A quarter of a million people gathered near the Lincoln Memorial in the ... author of a new book, The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Speech that Inspired a Nation. King was a "poet who ...

Some church buildings in Oklahoma pre-date the 1889 Land Run and are still standing today. Several still hold worship ...

White, Jr., "Lincoln ... And yet Lincoln thought this was his best effort." White does too. In his new book, San Francisco Theological Seminary sees the speech as key to understanding Lincoln ...

Lincoln came out against slavery in a speech in 1854, but in that same speech ... a hush invariably fell over the room, as if a king and his queen stood in the doorway.” And yet, wrote Navy ...

When Lincoln gave his famous speech at the Cooper Institute in New York in February of 1860, some observers were quoted as saying that his hat looked bashed in. But this is unlikely. As the ...

On April 11, 1865, Lincoln delivered a speech from the White House balcony publicly calling for educated Black men, and those who had served as soldiers, to be given the right to vote. It had ...