16 February 2011 Crowds gather in the Wall Street district of Manhattan in reaction to the heavy losses on the stock market on October 24, 1929, or Black Thursday Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Th...
09 February 2011 Herbert Hoover, right, and the president he followed in office, Calvin Coolidge BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. The presidential election of nineteen twenty-eight g...
19 January 2011 Louis Armstrong BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. The early years of the twentieth century were a time of movement for many black Americans. Traditionally, most blacks li...
12 January 2011 A chemist with the Internal Revenue Board inspects bottles used to illegally sell alcohol BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Americans experimented with many new customs a...
05 January 2011 Frank Lloyd Wright's home in Oak Park, Illinois BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. There were many changes in the social customs and day-to-day life of millions of America...
29 December 2010 Congressman T.S. McMillan of Charleston, South Carolina with two women who are doing the Charleston dance near the Capitol building in Washington D.C. BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA S...
22 December 2010 Calvin Coolidge making speech at his inauguration in 1925 BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. This week in our series, Steve Ember and Shirley Griffith talk about Calvin C...
15 December 2010 Warren Harding had owned a newspaper in Ohio. People advised him to enter politics, because he was such a good public speaker. STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. This week in ou...
08 December 2010 Strikers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, around 1919 BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. The United States Constitution guarantees freedoms such as freedom of speech, freedom of the...
01 December 2010 A movie theater in New Orleans, Louisiana ANNOUNCER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. In the years after World War One, new technologies changed America. Technology made it possible for mi...
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