American Memory: Sound Recordings - from the Library of Congress. mostly musical styles (folk, Hispanic music) from various times and places.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/finder.html - then go to Sound Recordings

American Rhetoric - includes 5000+ full text, audio, and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, and more. 
 http://www.americanrhetoric.com 

C-SPAN  - features both audio and video segments. includes press briefings, congressional hearings, and more. recent programs only. 
http://www.c-span.org

CSPAN Booknotes Online Archives - includes free audio recordings (videos need to be purchased) of authors discussing notable books. focus on non-fiction books. 
http://www.booknotes.org/archives

Current Awareness Resources via Streaming Audio & Video - links to the digital presences of most major national and international news sources. includes news sources in non-English languages. 
http://www.freepint.com/gary/audio.htm

FindSounds - search over 1 million sound effects and musical instrument samples. 
http://www.findsounds.com/

Great American Speeches - includes audio and video versions of major U.S. speeches.
http://www.pbs.org/greatspeeches

Historic Audio Archives - from Webcorp Multimedia. collections highlighting "rogues 'n' heroes," Richard Nixon, Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler, the Civil Rights era, and recent U.S. political figures. recordings in RealAudio.
http://www.webcorp.com/sounds 

History and Politics Out Loud - a relatively small collection of high quality materials. most of its resources are on JFK, LBJ, and Nixon. 
http://www.hpol.org

History Channel Speeches - features a large number of speeches by political leaders, sports figures, and other cultural personalities worldwide. recordings use RealAudio.
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches

MediaCrawler: Your Guide to the Media World - searches both audio and video files on the Web, as well as for particular file types. 
http://search.mp3.de

National Public Radio (NPR) Archives - includes audio clips about topics presented on various NPR shows over the last 5+ years. does not include everything ever presented on NPR.
http://www.npr.org/search

NPR's Sound Directory Library - a listing of various resources that can be used to find audio files on the Web. includes most of the resources mentioned here, as well as many, many more.  
http://www.npr.org/about/nextgen/howto/sound_library.html

Online Speech Bank - indexes 5,000+ audio and video versions of "public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events."
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speechbank.htm

Singingfish - searches both audio and video files on the Web. includes materials from radio and television broadcasts, as well as personal audio and video files. 
http://www.singingfish.com

Speech & Transcript Center: Historical Materials - links to audio versions of various speeches, many by U.S. political figures. 
http://www.freepint.com/gary/speechhistoric.htm

SpeechBot: Audio Search Using Speech Recognition - searches audio files of popular U.S. radio programs.
http://speechbot.research.compaq.com

Vincent Voice Library - from Michigan State University. the "largest academic voice library in the United States." includes tapes of over 50,000 people recorded over 100 years, some of which have been digitized and are made available via QuickTime and RealMedia. special focus on the U.S. Presidents, from Benjamin Harrison to the present. 
http://www.lib.msu.edu/vincent

 World Radio Network, Live Streams - includes streaming audio from various radio stations worldwide. no archiving. 
http://www.wrn.org/

Yahoo: Graduation Speeches - includes audio files for selected graduation speeches given at U.S. colleges by major figures (e.g., Barbara Bush at Wellesley College in 1990).
http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Graduation/Speeches

American Memory: Motion Pictures - from the Library of Congress. includes motion pictures on various topics, from advertising for Coca-Cola to ranching culture in Nevada. videos available through various players. 
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/finder.html - then go to Motion Pictures

British Pathe - collection includes 3,500 old newsreels, dating from the early 1900s through 1970. higher quality versions of these resources are offered for sale ($16-$78/clip), but low-resolution previews are free.
http://www.britishpathe.com

CNN Video - includes video clips relating to current U.S. and world issues. CNN now requires a subscription ($4.95/month or $39.95/year) to view videos, but does include good coverage of current events. 
http://www.cnn.com/video

C-SPAN  - features both audio and video segments. including press briefings, congressional hearings, and more. includes recent programs only. 
http://www.c-span.org

Current Awareness Resources via Streaming Audio & Video - links to the digital presences of most major national and international news sources. includes news sources in non-English languages. 
http://www.freepint.com/gary/audio.htm

MediaCrawler: Your Guide to the Media World - searches both audio and video files on the Web, as well as for particular file types. 
http://search.mp3.de 

Nightline - RealVideo presentations of features aired on the show. includes shows from the past few weeks only.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/video_index/video_index.html   

PBS NewsHour Video Search - allows you to search for and view selected video clips from PBS shows. 
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/video/index.html

TheFeedRoom - video clips from local television newscasts. current stories only. 
http://www.feedroom.com

Singingfish - searches both audio and video files on the Web. includes materials from radio and television broadcasts, as well as personal audio and video files. 
http://www.singingfish.com

Teach with Movies - searchable list of teaching guides for Hollywood films. can search by cultural heritage, minimum age, character development, or alphabetically.
http://www.teachwithmovies.org

Washington Week in Review - RealVideo; materials only available for 4 weeks after broadcast
http://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/transcripts

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