To commemorate the life and achievements of Martin Luther King, Jr. we are offering two free downloads from our online collections. The first item is the "I Have a Dream..." button seen to the left. This is a sample of the type of primary source material the will be available in our forthcoming title The Sixties.

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Our second download is from Black Thought and Culture. It is an excerpt of Kenneth Bancroft Clark's chapter "The New Negro in the North" found in Unpublished Papers of Kenneth B. Clark in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress. Read Clark's examination Dr. King's style of leadership and how it was more effective in the South.

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We're celebrating the inauguration of the 44th President of the United States with a look back at the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln. Two free downloads, from Images of the American Civil War and The American Civil: War Letters and Diaries, give us an inside look at the 1861 inauguration.

Our first download is a photograph of Mary Todd Lincoln in her inaugural gown. The photo is found in Images of the American Civil War.

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Our second download is from the diary of Margaret Sumner McLean. Written in March of 1861, McLean describes the tense feeling leading up to Abraham Lincoln's inauguration and the enhanced security at the Capitol.

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Download of the Week: Glinka's Overture to Ruslan and Lyudmila
Every two weeks, we take one complete work from Classical Music Library and make it available for download, either as an MP3 or WMA file. Available now is Glinka's Overture to Ruslan and Lyudmila, performed by the Orchestre d'Etat du Palatinat Rhenan; Kurt Redel, conductor.

Classical Music Library is available on the Web, through annual subscription. You can access the collection now and browse its contents for free. You will only be prompted to log in when browsing the deeper in the collection.

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