In Our Time: History

The Gettysburg Address


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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, ten sentences long, delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg after the Union forces had won an important battle with the Confederates. Opening with " Four score and seven years ago," it became one of the most influential statements of national purpose, asserting that America was "conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal" and "that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Among those inspired were Martin Luther King Jr whose "I have a dream" speech, delivered at the Lincoln Memorial 100 years later, echoed Lincoln's opening words.

With

Catherine Clinton

Denman Chair of American History at the University of Texas and International Professor at Queen's University, Belfast

Susan-Mary Grant

Professor of American History at Newcastle University

And

Tim Lockley

Professor of American History at the University of Warwick

Producer: Simon Tillotson.

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