Preliminary Table of Contents:

November
Nov. 1: Years Ago (All Saints)
Nov. 2: Our Fathers (L. L.)
Nov. 3: Brought Forth (Pen and Sword)
Nov. 4: In Vain (Lycidas)
Nov. 5: The Living and the Dead (Character)
Nov. 9: Never Forget (Nights of Broken Glass)
Nov. 11: Long Endure (Armistice Day)
Nov. 14: The Brave Men (Ia Drang)
Nov. 15: A Great Civil War (Virginia Wade)
Nov. 16: Final Resting Place (Sanctuary)
Nov. 17: What We Say Here (The Other Address)
Nov. 18: We Have Come to Dedicate (The Visitor)
Nov. 19: The Gettysburg Address
Nov. 20 That Cause (Confederate Rose)
Nov. 21: The World Will Little Note (Futility)
Nov. 22: A Larger Sense (Dallas and Oxford)
Nov. 23: For Us, the Living (Weep No More)
Nov. 24: The Last Full Measure of Devotion (Ulysses)
Nov. 25: Unfinished Work (JFK)
Nov. 26: Shall Not Perish (Beautiful and Brave)
Nov. 27: Highly Resolve (Thanksgiving)
Nov. 28: These Honored Dead (Elegy)
Nov. 29: Under God (Winter Saturday)
Nov. 30: New Birth (Advent)
Appendix I: Modernism and Postmodernism
Appendix II: Lycidas
Appendix III: Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard
Appendix IV: Anthem for Doomed Youth
Notes
Index

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About the Author

Kent Gramm is Program Director of the Seminary Ridge Historical Preservation Foundation and author of Gettysburg: A Meditation on War and Values and Somebody's Darling: Essays on the Civil War, forthcoming from Indiana University Press.