At the close of the speech Mr. LINCOLN was presented with several splendid boquets and floral wreaths. An immense cheer for LINCOLN and the Union was then sent up by the crowd, and the reception ...

According to a release from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and ... where the public can regularly see Lincoln’s ...

When Abraham Lincoln made his famous Gettysburg Address on November ... At just around 270 words, Lincoln’s speech took about three minutes to make, but it’s lived on ever since as a shining ...

Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in Missouri, a bold move that predated President Abraham Lincoln’s more famous Emancipation Proclamation by two years.

But Gettysburg has also been a symbol of America’s commitments to freedom and democracy, thanks to the immortal speech that Abraham Lincoln delivered ... ended it with a famous tribute to ...