Gettysburg Address (Simple English Wikipedia)

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Smith, Craig (Fall 2000). "Criticism of Political Rhetoric and Disciplinary Integrity". American Communication Journal. 4 (1). Archived from the original on May 5, 2009. Retrieved November 26, 2007.

america.gov

"Outline of U.S. History". United States Department of State. p. 73. Archived from the original on 2012-10-20. Retrieved 2009-01-03.
Garrow, David J. (August 2003). ""Martin Luther King Jr: the March, the Man, the Dream."". American History magazine. Archived from the original on September 12, 2008. Retrieved November 9, 2009. [F]our days before the March [King] told Al Duckett ... that his August 28 oration needed to be "sort of a Gettysburg Address."

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"1846-1900: The News Cooperative Takes Shape". History/Archives: The Associated Press. Associated Press.org. Archived from the original on July 29, 2011. Retrieved November 30, 2007.

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Murphy, p.1: "Now, at the age of 69, [Everett] was one of America's most famous orators"; also Wilkinson, William Cleaver (1911). Daniel Webster: A Vindication, with other historical essays. New York and London: Funk & Wagnalls Company. p. 181. Edward Everett was famous in his day, indeed, is famous yet, as ... easily foremost (first) among all the orators of the classic or academic type belonging to (in) his generation in America.
Gramm, Kent (2001). November: Lincoln's Elegy at Gettysburg. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. p. 119. ISBN 0-253-34032-2. Asked in September...Everett had said that he could not possibly be ready until November 19.
Foote, Shelby (1958). The Civil War, A Narrative: Fredericksburg to Meridian. Random House. ISBN 0-394-49517-9.
Prochnow, Herbert Victor (1944). "Great Stories from Great Lives". Harper & Brothers. p. 17. ISBN 9780836920185.

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"Bachrach in the news". Bachrach photography. Archived from the original on July 7, 2011. Retrieved December 3, 2007.

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Bryan, William Jennings, ed. 1906. The World's Famous Orations Vol. IX. America: II. (1818–1865). "V. The Speech at Gettysburg by Abraham Lincoln". Retrieved December 18, 2005.

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Lincoln, Abraham; Nicolay, John G.; Hay, John (1894). Abraham Lincoln; complete works, comprising his speeches, letters, state papers, and miscellaneous writings. Vol. II. New York: Century Co. p. 568.
Murphy, Jim (2000). Long Road to Gettysburg. Houghton Mifflin Company, 5. ISBN 9780618051571. Retrieved on December 10, 2010.
Reid, Ronald F (1990). Edward Everett: Unionist Orator, Vol. 7. Greenwood Publishing Group, 192. ISBN 9780313261640. Retrieved on December 10, 2007.
"The Second Reply to Hayne (January 26–27, 1830)". Daniel Webster: Dartmouth's Favorite Son. Dartmouth. Archived from the original on December 3, 2007. Retrieved November 30, 2007. In fact, Webster may have been influenced on even earlier use of similar expressions. For example, John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton had said in 1819: "I am a man chosen for the people, by the people; and, if elected, I will do no other business than that of the people". See Broughton, John and Burdett, Francis. An Authentic Narrative of the Events of the Westminster Election, which Commenced on Saturday, February 13th, and Closed on Wednesday, March 3d, 1819 p. 105 (Published by R. Stodart, 1819).

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""George Bancroft"". Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Retrieved December 19, 2007.

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"About Cintas: Oscar B. Cintas". Oscar B. Cintas foundation. Archived from the original on December 13, 2007. Retrieved December 10, 2007.

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"Constitution du 4 octobre 1958" (PDF) (in French). Retrieved October 18, 2009.

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""Pericles' Funeral Oration from Thucydides: Peloponnesian War"". Liberty Library of Constitutional Classics. The Constitution Society. 2007. Retrieved November 30, 2007.

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""Gettysburg Address"". Cornell University Library. Retrieved December 19, 2007.
"Founding Collections: Nicholas H. Noyes '06 and Marguerite Lilly Noyes". Cornell University Library. Retrieved November 18, 2007.

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""How We are Revenging Sumpter"". digital.library.cornell.edu. Retrieved October 18, 2010.

