Directory of Multimedia Resources

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Contains audio and visual recordings of events in history.

Resources in This Category

• America's Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election.

  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/nfhome.html
  Collection contains Political speeches by American leaders during World War I and the presidential election of 1920. Speakers include: Warren G. Harding, James Cox, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Samuel Gompers, Henry Cabot Lodge, and John J. Pershing.

• History and Politics Out Loud

  http://www.wyzant.com/resources/lessons/history/hpol/
  A searchable archive of politically significant audio materials created for scholars, teachers, and students.

• History Buff

  http://historybuff.com/
  Historical reference of press coverage from the 16th to the 20th century. Includes newspaper articles, audio files, and video clips, and related resources.

• Liam's Pictures from Old Books

  http://www.fromoldbooks.org/
  Scanned images and text extracts from out-of-copyright books, with a particular focus on castles, manors, stately homes, and abbeys of the British Isles, among other topics.

• Lost and Found Sound

  http://www.npr.org/sections/lost-found-sound/
  National Public Radio series features sound recordings from famous people and ordinary people that capture the history of the late-19th and 20th centuries.

• Online Speech Bank

  http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speechbank.htm
  Links to internet sites with full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, and interviews.

• Pro-Culture Editions, Inc.

  http://www.proculture.com/
  Multimedia publishing company specializing in interactive reading on CD-ROM. Subjects are non-fiction: History, Art and Music.

• Talking History

  http://www.talkinghistory.org/
  Program based at the University at Albany provides weekly broadcast/internet radio program that touches on all areas of history.

• The Nation's Forum

  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/nfhome.html
  The America's Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election, 1918-1920, collection contains Political speeches by American leaders during World War I and the presidential election of 1920.

• The Whole World Was Watching

  http://cds.library.brown.edu/projects/1968/
  Audio recordings and transcripts about civil rights, United States politics, Vietnam, and women's rights.

• World History Pictures

  http://www.historylink101.com/historical_pictures.htm
  Web directory of pictures categorized by cultures.

 

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