Laura Bush:Good morning. I'm Laura Bush, and I'm delivering this week's radio address to kick off a world-wide effort to focus on the brut...
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 ...
收听点击 在线英语听力室论坛President Ronald Reagan delivered this 1982 speech to members of the British Parliament in the Royal Gallery at the Palace of Westminste...
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. Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated as the 32nd U.S. Pres...
George Graham Vest (1830-1904) served as U.S. Senator from Missouri from 1879 to 1903 and became one of the leading orators and debaters of his time. ...
At the close of the Revolutionary War in America, a perilous moment in the life of the fledgling American democracy occurred as officers of the Contin...
Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate, Elie Wiesel, gave this impassioned speech in the East Room of the White House on April 12, 1999, as part of the...
In January 1918, ten months before the end of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson appeared before a joint session of Congress and made this address ...
背景知识美国在1776年独立，脱离英国的管治，不足一百年间，已发展成一个超级大国。由于国土辽阔，南北之间的分歧亦大。 美国北方依靠工商业，要求提高关税以保护他们产品的市场；南方依靠农业，需要自由贸易制度，以便他们的棉花、烟草和大米卖到欧洲各国。但双方更大的分歧在于是否解放黑奴。1860年，林肯(Ab...