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- https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu//virtualarchive/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- American Studies, Politics and Government
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The Virtual Vietnam Archive contains over four million pages of scanned materials, including documents, photographs, slides, negatives, oral histories, artifacts, moving images, sound recordings, maps, and collection finding aids. The resource is part of the Vietnam Center and Archive at Texas Tech University. The focus of the material tends to be personal, rather than official in nature: eg. photographs, letters home and home movies. Non-copyrighted material which has been digitised is freely available for users to download. The audiovisual materials pages alone includes over 650 donated digitised films as well as material generated by the Vietnam Center and Archive itself: lectures, conference proceedings and interviews. The donated films include items from various collections, much of it originally filmed on 8mm or 16mm film. The films can be viewed in MP4 format or downloaded as MP4s or WMV files. To enable navigation of such a huge resource the archive has provided a Research help page, which includes subject guides, links to various search pages and focused browse pages eg. Browse the Digitized Audio and the Oral History page.
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- https://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- American Studies, Literature, Media Studies, Politics and Government
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download, Web Links
The Harry Ransom Center is a library, archive and museum based at the University of Austin, Texas. Its mission is to advance the study of the arts and humanities by acquiring, preserving, and making accessible original cultural materials. Amongst its holdings are over 36 million literary manuscripts as well as a smaller collection of film and television materials. The centre’s multimedia page features an eclectic selection of videos, including talks by writers, features on aspects of conservation, and films about selected artefacts and objects held in the Center’s archives.
Also available is the Mike Wallace Interview collection. Wallace was an American journalist noted for his direct interviewing style, whose programme ran from 1957 to 1960. He donated the show’s footage, on 16mm kinetoscope, to the Ransom Center in the 1960s. A wide range of notable personalities submitted themselves to Wallace’s probing, hard-hitting approach, including Henry Kissinger, Frank Lloyd Wright, Diana Barrymore, Jean Seberg, Gloria Swanson, Aldous Huxley and Margaret Sanger. The 65 interviews are freely available to view (five are audio only) and come with full transcripts.
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- http://www.darrenreidhistory.co.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- American Studies, History
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
This website was created by Dr Darren Reid who teaches American Studies at the University of Edinburgh and features podcasts, interviews, links, and reviews on American cutlure and history. Reid’s site hosts his two main podcasts: one on the History of the American Frontier, the other on The Artist in American History which presents a series of lectures and documentaries which explore how comic books have reflected and informed the societies that made them. Another of Reid’s podcasts - American Studies and History- is available at iTunes and considers American history through the lens of artists, musicians, chroniclers and film makers.
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- http://www.jackkerouac.com/home/audio-2/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- American Studies, Literature
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- Radio/Sound
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- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download, Video Sources, Web Links
This resource is an interactive archive and exhibition space devoted to Jack Kerouac and connected topics, particularly relating to Lowell, Massachusetts, the city of Kerouac’s birth and childhood. There is a nice selection of audio recordings, taken from a large of collection of Kerouac-related material owned by the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The recordings feature contributions from Kerouac’s childhood friends, as well as fellow-writers William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, covering subjects such as Kerouac’s sexuality, the idea of the ‘vision quest’, religion, childhood, life on the road, and, less obviously Kerouac’s similarity to the Fonz from the television show Happy Days.
A small selection of video clips feature Professor Todd Tietchen discussing the first part of The Town and the City, as well as a clip of Allen Ginsberg speaking at UMass Lowell. The audiovisual resources are complemented by links and a bibliography.
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- http://podcastthing.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- American Studies, Art, Business Studies, Current Affairs, Design, Economics, Food, General Science, History, Literature, Media Studies, Music, Social Studies, Technology, Women’s Studies
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download, Web Links
A portal which helps people to ‘find great podcasts’. Curated by Max Temkin and Veronica Corzo-Duchardt, the site presents a selection of mainly American podcasts, arranged under a number of topics, including Tech, Science & Education, Politics & Econ and Storytelling. An Interview page features transcripts of question and answer sessions with podcasters, writers, designers and other culturally-aware, creative people, who talk about their favourite podcasts, and why (and how) they like listening to them. The site works well because its focus is fairly narrow: the emphasis is on curation, and presenting a carefully selected range of interesting podcasts, rather than a comprehensive but overwhelming list of resources.
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- https://www.popuparchive.org/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- American Studies, History, Politics and Government, Social Studies, Women’s Studies
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- Radio/Sound
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- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
This portal provides access to American oral history and sound archive material, using open source software to enable content providers to store and catalogue their files so that their collections can be preserved in perpetuity. The software allows the files to be tagged with rich metadata (including recording date, broadcast date, location, subject, interviewer and interviewee) so that the collections can be easily searched and accessed by researchers. The material is streamed and is not available for download and new material is being added as it is digitised and catalogued.
Collections include Studs Terkel’s interviews from the 1952-1997 radio show, The Studs Terkel Program, on the Chicago station WFMT, featuring Simone de Beauvoir, James Baldwin, Sidney Poitier and Diane Arbus, amongst others. Other collections, such as the Pacifica Radio Archives and Illinois Public Media document some of the most significant changes in recent American history, particularly the 1950s and 1960s. First hand accounts from prime movers and campaigners in the African-American civil rights movement, the women’s movement, and from student activism and gay rights campaigners, present a vital picture of a time of political and social upheaval from outside the mainstream US media.
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- https://www.nytimes.com/ref/books/books-podcast-archive.html
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- Arts and Humanities
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- American Studies, Literature, Politics and Government
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting
Archive of weekly book reviews going back to 2006. Presented in a magazine format, the podcast features reviews of recently published books as well as updates on the publishing world and interviews with authors.
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- http://www.econtalk.org/
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- Social Sciences
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- American Studies, Economics, Politics and Government
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
This weekly, hour-long podcast is hosted by Professor Russell Roberts at George Mason University and features in-depth interviews with prominent economists, including Nobel laureates Joseph Steiglitz and Ronald Coase, as well as wider discussions covering the political, philosophical and ethical implications of different schools of economic thought. In this podcast from 2009, Christopher Hitchens makes the case for why George Orwell still matters. The podcasts are accompanied by transcripts, links and selective bibliographies and are free to listen to and download. A number of podcasts come with listening guides, consisting of questions and suggestions for teachers at secondary level and higher. Recommended.
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- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00f6hbp/episodes/player
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- American Studies, Art, Current Affairs, Economics, Ethnology, Film Studies, Geography, History, Music, Politics and Government, Radio Studies, Religious Studies, Social Studies, Women’s Studies
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- Radio/Sound
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- Archives/Museums
Alistair Cooke’s first Letter from America - initially called American Letter - was broadcast by the BBC in March, 1946. It was to be the first of 2,869 such broadcasts, spanning 58 years, making it by far the longest-running talk programme of any radio station in the world. The 920 surviving recordings, broadcast between 1946 and 2004, are now online. The can be searched by date and by theme, the latter including such categories as US presidents, race, music & movies, history and so on.
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- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- American Studies, Literature
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Information Sources, Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Website of the Poetry Foundation, a Chicago-based independent institution "committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture". The site is a rich resource, featuring the texts of more than 10,000 poems by 1,800 poets, with a search engine to enable browsing by poet, period, poetic school, occasion and country as well as by poetic terms and subjects. There are also interviews, criticism, reading guides, event listings, and poetry-related news. The site’s podcasts are arranged by theme and series: The Essential American Poets features archival recordings of writers as well as introductions to their lives and work: Anne Sexton, Wallace Stevens, Gertrude Stein and John Ashbery are among those represented.
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