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Books on: famous historical speeches

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Selected American Speeches on Basic Issues, 1850-1950

Book by Carl G. Brandt, Edward M. Shafter Jr.; Houghton Mifflin, 1960

Subjects:

Speeches, Addresses, Etc., American, United States--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...mouths of seventeen famous Americans. Many of these...any anthology. The speeches are especially significant...selected three important historical periods which occurred...reproduction of the speeches, at the same time the...Each of the three historical periods in the book...
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Notable Speeches in Contemporary Presidential Campaigns

Book by Robert V. Friedenberg; Praeger, 2002

Subjects:

Campaign Speeches--United States, Presidents--United States--Election--History--20th Century--Sources, Speeches, Addresses, Etc., American, United States--Politics And Government--1945-1989--Sources, United States--Politics And Government--1989---Sources

Collections: History, Entire Library

Friedenberg examines William Henry Harrison's first ever speech by an American presidential candidate on behalf of his own candidacy as a prelude to the detailed examination of notable contemporary campaign speeches. Key speeches by John F. Kennedy, Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan ...
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Friedenberg examines William Henry Harrison's first ever speech by an American presidential candidate on behalf of his own candidacy as a prelude to the detailed examination of notable contemporary campaign speeches. Key speeches by John F. Kennedy, Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and George W. Bush are analyzed.
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Speaking for Australia: Parliamentary Speeches That Shaped Our Nation

Book by Rod Kemp, Marion Stanton; Allen & Unwin, 2004

Subjects:

Australia--Parliament, Australia--Politics And Government--20th Century, Political Oratory--Australia, Speeches, Addresses, Etc., Australian

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Speaking for Australia Parliamentary speeches that shaped our nation Edited by...Speaking for Australia : parliamentary speeches that shaped our nation. Bibliography...430 2. 1. Australia - Parliament. 2. Speeches, addresses, etc., Australian. 3. Australia...
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Cicero's Caesarian Speeches: A Stylistic Commentary

Book by Harold C. Gotoff; University of North Carolina Press, 1993

Subjects:

Caesar, Julius, Cicero, Marcus Tullius--Literary Style, Latin Language--Style, Rome--History--53-44 B.C--Sources, Speeches, Addresses, Etc., Latin

Collections: Entire Library

...surrounding the circumstances of the speeches and sensitive to the nuances of...should be recorded, if only as a historical curiosity, the opinion of several scholars, among whom are F. A. Wolf, famous for enunciating the "Homeric question...
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Miracle of '48: Harry Truman's Major Campaign Speeches & Selected Whistle-Stops

Book by Steve Neal, Harry S. Truman; Southern Illinois University Press, 2003

Subjects:

Political Campaigns--United States--History--20th Century, Presidents--United States--Election--1948, Speeches, Addresses, Etc., American, United States--Politics And Government--1945-1953

Collections: History, Entire Library

The first collection of Truman's public addresses from his 1948 campaign across America.

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Journal Articles on: famous historical speeches

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Vowels: A Voice-Based Web Engine for Locating Speeches

Journal article by Joaquin Vila, Billy Lim, Archana Anajpure; Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, Vol. 13, 2004

Subjects:

Internet/Web search services--Product development, Orations, Search engines--Product development, Speeches, Speeches, addresses, etc.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...is the collection of speeches given by famous and infamous figures of the twentieth...VOWELS will inform the user about the speeches in the repository given by Kennedy in...history students. The ease of retrieving historical speeches by prominent figures using only...
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Constitutive Rhetoric Reconsidered: Constitutive Paradoxes in G. W. Bush's Iraq War Speeches

Journal article by Kenneth S. Zagacki; Western Journal of Communication, Vol. 71, 2007

Subjects:

Bush, George W.--Foreign policy, Bush, George W.--Speeches, lectures and essays, Dualism (Philosophy)--Influence, Dualism--Influence, Iraq War, 2003---Analysis, Iraq War, 2003---Portrayals, Orations--Criticism and interpretation, Rhetoric--Influence, Speeches, addresses, etc.--Criticism and interpretation, Speeches--Criticism and interpretation, United States foreign relations

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...II, the war on terror, and the uses of historical memory. Rhetoric and Public Affairs...0+0+0 WMSaction=retrieve. Additional speeches by the President examined in this essay...revolutionary war martyr Patrick Henry and his famous slogan, "Give me liberty or give me death...
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Water and the West in Historical Imagination: Part Two-A Decade Later

Journal article by Jr. Norris Hundley; The Historian, Vol. 66, 2004

Subjects:

American West (Historical region)--Natural history, American West (Historical region)--Social aspects, Frontier literature--Criticism and interpretation, Historians--Works

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...reinforcement given to them by the famous decision in Lux v. Haggin...excerpts from literature, historical accounts, first-hand observations...production. And always lurking in historical memory to reinforce these...specialist in Latin American historical geography, focuses on two...
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Tolondron. Speeches to John Bowle about His Edition of Don Quixote, Together with Some Account of Spanish Literature

Journal article by Joseph Baretti; Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America, Vol. 23, 2003

Subjects:

Bowle, John--Discursos, ensayos, conferencias, Crytica--Siglo XVIII, Editores, El ingenioso Hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha (Libro)--Crytica, interpretaciyn, etc., El ingenioso Hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha (Libro)--Redacciyn

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Tolondron. Speeches to John Bowle about His Edition of Don Quixote, Together with Some Account of Spanish Literature. by Joseph Baretti...
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Refiguring Lincoln: Speeches and Writings, 1832-1865

Journal article by Neil Schmitz; American Literary History, Vol. 6, 1994

Subjects:

American Literature--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...writing there is several speeches, brief takes, small...Gettysburg Address, the famous double misprision is...been forged outside the historical profession, where literary...four times through the speeches, tracing the strategy...arguments conspiracy, legal, historical, moral. Johannsens...

