Gettysburg Address

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• 11-18-18
  

  This Is Telling: It’s Impossible to Imagine Donald Trump Giving the Gettysburg Address

  by Louis P. Masur

  It was 155 years ago that Lincoln delivered his paean to democracy and liberty.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  9-6-18
  

  Trump: Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was ridiculed by the 'fake news'

  "You know when Abraham Lincoln made that Gettysburg Address speech, the great speech, you know he was ridiculed?" Trump said during a rally in Billings, Montana.

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• SOURCE: WRAL
  5-12-15
  

  Joseph J. Ellis, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, has an issue with the Gettysburg Address.

  His problem is that 1776 is celebrated as our birth, but we weren’t a real nation then.

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• SOURCE: National Affairs
  12-28-14 (accessed)
  

  Lincoln at Gettysburg

  by Diana Schaub

  The most obvious problem in approaching Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is that we know it so well.

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• 12-2-13
  

  Channelling George Washington: Should Obama Have Gone to Gettysburg?

  by Thomas Fleming

  Our first black president is proof that we've finally had a new birth of freedom in America. But it's complicated.

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  11-19-13
  

  Gettysburg Address praised at Pa. battle site 150 years later

  In solemnity, thousands gathered at a central Pennsylvania battlefield park Tuesday.

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• 11-20-13
  

  Why Didn't Obama Say "Under God" in His Recitation of the Gettysburg Address?

  by John Fea

  Simple: Because "under God" isn't in the version Obama was asked to read.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  11-17-13
  

  The Gettysburg Address: Much Noted and Long Remembered

  by Ronald C. White Jr.

  "It's only words." But the Gettysburg Address was so much more.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11-18-13
  

  Google project shows how Gettysburg Address evolved

  The website is a new project from Google’s Cultural Institute.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11-19-13
  

  The Road to America Leads Through Gettysburg

  by Nancy F. Koehn

  Without the Gettysburg Address, we don’t have the promise of America.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11-17-13
  

  Lincoln’s Sound Bite: Have Faith in Democracy

  by Allen C. Guelzo

  The surprisingly short story of the Gettysburg Address is that it was a surprisingly short speech.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11-15-13
  

  150 Years After the Gettysburg Address, Is Government by the People in Trouble?

  by Drew Gilpin Faust

  Has America fallen short of being the "world's best hope"?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11-15-13
  

  Apology for Gettysburg Address remarks 150 years later

  The Harrisburg Patriot-News apologizes for calling the Gettysburg Address "silly" in 1863.

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• 11-18-13
  

  Abraham Lincoln Never Believed in Racial Equality

  by Alan J. Singer

  "I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races."

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• SOURCE: National Public Radio
  11-2-13
  

  Lincoln's 272 Words, A Model Of Brevity For Modern Times

  It is difficult for those of us who write to say we need more words to tell a story when Lincoln did so much with just 272.

• SOURCE: WaPo
  1-22-13
  

  Gettysburg Remembrance Day parade has new date

  In anticipation of larger than usual crowds expected at Gettysburg for the annual Remembrance Day parade, planners have moved the event to the weekend of Nov. 23, a week later than had been scheduled.This year is the 150th anniversary of both the battle in July and Remembrance Day in November, the day President Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address. The parade is very popular with visitors and residents and draws thousands of smartly dressed reenactors who march in military units through the city.Planners say the change was made to better accommodate “lodging requirements.”...