Speech and Lecture Archives
Middlebury College Digital Lecture Archive
An initiative of the Library's Special Collections and the Cataloging Department. Lectures from the library archives in streaming audio or video include talks by the Dalai Lama, Robert Frost, William Rehnquist, and Henry Steele Commager, among others. Viewing or listening requires RealPlayer software, available for free download here. Take care to choose the free option.
University Channel
Middlebury College is a charter member of this initiative at Princeton University offering a collection of lectures and events from academic institutions all over the world, for viewing, listening, streaming, or downloading.
Lecture Archives Search Engine
Search the lecture archives at Middlebury College, the University Channel, WGBH Forum, Harvard Institute of Politics, and MIT World in one combined keyword search.
American Rhetoric
A database of 5000+ full-text, audio and streaming video versions of public speeches, lectures, debates, interviews, and speeches in movies. This award-winning site is maintained by Michael E. Eidenmuller, Ph.D. Contains a number of audio excerpts from 9/11.
Audio Interviews from the BBC
From BBC Four, over 150 audio interviews with artists, scientists, political activists and writers, including Gandhi, Gropius, Auden, Warhol and Yeats.
Earth Institute at Columbia University
Lectures cover a range of issues related to sustainable development, environmental decision-making, and climate change.
Harvard Institute of Politics: John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum Archives
Streaming video of interviews and lectures from Harvard's Institute of Politics, some with printable news summaries.
Imperial War Museum Collections Online
The Imperial War Museum illustrates all aspects of war in the 20th and 21st centuries. This searchable database of almost 60,000 records includes annotated film and sound archives.
Library of Congress
"Get it Online...Words, Pictures and Sound"
MIT World
Large, searchable video archive of significant public lectures at MIT on topics covering technology and engineering as well as politics, culture and current events.
National Gallery of the Spoken Word
An online archive of spoken word collections spanning the 20th century.
Oyez: US Supreme Court Multimedia
Over 2,000 hours of digitized Supreme Court oral arguments.
Presidential Recordings Project
From 1940 until 1973, US presidents secretly recorded their meetings and conversations in the White House. The Miller Center of Public Affairs at UVA offers these recordings with transcripts and other research materials.
Princeton University Web Media
Archived lectures given between 1998 and the present, covering a wide range of topics.
TED
This site makes over one hundred short (18 min.) lectures from the TED conference available, with more added each week. Content includes the arts, business, science and global issues.
UC Berkeley Archives
One of the largest and oldest audio and video archives;these records of UC Berkeley events include lectures and interviews with Bill Clinton, Carlos Fuentes, James Baldwin, Malcolm X and Robert Oppenheimer, to name a few.
Vietnam Project
Primary source materials on the Vietnam War include oral histories and interviews of veterans. Site sponsored by Texas Tech University.
WGBH Forum
Audio and video streaming of public lectures and panel discussions from venues around Boston, including Wheaton, Wellesley, MIT, Harvard and UMass. The archive covers a broad range of topic categories, from art through politics, economics and sports.
The New Television Workshop Archives at WGBH offer a searchable collection of early video art clips.
A World of Ideas
An index to video and audio lectures on academic topics maintained by Darrell Arnold, an editor and translator at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn Germany.
