Raising the first American flag, by E. Percy Moran, American artist, 1862, pain…

1:59

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The United States Part I: Discovery: Historical note

1:32

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The great voyage of Leif Ericson (1001), from the Sagas

10:26

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Columbus (1492), by Joaquin Miller

2:38

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Verrazzano's letter to the king (1524)

14:28

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The United States Part II: Stories of the Spanish adventurers: Historical note

2:02

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Ponce de Leon seeks the fountain of youth (1513), by Frederick A. Ober

10:49

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A Spanish peddler among the Indians (1528), by Cabeza de Vaca

13:40

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The story of John Ortiz (1528), by one of the companions of De Soto

9:02

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When De Soto met the princess (1541), by Theodore Irving

17:21

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The burial of De Soto in the Mississippi river (1542), by Theodore Irving

7:43

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The United States Part III: The cliff-dwellers of the Southwest: Historical note

1:23

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The seven cities of the wilderness, by John Fiske

6:32

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How the cliff-dwellers lived, by T. Mitchell Prudden

27:20

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How Little-Blue-Fox fooled the Coyote, a Pueblo folk-story retold by Charles F.…

8:57

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The storming of the sky-city (1599), by Charles F. Lummis

28:29

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The United States Part IV: The planting of the Southern colonies: Historical no…

2:41

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The Huguenots in Florida (1562-1565), by George Bancroft

22:01

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The lost colonoy of Roanoke Island (1584-1587), by Robert Southey

10:57

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John Smith as a captive among the Indians (1607-1608), by Captain John Smith

13:08

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Pocahontas and Captain John Smith, by F. C. Yohn, American artist, 1875, painti…

2:53

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The arrival of ''the King's Maids'' (1620), by Mary Johnston

15:05

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Life on a Virginia plantation (seventeenth century), by Eva March Tappan

9:56

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The planting of the colony of Maryland, by Frank B. Mayer, American artist, pai…

2:48

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How Oglethorpe saved Georgia from Spain (1743), by Cyrus Townsend Brady

22:45

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The United States Part V: The settlement of New England: Historical note

2:12

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When Gosnold came to Cuttyhunk (1602), by John Brereton

15:46

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The departure of the pilgrims from Holland, from an old Dutch painting, paintin…

2:41

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The coming of the pilgrims (1620), by William Elliot Griffis

10:09

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The challenge of the rattlesnake skin (1621), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

8:46

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The graves of the pilgrims, by Henry Bacon, American artist, 1840, painting p. …

1:42

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Endicott and the red cross (1634), by Nathaniel Hawthorne

15:26

Read by Colleen McMahon

How Providence won its name (1636), by George Bancroft

9:41

Read by Lynda Marie Neilson

The Indian Bible (1661-1663), by Nathaniel Hawthorne

9:07

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Questions that the Indians asked John Eliot

2:01

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The United States Part VI: New Netherland and Pennsylvania: Historical note

2:51

Read by Kristine Bekere

The first voyage up the Hudson river (1609), by John Fiske

7:19

Read by Kristine Bekere

How feudalism came to New Netherland (1630), by William Elliot Griffis

6:42

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Social life in New Netherland (seventeenth century), by William Elliot Griffis

13:02

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Wouter van Twiller, governor of New Netherland, by Washington Irving

11:42

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The edict of William the Testy, by George H. Boughton, British-American painter…

2:52

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How New Amsterdam became New York (1664), by Washington Irving

22:55

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William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania (1682), by Eva March Tappan

11:21

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Penn's treaty with the Indians, by Benjamin West, American artist, 1738-1820, p…

2:42

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The United States Part VII: Stories of the Puritans: Historical note

2:27

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Sunday in the New England colonies (seventeenth century), by Alice Morse Earle

20:12

Read by Jim Locke

Calling a minister three centuries ago (1652), by Eva March Tappan

6:26

Read by Devorah Allen

The king's missive (1661), by John Greenlead Whittier

4:38

Read by Alan Mapstone

How Connecticut saved her charter (1687), by W. H. Carpenter and T. S. Arthur

7:15

Read by Jim Locke

Sir William Phips, treasure-seeker and soldier (latter part of the seventeenth …

21:01

Read by Jim Locke

Were there witches in Salem ? (1692), by John Fiske

24:33

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The United States Part VIII: Wars with the red men: Historical note

