Nearly two and a half centuries ago — in an era of quill pens, muskets and horse-drawn conveyances — America became the first modern democracy, founded on a belief in ...

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Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, delivered in November 1863, is even briefer than the second inaugural and better known.

The Gettysburg Address showed that a document or a speech can have a bigger impact than a deadly occurrence in history. The values upon which Abraham Lincoln stood was the key towards a transition in ...

But Gettysburg has also been a symbol of America’s commitments to freedom and democracy, thanks to the immortal speech that Abraham Lincoln delivered there on Nov. 19, 1863.

Historians agree Lincoln was not done writing the Gettysburg Address the night before he gave the speech, but nobody knows how much he had left to finish, Johnson said.

The idea that Lincoln wrote the brief, 272-word speech at the last minute during the train journey from Washington D.C. to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, is almost certainly false.

Lincoln understood that democracy, messy and imperfect as it is, depends on a collective act of faith. It is that faith, more than anything else, that he left to us on the battlefield of Gettysburg.

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 ...

SPRINGFIELD — The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum will display an original edition of the Gettysburg Address starting on Nov. 15. The exhibit will be available through Nov. 24 ...

The Lincoln Address Memorial commemorates the iconic speech US President Abraham Lincoln gave in Gettysburg on 19 November 1863.

Lincoln’s Gettysburg address, Nov. 19, 1863, is an exquisite piece of writing, notable for its brevity, punctuated by an inclusive rhetoric that contemporary politics too often tramples and that ...