American Rhetoric Available to Purchase

American Rhetoric is, among other things, a comprehensive online repository of more than 5,000 versions of public speeches and other recorded media events. Speeches are available in a variety of formats, including text, audio and video. The site is the brainchild of Michael Eidenmuller, who is an assistant professor of Speech Communication at the University of Texas at Tyler.

The site can be broken down into four main sections: Online Speech Bank, Top 100 Speeches, Movie Speeches and Rhetorical Figures in Sound. The largest of these sections is the Online Speech Bank, which contains the aforementioned 5,000 versions of public...