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American History Through the Eyes of Radio

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American History Through the Eyes of Radio — old-time radio, Various radio networks. 556 episodes, 157 hr 33 min. Public domain broadcasts from the Internet Archive.

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Length
157 hr 33 min
Episodes
556
Language
English
Source
Internet Archive
Internet Archive
OTRR_American_History_Singles
Rights
Public domain — old-time radio broadcasts, from the Internet Archive old-time radio collection

Episodes

  1. 1712 Cavalcade of America - Sentinels of the Deep 29:24
  2. AHTER 1712 Sentinels of the Deep 29:26
  3. 1723 Cavalcade of America - John Bartram's Garden 30:42
  4. 1723 Cavalcade of America - Opportunity 30:13
  5. 1729 Cavalcade of America - Building & Architecture 31:15
  6. 1732 Cavalcade of America - Benjamin Franklin 30:12
  7. 1733 Cavalcade of America - Safety First 30:06
  8. 1735 Cavalcade of America - Father Junipero Serra 29:15
  9. 1738 Cavalcade of America - Artistic Impulse 29:18
  10. 1738 Cavalcade of America - Self Reliance 30:17
  11. 1745 Deerslayer, The ( Part 01) 13:22
  12. 1745 Deerslayer, The ( Part 02) 13:07
  13. 1745 Deerslayer, The ( Part 03) 13:20
  14. 1745 Deerslayer, The ( Part 04) 13:29
  15. 1745 Deerslayer, The ( Part 05) 13:18
  16. 1745 Deerslayer, The ( Part 06) 13:42
  17. 1745 Deerslayer, The ( Part 07) 12:37
  18. 1745 Deerslayer, The ( Part 08) 7:52
  19. 1745 Deerslayer, The ( Part 09) 13:04
  20. 1745 Deerslayer, The ( Part 10) 12:54
  21. 1745 Deerslayer, The ( Part 11) 13:12
  22. 1745 Deerslayer, The ( Part 12) 13:00
  23. 1745 Deerslayer, The ( Part 13) 12:32
  24. 1746 Cavalcade of America - Stars of Destiny 30:24
  25. 1750 Cavalcade of America - House of Glass 30:15
  26. 1757 Last of the Mohicans, The ( Part 01) 14:32
  27. 1757 Last of the Mohicans, The ( Part 02) 13:47
  28. 1757 Last of the Mohicans, The ( Part 03) 12:17
  29. 1757 Last of the Mohicans, The ( Part 04) 13:34
  30. 1757 Last of the Mohicans, The ( Part 05) 12:56
  31. 1757 Last of the Mohicans, The ( Part 06) 16:39
  32. 1757 Last of the Mohicans, The ( Part 07) 13:29
  33. 1757 Last of the Mohicans, The ( Part 09) 13:39
  34. 1757 Last of the Mohicans, The ( Part 10) 13:56
  35. 1757 Last of the Mohicans, The ( Part 11) 13:12
  36. 1757 Last of the Mohicans, The ( Part 12) 15:01
  37. 1757 Last of the Mohicans, the ( Part 08) 13:24
  38. 1757 Radio Adventure Theater - Last of the Mohicans 39:44
  39. 1764 Cavalcade of America - Stephen Girard 30:13
  40. 1770 Destination Freedom - Crispus Attucks 29:06
  41. 1774 Cavalcade of America - Willingness to Share 30:05
  42. 1775 Cavalcade of America - In the Best Traditions 24:43
  43. 1775 You Are There - Lexington & Concord 27:53
  44. 1776 American Trail, The Brave Flag 14:57
  45. 1776 American Trail, The Dispatch to New York 14:56
  46. 1776 Cavalcade of America - Declaration of Independence 31:13
  47. 1776 Cavalcade of America - Gentleman from Paris 27:12
  48. 1776 You Are There - Philadelphia, July 4, 1776 28:14
  49. 1778 Cavalcade of America - Noah Webster 30:18
  50. 1779 Destination Freedom - The Man Who Owned Chicago 29:48
  51. 1782 Adventures in Research - Birth of the Balloon 15:00
  52. 1784 Cavalcade of America - John Jacob Astor 29:43
  53. 1785 Cavalcade of America - Steamboat Builders 29:48
  54. 1787 American Trail, The Northwest Ordinance 14:29
  55. 1787 Cavalcade of America - Captain Robert Gray 26:21
  56. 1788 You Are There - Virginia Ratifies the Constitution 27:57
  57. 1789 American Trail, The - Samuel Slator's Machine 14:40
  58. 1789 Cavalcade of America - Samuel Slater 29:44
