Book Review: The Long Shadow of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address

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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