Locating Speeches at BSC
Summer 2005
A selected bibliography of speeches in the BSC Library collection appears below, with call numbers included.
You can use the
Library Online Catalog
to find additional books of speeches in the BSC Library.
To find speeches in our book collection, type in SPEECHES and click on SUBJECT.
To find collections of speeches, type in COLLECT$ AND SPEECHES and click on SEARCH EVERYTHING.
To find speeches by a particular individual, type in the person's name and SPEECHES and click on SEARCH EVERYTHING.
To find speech criticism type in SPEECHES AND CRITICISM and click on SUBJECT.
The following websites also offer compilations of speeches:
American Rhetoric Online Speech Bank. http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speechbank.htm
Archives of American Public Address online. http://douglassarchives.org
Earliest Voices. http://www.historicalvoices.org/earliest_voices/
Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from around the World. http://gos.sbc.edu
History and Politics Out Loud. http://www.hpol.org
History Channel: Speeches. http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/speeches.html
Presidents of the United States (POTUS) - see under historical documents and media resources. http://www.ipl.org/div/potus
Public Papers of the Presidents - speeches and more, 1992 - present. http://www.gpoaccess.gov/pubpapers/search.html
Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (1993 - present). http://www.gpoaccess.gov/wcomp
World's Famous Orations (from antiquity to the present). http://www.bartleby.com/268/
Vital Speeches of the Day - see fulltext of vibrant speeches from 1934 - present, via MasterFILE Premier Database
Select Bibliography: Books of Speeches in the BSC Library
PS662 .W7 (1960)
American Forum: Speeches on Historic Issues, 1788-1900, edited by Ernest J.
Wrage [and] Barnet Baskerville.
Wrage, Ernest J.
E302.1 .A5 1887 (1887)
American Oratory; or Selections from the Speeches of Eminent Americans [1775-1826]
Compiled by a member of the Philadelphia bar.
PS662 .B27 (1956)
American Public Addresses, 1740-1952
Baird, Albert Craig, 1883-
PS408 .R4 (1961)
American Public Address; Studies in Honor of Albert Craig Baird
Reid, Loren Dudley, 1905-
PN6122 .P3 (1954)
American Speeches [edited by] Wayland Maxfield Parrish and Marie Hochmuth.
Parrish, Wayland Maxfield, 1887-
PA3869 .A3 1998
Antiphon & Andocides.
Gagarin, Michael, and Douglas M. MacDowell (translators).
E438 .A57 (1963)
Antislavery and Disunion, 1858-1861; Studies in the Rhetoric of Compromise and
Conflict. Prepared under the auspices of the Speech Association of America.
Auer, J. Jeffery, editor.
PS662 .A73 1945 (1945)
Are You an American?
PN4121 .S6 (1947)
Are You Telling Them? How to Converse Well and Make Speeches.
Sondel, Bess Seltzer, 1894-
DB2238 .H38 A5 1997
The Art of the Impossible: Politics as Morality in Practice: Speeches and
Writings, 1990-1996 by Vaclav Havel.
Havel, Vaclav.
PA3263 .J4 1962 VOL.1-2 (1962)
The Attic orators from Antiphon to Isaeos.
Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir
PN6122 .A85 2001
Available means: an anthology of women's rhetoric(s).
Ritchie, Joy, and Kate Ronald (Eds.)
E742 .D6 (1948)
Being an American. [Speeches]
Douglas, William O.,
D742 .G7 C5 1941A
Blood, Sweat, and Tears.
Churchill, Winston, Sir
PR1322 .F7 1912 (1912)
British and American Eloquence
by Robert Irving Fulton and Thomas Clarkson Trueblood.
DA506 .B85 1949
Burke's Politics; Selected Writings and Speeches on Reform, Revolution and War.
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
BR563 .N4 C35 1997
Can I Get a Witness?: Prophetic Religious Voices of African American Women:
an anthology edited by Marcia Y. Riggs.
PN6121 .O5 (1921)
Classified Models of Speech Composition; Ninety-five Complete Speeches, compiled
by James Milton O'Neill.
