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

GETTYSBURG, PA — In the days that followed Abraham Lincoln’s 272-word speech to thousands of onlookers in this small Pennsylvania farm town, few newspapers in the country immediately reported ...

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 ...

Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, which is 150 years old on Nov. 19, shows the power of the well-chosen word. (Wes Bausmith / Los Angeles Times) By Ronald C. White . Nov. 17, 2013 12 AM PT .

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 ...

Next week is the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: seven things you may not have known about it. Skip to Article. Set weather. Back To Main Menu Close. Quick Look- ...

To mark the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, Steve Inskeep talks to historian Eric Foner, whose book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, won the Pulitzer Prize.

Few people would have had "Gettysburg Address" on their bingo card for President Donald Trump’s Sept. 6 rally in Billings, Mont. But Trump did riff on the famous mid-Civil War speech by ...

President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863. James Rush. Monday 12 February 2018 16:50 GMT. Comments (Getty Images) Your support helps us to tell the story.

Abraham Lincoln’s Legendary Gettysburg Address Promised ‘Government of the People, by the People, for the People’ The president’s humble speech, delivered on this day in 1863, was filled ...