University of Louisville Libraries

Communication Studies Guide: Finding Speeches

To find additional sources in the University Libraries, check Minerva (the catalog) and use keywords such as: speeches, addresses, oratory, monologue.

American Leaders Speak (Library of Congress)

"The Nation's Forum 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."

American Rhetoric (Michael E. Eidenmuller)

Indexes and provides full-text of political, religious, historical, and entertainment speeches. Some include audio and/or streaming video.

Commencement Speeches (Yahoo!)

Links to either full-text or audio of college commencement speeches.

Douglass: Archives of American Public Address (Northwestern University)

Douglass is an electronic archive of American oratory and related documents.

Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from around the World (Sweet Briar College)

"Gifts of Speech is dedicated to preserving and creating access to speeches by influential contemporary, women from around the world."

Great American speeches 80 years of political oratory
EKSTROM LIBRARY Media videotapes (2nd floor) Video PS 668 .G7 1997

History and Politics Out Loud (Jerry Goldman & Northwestern University)

"HPOL is a searchable multimedia database documenting and delivering authoritative audio relevant to American history and politics."

Landmark American speeches
EKSTROM LIBRARY reference book stacks PS 662 .L36 2001

Notable speeches in contemporary presidential campaigns
EKSTROM LIBRARY book stacks E838.3 .F75 2002

Ripples of hope : great American civil rights speeches
EKSTROM LIBRARY book stacks E184.A1 R53 2003

Social Justice Speeches Project (Multicultural Pavilion)

Includes the text of speeches by social activists from Jane Adams to Booker T. Washington.

The speeches of famous women
EKSTROM LIBRARY Media videotapes (2nd floor) Video HQ 1236 .S65 1995

Speech Index
EKSTROM LIBRARY reference AI3 .S85

Voices of multicultural America : notable speeches delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native Americans, 1790-1995
EKSTROM LIBRARY book stacks PS 663 .M55 V64 1996