{"id":148,"date":"2021-12-02T12:39:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T16:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/digital-collections\/?p=148"},"modified":"2021-12-02T12:39:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T16:39:54","slug":"hearing-democracy-in-the-first-state-preserving-delawares-political-legacy-1949-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/digital-collections\/hearing-democracy-in-the-first-state-preserving-delawares-political-legacy-1949-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearing Democracy in the First State: Preserving Delaware\u2019s Political Legacy, 1949-1986"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Carper for Congress\/State Fair, 1982.” MSS 0399, Thomas R. Carper congressional papers, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.<\/p><\/div>\n

The University of Delaware\u2019s Library, Museums and Press\u2019s Special Collections Department has just completed an 18-month grant-funded digitization project to make approximately 550 unique audio recordings from four political collections available to students and researchers at the University of Delaware and beyond.<\/span><\/p>\n

Under direction of Principal Investigator John Caldwell, Associate Librarian and Coordinator of Political Papers and Electronic Records, Special Collections digitized the William Satterfield collection of Delaware political radio commercials and interviews, which documents the political environment in Delaware between 1970 and 1986. The voices of candidates and public officials, ranging from local politicians to the President of the United States, are now available for the first time since these commercials and interviews originally aired, conveying policy stances and the state of political discourse in Delaware during the 1970s and early 1980s. Other notable recordings included in the project are speeches and interviews from United States Senators John J. Williams (R, 1947-1970) and J. Allen Frear, Jr. (D, 1949-1961), who represented Delaware during two historically significant decades in the mid-20<\/span>th<\/span> century.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

All of the recordings are now available through the Library\u2019s Artstor Commons platform. In addition to the full audio, most of the recordings are fully transcribed and audio recordings can be viewed with captions in Artstor Commons. The collections can be accessed here:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n