Common Core Instructs Students To Learn About Gettysburg Address Without Mentioning Civil War (sic)

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 9. "The Gettysburg speech was at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history...the highest emotion reduced to a few poetical phrases. 

Lincoln himself never even remotely approached it. It is genuinely stupendous. 

 But let us not forget that it is poetry, not logic; beauty, not sense. 

Think of the argument in it. Put it into the cold words of everyday. 

The doctrine is simply this: 

that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination -- that government of the people, by the people, for the people, should not perish from the earth. 

It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. 

 The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves."

H. L. Mencken 

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Is it possible to teach students the meaning behind President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address without mentioning the Civil War?

According to the government’s new Common Core education standards, the Gettysburg Address must be taught without mentioning the Civil War and explaining why President Lincoln was in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

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