The Medical Heritage Library (MHL), a digital curation collaborative among some of the world’s leading medical libraries, promotes free and open access to quality historical resources in medicine. Our goal is to provide the means by which readers and scholars across a multitude of disciplines can examine the interrelated nature of medicine and society, both to inform contemporary medicine and strengthen understanding of the world in which we live. The MHL’s growing collection of digitized...
Topics: historic medical books, history of medicine
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. University Archives and Records Management Services.
Selected web sites of the academic and business units of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of North Carolina General Administration, and student groups and organizations at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, based on enduring historical value. Supports existing University Archives collections.
Topics: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Public...
Websites for drama festivals and theatrical companies, with a focus on Shakespeare performance. Scope primarily limited to the United States, but includes some international festivals as well.
Topics: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history--United States., Drama festivals--United States.,...
LibriVox recording of The Pirate by Sir Walter Scott. Read in English by Deon Gines The Pirate is set in the island of Shetland in the late 1600s, and is a historical novel based on the life of John Gow, Captain Cleveland in the novel. - Summary by Deon Gines For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, england history, shetland, john gow
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Feb 17, 2015
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Henry Lowood; How They Got Game Project, Stanford University
Websites and resources that document the history of manual and digital games.
Topics: Game History, Wargames
A collection of websites from Wyoming's five elected offices.
Topics: Wyoming. Governor, Wyoming. Secretary of State, Wyoming. State Treasurer’s Office, Wyoming. State...
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Feb 19, 2014
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Federal State University of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO)
This web collection preserves captures from Brazilian web engines. The snapshots were archived by the Internet Archive, and curated to be part of this collection by the Federal State University of Rio de Janeiro. The web collection was built as part of a research project, which investigates born-digital heritage. Since the collection focuses on the History and Culture categories of the search engines, its crawlers were programmed to capture all the available in-links of those categories. In...
Topic: Web History, Search Engines, Brazil
LibriVox 8th Anniversary Collection. For the past few years we have celebrated the anniversary of LibriVox with a collection loosely themed on the number of the anniversary year. This year is no exception. Readers have contributed 88 recordings in Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese, Polish and Yiddish, and this feast of fiction, poetry, essays, articles and musical items ranges from lectures to love letters, science to songs, travel to taxes, and politics to pirates, spiced with a dash of...
Topics: librivox, audiobook, anniversary, eight, short stories, poetry, magazine articles, science fiction,...
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
A computer generated podcast that takes the daily This Day In History writeup from History.com and reads it to you. This podcast is created entirely by a computer program and is read to you by an advanced text-to-speech API. This show has moved to private-paid hosting for now. Feel free to listen at http://feeds.feedburner.com/TodayInHistoryPodcast
Topics: Today in History, Podcast
LibriVox recording of Historia celebre de la Reina de Espana Dona Juana, llamada vulgarmente La Loca. Como implica el título, esta es una biografía de Doña Juana, conocida como Juana la Loca, hija de Fernando II de Aragón e Isabel I de Castilla, los Reyes Católicos. As the title implies, this is a biography of Doña Juana, known as Juana the Mad, daughter of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabel I of Castile, the Catholic Monarchs. For further information, including links to online text,...
Topics: librivox, audiobook, history, biography, Juana la Loca, historia, biografia, Spain, Espana
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Alexander the Great was one of the most successful military commanders in history, and was undefeated in battle. By the time of his death, he had conquered most of the world known to the ancient Greeks. Alexander the Great is one of many biographies aimed at young people written by Jacob Abbott and his brother. The biographies are written in such a way that makes them appealing and easily accessible to everyone. - Written by Wikipedia and Lizzie Driver For further information, including links...
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Topics: librivox, literature, audiobook, History, biography, alexander
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
The BIU Santé (Paris) ( http://www.biusante.parisdescartes.fr/ ) is the leading library in the field of health in France. It holds one of the most important heritage collection in the history of medicine in the world.
Topic: History of medicine
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Jun 26, 2011
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National Institutes of Health (U.S.), NIH Library
"The Office of NIH History works with all NIH components to foster documentation, preservation, and interpretation of the history of the National Institutes of Health" (from the Mission statement). Covering all main pages of the Office of NIH History website, this collection is archived weekly and is maintained by the NIH Library.
Topic: National Institutes of Health (U.S.), Office of NIH History
Collection of Fine Art from different time periods
Topics: Fine, Art, History, Fine Art
The collections of the Church History Library contain materials chronicling the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from its beginning in 1830 to the present day. The collections contain manuscripts, books, Church records, photographs, oral histories, architectural drawings, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, maps, microforms, and audiovisual materials. The staff creates and maintains catalogs and indexes for accessing this wide variety of information. Search our Catalog...
