In his eulogy for Lincoln two years later, Charles Sumner, a Massachusetts senator and leading abolitionist, lauded the Gettysburg Address as “a monumental act” made even more poignant by ...

President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, one of the most famous speeches in United States history, at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery on this day in history ...

Democracy was facing its toughest test 159 years ago and Abraham Lincoln's fine speech at Gettysburg was a turning point that saved it. It is impossible to read President Lincoln’s Gettysburg ...

A bust of President Abraham Lincoln and a plaque of the Gettysburg Address have been removed from a Cornell University library. “Someone complained, and it was gone,” Cornell biology professor ...

Nov. 19 is the 160th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. It was a call for the country to be better, to not waste the sacrifices of so many who have come before us.

Gloves Lincoln Wore to Ford’s Theater Sell for $1.5 Million at Auction. More than 100 relics connected to President Abraham Lincoln brought in $7.9 million, auctioneers said.

One of just two confirmed photographs of Abraham Lincoln (seated in center, facing the camera) at Gettysburg on the day of his address Public domain via Wikimedia Commons On November 19, 1863 ...