2:40

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The mysterious champion of Hadley (1675), by Sir Walter Scott

14:05

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The mysterious visitor at Hadley, by F. A. Chapman, painting p. 300

3:14

Read by Rita Boutros

The captivity of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1676), by herself

27:21

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The death of King Philip (1676), by Gideon H. Hollister

13:41

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The capture of Deerfield (1704), by Francis Parkman

13:21

Read by Jim Locke

The fight at Lovewell's Pond (1725), by Samuel Adams Drake

10:45

Read by Rita Boutros

The United States Part IX: The struggle for the West: Historical note

2:41

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Why France claimed the Mississippi Valley, by James A. Garfield

9:37

Read by Availle

Washington's first commission (1753-54), by George Bancroft

8:05

Read by Jim Locke

Braddock's defeat (1755), by John Fiske

16:36

Read by Rita Boutros

When Israel Putnam was captured by the Indians, an incident of the French and I…

13:13

Read by Jim Locke

The conspiracy of Pontiac (1763-1765), by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

25:01

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The prisoner of Machilimackinac (1763), by Alexander Henry

17:36

Read by Jim Locke

The United States Part X: ''In good old colony times'': Historical note

2:16

Read by Kristine Bekere

Everyday life in the early colonies, by George Cary Eggleston

18:58

Read by Piotr Nater

Blackbeard, the last of the pirates (1718), by John Fiske

6:33

Read by Tomas Peter

Judge Sewall's courtship (1720), by Judge Samuel Sewall

9:50

Read by Jim Locke

An eighteenth-century voyage down the Hudson river, by James K. Paulding

12:26

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The dress of a little Boston girl in 1772, by Anna Green Winslow

5:05

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The United States Part XI: On the eve of the revolution: Historical note

2:02

Read by Kristine Bekere

Benjamin Franklin before the House of Commons (1766), by James Parton

22:40

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The Boston massacre (1770), by Nathaniel Hawthorne

8:56

Read by Jim Locke

The Boston Tea-Party (1773), by John Fiske

19:48

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Patrick Henry delivering his celebrated oration, by Peter Frederick Rothermel, …

2:39

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''Give me liberty, or give me death !'' (1775), by Patrick Henry

6:20

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The United States Part XII: From Lexington to Saratoga: Historical note

2:38

Read by BettyB

The first day of the revolution (1775), by Edward Everett Hale

23:36

Read by Jim Locke

Grandmother's story of Bunker-Hill battle (1775), as she saw it from the belfry…

12:56

Read by Alan Mapstone

When Washington took command (1775), by Henry Cabot Lodge

12:27

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How Fort Moultrie was held for the colonies (1776), by George Bancroft

15:26

Read by Colleen McMahon

The defense of Fort Moultrie, by E. Percy Moran, American artist, 1862, paintin…

2:13

Read by Alan Mapstone

The Declaration of Independence (1776), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

9:17

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Nathan Hale (1776), by Francis Miles Finch

4:02

Read by Alan Mapstone

How Lafayette came to America (1777), by Edward Everett

16:14

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Why Cornwallis failed to ''bag the old fox'' (1777), by John Fiske

7:41

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The marching song of Stark's men (1777), by Edward Everett Hale

2:21

Read by Alan Mapstone

Burgoyne's surrender (1777), by John Fiske

16:57

Read by Jim Locke

The United States Part XIII: War in the West and on the ocean: Historical note

2:31

Read by Tomas Peter

How Daniel Boone saved Boonesborough (1775), by Charles C. B. Seymour

15:00

Read by Jim Locke

A campaign through the water (1778), by George Rogers Clark

20:43

Read by Kristine Bekere

How the women brought water to Bryan's station (1782), by Cyrus Townsend Brady

10:45

Read by Jim Locke

The first salute to the flag (1778), by Sarah Orne Jewett

7:55

Read by Jim Locke

John Paul Jones in the revolution (1775-1781), by Joel Tyler Headley

37:48

Read by Jim Locke

The fight between the Serapis and the Bon Homme Richard, by Walt Whitman, from …

2:05

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