On this day 155 years ago, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, a brief speech during the Civil War that would go down as perhaps the best bit of oration in American history.

When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for his second inaugural in 1865, historians think he cut the sentences and ...

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 ...

In the winter of 1865, near the close of the Civil War, a haggard-looking Abraham Lincoln took a printed draft of his upcoming second inaugural address and cut it to pieces. He sliced it into 27 ...

On June 16, 1858, more than 160 years ago, a little-known politician delivered a speech at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield after he accepted his party's nomination for U.S. senator.

It’s another book on Abraham Lincoln, but this one, “His Greatest Speeches,” is for “a slow reader,” says its author, Diana Schaub, a professor at Loyola University, Maryland. In fact ...

LANSING, MI -- On Abraham Lincoln's birthday this week, we published a story about how the 16th president coined the term 'Michigander.' It was nothing new: the bit of linguistic history had been ...

BLOOMINGTON - On May 29, 1856, Abraham Lincoln delivered a speech in Bloomington that friends and observers called the finest of his career. | From Our Past page ...

A theatrical foray into President Abraham Lincoln's state of mind on the eve of delivering the Gettysburg Address will be featured at the Northwest Montana History Museum on Sunday, Feb. 25.

Few people would have had "Gettysburg Address" on their bingo card for President Donald Trump’s Sept. 6 rally in Billings, Mont. But Trump did riff on the famous mid-Civil War speech by ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) - On Nov. 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered his most famous speech - the Gettysburg Address. More than 150 years later, students from across the globe are feeling its ...

When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for his second inaugural in 1865, historians think he cut the sentences and paragraphs from a printed draft and pasted them onto the copy he planned ...