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- American Rhetoric
- Database of over 5000 full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches and other recorded media events.
- Commencement Speeches
- Selected commencement speeches from 1936 to 2006 from a variety of celebrities, polititians, academics, and other professions.
- Digital History
- Covers all periods of U. S. history. Includes recorded speeches, film trailers, historic music, images, primary sources, textbooks, and other resources.
- Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World
- "Gifts of Speech is dedicated to preserving and creating access to speeches by influential contemporary, women from around the world."
- Miller Center : Presidential Speeches
- A growing collection of presidential speeches. Early speeches are in transcript form, more recent speeches include both audio and text.
- Museum of Broadcast Communication
- "The MBC's Media Archives contains over: 15,000 Television Programs,
4,000 Radio Programs, 11,000 Television Commercials, and 6,000 Chicago Newscasts."
- Graduation Speeches
- Directory of speeches given by famous (and not famous) personalities .
- History and Politics Out Loud
- "HPOL is a searchable multimedia database documenting and delivering authoritative audio relevant to American history and politics." Most speeches are from the 1960s and 1970s. Not all items are speeches. Some audio is available.
- History Chanel Speeches
- Speeches on a variety of subjects from politics and government to arts and entertainment.
- John F. Kennedy Libary and Museum: The Reference Desk
- Includes speeches by President Kennedy as well as his brothers Robert and Edward (Teddy). Not all the links are to speeches. Some audio is provided.
- Say It Plain
- Audio recordings of great African-American speeches from Booker T. Washington to Shirley Chisholm.
World War II: FDR's Fireside Chats
October, 2012
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