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 Randy ...
Abraham Lincoln got one thing very wrong on Nov. 19, 1863, while dedicating a new military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, when he said the world "will little note, nor long remember what we say ...
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, Nov.
Almost eight decades after the end of the Revolutionary War (1776-1783), there erupted another war (1861-1865). Mostly known today as the Civil War, the conflict seared our national consciousness and ...
Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is only 272 words long, but it remains one of the greatest speeches in U.S. history and a reminder of the true meaning of Memorial Day. Memorial Day falls on May ...
When I was in command of USS Gettysburg, I had a copy of the Gettysburg Address hanging on the bulkhead in my captain’s cabin ...
The crowd gathered outside the Lincoln Memorial Shrine in Redlands listened as the words of the nation’s 16th president spilled across the green lawn. Nearly 161 years after Abraham Lincoln delivered ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Few people are aware that quite possibly the greatest speech in American ...
On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered a short speech at the close of ceremonies dedicating the battlefield cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Honoring a request to offer a few ...