Hearing the America of a Century Ago

We experience history through words, pictures and drawings in books. That works pretty well for transmission of facts, but how about more nuanced things like emphasis and attitude? Wouldn't it be great to have a rich historical archive of speeches and music and sounds.

And now we have that. The Library of Congress recently opened the National Jukebox, an online database of recorded music, speeches, spoken-word performances and other snippets of audio from a century ago. The Los Angeles Times reports.