Story of Our Nation: Defining Moments In American History
Primary Sources and Essays on Settlement, Revolution, Union, War, Reform, and SuffrageBy Theodore Roosevelt, 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, 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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Story of Our Nation: Defining Moments In American History assembles a capacious documentary and interpretive record of the United States, tracing political founding, territorial expansion, warfare, civic reform, and contests over citizenship. Its range encompasses speeches, constitutional arguments, memoiristic testimony, historical narrative, military studies, and social commentary. Foundational debates over federal power and liberty stand beside accounts of conflict, nation-building, and the long struggle for women's political equality, making the volume a useful map of both American ideals and their unfinished realization. The contributors include statesmen, reformers, soldiers, historians, educators, and public institutions whose writings span the eighteenth through twentieth centuries. Together, these voices place the collection within traditions of republican political thought, Progressive-era reform, professional historical scholarship, and public commemoration. The juxtaposition of governmental documents with dissenting and reformist perspectives is especially consequential: it reveals history not as a settled patriotic narrative, but as an arena of argument over rights, authority, memory, and national purpose. Recommended for students and general readers alike, this anthology offers an unusually broad opportunity to encounter American history through multiple genres and viewpoints. Its educational value lies in the dialogue among its selections, inviting readers to compare rhetoric with experience, official accounts with criticism, and inherited ideals with changing demands for justice.
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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 Beginner's American History
2CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
3JOHN CABOT
4PONCE DE LEON, BALBOA, AND DE SOTO
5SIR WALTER RALEIGH
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6CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH
7CAPTAIN HENRY HUDSON
8CAPTAIN MYLES STANDISH
9LORD BALTIMORE
10ROGER WILLIAMS
11KING PHILIP
12WILLIAM PENN
13GENERAL JAMES OGLETHORPE
14BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
15GEORGE WASHINGTON
16DANIEL BOONE
17GENERAL JAMES ROBERTSON AND GOVERNOR JOHN SEVIER
18GENERAL GEORGE ROGERS CLARK
19GENERAL RUFUS PUTNAM
20ELI WHITNEY
21THOMAS JEFFERSON
22ROBERT FULTON
23GENERAL WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON
24GENERAL ANDREW JACKSON
25PROFESSOR MORSE
26GENERAL SAM HOUSTON
27CAPTAIN ROBERT GRAY
28CAPTAIN SUTTER
29ABRAHAM LINCOLN
30The Explorers of North America: Biographies
31Eric the Red and the Northmen
32Introduction
33The Saga of Eric the Red
34The Vinland History of the Flat Island Book1
35From Adam of Bremen’s1 Descriptio Insularum Aquilonis
36From the Icelandic Annals1
37Papal Letters Concerning the Bishopric of Gardar in Greenland During the Fifteenth Century1
38Christopher Columbus
39CHAPTER I — EARLY LIFE OF COLUMBUS
40CHAPTER II — HIS PLANS FOR DISCOVERY
41CHAPTER III — THE GREAT VOYAGE
42CHAPTER IV — THE LANDING ON THE TWELFTH OF OCTOBER
43CHAPTER V — LANDING ON CUBA
44CHAPTER VI — DISCOVERY OF HAYTI OR HISPANIOLA
45CHAPTER VII — COLUMBUS IS CALLED TO MEET THE KING AND QUEEN
46CHAPTER VIII — THE SECOND EXPEDITION SAILS
47CHAPTER IX — THE NEW COLONY
48CHAPTER X — THE THIRD VOYAGE
49CHAPTER XI — SPAIN, 1500, 1501
50CHAPTER XII — FOURTH VOYAGE
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