On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful 272-word speech, later known as the Gettysburg Address, dedicating a new cemetery on the site of the bloody Civil War battlefield. While many schoolchildren used to memorize Lincoln’s speech, few of us today can get beyond “Four score and seven years ago …” Indeed, in 2024, […]
Author Archives: Frederic J. Fransen
Frederic J. Fransen is president of Ameritas College Huntington (W. Va.) and chairman of Certell, Inc., a national education-technology nonprofit. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.
