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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

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

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

The Second Inaugural Address by James Monroe

Speech at Chicago by Stephen Douglas

What the Black Man Wants by Frederick Douglas

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

Inaugural Address by Calvin Coolidge

First Inaugural Address by James Monroe

Inaugural Address by William Henry Harrison

Dred Scott Decision

First Inaugural Address by Woodrow Wilson

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

First Inaugural Address by William McKinley

Inaugural Address by Lyndon Baines Johnson

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

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

On the Irrepressible Conflict by William Henry Seward

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

1978 Speech by Newt Gingrich to the College Republicans.