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• African History: Primary Sources: Audio Materials
• African American History: Primary Sources: Audio Materials
• Foreign Policy: Primary Sources: Audio Materials
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• History of Medicine: Primary Sources: Audio Materials
• History of Technology and Science: Primary Sources: Audio Materials
• Labor and Economic History: Primary Sources: Audio Materials
• Southeast Asian History: Primary Sources: Audio Materials
• South Asian History: Primary Sources: Audio Materials
• Women's History: Primary Sources: Audio Materials

Audio Resources:

General

• American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election (American Memory, Library of Congress)

• American Memory: Sound Recordings (Library of Congress)

• American Rhetoric: Online Speech Bank
  5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, etc.

• Audio and Video (BBC)

• Great Speeches of the 20th Century. 4 discs [Santa Monica, CA?]: Rhino Word Beat, p1991.
  HUNT MUS-OFC-4 815 G7862 AUDIO 1-4, supp.
  Presents sixty-one historically important speeches by prominent 20th century American figures in politics, government, sports, civil rights, the women's movement, the armed forces, and the space program. Includes seven speeches by world leaders such as King Edward VIII, Winston Churchill, and Adolph Hitler.

• Greene, Richard. Words that Shook the World: 100 years of Unforgettable Speeches and Events. New York: Prentice Hall, c2002.
  HUNT STACKS-2 PN6122 .G75 2002
  HUNT MUS-OFC-4 PN6122 .G75 2002

• HistoricalVoices.org (Michigan State University)

• History and Politics Out Loud (Jerry Goldman and Northwestern University)

• Speeches and Video (HistoryChannel.com)

• TalkingHistory (University at Albany, State University of New York)

• U. S. Presidents of the 20th Century (Vincent Voice Library, Michigan State University Libraries)

• Vietnam: Oral Histories From Those Who Were There (University of California at Davis)

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