Speech Resources

Speech Resources
An Internet Hotlist on Speech

created by John Koetzner
Mendocino College Library

Introduction
In addition to using books, magazines and research databases to find out speeches, why not also use the power of the Internet? The links below will get you started.

The Internet Resources

Speech Sites

American Rhetoric's Top 100 Speeches -
Gifts of Speech - Women's Speeches from Around the World -
History Channel - Politics & Government Speeches -
History and Politics Out Loud - This site is searchable by date, speaker, or title.
POTUS - Presidents of the United States - This site has speeches by every president from George Washington to George W. Bush.
The White House: Presidential News & Speeches -
Top 100 American speeches of the 20th century - This site list the speeches, but it does not actually give you the text to them or give you links to listen to any of them.

Quotation Sites

Bartelby.com - This site includes Bartlett's Quotations.
The Quotations Home Page -
The Quotations Archive - Quotes are searchable by subject, author, or quote.
The Quotations Page - This web page claims to be the oldest quotation site on the web. It has a similar name to the page above, but it is quite different.

Almanacs

Statistics

Miscellaneous Resources

Barack Obama TV -
C-Span -- State of the Union Speeches -
Dennis Kucinich Audio & Video -
Digital Book Index - (Slower Connection)
Hillary Clinton Videos -
Internet Public Library -
John Edwards Videos -
John McCain's Multimedia site -
Library of Congress -
Mendocino College Hotlists -
Mendocino College Library -
Mike Huckabee Newsroom (with videos) -
Mitt Romney Video -
NetLibrary eBook collection - Access 5,524 eBooks. You must create an account on campus for remote access or else see your instructor for a user name and password. Note: do not check the books out or you lose access to them after 24 hours. It is better to view them. Adobe Acrobat Reader is needed for most eBooks
Pocket Guide to Public Speaking Companion Site -
PoemHunter.com -
Poets.org -
Project Gutenberg - This is a free eBook collection of materials that are now public domain. There are over 15,000 eBooks. There are even audio eBooks in the collection.
Ron Paul Videos -
Rudy Giulani Media site -
U.S. National Archives -
U.S. Supreme Court -

Content by John Koetzner, jkoetzne@mendocino.edu
http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listspeechjo.html
Last revised Mon Apr 14 11:19:50 US/Pacific 2008