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One has to wonder what might be different today if President Kennedy had accepted the invitation to speak at the centennial commemoration of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address on Nov. 19,

Shortly after the Civil War, Thaddeus Stevens said honoring the Confederate dead along with the Union casualties was “blasphemy.”

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Vanessa Pellechio Sanders

Gettysburg resident Ana Abbott was the only one in her immediate family without United States citizenship. That changed for her on Saturday.

Marking the 159th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address Saturday, the Dedication Day keynote speaker Allen C. Guelzo explored the meaning behind President Abraham Lincoln’s famous 272-word speech at the Gettysburg

Dedication Day kicked off with a wreath-laying ceremony at the Soldiers’ National Monument on Saturday. Nov. 19, designated as Dedication Day, marks the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address and the

The week before Thanksgiving is a special, unifying week in the annals of south-central Pennsylvania, so much that it could be annually honored as “New Birth of Freedom Week” or “Hallowed Grounds Wee…

As is tradition each November, this month Gettysburg commemorates President Abraham Lincoln’s delivery of his world-famous address at the Soldiers’ National Cemetery dedication in 1863.