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 ...

British abolitionists recognized the contradiction in the colonists’ position. One of the founders of the abolitionist ...

President Abraham Lincoln was asked to speak at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg. On that day, Nov. 19, 1863, Lincoln gave a 2-minute, 272-word speech that The Patriot ...

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.

After a long treatise on the illegality of secession, Lincoln closed with a single flourish. His plea to the “better angels of our nature” is so familiar that we can miss the very particular ...

On this day in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, one of the most memorable speeches in American history.Lincoln’s speech, though just 271 words, served as a reminder to ...

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 ...

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 ...

AMERICAN ICON. HE IS ALSO THE KING OF SELFIES. OTHER PEOPLE’S SELFIES. THE STATUE OF THE 16TH PRESIDENT IS BACK AFTER A THREE MONTH $22,000 FACELIFT. ABE WAS BROUGHT BACK IN PIECES. ONE HALF AS THE ...

Gettysburg Address, the fight against slavery and the battle for freedom provide historical perspective on principles of the Revolution and practice of slavery ...