  59. 1789 Election Song - Follow Washington 1:03
  60. 1790 Cavalcade of America - Conservation 29:37
  61. 1790 Cavalcade of America - George Washington, Farmer 30:32
  62. 1790 Cavalcade of America - Tillers of the Soil 29:22
  63. 1790 Election Song - Free Elections 0:29
  64. 1791 Norman Corwin - We Hold These Truths
  65. 1796 Election Song - Adams & Liberty 1:38
  66. 1798 Cavalcade of America - Loyalty to Family 30:54
  67. 1800 Cavalcade of America - Jefferson & American Education 29:58
  68. 1800 Cavalcade of America - Mc Guffy Readers 30:31
  69. 1800 Destination Freedom - Denmark Vesey 28:17
  70. 1800 Election Song - Jefferson & Liberty 0:42
  71. 1803 American Trail, The - Lewis & Clark Expedition 13:54
  72. 1803 American Trail, The - Louisiana Purchase 14:38
  73. 1803 Cavalcade of America - The Louisiana Purchase 30:15
  74. 1803 Cavalcade of America - The Will to Explore 30:08
  75. 1803 Horizons West 01 Mr Jefferson's Dream 30:39
  76. 1803 Horizons West 02 The Confrontation 30:43
  77. 1803 Horizons West 03 Dakota Winter 30:45
  78. 1803 Horizons West 04 Into the Unknown 30:43
  79. 1803 Horizons West 05 The Great Falls 30:51
  80. 1803 Horizons West 06 Shoshone Country 30:42
  81. 1803 Horizons West 07 To the Pacific 30:26
  82. 1803 Horizons West 08 Fort on the Columbia 30:27
  83. 1803 Horizons West 09 Homeward Bound 30:34
  84. 1803 Horizons West 10 Decision at Traveler's Rest 30:28
  85. 1803 Horizons West 11 Clark & the Horse Thieves 30:31
  86. 1803 Horizons West 12 Lewis & the Blackfeet 30:34
  87. 1803 Horizons West 13 Down the Missouri to St Louis 30:40
  88. 1803 Radio Adventure Theater - Lewis & Clark 40:07
  89. 1804 Cavalcade of America - John James Audubon 30:45
  90. 1805 Cavalcade of America - Enterprise 30:59
  91. 1808 Election Song - Huzzah for Madison 1:25
  92. 1810 Cavalcade of America - Defiance of Nature 30:15
  93. 1814 Cavalcade of America - Jean Lafitte 30:32
  94. 1816 Election Song - Monroe Is the Man 1:31
  95. 1816 Mr President - James Monroe 25:53
  96. 1817 Cavalcade of America - Mary Lyon 30:11
  97. 1820 Cavalcade of America - Heroes of Texas 29:00
  98. 1820 Cavalcade of America - James Fenimore Cooper 30:29
  99. 1821 Frontier Fighters - Steven Austin 14:22
  100. 1824 Cavalcade of America - National Parks Pioneers 29:54
  101. 1825 Adventures in Research - Electronics in Communication 15:00
  102. 1827 Cavalcade of America - Man Who Couldn't Grow Old 29:08
  103. 1829 Mr President - Andrew Jackson Deceitful Rumor 29:34
  104. 1830 American Trail, The - Golden Ocean 14:33
  105. 1830 Cavalcade of America - Woman's Emancipation 29:36
  106. 1830 You Are There - Tom Thumb Steam Locomotive 29:43
  107. 1831 Cavalcade of America - American Journalism 30:01
  108. 1835 Cavalcade of America - Charlotte Cushman 30:52
  109. 1835 Cavalcade of America - Oliver Wendell Holmes 30:30
  110. 1836 Radio Adventure Theater - Remember the Alamo 40:25
  111. 1840 Cavalcade of America - Mariah Mitchell 30:58
  112. 1840 Election Song - Harrison Yankee Doodle 1:14
  113. 1840 Election Song - Rockabye, Baby ( Van Buren) 1:26
  114. 1840 Election Song - Tippecanoe & Tyler Too 1:18
  115. 1840 Mr President - John Tyler 29:51
  116. 1841 Cavalcade of America - Bridge of Builders 30:28
  117. 1841 Cavalcade of America - Down to the Sea 25:32
  118. 1841 Cavalcade of America - Preservation 30:22
  119. 1842 Cavalcade of America - Hardness 29:21
  120. 1842 Cavalcade of America - Heroism in Medical Science 30:06
  121. 1843 American Trail, the - On to Monterey 14:06
  122. 1843 Frontier Fighters - Oregon, 54-40 14:54
  123. 1844 American Trail, The - Magic Wire 14:37
  124. 1844 Cavalcade of America - Pioneer Woman Physician 29:25
