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Martin Luther King's "I've been to the mountaintop" March 3, 1968
Martin Luther King's "I've been to the mountaintop" March 3, 1968
Edward Kennedy at Robert Kennedy's funeral June 8, 1968 "I see things that never were and say "why not?"<br />  
Edward Kennedy at Robert Kennedy's funeral June 8, 1968 "I see things that never were and say "why not?"<br />  
Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 Moon Landing<br />  
Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 Moon Landing.<br />  
 
Gerald Ford's pardoning of Richard Nixon September 8, 1974.<br />
Ronald Reagan--D-Day Memorial - Pointe du Hoc - June 6, 1984.<br />
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Ronald Reagan--Challenger Disaster Address January 28, 1986. <br />
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Ronald Reagan--Brandenberg Gate June 12, 1987. <br />
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Barbara Bush at Wellesley 1990. <br />
George H. W. Bush 41st President--Announces Attack on Iraq January 16, 1991. <br />
And probably all the other speeches on the list.

Revision as of 16:08, 9 July 2013

Under way 9 July 2013, but very few books on the Year 11 list are in the Public Domain.

Introduction

Listeners have requested a list of LibriVox recordings of books recommended by Ambleside Online for use with homeschooling. Anyone looking for audio books for children will find plenty of ideas on this page.

This is the fifth part, covering year 11. The first part, covering years 0 - 4, may be found here. The second part, covering Years 5 - 8, may be found here. The third part, covering Year 9, is here. The fourth part, covering Year 10 is here.

The lists here only include books on the main booklists on Ambleside Online, not the various personal recommendations. If you would like to browse all LibriVox recordings of books, stories and poems for children, please follow this link.

Please note that many books on the Ambleside list are not in the Public Domain, and are therefore not available to record for LibriVox.

Booklist for Year 11

LibriVox recordings

Note: Very few books on the Ambleside list apart from a few novels and some short stories are in the Public Domain.


The Bible

Many recordings available including American Standard Version and King James Version. For recordings of all versions, please see this search.

History

The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G. K. Chesterton.

Speeches

Speech on Prosecuting the War with Germany, 1940 (Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat) speech of Winston Churchill, May 13, 1940 (Section 7).
Their Finest Hour speech of Winston Churchill, June 18, 1940 (Section 15).






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In the Public Domain, but not yet recorded

Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible Text at ccel.org. Warning: this is huge.
Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children by Roosevelt, ed. Joseph Bucklin Bishop. Text on Project Gutenberg.
Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs. Text on Project Gutenberg. (Not PD for Europe)
The Man with the Muck Rake speech by Teddy Roosevelt - April 15, 1906. Text at americanrhetoric.com.
War Message speech by Woodrow Wilson 2 April 1917. Text at americanrhetoric.com.
Douglas MacArthur's farewell to Congress April 19, 1951. Text at americanrhetoric.com.
Richard Nixon's "Silent Majority" speech November 3, 1969 Text at americanrhetoric.com.
Congresswoman Barbara Jordan's opening statement to House Judiciary Committee Text at americanrhetoric.com.
Richard Nixon's resignation August 8, 1974 Text at americanrhetoric.com.

Not in the Public Domain

The Holiness of God by R. C. Sproul.
The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
The Pleasures of God by John Piper.
Streams in the Desert by Mrs. Charles Cowman (pub. 1925 and copyright renewed).
A History of the Twentieth Century The Concise Edition of the Acclaimed World History by Martin Gilbert.
Modern Times Revised Edition: World from the Twenties to the Nineties by Paul Johnson.
Oxford History of the American People by Samuel Eliot Morison.
A Basic History of the United States by Clarence B. Carson.
A Short History of Western Civilization by Sullivan et al.
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain.
Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman.
Only Yesterday by Frederick Allen.
Some of Us Survived by Kerop Bedoukian.
Ethiopia Through Russian Eyes: Country in Transition, 1896-1898 by A. K. Bulatovich, translated by Richard Seltzer.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address March 4, 1933.
Edward VIII's Abdication Speech - December 11, 1936.
Henry Louis "Lou" Gehrig's farewell to baseball speech July 4, 1939.
The Men Behind Hitler A German warning to the world by Bernhard Schreiber.
Mein Kampf (My Struggle) by Adolf Hitler.
The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw.
Franklin Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor address December 8, 1941.
Dwight David Eisenhower--Supreme Allied Commander broadcasts D-Day invasion order June 5, 1944.
Franklin Roosevelt D-Day Prayer June 6, 1944.
Dwight David Eisenhower--Supreme Allied Commander on victory June 12, 1945.
Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain speech.
Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King, ed. by Kris Shepard and Clayborne Carson.
Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King.
I Have a Dream speech by Martin Luther King, Jr..
The Hungarian Revolt by Richard Lettis and William Morris.
Victim: Imprisonment Because of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 by Arpad Szilagyi.
A World Split Apart by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn - Harvard speech.
John F. Kennedy's Inauguration January 20, 1961 "Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country."
Douglas MacArthur's address at West Point May 12, 1962 "Duty, honor, country." John F. Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" June 26, 1963,
Martin Luther King's "I've been to the mountaintop" March 3, 1968 Edward Kennedy at Robert Kennedy's funeral June 8, 1968 "I see things that never were and say "why not?"
Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 Moon Landing.
Gerald Ford's pardoning of Richard Nixon September 8, 1974.
Ronald Reagan--D-Day Memorial - Pointe du Hoc - June 6, 1984.
Ronald Reagan--Challenger Disaster Address January 28, 1986.
Ronald Reagan--Brandenberg Gate June 12, 1987.
Barbara Bush at Wellesley 1990.
George H. W. Bush 41st President--Announces Attack on Iraq January 16, 1991.
And probably all the other speeches on the list.