Cooper Union

Inspired by newspaper accounts of Lincoln’s Cooper Union Address, New England Republicans asked Lincoln to speak in their states. He made a whirlwind tour, appearing in eleven cities in twelve days. Lincoln’s frustration at having to prepare at least nine different speeches during his tightly…

In this book review, Manning commends Holzer for his book exploring how and why Abraham Lincoln's Cooper Union speech was important to his ascension to the presidency. She writes about how Lincoln prepared for his speech and his days leading up to delivering the address.

In Mr. Lincoln’s famous address, which many credit with earning him the presidency, Mr. Lincoln argued against the spread of slavery to the Western states. The speech is the subject of a new book by Harold Holzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President, published by…

This brief excerpt from a New York Daily Tribune article written on February 28, 1860, illustrates the media reaction to Lincoln's Cooper Union speech. The author underlines Lincoln's skills as an orator and commends his ability to captivate an audience.

Photographer Mathew Brady took this portrait of Abraham Lincoln at his studio in New York City on the same day that Lincoln gave his now-famous Cooper Union address. Brady retouched the photograph, smoothing facial lines and straightening his subject’s “roving” left eye.

This is the speech that launched Lincoln on the path to the presidency. In October 1859, Lincoln accepted an invitation to lecture at Henry Ward Beecher’s church in Brooklyn, New York. His law partner, William Herndon, wrote, “No former effort in the line of speech-making had cost Lincoln so much…

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<p><span class="deck"> A student of the speech that changed Lincoln’s career visits the place where he gave it</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">Lincoln’s oration at New York’s Cooper Union showed that the prairie lawyer could play in the big leagues</span></p>