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3 days ago · The Slaveholders’ Rebellion. FELLOW CITIZENS: Eighty-six years ago the fourth of July was consecrated and distinguished among all the days of the year as the birthday, of American liberty and Independence. The fathers of the Republic recommended that this day be celebrated with joy and gladness by the whole American people, to their latest ...
Apr 3, 2024 · Not so fast, says David Kinley in THE LIBERTY PARADOX: Living With the Responsibilities of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 363 pp., $29.95), a thorough meditation on the complexities of ...
- Parker Henry
Apr 3, 2024 · In the year that the Kansas-Nebraska Act roiled American politics, George Fitzhugh (1806–1881) published Sociology for the South. Fitzhugh was a prominent American social theorist who popularized a political and social justification for Southern slavery. Fitzhugh’s groundbreaking writing on the subject of slavery and its contributions to ...
Apr 9, 2024 · Lincoln Steffens (born April 6, 1866, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died August 9, 1936, Carmel, California) was an American journalist, lecturer, and political philosopher, a leading figure among the writers whom U.S. Pres. Theodore Roosevelt called muckrakers. After graduating from the University of California at Berkeley in 1889 ...
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Apr 17, 2024 · Gettysburg Address, world-famous speech delivered by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln at the dedication (November 19, 1863) of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the site of one of the decisive battles of the American Civil War (July 1-3, 1863). It was preceded by a two-hour speech by Edward Everett.
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- What is the Gettysburg Address?The Gettysburg Address is a speech delivered in 1863 by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pe...
- When was the Gettysburg Address delivered?U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863.
- Who gave the speech that preceded Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address?Edward Everett was an American statesman and noted orator who delivered the speech immediately preceding Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Ever...
- Why is the Gettysburg Address famous?The Gettysburg Address was widely quoted and praised soon after Lincoln delivered it, and it came to be recognized as one of the masterpieces of pr...
Apr 10, 2024 · Abraham Lincoln with a badly swollen right hand after shaking hands with thousands of people during his journey to Washington, DC. During most of the sitting he kept his right hand closed or out of view. Probably taken on Feb. 24, 1861. Photo by Alexander Gardner/LOC/Creative Commons.
3 days ago · Abraham Lincoln. 16th President of the United States. March 4, 1861–April 15, 1865. Faced with the greatest crisis in the history of the nation, Abraham Lincoln invoked the New Testament when he declared, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”. He committed his presidency to preserving the Union.
