Dec 8, 2015
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Focus
Why does Lincoln call "all men are created equal" a
"proposition" instead of a "self-evident truth"? How does he see
the Civil War as a test? What does he define "dedication" and why
does Lincoln depreciate what was said at the Gettysburg dedication?
What is "the great task" that remains for the American people? What
is the "new birth of freedom" he calls the nation to
experience?
What are Lincoln's objectives as the newly re-elected
president? Why emphasize that both sides tried to avoid war? Why is
there no explicit mention of the South as the cause of rebellion in
the Second Inaugural Address? According to Lincoln, who or what was
the cause of the Civil War? Why does he appeal to God's judgment to
discern the meaning of the Civil War? How does the Second Inaugural
Address forge a connection between America's past and America's
future? In other words, why does Lincoln use his Second Inaugural
Address to explain the meaning of the preceding four years?
Readings:
- Fornieri, The Language of Liberty
- Meditation on the Divine Will (September 30, 1862)
- Reply to Mrs. Eliza P. Gurney (October 26, 1862)
- Proclamations of Prayer and Thanksgiving (April 10, 1862; July 15, 1863; October 3, 1863; September 3, 1864; October 20, 1864)
- Gettysburg Address (November 19, 1863)
- Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (December 8, 1863)
- To Frederick Steele (January 20, 1864)
- To Albert G. Hodges (April 4, 1864)
- To George B. Ide, James R. Doolittle, and A. Hubbell (May 30, 1864)
- Letter to Mrs. Eliza P. Gurney (September 4, 1864)
- Reply to Loyal Colored People of Baltimore Upon Presentation of a Bible (September 7, 1864)
- Response to a Serenade (November 10, 1864)
- Letter to Mrs. Bixby (November 21, 1864)
- Annual Message to Congress (December 6, 1864)
- Story Written for Noah Brooks (December 6, 1864)
- Second Inaugural Address (March 4, 1865)
- Letter to Thurlow Weed (March 15, 1865)
- Last Public Address (April 11, 1865)
- Resolution Submitting the Thirteenth Amendment to the States (February 1, 1865)
- Lincoln, Response to a Serenade (February 1, 1865)
- Lincoln, Response to a Serenade (July 7, 1863)
- Lincoln, Letter to Edward Everett (November 20, 1863)
- Lincoln, Reply to Notification Committee (March 1, 1865)
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