Essays, books, and articles you might find helpful for the response paper assignment. (Note that the title of the work is a link to the fulltext of that document.):

You are to choose one of the following speeches and respond to it as discussed in class.

Douglass, Frederick. "Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln" (1876). TeachingAmericanHistory.org.
 
        17 October 2003 <http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?documentprint=39>.

        

Lincoln, Abraham. "Address at Cooper Institute" (1860). TeachingAmericanHistory.org.
 
        17 October 2003 <http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?documentprint=54>. 
        

Stephens, Alexander. "Cornerstone Speech" (1861). TeachingAmericanHistory.org.
 
        17 October 2003 <http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?documentprint=76>.


Biographical sketches:

"Alexander Hamilton Stephens." Dictionary of American Biography Base Set. 

      American Council of Learned Societies, 1928-1936. Biography Resource Center. 

      Ivy Tech State College Library, South Bend, IN. 13 October 2003.

"Abraham Lincoln.” Dictionary of American Biography Base Set. 

      American Council of Learned Societies, 1928-1936. Biography Resource Center. 

      Ivy Tech State College Library, South Bend, IN. 13 October 2003. 

"Frederick Douglass.” Dictionary of American Biography Base Set. 

      American Council of Learned Societies, 1928-1936. Biography Resource Center. 

      Ivy Tech State College Library, South Bend, IN. 13 October 2003.

Ebooks and journal articles:

Blight, David W. Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln:Relationship in Language,

       Politics, and Memory. Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 2001. ebrary. 

       Ivy Tech State College Library, South Bend, IN. 13 October 2003. 

DiLorenzo, Thomas. “The Great Centralizer.”  Independent Review. 2 (Fall 1998):243-. 

       MasterFile Premier. EBSCOhost. Ivy Tech State College Library,  South Bend, IN. 13 October 2003.

Douglass, Frederick. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. ebrary. Cleveland, OH: 

       Park Publishing, 1882. Ivy Tech State College Library,  South Bend, IN. 13 October 2003. 

Herndon, William H. “Chapter XV.” Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life. 

       Springfield, IL: Herndon’s Lincoln Publishing: 1888. ebrary. State College Library, South Bend, 

       IN. 13 October 2003.

Leff, Michael. “Lincoln at Cooper Union: Neo-Classical Criticism Revisited.”

        Western Journal of Communication, 65.3 (Summer 2001): 232-. MasterFile Premier. 

        EBSCOhost. Ivy Tech State College Library, South Bend, IN. 13 October 2003.

McClure, Kevin R. “Frederick Douglass' Use of Comparison in his Fourth of July Oration: 

         A Textual Criticism.”  Western Journal of Communication, 64.4 (Fall 2000): 232-.

        MasterFile Premier. EBSCOhost. Ivy Tech State College Library, South Bend, IN. 13 October 2003.