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Great American Presidents, Volume II
by Wikipedia
Available on: Digital Download
LearnOutLoud's Great American Presidents, Volume II continues its biography series of America's most celebrated leaders.
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Speech by Gandhi
by Mohandas Gandhi
Available on: Online Audio
Mohandas Gandhi, recorded in Kinglsey Hall, London 1931, giving a spiritual message to the world.
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Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death" Speech
by Patrick Henry
Available on: Digital Download
On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry delivered a speech which supported military action against the British. This stirring speech swayed the vote and was most likely the deciding factor in committing Virginia troops to fight the British.
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John F. Kennedy Speeches
by John F. Kennedy
Available on: Digital Download
Below are complete audio recordings of some of John F. Kennedy's most important speeches.
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Gandhi Audio Library
by Mohandas Gandhi
Available on: Digital Download
Gandhi speeches and recordings provided by the Mahatma Gandhi Research and Media Serivce Archive.
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Ronald Reagan Speeches
by Ronald Reagan
Available on: Digital Download
Below are complete audio recordings of some of Ronald Reagan's most important speeches.
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First Inaugural Address of President George Washington
by George Washington
Available on: Digital Download
In 1789 George Washington was elected unanimously by the Electoral College as the first president of the United States of America. He was inaugurated as president on April 30, 1789 and he delivered the first inaugural address at Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City.
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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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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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Iron Curtain Speech
by Winston Churchill
Available on: Online Audio | Online Video
"I can therefore allow my mind, with the experience of a lifetime, to play over the problems which beset us on the morrow of our absolute victory in arms, and to try to make sure with what strength I have that what has been gained with so much sacrifice and suffering shall be preserved for the future glory and safety of mankind."
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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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American Presidents
by Patricia O'Toole
Available on: Digital Download
Listen to noted American historians discussing the lives of some of the nation's best known leaders.
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2000 First Presidential Debate: Gore v. Bush
by George W. Bush
Available on: Digital Download
The first in a series of highly anticipated debates.
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Oral History on India's Independence Movement
by Mohandas Gandhi
Available on: Digital Download
Millions of Indians participated in the struggle for independence from the British Empire who witnessed and were part of the large nonviolent movement, led by Mahatma Gandhi.
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Tim Russert Interviews Supreme Court Judges (04/21/05)
Available on: Digital Download
Tim Russert, host of NBC's Meet the Press, moderates a panel with three members of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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The Audacity of Hope
by Barack Obama
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Senator Barack Obama talks with Bob Herbert about his book, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.
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The Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt
by Hermann Hagedorn
Available on: Digital Download
Well written and admiring biography of Theodore Roosevelt. Hagedorn received the blessing and full cooperation of Roosevelt's family. The result is a richly fascinating portrait filled with charming anecdotes rarely found in presidential biographies.
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A Conversation with Barack Obama
by Barack Obama
Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio | Online Video
US Senator Barack Obama, D-IL discusses his new book, The Audacity of Hope, and his views on American politics with New York Times columnist Bob Herbert.
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The Federalist #10
by James Madison
Available on: Digital Download
James Madison's first and greatest contribution to the work that would become known as the Federalist Papers. In #10 Madison turns on its head the centuries old maxim that representative government could survive only in small republics.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Speeches
by Franklin D. Roosevelt
Available on: Digital Download
Below are complete audio recordings of some of Franklin D. Roosevelt's most important speeches as President.
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The Great Depression and WWII
by Arthur Schlesinger
Available on: Digital Download | Video Download
Listen to noted American history scholars discuss the impact of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt, The New Deal , and WW II.
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The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio | Online Video
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin explains how the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rose from obscurity to become one of the most significant presidents in this nation's history.
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Andrew Jackson
by H.W. Brands
Available on: Digital Download | Online Video
Though a military hero, Andrew Jackson had a checkered reputation.
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Vietnam & the Presidency
by Brian Williams
Available on: Digital Download
Vietnam tested four American presidents. It took the lives of more than 58,000 Americans, and more than one million Vietnamese.
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Howard Dean and Richard Perle Foreign Policy Debate
by Howard Dean
Available on: Digital Download
The new chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Howard Dean, and former Pentagon adviser Richard Perle debate foreign policy at Pacific University's "Tom McCall Forum" in Portland, OR.
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