Librivox: Some Interesting Links
Librivox is a site where volunteers record poetry, fiction and non-fiction that are no longer under copyright. Their catalog has grown rapidly. Here's a list of recordings, mostly related to U.S. history.
- Magna Carta (28 min)
- The Ninety-Five Theses by Martin Luther (35 mins)
- The Riot Act - British Parliament of 1714 (19min)
- Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke (in 2 parts) (2hrs:21min)
- Common Sense, Thomas Paine -- in 5 parts (2hr:2min)
- Patrick Henry - Give me Liberty or Give me death (10min)
- Declarion of Rights, by the Stamp Act Congress of 1765 (4min)
- The Declaration of Independence (10min)
- The Call to Arms by Patrick Henry - (11min)
- Articles of Confederation by The Second Continental Congress (21min)
- The Federalist Papers - 85 papers in all (21hr:11min)
- The Anti-Federalist Papers - Patrick Henry - 56 papers in all (19hr:51 min)
- Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography (7hrs:30min)
- The U.S. Constitution (49min)
- Amendments to the Constitution (20 min)
- Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address (12 min)
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (4hr:2min)
- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, (8hr:5min)
- On Withdrawing from the Union by Jefferson Davis (12 min)
- Lincoln's speech at Cooper's Union (51min)
- The New York Times 1861-02-18, on Inauguration of the President of the Southern Confederacy - (5min)
- The Farmer’s Cabinet newspaper, NH 1861-03-08 on The Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln (28 min)
- The New York Times 1865-02-01: From Washington: Abolition of Slavery (2 min)
- The Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln (6 min)
- Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (6 min)
- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Vol 1) in 46 parts (17hrs:53min)
2 Comments:
That's really cool. It will come in handy for homeschooling.
By Jenn Casey, at 7:26 PM
And if you want text versions of similar non copyrighted materials there is The Gutenberg Project.
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
By Kendall J, at 6:25 AM
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