Gettysburg replies: the world responds to Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address

Preface / Carla Knorowski --

Introduction: A nation "at risk," Lincoln's world and ours / James M. Cornelius --

Walking with Lincoln / Tom Amandes --

Lincoln and Eureka College / J. David Arnold --

Greater efforts, grander victories / Julian Bond --

The Gettysburg story / Jake Boritt --

A common path taken / John Borling --

On the occasion of the great leaving / Robert Bray --

The dark horse candidate / Edward M. Burke --

The business of words / Ken Burns --

The Gettysburg Address: rewriting America's foundational narrative / William D. Burns --

Truth / President George H.W. Bush --

A powerful reminder / President George W. Bush --

The long march / Amy Carlson --

Gettysburg Address / President Jimmy Carter --

Our struggle was their struggle / Richard Carwardine --

Rebuild together / President Bill Clinton --

One thousand five hundred and seventy days / Catherine Clinton --

On a poem by Lincoln: "My childhood home I see again" / Billy Collins --

Lincoln's world language / James M. Cornelius --

A new nation / Jeremy T. Crandall --

The concept of accountability / Keith David --

Unfinished work / Alan M. Dershowitz --

I am a foreigner / Danian C. Douglas --

Overalls / Richard H. Driehaus --

Our greatest treasure / Tammy Duckworth --

Gettysburg: rebirth of the revolution / Dick Durbin --

A new American anthem / Jason Emerson --

Lincoln in memory and mission / Richard W. Etulain --

The unfinished business of slavery / Nicholas J. Evans --

Will America sacrifice as it did in the Civil War? / Guy C. Fraker --

Gettysburg is not only in Pennsylvania / Nikki Giovanni --

What would Mr. Lincoln think? / Bill Goodman --

Equal opportunity to influence / Ginny Greer --

The ennobling universal passion / Allen C. Guelzo --

Canvassing the vote / Dan Guillory --

The best place on earth / Samuel R. Harris --

Each must enlist / Gary R. Herbert --

Footsteps / Katherine Hitchcock --

Gettysburg calls us to our solemn duty / Jackie Hogan --

Long remembered / Harold Holzer --

Saying much in little / William Howarth --

No greater words / Sally Jewell --

History is a cause / Gary T. Johnson --

Republicanism renewed / Howard Jones --

Words to music / John William Jones --

Clarity of purpose / Kathleen Kennedy --

Lincoln walking at night / Amanda L. Kilpatrick --

"In God we trust" / Carla Knorowski --

Mystery in the history of the Gettysburg Address / Michelle A. Krowl --

Photo essay / Annie Leibovitz --

Four score and seven Lincolns / David H. Leroy --

A look at a people / Caleb Lewis --

I heard Lincoln deliver the Gettysburg Address / Salvador Litvak --

Fallen heroes / James Lovell --

Freedom: given by God, defended by man / Allen J. Lynch --

Conceived in liberty / Phil W. Magness --

A timeless call to action / Suzanne Malveaux --

Immigration to America / John F. Marszalek --

Lincoln's world and Gettysburg / Robert E. May --

150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address / Matthew H. Mead --

Learning from Lincoln / Michael Medved --

Transition in South Africa / Babalwa Mhlauli --

Democracy persists / Richard Lawrence Miller --

Visions of Lincoln: a century on screen / Nell Minow --

More information, less understanding / Newton N. Minow --

Reply / President Barack H. Obama --

Building on Lincoln's legacy / Douglas R. Oberhelman --

Abraham Lincoln and the vital importance of civic education / Sandra Day O'Connor --

Proud disciples / Maureen Orth --

An unfinished masterpiece / Eboo Patel --

The long shadow of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address / Jared Peatman --

In the throes of democracy / Graham A. Peck --

Lincoln in the world / Kevin Peraino --

Remembering a second birth of freedom / Matthew Pinsker --

Fate and circumstance / Adam Pitluk --

The march must continue / Colin L. Powell --

The will of the people / Patrick J. Quinn --

Finishing their work / Grace Richards --

A continuing obligation / J. Joe Ricketts --

272 words of hope / Karen Roth --

Battlefields for equal justice / Nancy Rousseau --

The promise of greater access / Eric Schmidt --

Hubris in 272 words / Thomas F. Schwartz --

10 sentences, 4 clauses / Pete Seeger --

Demand the best / Judith Sheindlin --

A time-sensitive document / Scott Simon --

The unfinished work before us / Brooks D. Simpson --

The attractive vision of a better world / Steven Spielberg --

Genealogy apology / Kevin Stein --

The will of the people / Randall L. Stephenson --

The global meaning of the Gettysburg Address / Louise L. Stevenson --

Turn to Lincoln / Charles B. Strozier --

People like to eat / Evelyn Brandt Thomas with Karl Barnhart --

Lincoln's railroad / Robert W. Turner --

The Lincoln seedbed / Neil deGrasse Tyson --

Let's build a civilization based on universal values / Lech Walesa --

Let their lives shine / Scott Walker --

An American keystone / David Walser --

We are the benefactors of change agents / Robin White --

Words that count / Robert S. Willard --

A young girl's advice / Karen B. Winnick.