American Rhetoric: online repository for wide-range of speeches, from politics to movies to sermons.
Vote Smart: website with speeches from current local and national political candidates and officials.
Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents. HathiTrust database of documents from the Office of the Federal Register, 1965-present.
Information on social issues including articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, interactive maps, videos, and streaming audio.
The library owns some speeches on video located in Reserve behind the Circulation desk. To search these videos use the Library Catalog
Example: I need a video of Martin Luther King giving his "I Have a Dream" speech.
- Go to the Library Catalog
- Select Local Catalog
- Select Guided Keyword
- Type I have a dream on the first line
- Select "as a phrase' from the pull-down menu
- Type video on the second line
(a ? is the truncation symbol for the library catalog. In this case, it allows you to
search for words like video, videocassette, videotape, etc.)
- Click on the search button
You can also access The Great Speeches e-Video collection online: https://pepperdine.on.worldcat.org/oclc/911710624
More recent speeches can be found online through:
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