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 ...

In August, history professor Michael Birkner gave a short speech in Evergreen Cemetery in Gettysburg, near where President ...

Iowa may have been the scene of only one minor skirmish during the Civil War, but historians and live-action roleplayers ...

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.

To a great extent, then, we live in Lincoln’s America as much as anyone else’s. Which makes it supremely ironic that the ...

Today, our Nation solemnly commemorates the 162nd anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg—the single deadliest battle of the Civil War and a defining milestone in America’s epic struggle to preserve ...