Everett spoke for two hours while Lincoln's address lasted just over two minutes. The copies of the speech all have slightly varying text. The Gettysburg Address is one of the most famous speeches ...

Dickinson College historian Matthew Pinsker has written that “it appears very likely that Lincoln was working at least in part from another man’s text” in the Gettysburg Address. Wilkeson ...

There are five known manuscript copies of the Gettysburg Address, each slightly different. What’s termed the Bliss version is considered by many to be the standard text; Lincoln wrote it in 1864 ...

The copies all have slightly varying text. Christian McWhirter, the library and museum’s Lincoln historian, said the Gettysburg Address is the most famous speech in the English language and ...

This text was compiled from uncorrected Closed ... on the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg address… Author, historian, and Lincoln Studies Center co-director Douglas ...

have slightly varying text. On Tuesday, five high school students from Springfield’s sister city, Ashikaga, Japan, are expected to recite the Gettysburg Address at the Old State Capitol’s Hall ...

Reporter, covering a bit of everything. On this day 155 years ago, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, a brief speech during the Civil War that would go down as perhaps the ...

Few people would have had "Gettysburg Address" on their bingo card for President ... we cannot venerate this sacred text, for a grateful nation long ago came to view those words with reverence ...

But the enemy is never identified in the Gettysburg Address. And though the speech does not ignore slavery, the word does not appear in the text. Neither for that matter do other words one might ...

On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered his historic Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Pennsylvania. Today, Lincoln is remembered as guiding ...