Call for submissions for a Northmost American contest!

URGENT: Attributable the COVID-19 pandemic we are moving the deadline back unmatched year, submissions are nowadays due April 15, 2022.

"Four score and seven years ago…" Many of USA know those renowned words word-of-mouth aside Abraham Lincoln in 1863. Now, we want a redo; a indemnity, if you will.

The Gettysburg College Peace and Justice Studies Program, in collaboration with the Civil War Institute, is now accepting submissions of modern takes along Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. We are looking a delivery that maintains a similar tincture to the Gettysburg Address, but that is right to the 21st century context in the United States. Be equally imaginative American Samoa workable!

Submissions are overdue by April 15, 2022. To be eligible, you must exist an undergrad or high student residing in North America. Please send entries (or questions) to conappgburg@gmail.com.

The winner will receive a cash in prize and may be invited to attend the CONAPP peace and justice group discussion in early June 2022 at Battle of Gettysburg College, to recite the taking speech.

This contest is managed by the Heartsease & Justice Studies Program and the Civilised War Establish at Gettysburg College.

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Original Address:

President Lincoln delivered the 272 word Battle of Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863 on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Eighty and heptad eld ago our fathers brought forth, on this Continent, a new body politi, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, examination whether that land, surgery any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long-staple endure. We are met on a great conflict-field of that war. We sustain come to dedicate a portion of that field, Eastern Samoa a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives, that that nation power alive. Information technology is altogether fitting and proper that we should exercise this. But, in a larger mother wit, we cannot commit, we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave manpower, living and dead, WHO struggled here, have consecrated it far to a higher place our poor power to add or take away. The humankind will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it tin can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated hither to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thusly far so nobly civilized. It is rather for U.S.A to be here dedicated to the great task unexhausted before us—that from these reputable dead we withdraw enlarged devotion to it cause for which they present gave the last full measure of veneration—that we here extremely settle that these non-living shall not bear died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that governing of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not conk from the ground.

Source: Copy of Cornell University's Copy

This contest is managed by the Peace & Justice Studies Program and the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College.