Topic: Church History Library
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Jun 28, 2011
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University of Texas at San Antonio
A collection of university administration web sites at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Topics: University of Texas at San Antonio--History., University of Texas at San Antonio--Web sites., San...
Maryland State Archives and affiliated websites.
Topic: History
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Yiddish Book Center (Christa Whitney)
The Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project is a growing collection of in-depth video interviews with people of all ages, exploring Yiddish cultural topics and issues of modern Jewish identity. The Project is particularly interested in how Yiddish language and culture inform Jewish identity, and how they, along with Jewish values and practices, are transmitted across generations. In the past four years, we’ve recorded over 450 interviews, stories told by people of all ages and...
Topic: yiddish, Jewish, oral history, Wexler Oral History Project, Yiddish Book Center, National Yiddish...
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Oct 6, 2015
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Smith College Special Collections; Smith College Libraries; Sophia Smith Collection
The Sophia Smith Collection is an internationally recognized repository of primary sources in women's history. The holdings document the historical experience of women in the United States and abroad from the colonial era to the present. Subject strengths include birth control and reproductive rights; U.S. and international women's rights; suffrage; the contemporary women's movement and social justice activism across race, class, and sexual orientation; U.S. women working abroad; the arts; and...
Topics: Women--History, Reproductive rights, Women’s health services, Feminists--United States--History
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Resources digitised by the Library Digitisation Unit, University of Southampton
Material from the Library collection is being digitised in-house and made available primarily for research and teaching purposes. Included in this collection are the Oates (slavery) and Rosicrucian materials.
Topics: Oates, slavery, Rosicrucian, Agriculture, botany, farming, husbandry, crops, history, UK
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HistoCast
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Esto es HistoCast. No es Esparta pero casi. Terminamos la temporada con el crucial paso de un personaje por un Japón que fue su enemigo y que le tocaba reconstruir. Introducen al personaje, a ese Japón y lo que aconteció @Enepi_Blog y @Rodericus_Rex, acompañados por @goyix_salduero. Os recordamos que nos podéis seguir a través de nuestra cuenta de twitter @histocast y en facebook. Secciones Historia: - Conferencia de Postdam - 9:06 - Turismo Asturias: Castros - 1:24:28 - Tras la...
Topics: Japón, EEUU, Corea, China, Filipinas, MacArthur, emperador, Guerra Fría, Edad Contemporánea,...
LibriVox recording of The Lives of the Queens of England, Volume 1, by Agnes and Elisabeth Strickland. Read by Ann Boulais. The Lives of the Queens of England is a multi-volumed work attributed to Agnes Strickland, though it was mostly researched and written by her sister Elizabeth. These volumes give biographies of the queens of England from the Norman Conquest in 1066. Although by today's standards, it is not seen as a very scholarly work, the Stricklands used many sources that had not been...
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Topics: librivox, audiobook, history, queens, england, biography
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
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Hagley Museum and Library
This collection was created in 2011 in an attempt to document and provide researchers with a representative snapshot of Internet materials created by DuPont Company and affiliated groups. The websites crawled are not an exhaustive list of web resources available at the time of collection but rather a curated sample, representing different facets of the corporation. Sites will continue to be added to the collection in the future.
Topics: Biotechnology--Industrial applications., Biological Sciences., Biofuels., Chemical industry., Food...
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Sean Kheraj
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Last April, the Nature, History, Society series from UBC Press celebrated the publication of its fortieth book. As the first book series to focus on Canadian environmental history, Nature, History, Society has covered a range of topics from urban environments, to wildlife, to water, to energy. This episode of the podcast features a panel discussion with the three most recent authors in the book series. Angela Carter, Stephane Castonguay, and Daniel Macfarlane joined me to talk about their...
Topics: podcast, Canadian history, environmental history
LibriVox 6th Anniversary Collection. What do you do for a sixth anniversary? We challenged our readers to find any short works which had ’six’ in the title – in any language. The result? LibriVox in all its glorious diversity: sixty-six recordings of poetry, song, short stories, folktales, science fiction, historical documents, travel, art, science and mathematics, in Dutch, English, French and German, from Euclid to the Ziegfeld Follies. (Summary by Ruth Golding) For full details of...
Topics: LibriVox, audiobook, children, poem, poetry, song, science, thermometer, Sherlock Holmes,...
