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Early America videos

Colonel Benedict Arnold

Archiving Early America has several videos about the founding of our country.  Click here to view their full list and to play the videos, which include:

  • The Ben Franklin Story
  • The Life of George Washington
  • Declaring Independence
  • Paul Revere, Messenger of the Revolution
  • The Shot Heard Around the World
  • The Treason of Benedict Arnold
  • The Real Face of George Washington (video about Mount Rushmore)
  • Molly Pitcher, and American Heroine

These videos play in FLASH, so you will need to have the flash plugin software installed on your computer to watch them.

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Click here to see downloadable curriculum from CurrClick which could be used to enhance a study of Colonial America.

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The Ben Franklin Story: video

Ben Franklin by Mason Chamberlain

Click here to go to Archiving Early America, where you can see a two-part video about Ben Franklin.

Click here to view downloadable curriculum from CurrClick relating to Ben Franklin.

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Thomas Jefferson: Father of Democracy

Thomas Jefferson by Rembrandt Peale in 1800, public domain image

This 15 minute audio drama, based on the Landmark title by Vincent Sheean, is presented by The Reading Well.

Click here to see a variety of downloadable curriculum resources from CurrClick relating to Thomas Jefferson and Colonial America.

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Jonathan Edwards: Sinners in the hands of an angry God

Jonathan Edwards

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God part 1

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God part 2

Sinners… e-text

This famous sermons is also available here .


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Music from Early America

Spirit of '76 by A.M. Willard

Archiving Early America has posted midi files for several songs from various early American time periods.

Revolutionary War Music

French and Indian War Music

The 18th Century

George Washington’s Life

The War of 1812

The Star Spangled Banner and America

Yankee Doodle Dandy

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Thanksgiving Proclamations

Turkey Truthahn by Ustad Mansur, 1612

Click here to see a selection of downloadable curriculum resources from CurrClick for Thanksgiving study. This link will take you away from My Audio School.

Free Audio.org has provided 3 historic Thanksgiving Proclamations for download or streaming.

Click here to listen to William Bradford’s Thanksgiving Proclamation, George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation, and Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation.

You can find more podcasts like these at Free Audio.

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The Legend of Squanto: Focus on the Family Radio Theater broadcast

Squanto teaching

Click here to see downloadable curriculum resources from CurrClick about Squanto. This link will take you away from My Audio School.

To listen to the radio broadcast of  Focus on the Family: The Legend of Squanto, part one, click here.

To listen to the radio broadcast of Focus on the Family: The Legend of Squanto, part two, click here.

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The Virginia Declaration of Rights

Thomas Jefferson signature

The Virginia Declaration of Rights was the forerunner of the Bill of Rights.  Thomas Jefferson also drew heavily on this document when he wrote the Declaration of Independence.

You can hear read more about the Virginia Declaration of Rights and listen to more audio like this one at Free Audio.

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Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin

Diogenes by John William Waterhouse

For this book’s internet archive file on Librivox, click here.

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To read this book yourself, click here.

To listen to this book, click play in the box below or click on the chapter titles in this post.

King Alfred (The Great)

King Alfred and the Cakes

King Alfred and the Beggar

King Canute on the Seashore

The Sons of William the Conqueror

The White Ship

King John and the Abbott

Robin Hood and Little John by Louis Rhead, 1912

A Story of Robin Hood

Bruce and the Spider

The Black Douglas

Three Men of Gotham

Other Wise Men of Gotham

The Miller of the Dee

Sir Philip Sidney

Ungrateful Soldier

Sir Humphrey Gilbert

Sir Walter Raleigh

Sir Walter Raleigh

Pocahontas

Pocahontas Marriage of Pocahontas

George Washington and His Hatchet

Grace Darling

The Story of William Tell

Arnold Winkelried

The Bell of Atri

Napoleon Bonaparte Crossing the Alps by Delaroche

How Napoleon Crossed the Alps

The Story of Cincinnatus

The Story of Regulus

Cornelia’s Jewels

Androclus and the Lion

Horatius at the Bridge

Divico und Caesar

Julius Caesar

The Sword of Damocles

Damon and Pythias

A Laconic Answer

The Ungrateful Guest

The Taming of Bucephalus

Alexander and Bucephalus

Diogenes the Wise Man

The Brave Three Hundred

Socrates and His House

The King and His Hawk

Doctor Goldsmith

The Kingdoms

The Barmecide Feast

The Endless Tale

The Blind Men and the Elephant

Maximilian and the Goose Boy

The Inchcape Rock

Richard Wittington and his Cat

Whittington and His Cat

Casabianca

Antonio Canova

Picciola

Mignon

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You are There! The Stamp Act Revolt at Williamsburg, 1765

O! The fatal stamp.  An Emblem of the effects of the STAMP

O! The fatal stamp. An Emblem of the effects of the STAMP

You are There: Stamp Act Revolt at Williamsburg, 1765

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