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PRA is a searchable collection of speeches, newsprint editorials, letters, government documents, and fragments of speech/text primarily arranged by historical event.

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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? by Frederick Douglass

Newt Gingrich Address to the Conservative Political Action Committee.

Newt Gingrich's Speech to Five Points Rotary Club in Columbia, South Carolina.

Speech at Peoria by Abraham Lincoln 1854

The Right to Criticize American Institutions by Frederick Douglass

First Inaugural Address by President Barack Obama

Jeane J Kirkpatrick Addresses 1984 RNC

Inaugural Address by Warren G. Harding

Inaugural Address of Donald Trump

President Clinton's Speech at St. Sebastian's Parish Church.

Joe Biden Inaugural Speech

Second Inaugural Address by Ronald Reagan

Ron Paul's 2011 CPAC Speech.

What the Black Man Wants by Frederick Douglas

Second Inaugural Address by William McKinley

Sarah Palin at the Inaugural Tea Party Convention

First Inaugural Address by William McKinley

Inaugural Address by William Henry Harrison

Inaugural Address by Rutherford B. Hayes

Second Inaugural Address by Grover Cleveland