Abraham Lincoln is remembered today for many reasons ... Enjoy his birthday by reading his most famous — and concise — address. The Gettysburg Address Four score and seven years ago our ...

So I’d forgotten or not noticed that the well-known statue of Abraham Lincoln is bracketed by two of his better-known orations — the Gettysburg Address on the southern wall and his second ...

In this lesson, students will explore how Abraham Lincoln used the ... students will closely examine Lincoln’s use of words in the Gettysburg Address and learn that a short speech can be powerful.

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln ... modern rhetoric, Lincoln's surprising election in 1860 helped spark the war itself. His Gettysburg Address (1863) and ...

as Lincoln had said at Gettysburg, whether a nation committed to republican principles could endure. Lincoln’s second inaugural address was a political masterpiece, suffused with themes of ...