Debates and debating

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• Forensics (Public speaking)
• Rhetoric
• Public speaking
• Elocution

• Oratory
• Discussion

• Campaign debates
• Forums (Discussion and debate)
• Parliamentary practice
• Religious disputations

• Argumentation
• Speaking

• The American Debater: Being a Plain Exposition of the Principles and Practice of Public Debate (New York et al.: Ivison and Phinney, 1855), by James N. McElligott (multiple formats at Google)
• The Art of Controversy (in German and English), by Arthur Schopenhauer, trans. by T. Bailey Saunders
  • HTML at coolhaus.de
  • Gutenberg text
• Strip the Experts (1991), by Brian Martin (HTML and PDF in Australia)

• Political Debates Between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas In the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois, Including the Preceding Speeches of Each at Chicago, Springfield, etc.; Also the Two Great Speeches of Abraham Lincoln in Ohio in 1859 (Cleveland: Burrows Bros. Co., 1897), by Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Writings of Abraham Lincoln (national edition, 8 volumes; New York: Lamb Pub. Co., n.d.), by Abraham Lincoln, ed. by Arthur Brooks Lapsley, contrib. by Theodore Roosevelt, Carl Schurz, Joseph Hodges Choate, Noah Brooks, and Stephen A. Douglas
  • Volume 1 (1832-1843): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (1843-1858): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3 (Lincoln-Douglas Debates I): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4 (Lincoln-Douglas Debates II): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 5 (1858-1862): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 6 (1862-1863): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 7 (1863-1865): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 8 (Life of Lincoln): multiple formats at archive.org
• The Writings of Abraham Lincoln (biographical eighth volume by Noah Brooks omitted), by Abraham Lincoln, ed. by Arthur Brooks Lapsley (Gutenberg text)

• The IDEA Guide to the 2012 U.S. Presidential Debates (New York et al: International Debate Education Association, 2012), contrib. by Bruce Lee Zellers (PDF with commentary at idebate.org)

• By Popular Demand: Revitalizing Representative Democracy Through Deliberative Elections (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000), by John Gastil (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Guide for Discussion Leaders (1944), by Donald W. Goodrich
  • illustrated HTML at historians.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• From Workplace to Workspace: Using Email Lists to Work Together (1998), by Maureen James and Liz Rykert (HTML at idrc.ca)

• Net.wars, by Wendy Grossman (HTML at NYU)

• Pocket Manual of Rules Of Order For Deliberative Assemblies (Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Company, 1876), by Henry M. Robert (Gutenberg text)
• Reed's Parliamentary Rules: A Manual of General Parliamentary Law, With Suggestions for Special Rules, by Thomas B. Reed (HTML at wa.gov)
• Robert's Rules of Order Revised (1915 edition), by Henry M. Robert
  • searchable HTML at Bartleby
  • HTML at constitution.org

• Standing Orders of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, by Alberta Legislative Assembly (PDF at assembly.ab.ca)

• About the House, by Australia House of Representatives (partial serial archives)

• The Woman's Manual of Parliamentary Law: With Practical Illustrations Especially Adapted to Women's Organizations (fourth edition; Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1894), by Harriette R. Shattuck (page images at HathiTrust)

• Manual of Parliamentary Procedures in the Government of India (in English and Hindi; 2004), by India Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs. (HTML at mpa.nic.in)

• Standing Orders and Rules of the National Assembly, by Mauritius National Assembly (JavaScript-dependent HTML in Mauritius)

• How a Bill Becomes Law in New Brunswick, by New Brunswick Legislative Assembly (HTML at gnb.ca)

• How a Bill Becomes Law in New Brunswick, by New Brunswick Legislative Assembly (HTML at gnb.ca)

• Standing Orders of the National Assembly of Tanzania (in English and Swahili), by Tanzania National Assembly (partial serial archives)

