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The Lyceum and Public Culture in the Nineteenth-century United States
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

The Lyceum and Public Culture in the Nineteenth-century United States

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: MSU Press

Angela Ray provides a refreshing new look at the lyceum lecture system as it developed in the United States from the 1820s to the 1880s.

Thinking Together
  • Language: en

Thinking Together

Explores the myriad ways that people in the nineteenth century grappled with questions of learning, belonging, civic participation, and deliberation. Focuses on the dynamics of gender, race, region, and religion, and how individuals and groups often excluded from established institutions developed knowledge useful for public life.

Who Do You See When You Look at Me?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 32

Who Do You See When You Look at Me?

Who do you see when you look at me? Most notice my wheelchair, my voice, or my crazy hair. I am me, just me, doing my best to live each day to the fullest I can. There is more to me than you might realize. I have gifts and talents that make me unique. There are also things I do just like you-things we have in common that you might not even know. When we take the time to learn about each other, something grand happens-love and understanding. Open your mind, your soul, your heart, and you will see the real me...when you look at me.

Democracy as Discussion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

Democracy as Discussion

Using primary sources from archives around the country, Democracy as Discussion traces the early history of the Speech field, the development of discussion as an alternative to debate, and the Deweyan, Progressive philosophy of discussion that swept the United States in the early twentieth century.

Reframing Rhetorical History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 440

Reframing Rhetorical History

"Collection of essays that reassesses history as rhetoric and rhetorical history as practice "--

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 405

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Politics

This volume addresses the political contexts in which nineteenth-century American literature was conceived, consumed, and criticized. It shows how a variety of literary genres and forms, such as poetry, drama, fiction, oratory, and nonfiction, engaged with political questions and participated in political debate.

Grace Anna Sings
  • Language: en

Grace Anna Sings

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Screening
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 335

Screening

Screening is the routine testing of populations to identify individuals who may have a particular medical condition or disease. This book covers the theory and evidence behind screening, and serves as a practical, non-technical introduction to the subject, for public health practitioners involved in all aspects of screening.

Public Debate in the Civil War Era
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 426

Public Debate in the Civil War Era

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-08-01
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  • Publisher: MSU Press

Public debate and discussion was overshadowed by the slavery controversy during the period of the U.S. Civil War. Slavery was attacked, defended, amplified, and mitigated. This happened in the halls of Congress, the courts, the political debate, the public platform, and the lecture hall. This volume examines the issues, speakers, and venues for this controversy between 1850 and 1877. It combines exploration of the broad contours of controversy with careful analysis of specific speakers and texts.

Screening
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

Screening

A comprehensive, practical, and accessible guide to screening programmes, for public health practitioners and anyone else involved in or with an interest in screening. It covers the concepts and evidence behind screening, how to make sound policy on screening, and how to plan and deliver high quality programmes at affordable cost.