'Merican Lit episodes:

• June 14, 2018Episode 55: Walt Whitman Selected Poems, Part 2

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

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• June 07, 2018Episode 54: J.C. Lewis' "Black Beaver the Trapper"

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

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• May 24, 2018Episode 53: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride"

  Discover a famous poem of patriotic fervor.

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• May 17, 2018Episode 52: Alexis de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America", Part 2

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

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• May 03, 2018Episode 51: Walt Whitman's "A Song of Joys"

  Experience all the feels with an icon of American poetry.

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• April 26, 2018Episode 50: The American Standard Version of the Bible

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

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• April 19, 2018Episode 49: "Memoirs of John R. Young"

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

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• April 12, 2018Episode 48: Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature"

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

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• April 05, 2018Episode 47: John Dickinson's "Letters From A Farmer"

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

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• March 29, 2018Episode 46: James Russell Lowell's "The Place of the Independent in Politics"

  A call to better politics—if that were possible.

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