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On this episode of Newt's World, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg

address on the afternoon of November 19th 1863. During the Civil War at the dedication of the

Soldiers National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the cemetery was established to bury the

fallen Union soldiers from the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863. At only 272 words, Lincoln

delivered the Gettysburg address in a few minutes but it would become one of the greatest and

most influential speeches in American history. For Lincoln was not just using the occasion

to dedicate the cemetery. Lincoln wanted to remind the country torn apart by Civil War and his

words quote that these dead shall not have died in vain. That this nation under God shall have a

new birth of freedom in the government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish

from the earth. Close quote. I'm pleased to welcome as my guest two of the countries leading

authorities in Abraham Lincoln. Dr. Alan C. Guelzo, senior research scholar in the Council

of the Humanities and director of the initiative on politics and statesmanship

in the James Madison program at Princeton University and Harold Holzer, winner of the 2015

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