Communication & Media: Rhetorical Criticism

Complete list, George Washington to present day.

Audio files for over 5000 speeches, sermons, legal proceedings and other media events. Rhetorical Figures in Sound, an online dictionary, has audio files to illustrate definitions.

Database of commencement speeches from NPR. Includes transcripts and some video and audio. 1774 to 2915. Search by name, school, date, or theme.

An online archive of speeches by influential contemporary women, collected between 1996 and 2010.

Transcripts of inaugural addresses.

Collection of African American speeches created buy American Radio Works, largely from the 20th century. Includes audio files and transcripts of speeches ranging from Booker T. Washington, to Fannie Lou Hamer, to Barack Obama.