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  "textContent": "\n\nA political biography of Abraham Lincoln, exploring his potential re-founding of the United States via a 'baptism of blood' - as well as his evolving views on natural equality vs. political and social equality.\n\n**The Gettysburg Address:**\n\n**Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.**\n\n**Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.**\n\n**But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.**\n\n**Abraham Lincoln**\n**November 19, 1863**\n\n0:00-01:07 Intro\n1:08-18:36 Good v Bad Lincoln\n18:37-1:25:33 Jefferson & Natural Equality\n1:25:34-2:34:18 Lincoln Pre-Civil War\n2:34:19-4:02:20 Political Lincoln\n4:02:21-4:46:15 Baptism of Blood\n\nSources:\nBlackburn. Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln: An Unfinished Revolution. 2011.\nBoritt. The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows. 2006.\nCotton. The Greatest Speech, Ever: The Remarkable Story of Abraham Lincoln and His Gettysburg Address. 2013. 1st edition.\nDunlap et al. Long Remembered: Lincoln and his five.... 2011. 1st edition.\nFreedman. Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship. 2012.\nHirsch & Van Haften. The Ultimate Guide to the Gettysburg Address. 2016. 1st edition.\nJaffa. Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. 1959.\nJaffa. A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War. 2000.\nJohnson. Writing the Gettysburg Address. 2013.\nKendall & Carey. The Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition. 1970 (1995 Catholic University of America Press edition).\nMcPherson. Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution. 1991.\nWarren. Lincoln's Gettysburg Declaration: \"A New Birth of Freedom\". 1964.\nWills. Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America. 1992.\nThe Art of Abraham Lincoln by McPherson. NY Review of Books Jul 16, 1992\n\nFounders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln. Richard Brookhiser\nAbraham Lincoln. Redeemer President. 1999. Allen C. Guelzo\nLincoln and the Radicals. T Harry Williams\nTeam of Rivals. Doris Kearns Goodwin\nLord Charnwood. Abraham Liincoln.\nOur One Common Country. James B. Conroy\n\nprimary sources speeches and letters:\nLyceum Address January 27, 1838\nTemperance Address February 22, 1842\nEulogy on Henry Clay July 6, 1852\nSpeech at Peoria October 16, 1854\nLetter to Joshua Speed August 24, 1855\nSpeech on the Dred Scott Decision June 26, 1857\n\"House Divided\" Speech June 16, 1858\n\"Electric Cord\" Speech July 10, 1858\nFragment on Democracy c. August 1858\nFirst Debate with Stephen A. Douglas August 21, 1858\nFourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas September 18, 1858\nFifth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas October 7, 1858\nSeventh Debate with Stephen A. Douglas October 15, 1858\nLetter to J. N. Brown October 18, 1858\nLetter to Henry L. Pierce and others April 6, 1859\nCooper Union Address February 27, 1860\nAddress in Independence Hall February 22, 1861\nJuly 4th Message to Congress July 4, 1861\nLetter to Horace Greeley August 22, 1862\nAnnual Message to Congress December 1, 1862\nThe Gettysburg Address November 19, 1863\nLetter to Governor Michael Hahn March 13, 1864\nLetter to Albert G. Hodges April 4, 1864\nAddress at Sanitary Fair (Lecture on Liberty) April 18, 1864\nThe President's Last Public Address April 11, 1865\n\nStock video and imagery provided by Getty Images.",
  "title": "The Problem with Abraham Lincoln"
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