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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
Section | Title | Reader | Notes | Listen Url | Status |
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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 |