A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of a national cemetery at ...

Almost eight decades after the end of the Revolutionary War (1776-1783), there erupted another war (1861-1865). Mostly known today as the Civil War, the conflict seared our national consciousness and ...

Lincoln needed about 270 words for one of the most sacred texts in U.S. history. Nov. 19. 2013— -- Of the five known copies of the "Gettysburg Address" in Abraham Lincoln's handwriting (all a ...

GETTYSBURG, Pa. -- Thousands gathered at a central Pennsylvania battlefield park Tuesday to honor a speech given 150 years ago that President Abraham Lincoln predicted would not be long remembered.

GETTYSBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - As Americans on Tuesday mark the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, which remains one of the best-known pieces of political oratory in the nation's ...

He arrived on the evening train from Washington, accompanied by two secretaries, three members of his Cabinet, and several foreign officials. During the train trip, he commented that he felt weak and ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill (WREX) – An original handwritten copy of the Gettysburg Address is set to be on display for 10 days at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. The Abraham Lincoln ...

SPRINGFIELD — The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum will display an original edition of the Gettysburg Address starting on Nov. 15. The exhibit will be available through Nov. 24 before ...

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 ...

On Memorial Day, we remember our fallen soldiers. For several years I have visited California’s oldest secular cemetery, the Oak Hill Memorial Park in San Jose, every Memorial Day to silently express ...

Robert Lowell is a J.D. candidate at Vanderbilt Law School. One hundred and sixty-one years ago, Americans were slaughtering each other. The Battle of Gettysburg — one of the most consequential ...

MOORHEAD — When audiences watch Chuck Johnson’s play about President Abraham Lincoln writing the Gettysburg Address, they often see connections between Lincoln’s world in 1863 and the world today.