The Battle of Gettysburg, fought on the first three days of July in 1863, resulted in more than 51,000 total casualties (dead, wounded, missing, captured), including more than 7,000 dead, yet it began ...

Commemorate 162nd anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg with events, programs ...

While sweeping the grounds of Gettysburg National Military Park as part of a rehabilitation project, an archaeologist ...

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Looking at the Battle of Gettysburg Through Robert E. Lee’s Eyes Anne Kelly Knowles, the winner of Smithsonian American Ingenuity Awards, uses GIS technology to change our view of history ...

“From the earth.” Not just from America. That’s the global dimension of the Gettysburg Address, which we too often ignore. Lincoln did not simply foretell a renewal of freedom in the U.S.

The battle is remembered as “hell on Earth.” On Dec. 16, 1944, Nazi Germany launched an enormous offensive through the quiet, thinly defended Ardennes Forest in Belgium. Adolf Hitler and ...

The Gettysburg Address Really Holds Up. ... to say it for all time, an elegy, a challenge, and, yes, a battle cry for all the things worth fighting for, ... shall not perish from the earth. ...

The cemetery, the Battle of Gettysburg, the contradictions of the United States and the ideals of the Declaration of Independence were far more important than he could put into words.

Over 150 years later, millions of visitors have toured Gettysburg Battlefield. ... One recent study estimates that nearly 1 million square miles – 5% of the Earth’s dry land surface ...