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 ...

A mere 272 words, how could Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address be perhaps the most famous American speech? Historian Allen Guelzo explains in this video.

The Gettysburg Address is impossibly profound; intimidatingly brief, under 300 words; and unusual among great American speeches, in part because the occasion did not call for a great American speech.

Where in Gettysburg, exactly, did Lincoln actually deliver his Gettysburg Address on Nov. 19, 1863? A prominent, 1912 monument to the speech by the entrance of the town's National Cemetery leads ...

GETTYSBURG, Pa. — In solemnity, thousands of people gathered at a central Pennsylvania battlefield park Tuesday to honor a speech given 150 years ago that President Abraham Lincoln predicted ...

Gettysburg Address - the 150th anniversary: A Q&A on history's greatest speech Published: Nov. 17, 2013, 12:00 p.m. Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States ...

Short Speech Still Resonates: The Gettysburg Address Turns 150 Tuesday marks the 150th Anniversary of the Gettysburg address. President Abraham Lincoln delivered these 278 words at the Dedication ...

GETTYSBURG, Pa.—In solemnity, thousands of people gathered at a central Pennsylvania battlefield park Tuesday to honor a speech given 150 years ago that President Abraham Lincoln predicted wo… ...

Martin P. Johnson, the author of Writing the Gettysburg Address , remember the first words of the iconic speech delivered 150 years ago today, and the battlefield visit that brought unexpected ...

Nov. 19 marks the 160th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. This is an anniversary that will be little noted nor long remembered, but that is a shame. The central message of the speech — that ...

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 ...