A Concise History of the United States of America - Susan-Mary Grant

By Susan-Mary Grant•Read by Robert G. Slade•103 tracks

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103 parts

#	Title	Duration
1	001. A Concise History of the United States of America	11:35
2	002. Before defense of the homeland became…	11:23
3	003. ‘We hold these truths to be self evident,’…	7:18
4	004. Chapter 1	13:59
5	005. The danger for America’s indigenous peoples…	11:06
6	006. The English at Home, and Abroad	12:06
7	007. It was hardly to be expected that the English…	11:23
8	008. This inauspicious beginning did not bode well…	13:38
9	009. The answer was simple enough, even if the…	8:50
10	010. Nearly 200 years later, on the cusp of the…	9:03
11	011. When the New World shifted from a source…	9:14
12	012. Chapter 2	9:58
13	013. This commoditization of women highlighted the…	9:42
14	014. Race and Religion The Chesapeake	12:30
15	015. Exodus The Beginnings of a Bible…	10:29
16	016. If the early settlers to the Chesapeake…	12:17
17	017. The fact was, fear of, and sometimes open…	10:46
18	018. Indians, Indenture and Identity Inventing…	11:19
19	019. In Virginia, therefore, the combination of…	10:38
20	020. The laws that would come to define slavery…	9:16
21	021. Chapter 3	14:42
22	022. Print culture may have been the fulcrum…	13:51
23	023. What, then, is the American	11:57
24	024. Belief in witchcraft and in magical intervention…	11:22
25	025. Generalizations are, naturally, invidious, as…	10:28
26	026. ‘Tis Time to Part	10:09
27	027. Such sentiments were hardly unique to…	9:35
28	028. What finally began to draw the various colonial…	8:32
29	029. The Stamp Act Congress of 1765 summarized…	10:13
30	030. Chapter 4	12:21
31	031. This was not a theme that Jefferson…	12:07
32	032. If the urban seaports were, in the years…	9:50
33	033. To Be or Not to Be	11:16
34	034. The perspective of Samuel Ward, formerly…	11:37
35	035. The real business of fighting proved to be a…	10:07
36	036. Articles of Faith	9:31
37	037. Between 150,000 and 200,000 men served…	9:31
38	038. A more diffuse sense that to be a nation one…	13:33
39	039. Chapter 5	14:15
40	040. The defeat of the Anti-Federalists over the…	11:26
41	041. America’s population was well positioned in…	11:08
42	042. Jefferson outlined his perspective in a letter…	14:21
43	043. Although Washington had stressed the…	8:19
44	044. Although some northerners did try to pretend…	13:10
45	045. A House Divided	9:45
46	046. The 1830s was, in many respects, the decade…	10:29
47	047. Slavery was, however, the moral conundrum…	14:51
48	048. Chapter 6	11:07
49	049. Slavery was what the confederate states had…	12:51
50	050. Sustaining support for the fight in the face…	9:18
51	051. On to Richmond and through the Rockies	12:11
52	052. ‘Westward the Course of Empire takes its Way,’…	9:38
53	053. Such conflict could be and frequently was…	10:11
54	054. The Stride of a Century	12:18
55	055. As had so often been the case in America’s…	8:34
56	056. The process of Reconstruction was drawing…	9:03
57	057. Chapter 7	11:36
58	058. The problems facing the Medical Division of…	12:09
59	059. By 1875, as the nation prepared both to…	8:43
60	060. Lynching, the illegal execution and sometimes…	10:58
61	061. Anti-immigration sentiment was, of course…	11:52
62	062. Steffens held the American people complicit…	13:00
63	063. Holding the line was not just a direct confrontational…	12:00
64	064. Despite the fact that the gospel of wealth as…	10:28
65	065. The battle over hearts and minds…	9:01
66	066. Chapter 8	12:49
67	067. First shown in New York in October 1896…	12:14
68	068. Their evangelism was exercised by the idea…	13:44
69	069. The New Nationalism	13:43
70	070. For Roosevelt, Americanism was simultaneously…	9:49
71	071. Adding an offshore burden - white man’s or…	10:11
72	072. The New Freedom	10:54
73	073. Warfare, of course, has a tendency to suspend…	8:08
74	074. This was a depressingly familiar - although…	9:29
75	075. Chapter 9	10:58
76	076. The most notorious case to emerge from…	12:24
77	077. If the ground beneath their feet - or tires…	12:36
78	078. Blues Scale	10:49
79	079. Davis’s views, however unusual they seem…	11:36
80	080. Both contemporary and subsequent representations…	11:57
81	081. Brave New World	11:36
82	082. Even putting this outburst of violence against…	11:31
83	083. The post-1935 phase, the so-called Second…	10:13
84	084. The representation of American urban life…	9:22
85	085. Chapter 10	9:56
86	086. Rockwell’s peaceful, gentle, and mainly white…	10:41
87	087. By the spring of 1945, Marshall’s prediction…	10:17
88	088. Servicing all this activity took manpower and…	12:48
89	089. As the United States, now led by Harry Truman…	11:31
90	090. The roots of the second Red Scare lay…	10:16
91	091. As Luce and Wallace were contemplating the…	12:11
92	092. Final Frontiers	11:03
93	093. This perspective was heavily influenced by the…	11:58
94	094. Chapter 11	12:34
95	095. The Republicans also had freedom on the agenda…	13:02
96	096. Not the least important element of the legacy…	9:33
97	097. The Haunted Generation	13:10
98	098. Appalled by the urban rioting, Johnson…	11:57
99	099. The man who had once indicated that he might…	9:33
100	100. Third Century	9:17
101	101. The publication, in 1963, of Betty Friedan’s…	10:15
102	102. America has the highest incarceration rate…	9:01
103	103. The victory of Barack Obama in the 2008…	8:55