Political Rhetoric Resources ...

See also: Speech Communication

Reference Sources

My fellow Americans : the most important speeches of America's presidents, from George Washington to George W. Bush

Suzzallo Reference (text) and Suzzallo Circulation (discs)
J81.4 .M93 2003

Quotations for Public Speakers: a Historical, Literary, and Political Anthology

Suzzallo Reference
PN4193.I5 Q68 2001

Presidential Documents: the speeches, proclamations, and policies that have shaped the nation from Washington to Clinton

Suzzallo Reference
E176.1 .P889 2000

Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History

Suzzallo Reference, Odegaard Stacks
PN6122 .L4 1992

Presidential Libraries Online

• Visit Presidential Libraries and Museums
  Information maintained by the National Archives

• The Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century
  "provides a single point of access to an ever-growing selection of digitized assets from the collections of the twelve Presidential Libraries of the National Archives." You will find documents, photographs, audio recordings, and video.

• Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum

• Franklin D. Roosevelt Library & Digital Archives

• Truman Presidential Museum & Library
  President Truman's speeches online

• Dwight D. Eisenhower Library & Museum

• John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library and Museum
  Selected speeches online

• Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum

• Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum

• Richard M. Nixon Materials Staff

• Jimmy Carter Library & Museum

• Ronald W. Reagan Presidential Library & Museum

• George Bush Presidential Library Museum

• Clinton Presidential Center

• Commission on Presidential Debates

• PBS Debates & Campaigns

• Debating our destiny: 40 years of presidential debate
  Odegaard Media
  Videorecord PBS 300

• The Annenberg/Pew Archive of Presidential Campaign Discourse
  Suzzallo Circulation (disc and manual)
  JK528 .A56 2000

• A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation, U.S. Congressional Documents Nation 1774-1873

• History and Politics Out Loud

• Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States

• The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2004

• Political Communication and Campaigns

• Political Communication Center

• The Program in Presidential Rhetoric
  Speech Archive of presidential speeches

• Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents

• Life in the Senate
  United States Senate oral history project