In Part 2, I cover the speech itself, line by line, why it’s remarkable all by itself and why its legacy is even more so. It is hard to understate the impact of Lincoln himself and this speech in particular on how America still remembers the war and why it was fought.

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• Lincoln delivering the speech at the newly-built (and still unfinished) cemetery
• A photograph of the bustle on speech day
• Gettysburg National Cemetery, Pennsylvania

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Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America

A definitive modern breakdown of the circumstances of the speech, the rhetorical history that inspired it, the location of the speech on the battlefield, and (of course) an analysis of the text.