Books

W. Stuart Towns has published the following books about Southern Oratory:

• Oratory and Rhetoric in the Nineteenth-Century South: A Rhetoric of Defense. Praeger 1998

• Public Address in the Twentieth-Century South: The Evolution of a Region. Praeger. 1999

• “We Want Our Freedom”: Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Movement. Praeger. 2002

• Enduring Legacy: Rhetoric and Ritual of the Lost Cause. University of Alabama Press. 2012

• Arkansas Civil War Heritage: A Legacy of Honor.  The History Press. 2013.