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As America approaches 2025, Abraham Lincoln's prescient words about internal destruction of democracy resonate amid growing ...
Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is doubtless one of the greatest speeches in world history. Short yet poignant, the speech delivered ...
Capt. Dan Keeler invites his Sherman Oaks Notre Dame football coaches and English teacher to be recognized at changeover of ...
Lincoln had previously expressed support for such power in his famous 1858 “House Divided” speech. Nevertheless, by the time of the convention, Lincoln was not widely known.
The Secretary of State then determined that he would thereafter give loyal, constant, unhesitating support to Lincoln, and to that pledge Seward was faithful. *** ...
Abraham Lincoln quotes about faith 31. “Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in His own good time, will give us the rightful result.” — Letter to John C ...
But this is unlikely. As the biographer Harold Holzer points out, Lincoln, the very day of his speech, bought a new top hat from Knox Great Hat and Cap at 212 Broadway.
Lincoln was adaptable enough that he could have mastered modern modes of political speech—today's sound-bite culture—had he lived in this era. He had a talent for getting to the point.
Democracy was facing its toughest test 159 years ago and Abraham Lincoln's fine speech at Gettysburg was a turning point that saved it. It is impossible to read President Lincoln’s Gettysburg ...
With Tuesday marking the 161st anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address, Lincoln historian Steve Beckett shares with us a speech he delivered last month to a large crowd in the ...
Echoing President Abraham Lincoln ‘s first inaugural address, President Joe Biden in a rare primetime Oval Office address Sunday night told Americans “ we are not enemies,” as he urged the nation to ...
The first stone belonged to Douglas, though, and he used it to attack Lincoln with what even he later admitted was a falsehood. Douglas began his opening speech by hearkening to the days when ...