In his Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln embodied leading in a time of polarization, political disagreement, and differing understandings of reality.
During demonstrations in Birmingham, Martin Luther King Jr. took perhaps the most fateful decision made during the civil rights era
Our most talented writer-president always wrote his own material and sweated hours over it
What would Martin Luther King Jr.—had he been alive today—thought of our latest president’s oratory?
He built a career and a fortune out of shocking his fellow Americans
A few dazzling words about that emerging metropolis, delivered in 1871 by Congressman J. Proctor Knott. Edited for 1971 visitors by David G. McCullough