Research Guides: Learning Community K: Finding speeches

Find speeches

The American Presidency Project - 2012 Presidential Elections
Established in 1999 at the University of California - Santa Barbara, the American Presidency Project includes documents relating to the presidency including inaugural speeches, weekly addresses and campaign speeches.

Explore the left-hand menu for other election years, and visit the home page for more options.
Presidential Speech Archive - Univ. of Virginia
"The Scripps Library, through cooperation with various presidential libraries, has been collecting some of the most important presidential speeches in American history. These speeches all have transcripts, and some are available in their entirety in audio or video."
Presidential Rhetoric
"Devoted to bringing you contemporary information and resources concerning the study of presidential rhetoric," by professors from Baylor and Vanderbilt Universities.

Other ideas for historical / political context

Use the library catalog to try to find a biography of the speaker. You may learn more about the speech or about other things going on at the time the speech was given.

Visit our Special Collections and Archives for primary sources of influential individuals of South Texas.

Keywords that help

To locate speeches, try the following keywords when searching databases:

speeches
oratory
addresses