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. 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 Advanced Search
- Select Keyword from the Search Index pull-down menu
- Type "I have a dream" on the first line (Include the quotation marks so the exact phrase will be searched)
- Scroll down to the Format pull-down menu and select Video
- Click on the search button
You can also access The Great Speeches: The Presidents at Payson Library, and The Great Speeches video collection through Interlibrary Loan.
More recent speeches can be found online through:
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