GRANT, S.-M.: Concise History of the United States of America (A) (Unabridged)

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Grant, Susan-Mary, Author.

Contributor:

Naxos Digital Services US.

Series:

Naxos Music Library.

Naxos Music Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spoken Word.

Local Subjects:

Spoken Word.

Genre:

Video recordings.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Naxos Digital Services US Incorporated, 2019.

System Details:

Mode of access: Available online.

Contents:

A Concise History of the United States of America ( 11 min., 10 sec. )

Before defense of the homeland became... ( 10 min., 56 sec. )

We hold these truths to be self evident,'... ( 06 min., 56 sec. )

Chapter 1 ( 13 min., 33 sec. )

The danger for America's indigenous peoples... ( 10 min., 42 sec. )

The English at Home, and Abroad ( 11 min., 42 sec. )

It was hardly to be expected that the English... ( 10 min., 58 sec. )

This inauspicious beginning did not bode well... ( 13 min., 13 sec. )

The answer was simple enough, even if the... ( 08 min., 26 sec. )

Nearly 200 years later, on the cusp of the... ( 08 min., 39 sec. )

When the New World shifted from a source... ( 08 min., 51 sec. )

Chapter 2 ( 09 min., 33 sec. )

This commoditization of women highlighted the... ( 09 min., 17 sec. )

Race and Religion: The Chesapeake ( 12 min., 05 sec. )

Exodus: The Beginnings of a Bible... ( 10 min., 03 sec. )

If the early settlers to the Chesapeake... ( 11 min., 51 sec. )

The fact was, fear of, and sometimes open... ( 10 min., 22 sec. )

Indians, Indenture and Identity: Inventing... ( 10 min., 53 sec. )

In Virginia, therefore, the combination of... ( 10 min., 12 sec. )

The laws that would come to defne slavery... ( 08 min., 52 sec. )

Chapter 3 ( 14 min., 18 sec. )

Print culture may have been the fulcrum... ( 13 min., 26 sec. )

What, then, is the American? ( 11 min., 33 sec. )

Belief in witchcraft and in magical intervention... ( 10 min., 57 sec. )

Generalizations are, naturally, invidious, as... ( 10 min., 04 sec. )

'Tis Time to Part ( 09 min., 43 sec. )

Such sentiments were hardly unique to... ( 09 min., 11 sec. )

What fnally began to draw the various colonial... ( 08 min., 07 sec. )

The Stamp Act Congress of 1765 summarized... ( 09 min., 48 sec. )

Chapter 4 ( 11 min., 55 sec. )

This was not a theme that Jefferson... ( 11 min., 42 sec. )

If the urban seaports were, in the years... ( 09 min., 25 sec. )

To Be or Not to Be ( 10 min., 50 sec. )

The perspective of Samuel Ward, formerly... ( 11 min., 12 sec. )

The real business of fghting proved to be a... ( 09 min., 43 sec. )

Articles of Faith ( 09 min., 05 sec. )

Between 150,000 and 200,000 men served... ( 09 min., 07 sec. )

A more diffuse sense that to be a nation one... ( 13 min., 08 sec. )

Chapter 5 ( 13 min., 49 sec. )

The defeat of the Anti-Federalists over the... ( 11 min., 01 sec. )

America's population was well positioned inches.. ( 10 min., 42 sec. )

Jefferson outlined his perspective in a letter... ( 13 min., 56 sec. )

Although Washington had stressed the... ( 07 min., 53 sec. )

Although some northerners did try to pretend... ( 12 min., 46 sec. )

A House Divided ( 09 min., 19 sec. )

The 1830s was, in many respects, the decade... ( 10 min., 04 sec. )

Slavery was, however, the moral conundrum... ( 14 min., 26 sec. )

Chapter 6 ( 10 min., 42 sec. )

Slavery was what the confederate states had... ( 12 min., 24 sec. )

Sustaining support for the fght in the face... ( 08 min., 54 sec. )

