The Gettysburg Address : perspectives on Lincoln's greatest speech / edited by Sean Conant ; foreword by Harold Holzer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Conant, Sean.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Gettysburg address.

Lincoln, Abraham.

Gettysburg address (Lincoln, Abraham).

Physical Description:

xvi, 350 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]

Summary:

It remains without question the most memorable and memorized speech in American history. In 272 words, spoken on November 19, 1863, among the freshly dug graves of the Union dead at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Abraham Lincoln evoked and distilled the profound significance of the terrible war in which the nation was engaged. This volume aims to place Lincoln's words in their full context. Edited by the country's leading scholars, including Sean Wilentz, Craig L. Symonds, and Harold Holzer, it approaches the Address from a number of fresh perspectives. Taken together, they show why in the century and a half since it was delivered, the Gettysburg Address has proven a seemingly inexhaustible source of somber reflection and soaring hope, its language echoed by those seeking meaning for their own struggles and sacrifices.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780190227456

0190227451

9780190227449

0190227443

OCLC:

892700217