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Gifts of Speech -- Women's Speeches from Around the World
http://gos.sbc.edu/
Sweet Briar College maintains this site.  The site can be searched by speaker, by last name of speaker, and chronologically.  The first speech is from 1849 by Lucretia Mott; the last speech is from 1976 by Barbara Jordan.  There is a large selection of women's speeches from all over the world.

The History Place -- Great Speeches Collection
http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/previous.htm#
This site contains the transcripts of many modern speeches by speakers like Susan B. Anthony, Nelson Mandela, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, etc.  A short description of the historical significance of the speech is given.  Some speeches have audio clips.

Presidential Rhetoric.com
http://www.presidentialrhetoric.com/historicspeeches/index.html
This site contains full-text speeches of the Presidents, from George Washington to George Bush.  For instance, the section for Woodrow Wilson's speeches includes his first inaugural, his war message, and his League of Nations speech.

Social Justice Speeches -- EdChange -- Multicultural Pavilion
http://www.sojust.net/speeches.html
This site contains full-text speeches of speakers such as Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, etc.

A Tribute to Barbara Jordan
http://www.elf.net/bjordan/
The Elf Systems Corporation site includes a tribute to Barbara Jordan.  The site contains the full-text speeches of her address to the Judiciary Committee considering the impeachment of Richard Nixon, and her keynote speech at the 1976 Democratic National Convention.

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American Rhetoric
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/
This comprehensive Web site provides free access to a databank of thousands of audio and video files of key American speeches, speeches from films, political addresses, interviews and sermons. The site also contains an extensive directory of links to newspaper, magazines and research tools and a collection of scholarly essays on political rhetoric. The Web site is indexed in SOSIG (Social Science Information Gateway) and in the Scout Project - both indicators that the site is academically sound!

American Rhetoric : Online Speech Bank
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speechbank.htm
Another excellent site maintained by Northwestern State University.  Included are sites with full-text and audio samples; and women and African-American speakers. It is in alphabetical order by site.

History and Politics Out Loud
http://www.hpol.org/
This site is "funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership  with Michigan State University."  It contains 19 speakers including John Kennedy and Martin Luther King.  Audio is included for many of the speakers.

History Channel.com - -Speeches
http://www.history.com/media.do?action=listing&sortBy=1&sortOrder=A&topic=GREAT%20SPEECHES
This site has 120 Real Audio complete speeches and audio clips.  There is a speech for the day and an archive of the other speeches.  African-American and women speakers are included.  Each speech has an explanation of its place in history.

Newer World's Home Page
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/7202/
An incredible site with all types of speech links and reference links.  The site does designate which links have audio.  Included are speakers such as Hillary Clinton. President Clinton, Jesse Jackson, etc.

Books     top
The following books can be located in the Rio Hondo College Library.

Reference Books (2nd floor)
Non-circulating:

American orators of the twentieth century : critical studies and sources
Call number: Ref PN4193.P6A44 1987

Lend me your ears: great speeches in history
Call number: Ref PN6122.L4 1992

The World's best orations
Call number: Ref PN6121.B85 1901a

Suggested Subject Headings
For additional titles on this topic at Rio Hondo, click on the following Library of Congress subject headings:

Speeches, addresses, etc.

Speeches, addresses, etc., American

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Use the box below to search for additional resources in Rio Hondo College Library.

Media     top
The following media can be located in the Rio Hondo College Library, to be viewed in the Library.

Great American speeches : 80 years of political oratory
Call number: Video 000609
Traces the history of visually recorded American oratory and discusses the evolution of how, through technology, politicians appear to the public. Each segment has narrative perspective and visual clips which portray that historical era.

Great speeches. Volume III
Call number: Video 000170
Presents famous speeches, each with an introduction detailing the time, place and events surrounding it.

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The Rio Hondo College Library provides online access to full-text articles through our online databases.  Please note:  you must be a Rio Hondo College student, faculty, staff or board member to use these services.

The sample searches and articles below are from the ProQuest database.  If you are viewing this subject guide from an on-campus computer, simply click on the links below.   To gain access if you are at home or off-campus, first click here: https://rioweb.rh.cc.ca.us/library/.  Input your student ID number and password [your birthdate].  You will see a list of  all the online databases to which you have access.  Click on ProQuest and enter the database.  You may conduct your own searches at this point or come back to this subject guide and click on any of the links below:

SUB(speeches) AND AT(speech)

Researched and evaluated by:
D. Yashar, Librarian 9/1999
last update: D. Yashar, Librarian 5/2008

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