Republican National Convention provided the young, burgeoning Chicago with perhaps its first real national recognition.

In October of 1863, just three months after the battle of Gettysburg, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the ... many wish were seen every day: Giving thanks. There's no component of race ...

But most Lincoln speeches eschewed detail for timeless themes ... so I would not be a master"; "In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free"). He used metaphors, as we all ...

Martin Luther King Jr. King spoke at the Lincoln Memorial three years to ... "He wasn't expecting to give a speech that night," according to Clayborne Carson, Martin Luther King, Jr. centennial ...

Many local residents have heard something about Abraham Lincoln’s so-called “Lost Speech,” delivered in downtown Bloomington on May 29, 1856. Yet most folks don’t know the story about the ...

to give speeches, to ask for votes, to pray for change, to mourn America’s greatest sin and remember its greatest ideals, to hope that the union Abraham Lincoln died to preserve will endure.