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A
Bella Abzug
Susan B. Anthony
William Apess

B
Ella Baker
Kicking Bear
Albert Beveridge
William Jennings Bryan
George H.W. Bush
George W. Bush
Patrick Buchanan

C
Helen Caldicott
Stokely Carmichael
Cesar Chavez
Shirley Chisholm
Hillary Rodham Clinton
William J. Clinton

D
Clarence Darrow
Dorothy Day

E
Jonathan Edwards
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Edward Everett

F
Louis Farrakhan
Gerald Ford
Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick

G
Bill Gates

H
Fannie Lou Hamer
Frances Watkins Harper
Warren G. Harding
Abraham Joshua Heschel
J. Edgar Hoover

J
Robert H. Jackson
Lyndon B. Johnson
Mary Harris ‘Mother’ Jones

K
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kerry
Robert F. Kennedy
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

L
Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
John L. Lewis
John Lewis
Abraham Lincoln

M
Horace Mann
James McGreevey
Harvey Milk
Clelia Duel Mosher

O
Barack Obama

P
Paul Potter

Q
James Danforth Quayle, III

R
Ronald Reagan
Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt

S
Mario Savio
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Gloria Steinem
Adlai E. Stevenson
Maria W. Miller Stewart

T
Harry S. Truman
Sojourner Truth

V
Mabel Vernon

W
George Wallace
Ida B. Wells
Woodrow Wilson
Victoria C. Woodhull
Frances “Fanny” Wright

Curriculum Units

By Theme

Citizenship & Civic Identity
Civil Rights
Freedom of Speech
Religion & Morality in Public Life
Social & Economic Justice
U.S. Internationalism
War & Peace

By Chronological Period

1700-1899
1900-1940
1941-1960
1961-1980
1981-2000
2001-present

By Speaker

Susan B. Anthony
William Apess
Ella Baker
Kicking Bear
Albert Beveridge
William Jennings Bryan
George H.W. Bush
George W. Bush
Patrick Buchanan
Helen Caldicott
Stokely Carmichael
Cesar Chavez

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By Author

Heather Brook Adams
Karrin Vasby Anderson
Tim Barney
Ashley Barrett
Patricia Bizzell
Jason Edward Black
Diane M. Blair
Denise M. Bostdorff
Maegan Parker Brooks
Kalen M. A. Churcher

Complete List

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Voices of Democracy: The U.S. Oratory Project
Shawn J. Parry-Giles
Department of Communication
2130 Skinner Building
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-7635

301-405-6527
spg@umd.edu

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