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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holzer, Harold, author of introduction, etc.

Contributor:

Conant, Sean, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Gettysburg address.

Lincoln, Abraham.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.

System Details:

text file

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 documentary filmmaker Sean Conant and with contributions from some of 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 echaed by those seeking meaning for their own struggles and sacrifices. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Influences

1 Classical Democracy and the Gettysburg Address / Nicholas P. Cole Cole, Nicholas P. 3

2 "We Here Highly Resolve": The End of Compromise and the Return to Revolutionary Time / Robert Pierce Forbes Forbes, Robert Pierce 24

3 Democracy at Gettysburg / Sean Wilentz Wilentz, Sean 51

4 Daniel Webster, Abraham Lincoln, and the Gettysburg Address / Craig L. Symonds Symonds, Craig L.

5 "Of all, by all, for all": Theodore Parker, Transcendentalism, and the Gettysburg Address / Dean Grodzins Grodzins, Dean 88

6 Death and the Gettysburg Address / Mark S. Schantz Schantz, Mark S. 107

7 Shared Suffering and the Way to Gettysburg / Chandra Manning Manning, Chandra 126

8 Little Note, Long Remember: Lincoln and the Murk of Myth at Gettysburg / Allen C. Guelzo Guelzo, Allen C. 147

Part II Impacts

9 "A New Birth of Freedom": Emancipation and the Gettysburg Address / Louis P. Masur Masur, Louis P. 175

10 "The Great Task Remaining Before Us": Lincoln and Reconstruction / George Rutherglen Rutherglen, George 191

11 Immigration and the Gettysburg Address: Nationalism and Equality at the Gates / Alison Clark Efford Efford, Alison Clark 211

12 Engendering the Gettysburg Address: Its Meaning for Women / Jean H. Baker Baker, Jean H. 233

13 The Gettysburg Address and Civil Rights / Raymond Arsenault Arsenault, Raymond 252

14 Widely Noted and Long Remembered: The Gettysburg Address Around the World / Don H. Doyle Doyle, Don H. 274

15 The Search for Meaning in Lincoln's Great Oration / Thomas A. Desjardin Desjardin, Thomas A. 300.

Notes:

"Perspectives on Lincoln's Greatest Speech"--Cover.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Other Format:

Print version: Gettysburg address : perspectives on Lincoln's greatest speech.

ISBN:

9780190227463

OCLC:

923712139

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.