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The Gettysburg Address

Lincoln feels he has failed the American people, his audience at Gettysburg, and the memory of the dead with his short address, yet the eloquence and grandeur of the 269 words became enshrined as a standard against which all speeches that came thereafter were measured.

Clip Length 05:50 Premiere: 04/03/11

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1865: "War Is All Hell"/"The Better Angels of Our Nature"

S1 E5 Length 2:14:38 Premiere Date 09/11/15

1864: "Valley of the Shadow of Death"/"Most Hallowed Ground"

S1 E4 Length 2:18:35 Premiere Date 09/10/15

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