The Gettysburg address : perspectives on Lincoln's greatest speech / edited by Sean Conant ; foreword by Harold Holzer.

Part I. Influences
Classical democracy and the Gettysburg Address / Nicholas P. Cole
"We here highly resolve": the end of compromise and the return to revolutionary time / Robert Pierce Forbes
Democracy at Gettysburg / Sean Wilentz
Daniel Webster, Abraham Lincoln, and the Gettysburg Address / Craig L. Symonds
"Of all, by all, for all": Theodore Parker, transcendentalism, and the Gettysburg Address / Dean Grodzins
Death and the Gettysburg Address / Mark S. Schantz
Shared suffering and the way to Gettysburg / Chandra Manning
Little note, long remember: Lincoln and the murk of myth at Gettysburg / Allen C. Guelzo
Part II. Impacts
"A new birth of freedom": emancipation and the Gettysburg Address / Louis P. Masur
"The great task remaining before us": Lincoln and Reconstruction / George Rutherglen
Immigration and the Gettysburg Address: nationalism and equality at the gates / Alison Clark Efford
Engendering the Gettysburg Address: its meaning for women / Jean H. Baker
The Gettysburg Address and civil rights / Raymond Arsenault
Widely noted and long remembered: the Gettysburg Address around the world / Don H. Doyle
The search for meaning in Lincoln's great oration / Thomas A. Desjardin.