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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.

You can now watch Randy Pausch's Last Lecture on "Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" in its entirety on YouTube. If you've not heard of this lecture it was a lecture delivered on September 18, 2007 by Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch who had been diagnosed with a terminal case of pancreatic cancer.

Studs Terkel was undoubtedly one of the great radio interviewers of the 20th century, along with being an author, actor, and historian. Listen to 100s of interviews conducted by the multifaceted Studs Terkel who hosted "The Studs Terkel Program" on Chicago's fine arts radio station WFMT from 1952 to 1997.

Lionel Dahmer is the father of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who committed some of the most ghastly crimes imaginable. Lionel has written a new memoir about his life with his son, "A Father's Story." (William Morrow), in which he tries to understand what happened to his son, and how he could turn into such a monster.

Download the audio book version of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, a free black man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. in 1841 and sold into slavery.

It was assumed many years ago, when you got old you lived with the family. And I guess there's something to be said for that.

Since 1996, the Teenage Diaries series has been giving tape recorders to young people around the country to report on their own lives.

Sullenberger had less than three minutes to plan and execute the water landing hailed around the world as the miracle on the Hudson last winter.

Google will be hosting Dong Hyuk Shin, a 26-year-old North Korean defector born and raised in a concentration camp.

This audio documentary put out by American Public Media recounts the incredible true-life tale of how 28 Men survived a ship-wreck in Antarctica for 2 years.