November 19, 2013, marked the sesquicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s most famous speech—the Gettysburg Address. To mark its 150th anniversary, award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns asked a range of historians, entertainers, writers, and po9litical leaders—among them all living American presidents—to record their reading of Lincoln’s immortal words. Burns asked the nation’s students and teachers to commit themselves again to memorizing the speech—and his request inspired some 50 million tweets. Click here and record your own version of the three minutes that consecrated the nation’s past and inspirited the completion of its “unfinished work.”
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