Speeches, addresses, etc., American
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Extracts From a Review of the Parliamentary and Forensic Eloquence of the United States (Washington, 1834)- Mark Twain's Speeches (1910), by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text)
- Kings of the Platform and Pulpit (Chicago et al.: The Werner Co., 1896), by Melville D. Landon (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt (13 volumes, published 1938-1950), by Franklin D. Roosevelt, ed. by Samuel I. Rosenman (page images at Michigan)
- The Speeches, Addresses, and Messages of the Several Presidents of the United States at the Openings of Congress and at Their Respective Inaugurations; Also, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's Farewell Address to His Fellow-Citizens (Philadelphia: R. Desilver, 1825), contrib. by George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, and John Quincy Adams (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Negro Orators and Their Orations (Washington: Associated Publishers, c1925), ed. by Carter Godwin Woodson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered (originally published 2005; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by John Channing Briggs (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- American Orators and Oratory: Being a Report of Lectures Delivered by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, at Western Reserve University, Under the Auspices of the Western Reserve Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution (Cleveland: Imperial Press, 1901), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, contrib. by Charles W. Chesnutt
- The Comet (New York: H.M. Duhecquet, 1832-1833), by H. D. Robinson (full serial archives)
- The American Idea, and What Grows Out of It, by E. H. Chapin (page images at MOA)
- Oration Delivered Before the City Council and Citizens of Boston, On the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Declaration of American Independence, July 4, 1876 (Boston: Printed by order of the City Council, 1876), by Robert C. Winthrop
- An Oration, Delivered on Tuesday, the Fourth of July, 1826, It Being the Fiftieth Anniversary of American Independence, Before the Supreme Executive of the Commonwealth, and the City Council and Inhabitants of the City of Boston (Boston: True and Greene, 1826), by Josiah Quincy
- Oration on the Centennial Anniversary of the Declaration of independence, by Robert C. Winthrop (page images at MOA)
- Our Triumph and Our New Duties, by Cortlandt Parker (page images at MOA)
- An Address Delivered in Marlboro Chapel, Boston, July 4, 1838 (Boston: I. Knapp, 1838), by William Lloyd Garrison (multiple formats at archive.org)
- An Address on Secession, Delivered in South Carolina in the Year 1851 (New York: Loyal Publication Society, 1865), by Francis Lieber (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Mr. Webster's Address at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Addition to the Capitol, by Daniel Webster (page images at MOA)
- New England's Gift to the Nation: The Township, by Arnold Green (page images at MOA)
- The Olive Branch: or, The Evil and the Remedy, by Charles Miner (page images at MOA)
- An Oration Delivered at Byfield, July 4, 1799 (Newburyport, MA: Printed by A. March., ca. 1799), by Elijah Parish (HTML at Evans TCP)
- Oration Delivered Before the City Government and Citizens of Boston, by James Freeman Clarke (page images at MOA)
- Oration Delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, by Frederick Douglass, July 5th, 1852 (Rochester, NY: Lee, Mann and Co., 1852), by Frederick Douglass
- "The State of the Country": An Oration Delivered at Buffalo, July 4th, 1862, by Walter Clarke, D.D. (Buffalo: Breed, Butler and Co., 1862), by Walter Clarke
- The Voice of Duty (1843), by Adin Ballou (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Celebration by the Inhabitants of Worcester, Mass., of the Centennial Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, by Worcester (Mass.) (page images at MOA)
- Oration Delivered Before the City Government and Citizens of Boston, by Richard Frothingham (page images at MOA)
- Oration Delivered on the Fourth Day of July, 1861, at the Capitol, Austin, Texas (Austin: Printed by J. Marshall and Co., 1861), by Alexander Watkins Terrell
- Address Delivered Before Theodore Winthrop Encampment, Post 35, G.A.R., at Academy of Music, Chelsea, Mass., Memorial Day, May 30, 1873 (Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1873), by William H. Hodgkins (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Dead on the Field of Honor (reprinted from the Ohio State Journal, ca. 1868), by George Whitfield Pepper (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Few Spoken Words: The Consecration of The Sixties; Felicitations of A Five-Year-old (Indianapolis: B.F. Bowen, 1915), by Lewis A. Harding (HTML and page images at Indiana)
