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See Hand-Written Gettysburg Addresses

Gettysburg AddressIt's been 150 years since President Abraham Lincoln delivered one of the most famous speeches in American history, and while the Gettysburg Address remains a prominent topic in history classrooms, students have never been able to see exactly how those influential words looked on the author's page...until now.

Google, via the tech firm's official blog, is making all five hand-written copies of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address available to everyone. Google has posted a statement that, in part, reads, "Three new exhibits now available on the Google Cultural Institute focus on President Lincoln and the 272 words that shaped a nation’s understanding of its identity. Thanks to our friends at the White House, the Lincoln Library, Cornell University, Dickinson College and the Library of Congress, you can browse high-resolution digital versions of all five Lincoln-handwritten copies of the address."

In addition to viewing the speech copies, visitors can compare them to see how they differ, as well as read the 272-word reflections of contemporaries like former President Jimmy Carter, former chairman of the NAACP Julian Bond, and Google's Eric Schmidt on the legacy of Lincoln and his address. 

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