The language of flowers and other floral symbolism used by Winslow Homer
Throughout his career Winslow Homer included flowers, shrubbery, and trees in his oil paintings and watercolors. Particularly during the 1860s and 1870s ...(keep on reading)

Presidents try to make words go down in history
WASHINGTON -- Ask not why so few inaugural speeches resonate long after they are given. History always will remember Abraham Lincoln's appeal to ...(keep on reading)

Chosen by fate to be the Civil War president, Lincoln delivered two
Abraham Lincoln had received many death threats since his election in November 1860, and on his way from Springfield to Washington he had to sneak through Baltimore in the middle of the night to o(keep on reading)

The Better Angels
ON THIS HORRIFIC MORNING AFTER, WHEN the unseasonable warm sunshine and the pure blue Jerusalem sky seem an affront to the national grief, we search ...(keep on reading)

The Mystic Chords of Memory: Reclaiming American History
Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. ... When they are sounded, the mystic chords have the power to connect past and ...
www.heritage.org/Research/AmericanFoundingandHistory/HL55...

AFT: Publications: American Educator Spring 2002: Mystic Chords of ...
... [note again this word] may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, ...
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The Starry Cross
... passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot grave, ...
www.lewrockwell.com/orig/maxwell5.html

On Americans of the Southern States
Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, ...
www.nps.gov/liho/writer/south.htm

Lincoln on Secession
Though passion may have strained it must no break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot grave, ...
www.nps.gov/liho/s07.htm