This month marks the 165th anniversary of one of the most pivotal moments in American history, the inauguration of a Kentucky-born president who would lead the nation through some of its darkest days: ...
Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural took place in an atmosphere of crisis and foreboding, heightened by the armed troops that patrolled the streets and the Capitol grounds. South Carolina seceded from ...
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The Bolduc Brief: A Call for Unity – Comparing Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address with Today’s Political Landscape
In the annals of American history, few speeches resonate as powerfully as President Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, delivered on March 4, 1865. This address, given as the nation neared the ...
President Barack Obama used Abraham Lincoln’s and Martin Luther King Jr.’s Bibles at his swearing in ceremony in 2013, two presidents used a chair George Washington sat in at his inaugural and George ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Pacific Railway Act, which led to the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, slicing travel time across the continent from ...
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