'Merican Lit

By Steve HamstraEducation

'Merican Lit episodes

June 14, 2018 Episode 55: Walt Whitman Selected Poems, Part 2
Ending where we began, with one of America’s finest poets!
19 min
June 07, 2018 Episode 54: J.C. Lewis' "Black Beaver the Trapper"
This episode’s got it all: guns, wild animals, untamed mountains and poor grammar!
16 min
May 24, 2018 Episode 53: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride"
Discover a famous poem of patriotic fervor.
9 min
May 17, 2018 Episode 52: Alexis de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America", Part 2
Does America’s majority wield kingly power over allowable opinion?
12 min
May 03, 2018 Episode 51: Walt Whitman's "A Song of Joys"
Experience all the feels with an icon of American poetry.
19 min
April 26, 2018 Episode 50: The American Standard Version of the Bible
Enjoy a book of springtime passion: the Song of Solomon.
22 min
April 19, 2018 Episode 49: "Memoirs of John R. Young"
Join a Mormon pioneer on the trail west to Salt Lake Valley.
13 min
April 12, 2018 Episode 48: Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature"
Find out if you really, I mean really, see nature.
12 min
April 05, 2018 Episode 47: John Dickinson's "Letters From A Farmer"
The first missive from the “Penman of the Revolution.”
14 min
March 29, 2018 Episode 46: James Russell Lowell's "The Place of the Independent in Politics"
A call to better politics—if that were possible.
12 min

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Exploring the letters and literature of our American forebears.