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Yes, the Lincoln Memorial really has a typo. Here’s what it says and how it ended up on one of our nation's greatest ...
Drawing his title from Lincoln’s 1858 “House Divided” speech, independent scholar Hyslop, author of several works on the American West, makes the case that in opening territories to slavery, westward ...
Lone Republican councilmember drums up opposition to southeast sober living home; city dedicates South Haymarket parkland as ...
I’d just left a gay bar in Washington DC when news broke of the massacre at Pulse nightclub in Orlando. Forty-nine LGBT + ...
In 1858, after winning the Republican nomination for the Senate against incumbent Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln gave a ...
The Lincoln Memorial was built to honour Abraham Lincoln. Test your knowledge of the iconic Lincoln Memorial! Explore its ...
Procession kicks off from Boston City Hall Plaza at 9 a.m. and meanders to the Old State House for the annual reading of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
Before his historic presidency and before the legendary Lincoln-Douglas debates that would define his political rise, Abraham Lincoln began his campaign for U.S. Senate with a bold and stirring speech ...
On June 16, 1858, as the newly nominated Republican candidate for the US Senate from Illinois, Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous “House Divided” speech, which highlighted the tensions ...
Opinion In 1858, Lincoln made a mistake. President Biden, don’t make the same one. Lincoln’s opponents turned his ‘house divided’ speech against him.
On the eve of the American Civil War, two years before he was even to become president, Abraham Lincoln spoke to a new political party at their Republican Convention in 1858 in Springfield ...