COM 350 Rhetorical Criticism: Websites

Movie speeches, sermons, interview, top 100 speeches and rhetorical figures in sound. Scroll down to view all.

From American Radio Works, this site features a century of great African American speeches.

Monthly magazine providing speeches by well-known speakers and leaders. PASSWORD required. Use same credential you use to access Lakeland email.

Maintained by Dr. Gideon Burton of Brigham Young University, this site concentrates on the terms of classical renaissance rhetoric.

"Resources" section of website offers links to a rhetoric-related organizations as well as primary sources, online resource pages in rhetorical studies and discussion groups.

"This section helps students and teachers make effective use of primary sources. “Making Sense of Documents” provides strategies for analyzing online primary materials..." (From website.)

Search by year to see key world and U.S. events. Covers 1900-current.

Items from 193 countries covering 8000 BCE to 2000 CE from institutions such as the Library of Congress, National Library of Cuba and National Library of Belarus.

Selected materials from historic U.S. newspapers from 1836-1922.

Non-subscribers have access to articles from 1851-1922. Articles from 1923-1980 are available to paid subscribers or are available for purchase. 1981-present articles are available with a limit of 10 free articles per month.

Locate scholarly articles, court cases, and books. Not all articles are peer-reviewed. Limited full-text availability. Google Scholar settings can be configured to link to John Esch library database contents.