State of the Union online, 1790 to 2006

Imagine if every single one of the 214 State of the Unions since 1790 were available online. You could see at a glance not only the speech itself, but also its length, readability grade level (using the Flesch-Kincaid test), and how many times key words appear. Well now you can: via the engrossing State of the Union website by Brad Borevitz.

The site shows that the average length of State of the Unions has been much lower since the 1930s, and that average grade level has been falling for over a century. Brad writes:

State of the Union (SOTU) provides access to the corpus of all the State of the Union addresses from 1790 to 2006. SOTU allows you to explore how specific words gain and lose prominence over time, and to link to information on the historical context for their use.

SOTU focuses on the relationship between individual addresses as compared to the entire collection of addresses, highlighting what is different about the selected document. You are invited to try and understand from this information the connection between politics and language–between the state we are in, and the language which names it and calls it into being.

Above is a screenshot of the java-enabled interface. Go visit. You won't be sorry you did.

Below is a chart from Brad's website, showing the number of times the words 'justice' and 'freedom' have been used in the state of the Union. Clearly justice's heyday was in the early part of last century, while freedom is near its previous peak in popularity. I guess we have Dubya to thank for that.

Thanks to Andrew Vande Moere from the University of Sydney, and his weblog information aesthetics for the hat tip. This is another site that is well worth visiting.

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