After he had achieved some note as a speaker in political campaigns in the United States, the lecture circuit was a major source of livelihood for Carl Schurz. Here are notes for some of the topics he spoke on.
| Reconstruction II | c. 1865-1866 |
| Reconstruction I | c. 1866 |
| Germany | c. 1866-1870 |
| Germany and France | c. 1872 |
| Business: Public and Private | 1881 |
| Benjamin Franklin | 1884 |
| Abraham Lincoln | c. 1891 |