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 ...

In his eulogy for Lincoln two years later, Charles Sumner, a Massachusetts senator and leading abolitionist, lauded the Gettysburg Address as “a monumental act” made even more poignant by ...

Seven score and 18 years ago, Abraham Lincoln delivered a brief but consequential speech in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania ... but the night after his November 19, 1863 address, he was plagued by something ...

The central idea of the Gettysburg address is that the country should not split over slavery. Abraham Lincoln felt we must stay united as a government and a country. Plus, slavery was wrong ...

Four months after Gettysburg, President Lincoln honored the Union fallen and redefined the war’s purpose with his stirring "Gettysburg Address." When the South fell, slavery was outlawed in ...

“Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection,” as Abraham Lincoln said in his first inaugural address. “We are not enemies, but friends.” Here at Gettysburg ...