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The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives.
Voices from the Days of Slaves
Another digital collection from the Library of Congress. The almost seven hours of recorded interviews with former slaves presented here took place between 1932 and 1975 in nine Southern states.
TED-Ed’s commitment to creating lessons worth sharing is an extension of TED’s mission of spreading great ideas. Within TED-Ed’s growing library of lessons, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed platform. This platform also allows users to take any useful educational video, not just TED’s, and easily create a customized lesson around the video. Users can then distribute TED-Ed lessons, publicly or privately, and track their impact on the world, a class, or an individual student. Click here for detailed copyright terms on using TedED materials.
Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive
The Library's collection is a specialized one focused on American politics and history with special attention paid to the American presidency. The Library's multimedia collection is a truly unique collection of material on U.S. public policy. The Library's multimedia archive includes more than 2,500 hours of secret White House recordings, hundreds of presidential oral history interviews, audio and video recordings of Miller Center Forums, and documents related to the executive branch of American government. The Library's digital archive on the American presidency is more than three terabytes in size and growing.
ARKive is leading the 'virtual' conservation effort - gathering together films, photographs and audio recordings of the world's species, prioritising those most at risk of extinction, and building them into comprehensive multimedia digital profiles. Details on use can be found here
Alan Lomax Recordings 1946-1990s
From the Association for Cultural Equality, the collection includes over 17,400 digital audio files. Content includes oral histories of New Orleans jazz, international folk traditions, and American regional traditions. Additionally Alan Lomax was contracted in 1938 to conduct a folk song survey of the Great Lakes region. This collection od 444 recordings can be found at the Alan Lomax Collection of Michigan and Wisconsin Recordings
Internet Archive Audio
This site contains over a hundred thousand free digital recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users. Many of these files are available for free download.
Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
The University of California Santa Barbara Library, with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Grammy Foundation and donors, has created a digital collection of more than 10,000 cylinder recordings held by the Department of Special Collections. To bring these recordings to a wider audience, the Library makes them available to download or stream online for free.
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, and more.
Whether you're doing research for a project, need help with homework, or just want to learn something new, YouTube EDU features some of our most popular educational videos across YouTube.
a large web-based educational resource for avant-garde material available on the internet, founded in 1996 by poet Kenneth Goldsmith. It offers visual, concrete and sound poetry, expanding to include film and sound art mp3 archives.
