Contents
Preface | Kathleen J. Turner
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Doing and Reframing of Rhetorical History | Jason Edward Black
Part I. Digital Humanities and Culture
1. #leelah alcorn: Trans*-ing Rhetorical History in the Digital Humanities Lab | Joe Edward Hatfield
2. Rhetorical History, the Public Humanities, and the Exoduster Movement | Shawn J. Parry-Giles and J. Michael Hogan
3. Martin Luther King Jr. in East Berlin: Prophetic History and the Convergence of Codes from the Sermonic to the King-Code | Christopher J. Oldenburg and Adrienne E. Hacker Daniels
4. Visually Based Rhetorical History: The Sola Vidēre Principle in Christian Nationalist Videos | Philip Perdue
Part II. Identities, Cultures, and Archives
5. Doing Rhetorical History with Ralph Ellison: Meta-Archival Meditations on the Present, via the Past | Bryan Crable
6. Negotiating Public Scientific Regulatory Controversies: Dr. Frances O. Kelsey’s Productive Postponement of Thalidomide in the United States | Madison A. Krall
7. “To Wake Up the Latent Powers”: The Rhetoric of Henry McNeal Turner and the Legacy of the Israel AME Lyceum | Andre E. Johnson
8. Crucial Intersections: Public Memories and/as Rhetorical History | Roseann M. Mandziuk
Part III. Approaches to Nationalism and Transnationalism
9. Decolonizing Rhetorical History | Matthew deTar
10. Forgetting or Remembering the Nation? Amnesic Rhetoric and Circulation of the Past | Chandra A. Maldonado
11. The Greatest Hero of the Great War: Alvin C. York as a Rhetorical Construction | Daniel P. Overton
12. Writing the Sovereign Citizen in Cold War Era Expatriation Law: A Rhetorical History of Yaser Hamdi’s Settlement Agreement (2004) | Margaret Franz
13. The Frankfurt Anecdote and Rhetorical History: Toward a Method for Reading National Security Archives | Andrew D. Barnes
Part IV. Metahistories and Pedagogies
14. Reading the Logos in Hebrew: A Provocation for Rethinking through Rhetorical History | Lisbeth A. Lipari
15. A Rhetorical History of Southern Rhetoric | Christina L. Moss
16. Knowledge, Rhetorical History, and Undergraduate Scholars: Reimagining Liberal Education | Sean Patrick O’Rourke and Melody Lehn
Works Cited
Contributors
Index