Speech

Instructor: Joan Takayama-Ogawa

Course Handouts

Preparing a Speech
Lend Me Your Ears: Rhetorical Devices

Links to Speeches Online

ANC Speech Archives: Texts of speeches delivered by African National Congress officials including Nelson Mandela.

C-Span Speech Archive: Campaign 2000 has Presidential and Vice Presidential candidate speeches, interviews, events, etc. viewable on video.

Congressional Testimony: E-Library, one of Otis Library's subscription databases has the text of speeches given before Congress. Search by topic and restrict the search to "transcripts." (Available on campus only or via the Proxy Server.)

Douglass Archives of American Public Address: Excellent archive of American oratory intended to serve general scholarship and courses in American rhetorical history. Searchable and browseable.

Famous Speeches: Patton, Gandhi, Malcolm X, Kennedy, Hitler... They're all here!

History and Politics Out Loud: Searchable archive of political significant audio materials, including "Nixon tapes," Martin Luther King speeches, etc. (from Northwestern University)

History Channel Speech Archives: Searchable archive of historic speeches in the areas of politics, science, and the arts. Selected audio clips are available.

UC Berkeley Lectures and Events: Interesting collection of Audio and Video Recordings from the Online Media Department.

PBS Great American Speeches: 80 Years of Political Oratory: The Speech Archives is one of the most comprehensive on-line collections of speech texts of contemporary American History. Also included are audio samples. NO LONGER AVAILABLE

Presidents: Texts of major speeches by US Presidents.

Top 100 American Speeches of the 20th Century: Compiled by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Texas A & M University, this list reflects the opinions of 137 leading scholars of American public address.

Online Speech Bank: 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, etc.

Women's Speeches from Around the World: Dedicated to preserving and creating access to speeches by influential contemporary, women from around the world.

Links to Quote Sites

Quotations are excellent because they can be imbedded in speeches to give insights, increase pace, and serve as sound bites.

Advertising Quotes
Bartleby.com (includes Bartlett's)
Quotable Quotes (My Quote Box)
Quotable Women
Quotations and Sayings Database
Quotations Archive
Quotations Page
Quoteland.com
Quoteworld.org

Otis Commencement Speeches

Otis Commencement Speeches 2003
Sammy Hoi | Anne Ayres | Mark Salmon