Subject Guides: Speeches and Addresses: Databases

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Academic Search Ultimate
Try searching the speech-giver or topic of the speech as a subject and limiting by Document Type to Speech. Also includes content from Vital Speeches of the Day from 1934-present, which reprints 8-12 speeches in each issue. Use the Search Within This Publication feature to search this publication.

Peer-reviewed, full-text journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, mathematics, pharmacology, women’s studies, zoology and more.
Nexis Uni
Use to find speeches reprinted in newspapers and magazines. (Most publications are indexed from 1980s to present.) Use the Power Search screen and try limiting news searches by Section, using sections such as Byline, Name, or Person.

Includes full-text access to thousands of news sources in the U.S. and abroad back to the 1970s; articles and data on businesses, corporations, industries and markets in the U.S. and abroad; magazines and trade journals; biographical information and special directories; legal documents, including U.S. Federal and State court cases, and law reviews from the late 18th century to present.
Archives of Sexuality & Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture
Presents important aspects of LGBTQ life in the second half of the twentieth century and beyond. Use the "Advanced Search" and under "Document Type" select Sermon or Speech.

We have access to parts I, II, and III
Chatham House Online Archive
Speeches and transcripts covering from 1920-2008. Particularly useful for foreign policy, trade and politics.

For researchers of international affairs, economics, law, and business, diplomacy, security and terrorism, environment, development, war and peace studies.
NAACP Papers
Covers major speeches delivered by people from the NAACP from 1909 to 1977.
U.S. Declassified Documents Online
This collection is made up of U.S. government documents obtained from presidential libraries. These libraries receive declassified documents from various government agencies, including the White House, the CIA, the FBI, the State Department, and others. Search by keyword or topic and then limit by Document Type to "Speech."

Print Indexes and Sources

Speech index : an index to collections of world famous orations and speeches for various occasion - Bartle Library Reference AI3 .S85 1966
Documents of American History - Bartle Library Reference E173 .C66 1988 (earlier editions in Bartle Library stacks)

Extensive compilation of documents, including speeches, spanning five centuries of American history. Covers a diverse range of speeches, from pre-Revolutionary War resolutions to President Nixon's statement following the 1970 invasion of Cambodia

Tip: Browse FindIt! by Speeches or Oratory as a Subject to find more books.

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