📆 On this day in 1922, the Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC. Daniel Chester French’s sculpture of our 16th President sits within Henry Bacon’s white marble building, which was modeled after the Greek temples. Did you know? 🤔 Lincoln’s only surviving child, 78-year-old Robert Todd Lincoln, was present at the ceremony. To learn more, watch America’s Greatest Monuments. Tonight at 11 PM. https://bitly.com/33CFKf5 | Smithsonian Channel Aviation Nation

On this day in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, one of the most memorable speeches in American history. | WDSU News

In Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 162 years ago today, President Abraham Lincoln gave one of the most famous speeches in American history, extolling the sacrifices of the men who died in the battle there. There are five known manuscript copies of the Gettysburg Address. The Library of Congress has two of those. | The Library of Congress