“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 ...
America and Americans are more divided today than I have ever seen. Perhaps more than at any time since the Civil War. In 1858, U.S. Senate candidate, later President Abraham Lincoln, told us, “A ...
In 1858, after winning the Republican nomination for the Senate against incumbent Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln gave a speech that has stood the test of time because of the truth it laid plain ...