Lincoln at Gettysburg
Lincoln at Gettysburg

Author: Garry Wills

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-12-11

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1439126453

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The power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was asked to memorialize the gruesome battle. Instead, he gave the whole nation "a new birth of freedom" in the space of a mere 272 words. His entire life and previous training, and his deep political experience went into this, his revolutionary masterpiece. By examining both the address and Lincoln in their historical moment and cultural frame, Wills breathes new life into words we thought we knew, and reveals much about a president so mythologized but often misunderstood. Wills shows how Lincoln came to change the world and to effect an intellectual revolution, how his words had to and did complete the work of the guns, and how Lincoln wove a spell that has not yet been broken.

The Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address

Author: Abraham Lincoln

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2022-11-29

Total Pages: 9

ISBN-13: 1504080246

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The complete text of one of the most important speeches in American history, delivered by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln arrived at the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to remember not only the grim bloodshed that had just occurred there, but also to remember the American ideals that were being put to the ultimate test by the Civil War. A rousing appeal to the nation’s better angels, The Gettysburg Address remains an inspiring vision of the United States as a country “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

Fourscore Years and Counting
Fourscore Years and Counting

Author: Sybil Belle Short Fudge Dewhirst

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2012-03-07

Total Pages: 621

ISBN-13: 1468555995

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This is the story of Sybil, a little girl born and raised in remotest African who grew up to become an artist, author, businesswoman, Bible teacher, carpenter, landscaper, mother, grandmother and matriarch. At age 17 she sails to America to attend college, where she meets and marries a preacher named Bennie Lee Fudge - a sharecropper's son from north Alabama. Together they start a Christian school, build a publishing company, and raise six children in a family where life is never dull.

Fourscore and 7
Fourscore and 7

Author: Betsy Franco

Publisher: Good Year Books

Published: 2004-05

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 1596470003

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Educational resource for teachers, parents and kids!

Four Score Years and a Bit More
Four Score Years and a Bit More

Author: Bev Woodger

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2019-05-28

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 178901896X

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Four Score Years and a Bit More represents an autobiographical view of the author's life and some of the social influences that affected it. After some thirty six years of teaching, conscientiously doing a job the author loved he was dumped by Somerset County Council, as part of a political intrigue to boost the egotism of a political cabal always wishing to ‘make changes’ in the interest of political ideals, irrespective of the upheaval it causes to the lives of their constituents. Finding he was at a loose end Bev decided to set down his memories whilst he could remember them and was delighted to find that the more he wrote the more he remembered...

Biblical History and Israel S Past
Biblical History and Israel S Past

Author: Megan Bishop Moore

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2011-05-17

Total Pages: 537

ISBN-13: 0802862608

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Although scholars have for centuries primarily been interested in using the study of ancient Israel to explain, illuminate, and clarify the biblical story, Megan Bishop Moore and Brad E. Kelle describe how scholars today seek more and more to tell the story of the past on its own terms, drawing from both biblical and extrabiblical sources to illuminate ancient Israel and its neighbors without privileging the biblical perspective. Biblical History and Israel s Past provides a comprehensive survey of how study of the Old Testament and the history of Israel has changed since the middle of the twentieth century. Moore and Kelle discuss significant trends in scholarship, trace the development of ideas since the 1970s, and summarize major scholars, viewpoints, issues, and developments.

The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln
The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

Author: Abraham Lincoln

Publisher: Modern Library

Published: 2012-06-13

Total Pages: 988

ISBN-13: 0307816818

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Abraham Lincoln, the greatest of all American presidents, left us a vast legacy of writings, some of which are among the most famous in our history. Lincoln was a marvelous writer—from the humblest letter to his great speeches, including his inaugural addresses, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the Gettysburg Address. His sentences were so memorably crafted that many resonate across the years. "Fourscore and seven years ago," begins the Gettysburg Address, "our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." In 1940, the prolific author and historian Philip Van Doren Stern produced this volume as a guide to Lincoln's life through his writings. Stern's "Life of Abraham Lincoln" is a full biography of the man and includes a detailed chronology. Stern has collected all the essential texts of Lincoln's public life, from his first public address—a stump speech in New Salem, Illinois, in 1832 for an election he went on to lose—to his last piece of public writing, a pass to a congressman who was to visit the president the day after Lincoln went to Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865. Some 275 such documents are collected and placed in their historical context. Together with the "Life" and the Introduction, "Lincoln in His Writings," by noted historian Allan Nevins, they give a full and vivid picture of Abraham Lincoln.

The Trumpet of Conscience
The Trumpet of Conscience

Author: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 2010-10-13

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13: 0807000728

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In November and December 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered five lectures for the renowned Massey Lecture Series of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The collection was immediately released as a book under the title Conscience for Change, but after King’s assassination in 1968, it was republished as The Trumpet of Conscience. The collection sums up his lasting creed and is his final testament on racism, poverty, and war. Each oration in this volume encompasses a distinct theme and speaks prophetically to today’s perils, addressing issues of equality, conscience and war, the mobilization of young people, and nonviolence. Collectively, they reveal some of King’s most introspective reflections and final impressions of the movement while illustrating how he never lost sight of our shared goals for justice. The book concludes with “A Christmas Sermon on Peace”—a powerful lecture that was broadcast live from Ebenezer Baptist Church on Christmas Eve in 1967. In it King articulates his long-term vision of nonviolence as a path to world peace.