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Creating America

William Sarris

The documents and speeches that shaped the United States. It is my hope that as you listen to these documents and speeches you will gain an appreciation of what our country was, what it is, and what it hopes to be.

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Episodes

36 episodes

  1. Episode 35: 272 Words That Changed America | Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address 12:37
  2. Episode 34: The Emancipation Proclamation | Lincoln's Complicated Road to Freedom 45:33
  3. Episode 33: The Law That Opened the American West - and Displaced Its First Peoples 15:33
  4. Episode 32: “The Negro Is Not Equal” | Slavery, White Supremacy, and the Cornerstone Speech 37:27
  5. Episode 31: Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address | Can America Survive Secession? 30:30
  6. Episode 30: Lincoln’s Case Against Slavery’s Expansion | New Haven, CT - 1860 55:42
  7. Episode 29: John Brown’s Final Speech | Martyr, Radical, or Both? 14:28
  8. Episode 28: Lincoln’s “House Divided” | The Speech That Warned America 25:03
  9. Episode 27: Frederick Douglass Takes on the Dred Scott Decision 54:54
  10. Episode 26: Dred Scott: The Supreme Court’s Most Infamous Decision 17:19
  11. A Quick Break! 0:19
  12. Episode 25: America's Founding Documents (250th Anniversary Special) | The Declaration of Independence, Constitution & Bill of Rights 45:11
  13. Episode 24: Frederick Douglass | What to a Slave is the 4th of July? (full speech) 1:16:11
  14. Episode 23: Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I A Woman?" | The Intersection of Abolition and Women's Rights 7:16
  15. Episode 22: The Seneca Falls Convention | Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Declaration of Sentiments 20:19
  16. Episode 21: Slavery, Secession, and the Union | Calhoun, Webster, and the Compromise of 1850 21:50
  17. Episode 20: Andrew Jackson, Indian Removal & the Trail of Tears | The Dark Side of Manifest Destiny 26:06
  18. Episode 19: Religious Freedom | Thomas Jefferson & the “Wall of Separation” 27:50
  19. Episode 18: Teaching Them How to Say Goodbye | George Washington's Farewell Address 46:29
  20. Episode 17: The Man Who Willingly Gave Up Power | Washington's 1783 Resignation & First Inaugural Address 18:32
  21. Episode 16: Brutus, The Anti-Federalist | The Bill of Rights (Amendments 1-10) 25:39
  22. Episode 15: The Federalist Papers, Part 4: Thoughts on Bills of Rights & Concluding Remarks (Nos. 84 & 85) 45:48
  23. Episode 14 - The Federalist Papers, Part 3: Supremacy, Checks & Balances, and Executive Power (Nos. 33, 51, & 70) 47:45
  24. Episode 13 - The Federalist Papers, Part 2: Why the Articles of Confederation Failed (Nos. 15 & 21) 36:29
  25. Episode 12 - The Federalist Papers, Part 1: Union, Liberty, and the Problem of Faction (Nos. 1 & 10) 36:03
  26. Episode 11: Anti-Federalism in Action | Patrick Henry’s Warning: “I Tremble for My Country” (June 7, 1788) 41:50
  27. Episode 10: We the People | The Constitution of the United States 33:12
  28. Episode 9: Voices of Freedom | Enslaved Petitions & Early Abolition in Revolutionary America 31:02
  29. Episode 8: The American Crisis, No. 1: | "These Are the Times That Try Men’s Souls” (1776) 25:13
  30. Episode 7: The Articles of Confederation | America’s First Government 27:07
  31. Episode 6: John Quincy Adams on the Declaration of Independence | America’s Moral and Political Origins 25:04
  32. Episode 5: Common Sense by Thomas Paine (Part 3) | Of the Present Ability of America: with Some Miscellaneous Reflections 49:42
  33. Episode 4: Common Sense by Thomas Paine (Part 2) | Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs 42:33
  34. Episode 3: Common Sense by Thomas Paine (Part 1) | The Pamphlet That Ignited American Independence 40:25
  35. Episode 2: Give me Liberty! and The Declaration of Independence 25:02
  36. Episode 1: The Mayflower Compact & John Hancock on The Boston Massacre 31:31