Film, Video Letters to Lincoln Challenge
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- Title
- Letters to Lincoln Challenge
- Summary
- The Library of Congress marked the 155th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's delivery of the Gettysburg Address with a discussion of the speech and a #LettersToLincoln transcribe-a-thon for volunteers on- and offsite.
- Event Date
- November 19, 2018
- Running Time
- 29 minutes 10 seconds
- Online Format
- video
- image
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Chicago citation style:
Letters to Lincoln Challenge. 2018. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-8589/.
APA citation style:
(2018) Letters to Lincoln Challenge. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-8589/.
MLA citation style:
Letters to Lincoln Challenge. 2018. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/webcast-8589/>.
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