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 ...

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

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

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. He ...

Words matter. Leadership matters. Jefferson and Lincoln, two of America’s greatest presidents, sought unity in a time of deep division.” | Opinion ...

Trump comes to office at a moment of deep division and great challenge, somewhat akin to the circumstances that confronted Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln when they assumed the reins of the ...

He distinguished between "the canon" -- the ten-volume Collected Works,consisting of Lincoln's letters and speeches ... Holt, for example, writing in Abraham Lincoln and the American Political ...

There's been another exit from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential ... public history while researching and writing about 19th century culture and Lincoln, though he did not specify the role or ...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — On this day in history, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. On Jan. 1, 1863, Lincoln declared that all enslaved people in states rebelling ...

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 ...

This Day in History: Dec. 26, 1862 — Most commonly revered as the United States President who freed the slaves, Abraham Lincoln is known for something different in Indian Country. On this day 160 ...