Aaron Sheehan-Dean
speaker
924 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 24 Aug
Aaron Sheehan-Dean’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Can you convince mom and dad into letting me go?
And he says, he writes a letter to them.
He says, remember, you know, as you experienced, we will only see a nation born once in our lifetime.
And I think for Americans today, you would think, well, I should never see a nation born in my lifetime.
That is, America dates to 250 years.
I hope that I don't see its destruction and then something follow.
But in the early 19th century, it's a moment of tremendous uncertainty.
And so from Pendleton's perspective, we can create a new nation.
Italy has just been created in 1860.
The German city-states are starting to kind of cohere.
And at the end of the, you know, within a few years, at the end of the Civil War, there'll be a Germany.
But for Lincoln...
it is anchored in that declaration.
And so what he is positioning certainly in the Gettysburg Address is we are fighting here to keep that, not to reinvent it, not to remake it.
There is a kind of sleight of hand going on there and certainly over the course because the inclusion of emancipation
changes the character, the ending of slavery changes the character of America in pretty fundamental ways.
Certainly the 13th and 14th and 15th Amendments change the nature of American constitutionalism, of American citizenship in fundamental ways.
But at Gettysburg, Lincoln is really anchoring what's happening in an old foundation.
Abolitionists want, you know, Garrison and other abolitionists want to sort of remake it, right?
They're done with the Constitution.
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