The Gettysburg Address
Assigned by 2 of the 9 reading lists, catalogue entry only
- Written
- 1863
- Language
- English
- Length
- Short · 1 ppunder 120 pages
- Difficulty
- Approachable1 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendLincoln, Speeches and Writings 1859-1865Library of America, 1989The authoritative texts of all the major speeches and letters in one volume, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher.
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A speech of about 270 words delivered on 19 November 1863 at the dedication of the soldiers' cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four months after the battle. Lincoln dates the nation from the Declaration of Independence rather than the Constitution, describes the Civil War as a test of whether a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to equality can endure, says the living cannot consecrate ground the dead have already hallowed, and calls for a new birth of freedom so that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish.
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