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GETTYSBURG, Pa. On the Civil War battlefield where President Abraham Lincoln gave a speech that symbolized his presidency and the sacrifices made by Union and Confederate forces, thousands gathered ...

All aboard! Civil War buffs can once again stop by a piece of history. The Gettysburg Lincoln Railroad Station reopens for ...

You might be surprised to learn that each year, hundreds of people discover that they have a long-lost copy of the Gettysburg Address. At least they think so. Exactly 150 years ago today, Abraham ...

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 “four score and ...

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 writing ...

2013 has been a year of significant historical anniversaries — the Emancipation Proclamation, the Battle of Gettysburg, the 1963 March on Washington and, later this month, the assassination of John F.

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 and seven years ago” ...

So where was Lincoln, exactly? Where in Gettysburg, exactly, did Lincoln actually deliver his Gettysburg Address on Nov. 19, 1863? A prominent, 1912 monument to the speech by the entrance of the ...