Frederick Douglass called it "a sacred effort," and Lincoln himself thought that his Second Inaugural, which offered a theodicy of the Civil War, was better than the Gettysburg Address.

For me, the Lincoln Memorial tops the list. On one wall is inscribed the Gettysburg address. Tourists usually stand and read it. But on the opposite wall that tourists mostly ignore is his second ...

US President Donald Trump outlined his vision for the future of the United States, delivering key promises that set the tone for his second term in his inaugural address on Monday. Trump ...