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Large collection of materials related to the study of the American Presidency. Including complete Public Papers of the Presidents from Herbert Hoover (1929) through first year of George W. Bush's first term (2001). Also includes large archive of sound and video clips of American presidents.
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Contains a searchable speech bank with audio and movie clips as well as materials for scholars and teaching aids.
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Use this directory to locate literature from thousands of conferences, meetings and symposia. Includes author and paper title information in Science/Technology, Medical/Life Sciences, and Social Sciences/Humanities.
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Historical Voices is part of the Digital Library Initiative II funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Historical Voices is one of the first fully functional, multi-media, interoperable digital libraries available online. The primary goals of each of these projects will be the development of a rich set of both online exhibits and educational curricula, utilizing audio files as a key …
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The purpose of Historical Voices is to create a significant, fully searchable online database of spoken word collections spanning the 20th century. Historical Voices will both provide storage for these digital holdings and display public galleries that cover a variety of interests and topics.
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HPOL is a searchable multimedia database documenting and delivering authoritative audio relevant to American history and politics of the twentieth century. The materials range from formal addresses delivered in public settings to private telephone conversations conducted from the innermost recesses of the White House. This project is supported by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Teaching With Technology Program in …
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In the First Person is an index to English language personal narratives from the Alexander Street Press databases and from freely available websites. It includes letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories. Working with archives, repositories, publishers, and individuals ASP has indexed first person narratives from hundreds of published volumes—those that are publicly available on the Web and those that are held by …
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An in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. Materials include full-text documents, audio and video files, and bibliographic records.
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Contains links to audio and text files of historic speeches.
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The Library of Congress Recorded Sound Collection contains some 2.5 million audio recordings including multiple copies. Published and unpublished recordings, contained on a variety of physical formats representing the history of sound recording from late nineteenth century cylinders and discs to the latest digital files, include radio broadcasts and spoken word, as well as vocal and instrumental music.
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Contains links to transcripts of current events speeches, including to numerous audio and some video clips.
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Seven major figures in twentieth-century suffragist history are represented here with full-length oral histories. These include Alice Paul, founder and leader of the more militant organization called the National Woman's Party, which made suffrage a mainstream issue through public demonstrations and protests; Sara Bard Field, a mother, lover, poet, and social and political reformer, whose interactions with California artists and political …
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