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 ...

So I’d forgotten or not noticed that the well-known statue of Abraham Lincoln is bracketed by two of his better-known orations — the Gettysburg Address on the southern wall and his second ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln ... modern rhetoric, Lincoln's surprising election in 1860 helped spark the war itself. His Gettysburg Address (1863) and ...

but it was remarkably so of Abraham Lincoln. As a tree may be known by its fruits, so may his growing strength, his ripening sagacity and sweetness, be read in the speeches and proclamations of ...