront. The Lincoln quote I had written on the first page of my notebook for a long time was not ...

What happened in Bloomington 169 years ago, on Thursday May 29, 1856, ignited Abraham Lincoln’s march to the presidency, and eventually led to the Civil War-era 13th, 14th and 15 amendments, which ...

BLOOMINGTON — The fiery treatise against slavery that Abraham Lincoln delivered in Bloomington years before his presidency has become known as the "Lost Speech" as scholars long searched in vain for a ...

1. “Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.” —Cooper Union Address, New York, February 27, 1860 2. “Now, as to the young men. You must not wait to be brought ...