Carole Emberton

Carole Emberton is Associate Professor of History at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). She is the author of “Beyond Redemption: Race, Violence, and the American South after the Civil War.”

https://caroleemberton.com/

19 Nov 2013

A Few Brief Remarks

Lincoln’s speech at Gettysburg was short: only three minutes long, following a moving, two-hour performance by famed orator Edward Everett. It also was nearly meaningless.