From the 1830s to the 1900s, a circuit of lecture halls known as the lyceum movement flourished across the United States. At its peak, up to a million people a

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Winner of the Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award awarded by the Public Address Division of the National Communication Association The African colonization movement oc

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