LibGuides: Finding Speeches: Books

Books at DePauw

Lend Me Your Ears by William Safire (Editor)
Call Number: ONLINE or Roy O. West Library General Collection PN6122 .L4 1997

Publication Date: 2014
Representative American Speeches by Editors vary by year
Call Number: Roy O. West Library General Collection PS668 .B3

Publication Date: Annual publications
Voices of Multicultural America: notable speeches delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native Americans, 1790-1995 by Deborah Gillan Straub (Editor)
Call Number: Roy O. West Library General Collection PS663.M55 V64 1996

Publication Date: 1995
The world's best orations, representing the development of civilization from the earliest times to the present by David J Brewer (David Josiah), 1837-1910,(Editor)
Call Number: Roy O. West Library General Collection PN6121 .B85 1923

Publication Date: 1923
World's Great Speeches by Lewis Copeland (Editor); Lawrence Lamm (Editor)
Call Number: Roy O. West Library General Collection PN6121 .W67 1973

Publication Date: 1972
Transatlantic Rhetoric: Speeches from the American Revolution to the Suffragettes by Tom F. Wright, ed.
Call Number: ONLINE

ISBN: 9781474426275

Publication Date: 2020
So Here I Am: speeches by great women to empower and inspire by Camila Pinheiro(Illustrator)Anna Russell(Editor)
Call Number: ONLINE

Publication Date: 2019
The Will of a People: A Critical Anthology of Great African American Speeches by Richard W. Leeman (Editor); Bernard K. Duffy (Editor)
Call Number: ONLINE

Publication Date: 2012
When They Go Low, We Go High Speeches That Shape the World and Why We Need Them by Philip Collins
Call Number: ONLINE

Publication Date: 2018

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Databases

You can search for recent speeches by using the name or topic of the speech and the word speech.

Academic Search Elite
- Why search here? Great starting point, with something for every subject!
- What's included? Lots of full-text, mostly peer-reviewed and recent, with some older and popular sources.

Periodicals

These periodicals contain the full text of speeches.

Executive Speeches
Presents speeches on broad topic of business.
U.S. Department of Defense Speeches
Provides full-text speeches and remarks by U.S. Department of Defense officials.
Vital Speeches of the Day
Text of speeches on wide range of political topics.

US Government Agencies

Congressional Record
Proceedings and debates of the United States Congress, searchable
Department of Defense
Northern Command
Office of the United States Trade Representative
USAID
USDA
The White House

Videos of Speeches

If you want to find videos of speeches, try searching on YouTube for the speaker or name of the speech.

YouTube

Websites

Most of these websites contain the full text to speeches. A few of them also contain audio speeches or clips.

American Rhetoric
Includes over 5000 speeches, plus over 200 movie speeches.
Famous Speeches in History
Includes presidential, war, civil rights, sports, and space exploration speeches.
U.S. Presidential Speeches
From the University of Virginia's Miller Center. Contains transcripts. Audio and/or video are available for many of the speeches by more recent presidents.
TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
Discover and spread ideas that spark conversation, deepen understanding, and drive meaningful change.
United Nations Digital Library - Speeches
The United Nations Digital Library provides access to individual speeches contained within meeting records of the Principal organs. Speeches since the mid-1980s or earlier, depending on the body, can be searched by country or organization, speaker, document symbol, or topic. Historic data is added regularly.