Public speaking can cause everything from slight nervousness to paralyzing fear and panic. Seventy-five percent of Americans share this fear. This blog offers simple strategies including speaking about your passion, knowing the content and context of your speech, having a plan for addressing mistakes and the importance of feedback.

Looking for something history-based to do while at home during the COVID-19 outbreak? Find out how you can enhance the Remembering Lincoln website collection or even add more primary sources.

The Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park can be an uncomfortable depiction of Abraham Lincoln for many us. But by examining it as a historical artifact we can reveal layers of meaning and give nuance to a significant memorial to Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator.

As the Ford’s Theatre Teacher-in-Residence for four weeks this summer, Karen Richey researched contemporary speeches from a wide range of human experiences and cultures. Discover new resources that students can use to make connections between the past and present and see take part in civic dialogue.

Throughout history many Americans have used oratory as a way to drive civic change. Read on to discover 10 change-makers whom you might not know about yet.

Learn more about how Ford’s brought a local program to a national audience with the Lincoln Online Oratory Project.

As the site of a racially-motivated political assassination, Ford’s Theatre recognized that we can help educators use Twelve Angry Men to teach about implicit bias, systemic racism and their impact on our society.

Recently, we completed an evaluation report on our summer teacher institutes: Civil War Washington and The Seat of War and Peace. Read on to discover our key findings!

We share lessons learned about the National Oratory Fellows program after completing year one of a three-year evaluation report by our independent evaluator and researcher Catherine Awsumb Nelson.

In our modern political climate, how should a program about Reconstruction and Civil War Memory adapt to meet the needs of teachers and museum educators? Explore what we've learned by running The Seat of War and Peace, a Ford’s Theatre summer program for teachers.