Communication 435
Historic American Public Discourse
Summer 2005

Schedule

How to read this schedule: The assignment refers to the material that should be prepared for that day. This may be a reading assignment or it may be the midterm or final exam for which you should prepare. The pop quizzes are not included in this schedule because they are not announced. There may be a pop quiz on any day when there is a reading assignment.

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Week One

Continental Congress/Thomas Jefferson, “The Declaration of Independence” (1776). Text | Context Preview

Jefferson

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Week Two

George Washington, “Farewell Address,” (1796). Text | Context Preview Thomas Jefferson, “First Inaugural Address,” (1801). Text | Context Preview

Washington

Wendell Phillips, “The Murder of Lovejoy,” (1837). Text | Context Preview Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July,” (1852). Text | Context Preview

Phillips

Douglass

Abraham Lincoln, “Address before the Young Men's Lyceum,” (1838). Text | Context Preview Abraham Lincoln, “A House Divided,” (1858). Text | Context Preview

Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln, “Cooper Union Address,” (1860). Text | Context Preview Abraham Lincoln, “First Inaugural Address,” (1861). Text | Context Preview

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Week Three

Abraham Lincoln, “Gettysburg Address,” (1863). Text | Context Preview Abraham Lincoln, “Second Inaugural Address,” (1865). Text | Context Preview

Seneca Falls Convention/Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “Declaration of Sentiments,” (1848). Text | Context Preview Sojourner Truth, “Ain’t I a Woman?,” (1851). Text | Context Preview

Truth

Clarina Howard Nichols, “Responsibilities of Women,” (1851). (pgs. 62-76 of convention proceedings). Text | Context Preview Susan B. Anthony, “Is It a Crime for a US Citizen to Vote?,” (1873). Text | Context Preview

Nichols

Anthony

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “The Solitude of Self,” (1892). Text | Context Preview   Review for Midterm Exam

Stanton

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Week Four

Henry Grady, “The New South,” (1886). Text | Context Preview Booker T. Washington, “Cotton States Exposition Address,” (1895). Text | Context Preview W. E. B. DuBois, “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others,” (1903). Text | Context Preview	Washington	Grady
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Anna Louise Strong, “No One Knows Where,” (1919). Text | Context Preview Franklin D. Roosevelt, “First Inaugural Address,” (1933). Text | Context Preview

Strong

Chief Sealth’s speech, ver. 1 & ver. 2, (1854). Text 1| Text 2 | Context Preview Judge Thomas Burke, “Speech During the Anti-Chinese Incidents,” (1885). Text | Context Preview

Sealth

Burke

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Week Five

Albert Beveridge, “The March of the Flag” (1898). Text | Context Preview William Jennings Bryan, “Imperialism,” (1900). Text | Context Preview

Beveridge

Bryan

Woodrow Wilson, “War Message,” (1917). Text | Context Preview Emma Goldman, “Speech Against Conscription and War,” (1917). Text | Context Preview

Wilson

Goldman

Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Quarantine the Aggressor,” (1937). Text | Context Preview Franklin D. Roosevelt, “The Arsenal of Democracy,” (1940). Text | Context Preview   Review for Final Exam

Roosevelt

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