COURSES
CA 100 Introduction to Speech Composition
CA 372 Rhetoric of Campaigns and Revolutions
CA 667 History of American Public Address

DEGREES

• Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, 1973
• M.A. Pennsylvania State University, 1971
• B.A. University of California, Santa Barbara, 1968

MAJOR HONORS/AWARDS

• National Communication Association Donald H. Ecroyd Award for Outstanding Teacher in Higher Education, , 2001
• National Communication Association Golden Anniversary Monograph Award for "The Rhetorical Ancestry of the Declaration of Independence," 1999
• Elected to Wisconsin Teaching Academy, 1997
• Wisconsin Student Association Excellence in Teaching Award, 1992
• Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Wisconsin, 1988
• National Communication Association Golden Anniversary Award for Portents of Rebellion: Rhetoric and Revolution in Philadelphia, 1765-1776, 1977
• Pulitzer Prize nomination for Portents of Rebellion: Rhetoric and Revolution in Philadelphia, 1765-1776, 1976
• National Communication Association Gerald R. Miller Oustanding Dissertation Award, 1973

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
"The Top 100 American Speeches of the Twentieth Century" [with Martin J. Medhurst]. Available online at:
http://www.news.wisc.edu/misc/speeches

"The Declaration of Independence in the Rhetoric of American Politics." In William Eadie and Paul Nelson, eds., The Changing American Conversation: Lectures at the Smithsonian Institution. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Press, in press.

"George Washington and the Rhetoric of Presidential Leadership." In Leroy Dorsey, ed., The Presidency and Rhetorical Leadership. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, in press.

"Public Speaking." In Thomas O. Sloane, ed., Encyclopedia of Rhetoric. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 640-647.

The Art of Public Speaking. New York: Random House, 1983. Second edition, New York: Random House,1986; Third edition, New York: Random House, 1989; Fourth edition, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992; Fifth edition, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995; Sixth edition, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998; Seventh edition, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001.

The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot. Madison, Wis.: Madison House, 1999.

"The Rhetorical Ancestry of the Declaration of Independence." Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 1 (Summer 1998), 143-184.

"Teaching Public Speaking." In Anita Vangelisti, John A. Daly, and Gustav Friedrich, eds.,Teaching Communication: Theory, Research and Methods, 2nd ed. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1998, pp. 75-84.

"Booker T. Washington." In Richard W. Leeman, ed., African-American Orators. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997, pp. 341-357.

"Debate and Oratory." In Donald C. Bacon, Roger H. Davidson, and Morton Keller, eds., Encyclopedia of the United States Congress. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995, pp. 608-613.

"The Plakkaat van Verlatinge: A Neglected Model for the American Declaration of Independence." In Rosemarijn Hofte and Johanna C. Kardux, eds., Connecting Cultures: The Netherlands in Five Centuries of Transatlantic Exchange. Amsterdam: VU Press, 1994, pp. 189-207.

"The Stylistic Artistry of the Declaration of Independence." Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives, 22 (Spring 1990), 25-43. Reprinted in Carl R. Burgchardt, ed., Readings in Rhetorical Criticism (State College, Pa.: Strata Press, 1995), pp. 531-546
Also reprinted at several locations online, including:
National Archives Exhibit Hall
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/charters/ declaration/decstyle.html;
American Pioneer History and Genealogical Research
http://www.americanpioneers.com/history/declaration_of_ind/decstyle.html; HistoryLinks
http:// historylinks.freeservers.com/article9.html

"Justifying America: The Declaration of Independence as a Rhetorical Document." In Thomas W. Benson, ed. American Rhetoric: Context and Criticism. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989, pp. 67-130.

"The Renaissance of American Public Address: Text and Context in Rhetorical Criticism." Quarterly Journal of Speech, 74 (May 1988), 241-260. Reprinted in Martin J. Medhurst, ed., Landmark Essays on American Public Address (Davis, Calif.: Hermagoras Press, 1993), pp. 179-202.

"George Washington." In Halford Ryan and Bernard Duffy, eds., American Orators before 1900. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987, pp. 408-415.

"Genre Criticism and Historical Context: The Case of George Washington's First Inaugural Address." Southern Speech Communication Journal, 51 (Summer 1986), 354-370. Reprinted in Thomas W. Benson, ed., Landmark Essays in Rhetorical Criticism (Davis, Calif.: Hermagoras Press, 1994), pp. 201-212.

"The Schism in Rhetorical Scholarship." Quarterly Journal of Speech, 67 (February 1981), 1-20. Reprinted in James R. Andrews, ed., The Practice of Rhetorical Criticism (New York: Longman, 1990), pp. 303-323; Martin J. Medhurst, ed., Landmark Essays on American Public Address (Davis, Calif.: Hermagoras Press, 1993), pp. 139-161; and Carl R. Burgchardt, ed., Readings in Rhetorical Criticism (State College, Pa.: Strata Press, 1995), pp. 87-106.

"Coming to Terms with Movement Studies." Central States Communication Journal, 31, (Winter 1980), 255-266. Reprinted in Charles Morris and Stephen H. Browne, eds., Readings in the Rhetoric of Social Protest. (State College, Pa.: Strata Press, 2001), 146-157.

Portents of Rebellion: Rhetoric and Revolution in Philadelphia, 1765-1776. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1976

"Theodore Roosevelt's "The Man with the Muck-Rake": A Reinterpretation." Quarterly Journal of Speech, 59 (December 1973),