Primary Texts
Title
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Collection | |
John Quincy Adams, Gag Rule Controversy: Question of Reception John Quincy Adams, Gag Rule Controversy, Petition Purporting to Come From Slaves |
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Congressional Repercussions |
Robert
Barclay, Fifteen
Propositions
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Modes of American Public Discourse | |
Caleb
Bingham, "Oration
on Eloquence," from The Columbian Orator
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Modes of American Public Discourse |
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Dale
Bumpers, Defense
of the President
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Impeachment Controversy | |
John C. Calhoun, Speech on the Reception of Abolition Petitions |
Congressional Repercussions |
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John
Jay Chapman, Coatesville
Address
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Rhetorical Criticism | |
Bill
Clinton, State
of the Union, 19 Jan 1999
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Impeachment Controversy |
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Federalists and Anti-Federalists |
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Eugene
Debs, Statement to
the Court
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Labor Movement |
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Modes of American Public Discourse |
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Frederick Douglass, "We Have Decided to Stay" |
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Fires of Abolition |
W.
E. B. DuBois, Niagara
Movement Address
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Civil Rights before 1950 | |
Federalist
#9 [Hamilton]
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Federalists and Anti-Federalists |
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Margaret
Fell, Womens Speaking
Justified
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Woman's Rights |
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Benjamin Franklin, On the Constitution |
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Federalists and Anti-Federalists |
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Impeachment |
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William Lloyd Garrison,
Peace Declaration |
Fires of Abolition | |
Gorgias
of Leontini, On the Nonexistent
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Ancient Rhetorical Theory | |
Angelina Grimke, Speech in Pennsylvania Hall |
Fires of Abolition |
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Sarah
Grimke, Letter
in Response to the Pastoral Letter
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Woman's Rights | |
Patrick
Henry, Against the Federal Constitution
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Federalists and Anti-Federalists |
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Henry Hyde,
Summation of House Prosecution
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Impeachment Controversy | |
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Jean Nicolas Demeunier Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Holmes |
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The Discourses of Slavery |
Rhetorical Criticism | ||
Martin
Luther King, I Have a
Dream
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Civil Rights since 1950 |
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Ursula K.
LeGuin, She
Unnames Them
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Feminism |
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Abraham Lincoln, A House Divided Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural |
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Lincoln, Slavery and Providence |
Bob
Livingston, Resignation, 19
Dec 1998
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Impeachment |
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Lucretia Mott, The Law of Progress |
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Fires of Abolition |
Cheryl
Mills, Excerpt from
Case Against Obstruction of Justice, 20 Jan 1999
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Impeachment Controversy |
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Richard M.
Nixon, "Checkers"
Speech
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Rhetorical Criticism | |
Woman's Rights | ||
Wendell
Phillips, The
Murder of Lovejoy
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Fires of Abolition |
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Civil Rights before 1950
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Student Protest | ||
Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, 1st
Inaugural
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Rhetorical Criticism |
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Seneca Falls
Convention, Declaration
of Sentiments
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Woman's Rights |
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SNCC Position
Paper: Women
in the Movement
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Feminism |
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August Spies,
Defense
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Labor Movement |
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Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, The
Solitude of Self
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Woman's Rights | |
Nat Turner, Confessions |
Fires of Abolition | |
Sojourner
Truth, "A'n't I a
Woman"
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Woman's Rights |
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Booker
T. Washington, Atlanta
Exposition Address
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Civil Rights before 1950 | |
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Modes of American Public Discourse |