The Art of Public Speaking: Lessons from the Greatest ...

Topic Professional

Subtopic Communication Skills

The Art of Public Speaking: Lessons from the Greatest Speeches in History

Course Guidebook

Professor John R. Hale

University of Louisville

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John R. Hale, Ph.D. Director of Liberal Studies

University of Louisville

Professor John R. Hale, Director of Liberal Studies at the University of Louisville, is an archaeologist with ?eldwork experience in England, Scandinavia, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, and the Ohio River Valley. At the University of Louisville, Professor Hale teaches introductory courses on archaeology and specialized courses on the Bronze Age, the ancient Greeks, the Roman world, Celtic cultures, Vikings, and nautical and underwater archaeology.

Archaeology has been the focus of Professor Hale's career, from his undergraduate studies at Yale University to his research at the University of Cambridge, where he received his Ph.D. The subject of his dissertation was the Bronze Age ancestry of the Viking longship, a study that involved ?eld surveys of ship designs in prehistoric rock art in southern Norway and Sweden. During more than 30 years of archaeological work, Professor Hale has excavated at a Romano-British town in Lincolnshire, England, as well as at a Roman villa in Portugal; has carried out interdisciplinary studies of ancient oracle sites in Greece and Turkey, including the famed Delphic oracle; and has participated in an undersea search in Greek waters for lost ?eets from the Greek and Persian wars. In addition, Professor Hale is a member of a scienti?c team developing and re?ning a method for dating mortar, concrete, and plaster from ancient buildings--a method that employs radiocarbon analysis with an accelerator mass spectrometer.

Professor Hale published Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy in 2009. In addition, he has published his work in Antiquity, Journal of Roman Archaeology, The Classical Bulletin, and Scienti?c American. Most of Professor Hale's work is interdisciplinary and involves collaborations with geologists, chemists, nuclear physicists, historians, zoologists, botanists, physical anthropologists, geographers, and art historians.

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Professor Hale has deep experience as a public speaker, having given thousands of talks in his career. He has received numerous awards for his distinguished teaching, including the Panhellenic Teacher of the Year Award and the Delphi Center Award. He has toured the United States and Canada as a lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America and has presented lecture series at museums and universities in Finland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. Professor Hale is the instructor of three other Great Courses: Exploring the Roots of Religion, The Greek and Persian Wars, and Classical Archaeology of Ancient Greece and Rome.

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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

Professor Biography ............................................................................i Course Scope.....................................................................................1

LECTURE GUIDES

LECTURE 1 Overcome Obstacles--Demosthenes of Athens ................................2 LECTURE 2 Practice Your Delivery--Patrick Henry ...............................................5 LECTURE 3 Be Yourself--Elizabeth I to Her Army .................................................8 LECTURE 4 Find Your Humorous Voice--Will Rogers ......................................... 11 LECTURE 5 Make It a Story--Marie Curie on Discovery .....................................14 LECTURE 6 Use the Power of Three--Paul to His People ..................................18 LECTURE 7 Build a Logical Case--Susan B. Anthony.........................................22 LECTURE 8 Paint Pictures in Words--Tecumseh on Unity ..................................26 LECTURE 9 Focus on Your Audience--Gandhi on Trial.......................................29 LECTURE 10 Share a Vision--Martin Luther King's Dream...................................32

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