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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

If you pay any attention to the news, you know by now that Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013, is the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, the magnificent speech that President Abraham 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 "is not a long speech, but it has a lot of complexity," Miller said. "It is about finding the inner strength to push through.

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 news of the great battle at Gettysburg came to Abraham Lincoln by fits and starts. But when it was finally confirmed on the morning of July 4, 1863, that Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army had ...

The Gettysburg Address. Clip: Season 1 | 5m 50s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Lincoln spoke only 269 words during his address and gave history a speech for the ages. Lincoln feels he has failed ...