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Gettysburg Address
Did Abraham Lincoln infect his valet with smallpox?
Trump may not be the only president to spread a deadly disease. Here is Michael Rosenwald at The Washington Post: On his way home from delivering the Gettysburg Address in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln was overcome by a splitting headache....
Biden at Gettysburg
Joe Biden was in Gettysburg on Monday and he gave a pretty good speech. Watch: Let’s remember again that Lincoln’s call for unity and healing and the binding of wounds came after the Confederacy was all but defeated. Biden is...
Historian Manisha Sinha on a possible Trump “Gettysburg Address”
As we noted yesterday, Trump may accept the GOP nomination for president at Gettysburg battlefield. Manisha Sinha, a historian who is no stranger to followers of The Way of Improvement Leads Home blog and podcast, shares her thoughts at CNN....
“The world will little note, nor long remember what Trump says there”: Trump may accept the GOP nomination at Gettysburg
Civil War historians get ready. Here is Lauren Gambino at The Guardian: Donald Trump said on Monday that he is considering accepting the Republican presidential nomination later this month with a speech at the civil war battlefield of Gettysburg, one of...
A Saturday Morning in Gettysburg
It is a beautiful today in south-central Pennsylvania–a perfect day to spend some time on the Gettysburg battlefield. This morning we took ten students from my Pennsylvania history class to Gettysburg. We have been reading Jim Weeks’s book Gettysburg: Memory, Market,...
From the Archives: Messiah College History Department Recites the Gettysburg Address
November 19, 2013: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpsvx3GIG58&w=560&h=315]...
Why Didn’t Obama Say “Under God” in His Recitation of the Gettysburg Address?
The History News Network has picked up a slightly longer version of yesterday’s post on this topic. Here is a taste: There is no conspiracy here. Obama did not omit the words “under God” because he was trying to...
Obama, “Under God,” and the Gettysburg Address
Conservatives are going crazy today because Barack Obama, while participating in a Ken Burns project on the Gettysburg Address, left out the phrase “under God” in his recitation of this great speech by Abraham Lincoln. When I first heard this, […]
My Hometown Paper Retracts Its 1863 Editorial on the Gettysburg Address
In case you have not heard, the Harrisburg (PA) Patriot-News, known in 1863 as the Patriot & Union, did not like Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. In light of tomorrow’s 150th anniversary of the address, the newspaper has decided to retract its...
The Gettysburg Tweet
Ken Burns: “The Address”
Ken Burns is working on a new documentary film about the Civil War. It is called “The Address” and it chronicles the story of a group of Vermont schoolboys with learning disabilities who memorize and recite the Gettysburg Address. Here...
More on Lincoln, the Gettysburg Address, and “Under God”
You may recall that last month we blogged about a First Things article by Robert George in which he relayed his experience at a meeting of the American Constitutional Society for Law and Policy. At that meeting George was given […]