'Merican Lit
11 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 6 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsExploring the letters and literature of our American forebears.
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Episodes
Episode 55: Walt Whitman Selected Poems, Part 2
June 14, 2018 17:00 - 18 minutes - 17 MBEnding where we began, with one of America’s finest poets!
Episode 54: J.C. Lewis' "Black Beaver the Trapper"
June 07, 2018 17:00 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBThis episode’s got it all: guns, wild animals, untamed mountains and poor grammar!
Episode 53: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride"
May 24, 2018 17:00 - 8 minutes - 8.23 MBDiscover a famous poem of patriotic fervor.
Episode 52: Alexis de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America", Part 2
May 17, 2018 17:00 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MBDoes America’s majority wield kingly power over allowable opinion?
Episode 51: Walt Whitman's "A Song of Joys"
May 03, 2018 17:00 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MBExperience all the feels with an icon of American poetry.
Episode 50: The American Standard Version of the Bible
April 26, 2018 17:00 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MBEnjoy a book of springtime passion: the Song of Solomon.
Episode 49: "Memoirs of John R. Young"
April 19, 2018 17:00 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MBJoin a Mormon pioneer on the trail west to Salt Lake Valley.
Episode 48: Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature"
April 12, 2018 18:01 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MBFind out if you really, I mean really, see nature.
Episode 47: John Dickinson's "Letters From A Farmer"
April 05, 2018 20:55 - 13 minutes - 12.3 MBThe first missive from the “Penman of the Revolution.”
Episode 46: James Russell Lowell's "The Place of the Independent in Politics"
March 29, 2018 16:00 - 11 minutes - 10.1 MBA call to better politics—if that were possible.
Episode 45: "The Articles of Confederation"
March 22, 2018 16:25 - 26 minutes - 23.8 MBMeet a hot model of limited government.