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The site mentioned below is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with Michigan State University and is available to all educators and students. Judy > >I have begun to post the entire set of Watergate prosecution tapes (12.5 >hours), which were released a week ago by the National Archives. To aide >comprehension, I have added a text track synchronized to the audio stream. >You can find the initial examples on > >www.hpol.org >search for 'watergate' or browse as you wish > >The most recent addition -- posted this evening -- is the 1 hour 40 minute >"cancer on the presidency" conversation with Nixon, Dean and Haldeman. The >'smoking gun' and other examples were posted earlier in the week. The audio >quality is variable, but the text track seems to enhance comprehension. > >Let me know if you have any suggestions for this database. I am also >planning to distribute the entire set on CD if anyone wants it. No sense >paying $732 for the collection when it should be available for a fraction >of that. > >Jerry Goldman >Northwestern University > ------------------------------------------------------- Judith K. Graves Educational Services National Digital Library Program Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 20540-1320 [log in to unmask] (V)202/707-2562 (F) 202/252-3173 http://learning.loc.gov/learn/