“You can fool all the people some of the time” is the perfect line for commercial advertisements, political campaigns, and ...
I can see Alton’s Lincoln-Douglas Square from my bookshop window. On Oct. 15, 1858, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas engaged in the last of their seven debates as they contended for an Illinois ...
What happened in Bloomington 169 years ago, on Thursday May 29, 1856, ignited Abraham Lincoln’s march to the presidency, and eventually led to the Civil War-era 13th, 14th and 15 amendments, which ...
An Abraham Lincoln exhibit at the Springfield museum that bears his name. Champaign County's Abraham Lincoln marker. This bronze sculpture of Abraham Lincoln was installed on the University of ...
pt. 1. Political oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War -- pt. 2. Political oratory from Abraham Lincoln to Bill Clinton v. 1. Political oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War -- Argument ...
BLOOMINGTON — The fiery treatise against slavery that Abraham Lincoln delivered in Bloomington years before his presidency has become known as the "Lost Speech" as scholars long searched in vain for a ...
Editor’s note: The following lightly edited excerpt is from Chicago writer Edward Robert McClelland’s new book, “Chorus of the Union: How Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas Set Aside Their Rivalry to ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Tom Wheeler provided a brief history of the telegraph. The Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg hosted this ...