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 ...

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 ...

This conciliatory approach was reiterated in Lincoln’s famous second inaugural address on March 4, 1865. To bring about true peace, he called on all Americans to set aside hatred and revenge ...

Read the full text of President Trump's prepared remarks for his 2025 joint address to Congress, as released by the White ...

Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and Second Inaugural, Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream”—only to culminate in Kennedy’s own opinion in Lawrence v. Texas (holding that there is a ...

But the American people followed Lincoln’s message of “malice toward none with charity for all,” which he stated in his second inaugural address on March 4, 1865. Lincoln’s timeless ...

Nathan Pike, Blue Earth County assistant veterans service officer, will facilitate the sessions. He and Grace Kranz, a ...