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gettysburg address
delivered at gettysburg, pa.
nov. 19th 1863.
\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.
ow 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 battlefield 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. \but in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot 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.\
thinking critically:

1. argument development

some historians say that the gettysburg address was lincoln’s effort to affirm that the civil war was a war to forever end slavery. what would you quote from the speech to defend or critique that view?

1. continuity and change over time

how might the gettysburg address reflect - or not reflect - changes in lincoln’s thinking about the purpose of the civil war from 1860 to 1863?

Explanation:

The problem involves analyzing the Gettysburg Address, which relates to historical context and analysis. The subfield of History (under Social Science) is most appropriate as it deals with studying historical documents, events, and the evolution of ideas over time, which aligns with the questions about Lincoln's thinking and the Civil War's purpose.

Answer:

Social Science - History