The Gettysburg Address
Subtitle: perspectives on Lincoln's greatest speech
By: edited by Sean Conant ; foreword by Harold Holzer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780190227456; 9780190227449
Other titles: Perspectives on Lincoln's greatest speech
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Influences; title: Classical democracy and the Gettysburg Address / Nicholas P. Cole; title: "We here highly resolve": the end of compromise and the return to revolutionary time / Robert Pierce Forbes; title: Democracy at Gettysburg / Sean Wilentz; title: Daniel Webster, Abraham Lincoln, and the Gettysburg Address / Craig L. Symonds; title: "Of all, by all, for all": Theodore Parker, transcendentalism, and the Gettysburg Address / Dean Grodzins; title: Death and the Gettysburg Address / Mark S. Schantz; title: Shared suffering and the way to Gettysburg / Chandra Manning; title: Little note, long remember: Lincoln and the murk of myth at Gettysburg / Allen C. Guelzo; title: Part II. Impacts; title: "A new birth of freedom": emancipation and the Gettysburg Address / Louis P. Masur; title: "The great task remaining before us": Lincoln and Reconstruction / George Rutherglen; title: Immigration and the Gettysburg Address: nationalism and equality at the gates / Alison Clark Efford; title: Engendering the Gettysburg Address: its meaning for women / Jean H. Baker; title: The Gettysburg Address and civil rights / Raymond Arsenault; title: Widely noted and long remembered: the Gettysburg Address around the world / Don H. Doyle; title: The search for meaning in Lincoln's great oration / Thomas A. Desjardin.