Take a look at these resources for your speech. If you find any others, please share them with Mrs. Carpenter to be added to the list.
Site dedicated to Public Rhetoric, political, social, movie and religious speeches and related concepts of and exercises in rhetoric. Make sure you take a look at the Top 100 Speeches page and the 21st Century Great Speeches page.
This list is organized by presenter name and then speech topic. Click the links below to jump to a specific speech. On each page, you’ll find a full transcript of the speech as well as some additional background information.
Speeches that move and inspire from all of History.
Witness famous speeches and hear timeless words spoken by historical figures. Listen to recordings of speeches online on history.com.
TIME takes a tour of history's best rhetoric. Includes full text, background and best line from the speech.
Provides a complete overview of our nation’s past that covers the most-studied events, decades, conflicts, wars, political and cultural movements, people, and more. Use the Advanced Search feature to select Speech as your document type.
Provides an overview of world history that covers the most-studied events, periods, cultures, civilizations, religions, conflicts, wars, ideologies, cultural movements, people, and more. Use the Advanced Search feature to select Speech as your document type.