The “Lost Speech” mural’s location near the Miller-Davis Building, 103 N. Main St., is crucial. The building, which is across ...

But as he removed his stovepipe hat and put on his eyeglasses and shuffled the paper of his speech, Lincoln could look out over the crowd of 30,000 people, and see artillery pieces encircling the ...

Knopf, 438 pages, $35). Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second inaugural address on March 4, 1865. In a meeting at ...