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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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Speech at Peoria by Abraham Lincoln 1854

The Second Inaugural Address by James Monroe

First Inaugural Address by William McKinley

Inaugural Address of Herbert Hoover

Second Inaugural Address by Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Speech at Chicago by Stephen Douglas

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

First Inaugural Address by James Monroe

Inaugural Address by William Henry Harrison

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

First Inaugural Address by William J. Clinton

Inaugural Address by Rutherford B. Hayes

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

Inaugural Address by Calvin Coolidge

Inaugural Address by William Howard Taft

Inaugural Address by Lyndon Baines Johnson

Lincoln-Douglas Debates Six (Quincy); Douglas Opening Remarks

Lincoln-Douglas Debate Two (Freeport); Douglas's Opening Remarks

First Inaugural Address by Woodrow Wilson