In his eulogy for Lincoln two years later, Charles Sumner, a Massachusetts senator and leading abolitionist, lauded the ...

A 200-Year Salute to Story and Song. Stylistically, it was a departure from his usual fare, as it included spoken word ...

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address represents perhaps the perfect combination of eloquence, elegance and economy in our history, shining rhetorical proof of the design axiom, "Less is more." Given the ...

These 269 w ords. Delivered this week, eight-score years plus one. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Let’s read it together. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a ...

The Gettysburg Address showed that a document or a speech can have a bigger impact than a deadly occurrence in history. The values upon which Abraham Lincoln stood was the key towards a transition in ...

where Abraham Lincoln put the final touches on the Gettysburg Address. Previous travelers say the tour blends the right amount of history and spookiness. If a one-hour ghost tour seems too short ...

For me, the Lincoln Memorial tops the list. On one wall is inscribed the Gettysburg address. Tourists usually stand and read it. But on the opposite wall that tourists mostly ignore is his second ...

Designed by local leaders after the war, this cemetery was dedicated on Nov. 19, 1863 and is where former President Abraham Lincoln gave his iconic "Gettysburg Address." The property permits ...

"The Civil War was the most important event in American history, the crossroads of our being,” says documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, whose 1990 The Civil War won 40 major television and film honors.