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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The celebration of the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address offers an opportunity not simply to memorialize an extraordinary speech; it provides a model and a mirror for ...

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 ...

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 ...