Reflecting on the Gettysburg Address and the Declaration of Independence should lead us to strive for a new birth of freedom ...

On the eve of the republic’s 250th birthday, at a time of great political division, historian and biographer Walter Isaacson has a new book about the drafting of the Declaration of Independence, “The ...

Although the Thanksgiving story is typically associated with the harvest feast of Pilgrims and Wampanoags in Plymouth, Massachusetts, 404 years ago this fall, the national holiday Americans celebrate ...

The idea for a national Thanksgiving holiday was not Lincoln’s own. It came from Sarah Josepha Hale, among the most ...

The museum's expansion will also include a new Presidential Room. There will also be an expansion of the museum’s Civil War collection, featuring relics recovered from the Gettysburg Battlefield.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated ...