Winston Churchill

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Winston Churchill: Do Your Worst

Winston Churchill Biography in Sound on Old Time Radio Programs

Winston Churchill’s famous 1942 speech in the U.S., “Now we are masters of our fate”


brief clip from Winston Churchill’s 1940 speech

Winston Churchill’s speech about the Iron Curtain

Winston Churchill: We Shall Fight on the Beaches

Churchill’s speech about the German surrender:


Historic footage of VE Day in London, 8th May, 1945

Click here to see a selection of downloadable curriculum resources from CurrClick related to a study of World War 2.

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, translated by Samuel Moore

Communist Manifesto manuscript
Internet archive

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Read this book

A recording in the original German language is available here.

Click here to see a Cold War Era project pack for 7th grade and above from CurrClick. This link will take you away from My Audio School.

Note: Technically this book belongs to 19th century literature, as it was published in 1848, but because of the impact it had on the 20th century we are classifying it here, as well.

Communist Manifesto authors Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, with Marx's wife Jenny and their daughters Laura and Eleanor

Section 1: Bourgeois and Proletarians  00:39:48

Section 2: Proletarians and Communists 00:27:24

Section 3: Socialist and Communist Literature 00:29:41

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor Attack, Griffith Bailey Coale

CBS Football Broadcast War Bulletin

FDR’s Pearl Harbor address

CBS John Charles Daly Reports Pearl Harbor Attack


Japan bombs Pearl Harb
or

CBS Joint Congress Session Declaration of War Proceedings

You can find more audio and video of FDR’s Fireside chats, presidential addresses and much more at The American Presidency Project. Clicking this link will take you away from My Audio School. Kids, please get permission before leaving My Audio School!

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Click here to see a selection of downloadable curriculum resources from CurrClick related to a study of World War 2.

Thanksgiving Proclamations

Turkey Truthahn by Ustad Mansur, 1612

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Free Audio.org has provided 3 historic Thanksgiving Proclamations for download or streaming.

Click here to listen to William Bradford’s Thanksgiving Proclamation, George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation, and Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation.

You can find more podcasts like these at Free Audio.

Great Speeches in History podcast

Kids Learn Out Loud has gathered several famous speeches in this free podcast. This podcast includes Ronald Reagan’s inaugural address, John F. Kennedy’s acceptance of the democratic party nomination, Robert F. Kennedy marking the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., Daniel Webster’s Plymouth oration, President Obama’s 2004 DNC keynote address and Eisenhower’s farewell address.

Great Speeches in History Podcast

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The Declaration of Independence

Declaration_independence by John Trumbull

Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson

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To listen to The Declaration of Independence, as read by Bill Barker, who interprets Thomas Jefferson for Colonial Williamsburg, go to Monticello Podcasts. You’ll need to page most of the way down the page, to the podcast titled Jefferson’s Words: Two Declarations.

Read along by clicking here.

To see a video of the reading of the Declaration of Independence from Colonial Williamsburg, go to the Colonial Williamsburg Video page. This video is titled We Hold These Truths. You’ll need to page down to find it.  This video is archived  on June 29, 2009.

For more excellent audio and video podcasts from Colonial Williamsburg, go to History.org.

Page down to the April 27, 2009 podcast to hear Thomas Jefferson on religious freedom, and the April 20, 2009 podcast to hear Patrick Henry on religious freedom.

The Large Catechism by Martin Luther

Martin Luther

Internet archive page on Librivox

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Summary: Luther’s Large Catechism consisted of works written by Martin Luther and compiled Christian canonical texts, published in April of 1529. This book was addressed particularly to clergymen to aid them in teaching their congregations. Luther’s Large Catechism is divided into five parts: The Ten Commandments, The Apostles’ Creed, The Lord’s Prayer, Holy Baptism, and The Sacrament of the Altar. It and related documents was published in The Book of Concord in 1580. (from Wikipedia)

To listen, click play in the box below or click on the chapter titles.

Image of the title page of Pope Leo X's Bull, Exurge Domine, threatening to excommunicate Martin Luther, scanned from a first edition copy in the library of Concordia Theological Seminary by Robert E. Smith.

Introduction

Preface

The First Commandment

The Second Commandment

The Third Commandment

The Fourth Commandment

The Fifth through Seventh Commandments

Decalogue parchment by Jekuthiel Sofer 1768

The Eighth through Tenth Commandments

Conclusion of the Ten Commandments

Of the Creed

Of Prayer

Die Furlegerin mit offenem Haar by Albrecht Durer, The work of art depicted in this image and the reproduction thereof are in the public domain worldwide. The reproduction is part of a collection of reproductions compiled by The Yorck Project. The compilation copyright is held by Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH and licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License

Commentary on the Petitions of the Lord’s Prayer

Of Baptism

Of Infant Baptism

Rogier van der Weyden, Seven Sacraments Altarpiece, Baptism, Confirmation and Penance: detail: Baptism

Of the Sacrament of the Altar

Exhortation to Receive the Sacraments Frequently

Abraham Lincoln, speeches and documents

Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln

The Emancipation Proclamation downloadable e-text

President Lincoln Writing the Proclamation of Freedom by Blythe

Lincoln’s address at Cooper Union

Click here to read the text of Lincoln’s address at Cooper Union, along with several of his other early speeches. Click on the pages of this virtual book to turn them.  If the pages appear blank, give it a few moments to load.

Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln

Gettysburg Address downloadable e-text

Free Audio.org has 4 Abraham Lincoln speeches that you can stream.  Click here to listen to The Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation and The Emancipation Proclamation.

Abraham Lincoln’s poem Memory

Read the text of Memory here

Click here to see a selection of downloadable CurrClick resources which could be used to enhance the study of Abraham Lincoln.

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