Richard Katula in the Press
The Eloquence of Edward Everett
President Lincoln’s effort to reunite a nation torn in half by the long, bloody Civil War is considered one of the greatest speeches in American history. But Lincoln wasn’t even the keynote speaker that day at Gettysburg. That honor belonged to Edward Everett of Boston. He was a former Congressman, Senator, Governor of Massachusetts and […]
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Why I revere Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
But the speech has “triumphed over time, condemnation, obscurity, parody and comparison,” Professor Richard Katula of Northeastern University wrote in 1999 in judging the speech to be the best of American political rhetoric. And 150 years later it is possible to say that the brevity of the speech is key to its staying power. Every […]
