GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) – 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 ...

(AP) – The text of the Gettysburg Address, as delivered by President Abraham Lincoln on Nov. 19, 1863, and transmitted by The Associated Press 150 years ago: Four score and seven years ago our fathers ...

Lincoln needed about 270 words for one of the most sacred texts in U.S. history. Nov. 19. 2013— -- Of the five known copies of the "Gettysburg Address" in Abraham Lincoln's handwriting (all a ...