Raising the first American flag, by E. Percy Moran, American artist, 1862, pain…
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Read by Sonia |
The United States Part I: Discovery: Historical note
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1:32 |
Read by Sonia |
The great voyage of Leif Ericson (1001), from the Sagas
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10:26 |
Read by Piotr Nater |
Columbus (1492), by Joaquin Miller
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2:38 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
Verrazzano's letter to the king (1524)
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14:28 |
Read by Piotr Nater |
The United States Part II: Stories of the Spanish adventurers: Historical note
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2:02 |
Read by Kristine Bekere |
Ponce de Leon seeks the fountain of youth (1513), by Frederick A. Ober
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10:49 |
Read by April6090 |
A Spanish peddler among the Indians (1528), by Cabeza de Vaca
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13:40 |
Read by Piotr Nater |
The story of John Ortiz (1528), by one of the companions of De Soto
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9:02 |
Read by Rita Boutros |
When De Soto met the princess (1541), by Theodore Irving
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17:21 |
Read by Rita Boutros |
The burial of De Soto in the Mississippi river (1542), by Theodore Irving
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7:43 |
Read by Rita Boutros |
The United States Part III: The cliff-dwellers of the Southwest: Historical note
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Read by Tomas Peter |
The seven cities of the wilderness, by John Fiske
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6:32 |
Read by Piotr Nater |
How the cliff-dwellers lived, by T. Mitchell Prudden
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27:20 |
Read by April6090 |
How Little-Blue-Fox fooled the Coyote, a Pueblo folk-story retold by Charles F.…
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8:57 |
Read by Sonrisa Jones |
The storming of the sky-city (1599), by Charles F. Lummis
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28:29 |
Read by Piotr Nater |
The United States Part IV: The planting of the Southern colonies: Historical no…
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2:41 |
Read by Kristine Bekere |
The Huguenots in Florida (1562-1565), by George Bancroft
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22:01 |
Read by Piotr Nater |
The lost colonoy of Roanoke Island (1584-1587), by Robert Southey
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10:57 |
Read by Availle |
John Smith as a captive among the Indians (1607-1608), by Captain John Smith
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13:08 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Pocahontas and Captain John Smith, by F. C. Yohn, American artist, 1875, painti…
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2:53 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
The arrival of ''the King's Maids'' (1620), by Mary Johnston
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15:05 |
Read by Sonrisa Jones |
Life on a Virginia plantation (seventeenth century), by Eva March Tappan
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9:56 |
Read by Availle |
The planting of the colony of Maryland, by Frank B. Mayer, American artist, pai…
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2:48 |
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
How Oglethorpe saved Georgia from Spain (1743), by Cyrus Townsend Brady
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22:45 |
Read by bellanelson875 |
The United States Part V: The settlement of New England: Historical note
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2:12 |
Read by Kristine Bekere |
When Gosnold came to Cuttyhunk (1602), by John Brereton
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15:46 |
Read by April6090 |
The departure of the pilgrims from Holland, from an old Dutch painting, paintin…
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2:41 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
The coming of the pilgrims (1620), by William Elliot Griffis
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10:09 |
Read by Devorah Allen |
The challenge of the rattlesnake skin (1621), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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8:46 |
Read by Jim Locke |
The graves of the pilgrims, by Henry Bacon, American artist, 1840, painting p. …
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1:42 |
Read by Tomas Peter |
Endicott and the red cross (1634), by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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15:26 |
Read by Colleen McMahon |
How Providence won its name (1636), by George Bancroft
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9:41 |
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
The Indian Bible (1661-1663), by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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9:07 |
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson |
Questions that the Indians asked John Eliot
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2:01 |
Read by Sonia |
The United States Part VI: New Netherland and Pennsylvania: Historical note
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2:51 |
Read by Kristine Bekere |
The first voyage up the Hudson river (1609), by John Fiske
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7:19 |
Read by Kristine Bekere |
How feudalism came to New Netherland (1630), by William Elliot Griffis
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6:42 |
Read by Piotr Nater |
Social life in New Netherland (seventeenth century), by William Elliot Griffis
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13:02 |
Read by Availle |
Wouter van Twiller, governor of New Netherland, by Washington Irving
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11:42 |
Read by ToddHW |
The edict of William the Testy, by George H. Boughton, British-American painter…
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2:52 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
How New Amsterdam became New York (1664), by Washington Irving
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22:55 |
Read by Jim Locke |
William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania (1682), by Eva March Tappan
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11:21 |
Read by BettyB |
Penn's treaty with the Indians, by Benjamin West, American artist, 1738-1820, p…
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2:42 |
Read by Monika M. C. |
The United States Part VII: Stories of the Puritans: Historical note
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2:27 |
Read by BettyB |
Sunday in the New England colonies (seventeenth century), by Alice Morse Earle
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20:12 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Calling a minister three centuries ago (1652), by Eva March Tappan
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6:26 |
Read by Devorah Allen |
The king's missive (1661), by John Greenlead Whittier
