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Conspiracy Theories

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The First Line in the Gettysburg Address Is... Historically Correct.

Joseph J. Ellis is an American historian who specializes in the country's founding years. He says the first line in the Gettysburg Address is... Historically incorrect. In other words, the colonies didn't come together to create a country. Their main goal was to get rid of the British. Creating a union, a United States was an afterthought.

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