In his eulogy for Lincoln two years later, Charles Sumner, a Massachusetts senator and leading abolitionist, lauded the Gettysburg Address as “a monumental act” made even more poignant by ...

These 269 w ords. Delivered this week, eight-score years plus one. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Let’s read it together. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a ...

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 ...

In the first Learning Activity, students will closely examine Lincoln’s use of words in the Gettysburg Address and learn that a short speech can be powerful. In the second Learning Activity ...

where Abraham Lincoln put the final touches on the Gettysburg Address. Previous travelers say the tour blends the right amount of history and spookiness. If a one-hour ghost tour seems too short ...

For example, there are five known manuscript copies of the Gettysburg Address. Testing has proved that all are authentic Lincoln documents. But it will never prove, definitively, which of the five ...

November 19 marks the anniversary of the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg where Lincoln gave his famous address, and the site hosts numerous events in recognition of the ...

"The Civil War was the most important event in American history, the crossroads of our being,” says documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, whose 1990 The Civil War won 40 major television and film honors.

Several recent guests thought the decor was a bit dated Set in a Federal-style building designed to reflect the area’s history, the pet-friendly Wyndham Gettysburg is 5 miles from Gettysburg ...