The Lincoln Presidential Foundation presented Sam Waterston with its 18th annual Lincoln Leadership Prize at a ceremony in ...

The president’s iconic beard was a product of the anxious new realities of the photographic age.

When Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office for his second term as president, the United States was divided as never before or since. The Civil War had killed over 600,000 Americans, North and South.

White, Jr., "Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address has lived under the shadow ... White’s fascination with the 16th President was sparked at a 1993 seminar. "He was the average American, with ...

It is certainly true no one could possibly mistake President Trump’s ... the high-minded speechifying of Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address (“With malice toward none, with charity ...

Abraham Lincoln, the greatest American president ... are not only quite short (the second inaugural is just a shade over 700 words, the Gettysburg Address shorter still), but did not deal in ...

But other than mentioning "the lash of the whip," an echo of Lincoln's towering second inaugural address, and "gathering clouds and raging storms," Obama did not seem to quote the 16th president.

His Gettysburg Address (1863) and Second Inaugural Address (1865 ... In his acceptance speech, Lincoln criticized President Buchanan, denounced slavery, and declared "a house divided cannot ...