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History of the United States Volume 1: Colonial Period - FULL Audio Book - Charles Austin Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive studies in both history and political science. He graduated from DePauw University in 1898, where he met and eventually married Mary Ritter Beard, one of the founders of the first Greek-letter society for women, Kappa Alpha Theta. Many of his books were written in collaboration with his wife, whose own interests lay in feminism and the labor union movement (Woman as a Force in History, 1946). In 1921, Charles and Mary Beard published their History of the United States. A contemporaneous review stated: "The authors... assume enough maturity in high school students to justify a topical rather than a chronological treatment. They have dealt with movements, have sketched large backgrounds, have traced causes, and have discussed the interrelation of social and economic forces and politics. All this has been directed to the large purpose of helping the student to understand American today in all its national characteristics and as part of world civilization as well...The literary style is exceptionally clear and crisp, and the whole approach...is thought producing. As a textbook or handbook for the average citizen it ranks with very best." (Summary by M.L. Cohen) - SUBSCRIBE to Greatest Audio Books: http://www.youtube.com/GreatestAudioBooks - READ along by clicking (CC) for Transcript Captions! - LISTEN to this entire audio book reading for free! 00 -- Preface -- 00:07:03 Read by: M.L. Cohen 01 -- The Great Migration to America/The Agencies of American Colonization -- 00:11:39 Read by: JohnL 02 -- The Colonial Peoples -- 00:11:15 Read by: Kara Shallenberg 03 -- The Process of Colonization -- 00:12:03 Read by: ontheroad 04 -- Colonial Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce/The Land and the Westward Movement -- 00:15:51 Read by: rachelellen 05 -- Industrial and Commercial Development -- 00:18:52 Read by: Sibella Denton 06 -- Social and Political Progress/The Leadership of the Churches -- 00:12:11 Read by: LeonMire 07 -- Schools and Colleges -- 00:06:40 Read by: Sibella Denton 08 -- The Colonial Press -- 00:07:07 Read by: Chris Chapman 09 -- The Evolution in Political Institutions -- 00:13:59 Read by: Sibella Denton 10 -- The Development of Colonial Nationalism/Relations with the Indians and the French -- 00:10:50 Read by: tipaew 11 -- The Effects of Warfare on the Colonies -- 00:08:10 Read by: Kara Shallenberg 12 -- Colonial Relations with the British Government -- 00:17:56 Read by: Sibella Denton 13 -- Summary of Colonial Period -- 00:10:17 Read by: M.L. Cohen The History of the United States is divided into 7 books: 1) THE COLONIAL PERIOD 2) CONFLICT AND INDEPENDENCE 3) FOUNDATIONS OF THE UNION AND NATIONAL POLITICS 4) THE WEST AND JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 5) SECTIONAL CONFLICT AND RECONSTRUCTION 6) NATIONAL GROWTH AND WORLD POLITICS 7) PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRACY AND THE WORLD WAR. Total running time: 2:43:53 This video: Copyright. 2012. GreatestAudioBooks. All Rights Reserved. This is a Librivox recording. All Librivox recordings are in the public domain. For more info of the volunteer visit librivox.org.