Speeches

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A few dazzling words about that emerging metropolis, delivered in 1871 by Congressman J. Proctor Knott. Edited for 1971 visitors by David G. McCullough</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">He built a career and a fortune out of shocking his fellow Americans.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">What would Martin Luther King Jr.—had he been alive today—thought of our latest president’s oratory?</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Our most talented writer-president always wrote his own material and labored for hours over it.</span></p>

<p>During demonstrations in Birmingham, Martin Luther King Jr. took perhaps the most fateful decision made during the civil rights era.</p>

<p>In his Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln embodied leading in a time of polarization, political disagreement, and differing understandings of reality.</p>