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Clifford E. Clark, Jr., Henry Ward Beecher (1978), is a biography. Studies of Beecher as an orator include Lionel George Crocker, Henry Ward Beecher’s Art of Preaching (1934), and Henry Ward Beecher’s Speaking Art (1937); and Halford R. Ryan, Henry Ward Beecher: Peripatetic Preacher (1990). The Tilton episode is discussed in Robert Shaplen, Free Love and Heavenly Sinners (1954).
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Anniversary information added. | Jun 20, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Mar 04, 2026 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Feb 15, 2024 | ||
| Added cross-references throughout. | Aug 30, 2021 | ||
| Invalidated site: The European Graduate School - Biography of Henry Ward Beecher. | Nov 01, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Internet Archive - Biography of Henry Ward Beecher. | Apr 06, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: Ohio History Central - American Anti-Slavery Society. | Jun 27, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Georgetown College - Department of History - The Life of Henry Ward Beecher. | Jun 27, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Lehrman Institute Presents: Mr. Lincoln and New York - Biography of Henry Ward Beecher. | Jun 27, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Ohio History Central - Biography of Henry W. Beecher. | Jun 27, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Internet Archive - Biography of Henry Ward Beecher. | Jun 27, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of Henry Ward Beecher. | Oct 07, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of Henry Ward Beecher. | Oct 07, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: The European Graduate School - Biography of Henry Ward Beecher. | Oct 07, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Newman Library at Baruch College - Biography of Henry Ward Beecher. | Oct 07, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: United States History - Biography of Henry Ward Beecher. | Oct 07, 2011 | ||
| Added photograph. | Mar 18, 2011 | ||
| Article revised. | Jan 29, 1999 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jan 27, 1999 |
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