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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
by Frederick Douglass
Available on: Audio 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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The Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
by Randy Pausch
Available on: Online Video
Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008) gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium.
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Chris Gardner on The Pursuit of Happyness
by Chris Gardner
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
Chris Gardner in conversation with 20/20 producer Lynn Redmond about his newly-published autobiography, 'The Pursuit of Happyness.'
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Cold War Documentaries - "Atomic City: USA"
by Various
Available on: Audio 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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The Last Civil War Widows
by Joe Richman
Available on: Audio 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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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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Studs Terkel Audio Galleries
by Studs Terkel
Available on: Audio Download
On "The Studs Terkel Program," which was heard on Chicago's fine arts radio station WFMT from 1952 to 1997, Terkel interviewed Chicagoans and national and international figures who helped shape the past century.
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Buffalo Bill Cody
by William Frederick Cody
Available on: Audio Download
William Frederick Cody, known as Buffalo Bill, is one of the great icons of the pioneer years in the early American West.
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Jonathan Franzen on The Discomfort Zone
by Jonathan Franzen
Available on: Online Video
From the Miami Book Fair International, a talk by author Jonathan Franzen about his memoir The Discomfort Zone.
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Authors at Google: Valentino Achak Deng
by Valentino Achak Deng
Available on: Online Video
Valentino Achak Deng discusses the novel "What Is the What" by Dave Eggers as part of the Authors@Google series.
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