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Feb 17, 2022 · It’s got fewer words than the average song, and takes less time to read than it does to boil an egg. So how did the Gettysburg Address inspire a global movement for democratic change that’s ...
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Dec 6, 2008 · Gettysburg: The Speech That Saved America: Directed by Pierre de Lespinois. With Chip Bolcik, Larry Carter, Lauren Elizabeth Carter, James Getty. Documentary about Abraham Lincoln's historic speech at Gettysburg against slavery in the USA and the facts that influenced him.
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Learn more about one of the greatest speeches in American history, President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
On June 1, 1865, Senator Charles Sumner referred to the most famous speech ever given by President Abraham Lincoln. In his eulogy on the slain president, he called the Gettysburg Address a "monumental act." He said Lincoln was mistaken that "the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here."
Nov 19, 2018 · President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was just over 250 words long. It followed a two hour speech by Edward Everett at the dedication of a soldier’s cemetery on 19 November 1863 at the site of the bloodiest battle in American history, during a war that cost more American lives than all other wars combined.
Nov 19, 2010 · In an excellent analysis of the Gettysburg Address, Nick Morgan offers an interesting perspective on Lincoln’s repetition of one word throughout the address: And buried in the biblical phrasing there’s a further device that works unconsciously on the audience, and the reader, to weave some incantatory magic.
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Synopsis by Cammila Collar. This historical documentary takes an in-depth look at the famous Gettysburg Address, the speech delivered by President Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the national cemetery. Proposing that the speech had a momentous effect on the nation, the film estimates that the speech determined the outcome of the Civil War.
