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

A bust of President Abraham Lincoln and a plaque of the Gettysburg Address have been removed from a Cornell University library. “Someone complained, and it was gone,” Cornell biology professor ...

Democracy was facing its toughest test 159 years ago and Abraham Lincoln's fine speech ... It is impossible to read President Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address without feeling chills.

On this day in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, one of the most memorable speeches in American history.Lincoln’s speech, though just 271 words, served as a ...

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that “all men are created equal” Now we are ...

It was the young nation’s 87 th birthday. President Abraham Lincoln was well-aware of the irony. He famously began his legendary Gettysburg Address, which he delivered at the dedication of the ...

One of just two confirmed photographs of Abraham Lincoln (seated in center, facing the camera) at Gettysburg on the day of his address Public domain via Wikimedia Commons On November 19 ...