Public Speaking

The following steps are recommended for finding information on public speaking or for finding speeches by famous people:

• Search the Library Catalog. Perform a Keyword search on public speaking or speeches, or on a specific individual.

• The following books are recommended (call number in parentheses):

  • Public speaking as a liberal art (PN4121 .W46)
  • Representative American Speeches (Ref. PS661 .R46 1997)
  • Voices of Multicultural America (Ref. PS663.M55 V64 1996)

• The following Web sites are also recommended:

  • History Channel Speeches
  • The History Place Great Speeches Collection
  • Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from around the World
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University