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Speeches
 Websites presented in alphabetical order American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election 
 This collection "consists of fifty-nine sound recordings of speeches by American leaders from 1918-1920. The speeches focus on issues and events surrounding the First World War and the subsequent presidential election of 1920. Speakers include: Warren G. Harding, James Cox, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Samuel Gompers, Henry Cabot Lodge, and John J. Pershing. Speeches range from one to five minutes." Searchable and browsable. From the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/nfhtml/ Topics: Government, Nonfiction by Genre, Presidents by Name, The United States Presidency, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Nov 28, 2004 American Rhetoric
Featuring a growing collection of text, audio, and video versions of over 5,000 speeches, this site collects "public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events." Includes sections for Christian rhetoric, movie speeches, "Top 100 Speeches," "Rhetorical Figures in Sound," "Rhetoric of 9-11," and more. Browsable and searchable. Maintained by a speech communication professor. http://www.americanrhetoric.com/ Topics: Communications, Government, Language, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Apr 12, 2009 C-SPAN: State of the Union
Transcripts of U.S. presidential State of the Union addresses as given to a joint session of Congress early each year. Includes transcripts back to Harry S. Truman's address in 1945, and video back to George H.W. Bush's address in 1989, plus a video of Nixon's January, 1974 address. From the National Cable Satellite Corporation. http://www.c-span.org/executive/stateoftheunion.asp Topics: Government Last updated Feb 8, 2006 Castro Speech Data Base
"A database containing the full text of English translations of speeches, interviews, and press conferences by Fidel Castro [from 1959 to 1996], based upon the records of the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), a U.S. government agency responsible for monitoring broadcast and print media in countries throughout the world." Searchable and browsable. From the Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) at the University of Texas at Austin. http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba/castro.html Topics: Government, Heads of State, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Aug 10, 2006 Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches From Around the World
Hundreds of speeches delivered from 1848 to 2001. The site "primarily collects speeches by living women ... [and] is intended for secondary school and undergraduate students." Searchable, and browsable by name and year. From librarian Liz Kent at Sweet Briar College, Virginia. http://gos.sbc.edu/ Topics: Government, Government, Nonfiction by Genre, Women Last updated Feb 28, 2004 Graduation Speeches (Yahoo)
A directory of links to many memorable commencement addresses delivered over the years from such personalities as John F. Kennedy, Oprah Winfrey, Robert Pinsky, Madeleine K. Albright, David Bowie, Bill Clinton, Nora Ephron, George H. W. Bush, and more. Also, there are links to select speeches from high school seniors, whose messages "carry words of wisdom, cherished memories and hope for the future." http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Graduation/Speeches/ Topics: Education, Government, K-12 Education, Nonfiction by Genre, Presidents by Name Last updated Aug 1, 2002 HistoricalVoices.org
Historical Voices is creating "a significant...online database of spoken word collections spanning the 20th century." Galleries lists their eclectic collection of databases and links. Following another goal of the project, there is also research on "sound digitization, system architecture, federated searching, metadata implementations, online delivery, and multimedia education." http://www.historicalvoices.org/ Topics: Government, History, Internet, Libraries & Archives by Type, Music, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Oct 3, 2002 History and Politics Out Loud (HPOL)
Find audio recordings ranging from "formal addresses delivered in public settings to private telephone conversations conducted from the innermost recesses of the White House." Includes speeches by Lyndon B. Johnson to the Warren Commission, John F. Kennedy speaking about the Cuban Missile Crisis, tapes from the Nixon/Watergate scandal, and Bill Clinton's denials of his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Introductions give historical context, and many have transcripts. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with Michigan State University. http://www.hpol.org/ Topics: Government, Nonfiction by Genre, Politics by Place, Presidents by Name Last updated Jun 2, 2005 History.com: Video Gallery
Contains audio and video of speeches, interviews, and events of historical interest. Topics include "This Day in History," the United States, war, science and technology, "Mysteries of History," exploration, world history, and political and historical figures. From the History Channel. http://www.history.com/media.do Topics: Baseball, Government, History, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Feb 9, 2007 John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum: Reference Desk
Online material related to John F. Kennedy, including a biography, major speeches, speeches of his brothers Robert and Edward, sound files, photographs, executive orders, eulogies, a listing of the music played at his funeral, and more. This website comprises "information frequently requested from the library's main research room." Some of the resources are provided by the library, others by links to outside sources. http://www.jfklibrary.org/historical+resources/archives/reference+desk/ Topics: Government, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History, Presidents by Name, The United States Presidency Last updated Nov 18, 2008 Online Audio and Video Recordings: UC Berkeley Lectures and Events
Audio and video of interviews, speeches, lectures, and poetry readings from James Baldwin, Noam Chomsky, Bill Clinton, Michel Foucault, Malcolm X, Robert Frost, and others. From The Teaching Library, University of California, Berkeley. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/audiofiles.html Topics: Government, Internet, Music, Nonfiction by Genre, Poetry, Presidents by Name Last updated Jul 5, 2004 Project Gutenberg: State of the Union Address (1790-2001) by United States Presidents
Full text of this annual address given by the U.S. presidents to a joint session of congress, as delivered by George Washington (1790) through Bill Clinton (2000). Also includes the text of George W. Bush's address from 2002. From the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5050 Topics: Government Last updated Feb 6, 2006 Say It Plain: A Century Of Great African American Speeches
A collection of the audio and transcripts of speeches by famous African Americans. Features speeches by Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Mary McLeod Bethune, Dick Gregory, Fannie Lou Hamer, Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King Jr., Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, Jesse Jackson, Clarence Thomas, and Barack Obama. Also includes audio and transcripts of the accompanying radio documentary and links to related sites. From American RadioWorks. http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/sayitplain/ Topics: Black Resources, Government, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Jul 28, 2005 Speeches on Campus, American University
This site presents an annotated collection of current and past speeches at American University (Washington, D.C.) by celebrities, politicians, and other notables. Includes the text of speeches by Tim Russert (of "Meet the Press" and NBC News), Sen. Daniel Inouye, Judy Woodruff (of CNN), Rabbi David Hartman, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mikhail Gorbachev, Goldie Hawn, and others. http://www.american.edu/media/speakers.htm Topics: Education, Government, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Jun 8, 2005 State of the Union (SOTU)
The site uses an interactive timelime to provides a visual representation of prominent words in presidential State of the Union addresses by displaying significant words as "determined by comparing how frequently the word occurs in the document to how frequently it appears throughout the entire body of SOTU addresses." The "Appendices" section describes the statistical methods used. Also includes the full text of addresses. From an artist who works with computers. http://stateoftheunion.onetwothree.net Topics: Communications, Government Last updated Feb 1, 2007 |
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