DISCUSSION TOPIC: GETTYSBURG ADDRESS -- 150 YEARS LATER

The Primary Question

• Offer your own reflections upon the Gettysburg Address seven score and ten years after its first delivery.

Secondary Questions

• What was most interesting about the 150th anniversary of the address?

• What do you think the Gettysburg Address and Americans' relationship with it reveals about that nation's history, politics and society?

The Gettysburg Address Text Itself And Its Recitation

• President Abraham Lincoln's Speech -- The Gettysburg Address, 1863:  The text of the speech itself.

• "The Gettysburg Address & 150," American Experience, PBS, November 19, 2013:  A reading of the address by different Americans.

• "The Gettysburg Address Is 150 Years Old," Time (November 18, 2013):  A popular culture tribute to the Gettysburg Address.

Other Possible Starting Places

•   Allan Little, "Gettysburg: How Lincoln's Speech Lived On," BBC News Magazine, November 23, 2013.

•   Drew Gilpin Faust, "150 Years After The Gettysburg Address, Is Government By The People In Trouble?," Washington Post, November 15, 2013.

•   Michael Gonchar and Katherine Schulten, "Text To Text: The Gettysburg Address And 'Why The Civil War Still Matters,'" Learning Network, New York Times, November 12, 2013.

Gettysburg At 150 In The News

• James Campion, "The Gettysburg Address At 150," Huffington Post, November 21, 2013.

•   Jim Getty, "Gettysburg Address: US Marks 1863 Lincoln Speech," BBC News, November 19, 2013.

•   Steve Vogel, "Gettysburg Address Remembered At Ceremony," Washington Post, November 19, 2013.

•   Eric McCann, "Gettysburg Address: The 150th Anniversary -- In Pictures," Guardian, November 19, 2013.

• "Remembering President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address 150 Years Ago," Los Angeles Times, November 19, 2013.

•   "Re-Enactors Descend On Gettysburg For 150th Anniversary Of Lincoln's Address," Guardian, November 19, 2013.

•   "Gettysburg Address 150 Years On: Abraham Lincoln's Way With Words," Metro, November 19, 2013.

•   Patt Morrison, "Gettysburg Address Plus 150: Are We Letting Lincoln Down?," Los Angeles Times, November 18, 2013.

• "Commemorating The Gettysburg Address," Washington Post, November 18, 2013.

•   Martin Pengelly, "Pennsylvania Newspaper Retracts 1863 Criticism Of Gettysburg Address," Guardian, November 16, 2013.

•   Alexandra Petri, "Searching For Gettysburg," Washington Post, November 15, 2013.

•   Ben Wolfgang, "Obama Diss: President Snubs Historic Gettysburg 150th Anniversary Ceremony," Washington Times, October 31, 2013.

•   Eric McCann, "Incongruous Images Of Modern Life At Gettysburg Re-Enactments," Guardian, July 2, 2013.

• "The Heroes Of July," New York Times, July 1863.

Articles

•   Robinson Meyer, "The President's Hand-Written Response To The Gettysburg Address," Atlantic (November 19, 2013).

• Conor Friedersdorf, "The Gettysburg At 150 -- And Lincoln's Impromptu Words The Night Before," Atlantic (November 19, 2013).

• Martin P. Johnson, "How Abraham Lincoln Wrote The Gettysburg Address," Daily Beast (November 19, 2013).

• Dan Amira, "How The Media Would Have Covered The Gettysburg Address," New York (November 19, 2013).

•   James Harding, "Lincoln's Three-Minute Prose Poem," Economist Intelligent Life (July/August 2013).

•   Jamelle Bouie, "Gettysburg 150th Anniversary: How Far We've Come, How Far To Go," Daily Beast (July 3, 2013).

• Sean Wilentz, "Does The Gettysburg Address Distract Us From The Real Lincoln?," New Republic (2009).

• Garry Wills, "The Words That Remade America," Atlantic (June 1992).

Web-Sites

•   Gettysburg Address -- Wikipedia:  An entry from the on=line encyclopedia.

Audio Sources

•   "Gettysburg Address 150," Saturday Extra, RN, ABC, November 23, 2013.

• "Putting Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Into Original Context," Morning Edition, NPR, November 19, 2013.

Video Sources

• "Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Commemorated 150 Years On -- Video," Guardian, November 20, 2013.

• "Gettysburg Address: Life As An Abraham Lincoln Impersonator," First Person, BBC News Magazine, November 18, 2013.

• "No Casino Gettysburg -- The Gettysburg," You Tube:  A recitation of the address by various professional narrators.

Other Sources

•   Andrew Heath, "The Gettysburg Address 150 Years On," History Matters -- History Brought Alive By The University Of Sheffield, November 19, 2013.

•   Craig Andresen, "The Gettysburg Address -- 150 Years Ago And 2 Minutes Ago . . . ," National Patriot -- Commentary From The Rights Side Of Politics, November 18, 2013.