Links Page
American Memory Collection
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/mdbquery.html
This is a searchable database of audio and video files from the
Library of Congress.
Douglass Archives of American Public Address
http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu/
Named for Frederick Douglass, this site is an anthology of speech
texts from American rhetorical history. The page is sponsored
by the School of Speech at Northwestern University.
History Channel Archive of Speeches http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/index.html
A speech is highlighted daily. In addition, check out the archive
of RealAudio files.
Historic Documents of the United States http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html
Find many speeches among the documents on this page from the University
of Kansas.
History Outloud
http://www.hpol.org
The History Outloud archive is at Oyez from Northwestern University.
It includes RealAudio files and texts of speeches.
The History Place
http://www.historyplace.com/index.html
You can search for texts and find some audio files in .wav format.
U. S. Senate Historical Office http://www.senate.gov/learning/learn_history.html
The historian of the Senate is compiling biographies of all past
U.S. Senators. A special feature is a section on the "Famous
Five," the orators Webster, Calhoun, Clay, LaFollette and
Robert Taft.
WebCorp Historical Speeches Archive
http://www.webcorp.com/sounds
Sound bites from speeches since 1930's on a variety of topics.
There is also a video collection from the Nixon era and the Watergate
scandal. Some sound offerings are available in RealAudio.
For bookings contact Erick Rainey at bookings@rainworks.co.uk