Gettysburg Address - the 150th anniversary: A Q&A on history's greatest speech Published: Nov. 17, 2013, 12:00 p.m. Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States ...

A hundred and fifty years ago President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. Now a new book has a completely different take on the speech and what it meant at the time.

The first chapter of Boritt's book describes what the small town was like in the weeks after the fighting ended. Stench fills the air. Excrement from perhaps 180,000 men and more than 70,000 ...

It would appear that there is an English-language consensus that the Gettysburg address—the brief and ultra-famous speech that Abraham Lincoln gave 150 years ago today, on November 19, 1863 ...

GETTYSBURG, Pa. — 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 ...

On Nov. 19, 1863, the 21-year-old Associated Press freelancer was standing before a "rude platform" overlooking the still-ravaged battlefield at Gettysburg, Pa. Towering above him was an almost ...

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GETTYSBURG, Pa. — 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 ...

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.

The Battle of Gettysburg is one of the most memorable—and significant—moments in American history. As evidenced by countless books, classes, documentaries, reenactments, memorials and movies, the ...

In his new book, “Writing the Gettysburg Address,” Martin P. Johnson argues that the fledgling “wire service” played a key role in ensuring that most Americans experienced the true power ...