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Rao, Maya (April 6, 2005). "C.U. Holds Gettysburg Address". Cornell Daily Sun. Archived from the original on 2012-01-11. Retrieved 2007-11-23.: "Several months after President Abraham Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg address, renowned historian George Bancroft attended a reception at the White House. There, he asked Lincoln for a hand-written copy of the address, and that manuscript is now the highlight of Cornell University Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections". "[Visitors]...can also see the letter Lincoln enclosed when he mailed the copy to Bancroft, which is dated February 29, 1864".
"C.U. Holds Gettysburg Address Manuscript". The Cornell Daily Sun. April 6, 2005. Archived from the original on January 11, 2012. Retrieved December 18, 2005.

dartmouth.edu

"The Second Reply to Hayne (January 26–27, 1830)". Daniel Webster: Dartmouth's Favorite Son. Dartmouth. Archived from the original on December 3, 2007. Retrieved November 30, 2007. In fact, Webster may have been influenced on even earlier use of similar expressions. For example, John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton had said in 1819: "I am a man chosen for the people, by the people; and, if elected, I will do no other business than that of the people". See Broughton, John and Burdett, Francis. An Authentic Narrative of the Events of the Westminster Election, which Commenced on Saturday, February 13th, and Closed on Wednesday, March 3d, 1819 p. 105 (Published by R. Stodart, 1819).

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"Yes, there was a Gettysburg before the 1863 battle". Dobbin House, Inc. 2006. Retrieved November 27, 2007.
"Gettysburg Address Information". Dobbin House Inc. 1996–2006. Retrieved November 30, 2007.

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"Gettysburg National Military Park". United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Retrieved December 3, 2007. Historical Handbook Number Nine 1954 (Revised 1962), at the Gettysburg National Military Park Historical Handbook website.

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McInerney, Daniel J (September 2000). "Review of Allen C. Guelzo, Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President". H-Pol, H-Net Reviews. Retrieved November 30, 2007.

historycooperative.org

Johnson, Martin P (Summer 2003). "Who Stole the Gettysburg Address". Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 24 (2): 1–19. Archived from the original on 2006-03-06. Retrieved 2010-05-04.
Also note Johnson's Archived 2006-03-06 at the Wayback Machine reference that "In 1895 Congress had voted to place at Gettysburg a bronze tablet ... with the address but had mandated (officially commanded) a text that does not correspond to (fit) any in Lincoln's hand or to contemporary (modern) newspaper accounts. The statute is reprinted in Henry Sweetser Burrage, Gettysburg and Lincoln: The Battle, the Cemetery, and the National Park (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1906), 211".
"Frank J. Williams | Lincolniana in 1993". Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 15.2. Archived from the original on May 17, 2008. Retrieved October 13, 2010 – via historycooperative.org. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)

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"How the Gettysburg Address Worked". history.howstuffworks.com. Retrieved June 11, 2010.

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"Lincoln Invited to Gettysburg to Consecrate a Civil War Cemetery,19 November 1863". Library of Congress. 10 January 2005. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
"An Official Invitation to Gettysburg (Top Treasure)". American Treasures of the Library of Congress. December 5, 2002. Retrieved November 23, 2007.
"Preservation of the drafts of the Gettysburg Address at the Library of Congress"". Library of Congress. 12 January 1995. Retrieved November 30, 2007.
"The Gettysburg Address Drafts". Library of Congress. 12 January 1995. Retrieved 2007-12-19.
"Top Treasures Gallery: American Treasures of the Library of Congress". loc.gov. August 2007. Retrieved May 31, 2010.
"The Gettysburg Address Drafts". Library of Congress. September 29, 2005. Retrieved December 12, 2007.
"The Only Known Photograph of President Lincoln at the dedication of the Civil War cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1863". Library of Congress. 12 January 1995. Retrieved December 3, 2007.

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Andrew Curtin to Abraham Lincoln, Sept. 4, 1863 (Library of Congress)

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""George Bancroft"". Encarta. Archived from the original on 2009-11-01. Retrieved December 19, 2007.

