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Scope: Sources for the study of Spanish language and culture.

Books - Audio-Visual- Periodicals - Internet

Clicking on the book links will take you the corresponding bibliographic record in the TNCC online catalog, and show the location and availability of the titles.

Call number areas to browse:
PN4130-4195 Addresses
PN6121-6122 Orations
PS660-668 American speeches and addresses

Keywords to search:
Speech or speeches
Individual speakers last name AND speeches

Subjects to search (Library of Congress):
Clicking on a subject heading will take you to a subject search in the Library catalog.
Speeches, Addresses, etc.
Oratory
Public speaking

SELECTED LIBRARY RESOURCES

VIDEOTAPES

  • Great speeches
    Reserve Videotape.  PN6121 .G73 1985 - Presents speeches by famous speakers each with an introduction detailing the time, place and events surrounding them.

PERIODICAL AND NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

IN THE LIBRARY

ONLINE JOURNALS & INDEXES - Access to the subscription-based resources from off campus is available for TNCC faculty, staff, and registered students through the use of a proxy server. Click the link for instructions. Remote Access

INTERNET RESOURCES

  • Advanced Public Speaking Institute - Over 100 articles on audience, openings, closings, humor, stage fright, etc.
  • Douglass: Archives of American Public Address - From Northwestern University - intended to serve general scholarship and courses in American rhetorical history.
  • Gifts of Speech: Womens Speeches from Around the World - Index of speeches by contemporary women from around the world. Currently contains several hundreds of speeches of about 70 women ranging from: Andrea Dworkin to Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Queen Elizabeth to Rigoberta Menchu, and Janet Reno to Phyllis Schlafly.
  • Great American Speeches: From Booker T. Washington (1895) to Elie Wiesel (1999), this site features great political orations of the past century for students of speech and American History. Speech Archives contains a timeline of 20th-century events and the texts of over 90 speeches, some with background and audio or video. Some parts require Real Player or Shockwave.
  • Great Speeches: History Channel - Contains more than 120 Real Audio speeches ranging from those by heads of state to baseball players.)
  • Online Speech Bank - An indexed database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two. 
  • Repositories of Primary Sources  - Over 5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.
  • State of the State Addresses - Full-text of most of the most recent State of the State addresses given by individual governors. Each speech gives the reader a snapshot of the issues and problems peculiar to that state. Along with each address, is a picture of the current state governor. Produced by the National Governors Association.
  • UCB Speech Archives - From the University of California at Berkeley sound file records at various lectures and events at UCB. Speeches and lectures by Malcolm X, James Baldwin, Aldous Huxley, Margaret Mead and hundreds more. Requires either RealAudio or StreamWorks.
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