American academic specialist Eric Sandeen from the University of Wyoming has shared with you this unique collection of websites. Special focus is on audio, video files and podcasts. Enjoy!
- http://historymatters.gmu.edu – by searching this teaching site, you will get a list of more than 300 Web sites that have audio or video clips. Many of the annotated citations include links to Web reviews in scholarly journals.
- http://lcweb2.loc.gov/amhome.html - a massive site located at the Library of Congress. Audio files are in the minority, but that means that there are hundreds, rather than millions.
- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html - Voices from the Dust Bowl
- http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO - a Regional Oral History Office, Berkeley
- http://archive.li.suu.edu/voices/voices.html - Voices of the Colorado Plateau
- http://wintercounts.si.edu - Lakota Sioux
- http://us.oyez.org - Supreme Court decisions (search for Hamdan)
- http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/podcast.html - Radio Works. Documentaries. [http://www.radiodiaries.org/newyorkworks-home.html; http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/]
- www.studsterkel.org - interviews organized according to some of his most famous books
- http://www.historicalvoices.org/flint - the anatomy of a labor-oriented town
- http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfsplash.html - Meeting of Frontiers
- http://www.poeticwaves.net - Angel Island [very interesting, innovative]
- http://www.hpol.org - History and Politics Out Loud
- http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/BPP_interviews.htm - Seattle Black Panther Party interviews
- http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/index.php - inaugural addresses
- www.archive.org - a whole lot of everything
- http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page - Project Gutenberg [browse by category]
- www.poets.org - streaming audio but no downloads
- http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire - Triangle Shirt Waist Fire
- http://www.yale.edu/yale300/democracy - Democratic Vistas, Devane Lecture Series
- http://www.nmai.si.edu/livingvoices - Native American oral histories
- http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/sia/cartoon.htm - one of a series of GMU Websites that analyze individual documents
- http://millercenter.org/academic/presidentialrecordings - hours of tapes but pretty mundane stuff
- http://911digitalarchive.org/chinatown/video.php
- http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org - a resource for programs that have aired on public radio. High production value. Most have transcripts.
- http://www.westernfolklife.org/site1/index.php - the "radio" page reveals many interviews and radio programs on Western subjects.
- http://www.npr.org - many, many news shows and features from the most prominent public radio network in the US.
- http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc - a hypertext of Uncle Tom's Cabin, an example of other texts on the Jefferson Village site at the University of Virginia.
- http://www.poetryfoundation.org - Daily poems (audio + text) under "audio & podcasts."
- http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org - A daily, 5-minute radio broadcast, noting the birthdays of famous writers and always ending with a poem (and text).
- www.tenement.org - The site of the Tenement Museum in New York City. The site interprets a tenement house, inhabited by three generations of immigrants.
- http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/soundings - A selection of famous poems from the English-speaking world, read by three contemporary poets.