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Speech 100 - Famous Public Speeches and Addresses
This pathfinder is intended to help you locate famous speeches and addresses both in written texts and through the Internet. In the library's catalog, you would search for the author's works by typing last name first, followed by first name or initial with no punctuation.
Keywords for Internet search engines should be placed in quotation marks, e.g., "transcripts of speeches."
Suggested Reference Books
Asian American Voices. REF E184.O6 .A842 1997(Western Campus) Speeches and addresses by Asian-American authors with historical and biographical as well as bibliographical references.
Index to American Women Speakers,1828-1978. REF Z1231.O7 M36 1980 Indexes speeches and addresses of American women authors.
The Presidents Speak: the Inaugural Addresses of the American Presidents, from Washington to Clinton. REF J81 .C62 1994
Speech Index: an Index to 259 collections of World Famous Orations and Speeches for Various Occasions.4th edition. REF AI3 .S85 1966
Speech Index: an Index to Collections of World Famous Orations and Speeches for Various Occasions. 4th edition Supplement. REF AI3 .S85 1966 suppl.
Speeches of the American Presidents. REF J81 .C88 1988. Offers some background historical information.
Voices of Multicultural America: Notable Speeches Delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native Americans, 1790-1995. REF PS663 .M55 V64 1996
The World's Greatest Speeches. REF PN6121 .C54 1973
Suggested Circulating Books
American Public Discourse: a Multicultural Perspective. E184 .A1 A6365 1992 . Specifically relating to social, ethic, and race relations.
Churchill Speaks: Winston S. Churchill in Peace and War: Collected Speeches, 1897-1963. DA566.9 .C5 A582 1980
Early American Orations, 1760-1824. E302.1 .H47 1978
An Historical Anthology of Select British Speeches. PN6122 .H54
Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington 1789 to George Bush 1989. J81 .C89
Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History. PN6122 L4 1992
Negro Orators and Their Orations. PS663 .N4 W6 1969 (Downtown)
The Negro Speaks: the Rhetoric of Contemporary Black Leaders. PS663 .N4 W5 (Downtown) Covers speeches and addresses of Afro-American orators.
The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Speeches. D411 .P46 1994
Representative American Speeches. PS668 .B3 (Downtown)
Representative American Speeches, 1997-1998 . PS668 .B3 1998 (Downtown)
A Treasury of the World’s Greatest Speeches. PN6121 .P4 1965 (Downtown) Each speech prefaced with its dramatic and biographical setting and placed in its full historical perspective.
Touch the Earth: a Self-Portrait of Indian Existence . E77 .M35. Speeches and addresses of Indians of North America.
The World's Great Speeches. PN6121 .C54 1973
Computer Databases
Thompson Gale General OneFile and Factiva (Select Publications Library when in Factiva) (Among others, Vital Speeches of the Day is a most useful periodical for obtaining full-text speeches, and can be accessed through either of these databases.)
Web Pages
The "Douglass" Archives of American Public Address . http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu
Speeches and documents listed chronologically, by issue, alphabetically by speaker, and by title of speech.
Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World. http://gos.sbc.edu
"Speeches by influential contemporary women."
Historic Speeches Index
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/curry/centers/multicultural/sites/
The History Place Great Speeches
http://historyplace.com/speeches
Speeches offered alphabetically by author.
Speech & Transcript Center
http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/speech.htm | 
