![]() ![]() He is the only two-time winner of the Lincoln Prize, in 2000 for Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President and in 2005 for Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, the definitive treatment of that document. Luce Professor of the Civil War era and Director of Civil War era studies at Gettysburg College, is one of our most accomplished Civil War historians and Lincoln scholars. Guelzo’s contribution to the battle’s sesquicentennial. This trend confirms James McPherson’s observation that historians are tending to write “more and more about less and less.” there have also been some fine recent studies of the Gettysburg campaign as a whole, the most recent of which is Allen C. In recent times, many of these studies have been micro-histories that divide the battle into days, parts of days, or particular clashes on a specific piece of terrain, e.g., Little round top. A 2004 bibliography lists 6,193 books, articles, chapters, and pamphlets. ![]() In 1900, a historian remarked that “another history of Gettysburg may seem superfluous and presumptuous.” Nonetheless, every year, new books are published on it. ![]() It is also the most studied battle in American history. Gettysburg remains the greatest clash of arms ever to occur in North America. This review originally appeared in the Jissue of National Review ![]()
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