Speeches and Transcripts

Busse Library provides these resources and book titles for students and faculty seeking speeches and transcripts. Many websites feature audio and video clips requiring browser plug-ins. The Busse Virtual Speech and Drama Library is also a valuable resource for this topic. Books listed here are a sampling available in the library and elsewhere.

Speeches

• American Leaders Speak : Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election : American Memory Project
• Audio Online : Historic Speeches -- UC Berkeley Speech Archives
• Douglass : Archives of American Public Address
• Gifts of Speech : Women's Speeches From Around the World : Sweet Briar College
• Great American Speeches : 80 Years of Political Oratory : PBS -- one of the largest online American speech collections
• Great Speeches from History : The History Place
• Historic Audio Archives -- gateway to various collections
• History and Politics Out Loud (HPOL) -- audio collection
• Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States : Bartleby.com
• Papers and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. : The MLK Papers Project : Stanford
• Speeches : HistoryChannel.com
• Speeches and Letters from Malcolm X
• Speeches by the First Lady : Laura Bush

Transcripts

• CNN.com: Transcripts -- two week archives
• Congressional Hearings : U.S. Congress
• Frontline : Transcripts
• International Monetary Fund (IMF): Speeches
• Meet the Press : Transcripts -- last week only
• NPR Online : Search Archives
• The Oyez Project : U.S. Supreme Court : Cases
• Program in Presidential Rhetoric : Speech Communication at Texas A&M
• White House: Presidential News and Speeches

Busse Library Resources

• Andrews, James Robertson. American voices : significant speeches in American history / 1989. E173. A7596 1989
• Johannesen, Richard L. Contemporary American speeches : a source book / c1988. PS668. C6 1988
• Kennedy, Edward Moore. Great speeches / 1985-. Video E 742. G7
• King, Martin Luther, Jr. I have a dream : writings and speeches that changed the world / c1992. E185.97.K5 A25 1992
• Lincoln, Abraham. Speeches and writings, 1832-1858 : speeches, letters / 1989. E457.92 1989
• Safire, William. Lend me your ears : great speeches in history / c1992. PN6122. L4 1992, Ref
• Schechter, Stephen L. Roots of the Republic : American founding documents / 1990. E187. R66 1990
• Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. The speeches of famous women / c1995. Video HQ 1236. S65
• Twain, Mark. Collected tales, sketches, speeches & essays / 1992. PS1303 1992b
• X, Malcolm. Malcolm X speaks : selected speeches and statements / 1990. BP223.Z8 L5798 1990