{"id":422,"date":"2025-08-27T01:15:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T01:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/?page_id=422"},"modified":"2025-10-22T13:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:56:07","slug":"new-birth-of-freedom","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/course-syllabus\/new-birth-of-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"New Birth of Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_423\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-423\" style=\"width: 869px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/files\/2025\/08\/Gettysburg-Platform-with-Nine-Numbers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-423 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/files\/2025\/08\/Gettysburg-Platform-with-Nine-Numbers.jpg\" alt=\"Gettysburg\" width=\"869\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/files\/2025\/08\/Gettysburg-Platform-with-Nine-Numbers.jpg 869w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/files\/2025\/08\/Gettysburg-Platform-with-Nine-Numbers-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/files\/2025\/08\/Gettysburg-Platform-with-Nine-Numbers-768x354.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 869px) 100vw, 869px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fig 1 = Wayne MacVeagh (PA Unionist); Fig 2 = John Hay (White House aide); Fig 3 = John Nicolay (White House aide); <strong>Abraham Lincoln (circled)<\/strong>; Fig 4 = William Seward (Secretary of State); Fig 5 = Edward Everett (main orator); Fig 6 = John Forney (PA newspaper editor); Fig 7 = Andrew Curtin (PA gov with son); Fig 8 = Horatio Seymour (NY gov); Fig 9 = David Tod (OH gov) (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/2012648250\/\">Library of Congress<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>TEXT:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/texts\/abraham-lincoln-gettysburg-address-1863\/\">Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863)<\/a><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Ten sentences, about 272 words (depending on which draft)<\/li>\n<li>Delivered at the Soldiers&#8217; National Cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on November 19, 1863<\/li>\n<li>There are five versions of the Gettysburg Address in Lincoln&#8217;s handwriting; the last one (created in March 1864) is the version that appears in textbooks and on the wall of the Lincoln Memorial<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/2025\/01\/22\/fergus-bordewich-to-deliver-2025-wert-lecture\/\">lectern from the November 19th ceremony<\/a> is featured each spring at Dickinson during the annual Wert Lecture hosted by the House Divided Project<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>CONTEXT:\u00a0 Election of 1864<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers.com\/article\/the-evansville-daily-journal-francis-spi\/183462677\/\">&#8220;Let the dead bury the dead.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0 That was a comment reported in the newspapers in mid-November 1863 by one of Secretary of Treasury Salmon Chase&#8217;s top aides, dismissing Lincoln&#8217;s decision to attend the cemetery dedication at Gettysburg.\u00a0 At that time, Chase was quietly campaigning to replace Lincoln as the Union (or Republican) party&#8217;s presidential nominee.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>SUBTEXT:\u00a0 Identifying Omissions<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>What words or ideas were missing from this speech?\n<ul>\n<li>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/files\/2025\/10\/Handout-Debating-Gettysburg-Address.pdf\">&#8220;debate&#8221; over Lincoln&#8217;s omissions<\/a> involving responses from Frederick Douglass and Anna Dickinson in early 1864<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>METHODS CENTER:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2011\/08\/HANDOUT-How-to-Proofreed.pdf\">Proofreeding<\/a><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Understand how to catch mistakes in your writing<\/li>\n<li>Everybody makes stupid writing mistakes &#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/files\/2022\/07\/Handout-Gettysburg-Revisions.pdf\">even Lincoln<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Read aloud &#8211;slowly&#8211; before submitting or sending anything<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEXT:\u00a0 Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863) Ten sentences, about 272 words (depending on which draft) Delivered at the Soldiers&#8217; National Cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on November 19, 1863 There are five versions of the Gettysburg Address in Lincoln&#8217;s handwriting; 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