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 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 ...

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 ...

A video livestream will be available on this page starting at 2 PM on Monday, December 20th. Please scroll down to view. On December 20, AEI’s Diana Schaub and Gary J. Schmitt discussed Dr. Schaub’s ...

Scott Heckel, a now-retired Repository staff photographer, took this photo in 2020 of the small monument erected in Alliance to honor the short visit to the city by Abraham Lincoln on his way by train ...

On this day 155 years ago, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, a brief speech during the Civil War that would go down as perhaps the best bit of oration in American history.

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 ...

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“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” So said Abraham Lincoln in his “House Divided” speech, given 165 years ago. Many describe contemporary America in the same terms. We’re a house divided ...

The shrine’s annual re-enactment of the Gettysburg address, delivered by Lincoln at a cemetery dedication in Gettysburg, ...

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:38:42 GMT — Christie's is auctioning a handwritten copy of the 1864 speech Abraham Lincoln delivered at the White House after being re-elected in the midst of an unpopular Civil ...

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 ...