• Deschler's Precedents of the United States House of Representatives, Including References to Provisions of the Constitution and Laws, and to Decisions of the Courts (1974), by Lewis Deschler (PDF and text at house.gov)
• Lex Parliamentaria Americana, by Luther Stearns Cushing (page images at MOA)
• A Manual of Parliamentary Practice for the Use of the Senate of the United States, by Thomas Jefferson (HTML at constitution.org)
• Warrington's Manual: A Manual for the Information of Officers and Members of Legislatures, Conventions, Societies, Corporations, Orders, Etc., by William Stevens Robinson (page images at MOA)

• Presbyterian and Reformed News (with related materials) (partial serial archives)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Art of Extempore Speaking: Hints for the Pulpit, the Senate, and the Bar (with additions by "a member of the New York bar"; 6th edition; New York: C. Scribner and Co., 1869), by L. Bautain (multiple formats at Google)
• How to Attract and Hold an Audience: A Practical Treatise on the Nature, Preparation, and Delivery of Public Discourse (New York: Hinds, Hayden and Eldredge, c1902), by J. Berg Esenwein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Phrases for Public Speakers and Paragraphs for Study (1910), ed. by Grenville Kleiser (Gutenberg text)
• Public Speaking: Principles and Practice, by Irvah Lester Winter (Gutenberg text)

• The Arte of Rhetorique, by Thomas Wilson (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Cicero's Brutus, or, History of Famous Orators; Also, His Orator, or, Accomplished Speaker, by Marcus Tullius Cicero, trans. by Edward Jones (Gutenberg text)
• Institutes of Oratory, by Quintilian, ed. by Lee Honeycutt, trans. by J. S. Watson (HTML at Iowa State)
• M. T. Cicero de Oratore: or, His Three Dialogues Upon the Character and Qualifications of an Orator, Translated into English, with Notes Historical and Explanatory, and an Introductory Preface (Boston: R. P. and C. Williams, 1822), by Marcus Tullius Cicero, ed. by William Guthrie (page images at Google)

• Talking Politics: The Substance of Style from Abe to "W" (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, c2003), by Michael Silverstein (PDF with commentary at prickly-paradigm.com)

• The Smile: If You Can Do Nothing Else, You Can Smile (Boston: School of Expression, c1915), by S. S. Curry (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Wissenschaftliches System der Mimik und Physiognomik (in German; Detmold: Klingenberg, 1867), by Theodor Piderit (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Smile: If You Can Do Nothing Else, You Can Smile (Boston: School of Expression, c1915), by S. S. Curry (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Ad C. Herennium De Ratione Dicendi (Rhetorica ad Herennium) (in Latin and English; ancient attribution to Cicero dubious; this edition published 1964), trans. by Harry Caplan, contrib. by Marcus Tullius Cicero (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Art of Voice-Production, With Special Reference ot the Methods of Correct Breathing (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1882), by Ange Albert Pattou (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Vocal Organ: Its Mechanism (Explaining a New Discovery) (4th edition; Chicago: Perfect Voice Institute, c1915), by Eugene Feuchtinger
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Voice: How to Use It; With Exercises for Tone and Articulation (revised edition; Boston: Expression Co., c1938), by Sarah T. Barrows and Anne E. Pierce (page images at HathiTrust)

• Abraham Lincoln Speaks, by Abraham Lincoln, ed. by United States Information Service, illust. by Dwight D. Eisenhower (multiple editions)

• Bargaining and Markets (electronic edition; with corrections from 1990 edition), by Martin J. Osborne and Ariel Rubinstein (PDF files with commentary at Toronto)
• Conflict Management in the Workplace, by Shay McConnon and Margaret McConnon (HTML with commentary at HowTo)
• How To Pay Less For More, by Marc Lockley (HTML with commentary at HowTo)

• Conflict Management in the Workplace, by Shay McConnon and Margaret McConnon (HTML with commentary at HowTo)
• Preventing Deadly Conflict: Final Report with Executive Summary, by Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict (HTML, PDF, and Word at ccpdc.org)
• The Pulse of Humanitarian Assistance (New York: Fordham University Press, and Center for International Humanitarian Coooperation, 2007), ed. by Kevin M. Cahill (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

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