In his eulogy for Lincoln two years later, Charles Sumner, a Massachusetts senator and leading abolitionist, lauded the ...

Lincoln needed about 270 words for one of the most sacred texts in U.S. history. Nov. 19. 2013— -- Of the five known copies of the "Gettysburg Address" in Abraham Lincoln's handwriting (all a ...

GETTYSBURG, PA — In the days that followed Abraham Lincoln’s 272-word speech to thousands of onlookers in this small Pennsylvania farm town, few newspapers in the country immediately reported ...

Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, which is 150 years old on Nov. 19, shows the power of the well-chosen word. (Wes Bausmith / Los Angeles Times) By Ronald C. White . Nov. 17, 2013 12 AM PT .

Like the Pledge of Allegiance or “The Star-Spangled Banner,” the Gettysburg Address is a sacred American text, so fully absorbed into the culture that phrases such as “four score and seven ...

To mark the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, Steve Inskeep talks to historian Eric Foner, whose book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, won the Pulitzer Prize.

Few people would have had "Gettysburg Address" on their bingo card for President Donald Trump’s Sept. 6 rally in Billings, Mont. But Trump did riff on the famous mid-Civil War speech by ...

Next week is the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: seven things you may not have known about it. Skip to Article. Set weather. Back To Main Menu Close. Quick Look- ...

In 2015, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation published the book celebrating or responding to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Each entry consisted of 272 words, the same number of ...

Abraham Lincoln’s Legendary Gettysburg Address Promised ‘Government of the People, by the People, for the People’ The president’s humble speech, delivered on this day in 1863, was filled ...