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Lincoln Speaks (2015)
Short | 17 min | Documentary, Short

Lincoln Speaks (2015)

Short | 17 min | Documentary, Short

This exhibition focuses on Abraham Lincoln's mastery of language and how his words changed the course of history. Today, nearly 150 years after the end of the Civil War, he remains an exemplar of exalted leadership in a time of great ...See moreThis exhibition focuses on Abraham Lincoln's mastery of language and how his words changed the course of history. Today, nearly 150 years after the end of the Civil War, he remains an exemplar of exalted leadership in a time of great crisis, and people the world over continue to look to him as a standard-bearer for principled governance. The exhibition explores Lincoln as a writer and public speaker whose eloquence shaped the nation and the world in his own time and still reverberates in ours. Lincoln Speaks is presented thematically and chronologically. It was organized in conjunction with scholars at the Gilder Lehrman Institute and draws heavily on its renowned collection of American historical documents. With additional contributions from the Shapell Foundation, Harvard College Library, the Library of Congress, and the Morgan's collection of Lincoln manuscripts and letters, the exhibition includes photographic portraits and books owned and used by Lincoln. It highlights the range of his rhetorical powers from the elevated style of his proclamations and great speeches to the forceful, incisive language of his military memos and the intimate prose of personal letters to family and friends. Lincoln drew upon his powers as a writer and orator to sustain the country during its greatest crisis and to inspire Americans to embrace the end of slavery. The show coincides with the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War and Lincoln's assassination and assesses the scale of Lincoln's achievement as well as his national and global legacy through an examination of of his powerful words. Written by The Morgan Library & Museum See less

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7 cast members

Name	Known for
Harold Holzer Self - Lincoln Scholar Self - Lincoln Scholar See fewer	Lincoln (2012)
Tony Kushner Self - Screenwriter, Spielberg's Lincoln Self - Screenwriter, Spielberg's Lincoln See fewer	West Side Story (2021)
Earl Lewis Self - President, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Self - President, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation See fewer	Doo Wop Cavalcade: The Definitive Anthology (2005)
Edna Greene Medford Self - Professor of History, Howard University Self - Professor of History, Howard University See fewer	Lincoln: Divided We Stand (2021)
Jerome Charyn Self - Novelist, Author of I Am Abraham Self - Novelist, Author of I Am Abraham See fewer	Hard Apple (II)
Bill Clinton Self - Founder of the Clinton Foundation Self - Founder of the Clinton Foundation See fewer	The Great Irish Potato Famine
Neil Bradley Abraham Lincoln (voice) Abraham Lincoln (voice) See fewer	Babylon 5 (1993)