It is seventy-two years since the first inauguration of a President under our National Constitution. During that period fifteen different and greatly distinguished citizens have in succession ...

In his first inaugural address, Lincoln delivered a final plea to ... Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln are mammoth, yet simple to describe: he confronted the ...

Abraham Lincoln, the greatest American president ... I did not learn much from those speeches (except for FDR's first inaugural), but I learned a great deal from Lincoln's ten sentences.

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

Abraham Lincoln was our tallest president ... Lincoln’s top hats were not always of the same design. At his first inauguration in 1860, he wore the lower silk plush hat that had by that time ...

Not exactly. It turns out that, for the nation's first inaugural, the Bible was hastily opened to a completely random page. The same thing was done 72 years later when Lincoln was sworn in.

LAKE CITY — A bronze tablet mounted on red granite will commemorate Abraham Lincoln's 1861 visit ... at the town's rail depot enroute to his first inauguration. "I've always heard the story ...

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

Lincoln and Juárez never met but kept close diplomatic ties for years, likely a factor in covert U.S. help against the ...