History Lessons

Each video tells one piece of history using primary sources and period quotes, with the sources on its page and the full script one click away. On history we do take a side where the facts and moral record are settled. On today's news we show every side and let you decide.

The Gettysburg Address and how the press reacted, November 1863

What newspapers printed about Lincoln's speech in November 1863, in their own words, plus the speech itself read aloud and the story of the cemetery it dedicated.