Echo Sound won the Grade 3 Victory Ride on Thursday, the first day of Saratoga's July 4th Racing Festival. Her trainer, Rusty ...

Gettysburg, Pa., civic leader David Wills invited Edward Everett, former president of Harvard University and the nation’s leading orator, to offer the main address. Later, Wills invited Lincoln ...

The Gettysburg Address was a quick-hitting speech that was built to last. Length: A little over two minutes. Message: Stay the course of a difficult war. If Democracy won’t work here, it won’t ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Al Brophy from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill looks at the historical importance of the main speech given at Gettysburg on November 23, 1863: the oration of the day’s featured ...

If you pay any attention to the news, you know by now that Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013, is the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, the magnificent speech that President Abraham Lincoln ...

The Gettysburg Address "is not a long speech, but it has a lot of complexity," Miller said. "It is about finding the inner strength to push through.

The meaning of the Gettysburg Address has changed, generation after generation. It has become one of the most revered texts, even as historians and public figures have puzzled over its meaning. In ...