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

Abraham Lincoln, the greatest American president, was also in my view the best of all presidential speechwriters. As a youngster in Lincoln, Nebraska, I stood before the statue of the president ...

Abraham Lincoln (February ... President Lincoln attended the ceremony. There, in front of 15,000 people, he delivered the Gettysburg Address. It is now considered a key moment in U.S. history.

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 ...