What made the Gettysburg Address one of America's greatest speeches? It’s a speech we’re all taught, and its words are woven into the fabric of our nation’s history. “Four score and seven ...

It would appear that there is an English-language consensus that the Gettysburg address—the brief and ultra-famous speech that Abraham Lincoln gave 150 years ago today, on November 19, 1863 ...

Gettysburg, Pa., civic leader David Wills invited Edward Everett, former president of Harvard University and the nation’s leading orator, to offer the main address. Later, Wills invited Lincoln ...

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 ...

The Gettysburg Address was a quick-hitting speech that was built to last. Length: A little over two minutes. Message: Stay the course of a difficult war. If Democracy won’t work here, it won’t ...

President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, one of the most famous speeches in United States history, at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery on this day in history ...

The Gettysburg Address doesn’t offer us a roadmap out of division. It doesn’t prescribe policies or strategies. What it does is call us to recommit ourselves to the proposition that this ...

History might have been different had he attended the hundredth anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, as hoped and planned, on Nov. 19, 1963.

Opinion: Gettysburg Address offers special significance for Memorial Day In this fateful election year, Abraham Lincoln’s words of courage and compassion can transcend political divisions ...

An original, handwritten edition of the Gettysburg Address, one of five authored by Abraham Lincoln, will be on display at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum from Friday to Nov. 28.

What happened at Gettysburg was that with 271 fateful words in but 10 sentences, Abraham Lincoln forged “a new birth of freedom” out of the blood and shock of a sundered nation.