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96 of 96 (100%) sections assigned

96 of 96 (100%) sections completed

This project has a dedicated proof-listener who will listen to all sections: Kitty

SectionTitleReaderNotesListen UrlStatus
1 Raising the first American flag, by E. Percy Moran, American artist, 1862, painting, frontispiece  Kitty PL OK
2 The United States Part I: Discovery: Historical note  Kitty PL OK
3 The great voyage of Leif Ericson (1001), from the Sagas  Piotrek81 PL OK
4 Columbus (1492), by Joaquin Miller  alanmapstone PL OK
5 Verrazzano's letter to the king (1524)  Piotrek81 PL OK
6 The United States Part II: Stories of the Spanish adventurers: Historical note  Kikisaulite PL OK
7 Ponce de Leon seeks the fountain of youth (1513), by Frederick A. Ober  adr6090 PL OK
8 A Spanish peddler among the Indians (1528), by Cabeza de Vaca  Piotrek81 PL OK
9 The story of John Ortiz (1528), by one of the companions of De Soto  RitaBoutros PL OK
10 When De Soto met the princess (1541), by Theodore Irving  RitaBoutros PL OK
11 The burial of De Soto in the Mississippi river (1542), by Theodore Irving  RitaBoutros PL OK
12 The United States Part III: The cliff-dwellers of the Southwest: Historical note  WiltedScribe PL OK
13 The seven cities of the wilderness, by John Fiske  Piotrek81 PL OK
14 How the cliff-dwellers lived, by T. Mitchell Prudden  adr6090 PL OK
15 How Little-Blue-Fox fooled the Coyote, a Pueblo folk-story retold by Charles F. Lummis  Sonrisaj PL OK
16 The storming of the sky-city (1599), by Charles F. Lummis  Piotrek81 PL OK
17 The United States Part IV: The planting of the Southern colonies: Historical note  Kikisaulite PL OK
18 The Huguenots in Florida (1562-1565), by George Bancroft  Piotrek81 PL OK
19 The lost colonoy of Roanoke Island (1584-1587), by Robert Southey  Availle PL OK
20 John Smith as a captive among the Indians (1607-1608), by Captain John Smith  neecheelok70 PL OK
21 Pocahontas and Captain John Smith, by F. C. Yohn, American artist, 1875, painting p. 122  alanmapstone PL OK
22 The arrival of ''the King's Maids'' (1620), by Mary Johnston  Sonrisaj PL OK
23 Life on a Virginia plantation (seventeenth century), by Eva March Tappan  Availle PL OK
24 The planting of the colony of Maryland, by Frank B. Mayer, American artist, painting p. 136  Lmnei PL OK
25 How Oglethorpe saved Georgia from Spain (1743), by Cyrus Townsend Brady  bellanelson875 PL OK
26 The United States Part V: The settlement of New England: Historical note  Kikisaulite PL OK
27 When Gosnold came to Cuttyhunk (1602), by John Brereton  adr6090 PL OK
28 The departure of the pilgrims from Holland, from an old Dutch painting, painting p. 160  alanmapstone PL OK
29 The coming of the pilgrims (1620), by William Elliot Griffis  mightyfelix PL OK
30 The challenge of the rattlesnake skin (1621), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  neecheelok70 PL OK
31 The graves of the pilgrims, by Henry Bacon, American artist, 1840, painting p. 174  WiltedScribe PL OK
32 Endicott and the red cross (1634), by Nathaniel Hawthorne  ColleenMc PL OK
33 How Providence won its name (1636), by George Bancroft  Lmnei PL OK
34 The Indian Bible (1661-1663), by Nathaniel Hawthorne  Lmnei PL OK
35 Questions that the Indians asked John Eliot  Kitty PL OK
36 The United States Part VI: New Netherland and Pennsylvania: Historical note  Kikisaulite PL OK
37 The first voyage up the Hudson river (1609), by John Fiske  Kikisaulite PL OK
38 How feudalism came to New Netherland (1630), by William Elliot Griffis  Piotrek81 PL OK
39 Social life in New Netherland (seventeenth century), by William Elliot Griffis  Availle PL OK
40 Wouter van Twiller, governor of New Netherland, by Washington Irving  ToddHW PL OK
41 The edict of William the Testy, by George H. Boughton, British-American painter, 1836-1905, painting p. 218  alanmapstone PL OK
42 How New Amsterdam became New York (1664), by Washington Irving  neecheelok70 PL OK
43 William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania (1682), by Eva March Tappan  BettyB PL OK
44 Penn's treaty with the Indians, by Benjamin West, American artist, 1738-1820, painting p. 238  moniaqua PL OK
45 The United States Part VII: Stories of the Puritans: Historical note  BettyB PL OK
46 Sunday in the New England colonies (seventeenth century), by Alice Morse Earle  neecheelok70 PL OK
47 Calling a minister three centuries ago (1652), by Eva March Tappan  mightyfelix PL OK
