What It Means to Be Colored in the Capital of the United States / Mary Church Terrell -- Speech in Congress on Reconstruction / Thaddeus Stevens -- Speech at Meeting Commemorating Emancipation / Sojourner Truth -- Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote? / Susan B. Anthony -- Speech in Congress on the Civil Rights Bill / Robert Brown Elliott -- Speech in Congress on the Civil Rights Bill / Benjamin F. Butler -- Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln / Frederick Douglass -- Speech Nominating James G. Blaine / Robert G. Ingersoll -- Reply to General Howard / Chief Joseph -- Memorial Day Address / Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -- Address at the Dedication of the Statue of Liberty / Grover Cleveland -- Solitude of Self / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Lynch Law in All Its Phases / Ida B. Wells -- Labor Day Address / John Peter Altgeld -- Address at the Atlanta Exposition / Booker T. Washington -- Speech to the Democratic National Convention / William Jennings Bryan -- The Strenuous Life / Theodore Roosevelt -- The Policy of Imperialism / Carl Schurz -- The Man with the Muck-rake / Theodore Roosevelt -- What It Means to Be Colored in the Capital of the United States / Mary Church Terrell -- The Statement on the Atomic Bomb / Harry S. Truman -- Speech at Prayer Meeting / John Jay Chapman -- First Inaugural Address / Woodrow Wilson -- Address to Congress on War with Germany / Woodrow Wilson -- Speech in the Senate on Free Speech in Wartime / Robert M. La Follette, Sr. -- Address to Woman Suffrage Convention / Carrie Chapman Catt -- Speech to the Court / Eugene V. Debs -- Address to the Senate on the League of Nations / Woodrow Wilson -- Speech in the Senate on the League of Nations / Henry Cabot Lodge -- ''Rugged Individualism'' Speech / Herbert Hoover -- Speech to the Democratic National Convention (Chicago) ; Speech to the Commonwealth Club ; First Inaugural Address / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Every Man a King / Huey Long -- Speech to the Democratic National Convention (Philadelphia) ; Second Inaugural Address ; ''Arsenal of Democracy'' (Fireside Chat) ; Eighth Annual Address to the Congress ; Address to Congress on War with Japan / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Speech to Third Army Troops / George S. Patton -- Address to the Allied Expeditionary Forces / Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Statement on the Atomic Bomb / Harry S. Truman -- Address at the March on Washington / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Speech at Harvard University / George C. Marshall -- Speech to the Democratic National Convention / Hubert H. Humphrey -- Speech on the Democratic National Convention / Harris S. Truman -- Declaration of Conscience / Margaret Chase Smith -- Nobel Prize Address / William Faulkner -- Address to Congress / Douglass MacArthur -- ''Checkers'' Speech / Richard M. Nixon -- Speech to the Montgomery Improvement Association / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Second Inaugural Address / Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association / John F. Kennedy -- Farewell address / Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Inaugural Address ; Address at American University ; Address to the Nation on Civil Rights ; Speech in the Rudolph Wilde Platz / John F. Kennedy -- Address at the March on Washington / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- The Index. William J. Clinton -- The Ballot or the Bullet / Malcolm X -- Speech to the Republican National Convention / Barry Goldwater -- Speech on Behalf of Barry Goldwater / Ronald Reagan -- Speech in Sproul Plaza / Mario Savio -- Nobel Prize Address / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Address to Congress on Voting Rights ; Address at Howard University / Lyndon B. Johnson -- Address at the University of Cape Town / Robert F. Kennedy -- Speech on the Vietnam War ; Sermon at the National Cathedral ; Speech at Mason Temple / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King / Robert F. Kennedy -- Statement to the House Judiciary Committee / Barbara Jordan -- Remarks on Leaving the White House / Richard M. Nixon -- Address to the Nation on Energy Policy / Jimmy Carter -- Speech to the Democratic National Convention / Edward M. Kennedy -- Address to Members of Parliament ; Address at Pointe-du-Hoc / Ronald Reagan -- Speech to the Democratic National Convention / Jesse Jackson -- Address to the Nation on the Challenger Disaster ; Speech at the Brandenburg Gate / Ronald Reagan -- Speech at Mason Temple ; Speech at Central High School / William J. Clinton -- Biographical notes -- Note on the texts -- Notes -- Index.
Summary:
Contains the unabridged texts of eighty-three speeches by Americans such as Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Franklin Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton, presented in chronological order from 1865 to 1997.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.