As the anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg approaches, it's time for America to question the popular account of a war that tore apart the nation.
In an act of “open-air sleight of hand,“ Lincoln created a new Constitution, revolutionized the Revolution, and gave us a country changed forever
Released on the speech's 150th anniversary, it's a little essay on language—and a little document of media.
The Hall of Presidents and First Ladies in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, recently closed down, auctioning off its collection of life-size wax figures of U.S. presidents.
The day's other speaker told him: "I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes."
On the 150th anniversary of the speech, let's consider how the corporate world's native medium might improve it.
Frederick Douglass called it "a sacred effort," and Lincoln himself thought that his Second Inaugural, which offered a theodicy of the Civil War, was better than the Gettysburg Address
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