On Nov. 19, 1863, then-President Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful 272-word speech, later known as the Gettysburg Address, ...
As I write this (November 19th) there are commemorative ceremonies in the Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg marking President Abraham Lincoln’s most famous speech. Because of that ...
Some listeners were startled; a newspaper reporter later wrote that Lincoln’s speech “passed unnoticed by many”; another ...
On March 4, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln stood on the east portico of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, to offer his ...
When the sculptor Alexander Phimister Proctor’s monument of Roosevelt was unveiled in Portland in 1922, the then-recently deceased 26th president, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Spanish-American war ...
Throughout our nation’s history, there have been many incredible moments, ones which we still discuss with reverence today.
When civics was taught in our public education system, students memorized and later recited passages of many of our nations’ seminal documents — the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and ...
Darius Wallace’s portrayal of Douglass earned a long standing ovation in the Lehigh County courtroom where the famed ...
Credit - Interim Archives/) Despite increasing political polarization, evidence suggests that most Americans fundamentally ...