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
Length814h 50m
About this audiobook
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
Length814 hrs 50 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2The Colonization of North America (pt. 1)
3The Colonization of North America (pt. 2)
4The Colonization of North America (pt. 3)
5The Colonization of North America (pt. 4)
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6The Colonization of North America (pt. 5)
7The Colonization of North America (pt. 6)
8The Colonization of North America (pt. 7)
9The Colonization of North America (pt. 8)
10The Colonization of North America (pt. 9)
11The Great Explorers of North America: Complete Biographies, Historical Documents, Journals & Letters (pt. 1)
12The Great Explorers of North America: Complete Biographies, Historical Documents, Journals & Letters (pt. 2)
13The Great Explorers of North America: Complete Biographies, Historical Documents, Journals & Letters (pt. 3)
14The Great Explorers of North America: Complete Biographies, Historical Documents, Journals & Letters (pt. 4)
15The Great Explorers of North America: Complete Biographies, Historical Documents, Journals & Letters (pt. 5)
16The Great Explorers of North America: Complete Biographies, Historical Documents, Journals & Letters (pt. 6)
17The Great Explorers of North America: Complete Biographies, Historical Documents, Journals & Letters (pt. 7)
18The Great Explorers of North America: Complete Biographies, Historical Documents, Journals & Letters (pt. 8)
19The Great Explorers of North America: Complete Biographies, Historical Documents, Journals & Letters (pt. 9)
20The Great Explorers of North America: Complete Biographies, Historical Documents, Journals & Letters (pt. 10)
21The Great Explorers of North America: Complete Biographies, Historical Documents, Journals & Letters (pt. 11)
22The Great Explorers of North America: Complete Biographies, Historical Documents, Journals & Letters (pt. 12)
23The Great Explorers of North America: Complete Biographies, Historical Documents, Journals & Letters (pt. 13)
24The Mayflower Voyage & Its Aftermath – 4 Books in One Volume (pt. 1)
25The Mayflower Voyage & Its Aftermath – 4 Books in One Volume (pt. 2)
26The Mayflower Voyage & Its Aftermath – 4 Books in One Volume (pt. 3)
27The Mayflower Voyage & Its Aftermath – 4 Books in One Volume (pt. 4)
28The Mayflower Voyage & Its Aftermath – 4 Books in One Volume (pt. 5)
29The Mayflower Voyage & Its Aftermath – 4 Books in One Volume (pt. 6)
30The Mayflower Voyage & Its Aftermath – 4 Books in One Volume (pt. 7)
31The Mayflower Voyage & Its Aftermath – 4 Books in One Volume (pt. 8)
32The Mayflower Voyage & Its Aftermath – 4 Books in One Volume (pt. 9)
33The Mayflower Voyage & Its Aftermath – 4 Books in One Volume (pt. 10)
34The Mayflower Voyage & Its Aftermath – 4 Books in One Volume (pt. 11)
35The Mayflower Voyage & Its Aftermath – 4 Books in One Volume (pt. 12)
36The Founding of New England (pt. 1)
37The Founding of New England (pt. 2)
38The Founding of New England (pt. 3)
39The Founding of New England (pt. 4)
40The Founding of New England (pt. 5)
41The Founding of New England (pt. 6)
42The Founding of New England (pt. 7)
43The Founding of New England (pt. 8)
44The Beginnings of the American People (pt. 1)
45The Beginnings of the American People (pt. 2)
46The Beginnings of the American People (pt. 3)
47The Beginnings of the American People (pt. 4)
48The Beginner's American History (pt. 1)
49The Beginner's American History (pt. 2)
50The Beginner's American History (pt. 3)
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