Authors: Abraham Lincoln

Last portrait photo taken of Lincoln
1860–1877

Last Public Address

Abraham Lincoln, The President’s Last Public Address, online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/347323. We meet this evening not in sorrow but in gladness

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1860–1877

Inaugural Address (1865)

Abraham Lincoln, Inaugural Address, online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/202171. Fellow Countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential

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1860–1877

Response to a Serenade

Abraham Lincoln, Remarks in Response to a Serenade, online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/342170. It has long been a grave question whether any

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1860–1877

Gettysburg Address

Abraham Lincoln, address delivered at Gettysburg, PA, November 19, 1863, https://www.loc.gov/item/rbpe.24404500/ Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty,

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To Erastus Corning et al.

Abraham Lincoln to Erastus Corning and Others, June 1863, draft of reply to resolutions concerning military arrests and suspension of habeas corpus, Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 1, General Correspondence, Manuscript/Mixed

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Annual Message to Congress (1862)

Abraham Lincoln, Second Annual Message, online by Gerhard Peters and John T.Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/202180. Since your last annual assembling another year of health and bountiful harvests has

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What principles guided Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation?
1860–1877

Preliminary and Final Emancipation Proclamations

Abraham Lincoln, Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, 1862, Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 1, General Correspondence, Manuscript/Mixed Material, Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/item/mal1859300/ Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, September 22, 1862By the President of the United

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To Horace Greeley

Source: Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley, August 23, 1862, Daily National Intelligencer, Washington, DC, Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 2, General Correspondence, 1858–1864, Manuscript/Mixed Material, Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/item/mal4233400/. Dear Sir:

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