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New Voices, Old Words
Well. Not really new voices, but at least contemporary ones. Today is the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, and I woke up to Eric Foner and a host of NRP personalities reading it out over the airwaves. http://www.npr.org/2013/11/19/246095479/gettysburg-address-turns-150 Like many American middle school students, I had to memorize the first paragraph of the speech, and, like the Lord’s Prayer and the Prologue to Romeo and Juliet, I can still recite most of it. The reading starts at minute 5:25. And would that all historians sounded like Eric Foner on air. Part of Civil War glass...…Well. Not really new voices, but at least contemporary ones. Today is the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, and I woke up to Eric Foner and a host of NRP personalities reading it out over the airwaves. http://www.npr.org/2013/11/19/246095479/gettysburg-address-turns-150 Like many American middle school students, I had to memorize the first paragraph of the speech, and, like the Lord’s Prayer and the Prologue to Romeo and Juliet, I can still recite most of it. The reading starts at minute 5:25. And would that all historians sounded like Eric Foner on air. Part of Civil War glass...WW…
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