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Virginians' Responses to the Gettysburg Address, 1863-1963

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dc.contributor.authorPeatman, Jared Elliotten
dc.contributor.committeechairRobertson, James I. Jr.en
dc.contributor.committeememberDavis, William C.en
dc.contributor.committeememberShumsky, Neil Larryen
dc.contributor.committeememberJones, Kathleen W.en
dc.contributor.committeememberWallenstein, Peter R.en
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:33:45Zen
dc.date.adate2006-05-16en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:33:45Zen
dc.date.issued2006-04-14en
dc.date.rdate2009-05-16en
dc.date.sdate2006-04-16en
dc.description.abstractBy examining Virginia newspapers from the fall of 1863 this paper will bring to light what Civil War-era Southerners thought of the Gettysburg Address. This work is confined to Virginia not because that state is representative of the Confederacy, but because Southern reporting on the Address was wholly shaped by the Richmond papers. The first two chapters of this thesis reveal that Southern editors censored reporting on the Gettysburg Address because of Lincoln's affirmation that "all men are created equal. The final chapter traces Virginians' responses to the Address up to 1963. Drawing on newspaper editorials, textbooks adopted by Virginia's schools, coverage of the major anniversaries of the Address in the state's newspapers, and accounts of Memorial Day celebrations, this chapter makes clear that Virginians largely ignored the Gettysburg Address in the twentieth-century while Northerners considered it an essential national document. In 1963, as in 1863, it was the assertions about equality that Southerners could not abide. This divergence of response, even in 1963, lays bare the myth of a completed sectional reconciliation and shared national identity.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Artsen
dc.identifier.otheretd-04162006-004530en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04162006-004530/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/31736en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartpeatman.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectMemorial Dayen
dc.subjectAbraham Lincolnen
dc.subjectGettysburg Addressen
dc.subjectVirginiaen
dc.subjectCivil Waren
dc.subjectTextbooksen
dc.subjectMemoryen
dc.titleVirginians' Responses to the Gettysburg Address, 1863-1963en
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineHistoryen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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