The Lincoln Memorial Shrine at Smiley Park hosted its 51st open house, with Lincoln reenactor Robert Broski on hand to recite the slain president’s most famous speech, the Gettysburg Address.

On this day in history, Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the famous Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery.

A common misconception about the House Divided speech is that Lincoln believed the Union would destroy itself as a result of its inability to regulate the spread of slavery.

Find out more about the life of Abraham Lincoln, the president who preserved the Union and helped abolish slavery.

History might have been different had he attended the hundredth anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, as hoped and planned, on Nov. 19, 1963.

Whether Lincoln wrote the address in a railway train while on the way to Gettysburg, or penned it in the White House on the morning of that dedicatory day, or spent some part of the evening before ...

The news of the great battle at Gettysburg came to Abraham Lincoln by fits and starts. But when it was finally confirmed on the morning of July 4, 1863, that Robert E. Lee ’s Confederate army ...

Abraham Lincoln loved to eat—and he also wasn’t afraid to throw on an apron and cook. Here are a few of the foods he enjoyed most. According to the 16th president’s last bodyguard, Colonel ...

Our 16th president inspired millions. These rousing Abraham Lincoln quotes are just as relevant today as they were in his time.

“Abraham Lincoln was defeated in elections for the Senate and the House before he won the most important election of all,” Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney said of the 16th president.

A painting of President Abraham Lincoln for tourists to pose for photographs with is seen in July in Gettysburg, Pa. People gathered for the anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, which was ...

In Abraham Lincoln's famous address at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery, he chose a linguistic construction similar to Psalms, which would sound familiar to devout Christians ...