O'Neill, James Milton, 1881-
PN4305 .C7 D3 1898
Commencement Parts: Valedictories, Salutatories, Orations, Essays, Class Poems, Ivy Orations, Toasts; also Original Speeches and Addresses for the
National Holidays and Other Occasions.
Davis, Harry Cassell.
PS668 .L5 1978
Contemporary American Speeches: A Sourcebook of Speech Forms and Principles
Linkugel, Wil A., R. R. Allen, Richard L. Johannesen.
PS668 .W7 (1962)
Contemporary Forum; American Speeches on Twentieth-Century Issues
Wrage, Ernest J. (Ed.)
E806 .W215 (1944)
Democracy Reborn
Wallace, Henry Agard, 1888-1965.
LC2851 .M72 M385 2002
Dr. Benjamin E. Mays Speaks: Representative Speeches of a Great American
Orator.
Mays, Benjamin E., 1894-1984.
PN4121 .Y4 (1940)
Effective Speaking for Every Occasion
Yeager, Willard Hayes, 1897-
E664 .R7 J5 VOL.1-2
(1938)
Elihu Root
Jessup, Philip C., 1897-
Q171 .B957 (1946)
Endless Horizons
Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974.
PR901 .G6 1963
Essays from Select British Eloquence. Edited by A. Craig Baird.
Goodrich, Chauncey Allen, 1790-1860.
PS662 .C3 (1963)
Famous Speeches in American History
Capp, Glenn Richard.
E449 .D734 (1999)
Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings / edited by Philip S.
Foner
Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895.
PS663 .W65 F76 2003
From megaphones to microphones : speeches of American women, 1920-1960
Sarkela, Sandra J., 1949-
DS778 .C53 C52 (1929)
General Chiang Kai-shek: The Builder of New China
Ch**en, Tsung-hsi.
PS662 .P3 1951
Great Americans Speak; Short Speeches That Have Shaped Our Destiny. To which
have been added an address by Douglas MacArthur before a joint session of
Congress, the Declaration of independence, Constitution of the United States,
and the amendments to the Constitution.
Packard, Frederick Clifton, 1899-
Media-Dept PS668 .G7 1995 v. 1-2 Video
Great American Speeches [videorecording]: 80 Years of Political Oratory
/ written and produced by Parker Payson. [Alexandria, VA]: Pieri & Spring
Productions, 1995.
E173 .M64 V. 1-14 (1913)
Great Debates in American History: From the Debates in the British Parliament on
the Colonial Stamp Act (1764-1765) to the Debates in Congress at the Close of
the Taft Administration (1912-1913) / edited by Marion Mills Miller.
PS400 .S66 VOL.1-3 (1943)
A History and Criticism of American Public Address
Speech Association of America.
PS400 .S5 (1928)
History of American Oratory
Shaw, Warren Choate, 1887-
PS400 .O4 (1965)
History of Public Speaking in America
Oliver, Robert Tarbell, 1909-
PS3537 .A618 H6 (1943)
Home Front Memo
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967.
PN6122 .L9 (1953)
I Am Happy to Present; A Book of Introduction, compiled by Guy R. Lyle and
Kevin Guinagh.
Lyle, Guy Redvers, 1907-
PS661 .I53
(1999)
In Our Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century
Torricelli, Robert G. and Andrew Carroll (Eds.)
PS400 .M36 (1980)
Index to American Women Speakers, 1828-1978
Manning, Beverley, 1942-
E467.1 .D26 D26 VOL.1-10
(1923)
Jefferson Davis, Constitutionalist, His Letters, Papers, and Speeches.
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889.
PN6122 .L4 1992 (1992)
Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in history / selected and introduced by
William Safire.
Safire, William (Ed.)
E757 .A4 2004
Letters and speeches
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
PN6121 .L6 1902
The Library of oratory, ancient and modern, with critical studies of the
world's great orators by eminent essayists
Dole, Nathan Haskell, 1852-1935.
E457 .H86 (1938)
Life of Abraham Lincoln [from the] Lives and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln
and Hannibal Hamlin
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920.
E 185.18 .L54 1998
Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787 - 1900
Foner, Philip Sheldon.
