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Exploring the letters and literature of our American forebears.

Steve Hamstra

Jun 14, 2018 LATEST EPISODE
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Episode 55: Walt Whitman Selected Poems, Part 2

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2018 18:35

Ending where we began, with one of America’s finest poets!

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Episode 54: J.C. Lewis' "Black Beaver the Trapper"

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2018 15:53

This episode’s got it all: guns, wild animals, untamed mountains and poor grammar!

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Episode 53: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride"

Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2018 8:59

Discover a famous poem of patriotic fervor.

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Episode 52: Alexis de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America", Part 2

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2018 11:19

Does America’s majority wield kingly power over allowable opinion?

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Episode 51: Walt Whitman's "A Song of Joys"

Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2018 18:23

Experience all the feels with an icon of American poetry.

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Episode 50: The American Standard Version of the Bible

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2018 21:10

Enjoy a book of springtime passion: the Song of Solomon.

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Episode 49: "Memoirs of John R. Young"

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2018 12:14

Join a Mormon pioneer on the trail west to Salt Lake Valley.

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Episode 48: Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature"

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2018 11:23

Find out if you really, I mean really, see nature.

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Episode 47: John Dickinson's "Letters From A Farmer"

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2018 13:27

The first missive from the “Penman of the Revolution.”

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Episode 46: James Russell Lowell's "The Place of the Independent in Politics"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2018 11:03

A call to better politics—if that were possible.

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Episode 45: "The Articles of Confederation"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2018 26:01

Meet a hot model of limited government.

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