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'Merican Lit

11 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 6 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings

Exploring 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 MB

Ending 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 MB

This 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 MB

Discover 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 MB

Does 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 MB

Experience 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 MB

Enjoy 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 MB

Join 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 MB

Find 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 MB

The 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 MB

A call to better politics—if that were possible.

Episode 45: "The Articles of Confederation"

March 22, 2018 16:25 - 26 minutes - 23.8 MB

Meet a hot model of limited government.

Books

Paul Revere's Ride
1 Episode