Donald Trump's first inaugural address was the shortest in decades, but was no where near the shortest speech.

where I am a curator specializing in the history of presidential campaigns and campaign rhetoric, include several objects that illustrate these characteristics. Exploring the genre of inaugural ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's Union Budget speech in 2020 was by far the longest, lasting two hours and 40 minutes.

Smithsonian's National Museum of American History These addresses are more than just a series of individual speeches. Rhetoric scholars Karlyn Kohrs Campbell and Kathleen Hall Jamieson argue ...

The political history collections at the National Museum ... from the past can help listeners better understand the opening speech of a new administration, the first act in a job that began ...

Such speeches strive to reach beyond the immediate ... Claire Jerry is the Political History curator at the Smithsonian Institution.