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Fact Monster: Famous Presidential Speeches
Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and others have their famous presidential speeches captured in this database.
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Famous American Trials: Trial of Susan B. Anthony, 1873
Comprehensive site on Susan B. Anthony and her battle for women's rights. Find information and documents on her speeches, complete trial records, her petition to Congress, the 19th Amendment. Also includes a chronology of her life as...
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Abraham Lincoln Online: Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
The text of Lincoln's speech on March 4, 1865. Includes commentary on the speech by famous journalists of the period. From "Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln" edited by Roy P. Basler.
The History Place
The History Place: Chief Joseph Surrenders
This site provides a brief explanation of the surrender of Chief Joseph along with the original text of his famous surrender speech.
Social Studies Help Center
Social Studies Help Center: The Supreme Court as Defender of the Constitution
This site gives you examples of court cases demonstrating how the Supreme Court upholds the constituion. It also includes links to further information.
Yale University
Yale Law School: First Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Text of Franklin D. Roosevelt's first Inaugural address. In this speech, he outlines the world crisis facing the country in 1933. He also outlines the aims of government programs and his primary goal, which was to relieve unemployment by...
University of South Florida
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Lit2 Go: Before the House of Burgesses
This resource presents the text of Patrick Henry's famous "Give me liberty or give me death" speech, which was delivered in March of 1775. The text can be read online or downloaded in MP3 or PDF format.
PBS
Pbs: Chief Joseph
This PBS-People in the West site provides an excellent biography of the great Native American leader, Chief Joseph. The site includes a photo and his famous surrender speech.
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Daniel Webster: Dartmouth's Favorite Son
This excellent site created by Dartmouth College--where Webster attended--gives a thorough overview of Webster's life and work. It includes photos and links to the full text of all of Webster's most famous speeches. It also gives a time...
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The Works of Abraham Lincoln
This personal site gives links to the full text of several of Lincoln's famous speeches including the "Gettysburg Address," "The Emancipation Proclamation," and his inaugural addresses.
University of Virginia
Miller Center at Uva: u.s. Presidents: Harry S. Truman
Track the presidency of Harry S. Truman (1884-1972 CE) as the 33rd President of the United States. AmericanPresident.org takes us through his early life as a Midwest farmer to his death.
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History Matters: Declaration of Independence of Vietnam
On September 2, 1945, Ho Chi Minh proclaimed the independent Democratic Republic of Vietnam in Hanoi?s Ba Dinh square. The first lines of his speech repeated verbatim the famous second paragraph of America?s 1776 Declaration of...
Vassar College
Vassar College: 1896: The Homestead and Pullman Strikes
1896, A Website of Political Cartoons and Commentary provides the illustrated story of both the Homestead and Pullman strikes with quotes from newspapers of the time and a brief characterization of Andrew Carnegie. The site includes a...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: I Have a Dream
A great cross-curricular activity, young scholars will create a diamante poem based on their feelings regarding Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
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Sweet Briar College: Sojourner Truth, "Ain't I a Woman?"
This site provides a very well laid out and easy to read text of Sojourner Truth's famous "Ain't I A Women" speech delivered to the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio in 1851.
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Colonial Williamsburg: Patrick Henry
This site provides biographical information about American lawyer, patriot and orator, Patrick Henry. At the bottom of the page, you will also find a link to the text of Henry's famous "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" speech.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
These lesson plans help students evaluate Abraham Lincoln's actions during his presidency. Related links assist students in this evaluation.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: Wole Soyinka Biographical
Nobel E-Museum offers this biography of African author Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature.
A&E Television
History.com: This Is How Fdr Tried to Pack the Supreme Court
When his New Deal legislation kept getting struck down, FDR proposed a law targeting justices over the age of 70.
American Indian Heritage Foundation
Indigenous Peoples' Literature: Chief Joseph (Nez Perce)
This site provides some biographical information about Chief Joseph from several sources as well as information on the Nez Perce. There are quite a few quotes from the great American Indian as well as a link to his famous surrender speech.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Daniel Webster.
This site gives many quotes from Webster's famous writings and speeches.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Kid's Biography: Martin Luther King Jr.
Students learn about the great civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr.'s, biography on this website. This site contains audio sharing parts of his famous "I have a dream" speech.
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Frederick Douglass
This site from The History Place provides a brief biography of Douglass and the text to his famous Fourth of July speech. The information is medium in length and worth checking out on the subject.
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David Macaulay
Background about the famous illustrator, a copy of his Caldecott acceptance speech, a list of books and other details are offered at this site.
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