Before the president took the stand ... lauded the Gettysburg Address as “a monumental act” made even more poignant by ...

"The Civil War was ... Four months after Gettysburg, President Lincoln honored the Union fallen and redefined the war’s purpose with his stirring "Gettysburg Address." When the South fell ...

His Gettysburg Address ... barely a month after Lincoln took office, Confederate forces fired on Union troops at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, and the Civil War began. Lincoln acted swiftly ...

The film "Gettysburg" reflects on the historical significance of the Gettysburg battlefield, where many soldiers fought and died during the Civil War ... who fought, to take action to protect ...

Mathew Brady's legacy is synonymous with the photographic legacy of the Civil War ... influential of the war. Indeed, they provided inspiration for Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

In his latest book, Gettysburg National Park Service Ranger and adjunct professor at Penn State Troy Harman provides a non-traditional look at the Battle of Gettysburg, contesting the claim that the ...

A look at the people and events that shaped the Civil War and Reconstruction. Discover the people and events that document the American story — Saturdays on C-SPAN2. Come along with American ...

The final section looks at Lincoln’s famous address and later events memorializing the battle. Voices from Gettysburg is an invaluable read for anyone interested in the Gettysburg or the Civil War.

Gettysburg College Civil War Institute director ... Cole talked about how women on the home front during the Civil War often took on new roles and du… Local historian Kerry Altenbernd talked ...

The best time to visit Gettysburg is from September to ... when outdoor concerts at local wineries and Civil War re-enactments take place. Data sourced from the National Climatic Data Center ...

Considered the turning point of the Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg was also the bloodiest, amassing an estimated 51,000 casualties. The three-day conflict took place in July 1863 at what is ...