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Public speaking

Here are entered works on speaking effectively in public. Works on the rhetorical aspects of speeches are entered under Oratory.

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• Oral communication

• Public speaking -- Periodicals
• Public speaking -- Religious aspects
• Chalk-talks
• Debates and debating
• Expression
• Forensics (Public speaking)
• Lectures and lecturing
• Political oratory

• Public speaking -- Study and teaching

• Stand Up, Speak Out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking (derived from Creative Commons licensed edition published by Flat World Knowledge, ca. 2011), by Jason S. Wrench, Anne Goding, Danette Ifert Johnson, and Bernardo A. Attias (PDF at saylor.org)
• The Art of Public Speaking (Springfield, MA: Home Correspondence School, c1915), by J. Berg Esenwein and Dale Carnegie (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• 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)
• The Complete Debater's Manual (Chicago: F. J. Drake and Co., c1902), by Charles Walter Brown (page images at HathiTrust)

• Quarterly Journal of Speech (partial serial archives)

• The Journal of Expression (partial serial archives)

• The Sermon Under Attack (Exeter, UK: Paternoster Press, c1983), by K. Runia (PDF files with commentary in the UK)
• The Ecology of Faith, by Joseph Sittler (HTML at religion-online.org)
• Papers on Preaching and Public Speaking: By a Wykehamist (London: Bell and Daldy, 1861), by George J. Davies (page images at HathiTrust)
• Post-Mediaeval Preachers: Some Account of the Most Celebrated Preachers of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries, With Outlines of Their Sermons, and Specimens of Their Style (London: Rivingtons, 1865), by S. Baring-Gould (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Ueber das Extemporiren der Predigten (in German; Hannover: Gebrudern Hahn, 1817), by Johann Heinrich Fritsch
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Yale Lectures on Preaching (New York, J. B. Ford and Co., 1872), by Henry Ward Beecher (page images at HathiTrust)
• On Christian Doctrine, by Saint Augustine of Hippo (multiple formats at CCEL)

• Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Dawn Coleman (PDF at Ohio State)

• God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (New York: The Viking Press, 1927), by James Weldon Johnson, illust. by Aaron Douglas and C. B. Falls
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • page images at Yale
  • multiple formats at Google
• John Jasper: The Unmatched Negro Philosopher and Preacher (New York: F. H. Revell Co., c1908), by William E. Hatcher
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea, the African Preacher, Compiled and Written by Himself (Portsea, UK: The author, ca. 1811), by John Jea (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life of Rev. John Jasper, Pastor of Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., from His Birth to the Present Time, With His Theory on the Rotation of the Sun (Richmond, VA: R. T. Hill, 1884), by Edwin Archer Randolph (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Tropologia: A Key to Open Scripture Metaphors, in Four Books; To Which Are Prefixed, Arguments to Prove the Divine Authority of the Holy Bible, Together With Types of the Old Testament (1858), by Benjamin Keach
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Treasury of David, by C. H. Spurgeon (HTML at crosswalk.com)

• Hints on Extemporaneous Preaching (third edition, 1831), by Henry Ware (HTML at americanunitarian.org)

• Mein Kampf ums Recht: Eine Streitschift Gegen Vorstand und Repräsentanz der Jüdischen Gemeinde zu Berlin (in German; Berlin: Typ. Rosenthal, 1907), by Emil Cohn
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Preachers of the Italian Ghetto (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), ed. by David B. Ruderman (HTML at UC Press)

• Preachers of the Italian Ghetto (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), ed. by David B. Ruderman (HTML at UC Press)

• Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Dawn Coleman (PDF at Ohio State)

• Bengough's Chalk-Talks: A Series of Platform Addresses on Various Topics, With Reproductions of the Impromptu Drawings With Which They Were Illustrated (Toronto: Musson, 1922), by J. W. Bengough (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• Bending Opinion: Essays on Persuasion in the Public Domain (Leiden: Leiden University Press, c2011), ed. by Ton van Haaften, Henrike Jansen, Jaap de Jong, and Willem Koetsenruijter, contrib. by I. Sluiter, Manfred Kraus, Marie Formarier, Christian Kock, J. Anthony Blair, Daniel J. O'Keefe, Arnolda Francisca Snoeck Henkemans, Henrike Jansen, Marianne Dingemanse, Ingrid Persoon, B. A. Andeweg, Hilde van Belle, Joel Best, Peter Burger, Lotte Anemaet, Gabry Vanderveen, Susan Hogben, Cezar Ornatowski, Bart van Klink, Oliver Lembcke, Pablo Leandro Ciocchini, Janet Takens, Anita van Hoof, J. Kleinnijenhuis, Wouter van Atteveldt, Baldwin van Gorp, Mary Vander Goot, Anders Horsbøl, Lisa S. Villadsen, and E. T. Feteris (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Strip the Experts (1991), by Brian Martin (HTML and PDF in Australia)
• 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

• The Complete Debater's Manual (Chicago: F. J. Drake and Co., c1902), by Charles Walter Brown (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• To Enlarge the Machinery of Government: Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858-1891 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2007), by Williamjames Hoffer (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• 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 Wayback Machine)

• 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)
• Hughes' American Parliamentary Guide, Prepared for Ohio General Assembly: The Process of Lawmaking (Columbus: F. J. Heer Printing Co., 1922), by Edward Wakefield Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lex Parliamentaria Americana: Elements of the Law and Practice of Legislative Assemblies in the United States of America (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1856), by Luther Stearns Cushing (page images at MOA)
• House Practice: A Guide to the Rules, Precedents and Procedures of the House (current and past editions, 1996-present), contrib. by Wm. Holmes Brown, Charles W. Johnson, John V. Sullivan, and Thomas J. Wickham (PDF and text files with commentary at govinfo.gov)
• A Manual of Parliamentary Practice for the Use of the Senate of the United States (Washington: Davis and Force, 1820), by Thomas Jefferson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Warrington's Manual: A Manual for the Information of Officers and Members of Legislatures, Conventions, Societies, Corporations, Orders, Etc., by William S. Robinson (page images at MOA)

• Guide for Discussion Leaders (1944), by Donald W. Goodrich
  • illustrated HTML at historians.org
  • multiple formats at archive.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)

• 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)
• Your Farm Bureau (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1958), by Alice Sturgis, contrib. by Richard Armour, illust. by Leo Hershfield and Alan Atkins (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Installation of a Speaker and Accompanying Exhibits (New Museum series #3; Woodstock, VT: Elm Tree Press, 1918), by John Cotton Dana (page images at HathiTrust)

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