HCS370 - Rhetorical Criticism

This is one of the most important sources of significant speeches. Published monthly since 1934, the full text of each issue of the publication is available, including 17,000+ speeches. Enter in a second search box a rhetor's name or the keywords for a topic in which you interested.

This two volume print set indexes thousands of speeches that have been published in over 400 book collections, through the year 1980. It is indexed by speaker, genre, and topic. An excellent source for older material. If we don't own the specific book collection you need, it is easily available to borrow through WorldCat.

Database of and index to 5000+ full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two.

The official compilation of presidential papers, based on the Weekly Complilation of Presidential Documents. The years 1991-2010 are now available online. See a librarian for more details concerning early volumes.

The Vanderbilt Television News Archive is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. We have been recording, preserving and providing access to television news broadcasts of the national networks since August 5, 1968. The core collection includes evening news from ABC, CBS, and NBC (since 1968), an hour per day of CNN (since 1995) and Fox News (since 2004).

This is the official source for all presidential documents, including many, many speeches. Online texts are available from 1993 to the present. These documents are then compiled in the Public Papers of the Presidents.