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"Abraham Lincoln in the Wills House Bedroom at Gettysburg". Lincoln at Gettysburg Photo Tour. Abraham Lincoln Online. 2007. Archived from the original on October 13, 2007. Retrieved December 18, 2005.
"Abraham Lincoln at the Gettysburg Town Square". Lincoln at Gettysburg Photo Tour. Abraham Lincoln Online. 2007. Archived from the original on October 13, 2007. Retrieved November 30, 2007.
"Saddle Used by Abraham Lincoln in Gettysburg". Lincoln at Gettysburg Photo Tour. Abraham Lincoln Online. 2007. Archived from the original on October 13, 2007. Retrieved December 18, 2005.
"Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg Cemetery". Lincoln at Gettysburg Photo Tour. Abraham Lincoln Online. 2007. Archived from the original on October 5, 2007. Retrieved December 18, 2005.
Hark, Ann. "Mrs. John T. Myers Relives the Day She Met the Great Emancipator". Recollections of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg. Abraham Lincoln online. Archived from the original on October 7, 2007. Retrieved November 30, 2007. Citing the Philadelphia Public Ledger of February 7, 1932.

newyorker.com

Gopnik, Adam (May 28, 2007). "Angels and Ages: Lincoln's language and its legacy". Retrieved November 23, 2007. Gopnik notes, "Gabor Boritt, in his book The Gettysburg Gospel, ... compares what Lincoln (probably) read at the memorial with what people heard and reported. Most of the differences are small, and due to understandable confusions ... A few disputes seem more significant".

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"Gettysburg Eyewitness - Lost and Found Sound: The Boy Who Heard Lincoln". NPR.org. NPR. Retrieved September 7, 2009.
"21-minute audio recording of William R. Rathvon's audio recollections of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address recorded in 1938". NPR. Archived from the original on 2009-10-05. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
"6 min. version. SMIL file format". NPR. Retrieved September 7, 2009.

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McPherson, James M (16 July 1992). ""The Art of Abraham Lincoln"". The New York Review of Books, Volume 39, Number 13. Retrieved November 30, 2007.

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"The Heroes of July; A Solemn and Imposing Event. Dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburgh". The New York Times. 20 November 1863. p. 1. Retrieved 2007-11-23. Full article in PDF available here.

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Guelzo, Allen C (21 November 2006). "When the Court lost its Conscience". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved November 26, 2006.
Boritt, Gabor (November 16, 2006). "In Lincoln's Hand". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2007-11-23.
"Leisure & Arts - WSJ.com". opinionjournal.com. Retrieved June 5, 2010.

positiveatheism.org

Walker, Cliff, ed. (September 2002). "Lincoln's Gettysburg 'Under God': Another case of 'retrofitting'? (reply)". Positive Atheism. Archived from the original on November 8, 2002. Retrieved December 3, 2007.

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Randi, James (10 October 2003). "Lincoln Embellished". James Randi Educational Foundation. Retrieved 2007-12-03.: "The Gettysburg address...is often given as the source of the addition to the Pledge of Allegiance that we often hear, that phrase, 'under God'. Wrong".

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Toppo, Greg (November 15, 2007). "Honestly, is that really Abe in 3-D?". USA Today. Retrieved December 3, 2007.

