History of the United States: A 30-Volume Anthology
Founding Debates, Frontier Expansion, War, Reconstruction, and the Struggle for CitizenshipBy James Ford Rhodes, D. H. Montgomery, Julius E. Olson, Edward Everett Hale, Elizabeth Hodges, Carl Lotus Becker, Azel Ames, William Bradford, Bureau of Military and Civic Achievement, Herbert Eugene Bolton, Thomas Maitland Marshall, Madison Grant, James Truslow Adams, John Fiske, Robert W. Coakley, Stetson Conn, U.S. Army Center of Military History, L. Carroll Judson, John Jay, Helen Campbell, Emory Speer, U.S. Government, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Samuel Bryan, Patrick Henry, Joel Tyler Headley, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Schoolcraft, Norman B. Wood, Frederic L. Paxson, George Cary Eggleston, Wilbur Fisk Gordy, Adam Gurowski, Felix Gregory De Fontaine, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Gage, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Ida H. Harper, Richard W. Stewart
Length797h 34m
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History of the United States: A 30-Volume Anthology assembles a capacious, argumentative record of the American past, ranging from colonial settlement and constitutional debate to westward expansion, civil conflict, military history, reform, and national self-definition. Its materials move among documentary testimony, political argument, narrative history, biographical writing, and civic instruction. Foundational debates over federal power and liberty stand beside accounts of war, frontier encounter, women's suffrage, and social change, revealing not a single national story but a contested archive of American experience. The contributors include statesmen, reformers, soldiers, public officials, and influential historians writing across several generations. Their combined perspectives illuminate the intellectual traditions of republicanism, nationalism, Progressive-era reform, professional historical scholarship, and civic commemoration. Voices associated with the founding era encounter later interpreters of expansion, race, gender, warfare, and democratic institutions; this chronological and ideological breadth makes the anthology itself a valuable object of historiographical study. Recommended for students, teachers, and general readers, this thirty-volume collection offers an exceptional opportunity to trace how Americans have narrated, defended, criticized, and revised their history. Its diversity of genres and viewpoints invites close comparison, historical inquiry, and sustained dialogue across texts, making it both an educational resource and a rich introduction to the complexities of United States history.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length797 hrs 34 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Colonization of North America: 1492-1783
2PREFACE
3THE FOUNDING OF THE COLONIES
4CHAPTER I
5CHAPTER II
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6CHAPTER III
7CHAPTER IV
8CHAPTER V
9CHAPTER VI
10CHAPTER VII
11CHAPTER VIII
12CHAPTER IX
13CHAPTER X
14CHAPTER XI
15CHAPTER XII
16EXPANSION AND INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT
17CHAPTER XIII
18CHAPTER XIV
19CHAPTER XV
20CHAPTER XVI
21CHAPTER XVII
22CHAPTER XVIII
23CHAPTER XIX
24CHAPTER XX
25CHAPTER XXI
26CHAPTER XXII
27THE REVOLT OF THE ENGLISH COLONIES
28CHAPTER XXIII
29CHAPTER XXIV
30CHAPTER XXV
31CHAPTER XXVI
32CHAPTER XXVII
33CHAPTER XXVIII
34The Explorers of North America: Biographies
35Eric the Red and the Northmen
36Introduction
37The Saga of Eric the Red
38The Vinland History of the Flat Island Book1
39From Adam of Bremen’s1 Descriptio Insularum Aquilonis
40From the Icelandic Annals1
41Papal Letters Concerning the Bishopric of Gardar in Greenland During the Fifteenth Century1
42Christopher Columbus
43CHAPTER I — EARLY LIFE OF COLUMBUS
44CHAPTER II — HIS PLANS FOR DISCOVERY
45CHAPTER III — THE GREAT VOYAGE
46CHAPTER IV — THE LANDING ON THE TWELFTH OF OCTOBER
47CHAPTER V — LANDING ON CUBA
48CHAPTER VI — DISCOVERY OF HAYTI OR HISPANIOLA
49CHAPTER VII — COLUMBUS IS CALLED TO MEET THE KING AND QUEEN
50CHAPTER VIII — THE SECOND EXPEDITION SAILS
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