let’s take a look back tracing the history of First Ladies’ fashion during the inauguration ceremonies. Mary Todd Lincoln Wife of former President Abraham Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln is ...

Republican National Convention provided the young, burgeoning Chicago with perhaps its first real national recognition.

In his first inaugural address, Lincoln delivered a final plea to ... Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln are mammoth, yet simple to describe: he confronted the ...

Not exactly. It turns out that, for the nation's first inaugural, the Bible was hastily opened to a completely random page. The same thing was done 72 years later when Lincoln was sworn in.

Abraham Lincoln, the greatest American president ... I did not learn much from those speeches (except for FDR's first inaugural), but I learned a great deal from Lincoln's ten sentences.

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham ... rhetoric, Lincoln's surprising election in 1860 helped spark the war itself. His Gettysburg Address (1863) and Second Inaugural ...

Abraham Lincoln was our tallest president ... Lincoln’s top hats were not always of the same design. At his first inauguration in 1860, he wore the lower silk plush hat that had by that time ...