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General Speech Sources

Vital Speeches of the Day
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.
Speech Index - Ref. AI3 .S85 1966 (2 vols.)
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.
American Rhetoric
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.

Speech Sources in Ship Databases

ProQuest Global Newsstream
One of the most comprehensive news databases in the world, ProQuest Global Newstream includes access to over 3000 news sources, including 2,200 newspapers, as well as blogs, podcasts, websites and news wire feeds worldwide.
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Westlaw
Use Proquest Newspapers or Lexis-Nexis to find the full text of speeches. The New York Times is often a good source for unabridged versions of speeches - it is included from the 1980s to the present in these two databases.
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New York Times: Historical (1851-2018)
Contains the historic contents of The New York Times from 1851-2009, with indexing for 1851-1993.
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Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (H.W. Wilson)
RGR indexes most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States between 1890 and 1982 reflecting the history of 20th century America.
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Films on Demand
The Films on Demand Master Academic Video collection includes 39,000+ documentaries, educational videos, archival news and primary sources, lectures & interviews, as well as some dramatic and feature films. It covers all academic areas across the curriculum.
Accessible from on-campus or off-campus with your ShipID.
Academic Search Ultimate
Academic Search Ultimate is our largest single comprehensive database. It includes records for some 40 million items, with 25+ million immediately available in full-text. It covers all subject areas and includes newspapers and other news sources, general and specialized magazines, and scholarly journals. It is an excellent starting place for most undergraduate research.
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Contents indexed in Ship Library Discovery Search.
Academic Video Online
Academic Video Online (AVON) is our most comprehensive video collection. It includes 85,000+ documentaries, instructional videos, archival newsreels and news stories, and performances, interviews and lectures, and commercial motion pictures (Sony Pictures Classics). This database has large collections of videos in American and world history, business and economics, anthropology, classical music and the performing arts, politics and political science, counseling and therapy, environmental studies, the sciences, and many more fields.

Political Speeches

HeinOnline U.S. Presidential Library

Public Papers of the President
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.
Project Vote Smart
Vanderbilt Television News Archive
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).
Compilation of Presidential Documents
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.

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