Presidential oratory once sought to elevate its audience, through high seriousness and artful rhetoric, but also by being ...
On Feb. 27, 1860, the yet-to-be-announced presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln spoke at Cooper Union in Manhattan. Historians consider the speech a watershed moment for Lincoln, who used the ...
Your donation today will help MinnPost continue to report on the news you need. Today is the 148th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s 1860 speech in New York at the Cooper Union, an address that at ...