Gettysburg Address - Perspectives on Lincoln''s Greatest Speech

Zusatztext Among the multitude of books that have emerged since the sesquicentennial of the Gettysburg Address, this collection edited by Conant emerges as one of the best ... Each essay in this excellent volume provides a useful insight on one of the country's greatest orations ... Essential. Informationen zum Autor Sean Conant is a documentary filmmaker. He is the writer, producer, and director of the major documentary film "The Gettysburg Address", to be released in 2015. Klappentext The country's most prominent historians reflect on the significance and legacy of the Gettysburg Address Zusammenfassung The country's most prominent historians reflect on the significance and legacy of the Gettysburg Address Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface SEAN CONANT Foreword JAMES M. McPHERSON Part I: Influences 1. Classical Democracy and the Gettysburg Address NICHOLAS P. COLE 2. Shakespeare, Religion, and the Gettysburg Address JOHN STAUFFER 3. "We Here Highly Resolve": The End of Compromise and the Return to Revolutionary Time ROBERT PIERCE FORBES 4. Democracy at Gettysburg SEAN WILENTZ 5. Daniel Webster, Abraham Lincoln, and the Gettysburg Address CRAIG L. SYMONDS 6. Theodore Parker, Transcendentalism, and the Gettysburg Address DEAN GRODZINS 7. Death and the Gettysburg Address MARK S. SCHANTZ 8. Shared Suffering and the Way to Gettysburg CHANDRA MANNING 9. Little Note, Long Remember: Lincoln and the Murk of Myth at Gettysburg ALLEN GUELZO Part II: Impacts 10. "A New Birth of Freedom": Emancipation and the Gettysburg Address LOUIS P. MASUR 11. "The Great Task Remaining Before Us": Lincoln and Reconstruction GEORGE RUTHERGLEN 12. Immigration and the Gettysburg Address: Nationalism and Equality at the Gates ALISON CLARK EFFORD 13. Engendering the Gettysburg Address: Its Meaning for Women JEAN H. BAKER 14. The Gettysburg Address and Civil Rights RAY ARSENAULT 15. Widely Noted and Long Remembered: The Gettysburg Address Around the World DON H. DOYLE 16. The Search for Meaning in Lincoln's Great Oration THOMAS A. DESJARDIN Afterword HAROLD HOLZER Appendix: The Five Copies of The Gettysburg Address Acknowledgments Contributors ...

Product details

• Authors: Sean Conant
• Assisted by: Sean Conant (Editor), Conant Sean (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2015
• EAN: 9780190227456
• ISBN: 978-0-19-022745-6
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Political leaders & leadership, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Political leaders and leadership, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare), c 1860 to c 1869, Civil wars, American Civil War, HISTORY / Military / Early Modern Warfare (1500-1800)