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Einstein & the Mind of God
by Paul Davies
Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
Part one of this series takes Einstein's science as a starting point for exploring the great physicist's perspective on ideas such as mystery, eternity, and the mind of God.
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
by Frederick Douglass
Available on: Digital Download
First published in 1845, the Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass became Frederick Douglass's most well known work. It is as the name implies his autobiography.
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Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
Available on: Digital Download
Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s life for two years, two months, and two days around the shores of Walden Pond.
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Hannibal
by Patrick Hunt
Available on: Digital Download
Hannibal is a name that evoked fear among the ancient Romans for decades.
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A Beautiful Mind
by Sylvia Nasar
Available on: Online Video
Dr. Sylvia Nasar, the author of "A Beautiful Mind" tells the extraordinary story of mathematician John Nash…
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Cold War Documentaries - "Atomic City: USA"
by Various
Available on: Digital Download
Fears of a cold war turning hot were rampant from the late 1940’s to the 1980’s and no fear was greater than the fear of a nuclear war and whether or not we were prepared for one.
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Shakespeare Podcast
by Charles Altiere
Available on: Digital Download
Lectures on Shakespeare and readings of his best works.
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Napoleon: Man of the World
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Available on: Digital Download
Part of a larger series of essays in which Emerson examined various historical figures, "Napoleon: Man of the World" is an invaluable study of one of history's great leaders.
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Mahatma
by Mohandas Gandhi
Available on: Online Video
This is the first complete audio-visual documentary biography of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. All events and principles of Gandhi's life and thought are viewed as integrated parts of his truth-intoxicated life depicting permanent and universal values and not merely as stray events of history.
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln
by Henry Ketcham
Available on: Digital Download
Light and enjoyable biography of America's 16th president, Ketcham draws heavily on personal accounts to portray a more human and accesible Lincoln.
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Walking Out of History
by John Rabe
Available on: Online Audio
28 men lost in Antarctica for almost two years, fighting ice and the ocean. The world gave them up for dead; but every one of them survived.
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George Washington
by William Roscoe Thayer
Available on: Digital Download
One of the finer single volume biographies of Washington, Thayer makes ample use of Washington's letters and writings yielding a rich portrait of the man behind the legend.
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J.R.R. Tolkien
by Jeff Overstreet
Available on: Digital Download | Video Download
J.R.R. Tolkien’s literary works are often the subject of speakers that come to the SPU campus.
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
Available on: Digital Download
One of the most widely read autobiographies of all time, Franklin's unfinished work is much more than a retelling of a life. It is a recipe for a self-made man. Franklin's pluck and ceaseless ingenuity capture the spirit of revolutionary America.
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The Last Civil War Widows
by Joe Richman
Available on: Digital Download
My name is Alberta Martin and I was born in nineteen hundred and six, the first day of December. I'm the last Confederate widow living as far as anybody knows...
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Toni Morrison - 1993 Nobel Lecture
by Toni Morrison
Available on: Online Audio
"She is worried about how the language she dreams in, given to her at birth, is handled, put into service..."
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The Osama bin Laden I Know
by Peter L. Bergen
Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio | Online Video
Peter Bergen and Steve Coll offer a portrait of bin Laden's life and nature.
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C.S. Lewis: My Life's Journey
by C.S. Lewis
Available on: Video Download | Online Video
David Payne stars in this one-man play recalling the life and times of C.S. Lewis.
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In Depth: Tom Wolfe
by Tom Wolfe
Available on: Online Video
On Sunday, December 5th, author Tom Wolfe was our guest on In Depth.
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Emerson: The Mind on Fire
by Robert D. Richardson
Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
How do Emerson's ideas about freedom hold up in our age? Did this 19th century abolitionist and philosopher embrace the world around him or retreat into the world of ideas?
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Arthur C. Clarke's 90th Birthday Reflections
by Arthur C. Clarke
Available on: Online Video
The world's best known writer of science fiction, Sir Arthur C Clarke was the first to propose satellite communications in 1945.
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Ben Franklin and the World of the Enlightenment
by Bruce Thompson
Available on: Digital Download
Printer, journalist, postmaster, scientist, inventor, diplomat, patriot, and tireless founder of civic institutions, Benjamin Franklin was the most versatile of the Founders—even more so than Jefferson.
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Activism, Anarchism and Power
by Noam Chomsky
Available on: Online Video
Noam Chomsky speaks about his life and work.
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Tete-a-Tete: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
by Hazel Rowley
Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio | Online Video
They are one of the world's legendary couples.
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Hard Time
by John Biewen
Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
After an historic, generation-long prison expansion, American prisons are now releasing more than 600,000 inmates each year.
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