27 April 2011 President Franklin Roosevelt aboard the U.S.S. Indianapolis in Trinidad, 1936 STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Im Steve Ember. This week in our series, we continue to discuss the ev...
21 April 2011 Steve Ember decided to go back into the studio and use his background as a music broadcaster to make his own remix of this week's MAKING OF A NATION program. We hope you enjoy it. Detail from Ben Shahn Depression era mural Steve in his...
13 April 2011 An art class organized by the federal government's Work Progress Administration STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. This week in our series, Bob Doughty and I tell abo...
06 April 2011 President Franklin Roosevelt at his desk in the White House DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Franklin Roosevelt's first three months as president was one of the most exciting perio...
30 March 2011 Strikers in New York City around 1937. Laws proposed by the Roosevelt administration helped strengthen the labor movement. MARIO RITTER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Franklin Roosevelt's New...
23 March 2011 President Franklin Roosevelt signs a law creating the Tennessee Valley Authority on May 18, 1933. He envisioned a corporation clothed with the power of government but possessed of the flexibility and initiative of private enterprise. DO...
16 March 2011 Herbert Hoover, left, and Franklin Roosevelt in Washington on Inauguration Day STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember with Shirley Griffith. This week in our series, we be...
09 March 2011 Members of a poor family of nine on a New Mexico highway during the early 1930s. BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty with Steve Ember. This week in our series...
02 March 2011 Herbert Hoover and his wife, Lou Henry Hoover, in 1929 MARIO RITTER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. The stock market crash of nineteen twenty-nine began a long and difficult perio...
23 February 2011 The son of a Depression-era refugee from Oklahoma who moved to California BARBARA KLEIN: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. Im Barbara Klein. STEVE EMBER: And Im Steve Ember. The s...
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