Includes bibliographical references (pages [448]-468) and index.
Introduction: The study of rhetoric and public address / Shawn J. Parry-Giles and J. Michael Hogan -- Part I: The history and prospects of rhetoric and public address. The history of public address as an academic study / Martin J. Medhurst ; Public address scholarship in the new century: achievements and challenges / David Zarefsky ; Rhetorical criticism 2009: a study in method / Karlyn Kohrs Campbell -- Part II: Basic research in rhetoric and public address. Textual recovery, textual discovery: returning to our past, imagining our future / Davis W. Houck ; The processes and challenges of textual authentication / Robert N. Gaines ; Archival research and the American presidency: the political and rhetorical complexities of presidential records / Shawn J. Parry-Giles ; From recovering women's words to documenting gender constructs: archival research in the twenty-first century / Susan Zaeske and Sarah Jedd -- Part III: Text and context in rhetoric and public address. The racial contexts of public address: interpreting violence during the Reconstruction Era / Kirt H. Wilson ; Lilies and lavatory paper: the public and the private in British suffrage archives / Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp ; Studying visual modes of public address: Lewis Hine's Progressive-era child labor rhetoric / Cara A. Finnegan ; Theory and public address: the allusive Mr. Bush / John M. Murphy -- Part IV: Questions of effect in rhetoric and public address. Jimmy Carter, human rights, and instrumental effects of presidential rhetoric / Mary E. Stuckey ; Analyzing constitutive rhetorics: the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions and the "Principles of '98" / James Jasinski and Jennifer R. Mercieca -- Part V: The politics of rhetoric and public address. Feminism and public address research: television news and the constitution of women's liberation / Bonnie J. Dow ; The problem of race in public address research: W.E.B. Du Bois and the conflicted aesthetics of race / Eric King Watts ; Sexuality and public address: rhetorical pasts, queer theory, and Abraham Lincoln / Charles E. Morris III ; Public address and the revival of American civic culture / J. Michael Hogan