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REEL 1708. A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
(50) VOLUME 1. THE REVOLUTION 1775-1789 (THE CAUSE OF LIBERTY)
Sound of the Liberty Bell; Patrick Henry; Farmer Amos Barett; Abigail Adams writes
her husband; Tom Pain; Benjamin Franklin; Alphabet Song; River Highway, the Liberty
Song; Patrick Henry's "...give me liberty..." speech; Yankee Doodle; Paul Revere
Chester; Battle of Concord; Battle of Trenton; John Adams; Joseph Warren; Abigail
Adams letter; John Adams; Tom Paine's "Common Sense"; Grand Coulee Dam; Debate over
Decl. of Independence; 1776 Finale- the 13 States vote on Declaration of Independence.
(THE WAR): Johnny has gone for a Soldier; Aftermaths of War; Wall; The Crisis;
Gen. Burgoyne's surrender; British advance; Thanksgiving 1778 at Valley Forge; Green
Mountain Boys; Diary of a Continental Soldier; A great man, a great Country; Cain
Creek; Two Riders; French forces arrive; Surrender at Yorktown; North America;
Foreboding preamble; Geo. Washington's letter; Shay's Rebellion; Debate on the
Constitution; Preamble to the Constitution of the United States.
(25) VOLUME 2. AN EMPIRE FOR LIBERTY 1789-1849 (THE MAKING OF A NATION)
The American Star; Washington's Inaugural address; Bill of Rights- montage; Frontier
Man's Call; Roll on, Columbia; The Northwest Ordinance; The Shanty in the West; The
Ox-Team Trail; Abigail Adams in White House; March and Air; Jefferson's Inaugural;
Washington's Farewell address; Warns against Foreign Relations; Cha. Pinckney rebuffs
the French; The Battle of Stonington; Henry Clay on the War of 1812; The Patriotic
Diggers; Dolly Madison; Star Spangled Banner; Battle of New Orleans; The President's
March; The Monroe Doctrine.
(25) (PIONEERING IN AMERICA) The American, this New man- montage; Mississippi; Louisiana
Purchase; The Wild Mizzourye; Jefferson instructs Meriwether Lewis; Robert Fulton's
Steamboat; Erie Canal; Remember the Alamo; Davy Crockett; Mormon adventures w/song.
(50) VOLUME 3. THE PROMISED LAND 1849-1860 (PROSPECTORS, PLAINSMEN, IMMIGRANTS
AND SLAVES) The Fools of '49; California; A stagecoach robbery; What was your Name
in the States?; Danish immigrant writes home; Skada in America; He lies in the
American Land; Cowboy "brag talk"; Wagoner's Complaint; Battle Hymn of the Republic;
Account of the Slave Trade; Amazing Grace (spiritual); Conversation with a slave;
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot; Go Down, Moses.
(HALF SLAVE, HALF FREE) Confessions of Nat Turner; Sojourner Truth; Lonesome Valley;
Uncle Tom's Cabin; Calhoun speaks for the South; Lincoln on the Union; John Brown's
Body- montage; Bonnie Blue Flag.
(50) VOLUME 4. CIVIL WAR-THE BURNING FIERY FURNACE 1860-1876 (A HOUSE DIVIDED)
Battle Hymn of the Republic; Bonnie Blue Flag; Fort Sumter-montage; Rally Round the
Cause, Boys; Mary Livermore on recruiting; Robert E. Lee; Jefferson Davis' Inaugural;
Bull Run- the aftermath; The Monitor & the Merrimac; The Cumberland Crew; Mother
Kissed Me in My Dream; Clara Barton on battlefield casualties; Battle of Shiloh;
Emancipation Proclamation; Battle of Gettysburg-montage.
(THE UNION VICTORIOUS) We are Coming Father Abraham; Gettysburg Address; Drafted into
the army; Marching through Georgia; The Surrender at Appomattox- montage; Lincoln's
Assassination- montage; Poem; Old Revel; Impeachment of Johnson- montage; Centennial.
(25) VOLUME 5. IRON MEN & IRON ROADS 1860-1890 (SPANNING THE CONTINENT)
A Thousand miles of Mountains- montage; Sioux Indians; A Cattle Drive; Chisholm Trail;
Buffalo Skinner; Manifest Destiny & the Indian; The Oklahoma Land Rush.
(20) (CLOSING THE FRONTIER) Cowboy's Lament; Jesse James- montage; Miner's songs- montage;
Mark Twain on a chainging America; Little Brown Church in the Vale; The end of the
Indian; The end of the Frontier- montage; Semper Fidelis.
(45) VOLUME 6. THE GILDED AGE 1865-1900 (INDUSTRY AND EMPIRE)
Eight Hours; Andrew Carnegie on capitalism; The National Grange & the Knights of Labor;
Sherman Anti-Trust Act- montage; John D. Rockefeller on virtues of big business; The
Creed of "Populism"; Cross of Gold- speech by Wm. Jennings Bryan; Spanish-American
War- montage; McKinley show; "Teddy" Roosevelt; Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight.
(THE AMERICAN CENTURY BEGINS) A Bird in a Gilded Cage; The New Colossus; An Immigrant'
impressions of America; William Dean Howells on the mood of America; Lord Bryce on
America; Thomas Edison; Hello Central, Give me Heaven; Henry Woodfin Grady on "The
New South"; Booker T. Washington heralds the future; Immigrants- montage; Jane Addams
on the plight of Women; Mill Mother's Lament; Maple Leaf Rag.

