814-865-1014
Arts & Humanities Library
ProQuest
Provides access to summaries of articles from over 5,000 publications, including a wide variety of periodicals and business sources. Many articles are available in full text. Vital speeches of the day available full-text (June 1, 1995 - current).
New York Times Historical
Provides the full-text of The New York Times (including many speech transcripts).
LexisNexis Academic
Full-text database containing newspapers, transcripts, magazines, and legal materials.
To search for speeches at Penn State use The CAT (PSU library catalog) and the keywords "Speeches, addresses." You can also search by the name of the speaker, e.g. Martin Luther King, William Jennings Bryan, etc...
Vital speeches of the day (find in the CAT)
Call #: PN6121.V52 Pattee Stacks, 2A. v.1(1934)-v.71:no.17(2005), v.71: no.19(2005)-v.71: no.24(2005).
American orators before 1900 : critical studies and sources (find in the CAT)
Call #: PN4055.U5A4 1987 Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection
American orators of the twentieth century : critical studies and sources
(find in the CAT), Call#:PN4193.P6A44 1987 Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection
Historical speeches through transcripts (CD-ROM set) (find in the CAT)
Social Sciences Library, Paterno - 2nd Floor - Electronic Resources. Ask at the Service Desk.
Representative American speeches 1937-present. (find in the CAT)
Call #: PS668 .B3, Pattee Stacks 3
The world's great speeches (find in the CAT)
Call # PN6121.W66 1999. Pattee - Stacks 2A . Earlier editions have slightly different call numbers.
Voices of Multicultural America : Notable Speeches Delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native Americans, 1790-1995 (find in the CAT)
Call#: PS663.M55V64 1996 Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection
Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World
I have spoken: American history through the voices of the Indians (find in the CAT)
Call # E98.O7A7, Pattee Stacks 1
Lift every voice: African American oratory, 1787-1900 (find in the CAT)
Call # E185.18.L54 1998, Pattee Stacks Level 1
Outspoken women: speeches by American women reformers, 1635-1935 (find in the CAT)
Call # HQ1423.O97 1984, Social Sciences Library, 2nd Floor Paterno
Ripples of hope: great American civil rights speeches (find in the CAT)
Call # E184.A1R53 2003, Pattee Stacks Level 1
Speech Index: An Index to Collections of World Famous Orations and Speeches for Various Occasions (find in the CAT)
Call # AI3.S85 Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection
Index to American women speakers, 1828-1978 (find in the CAT)
Call#: Z1231.O7M36 Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection
We shall be heard: an index to speeches by American women, 1978 to 1985
(find in the CAT), Call#: Z1231.O7M37 1988 Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection
An inventory of the Library of Congress collection of texts of American speeches
(find in the CAT), Call#: AI3.A2 Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection
Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States
Public papers of the Presidents of the United States, 1929- (find in the CAT)
Call #: J80.A283 Reference Collection, Social Sciences Library, 2nd Floor, Paterno Library
Speeches, press conferences, and public papers of each president. Issued annually.
Also available online via GPO Access (1992-Present).
Speeches of the American Presidents (find in the CAT)
Call #: J81.S64, Reference Collection, Social Sciences Library, 2nd Floor, Paterno Library
Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (find in the CAT)
Call#: J80.A284 Reference Collection, Social Sciences Library, 2nd Floor, Paterno Library
Updates the Public Papers of the President between issues. Also available online via GPO Access (1993-Present).
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature 1890-present (find in the CAT)
AI3.R4 Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Abstracts & Indexes
Poole's Index to Periodical Literature 1802-1906 (find in the CAT)
AI3.P72 Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Abstracts & Indexes
See Databases tab section of this Guide.
To locate recordings of speeches use the MATERIAL TYPE limiter in The CAT. Limit your search to either AUDIO MATERIAL or VIDEO MATERIAL. Use the keywords "Speeches, addresses" or search by the name of the speaker, e.g. Martin Luther King, William Jennings Bryan, etc... Many web sites provide audio and video clips from famous speeches. See the Web Resources section of this guide for places to start.
A Few General Collections to Try:Great American speeches: 80 years of political oratory [video] (find in the CAT), Call # 40791, Media & Technology Support Services,
To Schedule: 814-863-3202
Great speeches. [video] Multi-volume collection of significant speeches (find in the CAT)
Call # 90344, Media & Technology Support Services, To Schedule: 814-863-3202
Every tone a testimony: an African American aural history [Audio] (find in the CAT)
Call # Disc CD02-2, Arts & Humanities, West Pattee 2nd Flr-Music & Media Center
Great speeches: today's women [Video] (find in the CAT)
Call # 92013, Media & Technology Support Services, To Schedule: 814-863-3202
Collections of Speeches