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4:38 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
How Connecticut saved her charter (1687), by W. H. Carpenter and T. S. Arthur
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7:15 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Sir William Phips, treasure-seeker and soldier (latter part of the seventeenth …
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21:01 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Were there witches in Salem ? (1692), by John Fiske
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24:33 |
Read by Availle |
The United States Part VIII: Wars with the red men: Historical note
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2:40 |
Read by BettyB |
The mysterious champion of Hadley (1675), by Sir Walter Scott
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14:05 |
Read by Rita Boutros |
The mysterious visitor at Hadley, by F. A. Chapman, painting p. 300
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3:14 |
Read by Rita Boutros |
The captivity of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1676), by herself
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27:21 |
Read by April6090 |
The death of King Philip (1676), by Gideon H. Hollister
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13:41 |
Read by Cliona Woodbyrne |
The capture of Deerfield (1704), by Francis Parkman
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13:21 |
Read by Jim Locke |
The fight at Lovewell's Pond (1725), by Samuel Adams Drake
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10:45 |
Read by Rita Boutros |
The United States Part IX: The struggle for the West: Historical note
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2:41 |
Read by BettyB |
Why France claimed the Mississippi Valley, by James A. Garfield
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9:37 |
Read by Availle |
Washington's first commission (1753-54), by George Bancroft
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8:05 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Braddock's defeat (1755), by John Fiske
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16:36 |
Read by Rita Boutros |
When Israel Putnam was captured by the Indians, an incident of the French and I…
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13:13 |
Read by Jim Locke |
The conspiracy of Pontiac (1763-1765), by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
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25:01 |
Read by Piotr Nater |
The prisoner of Machilimackinac (1763), by Alexander Henry
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17:36 |
Read by Jim Locke |
The United States Part X: ''In good old colony times'': Historical note
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2:16 |
Read by Kristine Bekere |
Everyday life in the early colonies, by George Cary Eggleston
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18:58 |
Read by Piotr Nater |
Blackbeard, the last of the pirates (1718), by John Fiske
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6:33 |
Read by Tomas Peter |
Judge Sewall's courtship (1720), by Judge Samuel Sewall
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9:50 |
Read by Jim Locke |
An eighteenth-century voyage down the Hudson river, by James K. Paulding
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12:26 |
Read by ToddHW |
The dress of a little Boston girl in 1772, by Anna Green Winslow
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5:05 |
Read by April6090 |
The United States Part XI: On the eve of the revolution: Historical note
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2:02 |
Read by Kristine Bekere |
Benjamin Franklin before the House of Commons (1766), by James Parton
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22:40 |
Read by Parsa2020 |
The Boston massacre (1770), by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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8:56 |
Read by Jim Locke |
The Boston Tea-Party (1773), by John Fiske
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19:48 |
Read by Availle |
Patrick Henry delivering his celebrated oration, by Peter Frederick Rothermel, …
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2:39 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
''Give me liberty, or give me death !'' (1775), by Patrick Henry
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6:20 |
Read by Tomas Peter |
The United States Part XII: From Lexington to Saratoga: Historical note
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2:38 |
Read by BettyB |
The first day of the revolution (1775), by Edward Everett Hale
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23:36 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Grandmother's story of Bunker-Hill battle (1775), as she saw it from the belfry…
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12:56 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
When Washington took command (1775), by Henry Cabot Lodge
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12:27 |
Read by BettyB |
How Fort Moultrie was held for the colonies (1776), by George Bancroft
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15:26 |
Read by Colleen McMahon |
The defense of Fort Moultrie, by E. Percy Moran, American artist, 1862, paintin…
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2:13 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
The Declaration of Independence (1776), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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9:17 |
Read by April6090 |
Nathan Hale (1776), by Francis Miles Finch
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4:02 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
How Lafayette came to America (1777), by Edward Everett
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16:14 |
Read by Parsa2020 |
Why Cornwallis failed to ''bag the old fox'' (1777), by John Fiske
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7:41 |
Read by April6090 |
The marching song of Stark's men (1777), by Edward Everett Hale
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2:21 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
Burgoyne's surrender (1777), by John Fiske
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16:57 |
Read by Jim Locke |
The United States Part XIII: War in the West and on the ocean: Historical note
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2:31 |
Read by Tomas Peter |
How Daniel Boone saved Boonesborough (1775), by Charles C. B. Seymour
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15:00 |
Read by Jim Locke |
A campaign through the water (1778), by George Rogers Clark
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20:43 |
Read by Kristine Bekere |
How the women brought water to Bryan's station (1782), by Cyrus Townsend Brady
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10:45 |
Read by Jim Locke |
The first salute to the flag (1778), by Sarah Orne Jewett
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7:55 |
Read by Jim Locke |
John Paul Jones in the revolution (1775-1781), by Joel Tyler Headley
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37:48 |
Read by Jim Locke |
The fight between the Serapis and the Bon Homme Richard, by Walt Whitman, from …
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2:05 |
Read by Sonia |