Cooper Union

Noun

Meaning

university founded in 1859 by Peter Cooper to offer free courses in the arts and sciences

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As Diggins concludes regarding the highly influential Cooper Union speech of early 1860, "Lincoln presented Americans a theory of history that offers a profound contribution to the theory and destiny of republicanism itself." Source: Internet

Donald (1996), pp. 242, 412. On February 27, 1860, New York party leaders invited Lincoln to give a speech at Cooper Union to a group of powerful Republicans. Source: Internet

Carlson, Roughneck, pg. 159. The Cooper Union speech was the beginning of a split between Bill Haywood and the Socialist Party, leading to the split between the factions of the IWW, one faction loyal to the Socialist Party, and the other to Haywood. Source: Internet

Donald (1996), p. 209. Lincoln–Douglas debates and Cooper Union speech further Lincoln in 1858, the year of his debates with Stephen Douglas over slavery. Source: Internet

It announced itself in February at Cooper Union in New York, where Abraham Lincoln gave a famous speech in 1860. Source: Internet

New York: W.W. Norton, 1983; pg. 156. In December 1911, Haywood told a Lower East Side audience at New York's Cooper Union that parliamentary Socialists were "step-at-a-time people whose every step is just a little shorter than the preceding step." Source: Internet

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