Maintained by the Michigan State University Libraries, this site offers selections from the largest academic voice library in the nation. Unfortunately, the site offers only a fraction of the library's more than 50,000 voices ranging over 100 years. Still, users can access excerpts from the speeches of over a dozen presidents, including Warren G. Harding coining the phrase "America First," Theodore Roosevelt pronouncing on "why the bosses oppose the progressive party," and John F. Kennedy publicly discussing the Cuban Missile Crisis. Selections of poems and fiction are also provided from the Michigan Writer's Series. Finally, the Website links to NPR's Lost and Found Sound, a fascinating collection of audio materials from the last century (see the
March 26, 1999 Scout Report).
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