The Great Task Remaining Before Us
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The Gettysburg Address
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Author : Abraham Lincoln
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2009-08-27
The Gettysburg Address written by Abraham Lincoln and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-27 with History categories.
The Address was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg. In just over two minutes, Lincoln invoked the principles of human equality espoused by the Declaration of Independence and redefined the Civil War as a struggle not merely for the Union, but as "a new birth of freedom" that would bring true equality to all of its citizens, and that would also create a unified nation in which states' rights were no longer dominant. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
The Great Task Remaining Before Us
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Author : Paul Alan Cimbala
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2010
The Great Task Remaining Before Us written by Paul Alan Cimbala and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
"An unusually strong collection of essays ...the scholarship is impeccable."---Gaines M. Foster, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge --
Lincoln At Gettysburg
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Author : Garry Wills
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-12-11
Lincoln At Gettysburg written by Garry Wills and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-11 with History categories.
The power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was asked to memorialize the gruesome battle. Instead, he gave the whole nation "a new birth of freedom" in the space of a mere 272 words. His entire life and previous training, and his deep political experience went into this, his revolutionary masterpiece. By examining both the address and Lincoln in their historical moment and cultural frame, Wills breathes new life into words we thought we knew, and reveals much about a president so mythologized but often misunderstood. Wills shows how Lincoln came to change the world and to effect an intellectual revolution, how his words had to and did complete the work of the guns, and how Lincoln wove a spell that has not yet been broken.
The Great Task Remaining Before Us
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Author : Paul Alan Cimbala
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
The Great Task Remaining Before Us written by Paul Alan Cimbala and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Memory categories.
Using case studies, this book remaps considerations of the Civil War and Reconstruction era by charting the ways in which the needs, interests, and experiences of going to war, fighting it, and making sense of it informed and directed politics, public life, social change, and cultural memory after the war's end.
The Great Task Remaining
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Author : William Marvel
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2010-06-22
The Great Task Remaining written by William Marvel and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-22 with History categories.
Focusing on the dramatic events of 1863, this is “a well-researched and well-written study that will be a fine addition to Civil War collections” (Booklist). The Great Task Remaining is a striking, often poignant portrait of people in conflict—not only in battles between North and South, but within and among themselves as the cost of the ongoing carnage sometimes seemed too much to bear. As 1863 unfolds, we see draft riots in New York, the disaster at Chancellorsville, the battle of Gettysburg, and the end of the siege of Vicksburg. Then, astonishingly, the Confederacy springs vigorously back to life after the Union summer triumphs, setting the stage for Lincoln’s now famous speech on the Pennsylvania battlefield. Without abandoning the underlying sympathy for Lincoln, William Marvel makes a convincing argument for the Gettysburg Address as being less of a paean to liberty than an appeal to stay the course in the face of rampant antiwar sentiment. This book offers a provocative history of a dramatic year—a year that saw victory and defeat, doubt and riot—as well as a compelling story of a people who clung to the promise of a much-longed-for end. “By 1863 Northern citizens and soldiers were increasingly and openly wondering whether preserving the union and ending slavery were worth the cost of Mr. Lincoln’s war. Disillusion and war-weariness had set in: the war’s only fruits seemed to be moral and political degradation, dangerous constitutional precedents, tens of thousands dead and maimed. The Battle of Chickamauga appeared to have restored the stalemate. Marvel particularly conveys the looming crisis of the impending expiration of the three-year enlistments that were the Union army’s norm. That, combined with the increasing reluctance of Northern men to volunteer or send their sons, could have ended the war by default. Romance and adventure or misery and peril—which emotions would prevail? As Marvel conclusively demonstrates, the coin remained in the air as 1863 came to an end.” —Publishers Weekly
Abraham Lincoln S Speeches
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Author : Abraham Lincoln
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
Abraham Lincoln S Speeches written by Abraham Lincoln and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with Speeches, addresses, etc., American categories.
Writing The Gettysburg Address
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Author : Martin P. Johnson
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Release Date : 2015-04-10
Writing The Gettysburg Address written by Martin P. Johnson and has been published by University Press of Kansas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-10 with History categories.
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.
Gettysburg The Pivotal Battle Of The Civil War
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Author : Robert K Beecham
language : en
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Release Date : 2013-09
Gettysburg The Pivotal Battle Of The Civil War written by Robert K Beecham and has been published by Theclassics.Us this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... Lincoln's Gettysburg Address At The Dedication Of The National Cemetery November 19,1863. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We are met to dedicate a portion of it as the final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long re member what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honoured dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. the end index index Alabama, regiments from, 234. Alexander, E. P. (General), 226, 230. Ames' brigade, 197, 200. Anderson, G. L., wounded, 180. Anderson's division, 103, 110, 158-156, 168, 171, 177. Antietam, battle of, 22. Appomattox, significance...
Gettysburg
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Author : Allen C. Guelzo
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2013-05-14
Gettysburg written by Allen C. Guelzo and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-14 with History categories.
Winner of the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History An Economist Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year The Battle of Gettysburg has been written about at length and thoroughly dissected in terms of strategic importance, but never before has a book taken readers so close to the experience of the individual soldier. Two-time Lincoln Prize winner Allen C. Guelzo shows us the face, the sights and the sounds of nineteenth-century combat: the stone walls and gunpowder clouds of Pickett’s Charge; the reason that the Army of Northern Virginia could be smelled before it could be seen; the march of thousands of men from the banks of the Rappahannock in Virginia to the Pennsylvania hills. What emerges is a previously untold story of army life in the Civil War: from the personal politics roiling the Union and Confederate officer ranks, to the peculiar character of artillery units. Through such scrutiny, one of history’s epic battles is given extraordinarily vivid new life.
The Gettysburg Gospel
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Author : Gabor Boritt
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2008-02-05
The Gettysburg Gospel written by Gabor Boritt and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Describes the events surrounding Abraham Lincoln's historic speech following the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, how he responded to the politics of the time, and the importance of that speech.