Table of Contents: “…Ballard -- Picturing war / Bob Zeller -- The general tide / William C. Davis -- The Gettysburg Address revisited / Orville Vernon Burton -- Seldom twice alike: the changing faces of history / Harold Holzer.…”

Table of Contents: “…The Main Reason the Southern States Seceded from the Union was States' Rights -- Edmund Ruffin Fired the First Shot at Fort Sumter -- Black Regiments Fought in Combat for the Confederate States of America -- There Were No Female Combat Soldiers in the Civil War -- Lincoln Freed the Slaves -- The Gettysburg Address Was Written on a Train -- Grant was a Butcher -- Civil War Medicine was Barbaric -- Freed Slaves Were Promised Forty Acres and a Mule -- Lincoln's Assassination Was the Result of a Conspiracy.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a nation founded on writing -- The "world's oldest book" and the crisis of scriptural authority -- Revivals, reaction, and the ultra-Protestants -- Scriptures as sepulchres : Unitarians and Transcendentalists -- Spirit and kingdom : language, social action, and the "true reviving" -- American parascriptures : the making of a political canon -- Sacred ephemera : literature, news, and Uncle Tom's cabin -- Walt Whitman's "New Bible" and the spiritual vitalizing of facts -- Slavery, liberty, and the three great charters -- Lincoln's miniature Bible : salvation history in the Gettysburg address -- Conclusion : the new American Testaments.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Lincoln. Gettysburg address.--Lowell. Democracy.--Cleveland. The message of Washington.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Lincoln's Lost Gettysburg Address; 5. An Outlaw's Scribblings; 6. Out of the Archives; 7. …”
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Table of Contents: “…. -- The inaugurals, 1861, 1865, and the Gettysburg address, 1863, by A. Lincoln. -- The cross of gold speech 1896, by W. …”

Table of Contents: “…-- Patrick Henry, Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death (1775) -- Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address (1863) -- George Anastaplo, On the Ultron and the Foundations of Things (1974) -- Life, Death, and the Systematic Perversions of Law (2000) -- Cases and Other Materials Drawn On.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Davis -- "Lincoln acted the clown": Virginia's newspapers and the Gettysburg Address / Jared Peatman -- Diary of a southern refugee during the war, September 1862-May 1863 / Judith Brockenbrough McGuire ; edited by James I. …”
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Table of Contents: “…, 1862 -- "We cannot escape history" : annual message to Congress, December 1, 1862 -- "You say you will not fight to free Negroes" : letter to the rally at Springfield, August 26, 1863 -- "This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom" : Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863 -- "I claim not to have controlled events" : little speech" to Albert Hodges, April 4, 1864 -- With malice toward none: with charity for all." …”
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Table of Contents: “…Lincoln, A. Gettysburg address.--Warren, R. P. The test of history.--Nevins, A. …”

Table of Contents: “…President Abraham Lincoln Delivers the Gettysburg Address, 1863 --…”
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Table of Contents: “…The aspirations of humankind: Athens, Jerusalem, Gettysburg -- Human flourishing and human excellence: The truth(s) of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics -- The Ten Commandments -- The Gettysburg Address: Abraham Lincoln's refounding of the nation.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Baker -- Abraham Lincoln's body and body politic : two puzzles in mid-nineteenth-century American political language and culture / Iver Bernstein -- The new Gettysburg Address : a study in illusion / Barry Schwartz -- Abraham Lincoln's reputation during his administration / Hans L. …”

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Table of Contents: “…Message from the director -- Citizenship In America: Rights And Responsibilities Of U S Citizens: -- Rights of a citizen -- Responsibilities of a citizen -- Patriotic Anthems And Symbols Of The United States: -- Star-spangled banner (1814) -- America the Beautiful (1893) -- God bless America (1938) -- I hear America singing (1860) -- Concord hymn (1837) -- New Colossus (1883) -- Flag of the United States of America -- Pledge of allegiance -- Great seal of the United States -- Motto of the United States -- Presidential And Historical Speeches: -- Farewell address-George Washington (1796) -- First inaugural address-Abraham Lincoln (1861) -- Gettysburg address-Abraham Lincoln (1863) -- Four freedoms-Franklin D Roosevelt (1941) -- Inaugural address-John F Kennedy (1961) -- I have a dream-Martin Luther King, Jr (1963) -- Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate-Ronald Reagan (1987) -- Fundamental Documents Of American Democracy: -- Mayflower Compact (1620) -- Declaration of Independence (1776) -- Federalist Papers (1787-1788) -- Constitution of the United States (1787) -- Bill of Rights (1791) -- Emancipation Proclamation (1863) -- Landmark Decisions Of The U S Supreme Court: -- Marbury v Madison (1803): John Marshall-delivering the opinion of the Court -- Plessy v Ferguson (1896): John Marshall Harlan-delivering the dissenting opinion of the Court -- West Virginia State Board of Education v Barnette (1943): Robert Jackson-delivering the opinion of the Court -- Brown v Board of Education (1954): Earl Warren-delivering the opinion of the Court -- Presidential Statements On Citizenship And Immigration -- Prominent Foreign-Born Americans -- Acknowledgments.…”
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