Ocupation: Historian
Life: April 12, 1939 - May 26, 2009
Birthday: April 12
Death: May 26
The nation was founded and "dedicated," to use Lincoln's language in the "Gettysburg Address," to equality as a "self-evident truth." But this very principle of equality, as Lincoln also noted, was a "proposition." To make it a reality remained "the unfinished work" of Americans.
topic: Reality, Unfinished Work, Self, Gettysburg, Gettysburg Address