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Scholarly and other types of articles covering many areas of study.
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American history documentary and educational videos.
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Streaming video collection. Currently licensed titles can be found in ONESearch. Other streaming video databases are also available.
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Primary sources and interpretive documents related to women's history in the United States

The American Presidency Project
The American Presidency Project (APP), non-profit and non-partisan, is the leading source of presidential documents on the internet. Our archives contain 128,921 documents and are growing rapidly.
The APP, hosted at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been a collaboration between John T. Woolley (UCSB) and Gerhard Peters (Citrus College) since 1999.
American Rhetoric: Online Speech Bank
“Database of and index to 5000+ full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two.”
Bill Gates Speech Archive
Selected speeches from 1996-2008.
Famous Speeches and Audio
Collection of speeches from multiple time periods on multiple subjects such as; sports, Civil Rights, Presidents, conflict, and space exploration.
Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World
History Place: Great Speeches Collection
Includes over 70 international speeches.
Oyez
Multimedia archive devoted to the United States Supreme Court.
Presidential Speech Archive
The Scripps Library, through cooperation with various presidential libraries, has been collecting some of the most important presidential speeches in American history. These speeches all have transcripts, and some are available in their entirety in audio or video.

Great Modern Political Speeches
Call Number: Streaming Video
Publication Date: 2006
This program features speeches by several major orators of the modern political era, including Representative Barbara Jordan's stunningly eloquent appeal for nonpartisan judgment at the Nixon impeachment hearings. Ronald Reagan shows why he was known as the Great Communicator in his 1981 inaugural address. Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo's resounding keynote speech at the 1984 Democratic Convention, as well as an emotion-charged 1984 campaign speech by Jesse Jackson.
Great Speeches by African Americans by James Daley (Editor)
Call Number: PS663.N4 G74 2006
ISBN: 9780486447612
Publication Date: 2006-04-28
Landmark Speeches on the Vietnam War by Gregory Allen Olson
Call Number: DS557.4 .L36 2010
ISBN: 9781603441643
Publication Date: 2010-02-23
The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer by Maegan Parker Brooks (Editor); Davis W. Houck (Editor)
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9781604738230
Publication Date: 2011-01-03
World's Great Speeches 1999 by Lewis Copeland (Editor); Lawrence W. Lamm (Editor); Stephen J. McKenna (Editor)
Call Number: PN6121 .W66 1999
ISBN: 0486409031
Publication Date: 1999-09-21