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The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, about 35 miles northeast of Gettysburg, retracted a dismissive editorial penned by its Civil War-era predecessor, The Harrisburg Patriot & Union.
President Abraham Lincoln penned five copies of his famous speech. The drafts have withstood the test of 150 years -- and the Conservation Lab at Cornell University plans for 150 more ...
It took 150 years, but a Pennsylvania newspaper said Thursday it should have recognized the greatness of President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address at the time it was delivered.
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 ...
Election Day reading: Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: ""Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the ...
The New York Times reported of the Gettysburg Address: "It was delivered (or rather read from a sheet of paper which the speaker held in his hand) in a very deliberate manner, with strong emphasis ...
A Pennsylvania newspaper Thursday issued a retraction of a 150-year-old editorial that described the Gettysburg Address as "silly remarks." ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. — It took 150 years, but a Pennsylvania newspaper said Thursday it should have recognized the greatness of President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address at the time it was ...
One-hundred and fifty years after Abraham Lincoln passionately enunciated the necessity of the Civil War in the Gettysburg Address, the Patriot-News of central Pennsylvania, known back then as the ...
In 1863, the Harrisburg, Pa. paper then known as the Patriot & Union published an editorial about Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. They panned it: We pass over the silly remarks of the ...
The editorial board of a Pennsylvania paper has retracted its predecessor’s panning of President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address as “silly remarks.” ...