HQ1154 .C28 1989 VOL.1-2 (1989)
Man Cannot Speak for Her
Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs.
Media Dept. KF4770 .M35 1997
Cassettes
May it Please the Court: The First Amendment, live recordings and
transcripts of the oral arguments made before the Supreme Court in sixteen key
First Amendment cases [sound recording] 4 cassettes
PA3611 .A93 1960 VOL.1-2 (1960)
Minor Attic Orators
PN6121 .M6 V. 1-15 (1901)
Modern Eloquence
Reed, Thomas B. (Ed.)
PN6122 .L5 1930 (1930)
Modern speeches / compiled by Homer D. Lindgren.
Lindgren, Homer Dorr.
810.82 H523M (1949)
JUVENILE
My American Heritage, A Collection of Songs, Poems, Speeches, Sayings and Other
Writings Dear to Our Hearts
Henry, Ralph B.
DD247 .H5 A632 (1941)
My New Order
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
PS407 .T69 1998
Oratory and Rhetoric in the Nineteenth-Century South: A Rhetoric of Defense.
W. Stuart Towns.
PS407 .O7 (1970)
Oratory in the Old South, 1828-1860. Prepared under the auspices of the
Speech Association of America.
Edited by Waldo W. Braden, with the assistance of J. Jeffery Auer and Bert E.
Bradley.
PA3263 .L41 1963 VOL.1 (1963)
Orationis Ratio; The Stylistic Theories and Practice of the Roman Orators,
Historians and Philosophers
Leeman, A. D. (Anton Daniel)
E337.8 .E92 (1836)
Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions
Everett, Edward, 1794-1865.
PN6121 .W62 VOL.1-2 (1900)
Orations of American Orators; Including Biographical and Critical Sketches,
with a special introduction by Julian Hawthorne.
PN6121 .W64 1900 VOL.1-2 (1900)
Orations of British Orators; Including Biographical and Critical Sketches,
with a special introduction by Julian Hawthorne.
PA3951 .L411 1900
Orations of Demosthenes Pronounced to Excite the Athenians against Philip, King
of Macedon; and on Occasions of Public Deliberation; with introductions by
the translator, Thomas Leland, D.D., and a special introduction by Epiphanius
Wilson.
Demosthenes.
PN6121 .P38 1992
The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Speeches
MacArthur, Brian (Ed.).
E660 .C725 (1924)
The Price of Freedom; Speeches and Addresses
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933
HC256.4 .M63 1944 (1944)
Prospects and policies
Morrison, Herbert Stanley, 1888-
F215 .T686 1999
Public Address in the Twentieth-Century South: The Evolution of a Region
W. Stuart Towns
Gov Doc AE 2.114:(1929 - present)
Public Papers of the Presidents. Washington:
National Archives & Records Service.
TK6570 .B7 L3 (1932)
Radio Speech [by] Sherman Paxton Lawton, with an introduction by William
Phillips Sanford, and remarks on radio and mass communication by Henry Adams
Bellows.
Lawton, Sherman Paxton.
PS668 .R4 (1939-1940 through the present)
Representative American Speeches.
E840.8 .K4 1993
RFK : collected speeches
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.
PS663 .N4 S6 (1969)
Rhetoric of Black Revolution [by] Arthur L. Smith
Asante, Molefi K., 1942-
E185.6 .H52 (1964)
Rhetoric of racial revolt
Hill, Roy L.
E185.97 .K5 S866 2004
Ring out freedom! : the voice of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the making of
the civil rights movement
Sunnemark, Fredrik
E184 .A1 R53 2003
Ripples of hope : great American civil rights speeches
Josh Gottheimer (Ed.).
E449 .H299 2004
The rise of aggressive abolitionism : addresses to the slaves
Harrold, Stanley.
E660 .R883 VOL.1-3 (1919 )
The Roosevelt Policy: Speeches, Letters and State Papers, Relating to Corporate
Wealth and Closely Allied Topics
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
E178.6 .B85 (1960)
Selected American Speeches on Basic Issues, 1850-1950
Brandt, Carl G. (Ed.)
