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Like the Pledge of Allegiance or “The Star-Spangled Banner,” the Gettysburg Address is a sacred American text, so fully absorbed into the culture that phrases such as “four score and seven years ago” ...
Joshua Kloster is preparing for his finest hour as Abraham Lincoln. The tall, square-jawed 19-year-old who is a business administration student at Bethany Lutheran College is also a seasoned veteran ...
Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is only 272 words long, but it remains one of the greatest speeches in U.S. history and ...
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) – Like the Pledge of Allegiance or “The Star-Spangled Banner,” the Gettysburg Address is a sacred American text, so fully absorbed into the culture that phrases such as “four ...
GETTYSBURG, Pa. — An annual Memorial Day ceremony was held Monday at Gettysburg National Cemetery, 156 years after the holiday first known as "Decoration Day" was originally observed on the site. The ...
GETTYSBURG, Pa. On the Civil War battlefield where President Abraham Lincoln gave a speech that symbolized his presidency and the sacrifices made by Union and Confederate forces, thousands gathered ...
It was the biggest assignment of Joseph Ignatius Gilbert’s journalistic career — and he was in serious danger of blowing it. On Nov. 19, 1863, the 21-year-old Associated Press freelancer was standing ...