Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Building sites
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Abraham Lincoln Research and Interpretive Center
Author: The Gettysburg Address
Author: Abraham LincolnPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504080246
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 9
Book Description
The complete text of one of the most important speeches in American history, delivered by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln arrived at the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to remember not only the grim bloodshed that had just occurred there, but also to remember the American ideals that were being put to the ultimate test by the Civil War. A rousing appeal to the nation’s better angels, The Gettysburg Address remains an inspiring vision of the United States as a country “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
Establishment of Abraham Lincoln Interpretive Center
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historic sites
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
The National Parks
Author: Barry MackintoshPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Writing the Gettysburg Address
Author: Martin P. JohnsonPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700621121
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Four score and seven years ago . . . . Are any six words better known, of greater import, or from a more crucial moment in our nation’s history? And yet after 150 years the dramatic and surprising story of how Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address has never been fully told. Until now. Martin Johnson's remarkable work of historical and literary detection illuminates a speech, a man, and a moment in history that we thought we knew. Johnson guides readers on Lincoln’s emotional and intellectual journey to the speaker’s platform, revealing that Lincoln himself experienced writing the Gettysburg Address as an eventful process that was filled with the possibility of failure, but which he knew resulted finally in success beyond expectation. We listen as Lincoln talks with the cemetery designer about the ideals and aspirations behind the unprecedented cemetery project, look over Lincoln's shoulder as he rethinks and rewrites his speech on the very morning of the ceremony, and share his anxiety that he might not live up to the occasion. And then, at last, we stand with Lincoln at Gettysburg, when he created the words and image of an enduring and authentic legend. Writing the Gettysburg Address resolves the puzzles and problems that have shrouded the composition of Lincoln's most admired speech in mystery for fifteen decades. Johnson shows when Lincoln first started his speech, reveals the state of the document Lincoln brought to Gettysburg, traces the origin of the false story that Lincoln wrote his speech on the train, identifies the manuscript Lincoln held while speaking, and presents a new method for deciding what Lincoln’s audience actually heard him say. Ultimately, Johnson shows that the Gettysburg Address was a speech that grew and changed with each step of Lincoln's eventful journey to the podium. His two-minute speech made the battlefield and the cemetery into landmarks of the American imagination, but it was Lincoln’s own journey to Gettysburg that made the Gettysburg Address.
New Philadelphia
Author: Gerald A. McWorterPublisher:
ISBN: 9780910671170
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
New Philadelphia chronicles the history of a town founded in 1836 in Central Illinois by a freed slave. The book covers the history of the town, the inhabitants, their descendants, and the archeological digs.
The Lincoln Centennial
Author: The life of Lincoln
Author: Abraham LincolnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Life on the Circuit with Lincoln
Author: Henry Clay WhitneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
"Originally commenced as a pastime, and to please a circle of friends alone, success, in any degree, can only be hoped for, because of my vantage ground as an intimate and close friend of Mr. Lincoln, and because, by reason of such intimacy, of the novelty of some of the facts and deductions, and not, in any sense, by reason, but in spite of, its literary style or, rather, the lack thereof."--Preface.
Historic Lighthouse Preservation Handbook
Author: Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description