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REEL 1709. A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
(50) VOLUME 7. THE AGE OF GREAT REFORM 1900-1917 (THE AMERICAN CENTURY BEGINS)
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum; My Maryland; The Preacher & the Slave; Lincoln Steffens attacks
social injustice; Ray Stannard Baker condemns railroad "rebating"; Banks of Marble;
Eugene V. Debs compares capitalism & socialism; Mark Hanna criticizes Theodore Roosevelt;
Lincoln Steffens praises "Teddy"; Roosevelt explains his "Square Deal"; Geo. M. Cohan-
medley; Teddy & the Panama Canal; Orville Wright's "Kitty Hawk"; Early 20th Century song
(THE AWAKENED NATION) Saturday Night Blues; St. Louis Blues; Miniver Cheevy; Alexander
Ragtime Band; Everybody's Doing It; The 1912 National Election- montage; Pres. Wilson
on "The Awakened Nation"; Achievements of the Reform Movement; Oliver Wendell Holmes on y.
the prospects for Mankind; Jane Addams on peace; WW I & belligerence of Kaiser- montage;
Account of gas attack; Wilson's neutrality; I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier.
(25) VOLUME 8. WORLD WAR I. AND THE JAZZ AGE 1916-1928 (THE GREAT WAR)
German warning to Atlantic shipping; Sinking of the Lusitania; Wilson calls for War;
WW I. songs- medley; Gen. Pershing to troops; Marshall Foch hails America's entry; Let'
bury the Hatchet; American victories; The Armistice; Pack up your Troubles; A Farewell
to Arms; Wilson's League of Nations; Election of Warren Harding; The 1st election
Broadcast (1920) by Harding from KDKA; Nobody's Sweetheart.
(25) (THE JAZZ AGE) Margie; Charleston; Will Rogers on 'Silent Cal'; Customs & Commercials
of the 1920's- montage; Yes Sir, That's my Baby; Excerpt from Main Street; The Monkey
Trial; Lindberg flies Atlantic- montage; Sacco & Vanzetti; The Great Gatsby; Blondes.
(50) VOLUME 9. THE GREAT DEPRESSION & THE NEW DEAL 1928-1940 (DEPRESSION &
RECOVERY) Herbert Hoover; Stock Market Crash; Brother, Can you spare a dime?; The
Bonus Marchers; Dusty, old Dust; The Plight of the Dustbowl; Will Rogers & Eddie Cantor
on the depression; No Depression in Heaven; Franklin D. Roosevelt elected; The New
Deal; He-re in the Money; Eleanor Roosevelt recollects; One Third of a Nation; Sing
Me a song of Social Significance; John L. Lewis; FDR's campaign speeches 1933-1944 monta
Row, Row, Row with Roosevelt. (THE NEW DEAL) "You're the Top; Radio Montage of 1930's
Premonitions of War- montage; FDR's "Quarantine Speech"; The Eve of War; Britain goes
to War; Churchill's first speech as Prime Minister; FDR's early wartime speeches;
Japanese account of Pearl Harbor; FDR's "...a day in infamy..." speech; This is the Army
Mr. Jones.
(50) VOLUME 10. AMERICA IN GLOBAL WAR 1941-1945 (MEETING THE CHALLENGE)
America goes to War; Service Songs- medley; Early Japanese Victories; Surrender of the
Philippines; Account of Bataan "Death March"; The Africa Campaign; Lilli Marlene;
Berlin air-raid; D-Day montage; Liberation of Paris.
(THE PRICE OF VICTORY) Praise the Lord & pass the Ammunition; Ernie Pyle describes G.I.
The Battle of Midway; Gen. MacArthur returns; Battle of Iwo Jima; Buy a Victory Bond;
Over Here; The Battle of Okinawa; FDR's death- montage; The Atomic Bomb- montage;
V-J Day montage; Beer Barrel Polka.
(25) VOLUME 11. AMERICA ENTERS THE ATOMIC AGE 1945-1960 (COLD WAR AT HOME AND
ABROAD) Nuclear Tests; "Cold War"- montage; Churchill's "iron Curtain" speech; The
"Truman Doctrine"; The "Marshall Plan"; Good Bait; Take the 'A' Train; The Berlin
Airlift; Hiss-Chambers hearings; 1948 Election- montage; Happy Days are Here Again.
(THE KOREAN WAR, MCCARTHYISM & THE CULTURE OF THE '50's) Rock 'n Roll Riff; U.N.
Ambassador Gross describes North Korean aggression; War in Korea- montage; MacArthur-
Truman clash; "Ike" elected; Runaround Sue; Blue Suede Shoes; Internal Security and
McCarthy- montage; This Land is Your Land; Civil Rights; Nobody knows the trouble ....
(50) VOLUME 12. OUR TIMES - TO BE CONTINUED 1960 (TIMES OF CRISIS)
The Times, They are A-changing; John F. Kennedy's Inaugural; People, Get Ready; The
New Frontier; Cuban Missile Crisis- montage; Civil Rights- montage; We Shall Overcome;
JFK's Assassination- montage; The War in Vietnam; 1968- montage; Sen. Edward Kennedy
eulogizes his brother, Robert; Turn, turn, turn;
(A CHANGING AMERICA) The "Counter-Culture"; Hold your Head Up; Space Program- montage
Spinning Wheel; Peace Demonstrations- montage; Watergate- montage; Pres. Gerald Ford's
Inaugural; America the Beautiful.