On Blood-Soaked Ground, a ‘Prayer for the Future’ of a Divided Land
Two weeks after the election, a gathering in Gettysburg commemorated Lincoln’s address, 272 words that have come to epitomize ...
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Thaddeus Stevens comes to Gettysburg
By 1816, Thaddeus Stevens had graduated from Dartmouth college, completed his legal studies and gotten a certificate to practice law. He was ready to make his mark, but where?
This week in Philly history: Which version of the Gettysburg Address did Abraham Lincoln actually say?
Upon a wooden platform, set in a small, war-torn Pennsylvania town, President Abraham Lincoln stood before a crowd of about 15,000 people and summed up the stakes of the American Civil War in a tidy ...
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HARB advances Gettysburg Station project
Despite resistance from the National Park Service, Gettysburg’s Historic Architectural Review Board (HARB) approved a ...
The Gettysburg Address Really Holds Up
Two hundred sixty-nine words—to say it all, to say it for all time, an elegy, a challenge, and, yes, a battle cry for all the ...
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Gettysburg high-rise apartment project controversy continues
Controversy continues over proposed high-rise apartments in Gettysburg, and a petition against the project now has more than 2,900 signatures. New renderings from the National Park ...
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Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address: 161 years later
Through his eloquence and heartfelt expression, he left a permanent mark on American history. The Gettysburg Address, ...