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Recovering Democracy Archives
The Recovering Democracy Archives mission is to create a digital archive of lesser-known but important public speeches that remain hidden within the vaults of archival depositories or in obscure anthologies and historical publications. RDA is particularly focused on recovering speeches delivered by those challenging barriers that restrict equitable participation in civic life or promote the expansion of civic deliberation.
Voices of Democracy: The U.S. Oratory Project
Voices of Democracy promotes the study of great speeches and public debates in the humanities undergraduate classroom. The project is designed to provide reliable, authenticated primary texts and contextual and interpretive materials under seven deliberative topics: Citizenship, Civil Rights, Freedom of Speech, Religion and Public Life, Social and Economic Justice, U.S. Internationalism, and War and Peace. Voices of Democracy represents a collaborative and interdisciplinary project involving scholars from Baylor University, Penn State University, and the University of Maryland, College Park.
Political Advertising Resource Center (PARC)
The Political Advertising Resource Center is a nonpartisan informational website that analyses the advertisements used in local, state, and national political campaigns. PARC is targeted to high school and university educators and students as well as civic and political organizations, voter education organizations, the news media, and political watchdog groups.
Her Carnival of Dreams
Lauren Vance is a graduate of the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland. During the lecture, Lauren spoke about her career in network news, documentary series, and film making–a career she launched with an internship in Washington, DC with CBS News.
So a Liberal and a Conservative Walk Into a Bar… No Joke: How to Disagree and Stay Friends in America Today
Speakers: Hon. Bradley A. Blakeman and Hon. David Goodfriend
Year of the Woman–2018, Political Ads by Women Challengers
This report was produced by the Political Advertising Resource Center of the Rosenker Center for Political Communication and Civic Leadership at the University of Maryland.
Frederick Douglass: His Voice, His Legacy
The University of Maryland’s College of Arts and Humanities, in sponsorship with the Department of Communication and the Rosenker Center for Political Communication and Civic Leadership, will present “Frederick Douglass: His Voice, His Legacy.”
Rosenker Center Naming Ceremony
Date: November 10, 2017 Location: University of Maryland, College Park