Lincoln's 'Lost Speech' Found: Origin of the Illinois Republican Party

Go back in time to May 29, 1856, when Abraham Lincoln gave the keynote address at a political convention in downtown Bloomington. Learn about the goal to establish a new political party opposed to the expansion of slavery. Discover why it is said Lincoln gave one of the greatest, most eloquent speeches of his life that evening, as he rallied northern voters of various political leanings to the anti-slavery cause. Learn why this speech became known as the “Lost Speech” and how it is not really lost!