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Great Epochs in American History, Volume II

Name: Great Epochs in American History, Volume II
Author: Francis Whiting Halsey

Francis Whiting Halsey

Read by BettyB, Jddykst, Marcia Eppich-Harris, Bill Mosley, skgm1010, Michele Fry, Larry Wilson, Rita Boutros, realisticspeakers, H. Anne Schwarz, MFD32, Kyle Donelan, Ciufi Galeazzi and KevinS · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

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Introduction (8:23)
The founding of St. Augustine and the massacre by Menendez (1562-1565) I: The account by John A. Doyle (17:09)
The founding of St. Augustine and the massacre by Menendez (1562-1565) II: Mendoza's account (19:04)
Sir Walter Raleigh's Virginia colonies (1584-1587) I: The account by John A. Doyle (12:07)
Sir Walter Raleigh's Virginia colonies II: The return of the colonists with Sir Francis Drake (1586) by Ralph Lane (9:22)
Sir Walter Raleigh's Virginia colonies III: The birth of Virginia Dare (1587) by John White (4:18)
Bartholomew Gosnold's discovery of Cape Cod (1602) I: By Gabriel Archer, one of his companions (14:00)
Bartholomew Gosnold's discovery of Cape Cod (1602) II: Gosnold's own account (4:58)
The founding of Jamestown (1607) by Captain John Smith (27:03)
The first American legislative assembly (1619) by John Twine, its secretary (12:48)
The origin of negro slavery in America I: In the West Indies (1518) by Sir Arthur Helps (8:37)
The origin of negro slavery in America II: Its beginnings in the United States (1620) by John A. Doyle (5:27)
New England before the pilgrim fathers landed (1614) by captain John Smith (17:55)
The first voyage of the "Mayflower" (1620) by governor William Bradford (23:48)
The first New York settlements (1623-1628) by Nicholas Jean de Wassenaer (8:49)
The Swedes and Dutch in New Jersey and Delaware (1627) by Israel Acrelius (15:22)
The beginnings of the Massachusetts Bay colony (1627-1631) by governor Thomas Dudley (9:22)
How the Bay colony differed from Plymouth by John G. Palfrey (10:03)
Lord Baltimore in Maryland (1633) by contemporary writers (8:43)
Roger Williams in Rhode Island (1636) by Nathaniel Morton (7:58)
The founding of Connecticut (1633-1636) by Alexander Johnston (16:31)
Witchcraft in New England (1647-1696) by John G. Palfrey (13:57)
The English conquest of New York (1664) by John R. Brodhead (18:11)
Bacon's rebellion in Virginia (1676) by an anonymous writer (14:52)
King Philip's war (1676) by William Hubbard (12:46)
The founding of Pennsylvania I: Penn's account of the colony (1684) (8:35)
The founding of Pennsylvania II: Penn's treaty with the Indians (1683), his own account (4:05)
The founding of Pennsylvania III: The reality of Penn's treaty (1682), by George E. Ellis (6:15)
The Charter Oak affair in Connecticut (1682) by Alexander Johnston (8:28)
The colonization of Louisiana (1699) by Charles E.T. Gayarre (14:54)
Oglethorpe in Georgia (1733) by Joel Chandler Harris (8:28)