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.

Abraham Lincoln’s two inaugural speeches were both historic and prophetic. Read some of the highlights of these landmark addresses. Lincoln became president in 1861 as the southern states were ...

Threats of murder, marches to DC by militia, and kidnapping plots greeted Lincoln’s first inauguration. The tense ceremony, on the eve of Civil War, was held on the east front of the Capitol in ...

The Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln. By ABC News. January 8, 2013, 1:06 PM. Delivered March 4, 1865 -- Fellow-Countrymen: ...

Updated at 7:36 p.m. ET on January 17, 2021. When Abraham Lincoln stood on the Capitol steps in March 1865, to swear the oath of office for a second term and to deliver his second inaugural ...

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 ...

The Library of Congress on Wednesday unveiled three photo negatives -- long mislabeled -- of the crowd that gathered at the Capitol for Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address on March 4, 1865.

More than 60 objects from President Abraham Lincoln's life are going on display at the National Museum of American History days before President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration, which will echo ...

Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Speech. Sam Waterston read Lincoln's First Inaugural Speech. Historian Susan Schulten discussed how this speech was received in the country and how Lincoln ...

In delivering an inauguration speech to try to heal a bitterly divided nation, President Biden faced perhaps the greatest challenge since Abraham Lincoln in 1865. In his “America United ...

The true stories behind all the Abraham Lincoln shout-outs at Biden’s inauguration January 21, 2021 More than 4 years ago The Lincoln Memorial at sunrise on Election Day.