Today we celebrate the 150th anniversary of President Lincoln 's Gettysburg Address . Yet a century and a half later , we still honor those sacred words he spoke on the battlefield in Pennsylvania as some of the most important words ever spoken . Ken Burns : The words spoken at a Civil War cemetery are some of the most important ever . Burns is launching ` ` Learn the Address , '' a project to more fully understand democracy . Burns says today , we should ask ourselves what has made these words endure .
Today we celebrate the 150th anniversary of President Lincoln 's Gettysburg Address . Ken Burns : The words spoken at a Civil War cemetery are some of the most important ever . Burns is launching ` ` Learn the Address , '' a project to more fully understand democracy . Burns says today , we should ask ourselves what has made these words endure .