Speech

Speaker

Date

Student

Child Labor and Women's Suffrage (1)

Florence Kelley

1905

Pearl Harbor Address (1 plus notes on history)

Audio

Franklin D. Roosevelt

1941

Ashley Robbins

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (2.5)

Video

Eleanor Roosevelt

1948

Farewell Address (3)

Video

Dwight D. Eisenhower

1961

Duty, Honor, Country (3)

Audio

General Douglas MacArthur

1962

Josh Swenor

Address to Houston Ministerial Association (2)

Video

John F. Kennedy

1960

Cuban Missile Crisis (3)

Video

John F. Kennedy

1962

Courtney Henrie

Ich Bin ein Berliner (at Berlin Wall) (1 plus background information)

Video

John F. Kennedy

1963

Maxwell Karg

I Have a Dream (2.5)

Video

Martin Luther King

1963

Nate Gonzalez

The Ballot or the Bullet (3)

Audio

Malcolm X

1964

Will Cahalane

I've Been to the Mountaintop (5)

Video

Martin Luther King

1968

Equal Rights Amendment (1)

Shirley Chisholm

1969

On Vietnam (3)

Audio

John Kerry

1971

Jared Nylen

Statement on the Articles of Impeachment (2)

Video

Barbara C. Jordan

1974

Ford Pardons Nixon (2)

Video

Gerald Ford

1974

Geovanny Gonzalez

Left-Handed Commencement Address (2)

Ursula LeGuin

1983

Shuttle Challenger Disaster (1)

Video

Ronald Reagan

1986

Henry Lopez

Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate (Berlin) (4)

Video

Ronald Reagan

1987

Eric Connolly

Address to DNC on AIDS (2)

Video

Elizabeth Glaser

1992

Hungria Ortiz

A Whisper of AIDS (2)

Video

Mary Fisher

1992

Oklahoma Bombing Memorial (1)

Video

William Clinton

1995

Matt Mandella

Women's Rights Are Human Rights (3)

Video

Hillary Clinton

1995

1996 DNC Address (2)

Audio

Christopher Reeve

1996

Justin Sliwoski

The Perils of Indifference (3)

Audio

Elie Wiesel

1999

Rosa Parks Awarded Congressional Medal (1)

Audio

William Clinton

1999

NAACP Address on 50th Anniversary
of Brown v. Board of Education (3)

Audio excerpts

Bill Cosby

2004

RNC Address (3)

Audio

Arnold Schwarzenegger

2004

Sean Pera

DNC Address: The Audacity of Hope (3)

Video

Barack Obama

2004

Adam Bille

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish (3)

Video

Steve Jobs

2005

Address at Funeral of Coretta Scott King (1)

Audio

Maya Angelou

2006

Statement to House Oversight Committee (2)

Video

Jessica Lynch

2007

Faith in America (3)

Video

Mitt Romney

2007

Nobel Peace Prize Lecture (4)

Video

Albert A. Gore

2007

A More Perfect Union (in Philadelphia) (6)

Video

Barack Obama

2008

Maliki Durant