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New Voices, Old Words

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...

November 19, 2013
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