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
0 سورة الكهف 0 سورة يس 001 - سورة الفاتحة 002 سورة البقرة 003-سوره ال عمران 004 - سورة النساء 018 - سورة الكهف 023 سورة المؤمنون العفاسي 067 - سورة الملك 1 سورة البقرة 1 سورة الكهف 1 سورة الممتحنة 1 سورة في القرآن الكريم يطلق عليها أخت الطويلتين * 1- سورة القصص الآية 31 2 - سورة البقرة 2 سورة الصف 2-...
Topic: 1 surat berapa derajat 2 surat terakhir al baqarah 2 surat terakhir al baqoroh 2 surat terakhir...
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Jamie Redfern
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This week the Constitutional Convention continues as the small states propose the New Jersey Plan, before eventually the Connecticut Compromise is reached.
Topics: A, History, Of, United States, the United States of America, USA, Episode, 159, The Constitutional...
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Graham Andrews; Ashley Behringer; Alana Bevan; Angel Dang
Includes websites from the Nobel Prize Organization, leading early-21st century news sources, multi-media sources (including video), social media (or public interaction) sites, and blogs (web logs or online diaries), published in both English and German, on the history and current discussion regarding the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Topics: Nobel Prizes--History, Nobel Prizes--Biography, Nobel Prizes
LibriVox recording of Cleopatra , by Jacob Abbott. A biography of the famous Cleopatra of Egypt, written in a manner, equally interesting to children and to adults. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . Download M4B (135 MB)
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Topics: librivox, audiobook, literature, history, biography, egypt, cleopatra
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of The Life of Anthony by Athanasius of Alexandria. (Translated by H. Ellershaw.) Read in English by Matthew James Gray. Anthony (251-356CE) lived in Egypt, and became one of the fathers of Christian desert monasticism. When he was about 18 years old, and having inherited a large fortune, he heard a sermon about Jesus challenging the rich young ruler to "go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasures in heaven; and come, follow Me." (Matt...
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Topics: librivox, audiobooks, history, religion, adventure, biography, christian, desert, monasticism
LibriVox recording of Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 1) by John Hay and John George Nicolay. This is the biography of Abraham Lincoln, written by two of his private secretaries. (Summary by ashleighjane) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit LibriVox.org . Download M4B...
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Topics: librivox, audio, lincoln, biography, history
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
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NMBHS Web Archive Team
These sites relate to anything historical which is a favorite topic of ZF.
Topic: History
LibriVox recording of Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography read by LibriVox volunteers. In his vital, illustrative and dynamic autobiography, Theodore Roosevelt let us into the life that formed one of the greatest and outspoken presidents in American history. Not only are we privy to the formation of his political ideals, but also to his love of the frontier and the great outdoors. (Summary from Bartleby.com) For further information, including links to M4B audio book, online text, reader...
Topics: LibriVox, audio books, biography, autobiography, Theodore Roosevelt, history, United States...
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
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Chemical Heritage Foundation
CHF’s staff and fellows study the past in order to understand the present and inform the future. We focus on the sciences and technologies of matter and materials and their effect on our modern world, in territory ranging from the physical sciences and industries, through the chemical sciences and engineering, to the life sciences and technologies. We collect, preserve, and exhibit historical artifacts. We engage communities of scientists and engineers. We tell the stories of the people...
Topics: history of chemistry, chemistry, Philadelphia, history of science
LibriVox recording of Our Island Story, by H. E. Marshall. Read by Kara Shallenberg. This is the first half of the book. Part 2 may be found here: http://librivox.org/our-island-story-part-2-by-he-marshall/ . Our Island Story was first published in 1905 and became an instant classic. Beginning with the Romans and following the triumphs and foibles of the good, not so good and the downright despicable figures of history; we are treated to a dazzling montage of kings, queens, barons, knights,...
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Topics: librivox, literature, audiobook, children, history, england, legends, marshall
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
THE SALIS COLLECTION: ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, AND OTHER DRUGS In addition to many generous individuals who have contributed in multiple ways to the SALIS COLLECTION, SALIS also extends sincere thanks to the following funding and collection partners: ...
Topic: Addiction, Addictions, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Recovery, Substance Use Disorders, Treatment, Research,...
LibriVox recording of Fighting the Flying Circus, by Eddie Rickenbacker. Read by Brett W. Downey. This is the WWI memoirs of Medal of Honor winner, Capt Eddie Rickenbacker. He fought in and eventually became commander of the 94th "Hat-in-the-Ring" Squadron, which ended the war with the highest number of air victories of any American squadron. The circus mentioned in the title refers to the German squadron commanded by the famous Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen. (Introduction by...
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Topics: librivox, literature, audiobook, adventure, history, memoirs, war stories, Eddie Rickenbacker
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
A collection of web sites from Wyoming's state agencies, boards and commissions.
