Public Speaking & Rhetoric: Web Sources

Pros and Cons of Controversial Issues: presenting research on controversial issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan, and primarily pro-con format.

An excellent resource for ideas and facts for speeches.

from the University of Kentucky.

General overview of rhetoric topics. Includes speech archives.

Includes Online Speech Bank (database of full text, audio and video versions of public speeches); American Top 100 Speeches, and other resources.

This site from Sweet Briar College is dedicated to preserving and creating access to speeches by influential contemporary women from around the world.

Illustrated and annotated edition of all inaugural addresses from George Washington to Barack Obama.

This tenth edition of 1919 contains over 11,000 searchable quotations and was the first new edition of John Bartlett’s corpus to be published after his death in 1905—the new editor, however, choosing more to supplement than revise the work of the first name in quotations.