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1850-1865: We are a house divided, a nation torn by bloody civil war

November 19, 1863
President Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address

Gettysburg Address

Gettysburg Address

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

Lincoln chooses his words carefully. His Gettysburg Address says we’re a nation, not just a collection of states. We’ve been one since 1776, even before the Constitution was written.

Read about it in the New York times

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