Gettysburg Address
On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg
Address in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Lincoln had been
invited to gave a "few appropriate remarks" during
a ceremony to dedicate a cemetery for Union soldiers killed
at the Battle of Gettysburg. Despite its brevity and the fact
that it earned little attention at the time, the Gettysburg
Address is considered one of Lincoln's greatest speeches.
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Abraham
Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress
Abraham Lincoln gave copies of the Gettysburg Address
to each of his private secretaries, John
Nicolay and John
Hay.
Edward
Everett, the orator who spoke at Gettysburg for
two hours prior to Lincoln, expressed his admiration
for the Gettysburg Address by writing to Lincoln that "I
should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came
as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two
hours, as you did in two minutes."
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An
American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides
and other Printed Ephemera
This collection includes a reproduction of Lincoln's
first draft of the Gettysburg address and a lithograph
of a portrait of Lincoln by Robert Fawcett. Another
reproduction provides a copy of the program outlining
the order of events from the dedication of the Gettysburg
National Cemetery on November 19, 1863.
The
Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry
Contains an 1898 sound recording of W.F.
Hooley reading the Gettysburg Address.
The
Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals
John
Nicolay wrote an article on the history of the Gettysburg
Address that appeared in The Century;
A Popular Quarterly in 1894. Also available in
the same edition of this periodical is an article by William
H. Lambert on the Gettysburg Address.
American
Treasures of the Library of Congress - The Gettysburg
Address
Includes the first draft of the Gettysburg Address,
Lincoln's official invitation to Gettysburg, the only
known photograph of Lincoln at Gettysburg, and Edward
Everett's letter complimenting Lincoln on his speech.
The Gettysburg
Address
Presents drafts of the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln's
invitation to Gettysburg, and the only known photograph
of Lincoln at Gettysburg.
November
19, 1863
President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address
on November 19, 1863.
The Collected
Works of Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln Association
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Gettysburg Address, Cornell University Library Rare & Manuscripts
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Documents, the Gettysburg Address, National Archives
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Klement, Frank L. The Gettysburg
Soldiers' Cemetery and Lincoln's Address: Aspects and
Angles. Shippensburg, PA:
White Mane Pub. Co., 1993. [Catalog
Record]
Kunhardt, Philip B., Jr. A New Birth
of Freedom: Lincoln at Gettysburg. Boston: Little, Brown, 1983. [Catalog
Record]
Mearns, David C., and Lloyd A. Dunlap, eds. Long
Remembered: Facsimiles of the Five Versions of the Gettysburg
Address
in the Handwriting of Abraham Lincoln. Washington, Library
of Congress, 1963. [Catalog
Record]
Warren, Louis Austin. Lincoln's Gettysburg
Declaration: A New Birth of Freedom. Fort Wayne, Lincoln National Life
Foundation, 1964. [Catalog
Record]
Wills, Garry. Lincoln at Gettysburg:
The Words that Remade America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. [Catalog
Record]
Feinberg, Barbara Silberdick. Abraham
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: Four Score and More. Brookfield, Conn.: Twenty-First
Century Books, 2000. [Catalog
Record]
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