While perhaps best known as 'The Great Emancipator', Abraham Lincoln could also be called a theoretical ancestor of the New Rhetoric. Lincoln's mastery of language in 'The Gettysburg Address' reveals a deft application of what would come to be known among rhetorical scholars as epistemic rhetoric--over 100 years later. This article discusses the lesser-known side of Lincoln as rhetorician and argues that the sixteenth President of the United States prefigured the course of a nation in a two-minute speech at a Pennsylvania cemetery.
The University of Sydney acknowledges that its campuses and facilities sit on the ancestral lands of Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander peoples, who have for thousands of generations exchanged knowledge for the benefit of all.
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