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

What our community organizations accomplish is wonderful and is what makes Edwardsville such a special place, writes Mayor.

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 ...

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.

In 2015, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation published the book celebrating or responding to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Each entry consisted of 272 words, the same number of ...

Lincoln’s words remind us that democracy is not guaranteed. It is earned, and re-earned, with each generation. So having just observed the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, let us pause to ...

On this day in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, one of the most memorable speeches in American history.Lincoln’s speech, though just 271 words, served as a ...

Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address Nov. 19, 1863, to dedicate the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. That dedication ceremony followed the three-day Battle of ...

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 ...