The granddaughter of a former slave delivered the keynote address in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King on Monday at Lincoln University. Delivering remarks for nearly an hour, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, ...

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 ...

Alexander Stephens's infamous “Cornerstone” speech remains controversial even today. The simple revisionist narrative is that ...

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

In 1983, about 20 years after King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, legislation for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day cleared Congress, and President Ronald Reagan signed it.

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 ...

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 ...