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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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Lincoln-Douglas Debates Seven (Alton); Lincoln Opening Remarks

Speech at Peoria by Abraham Lincoln 1854

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

What the Black Man Wants by Frederick Douglas

The Second Inaugural Address by James Monroe

Speech at Chicago by Stephen Douglas

Inaugural Address by Calvin Coolidge

Lincoln-Douglas Debate Three (Jonesboro); Douglas Opening Remarks

Dred Scott Decision

First Inaugural Address by James Monroe

Inaugural Address by William Henry Harrison

Inaugural Address by Lyndon Baines Johnson

First Inaugural Address by Woodrow Wilson

On the Irrepressible Conflict by William Henry Seward

The Right to Criticize American Institutions by Frederick Douglass

Lincoln-Douglas Debates Four (Charleston); Douglas Opening Remarks

First Inaugural Address by William McKinley

Second Inaugural Address by Ronald Reagan

Lincoln-Douglas Debates Five (Galesburg); Douglas Opening Remarks

Lincoln-Douglas Debates Five (Galesburg); Lincoln Opening Remarks