Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 16—Before he was elected president, Abraham Lincoln visited the Montgomery County Courthouse in 1859. Lincoln, who had lost a ...

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 ...

[v.1] 1832-1858, Speeches, letters, and miscellaneous writings, the Lincoln-Douglas debates -- [v.2] 1859-1865, Speeches, letters, and miscellaneous writings, presidential messages and proclamations ...

I can see Alton’s Lincoln-Douglas Square from my bookshop window. On Oct. 15, 1858, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas engaged in the last of their seven debates as they contended for an Illinois ...

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 ...