PN6122 .H35 (1924)
Selected Orations, a Collection of One Hundred Choice Speeches and Selections,
edited and arranged by Albert Mason Harris.
Harris, Albert Mason, 1868-
PN4305 .O4 W3 (1956)
Speakers' Illustrations for Special Days
Wallis, Charles Langworthy, 1921-
HC106.3 .F48 (1939)
Speaking of Change
Filene, E. A. (Edward Albert), 1860-1937
AI3 .S85 1966 (1966)
AI3 .S85 SUPPL.1966-1980
Speech Index: An Index to 259 Collections of World Famous Orations and Speeches
for Various Occasions
Sutton, Roberta Briggs
E211 .B97 1904 (1904)
Speech on Conciliation with America, by Edmund Burke; ed. by William
Macdonald
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Wood Room J87 .A22 1950 (1950)
Speeches, 1947-1950
Folsom, James Elisha
DA566.9 .G8 A7
Speeches on Foreign Affairs, 1904-1914
Grey of Fallodon, Edward Grey, Viscount, 1862-1933
E660 .D51 (1914)
Speeches and Addresses on the Threshold of Eighty
Depew, Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell), 1834-1928
PS3537 .I85 T4 (1939)
Telling the World
Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968
E457.92 2002
This Fiery Trial: The Speeches and Writings of Abraham Lincoln. Edited by
William E. Gienapp.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1965
E806 .W47 (1940)
This is Wendell Willkie; A Collection of Speeches and Writings on Present-Day
Issues
Willkie, Wendell L., 1892-1944
KF8745 .M34 A4 2001
Thurgood Marshall: his speeches, writings, arguments, opinions, and
reminiscences..
Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993.
PN4305 .O4 F7 (1960)
Toastmaster's Treasury; A Complete Guide for the Toastmaster, Master of
Ceremonies, and Program Chairman
Friedman, Edward L.
PS662 .H8 (1959)
A Treasury of Great American Speeches; Our Country's Life and History in the
Words of Its Great Men, with illustrations from various historical periods
Hurd, Charles, 1903-1968
D742 .G7 C5593
(1946)
Victory; War Speeches
Churchill, Winston, Sir, 1874-1965
PERIODICAL
Vital Speeches of the Day. 1939-
Full text in EBSCOhost and SearchBank 1994-
D411 .V6 1941-1943
Voices of History. New York : Franklin Watts, Inc., [c1942]
PS663 .M55 V64 1996
Voices of Multicultural America: Notable Speeches Delivered by African, Asian,
Hispanic, and Native Americans, 1790-1995 / Deborah G Straub, editor.
PS408 .M37 1988
We Shall Be Heard: An Index to Speeches by American Women, 1978 to 1985 / by
Beverley Manning.
Manning, Beverley, 1942-
PS663 .N4 W5 1995
With Pen and Voice: A Critical Anthology of Nineteenth-Century African-American
Women / edited ... by Shirley Wilson Logan. Carbondale: Southern Illinois
University Press, 1995
PN6122 .G75 2002 (Book + CD-ROM in Media Dept.)
Words that shook the world : 100 years of unforgettable speeches and events /
Richard Greene
Greene, Richard, 1954-
PN6121 .B85 1901A VOL.1-5 (1970)
The World's Best Orations. David J. Brewer: editor. Edward A. Allen &
William Schuyler: associate editors.
PN6121 .B88 V. 1-10 (1906)
The World's Famous Orations. William Jennings Bryan, editor-in-chief;
Francis W. Halsey, associate editor
Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925.
PN6121 .C65 1973 (1973)
The World's Great Speeches. Edited by Lewis Copeland and Lawrence W. Lamm.
Copeland, Lewis.
Media Dept. PN6121 .W6 1995 CD-ROM
World's Greatest Speeches computer file. Irvine, CA: Softbit, Inc., [1995?]
HX84 .D3 A313 (1948)
Writings and Speeches of Eugene V. Debs
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926.
PN4121 .B783 (1947)
You and Your Speeches
Buehler, Ezra Christian, 1894-
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