Debate Index
Reading edition
Books Indexed
Alden, Raymond Macdonald.808.5 A35
*Art of debate. 1900.
Bibliography, p. 8.
The same. 1900.r 808.5 A35
Based largely on material originally prepared for students of argumentation at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania.
Askew, John Bertram.r 028 A83
Pros and cons; a newspaper reader's and debater's guide to the leading controversies of the day, political, social, religious, etc.; ed. by A.M. Hyamson. 1906.
The same; rewritten and enlarged by W.T.S. Sonnenschein. [1911.]r 028 A83a
Arranged in dictionary form, giving concisely the opposing arguments on each question. The edition of 1911 contains briefs on more than 20 new subjects, while a number of topics no longer of living interest have been dropped.
Brookings, Walter DuBois, & Ringwalt, R.C. ed.028 B77
*Briefs for debate on current political, economic and social topics. 1906.
"Bibliography of debating," by A.B. Hart, p. 41-47.
The same. 1896.r 028 B77
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.
Debates. 3v.
Type-written book of references.
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.
Reference lists.
Manuscript lists.
Craig, Asa H.028 C86
*Pros and cons; complete debates, important questions fully discussed in the affirmative and the negative, with by-laws and parliamentary rules for conducting debating societies, and with a list of interesting topics for debate. 1897.
The same.r 028 C86
Debaters' handbook series.
†no. 1. Beman, L.T. comp. Selected articles on the compulsory arbitration of industrial disputes. 1911.r 331.3 B42
no. 2. Bullock, E.D. comp. Selected articles on child labor. 1911.r 331.3 B87
no. 3. Bullock, E.D. comp. Selected articles on the employment of women. 1911.r 331.4 B87
no. 4. Fanning, C.E. comp. Selected articles on capital punishment. 1909.r 343.2 F21
no. 5. Fanning, C.E. comp. Selected articles on direct primaries. 1911.r 324 F21
no. 6. Fanning, C.E. comp. Selected articles on the election of United States senators. 1909.r 324 F21s
no. 7. Fanning, C.E. comp. Selected articles on the enlargement of the United States navy. 1910.r 359 F21a
no. 8. Morgan, J.E. & Bullock, E.D. comp. Selected articles on municipal ownership. 1911.r 352 M89
no. 9. Phelps, E.M. comp. Selected articles on federal control of interstate corporations. 1911.r 351.8 P48
no. 10. Phelps, E.M. comp. Selected articles on the income tax. 1911.r 336.2 P48
no. 11. Phelps, E.M. comp. Selected articles on the initiative and referendum. 1911.r 321.8 P48
no. 12. Phelps, E.M. comp. Selected articles on the parcels post. 1911.r 383 P48
no. 13. Phelps, E.M. comp. Selected articles on woman suffrage. 1910.r 324.3 P48
no. 14. Robbins, E.C. comp. Selected articles on a central bank of the United States. 1910.r 332.11 R53
no. 15. Robbins, E.C. comp. Selected articles on the commission plan of municipal government. 1909.r 352 R53
no. 16. Robbins, E.C. comp. Selected articles on the open versus closed shop. 1911.r 331.88 R53
Duplicate copies of this series may be borrowed for home use from the Lending Department.
Denney, Joseph Villiers, and others.808.5 D43
Argumentation and debate. 1910.
The same.r 808.5 D43
Presents briefly and clearly the theory of argumentation and furnishes a sufficient number of complete debates for a thorough course in analysis and briefing. The selections are taken from great debates on critical issues of American history, politics and law.
Foster, William Trufant.808.5 F81
*Argumentation and debating. 1908.
The same. 1908.r 808.5 F81
One of the most satisfactory books in this field. It is not an academic formulation of principles, but an inside view of the art presented by one conversant with all its difficulties and delights. A copious appendix gives specimens of analysis, briefs, material for briefing, a forensic, and a complete specimen debate, a model for instruction to judges and for the formation of a debating league, together with 275 debatable propositions. Condensed from Nation, 1908.
Gibson, Laurence M.r 028 G37
*Handbook for literary and debating societies. 1898.
The same. 1909.r 028 G37a
Matson, Henry.r 028 M47
References for literary workers. 1893.
Pattee, George Kynett.808.5 P31
*Practical argumentation. 1909.
The same.r 808.5 P31
Aims to restore argumentation to its proper rank as a form of English composition. Includes a number of suggestions on debating.
Pearson, Paul Martin, ed.028 P35
*Intercollegiate debates; briefs and reports of many intercollegiate debates: Harvard-Yale-Princeton, Brown-Dartmouth-Williams, Michigan-Northwestern-Chicago, Indiana-Illinois-Ohio, and many others, with an introduction. 1909.
The same.r 028 P35
Ringwalt, Ralph Curtis.028 R47
Briefs on public questions, with selected lists of references. 1906.
The same. 1905.r 028 R47
Series of argumentative briefs and lists of references on 25 important public
questions of the day, political, sociological and economic.
Robbins Edwin Clyde, comp.028 R53
High school debate book. 1911.
The same. 1911.r 028 R53
Rowton, Frederic.r 028 R81
*How to conduct a debate; a series of complete debates, outlines of debates and questions for discussion, with references to the best sources of information on each particular topic; revised by W. Taylor.
Speaker [quarterly]. v. 1-v. 7, no. 4. (Whole no. 1-28.) 1905-12.808.8 S741
Thomas, Ralph Wilmer.808.5 T37
*Manual of debate. 1910.
The same. 1910.r 808.5 T37
Wisconsin University—Department of debating and public discussion.r 378.1 W81
Bulletin, March 1908-Nov. 1911. 1908-11.
Issued irregularly.
Included in the Bulletins of the University Extension Division.
* Contains list of propositions for debate.
† These numbers have been assigned arbitrarily for convenience in reference.