Every July Fourth brings fireworks, picnics, parades and happy celebrations of American freedom. But behind the festivities ...

If we are to preserve and improve our democracy, the work must be our own and every individual citizen has a responsibility.

In his eulogy for Lincoln two years later, Charles Sumner, a Massachusetts senator and leading abolitionist, lauded the ...

In every generation, the Declaration of Independence has stood for a more expansive promise of freedom and equality.

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 ...

Gettysburg, Pa., civic leader David Wills invited Edward Everett, former president of Harvard University and the nation’s leading orator, to offer the main address. Later, Wills invited Lincoln ...

The Gettysburg Address was a quick-hitting speech that was built to last. Length: A little over two minutes. Message: Stay the course of a difficult war. If Democracy won’t work here, it won’t ...

What made the Gettysburg Address one of America's greatest speeches? It’s a speech we’re all taught, and its words are woven into the fabric of our nation’s history. “Four score and seven ...

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The Gettysburg Address was a quick-hitting speech that was built to last. Length: A little over two minutes. Message: Stay the course of a difficult war. If Democracy won’t work here, it won’t ...