Public Speaking

• Debates and Debating 
• Elocution 
• Forensic Oratory 
• Oral Pleading 
• Oratory 
• Oratory AND Ancient 
• Political Oratory 
• Rhetoric 
• Speeches, Addresses, etc 
• Speechwriters 
• Speechwriting 
• Storytelling 
• Verbal Communication

• African-American Orators: A Bio-critical Sourcebook (eBook)
• American Orators of the Twentieth Century: Critical Studies and Sources   
• Encyclopedia of Rhetoric (from Oxford University Press) 
• Oxford Dictionary of Allusions 
• Women Public Speakers in the United States, 1800-1925: A bio-critical Sourcebook
• Women Public Speakers in the United States, 1925 -1993: A Bio-critical Sourcebook
• The World’s Famous Orations (1906) 

General

Academy Awards Acceptance Speech Database (from Oscars.org)

Political

• Argumentation and Advocacy (formerly known as "Journal of the American Forensic Association)
• Communication Monographs
• Discourse & Society: An International Journal for the Study of Discourse and Communication in their Social, Political and Cultural Contexts
• Journal of Applied Communication Research
• Philosophy and Rhetoric
• Quarterly Journal of Speech
• Text and Performance Quarterly
• Vital Speeches of the Day (website)

• American Forensic Association  
• International Communication Association 
• National Communication Association - Argumentation and Forensics Division 
• National Forensic Association  
• National Speakers Association