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

The president wrote out by hand five copies of the address, two before the ceremony—historians aren't sure which of these is the copy from which Lincoln read at Gettysburg—and three afterward.

On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania.

As a youngster in Lincoln, Nebraska, I stood before the statue of the president gracing the west side of the towering state capitol and soaked up the words of his Gettysburg Address, inscribed on ...

When Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office for his second term as president, the United States was divided as never before ...

In the midst of the Civil War, President Lincoln went to Gettysburg. "The Gettysburg Address" investigates the five extant copies of Lincoln's famous speech, separating fact from fiction along the ...

American citizens are turning out in huge numbers to protest the assault on bedrock rights enshrined in the Constitution, the ...

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

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 ...

Designed by local leaders after the war, this cemetery was dedicated on Nov. 19, 1863 and is where former President Abraham Lincoln gave his iconic "Gettysburg Address." The property permits ...