Everything about the #lincolnMemorial communicates to me "Be the union Lincoln knew you could be." Whether or not you would agree with Lincoln (especially concerning the Dakota War https://www.history.com/news/abraham-lincoln-native-americans), we might be in a better place as a nation if more politically inclined folks were "dedicated ... to the unfinished work which [the soldiers who] fought [at Gettysburg] have thus far so nobly advanced." #architecture #USCivilWar #gettysburgAddress

#Abraham Lincoln's #gettysburgaddress in #tamil

#ஆபிரகாம் #லிங்கனின் #கெட்டிஸ்பர்க் உரை (1863)

https://pettagam22.wordpress.com/2021/11/25/gettysburg-address/

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159 years ago yesterday, Abraham Lincoln spoke 272 words over the course of about 2-3 minutes and changed American history forever. To put it in perspective, the man who spoke before him, Edward Everett, spoke for over 2 hours. Sometimes the power of brevity rises above everything else. #GettysburgAddress

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As is her frequent recourse, Prof HCR loaned her penn to another visionary writer today, to Abraham Lincoln who nearly six score years ago read his Gettysburg address while consecrating a cemetery for those who died defending the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/november-19-2022?r=894td&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

On the Gettysburg Address. Letters from an American, by Heather Cox Richardson #GettysburgAddress. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=678820410279861&id=100044557238708&mibextid=qC1gEa

#onthisday in 1863, President #Lincoln delivered the #GettysburgAddress. What can I say about the #Gettysburg Address that has not already been said? I can only undergird that is is probably one of the most stirring and concise pieces of American rhetoric in the English language:

And here's the early draft. Some presidents are #writers.

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On November 19 1863, #AbrahamLincoln said this. It is worth rereading and respeaking and reprinting and, yes, reposting in perpetuity. In fact, we need to hear it and see it and speak it now even more than we did then.

The New York Times account shows where applause interrupted the president.

#Gettysburg #GettysburgAddress #history #DemocracyWins #USA #US

The breakdown of those famous words reveal a vision yet to be obtained, but one worth fighting for.

http://putpeopleoverprofit.org/ofbyfor.html

#GettysburgAddress #OfByFor

SHOTS FIRED:

#OnThisDay #AbrahamLincoln writes the first draft of the #GettysburgAddress.

Lincoln wasn't even the star attraction for the planned event. Edward Everett was, and he gave a two hour long oration before Abe's quick speech.

www.historyshapes.com/shots-fired/

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