"Labor Day Address: Barack Obama Speech" is a one page, campaign speech by Barack Obama given on August 24, 2008, in Billings, Montana. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes...

Learn how the youngest person ever rose to the highest office in the land through this summary of JKF's 1960 campaign. Watch videos from the national convention, major speeches, and clips from the infamous debate with Richard Nixon.

Read the famous Cross of Gold speech given by William Jennings Bryan, Democratic party presidential candidate in 1896. The party platform was against the establishment of the gold standard.

Contains the text of the "Cross of Gold" speech delivered by William Jennings Bryan at the 1896 Democratic National Convention. This brings up an important point of view in the free silver controversy in which America debated between the...

This site from The History Place provides Abraham Lincoln's famous speach given at the close of the republican state convention - "A House Divided". It is the full text of the speech.

Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers a campaign speech directly to the heart of the lower economic classes of the United States. His goal is to win their votes by offering solution to rescue them from their financial distres as the nation...