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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Aung San Suu Kyi: Press Conference With President Obama

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text, audio, and video [41:07] of Burmese Opposition Leader, Aung San Suu Kyi and President Obama speaking at a press conference on November 14, 2014, in Rangoon, Burma where they discussed the new democracy in Burma.
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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Address

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text, audio, and video [4:31] of President John F. Kennedy's first Inaugural Address on January 20, 1961.
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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Barbara Jordan: 1976 Dnc Keynote Address

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text, audio, and video [4:50] of Barbara Charline Jordan's keynote address for the 1976 Democratic National Convention on July 12, 1976, in New York, NY.
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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Franklin Delano Roosevelt: First Inaugural Address

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text, audio, and video [7:04] of the swearing in and the first Inaugural Address of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on March 4, 1933.
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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text, audio, and video [3:08] of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's declaration of war against the Japanese the day after their attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: John F. Kennedy: Houston Ministerial Association Address

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text, audio, and video (4:59] of Presidential Candidate John F. Kennedy address to the Houston Ministerial Association on September 12, 1960, at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX, where he discussed his Catholic religion and what...
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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Lyndon Baines Johnson: "We Shall Overcome" Congress Address

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text and audio of President Lyndon Baines Johnson addressing a Joint Session of Congress on voting legislation on March 15, 1965 in Washington D.C.
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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Mario Matthew Cuomo: 1984 Dnc Keynote Address

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text, audio, and video [4:23] of Mario Matthew Cuomo's 1984 Democratic National Convention keynote address on July 16, 1984, in San Francisco, California.
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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Jesse Jackson: 1984 Democratic National Convention Address

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text, audio, and video [6:21] of Jesse Jackson's address to the 1984 Democratic National Convention on July 18, 1984, in San Francisco, California.
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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Dwight D. Eisenhower: Farewell Address

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text and audio of Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address to the nation on January 17, 1961, at the end of his Presidency.
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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Dwight D. Eisenhower: "Atoms for Peace"

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text, audio, and video [5:45] of President Eisenhower's address to the United Nations General Assembly entitled "Atoms for Peace" on December 8, 1953.
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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: John F. Kennedy: American University Commencement Address

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text and audio of President Kennedy's commencement address at American University on June 10, 1963, where he spoke of peace for all of all time.
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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Richard M. Nixon: Resignation Address to the Nation

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text, audio, and video [5:08] of President Nixon's resignation address to the nation on August 8, 1974.
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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Barry Goldwater: Accepting Republican Presidential Nomination

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text and audio of Barry Goldwater's acceptance of the nomination for President at the 1964 Republican National Convention on July 16, 1964, in San Francisco, California.
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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Hubert H. Humphrey: 1948 Democratic National Convention

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text and audio of Hubert H. Humphrey's address at the 1948 Democratic National Convention on July 14, 1948.
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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Carrie Chapman Catt: Address to Congress on Women's Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of Carrie Chapman Catt's address to the Congress on Women's Suffrage in November 1917, in Washington D.C.
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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Mario Savio: Sit in Address on the Steps of Sproul Hall

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text, audio, and video [1:26] of Mario Savio encourage students to protest by participating in a sit-in on the steps of Sproul Hall at The University of California at Berkeley on December 2, 1964.
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American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Elizabeth Glaser: 1992 Democratic National Convention Address

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text and audio of Elizabeth Glaser's address to the 1992 Democratic National Convention on July 14. 1992, in New York; She and her two children had contracted AIDS due to a blood transfusion.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Global Community, Making of African American Identity: V. 3

For Students 9th - 10th
On February 16, 1965, in Rochester, New York, Malcolm X delivered a speech that placed African American in a global black community. Just five days before his assassination, he relates the American civil rights movement to similar...
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Cprr History Museum: Chinese American Contribution to Transcontinental

For Students 9th - 10th
In April of 1999, Representative John T. Doolittle delivered a speech before the United States House of Representatives commemorating the contribution of Chinese-Americans to the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. This site...
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Fidel Castro 2nd Declaration

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains the text of a speech delivered by Castro on February 4, 1962 titled "The Second Declaration of Havana." In this speech you can see Castro's Marxist-Leninist ideology.
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Cynthia J. O'Hora

Mrs. O's House: Actively Seek Out Information That Challenges Our Beliefs

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Based upon a speech delivered by President Barack Obama, this activity encourages students to check out the "flip side" of issues before making up your mind.
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John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum

Jfk Presidential Library and Museum: The Cold War in Berlin

For Students 9th - 10th
Article explores the division of Germany and Berlin into two zones, East and West, and delves into President Kennedy's relationship with the Soviets during the Cold War. On June 26, 1963, President Kennedy delivered an explosive speech...
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Sweet Briar College: Sojourner Truth, "Ain't I a Woman?"

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.

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