At the 1952 Republican national convention, young Senator Richard M. Nixon was chosen to be the running mate of presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisen...
President Nixon on Television 8/8/74.收听点击 在线英语听力室论坛On August 8, 1974, a unique and tragic event in American politics occurred as President Richard M. ...
Richard Nixon delivers his farewell as daughter Tricia watches.收听点击 在线英语听力室论坛On August 8, 1974, a unique and tragic event in American history occurred...
Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847) was a great Irish statesman, called the Liberator of Ireland. He led a movement that successfully forced the British ...
William Lyon Phelps (1865-1943) was an American educator, literary critic and author. He served as a professor of English at Yale University from 1901...
In March of 2000, Pope John Paul II conducted an historic week-long pilgrimage to the Holy Land, visiting several sites in Israel for the first time i...
Born in Germany in 1927, Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) grew up in a nation dominated by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. As a teenager, he was ...
Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) was one of the leaders and orators of the French Revolution of 1789, best known for his involvement in the Reign of...
FDR delivers his First Inaugural speech, March 4, 1933....
This speech was delivered at a time when the military forces of Germany and Japan enjoyed a series of victories over seemingly weakling democratic nat...