Edward Everett Wikimedia Commons One hundred and fifty years ago, on Nov. 19, 1863, famed orator and former Secretary of State Edward Everett delivered a two-hour speech at the Gettysburg National ...

History It’s the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. Bostonians should take a moment to remember Edward Everett. On Nov. 19, 1863, the accomplished Massachusetts statesman gave a two-hour ...

So when a Pennsylvania-led commission finished assembling a burial ground for the soldiers who’d fallen at Gettysburg, they naturally asked Edward Everett if he’d speak at the cemetery’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

It would appear that there is an English-language consensus that the Gettysburg address—the brief and ultra-famous speech ... This was a two-hour speech by former Secretary of State Edward Everett.

The Gettysburg Address is impossibly profound; intimidatingly brief, under 300 words; and unusual among great American speeches, ... but by the availability of Edward Everett, ...

Where in Gettysburg, exactly, did Lincoln actually deliver his Gettysburg Address on Nov. 19, 1863? ... Edward Everett, delivered what was scheduled as the main speech of the day.

Compared with the overtly classical content and tone of Everett’s speech, which was intended to elevate the Battle of ...