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Forget reading about history—watch it in action with fifty incredible, history-making speeches. Heck, you can even stay firmly parked in your cubicle on this little journey through history’s great moments because all of the speeches can be viewed online.

JFK Inaugural Address: JFK’s inaugural address is one of the most famous swearing-in speeches in history.

Lou Gehrig’s speech: Lou Gehrig gives his farewell to baseball speech on the 4th of July at Yankee Stadium.

FDR Pearl Harbor Address: Just after the United States is attacked by Japan at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt addresses the country and Congress in his famous “date which will live in infamy” speech.

Mahatma Gandhi Speech: Gandhi gave this speech at Kingsley Hall in London in 1931. In it, he discusses the nature of rule and religion.

Full list at Online Universities.

A heaping dose of history.