Abraham Lincoln reminds us of the true meaning of Memorial Day 2026.

THE ISSUE: Today is the anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln delivering the Gettysburg Address. On Nov. 19, 1863, in that town 50 miles southwest of Lancaster city, Lincoln delivered his concise ...

Brief as Lincoln’s speech was, many newspaper reports paraphrased or outright butchered it. In his new book, “Writing the Gettysburg Address,” Martin P. Johnson argues that the fledgling “wire service ...

Two weeks after the election, a gathering in Gettysburg commemorated Lincoln’s address, 272 words that have come to epitomize what it means to be presidential. Credit... Supported by By Dan Barry ...

On Memorial Day, we remember our fallen soldiers. For several years I have visited California’s oldest secular cemetery, the Oak Hill Memorial Park in San Jose, every Memorial Day to silently express ...

Brief as Lincoln’s speech was, many newspaper reports paraphrased or outright butchered it. In his new book, “Writing the Gettysburg Address,” Martin P. Johnson argues that the fledgling “wire service ...