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Finding Materials at Randall Library

To search for books, videos, DVDs, CDs, and other library materials, search the catalog, which is located on the upper center section of the library homepage http://library.uncw.edu.

Keyword Search: to perform a "Keyword" search, try the following suggested searches:

speeches
speeches and criticism
speeches or rhetoric
(speech* or rhetoric*) and president*
(speech* or rhetoric*) and america*
(speech* or rhetoric*) and (america* or "united states")"martin luther king" and speech*
(jfk or "john f kennedy") and speech*
"margaret thatcher" and speech*

"civil right*" and (speech* or rhetoric*)
politic* and speech* and criticism

Subject Search: to perform a "Subject" search, try the following suggested searches:

Speeches Addresses Etc

Speeches Addresses Etc American
Speeches Addresses Etc American 20th Century
Speeches Addresses Etc American History And Criticism

Speeches Addresses Etc English
Speeches Addresses Etc English History And Criticism

Orators

African American Orators

Oratory
Oratory Ancient
Oratory King Martin Luther Jr 1929 1968
Oratory Reagan Ronald
Oratory United States History

Selected Print Resources

Reference Collection (Where is the Reference Collection?)

1. American Orators of the Twentieth Century: Critical Studies and Sources
   Call Number: PN4193.P6 A44 1987
   
   
2. Landmark American Speeches
   Call Number: PS662 .L36 (2 volumes)
   
   
3. Speeches of the American Presidents
   Call Number: J81 .C88 1988
   
   
4. We Shall be Heard: an Index to Speeches by American Women, 1978 to 1985
   Call Number: PS408 .M36 1988

General Collection (Where is the General Collection?)

1. Contemporary American Voices: Significant Speeches in American History, 1945-Present
   Call Number: E173 .A786 1992
2. Critical Anthology of Public Speeches
   Call Number: PS662 .C7
3. Great Americans Speak; Short Speeches that have Shaped our Destiny
   Call Number: PS662 .P3 1950
   
   
4. Great Speeches for Criticism and Analysis
   Call Number: PS668 .G74 1998
   
   
5. Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History
   Call Number: PN6122 .L46 1997
   
   
6. Notable Speeches in Contemporary Presidential Campaigns
   Call Number: E838.3 .F75 2002
   
   
7. Ripples of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches
   Call Number: E184.A1 R53 2003
   
   
8. Selected American Speeches on Basic Issues, 1850-1950
   Call Number: E178 .6 .B85
   
   
9. "We Want our Freedom": Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Movement
   E185.61 .W34 2002
   
   
10. Words that Shook the World: 100 Years of Unforgettable Speeches and Events
    Call Number: PN6122 .G75 2002 
    
    
11. The World's Great Speeches
    Call Number: PN6121 .C65 1973

Finding Articles in Magazines, Newspapers, and Journals: In order to find scholarly journal or popular magazine articles, you need to search the online databases or consult print indexes; Randall Library's portal for subscription databases http://library.uncwil.edu/web/research/databases/index.html is linked off of the library homepage.

Recommended Databases for Speech-Related Information:

1. America: History and Life - Citations to articles on U.S. and Canadian history.
   
   
2. Biography & Genealogy Master Index - Index to biographical articles and information.
3. Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) - 50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2000.
4. EBSCOHost - Try clicking on the boxes next to Academic Search, MasterFILE, Newspaper Source, MLA International Bibliography, Communication & Mass Media Complete, and American Humanities Index to search these databases simultaneously. General subject/Humanities subject databases; both full text and citations.
5. Humanities Index - Humanities subject database; primarily citations.
6. JSTOR - Full-text archive of scholarly journals; includes such journals as American Speech.
7. New York Times Archive - Full-text access to the New York Times from 1851 to 2001.

Suggested Searches in the Databases: to perform a search, try the following suggested searches:

"i have a dream"
churchill and speech*
reagan and challenger and speech*
"susan b anthony" and speech*
"sojourner truth" and speech*
"barbara jordan" and (rhetoric* or speech* or orat*)
kennedy and inaugura*
"elizabeth i" and armada
"martin luther king" and (speech* or rhetoric*)
gehrig and (speech* or address*)
"malcolm x" and (speech* or rhetoric*)

Selected Internet Resources

Abraham Lincoln's Speeches and Writings
http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/speeches.htm

American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/nfhtml/nfhome.html

American Rhetoric
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm

The Barbara Jordan National Forum on Public Policy
http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/barbarajordanforum/aboutbj.htm

The Churchill Centre: Speeches
http://winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=389

Douglass: Archives of American Public Address
http://douglassarchives.org/

Feminist.com: Articles and Speeches
http://www.feminist.com/resources/artspeech/

Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World
http://www.giftsofspeech.org/

Great American Speeches: 80 Years of Political Oratory
http://www.pbs.org/greatspeeches/

The History Channel: Great Speeches Archive
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive1.html

"I Do Solemnly Swear...": Presidential Inaugurations
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pihtml/pihome.html

Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States
http://www.bartleby.com/124/

Mandela Speaks: Selected Speeches, Statements and Writings
http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mandela/

Michigan State University Libraries: Vincent Voice Library
http://www.lib.msu.edu/vincent/

MLK Online
http://mlkonline.net/

Ronald Reagan Speech Archive
http://www.townhall.com/hall_of_fame/reagan/speech/

Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century
http://www.news.wisc.edu/misc/view.php?get=speeches/index

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