A scene in front of the East front of the U.S. Capitol is seen during President Abraham Lincoln's second inauguration, 1865, just six weeks before his assassination.

The distance between Lincoln’s speech and Monday’s inauguration felt further than the length of the Mall. It even felt further, somehow, than 160 years. Comments ...

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 ...

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The one used for Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration in 1861 will be stacked with a timeworn copy given to Trump by his mother in 1955. Trump inauguration. HAND CURATED. Aaron Blake.

On this day in 1861, Lincoln spoke of the nation's future. On Lincoln's birthday in 1861, he was on his way to Washington for his first inauguration (which used to take place in March) as the ...

Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address is widely considered one of the greatest speeches in American political history. Edward's Achorn's book, [Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second ...

Lincoln inauguration, March 4, 1861 Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Benjamin B ... “The Inauguration of Hon. Abraham Lincoln, Photograph by Mr. J. Wood.” ...

The phrases “mystic chords of memory” and “better angels of our nature,” among the most memorable words in presidential rhetoric, have been applied to countless situations since Abraham Lincoln first ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Pacific Railway Act, which led to the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, slicing travel time across the continent ...

In 1861, Lincoln’s inaugural appeal to the South to remain in the Union, as southern states were seceding, was conciliatory, a desperate attempt to avoid a civil war.