The Gettysburg Address perspectives on Lincoln's greatest speech

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Other Authors: Conant, Sean
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Influences
  • Classical democracy and the Gettysburg Address / Nicholas P. Cole
  • "We here highly resolve": the end of compromise and the return to revolutionary time / Robert Pierce Forbes
  • Democracy at Gettysburg / Sean Wilentz
  • Daniel Webster, Abraham Lincoln, and the Gettysburg Address / Craig L. Symonds
  • "Of all, by all, for all": Theodore Parker, transcendentalism, and the Gettysburg Address / Dean Grodzins
  • Death and the Gettysburg Address / Mark S. Schantz
  • Shared suffering and the way to Gettysburg / Chandra Manning
  • Little note, long remember: Lincoln and the murk of myth at Gettysburg / Allen C. Guelzo
  • Part II. Impacts
  • "A new birth of freedom": emancipation and the Gettysburg Address / Louis P. Masur
  • "The great task remaining before us": Lincoln and Reconstruction / George Rutherglen
  • Immigration and the Gettysburg Address: nationalism and equality at the gates / Alison Clark Efford
  • Engendering the Gettysburg Address: its meaning for women / Jean H. Baker
  • The Gettysburg Address and civil rights / Raymond Arsenault
  • Widely noted and long remembered: the Gettysburg Address around the world / Don H. Doyle
  • The search for meaning in Lincoln's great oration / Thomas A. Desjardin.