Feb. 16—Before he was elected president, Abraham Lincoln visited the Montgomery County Courthouse in 1859. Lincoln, who had lost a bid for the U.S. Senate the year before to Stephen A. Douglas, ...

When Abraham Lincoln ran for president, he didn't campaign on his own behalf. That was deemed unseemly in the political climate of the 1860s. Instead, other speakers hit the hustings to tout the man ...

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” So said Abraham Lincoln in his “House Divided” speech, given 165 years ago. Many describe contemporary America in the same terms. We’re a house divided ...

I can see Alton’s Lincoln-Douglas Square from my bookshop window. On Oct. 15, 1858, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas engaged in the last of their seven debates as they contended for an Illinois ...

Lincoln’s second inaugural address is one of the most consequential presidential speeches in U.S. history, both for its eloquence and its impact. At only 703 words, it was the third shortest inaugural ...

Lincoln’s second inaugural address is one of the most consequential presidential speeches in U.S. history, both for its eloquence and its impact. At only 703 words, it was the third shortest inaugural ...

Abraham Lincoln stopped in Alliance on his way from Springfield, Illinois, to Washington, D.C., on Feb. 15, 1861, at a time when he was about to become president. His remarks to those gathered at the ...

I spent the bulk of my Friday column summarizing early Republic and antebellum debates on the nature of the American Republic. The arguments run from Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the 1790s to ...