President Abraham Lincoln offered a short but seminal vision of the past and promise of the United States in a speech known as the Gettysburg Address. The brief speech—just 272 words arranged ...

President Abraham Lincoln offered a short but seminal vision of the past and promise of the United States in a speech known as the Gettysburg Address. The brief speech—just 272 words arranged ...

President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, one of the most famous speeches in United States history, at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery on this day in history ...

Amid the bloodiest war in American history, Abraham Lincoln implored us to give thanks to the Almighty and proclaimed a ...

Part of the Lincoln Memorial’s vast “undercroft,” which for more than 100 years has been its dark basement, is now halfway ...

I asked myself: Why was there such a monument at this location about this speech? Over the years, I have read hundreds, literally more than a thousand books about Abraham Lincoln. My curiosity ...

Following Edward Everett’s Gettysburg oration of two hours, President Lincoln delivered Gettysburg Address composed of ten ...

George Washington faced a unique challenge when he prepared to give his first presidential Inaugural address on April 30, ...

All to commemorate the 161st anniversary of the speech that came to epitomize what it meant to be presidential. On Nov. 19, 1863, on this very hill, President Abraham Lincoln unfolded his six-foot ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln remains a tragic ... are two of his most revered speeches. Lincoln's story is remarkable in many ways, not least his rise ...