The country's most prominent historians reflect on the significance and legacy of the Gettysburg Address
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Preface
- SEAN CONANT
- Foreword
- JAMES M. McPHERSON
- Part I: Influences
- 1. Classical Democracy and the Gettysburg Address
- NICHOLAS P. COLE
- 2. Shakespeare, Religion, and the Gettysburg Address
- JOHN STAUFFER
- 3. "We Here Highly Resolve": The End of Compromise and the Return to Revolutionary Time
- ROBERT PIERCE FORBES
- 4. Democracy at Gettysburg
- SEAN WILENTZ
- 5. Daniel Webster, Abraham Lincoln, and the Gettysburg Address
- CRAIG L. SYMONDS
- 6. Theodore Parker, Transcendentalism, and the Gettysburg Address
- DEAN GRODZINS
- 7. Death and the Gettysburg Address
- MARK S. SCHANTZ
- 8. Shared Suffering and the Way to Gettysburg
- CHANDRA MANNING
- 9. Little Note, Long Remember: Lincoln and the Murk of Myth at Gettysburg
- ALLEN GUELZO
- Part II: Impacts
- 10. "A New Birth of Freedom": Emancipation and the Gettysburg Address
- LOUIS P. MASUR
- 11. "The Great Task Remaining Before Us": Lincoln and Reconstruction
- GEORGE RUTHERGLEN
- 12. Immigration and the Gettysburg Address: Nationalism and Equality at the Gates
- ALISON CLARK EFFORD
- 13. Engendering the Gettysburg Address: Its Meaning for Women
- JEAN H. BAKER
- 14. The Gettysburg Address and Civil Rights
- RAY ARSENAULT
- 15. Widely Noted and Long Remembered: The Gettysburg Address Around the World
- DON H. DOYLE
- 16. The Search for Meaning in Lincoln's Great Oration
- THOMAS A. DESJARDIN
- Afterword
- HAROLD HOLZER
- Appendix: The Five Copies of The Gettysburg Address
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
