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Web Site Review
| History and Politics Out Loud (HPOL) <http://www.hpol.org>. Directed by Jerry Goldman, Northwestern University. Visited Sept.–Oct. 2005.
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| History and Politics Out Loud (HPOL) presents 107 spoken word recordings of people in twentieth-century United States history, as "a searchable archive of politically significant audio materials for scholars, teachers and students." Each of the 107 selections available for streaming is indexed by date, title, subject, and, when a transcript exists, by keyword in the transcript. |
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HPOL has been available online for several years, yet its content and presentation give the impression that it is still being developed. The browse-by-date screen of HPOL provides a breakdown by decade of the site's offerings. An examination of the site using this display demonstrates the site's significant strengths—and weaknesses. The decade outline shows no entries before the 1930s, which is represented by three recordings, one by Oliver Wendell Holmes and two by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. |
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