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Resources for Speech Students

Speech Websites

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/ (Top 100 speeches and Speech Bank)

http://gos.sbc.edu/ (Women's speeches--worldwide)

http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/previous.htm (Great speeches)

http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/speech.html (Links to speech sites)

http://www.wfu.edu/~louden/Political%20Communication/Class%20Information/SPEECHES.html (Links to political speeches)

http://www.yahoo.com/Education/Graduation/Speeches (American college graduation speeches)

Other Websites

http://www.ipl.org/ (Internet Public Library--type "speeches" in search box)
http://www.youtube.com/ (YouTube--type name or subject and "speeches" in search box)
http://www.google.com/ (Type name or subject and "speeches" in search box)

Periodical Databases (Find speeches in magazines, scholarly journals, and newspapers)

Academic Search Premier (aka Ebsco)—general database, which includes the magazines Vital Speeches of the Day and Essential Speeches (type “speeches” and name or subject in search box)

ProQuest: Search all databases (Type name or subject in search box and choose “Speech/Lecture” in Document Type box)

Books

Representative American Speeches (815.5082 REPRESE) –annual editions for 1943-2003

CC Library Catalog (library.centralia.edu) Type “speeches” in Catalog or in box under Find books, etc.