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| On March 4, 1865, Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address. It was short, and to the point... a mere 703 words. In it, he uttered one of his most memorable phrases, when he called on Americans to proceed from the Civil War "with malice toward none, with charity for all." Ronald White, author of Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural, discusses the speech and its impact withTalking History's Fred Nielsen.
After that Fiona Beattie will tell us about a web site that includes the text of Lincoln’s second inaugural address as well as a large collection of related documents.
And for our commentary Andrew Cayton offers us his thoughts on the ambivalence he sees in American attitudes toward war. Cayton is Distinguished Professor of History at Miami University of Ohio and the author, along with Fred Anderson, of The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America: 1500-2000.
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