Tagged With: Gettysburg Address
Philadelphia with Teaching American History Grant
I’m just back from ten days in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. with thirty-one teachers and a terrific professor as our guide, mentor and teacher. We all read and wrote papers all winter to prepare for the trip – focusing on the Revolutionary War and the writing of the Constitution. Here are highlights from my trip: Tuesday, June … Continue reading
Categories: America and American History
Leave a comment
The Gettysburg Address and America’s secular religion
I’ve just finished reading and writing a paper on The Gettysburg Gospel by Gabor Boritt. It’s a scholarly work about the Gettysburg Address. Boritt starts off with a detailed account about how and when Lincoln wrote the Address, then he talks about how it was received at the time and how it grew in importance … Continue reading
Categories: America and American History
Leave a comment
