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

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 ...

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 ...

Lincoln's address followed what was supposed to be, by all accounts, the real Gettysburg address, that by former U.S. Senator and Harvard College President Edward Everett, which clocked in at ...

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 ...

Gabor Boritt, the former director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, noted in his book, "The Gettysburg Gospel," that Andrews's fiction "became the all-time Lincoln best-seller.

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.

Abraham Lincoln got one thing very wrong on Nov. 19, 1863, while dedicating a new military cemetery at Gettysburg, when he said the world "will little note, nor long remember what we say here." ...

The Gettysburg Address made the battlefield and the cemetery into landmarks of American memory, but it was Lincoln’s own journey to Gettysburg that made the Gettysburg Address. Martin P. Johnson ...

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 .