The style was Lincoln’s, with a little help from the King James Bible (“fourscore and seven years ago” echoes Psalm 90:10).
What more is there to say about America’s most famous speech? Maybe this: that it was not meant to be unique. For the smoothness of its music, the gravity of its occasion and the conciseness of its 272 words, the Gettysburg Address occupies a unique position in American oratory.
19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln spoke at the dedication of the battlefield cemetery at Gettysburg, Pa. You can explore other story maps by visiting Esri’s Storytelling with Maps website.On Nov. Story map program manager Allen Carroll notes that the story map is the most popular to date, perhaps a testimonial to the combination of an interesting topic and a powerful way to explore it. Knowles did the writing and, of course, the original research Esri provided design, development, mapping technology, and hosting. Tait helped produce a series of computer-generated panoramas simulating the viewpoints at “decisive moments” in the battle. Her thesis: That decisions were affected, sometimes fatefully, by what commanders could not see from where they stood.įor the story map Esri worked not only with Knowles, but with Alex Tait, vice president at International Mapping, a custom cartography firm in Maryland. For the latter, she used historical maps in combination with landscape and viewshed analysis to determine what the battle’s commanding generals could see from their vantage points at key moments in the battle. Knowles has done research in historical geography using GIS among her projects have been the Holocaust and the Battle of Gettysburg. After three days of fighting, more than 50,000 soldiers on both sides were dead, wounded or missing, becoming the bloodiest of the war and marking a turning point, one that would lead to Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address just over four months later.Įsri and Smithsonian teamed up with Anne Kelly Knowles, a geography professor at Middlebury College to create a story map about the battle. The address is inexorably tied to the Battle of Gettysburg, one of the milestones of the Civil War that brought Union and Confederate armies together in rural Pennsylvania’s countryside. Taking little more than two minutes during a dedication ceremony for the Gettysburg National Cemetery, the address commemorated the sacrifices of Union and Confederate forces, redefining what the Civil War meant for America and galvanizing Lincoln’s vision for democracy based upon “the proposition that all men are created equal.” On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, a speech that many consider among the most eloquent and important of all time.
“Four score and seven years ago” began what time would remember as a milestone in American history.
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