HUM 6353 Teaching Great American Speeches
This course connects the trivium to American history through engagement with the American rhetorical tradition, focusing especially on the equality principle in the Declaration of Independence. It involves close reading and rhetorical analysis of great and influential speeches and documents from the Founding, Lincoln, and the twentieth century, and addresses both different theoretical approaches to American history and the history of American rhetoric, and practical approaches to teaching American history and rhetoric in the classroom.