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 ...

GETTYSBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Thousands of spectators gathered on Tuesday to mark the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, considered one of the greatest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, in Gettysburg, Pa., on Nov. 19, ...

Two weeks after the election, a gathering in Gettysburg commemorated Lincoln’s address, 272 words that have come to epitomize what it means to be presidential. Credit... Supported by By Dan Barry ...

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 ...

Five words from the Declaration of Independence that national conservatives don’t like. By Jamelle Bouie At a time of national crisis, Memorial Day reminds us to honor past sacrifices by standing up ...

When Farina, of "The Little Rascals," was asked to recite Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, he was prompt. "Sixteen Forty-Four South Main Street!" That answer, unfortunately, may not cut any ice with ...

On Memorial Day, we remember our fallen soldiers. For several years I have visited California’s oldest secular cemetery, the Oak Hill Memorial Park in San Jose, every Memorial Day to silently express ...

Days after the 142nd anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s most famous speech, community members gathered Saturday, Nov. 22, outside the Lincoln Memorial Shrine in Redlands to hear his words said ...