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Lincoln's soon-to-be Secretary of State, William H. Seward, later made suggestions that softened the original tone somewhat and contributed to the speech's famous closing. [5] Lincoln's speech had originally ended with the sentence, "With you, and not with me, is the solemn question of 'Shall it be peace or a sword?'" [6] Seward wrote that ...
Lincoln’s character was notoriously difficult to capture in pictures, but Alexander Gardner’s close-up portrait, quite innovative in contrast to the typical full-length portrait style, comes closest to preserving the expressive contours of Lincoln’s face and his penetrating gaze.
Here are historical images of inaugurations from Franklin Roosevelt to Joe Biden. ... US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy delivers his inaugural address, on January 20, 1961 at United States ...
The first inauguration of Abraham Lincoln as the 16th president of the United States was held on Thursday, March 7, 1861, at the East Portico of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. This was the 19th inauguration and marked the commencement of the first, and eventually only full term of Abraham Lincoln as president and the only term of ...
Alan Guebert shares parts of an essay, written by historian Ted Widmer, that examines Abraham Lincoln's 1861 Fourth of July, his first as president. Fighting had not started, but Lincoln won the ...
The following 31 pages use this file: Abraham Lincoln; Abraham Lincoln's farewell address; Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address; Abraham Lincoln's patent; Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address; Abraham Lincoln and slavery; Assassination of Abraham Lincoln; Bibliography of Abraham Lincoln; Cooper Union speech; Cultural depictions of ...
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