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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.