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Vital Speeches of the Day
This magazine publishes the full text of important speeches, and is available online via Academic Search Premier from 1934 to present. Click on "Search within this publication" to add keywords to search for speeches on a topic.

Presidential Rhetoric.com
News, information, and resources (including speeches) for those interested in the study of the presidency from a rhetorical perspective.

Say it Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches
Transcripts and audio of selected speeches (Corporation for Public Broadcasting).

Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World
Speeches by influential contemporary women from around the world (Sweet Briar College).

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American Rhetoric
Includes an extensive online speech bank that contains over thousands of speeches in a host of formats (Michael E. Eidenmuller, University of Texas at Tyler).

Castro Speech Database
Latin American Network Information Center (University of Texas at Austin).

State of the Union
Access to all the U.S. Presidents' State of the Union addresses from 1790 to present, including sophisticated tools for textual analysis.

Winston Churchill Centre
Includes texts of selected speeches.