Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural took place in an atmosphere of crisis and foreboding, heightened by the armed troops that patrolled the streets and the Capitol grounds. South Carolina seceded from ...

Two weeks after Jefferson Davis was proclaimed president of the Confederacy, President Abraham Lincoln addressed the nation at his inauguration. “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be ...

March 4, 1861 - Nebraska’s Capitol City’s name sake, Abraham Lincoln, gave his first inaugural address on March 4, 1861. In the speech, often called the “most important speech in American history,” as ...

A Burwell teacher and Daughter of the American Revolution is sharing her family’s Revolutionary War history with students as the nation marks 250 years. July 4, 1973 - Seward was designated ...