web.archive.org

"Abraham Lincoln in the Wills House Bedroom at Gettysburg". Lincoln at Gettysburg Photo Tour. Abraham Lincoln Online. 2007. Archived from the original on October 13, 2007. Retrieved December 18, 2005.
Johnson, Martin P (Summer 2003). "Who Stole the Gettysburg Address". Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 24 (2): 1–19. Archived from the original on 2006-03-06. Retrieved 2010-05-04.
"Abraham Lincoln at the Gettysburg Town Square". Lincoln at Gettysburg Photo Tour. Abraham Lincoln Online. 2007. Archived from the original on October 13, 2007. Retrieved November 30, 2007.
"Saddle Used by Abraham Lincoln in Gettysburg". Lincoln at Gettysburg Photo Tour. Abraham Lincoln Online. 2007. Archived from the original on October 13, 2007. Retrieved December 18, 2005.
"Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg Cemetery". Lincoln at Gettysburg Photo Tour. Abraham Lincoln Online. 2007. Archived from the original on October 5, 2007. Retrieved December 18, 2005.
Also note Johnson's Archived 2006-03-06 at the Wayback Machine reference that "In 1895 Congress had voted to place at Gettysburg a bronze tablet ... with the address but had mandated (officially commanded) a text that does not correspond to (fit) any in Lincoln's hand or to contemporary (modern) newspaper accounts. The statute is reprinted in Henry Sweetser Burrage, Gettysburg and Lincoln: The Battle, the Cemetery, and the National Park (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1906), 211".
Smith, Craig (Fall 2000). "Criticism of Political Rhetoric and Disciplinary Integrity". American Communication Journal. 4 (1). Archived from the original on May 5, 2009. Retrieved November 26, 2007.
"The Second Reply to Hayne (January 26–27, 1830)". Daniel Webster: Dartmouth's Favorite Son. Dartmouth. Archived from the original on December 3, 2007. Retrieved November 30, 2007. In fact, Webster may have been influenced on even earlier use of similar expressions. For example, John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton had said in 1819: "I am a man chosen for the people, by the people; and, if elected, I will do no other business than that of the people". See Broughton, John and Burdett, Francis. An Authentic Narrative of the Events of the Westminster Election, which Commenced on Saturday, February 13th, and Closed on Wednesday, March 3d, 1819 p. 105 (Published by R. Stodart, 1819).
"Frank J. Williams | Lincolniana in 1993". Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 15.2. Archived from the original on May 17, 2008. Retrieved October 13, 2010 – via historycooperative.org. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
Rao, Maya (April 6, 2005). "C.U. Holds Gettysburg Address". Cornell Daily Sun. Archived from the original on 2012-01-11. Retrieved 2007-11-23.: "Several months after President Abraham Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg address, renowned historian George Bancroft attended a reception at the White House. There, he asked Lincoln for a hand-written copy of the address, and that manuscript is now the highlight of Cornell University Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections". "[Visitors]...can also see the letter Lincoln enclosed when he mailed the copy to Bancroft, which is dated February 29, 1864".
"C.U. Holds Gettysburg Address Manuscript". The Cornell Daily Sun. April 6, 2005. Archived from the original on January 11, 2012. Retrieved December 18, 2005.
"About Cintas: Oscar B. Cintas". Oscar B. Cintas foundation. Archived from the original on December 13, 2007. Retrieved December 10, 2007.
"1846-1900: The News Cooperative Takes Shape". History/Archives: The Associated Press. Associated Press.org. Archived from the original on July 29, 2011. Retrieved November 30, 2007.
Hark, Ann. "Mrs. John T. Myers Relives the Day She Met the Great Emancipator". Recollections of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg. Abraham Lincoln online. Archived from the original on October 7, 2007. Retrieved November 30, 2007. Citing the Philadelphia Public Ledger of February 7, 1932.
"21-minute audio recording of William R. Rathvon's audio recollections of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address recorded in 1938". NPR. Archived from the original on 2009-10-05. Retrieved 2009-09-07.
"Bachrach in the news". Bachrach photography. Archived from the original on July 7, 2011. Retrieved December 3, 2007.
Walker, Cliff, ed. (September 2002). "Lincoln's Gettysburg 'Under God': Another case of 'retrofitting'? (reply)". Positive Atheism. Archived from the original on November 8, 2002. Retrieved December 3, 2007.
"Outline of U.S. History". United States Department of State. p. 73. Archived from the original on 2012-10-20. Retrieved 2009-01-03.
Garrow, David J. (August 2003). ""Martin Luther King Jr: the March, the Man, the Dream."". American History magazine. Archived from the original on September 12, 2008. Retrieved November 9, 2009. [F]our days before the March [King] told Al Duckett ... that his August 28 oration needed to be "sort of a Gettysburg Address."

webcitation.org

""George Bancroft"". Encarta. Archived from the original on 2009-11-01. Retrieved December 19, 2007.

wiktionary.org

simple.wiktionary.org

Gopnik, Adam (May 28, 2007). "Angels and Ages: Lincoln's language and its legacy". Retrieved November 23, 2007. Gopnik notes, "Gabor Boritt, in his book The Gettysburg Gospel, ... compares what Lincoln (probably) read at the memorial with what people heard and reported. Most of the differences are small, and due to understandable confusions ... A few disputes seem more significant".
Rao, Maya (April 6, 2005). "C.U. Holds Gettysburg Address". Cornell Daily Sun. Archived from the original on 2012-01-11. Retrieved 2007-11-23.: "Several months after President Abraham Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg address, renowned historian George Bancroft attended a reception at the White House. There, he asked Lincoln for a hand-written copy of the address, and that manuscript is now the highlight of Cornell University Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections". "[Visitors]...can also see the letter Lincoln enclosed when he mailed the copy to Bancroft, which is dated February 29, 1864".