On Nov. 19, 1863, Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at a ceremony to dedicate ... There are five versions of the speech in Lincoln’s handwriting, and then scores of newspaper accounts ...
In his eulogy for Lincoln two years later, Charles Sumner, a Massachusetts senator and leading abolitionist, lauded the Gettysburg Address as “a monumental act” made even more poignant by ...
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 ...