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Which speeches are in the public domain, and where to find them
Public domain speeches are free to reprint, but the famous list was built by school readers. Here are the texts worth finding and where they are held.
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How to produce a one page speech analysis in a single session
A step by step method for a one page speech analysis in about two hours: fix the version, ask a question, map the structure, add three observations and a limit.
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Cultural speeches misquotes: how they start and why it matters
Cultural speeches misquotes usually start as a translator's sentence. The translation chain, the anthology vector, and how to correct one without amplifying it.
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Business speeches by decade: what survives and how to survey it
A period survey of corporate speaking by venue and medium, from filed chairman addresses to trade proceedings, and how vocabulary dates a speech.
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Best business speech rankings: measuring what got published
Best business speeches lists are built from what companies chose to publish. How the pool is made, and how to build one that measures the speaking instead.
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Three audiences in one room: rebuilding civil rights speech context
Civil rights speeches context: three audiences in one room, the week before, the building itself, and what the audience could actually do the next day.
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Short political speeches are the hardest form in the genre to write
Short political speeches are the hardest form in the genre. Why brevity is difficult, what forces it, how they are built, and the caption problem.
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Why war and peace speeches sound the way they do
War and peace speeches take shape under delivery conditions, audience demands, censorship, translation, and the contested records that survive.