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 ...

President Abraham Lincoln offered a short but seminal vision of the past and promise of the United States in a speech known as the Gettysburg Address. The brief speech—just 272 words arranged ...

So I’d forgotten or not noticed that the well-known statue of Abraham Lincoln is bracketed by two of his better-known orations — the Gettysburg Address on the southern wall and his second ...

as Lincoln had said at Gettysburg, whether a nation committed to republican principles could endure. Lincoln’s second inaugural address was a political masterpiece, suffused with themes of ...

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 ...