- Heroism of the Rank and File: Eulogy, Pronounced at the Memorial Service of Post Sumner, no. 24, and Post Winthrop, no. 28, G.A.R., May 31, 1868, in Commemoration of the Union Soldiers Slain in the War for Our Union, by A. J. H. Duganne (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Memorial Day Oration, Delivered in the City Hall, Dover, N.H., Under the Auspices of Charles W. Sawyer Post, G. A. R. (Dover, NH: Libbey and Co., 1876), by Leander Samuel Coan (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Memorial Lessons: A Sermon Preached at King's Chapel, Boston, on Sunday, May 29th, 1870; With a List of the Sons of the Church Who Entered the Service of the Country (Boston: Barker, Cotter and Co., 1870), by Henry Wilder Foote (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1865 (Peoria, IL: E. J. Jacob, c1934), by Abraham Lincoln, ed. by M. L. Houser, illust. by Thomas Johnson
- Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865 (VFW Americanization Department pamphlet, ca. 1919), by Abraham Lincoln (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States (Washington through Trump)
- The True Republican: Containing The Inaugural Addresses, Together With the First Annual Addresses and Messages of All the Presidents of the United States, from 1789 to 1845, Together With Their Farewell Addresses (Philadelphia: W.A. Leary, 1846), ed. by Jonathan French, contrib. by George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and James K. Polk
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Speeches, addresses, etc.- Select Speeches of Daniel Webster, 1817-1845 (Boston: D. C. Heath and Co., 1903), by Daniel Webster, ed. by Andrew Jackson George (Gutenberg text)
- The World's Famous Orations (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1906), ed. by William Jennings Bryan and Francis W. Halsey (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
- The Columbian Orator: Containing a Variety of Original and Selected Pieces, Together With Rules, Calculated to Improve Youth and Others in the Ornamental and Useful Art of Eloquence (Boston: Printed by Manning and Loring, 1797), by Caleb Bingham (HTML at Evans TCP)
- The Columbian Orator: Containing a Variety of Original and Selected Pieces, Together With Rules, Calculated to Improve Youth and Others in the Ornamental and Useful Art of Eloquence (Boston: J. H. A. Frost et al, 1832), by Caleb Bingham
- The American Preceptor: Being a New Selection of Lessons for Reading and Speaking, Designed for the Use of Schools (Boston: Printed by Manning and Loring, 1794), ed. by Caleb Bingham (HTML at Evans TCP)
- The American Union Speaker, by John D. Philbrick (Gutenberg text)
- Burglar Bill, and Other Pieces for the Use of the Young Reciter (London: Bradbury, Agnew and Co., ca. 1888), by F. Anstey (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Columbian Orator: Containing a Variety of Original and Selected Pieces, Together With Rules, Calculated to Improve Youth and Others in the Ornamental and Useful Art of Eloquence (Boston: Printed by Manning and Loring, 1797), by Caleb Bingham (HTML at Evans TCP)
- The Columbian Orator: Containing a Variety of Original and Selected Pieces, Together With Rules, Calculated to Improve Youth and Others in the Ornamental and Useful Art of Eloquence (Boston: J. H. A. Frost et al, 1832), by Caleb Bingham
- Natural-History Plays, Dialogues and Recitations for School Exhibitions (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: C. T. Dillingham, 1885), by Louisa Parsons Stone Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Overton Reciter: Character Sketches for Recitation (tenth thousand; New York and Chicago: F. H. Revell, ca. 1889), by Robert Overton, ed. by Alfred H. Miles
- The American First Class Book: or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation (Boston : Charles Bowen, 1836, c1835), ed. by John Pierpont (page images at Pitt)
- Platform Pearls for Temperance Workers and Other Reformers: A Collection of Recitations and Other Selections for Entertainments and Public Meetings, Especially Adapted for Christian Endeavor Societies, Prohibition Clubs, Loyal Temperance Legions, Women's Christian Temperance Unions, Etc., Etc., Etc. (New York ;Toronto : Funk & Wagnall's, 1896), by Lilian M. Heath (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Selected Speeches on British Foreign Policy, 1738-1914 (c1914), ed. by Edgar R. Jones (Gutenberg text)
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