Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- African American authors
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Negro Orators and Their Orations (Washington: Associated Publishers, c1925), ed. by Carter Godwin Woodson (multiple formats at archive.org)
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Filed under: Speeches, addresses, etc., American- 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)
- 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
- A Domestic Cook Book, Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen, by Malinda Russell, An Experienced Cook, Paw Paw, Michigan, 1866: A Facsimile of the First Known Cookbook by an African American (Ann Arbor: W. L. Clements Library, c2007), by Malinda Russell, ed. by Janice Bluestein Longone (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Domestic Cook Book, Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen (Paw Paw, MI: Printed by T. O. Ward, 1866), by Malinda Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography (author died in 1960; c1942), by Zora Neale Hurston (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Pagan Spain (c1957), by Richard Wright (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth (first edition, 1945), by Richard Wright, contrib. by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- A Long Way From Home (New York: Lee Furman Inc., c1937), by Claude McKay (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Upward Path: A Reader for Colored Children (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, c1920), ed. by Myron T. Pritchard and Mary White Ovington, contrib. by Robert Russa Moton
- The New Negro: An Interpretation (New York: A. and C. Boni, 1925), ed. by Alain Locke, illust. by Winold Reiss (page images at HathiTrust)
- Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets (originally New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1927; reprinted Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2023), ed. by Countee Cullen, illust. by Aaron Douglas (PDF at unl.edu)
- Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), ed. by Toi Derricotte, Cornelius Eady, and Camille T. Dungy (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Book of American Negro Poetry, Chosen and Edited With an Essay on the Negro's Creative Genius (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1922), ed. by James Weldon Johnson
- Bronze: A Book Of Verse (Boston: B. J. Brimmer, 1922), by Georgia Douglas Johnson, contrib. by W. E. B. Du Bois (mulitiple formats at archive.org)
- Creole Voices: Poems in French by Free Men of Color, First Published in 1845 (poems in French, commentary in English and French; Washington: Associated Publishers, 1945), ed. by Edward Maceo Coleman and Armand Lanusse, contrib. by Henry Carrington Lancaster (page images at HathiTrust)
- God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (New York: The Viking Press, 1927), by James Weldon Johnson, illust. by Aaron Douglas and C. B. Falls
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