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BOOKS IN THE SCHOOL LIBRARY
The Monsignor Coates Library includes the following volumes particular to speeches. The Dewey Decimal System number is in parenthesis following each title.

A Treasury of the World's Great Speeches
Each speech prefaced with its dramatic and biographical setting and placed in its full historical perspective. (808.85 P48T)

Representative American Speeches : 1937-2005 (REF 815.08 REP)

Great Speeches in History Series
          The 1960’s (973092 NIN)
          The Arab-Israeli Conflict (956.04 ARA)
          Civil Rights (323.1 CIV)
          The Civil War (97307 CIV)
          The Cold War (909.82 COL)
          The Founding of America (973.3 FOU)
          The Great Depression (973.91 GRE)
          Human Rights (323 HUM)
          Immigration (325.73 IMM)
          Slavery 973.5 SLA)
          Terrorism (303.6 TER)
          The Vietnam War (959.7 VIE)
          Women’s Rights (305.42 WOM)
          World War I (940.3 WOR)
          World War II (940.53 WOR)   

INTERNET SITES

National Public Radio's All Things Considered Archive (radio transcripts including many interviews) http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/archives/

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Interviews
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/

Conversations with History (Interviews) - University of California, Berkeley
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/

Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World
http://gos.sbc.edu/

Graduation Speeches
http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Graduation/Speeches/

Historical Voices
http://www.historicalvoices.org

History Place: Great Speeches Collection
http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/previous.htm

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

Oral History Online!
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/

Social Activism: Sound Recording Project
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/pacifica.html

History Channel Speech Archive
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/index.html

Speeches and Transcripts - University of Albany
http://library.albany.edu/reference/speeches.html

Talking History - University of Albany
http://www.talkinghistory.org

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

Speeches of the U.S. Presidents, Vice Presidents, and First Ladies
Search by document type (Speeches) and your topic
http://www.whitehouse.gov/

Internet sites specifically for speeches by United States Presidents

Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/

Richard Nixon's White House Phone Call Tapes on C-SPAN
http://www.c-span.org/executive/presidential/nixon.asp

U.S. Presidential Debates
http://www.debates.org/

Speeches of Abraham Lincoln
http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/speech.htm

Lyndon B. Johnson Library & Museum
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/Dictabelt.hom/content.asp