• What is Rhetoric?archives definitions of rhetoric from Plato and Aristotle to Booth and Foucault
• Rhetoric and Social Movements provides a brief overview of rhetorical studies of social movements and related books.
• American Rhetoric provides an extensive archive of speeches and information on rhetoric

Rhetoric from Left to Right

• “Changing Partisan Coalitions in Politically Divided Nation… (1994-2023)”
• “Liberals Lecture, Conservatives Communicate” examines almost 400K political speeches to conclude that culturally liberal politicians tend to use more complex language
• “Why Won’t They Listen” summarizes some of Jonathan Haidt’s research on the differences in how liberals and conservatives think about moral issues.
• “The Key to Political Persuasion” draws on such research to examine how to persuade liberals and conservatives.
• “Neural Correlates of Maintaining One’s Political Beliefs in the Face of Counterevidence” examines how both groups resist evidence that challenges their prior assumptions.

The Rhetoric of Donald Trump

• “A Field Guide to Trump’s Dangerous Rhetoric” and “Is Donald Trump a rhetorical master?”
• “The Fact That You’re Going to Die Is Donald Trump’s Biggest Asset, Psychologists Say”
• “Why So Many Americans Continue to Believe in Donald Trump”
• Latest Fact-Checks on Donald Trump from Politifact

Debates

• Political Debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas
• CNN Make or Break Moments in Presidential Debates
• 1960 Kennedy and Nixon Debate with commentary by Walter Cronkite
• 1980 Debate of Reagan and Carter
• 1992 Bush and Clinton Debate
• 2012 Obama and Romney Debate

Social Psychology/Rhetorical Epistemology

• Implicit Association Test on attitudes to women and leadership
• Implicit Association Tests on race, gender and science, religion, physical appearance
• “How Gender Bias Plays a Role in Elections” by Jacqueline Howard, Huffington Post (11/12/15)

Inaugural Addresses

• The First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
• The First Inaugural Address of Theodore Roosevelt (1905)
• The First Inaugural Address of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933)
• The Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy (1961)
• The First Inaugural Address of Ronald Reagan (1981)
• Comparing Millennials to Other Generations | Pew Research Center
• Generation Gap at the Polls Is Echoed in Attitudes on Budget Tradeoffs | Pew Research Center
• Generation X: America’s neglected ‘middle child’ | Pew Research Center
• How to Fix Washington: Elect Generation X – POLITICO Magazine
• Generations and Partisanship | Pew Research Center