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I'm working on a dissertation in rhetoric and poetics,
focusing specifically on the rhetoric of U.S. Reconstruction,
circa 1866, especially the public and congressional debate.
Does anyone know of any work, current or otherwise, on this topic?
I would also appreciate any leads for more promising bulletin boards
than this one for U.S. History, rhetorical history,
rhetoric & poetics, etc.
(No slight intended on present company, of course, but these topics
aren't exactly central here, and people occasionally mention other
bulletin boards, most of which I've never heard of, still being a
tentative electronic traveller.)
Thank you.

Jim Oldham
Rensselaer Polytechnic