President Lincoln supposedly sent his sincerest condolences to a grieving mother in the historic Bixby Letter on this day in history, Nov. 21, 1864. In the fall of 1864, Gov. John A. Andrew of ...
President Abraham Lincoln, amid the most turbulent administration and deadliest conflict in American history, defeated bitter personal rival and former Civil War Gen. George McClellan to win ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN. These and other schemes, projected by real and professed republicans as well as by avowed opponents, while annoying and discouraging, were skillfully met, warded off, and disposed of ...
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Political opponents and TV comedians regularly poke fun at the president for mangling the language. However, most people would rank Abraham Lincoln at the top of the speech eloquence scale. So it is ...
"A special publication of The Library of America." Contents Introduction -- Introduction of Abraham Lincoln at Cooper Union (1860) / William Cullen Bryant -- From Live of Abraham Lincoln (1860) / ...
NEW YORK — A handwritten manuscript of an 1864 Abraham Lincoln speech sold for $3.44 million on the bicentennial of his birthday Thursday, setting a new auction record for any American historical ...