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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.

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

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.

In the provocative documentary "Chicken Ranch," filmmakers Nick Broomfield and Sandi Sissel take us on a captivating journey into one of the few legal brothels in Nevada.

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.

In March, 1993, LeAlan Jones, 13, and Lloyd Newman, 14, collaborated with public radio producer David Isay to produce the radio documentary Ghetto Life 101, the audio diaries...

In this gripping documentary, a group of young, unaccompanied Central American children struggle to make their way through Mexico, in order to ultimately reach the United States and jump the border to a new home.

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.