Speeches
Reference Sources
Collections of Speeches, Addresses, etc.
| Call # |
Location |
Author Title |
| 081 A512 |
Main Stacks |
Ravitch, Diane, ed. The American
Reader: Words that Moved a Nation |
| 301.451 F673w |
Main Stacks |
Foner, Philip S. ed. The
Voice of Black America: Major Speeches by Negroes in the United States,
1797-1971. |
| 815.08 R425 |
Main Stacks |
Various Editors.
Representative American Speeches 1957-current. |
| 353.0354 U58p 1994 |
Reference |
Lott, David Newton. The Presidents Speak:
The Inaugural Addresses of the American Presidents, from Washington
to Clinton |
| 808.85 P485t |
Reference |
Peterson, Houston. A Treasury of the World's Great Speeches, Each Speech Prefaced with its Dramatic and Biographical Setting and Placed in its Full Historical Perspective. |
| 808.85 L564 |
Information Desk |
Safire, William. Lend Me
Your Ears: Great Speeches in History. |
| 815.008 V889 1996 |
Reference |
Straub, Deborah Gillan, ed.
Voices of Multicultural America: Notable Speeches Delivered by African,
Asian, Hispanic and Native Americans 1790-1995. |
Indexes
| Call # |
Location |
Author Title |
| 016.808 M681s |
Main Stacks |
Mitchell, Charity. Speech
Index: An Index to 259 Collections of World Famous Orations and Speeches
For Various Occassions. Supplement, 1971-1975. |
| 016.808 S967s 1966 |
Reference |
Sutton, Robert Briggs. Speech
Index: An Index to 259 Collections of World Famous Orations and Speeches
for Various Occassions. |
Critical Information on Speakers and Speeches
| Call # |
Location |
Author Title |
| 305.420922 W872 |
Main Stacks |
Campbell, Karen Kohrs ed. Women
Public Speakers in the United States, 1925-1993: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook. |
Available at the Periodicals Desk:
| Vital Speeches of the Day |
The library has volume 54, 1988 to
present.
(Vital Speeches is published
twice a month and contains important addresses of recognized leaders of
public opinion in fields such as politics, sociology, religion, health
education, business, etc. ) |
Try using these subject headings in the College's catalog:
| Speeches, addresses, etc. |
Orations |
| Speeches, addresses, etc., American |
American Orations |
| Presidents--United States--Inaugural addresses |
Afro-American Orations |
| United States--History--Sources |
Baccalaureate addresses |
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