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The Long Shadow of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address Jared Peatman, Southern Illinois University Press Debate over the meaning of Gettysburg has been going on for 150 years. For President Abraham Lincoln, speaking at the national cemetery dedication on November 19, 1863, the significance of the soldiers’ sacrifice on the battlefield lay in the “cause for which …
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Hallowed Ground: Morristown, New JerseyAlthough the 1777–78 winter encampment at Valley Forge, Pa., is firmly fixed in Americans’ collective memory, the situation at Morristown two years later was far bleaker. The Army’… Read MoreBuddha: Enlightened WarriorIn his youth Siddhartha Gautama was a brawny, six-foot warrior prince, trained in the art of war—and perhaps touched by tragedy. It is a curious fact of military history that the f… Read MoreFrom Cowardice to CourageFor abandoning his post at Bunker Hill, Captain John Callender was court-martialed and cashiered—but he refused to remain a coward. O June 17, 1775, was a mixed bag at best for the… Read MoreDaily Quiz for November 2, 2017In addition to creating Tarzan and writing 68 novels, Edgar Rice Burroughs served as a war correspondent during this conflict.
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