48 The king's missive (1661), by John Greenlead Whittier  alanmapstone PL OK
49 How Connecticut saved her charter (1687), by W. H. Carpenter and T. S. Arthur  neecheelok70 PL OK
50 Sir William Phips, treasure-seeker and soldier (latter part of the seventeenth century), by Charles C. B. Seymour  neecheelok70 PL OK
51 Were there witches in Salem ? (1692), by John Fiske  Availle PL OK
52 The United States Part VIII: Wars with the red men: Historical note  BettyB PL OK
53 The mysterious champion of Hadley (1675), by Sir Walter Scott  RitaBoutros PL OK
54 The mysterious visitor at Hadley, by F. A. Chapman, painting p. 300  RitaBoutros PL OK
55 The captivity of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1676), by herself  adr6090 PL OK
56 The death of King Philip (1676), by Gideon H. Hollister  clionawoodbyrne PL OK
57 The capture of Deerfield (1704), by Francis Parkman  neecheelok70 PL OK
58 The fight at Lovewell's Pond (1725), by Samuel Adams Drake  RitaBoutros PL OK
59 The United States Part IX: The struggle for the West: Historical note  BettyB PL OK
60 Why France claimed the Mississippi Valley, by James A. Garfield  Availle PL OK
61 Washington's first commission (1753-54), by George Bancroft  neecheelok70 PL OK
62 Braddock's defeat (1755), by John Fiske  RitaBoutros PL OK
63 When Israel Putnam was captured by the Indians, an incident of the French and Indian war (1758), by Oliver W. B. Peabody  neecheelok70 PL OK
64 The conspiracy of Pontiac (1763-1765), by Mary Hartwell Catherwood  Piotrek81 PL OK
65 The prisoner of Machilimackinac (1763), by Alexander Henry  neecheelok70 PL OK
66 The United States Part X: ''In good old colony times'': Historical note  Kikisaulite PL OK
67 Everyday life in the early colonies, by George Cary Eggleston  Piotrek81 PL OK
68 Blackbeard, the last of the pirates (1718), by John Fiske  WiltedScribe PL OK
69 Judge Sewall's courtship (1720), by Judge Samuel Sewall  neecheelok70 PL OK
70 An eighteenth-century voyage down the Hudson river, by James K. Paulding  ToddHW PL OK
71 The dress of a little Boston girl in 1772, by Anna Green Winslow  adr6090 PL OK
72 The United States Part XI: On the eve of the revolution: Historical note  Kikisaulite PL OK
73 Benjamin Franklin before the House of Commons (1766), by James Parton  Parsa2020 PL OK
74 The Boston massacre (1770), by Nathaniel Hawthorne  neecheelok70 PL OK
75 The Boston Tea-Party (1773), by John Fiske  Availle PL OK
76 Patrick Henry delivering his celebrated oration, by Peter Frederick Rothermel, American artist, 1817-1895, painting p. 456  alanmapstone PL OK
77 ''Give me liberty, or give me death !'' (1775), by Patrick Henry  WiltedScribe PL OK
78 The United States Part XII: From Lexington to Saratoga: Historical note  BettyB PL OK
79 The first day of the revolution (1775), by Edward Everett Hale  neecheelok70 PL OK
80 Grandmother's story of Bunker-Hill battle (1775), as she saw it from the belfry, by Oliver Wendell Holmes  alanmapstone PL OK
81 When Washington took command (1775), by Henry Cabot Lodge  BettyB PL OK
82 How Fort Moultrie was held for the colonies (1776), by George Bancroft  ColleenMc PL OK
83 The defense of Fort Moultrie, by E. Percy Moran, American artist, 1862, painting p. 494  alanmapstone PL OK
84 The Declaration of Independence (1776), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson  adr6090 PL OK
85 Nathan Hale (1776), by Francis Miles Finch  alanmapstone PL OK
86 How Lafayette came to America (1777), by Edward Everett  Parsa2020 PL OK
87 Why Cornwallis failed to ''bag the old fox'' (1777), by John Fiske  adr6090 PL OK
88 The marching song of Stark's men (1777), by Edward Everett Hale  alanmapstone PL OK
89 Burgoyne's surrender (1777), by John Fiske  neecheelok70 PL OK
90 The United States Part XIII: War in the West and on the ocean: Historical note  WiltedScribe PL OK
91 How Daniel Boone saved Boonesborough (1775), by Charles C. B. Seymour  neecheelok70 PL OK
92 A campaign through the water (1778), by George Rogers Clark  Kikisaulite PL OK
93 How the women brought water to Bryan's station (1782), by Cyrus Townsend Brady  neecheelok70 PL OK
94 The first salute to the flag (1778), by Sarah Orne Jewett  neecheelok70 PL OK
95 John Paul Jones in the revolution (1775-1781), by Joel Tyler Headley  neecheelok70 PL OK
96 The fight between the Serapis and the Bon Homme Richard, by Walt Whitman, from an old engraving, painting p. 588  Kitty PL OK