The nation's founding document has been celebrated by leaders across the centuries, and it can still guide us today.

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Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is doubtless one of the greatest speeches in world history. Short yet poignant, the speech delivered ...

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Discover the Lincoln Memorial's history, design, & significant role in American identity. Explore its power as a symbol of unity, freedom, & civil rights.

On May 29, 1856, it was the site of what has since become known as “Lincoln’s Lost Speech,” a famous gap in Lincoln’s otherwise well documented career as a public speaker.

In 1972, Jimmy Reid warned in a speech hailed as the greatest since Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address by the New York Times against ‘silence in the face of injustice’ for fear of ...

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 ...

August 14, 2024 In 1863, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln wrote a scathing letter to his top Union general, who had squandered an opportunity to end the American Civil War. Then Lincoln folded it up ...

It's been featured in countless advertisements, commencement speeches, and in fact, in 2017, the Republican National Committee posted the quote to Twitter (since renamed X), attributing it to Lincoln.

In his famous 1858 speech, Abraham Lincoln warned that only civil war would resolve the issue of slavery in the U.S. He wasn’t wrong.

We meet here to commemorate the ground around us as the final resting place of far too many of our young men. Abraham Lincoln – 1863 We are met on a great battlefield of that war.