Frederick Douglass called it "a sacred effort," and Lincoln himself thought that his Second Inaugural, which offered a theodicy of the Civil War, was better than the Gettysburg Address.

Mounted cavalry troops lined the streets from the president-elect’s hotel to the Capitol, and sharpshooters stood on rooftops ...

The Second Inaugural Address of President Donald Trump ... just be referenced as Trump’s Second Inaugural. It was Abraham Lincoln who borrowed from the Book of Proverbs when he described ...

President Abraham Lincoln’s immortal words, which closed his second inaugural address, stand in stark contrast to those of President Donald Trump’s second inaugural address. Lincoln led the ...