One of just two confirmed photographs of Abraham Lincoln (seated in center, facing the camera) at Gettysburg on the ... reverends spoke prayers and Edward Everett, a well-known lecturer and ...

On Nov. 19, 1863, on this very hill, President Abraham Lincoln unfolded ... the horrific Battle of Gettysburg just four months earlier. His 272 words became a civic prayer of unity and purpose ...

Democracy was facing its toughest test 159 years ago and Abraham Lincoln's fine speech at Gettysburg was a turning point that saved it. It is impossible to read President Lincoln’s Gettysburg ...

Memorial Day is an appropriate time to reread Abraham Lincoln’s sublime Gettysburg Address honoring Civil War dead.

In September 1862, weeks before he issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln wrestled ... The carefully chosen language of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was almost as ...

From a Gettysburg reading to a black powder salute, Eugene’s Memorial Day ceremony paid tribute with history and heart.

In August of 1863, just months before the Thanksgiving Proclamation, Lincoln called for a separate day of thanksgiving, praise and prayer. As Elton Trueblood writes in Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in ...

President Abraham Lincoln offered a short but seminal vision of the past and promise of the United States in a speech known ...