For an online collection of audio books and poetry recordings and MP3's from the Naropa Poetics Audio Archive, LibriVox, Project Gutenberg and Maria Lectrix. CLICK HERE

You can also check your local library for their audiobook recordings. If you can't find what you're looking for, ask the librarian. Most libraries have lending agreements with other institutions.

Below are some excerpts from The Woozy.com's favorite audiobook adventures. Each audio adventure is only a few minutes long

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1. Professor David Blight of Yale University recounts the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation to recently freed slaves.

2. Robert F. Williams discusses his groups efforts to integrate the Monroe, South Carolina swimming pool.

3. Angela Davis talks about trying to pinpoint when she became an activist.

4. Introduction to the PBS series, Eyes On The Prize: America At The Crossroads.

5. The Rise of Conservative Politics, Law & Order and Religion (Professor Felipe Fernandez-Armesto.

6. From Richard Wright's 'Black Boy': Having to Fight at School.

7. Professor J. Rufus Fears: On Civil Disobedience & Social Change.

8. The Aftermath of the Scottsboro Boys: American Experience.

9. The Lowest Point in American History: The Presidency of Andrew Johnson.

10. Attica Prison Rebellion Slaughter.

11. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Crossroads of The Promised Land.

12. Paul Robeson: Broadway and Harlem.

13. The Underground Railroad: The Fugitive Slave Act.

14. Gil Scott-Heron: We Beg Your Pardon America.

15. A brief explanation of the New York Slave Riot.

16. Uncle Tom's Cabin: Escape of Cassy & Emmeline, The Death of Uncle Tom.

The Audio files below are non-African-American specific.

17. Albert Einstein's Miracle Year: 1905.

18. Ernest Shakelton completes one of the greatest sea voyage in history.

19. Penzias and Wilson: (Cosmic Background Radiation).

20. Fort Laramie Council: Cultural misinterpretations (Crazy Horse).

21. Hernan Cortes and the Aztecs.

22. The Early Life of Adolf Hitler

23. Encounters between Natives and English. (The Mayflower)

24. The Enlightenment

25. The French Revolution - Napolean III & Reprecussions of Character

26. 17th Century Colonial Empires in the Americas

27. Paul Experiences the Risen Jesus

28. The Insanity of Mao's Great Leap Forward (Steel & Wheat)

29. Gandhi's Leadership & Fearlessness

30. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

31. Jared Diamond, (Guns, Germs & Steel) Conquest of the Incas

32. Don Quixote's Penance for Dulcinea Del Toboso (& Sancho's Objection)

33. Philosopher Jacques Derrida (Deconstruction) Names His Forerunners