Topics: Wyoming - Politics and government, Wyoming - History - 1946-
A collection of media guides published by the football teams of the National Football League (NFL).
Topics: Media Guide, National Football League (NFL), records in sports, Record & Fact books, Football,...
LibriVox recording of History of Julius Caesar by Jacob Abbott. Read by Cathy Barratt The book chronicles the extraordinary life and leadership of Rome’s Emperor Julius Caesar, from his early years to his assassination. (Summary by Cathy Barratt) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader,...
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Topics: librivox, audiobooks, history, nonfiction, Caesar, biography, ancient Rome
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
9/11 Commission Report, formally titled Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, is the official report of the events leading up to the September 11, 2001 attacks. It was prepared by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (informally sometimes known as the "9/11 Commission" or the "Kean/Zelikow Commission") at the request of the President of the United States and Congress. The commission convened on...
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Topics: librivox, 9/11 report, terrorism, terrorist attack on US, history
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. 1. The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was written by the celebrated English historian Edward Gibbon. Volume I was published in 1776, and went through six printings (a remarkable feat for its time). Volumes II and III were published in 1781; volumes IV, V, VI in 1788-89. The original volumes were published as quartos, a common...
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Topics: librivox, literature, audiobooks, history, gibbon, rome
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
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Umair Mirza
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Omar ( Arabic : عُمَرْ ) or Omar Farouk ( Persian : عمر فاروق ) is a historical Arab television drama miniseries -serial that was produced and broadcast by MBC1 and directed by the Syrian director Hatem Ali . Co-produced by Qatar TV , the series is based on the life of Omar ibn al-Khattab (also spelled 'Umar', c. 583–644), the second Caliph of Islam , and depicts his life from 18 years old until the moments of his death. The series faced...
Topics: Islamic History, History of Islam, Islamic Movies, Islamic Documentaries, Documentaries,...
Benedict Cumberbatch is an English actor. He has performed in film, theater, radio, and television. Websites document his professional activity, interactions with his fans, and fan-created content in the year 2014.
Topics: Male actors -- Great Britain., Cumberbatch, Benedict, 1976-., Popular culture -- History -- 21st...
LibriVox recording of Twelve Years a Slave, by Solomon Northup. Read by Rob Marland. Twelve Years a Slave is the memoir of a freeborn African American from New York who is kidnapped and sold into slavery. After being held for twelve years on a series of Louisiana plantations, he is eventually freed and reunited with his family. Solomon Northup published his memoir the year he was rescued, 1853, and, arriving soon after Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin", it proved a...
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Topics: librivox, audiobook, memoir, slavery, history, louisiana, kidnap
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
LibriVox recording of Americans All, Immigrants All by U. S. Department of the Interior Office of Education. Read in English by Mark F. Smith The United States Department of the Interior, Office of Education partnered with the Columbia Broadcasting System to present a series of 26 dramatic radio broadcast programs detailing the role of immigrants in the development of the USA. This small volume was printed as a supplement to the programs. It contains a great deal of the data concerning the...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, immigrants, inventions, US history, discoveries
LibriVox recording of The Story of Mankind by Hendrik van Loon. Read by Michelle Crandall and Kara Shallenberg. Relates the story of western civilization from earliest times through the beginning of the twentieth century, with special emphasis on the people and events that changed the course of history. Portrays in vivid prose the achievements of mankind in the areas of art and discovery, as well as the political forces leading to the modern nation-states. Richly illustrated with drawings by...
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Topics: librivox, literature, history, children, van Loon, world history, short stories, audiobook
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Jacob Starks
These sites reflect historical examination of one of baseball's greatest players and his ensuing philanthropic legacy.
Topics: Ty Cobb, Baseball, History, Popular Culture, Detroit Tigers, Georgia, Ty Cobb Healthcare, Major...
Source: Internet
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University of Michigan School of Information, SI 639, Web Archiving
Visual representations of the golden age of space exploration, dating from post-WWII through the 1970s.
Topics: space exploration, space exploration--1950s, space exploration--1960s, space exploration--1970s,...
LibriVox recording of Thirty Years A Slave, by Louis Hughes. Read by James K. White. Louis Hughes was born a slave near Charlottesville, Virginia to a white father and a black slave woman. Throughout his life he worked mostly as a house servant, but was privy to the intimate details and workings of the entire McGee cotton plantation and empire. In Thirty Years A Slave Hughes provides vivid descriptions and explicit accounts of how the McGee plantation in Mississippi, and the McGee mansion in...
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Topics: librivox, literature, audiobook, biography, history, memoirs
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