All dreaded it, all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, urgent agents were in the city seeking ...

The Feb. 16, 1861, visit was while Lincoln was enroute to his first inauguration and while the nation was on the brink of ...

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.

“We present our readers in this issue the inaugural address of President Lincoln,” the Rochester City Post said in its March 16 edition. “It is sensible, straight-forward and ...

To the Editor of the New-York Times: Will you have the kindness to state with sufficient fullness your own interpretation of this passage from Mr. LINCOLN's Inaugural: "I do not forget the ...

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. The announcement is part of a steady drip of inaugural details ...

Preserved as part of the Library of Congress collection, the burgundy treasure has only been used three times since Lincoln's inauguration: by President Obama in both 2009 and 2013 and by Trump ...

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.

the day when Chief Justice Roger Taney administered the oath of office to Lincoln at his inauguration. Already seven states from the South had seceded, or withdrawn, from the Union because voters ...

For me, the Lincoln Memorial tops the list. On one wall is inscribed the Gettysburg address. Tourists usually stand and read it. But on the opposite wall that tourists mostly ignore is his second ...

Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second ...

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 ...