History's Great Speeches

Five speeches from the legendary orators Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Cicero, and ...

Five speeches from a millennium shaped by faith and empire.632CE. In Muhammed’s far...

Six speeches about freedom and revolution from the American, French and Irish revolutions...

No discussion of the 19th Century is complete without Napoleon. We begin with Charles Phi...

Mankind can rule itself without the force of top-down authority, and freedom is more than...

The late 19th Century was a time of liberation. After the collapse of empires, people of ...

The birth of liberation movements in the C19th saw a rise in fighting for the rights of w...

Six months ago, I had never heard the name Eugene Debs. Today, I believe he is one of the...

Martin Luther and John Calvin are household names, of a type where people have no idea ab...

IntroductionWhile compiling and narrating these speeches, I've often been struck by how e...