The Gettysburg Address : perspectives on Lincoln's greatest speech
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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.