Great Epochs in American History, Volume II
Francis Whiting Halsey
31 chapters · 6 h 12 min · English
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This is the second volume in ten volume series of great epochs in the history of the United States, from the landing of Columbus to the building of the Panama Canal. In large part, events composing each epoch are described by men who participated in them, or were personal eye-witnesses of them. Volume II describes first colonies in America and covers time period from 1562 to 1733. - Summary by Kikisaulite
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1 Introduction 8 min 2 The founding of St. Augustine and the massacre by Menendez (1562-1565) I: The account by John A. Doyle 17 min 3 The founding of St. Augustine and the massacre by Menendez (1562-1565) II: Mendoza's account 19 min 4 Sir Walter Raleigh's Virginia colonies (1584-1587) I: The account by John A. Doyle 12 min 5 Sir Walter Raleigh's Virginia colonies II: The return of the colonists with Sir Francis Drake (1586) by Ralph Lane 9 min 6 Sir Walter Raleigh's Virginia colonies III: The birth of Virginia Dare (1587) by John White 4 min 7 Bartholomew Gosnold's discovery of Cape Cod (1602) I: By Gabriel Archer, one of his companions 14 min 8 Bartholomew Gosnold's discovery of Cape Cod (1602) II: Gosnold's own account 5 min 9 The founding of Jamestown (1607) by Captain John Smith 27 min 10 The first American legislative assembly (1619) by John Twine, its secretary 13 min 11 The origin of negro slavery in America I: In the West Indies (1518) by Sir Arthur Helps 9 min 12 The origin of negro slavery in America II: Its beginnings in the United States (1620) by John A. Doyle 5 min 13 New England before the pilgrim fathers landed (1614) by captain John Smith 18 min 14 The first voyage of the "Mayflower" (1620) by governor William Bradford 24 min 15 The first New York settlements (1623-1628) by Nicholas Jean de Wassenaer 9 min 16 The Swedes and Dutch in New Jersey and Delaware (1627) by Israel Acrelius 15 min 17 The beginnings of the Massachusetts Bay colony (1627-1631) by governor Thomas Dudley 9 min 18 How the Bay colony differed from Plymouth by John G. Palfrey 10 min 19 Lord Baltimore in Maryland (1633) by contemporary writers 9 min 20 Roger Williams in Rhode Island (1636) by Nathaniel Morton 8 min 21 The founding of Connecticut (1633-1636) by Alexander Johnston 17 min 22 Witchcraft in New England (1647-1696) by John G. Palfrey 14 min 23 The English conquest of New York (1664) by John R. Brodhead 18 min 24 Bacon's rebellion in Virginia (1676) by an anonymous writer 15 min 25 King Philip's war (1676) by William Hubbard 13 min 26 The founding of Pennsylvania I: Penn's account of the colony (1684) 9 min 27 The founding of Pennsylvania II: Penn's treaty with the Indians (1683), his own account 4 min 28 The founding of Pennsylvania III: The reality of Penn's treaty (1682), by George E. Ellis 6 min 29 The Charter Oak affair in Connecticut (1682) by Alexander Johnston 8 min 30 The colonization of Louisiana (1699) by Charles E.T. Gayarre 15 min 31 Oglethorpe in Georgia (1733) by Joel Chandler Harris 8 min
