Suggested Readings

Bean, Jonathan, ed. Race and Liberty in America: The Essential Reader. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2009.

Brigance, W. Norwood. “Ghostwriting before Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Radio.” Today’s Speech 4 (1956): 10-12.

Dean, John W. Warren G. Harding. New York: Times Books, 2004.

Diener, Jacqulyn M. “President Warren G. Harding’s Birmingham Address.” Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science 43 (1972): 63-77.

Eberly, Keith R. “‘To Thee We Sing’: Racial Politics and the Lincoln Memorial.” OAH Magazine of History 23 (2009): 55-58.

Frantz, Edward O. The Door of Hope: Republican Presidents and the First Southern Strategy, 1877-1933. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011.

Harding, Warren G. President Harding’s Address at the Dedication of the Lincoln Memorial. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1922.

Morello, John A. Selling the President, 1920: Albert D. Lasker, Advertising, and the Election of Warren G. Harding. New York: Praeger, 2001.

Murray, Robert K. The Harding Era. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1969.

Payne, Phillip G. Dead Last: The Public Memory of Warren G. Harding’s Scandalous Legacy. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009.

Pietrusza, David. 1920: The Year of Six Presidents. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2007.

Radosh, Ronald, and Allis Radosh. “Rethinking Warren G. Harding.” The New York Times, August 27, 2015.

Russell, Francis. The Shadow of Blooming Grove. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968.

Sherman, Richard B. The Republican Party and Black America from McKinley to Hoover, 1896-1933. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1973.

Trani, Eugene P., and David L. Wilson. The Presidency of Warren G. Harding. Lawrence: The Regent Press of Kansas, 1977.

Wilson, John F. “Harding’s Rhetoric of Normalcy, 1920-1923.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 48 (1962): 406-411.

Audio-Visual Materials

The Washington Post, Presidential Podcast. “Episode 29: Warren G. Harding.” Produced by Lillian Cunningham. 2018. Podcast.

U.S. National Archives. “Lincoln Memorial Dedication, 1922.” Video Recording. https://youtu.be/DVUbzOk8mCc.

U.S. National Archives. “President Warren G. Harding [1921-1923].” Video Recording. https://youtu.be/KPgBc7-H-Po.

“Warren G. Harding, ‘Return to Normalcy.’” Audio Recording. https://youtu.be/wXETeWS6ub8.

Online Resources

“1921 Presidential Visit.” Bhamwiki, available at https://www.bhamwiki.com/w/1921_Presidential_visit.

Bailey, Greg. “The Presidential Speech on Race Shocked the Nation…in 1921.” Narratively: Hidden History, 2016, available at https://narratively.com/this-presidential-speech-on-race-shocked-the-nation-in-1921/.

Causey, Donna R. “The First Speech Given in the South by a Sitting President which Called for Racial Equality was Given in Birmingham, Alabama in 1921.” Alabama Pioneers, available at https://www.alabamapioneers.com/racial-equality/.

Herr, John. “President Warren G. Harding’s Birmingham Civil Rights Speech: Bold Then, Forgotten Today.” Alabama Newscenter, 2015, available at https://alabamanewscenter.com/2015/10/26/president-warren-g-hardings-birmingham-civil-rights-speech-bold-then-forgotten-today/.

Matthews, Dylan. “Secret Love Child Aside, Warren Harding was a Solid President.” Vox, 2015, available at https://www.vox.com/2014/7/9/5881009/in-defense-of-warren-harding.