LEARNING ACTIVITY 2: Lincoln’s Letters 1. Explain to students that in addition to writing speeches, Abraham Lincoln also wrote many letters. Ask students to think about and discuss why ...

When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for his second inaugural in 1865, historians think he cut the sentences and ...

One function of these addresses is to bring the country together. As one political scientist put it, they brim with 'verbal ...

Other speeches and writings evince Lincoln’s “fatalistic confidence in the ultimate victory of reason,” as Charnwood puts it. In his Lyceum Address in 1838, Lincoln decried recent incidents ...

Donald Trump's first inaugural address was the shortest in decades, but was no where near the shortest speech.

National Park Service employees dust the statue of President Abraham Lincoln at the ... inaugural address on the northern one. Lincoln gave that latter speech on the other side of the Capitol ...

The Atlas and Argus quotes from a speech said to have been made by Mr. LINCOLN "in September, 1858," the following: "That central idea in our political system at the beginning was, and until ...

What Trump did in his first inaugural speech was to paint a picture of a very dark reality, one that included not only ...

I will go out on a limb and guess that Donald Trump didn't break Abraham Lincoln's record for the shortest inaugural address yesterday. On March 4, 1865, 41 days before his assassination, Lincoln used ...

students will discuss different reasons for writing letters and review some of Abraham Lincoln’s letters. In the Culminating Activity, students will write their own speeches or letters and then ...