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Magazine Articles on: famous historical speeches

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FY 2005 Defense Budget Testimony (Senate Armed Services Committee Transcript)

Magazine article; U.S. Department of Defense Speeches, February 6, 2004

Subjects:

Rumsfeld, Donald H.--Speeches, lectures and essays, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services--Finance, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services--Management, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services--Planning

Collections: Entire Library

...judgement." Department of Energy intelligence disagreed that the famous tubes were a nuclear program. The State Department Intelligence...reference to his WMD capability. This intelligence was used--the famous word "used"--by the executive--by President Clinton, by President...
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Philadelphia World Affairs Council

Magazine article; U.S. Department of Defense Speeches, May 5, 2004

Subjects:

Iraq War, 2003--Analysis, Wolfowitz, Paul D.--Speeches, lectures and essays

Collections: Entire Library

...being built there at a pace that is, nonetheless, rapid by any historical standard, in many ways faster than it took to rebuild Japan...or the former Indonesian dictator Suharto. To paraphrase a famous vice presidential debate, I knew these men, and Ferdinand Marcos...
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Prepared Statement for the Senate and House Armed Services Committees

Magazine article by Paul D. Wolfowitz; U.S. Department of Defense Speeches, April 22, 2004

Subjects:

Armed Forces--Appreciation, Armed Forces--Management, Armed forces--Appreciation, Armed forces--Management, Wolfowitz, Paul D.--Speeches, lectures and essays

Collections: Entire Library

...35 years of genocidal repression of Iraqs Marsh Arabs, the historical marshlands of southern Iraq were close to extinction. A lush...campaign about which so many military analysts warned. The historically unprecedented speed of the campaign may have led many Iraqi...
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Reagan and Historical Memory

Magazine article; National Review, Vol. 41, February 10, 1989

Subjects:

Presidents (Government)--Speeches, lectures and essays, Presidents--Speeches, lectures and essays, Reagan, Ronald--Speeches, lectures and essays

Collections: Entire Library

...a deliberate lobotomy of the American historical memory. We are beginning to be aware...American popular consciousness, like Audens famous corpse on the tennis court. "If we...Bloom and E. D. Hirsch about cultural, historical, and philosophical illiteracy represents...
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Never Forget the Past: Reverend Jesse Jackson Wants Africans at Home and in the Diaspora to Remember the Importance and Relevance of Their Historical Struggles. Andrew Togobo Reports

Magazine article by Andrew Togobo; New African, July 2005

Subjects:

Africa--History, Africa--Social aspects, Jackson, Jesse--Speeches, lectures and essays, National liberation movements--Speeches, lectures and essays

Collections: Entire Library

...Diaspora to Remember the Importance and Relevance of Their Historical Struggles. Andrew Togobo Reports. by Andrew Togobo...civil rights struggle while at university. He took part in the famous sit-ins, at a time when blacks werent allowed to sit with whites...

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Newspaper Articles on: famous historical speeches

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Reliving the Last Supper Lombard Church's Drama Troupe to Bring DaVinci's Famous Painting to Life

Newspaper article by Kathryn Grondin; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 20, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Drama troupe will bring the painting and historical moment to life during three musical performances...to 15, will narrate. And after every few speeches, the disciples will freeze in the famous DaVinci pose. Some of the music has changed...
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Shoe Leather on Brick Paths: Trekking through City History

Newspaper article by Christian Dejohn; The Washington Times, July 24, 1997

Subjects:

Washington, George

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...encyclopedia of Washingtons historical buildings, but he speaks of their famous residents with immediacy...387-8907 THREE STARS WHAT: Historical tours with Jeanne Fogel...Ghosts: Washingtons Most Famous Ghost Stories, by John Alexander...
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A Prize Winner; Home-Schooler Tops NEH Essay Awards

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 31, 2004

Subjects:

Lincoln, Abraham

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...embraced. By putting the war in that historical perspective, Abraham Lincoln made Americas...raging, Martin Luther King Jr. opened his famous "I Have a Dream" speech with the words...words should put such little faith in speeches power, and urge us instead to remember...
4.

Movies; Mini-Reviews

Newspaper article by Gary Arnold; The Washington Times, June 22, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Maximus, to accept adoption and the throne. This historically fanciful gambit comes too late. A jealous Commodus...illustrative details to highlights that do justice to many famous scenes and speeches. While not as authoritative, the Almereyda version...
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Aldie Witnesses Small but Fierce Engagement

Newspaper article by Tom O'Brien; The Washington Times, December 2, 2000

Subjects:

Custer, George Armstrong

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...ambassador to England and brother of Henry Adams, who later became a famous writer. Trying to get dismounted and position themselves in...successes until lately, when they have become a subject of historical study. At the center of the new works is one question: Which...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: famous historical speeches

2 results

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Renaissance

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Renaissance art and architecture . Historical Background In the 12th cent. a rediscovery...earlier writings of Ptolemy. Galileos most famous invention was an accurate telescope through...to speak effectively by studying the speeches of ancient orators. Thomas Elyot wrote...
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Bancroft, George

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...1876 and 1883 85). As a reward for his speeches and writings for the Democratic cause...held the post until 1874. Although his famous History is little read today, it was...so-called scientific school of German historical scholarship, nevertheless insisted that...

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