How Scientists Preserve Lincoln's Original Gettysburg Address Manuscripts

The Gettysburg Address Cornell University Library/Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln uttered the 10 sentences that would come to be known as the Gettysburg Address. His two-minute speech was part of the Gettysburg Cemetery's lengthy dedication ceremony, which included a two-hour oration, prayers, and performances. Though Lincoln suggests that "the world will take little note, nor long remember what we say here," 150 years later the speech is not on...