A granite monument to the Companies E and H Second United States Sharpshooters feet from the front door tells a story that ...

What made the Gettysburg Address one of America's greatest speeches? It’s a speech we’re all taught, and its words are woven into the fabric of our nation’s history. “Four score and seven ...

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 ...

If you type the keywords of this title into Google—“Gettysburg address overrated”—you get basically no hits. In this day and age, when anything in an Internet search turns up zilch, it is ...

The Gettysburg Address was a quick-hitting speech that was built to last.

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 ...

The brevity of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address belies its depth; its power lies not only in what it says but in the silences it leaves for us to ponder.

On this day in history, Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the famous Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery.

Opinion: Gettysburg Address offers special significance for Memorial Day In this fateful election year, Abraham Lincoln’s words of courage and compassion can transcend political divisions ...

History might have been different had he attended the hundredth anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, as hoped and planned, on Nov. 19, 1963.

An original, handwritten edition of the Gettysburg Address will be on display at Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum from Nov. 18-28.