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Author(s): Mark Garrett Longaker
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Year: 2007
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ISBN 10: 0817381392  
ISBN 13: 9780817381394
Author: Mark Garrett Longaker

Contemporary efforts to revitalize the civic mission of higher education in America have revived an age-old republican tradition of teaching students to be responsible citizens, particularly through the study of rhetoric, composition, and oratory. This book examines the political, cultural, economic, and religious agendas that drove the various—and often conflicting—curricula and contrasting visions of what good citizenship entails. Mark Garrett Longaker argues that higher education more than 200 years ago allowed actors with differing political and economic interests to wrestle over the fate of American citizenship. Then, as today, there was widespread agreement that civic training was essential in higher education, but there were also sharp differences in the various visions of what proper republic citizenship entailed and how to prepare for it.

Longaker studies in detail the specific trends in rhetorical education offered at various early institutions—such as Yale, Columbia, Pennsylvania, and William and Mary—with analyses of student lecture notes, classroom activities, disputation exercises, reading lists, lecture outlines, and literary society records. These documents reveal an extraordinary range of economic and philosophical interests and allegiances—agrarian, commercial, spiritual, communal, and belletristic—specific to each institution. The findings challenge and complicate a widely held belief that early-American civic education occurred in a halcyon era of united democratic republicanism. Recognition that there are multiple ways to practice democratic citizenship and to enact democratic discourse, historically as well as today, best serves the goal of civic education, Longaker argues.

Rhetoric and the Republic illuminates an important historical moment in the history of American education and dramatically highlights rhetorical education as a key site in the construction of democracy.

Rhetoric and the Republic Politics Civic Discourse and Education in Early America Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique 1st Table of contents:

1. One Republic, Many Republicanisms: Early American Political Discourse and Publicity
Explores the diverse interpretations of republicanism in early American political discourse and the role of publicity in shaping public opinion.

2. One Republic, Many Paideiai: Political Discourse, Publicity, and Education in Early America
Examines the various educational philosophies (paideia) that influenced civic education and political discourse in early America.

3. Yale 1701–1817
Analyzes the curriculum and educational practices at Yale University from its founding in 1701 through 1817, focusing on the institution’s role in shaping republican ideals.

4. King’s College/Columbia and the College of Philadelphia/University of Pennsylvania, 1754–1800
Investigates the educational approaches at King’s College (now Columbia University) and the College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania) during the late 18th century.

5. The College of New Jersey, 1746–1822
Discusses the development of The College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and its contributions to civic education and republican thought.

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