As communication teachers, we ask students to learn from how great speakers in history might address current events. This is an especially timely exercise since much of the principal public discourse ...

The “hardy Swiss,” the “resolute Turk,” the freedom-loving Dutch, in fact all European neutrals, won eulogies last week from First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill. He poured it out in a radio ...

Actor Timothy Spall began VE Day commemorations in London on Monday by reading extracts of then prime minister Winston Churchill’s victory speech to the nation on May 8 1945. The events on bank ...

FULTON, Mo. (CN) — Rebecca Morgan looked out the window of her secondhand bookstore on this town’s historic main street and whispered her fear about what a new Donald Trump presidency could bring.

Fulton — On March 5, 1946, 75 years ago next week, Winston Churchill gave his now-famous “Sinews of Peace” speech at Westminster College. In it, he famously declared “From Stettin in the Baltic to ...

Winston Churchill’s famous rallying cry to Briton’s at the outbreak of World War II in which the leader vowed ‘We shall fight them on the beaches’ has been named as the best radio speech of all time.

Winston Churchill knew political defeat but never quite like the one he suffered nearly 80 years ago on July 26, 1945. For this notable tippler, it was more humiliating than losing his seat in ...

Each leader led a country that was fighting for its very survival in a protracted, all-consuming war. Each leader used his ...