President Skorton will kickoff Cornell's student voter registration drive tomorrow afternoon, September 6, at 4:30 p.m. at the Balch Courtyard Terrace (rain location Carol Tatkon Center Room 3330). He will read the Gettysburg Address and talk about the power of... more
In Lincoln at Gettysburg Garry Wills gives us a fascinating analysis of the political and cultural background of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and the events preceding it. With Mapping the Paths to the Address we're attempting to put the ideas and... more
"No other words could have done it. The miracle is that these words did. In his brief time before the crowd at Gettysburg he wove a spell that has not, yet, been broken—he called up a new nation out of the blood and trauma."
Garry Wills p.175
According to a relatively recent study by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the amount of reading done for pleasure is down in this country...more from Provost Martin
Cornell’s next incoming class and much of the rest of the Cornell community will read Garry Wills’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America... more from Vice Provost Michele Moody-Adams
