Sean Conant: The Gettysburg Address

Cover: 9780190227456 | The Gettysburg Address | Perspectives on Lincoln's Greatest Speech

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Beschreibung

The country's most prominent historians reflect on the significance and legacy of the Gettysburg Address

Über den 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.

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

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2015
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780190227456
ISBN-10:	0190227451
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion:	Conant, Sean
Hersteller:	OUP US
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Sean Conant
Erscheinungsdatum:	22.05.2015
Gewicht:	0,562 kg