As a youngster in Lincoln, Nebraska, I stood before the statue of the president gracing the west side of the towering state capitol and soaked up the words of his Gettysburg Address, inscribed on ...

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

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 ...

Additionally, the album featured Cash reciting Abraham Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg Address. Alongside music, there were also spoken word segments by Johnny Cash, such as “Begin West Movement ...

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 ...

For example, there are five known manuscript copies of the Gettysburg Address. Testing has proved that all are authentic Lincoln documents. But it will never prove, definitively, which of the five ...

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 ...

"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.

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 ...

In 6th grade, I memorized The Gettysburg Address, in which Abraham Lincoln urges a resolve that the sacrifices of the fallen Union soldiers not be in vain, and “that government ...