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Addresses and Speeches: Indexes and Sources

This section includes bibliographies that index addresses and speeches given by major figures, as well as sources that cover biographical information on major orators. If the sources in this section do not include references to the specific address or speech you are seeking, try looking in an index or database not listed here. For help or search suggestions, ask a librarian.

Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost), early 1970's-present.
ONLINE URL: http://search.epnet.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=aph

This database provides indexing/abstracts to over 4360 scholarly journals, popular magazines, and journals of commentary, including full text access to more than 3,430 of those publications/journals covering a wide variety of academic areas of study. To find speeches in magazines and journals using this database, do an advanced search designating the individual giving the speech as the author and identifying the subject as a speech using the database subject heading "speeches, addresses, etc."

A sample search on speeches by George W. Bush would be: au bush george w and su speeches addresses etc

This database is updated on a daily basis.

Duffy, Bernard K. and Ryan, Halford R., editors. American Orators Before 1900: Critical Studies and Sources. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1987.
WOO ref. PN4055.U5A4 1987

Duffy, Bernard K. and Ryan, Halford R., editors. American Orators of the Twentieth Century: Critical Studies and Sources. New York: Greenwood, 1987.
WOO ref. PN4193.P6A44 1987

Lexis-Nexis Academic. Lexis-Nexis, a division of Reed Elsevier, Inc.
ONLINE URL: http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic

A full-text searchable database system that provides a wide variety of new and other resource articles in ascii format, including transcripts of speeches and news broadcasts of various kinds. Useful for primary source material for rhetorical analysis.

Manning, Beverley. Index to American Women Speakers, 1828 to 1978. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1980.
WOO ref. Z1231.O7M36

Manning, Beverly. We Shall Be Heard: An Index To Speeches By American Women, 1978 to 1985. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1988.
WOO ref. Z1231.O7M37 1988

Sutton, Roberta Briggs. Speech Index: An Index to 259 Collections of World Famous Orations and Speeches for Various Occasions. 4th ed. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1966.
LIBRARY ALSO HAS: Suppls. 1966-1980 (1982).
WOO ref. AI3.S85 1966

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