On to Richmond and through the Rockies ( 11 min., 45 sec. )

'Westward the Course of Empire takes its Way,'... ( 09 min., 14 sec. )

Such conflict could be and frequently was... ( 09 min., 46 sec. )

The Stride of a Century ( 11 min., 52 sec. )

As had so often been the case in America's... ( 08 min., 09 sec. )

The process of Reconstruction was drawing... ( 08 min., 36 sec. )

Chapter 7 ( 11 min., 10 sec. )

The problems facing the Medical Division of... ( 11 min., 44 sec. )

By 1875, as the nation prepared both to... ( 08 min., 18 sec. )

Lynching, the illegal execution and sometimes... ( 10 min., 32 sec. )

Anti-immigration sentiment was, of course... ( 11 min., 27 sec. )

Steffens held the American people complicit... ( 12 min., 34 sec. )

Holding the line was not just a direct confrontational... ( 11 min., 34 sec. )

Despite the fact that the gospel of wealth as... ( 10 min., 03 sec. )

The battle over hearts and minds... ( 08 min., 37 sec. )

Chapter 8 ( 12 min., 25 sec. )

First shown in New York in October 1896... ( 11 min., 47 sec. )

Their evangelism was exercised by the idea... ( 13 min., 20 sec. )

The New Nationalism ( 13 min., 17 sec. )

For Roosevelt, Americanism was simultaneously... ( 09 min., 24 sec. )

Adding an offshore burden - white man's or... ( 09 min., 46 sec. )

The New Freedom ( 10 min., 28 sec. )

Warfare, of course, has a tendency to suspend... ( 07 min., 43 sec. )

This was a depressingly familiar - although... ( 09 min., 03 sec. )

Chapter 9 ( 10 min., 34 sec. )

The most notorious case to emerge from... ( 11 min., 59 sec. )

If the ground beneath their feet - or tires... ( 12 min., 12 sec. )

Blues Scale ( 10 min., 24 sec. )

Davis's views, however unusual they seem... ( 11 min., 10 sec. )

Both contemporary and subsequent representations... ( 11 min., 35 sec. )

Brave New World ( 11 min., 11 sec. )

Even putting this outburst of violence against... ( 11 min., 07 sec. )

The post-1935 phase, the so-called Second... ( 09 min., 49 sec. )

The representation of American urban life... ( 08 min., 59 sec. )

Chapter 10 ( 09 min., 31 sec. )

Rockwell's peaceful, gentle, and mainly white... ( 10 min., 16 sec. )

By the spring of 1945, Marshall's prediction... ( 09 min., 54 sec. )

Servicing all this activity took manpower and... ( 12 min., 23 sec. )

As the United States, now led by Harry Truman... ( 11 min., 06 sec. )

The roots of the second Red Scare lay... ( 09 min., 51 sec. )

As Luce and Wallace were contemplating the... ( 11 min., 45 sec. )

Final Frontiers ( 10 min., 39 sec. )

This perspective was heavily in?uenced by the... ( 11 min., 34 sec. )

Chapter 11 ( 12 min., 10 sec. )

The Republicans also had freedom on the agenda... ( 12 min., 37 sec. )

Not the least important element of the legacy... ( 09 min., 08 sec. )

The Haunted Generation ( 12 min., 45 sec. )

Appalled by the urban rioting, Johnson... ( 11 min., 32 sec. )

The man who had once indicated that he might... ( 09 min., 08 sec. )

Third Century ( 08 min., 51 sec. )

The publication, in 1963, of Betty Friedan's... ( 09 min., 49 sec. )

America has the highest incarceration rate... ( 08 min., 36 sec. )

The victory of Barack Obama in the 2008... ( 08 minutes, 31 sec. )

Participant:

Slade, Robert G., Reader -- Grant, Susan-Mary, Author

Notes:

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Streaming audio.

Publisher Number:

9781781982778

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.