  125. 1844 Election Song - Come Raise the Banner Polk ( Anti-Clay) 1:03
  126. 1844 Election Song - Jimmy Polk of Tennessee 1:40
  127. 1845 Cavalcade of America - Fame in Literature 30:07
  128. 1846 Adventures in Research - Uncle Sam's Attic 15:00
  129. 1847 Frontier Fighters - Massacre at Taos, New Mexico 15:10
  130. 1848 Cavalcade of America - Story of Dynamite 29:53
  131. 1848 Election Song - Rum-A-Dum-Dum ( Taylor) 1:21
  132. 1848 Mr President - Zacahary Taylor 28:45
  133. 1849 American Trail, the - California Gold Rush 14:31
  134. 1849 Cavalcade of America - Edwin Booth 29:55
  135. 1849 Cavalcade of America - Golden Touch 30:29
  136. 1849 Cavalcade of America - Resourcefulness 29:32
  137. 1849 Frontier Fighters - Oregon & The Pacific Republic 14:59
  138. 1849 Frontier Fighters - The Comstock Lode 14:43
  139. 1850 Cavalcade of America - Speed of Words 31:10
  140. 1851 Cavalcade of America - Heroes of the Sea 30:34
  141. 1852 Cavalcade of America - Will to Rebuild 29:56
  142. 1852 Election Song - Pierce & King 1:38
  143. 1852 Election Song - Union Wagon ( Fillmore) 1:46
  144. 1855 Cavalcade of America - Railroad Builders 29:59
  145. 1856 Cavalcade of America - Transcontinental Journeys 29:38
  146. 1856 Destination Freedom - Railway to Freedom 29:10
  147. 1856 Election Song - Buchanan & John Breckenridge 1:15
  148. 1857 Cavalcade of America - The Search for Iron 30:46
  149. 1857 Frontier Fighters - Colorado Territory 14:56
  150. 1858 Cavalcade of America - Geronimo 26:20
  151. 1859 Cavalcade of America - Victor Herbert 29:55
  152. 1860 Academy Award Theater - Young Mr Lincoln 28:48
  153. 1860 American Heritage - The Mails 26:11
  154. 1860 Cavalcade of America - Abraham Lincoln 30:34
  155. 1860 Cavalcade of America - Conquered Distance 30:06
  156. 1860 Destination Freedom - The Key to Freedom 29:15
  157. 1860 Destination Freedom - The Making of a Man 28:50
  158. 1860 Election Song - Lincoln & Liberty 2:12
  159. 1860 Frontier Fighters - Reverend Thomas Starr King 15:17
  160. 1860 Mr President - Abe Lincoln in Telegraph Office 29:32
  161. 1861 Frontier Fighters - Wild Bill Hickok 15:21
  162. 1861 Radio Adventure Theater - Red Badge of Courage 40:37
  163. 1862 You Are There - Bombardment of Fort Sumter 12:23
  164. 1862 You Are There - Monitor Vs Merrimac 28:58
  165. 1863 Cavalcade of America - Clara Louise Kellogg 30:41
  166. 1863 Cavalcade of America - Father of Plastics 30:20
  167. 1863 Frontier Fighters - Union Pacific & Central Pacific 14:59
  168. 1863 You Are There - Battle of Gettysburg 14:56
  169. 1864 Election Song - Little Mac Shall Be Restored ( Mac Clellan) 1:55
  170. 1864 Election Song - Rally 'round the Cause ( Lincoln) 1:44
  171. 1865 Carling Country - Stockade 30:06
  172. 1865 Cavalcade of America - Buffalo Bill 30:37
  173. 1865 Cavalcade of America - Helping Hand 30:03
  174. 1865 Crime Classics - Assassination of Abraham Lincoln 23:57
  175. 1865 You Are There - Assassination of Abraham Lincoln 29:15
  176. 1865 You Are There - Capture of John Wilkes Booth 28:38
  177. 1865 You Are There - Lee & Grant at Appomattox 34:56
  178. 1866 Adventures in Research - The Cash Register 15:00
  179. 1866 American Trail - The New South 14:56
  180. 1866 Cavalcade of America - Luther Burbank 30:07
  181. 1866 Frontier Fighters - Santa Fe Trail 15:02
  182. 1867 Adventures in Research - Dynamite 15:00
  183. 1868 Election Song - Grant, Grant, Grant 1:28
  184. 1868 Election Song - Hurrah for Grant 1:14
  185. 1868 Election Song - Just Before Election ( Anti-Johnson) 1:44
  186. 1868 Frontier Fighters - Custer's Last Stand at Little Big Horn 15:02
  187. 1868 You Are There - Impeachment of Andrew Johnson 27:49
  188. 1869 Adventures in Research - George Westinghouse 14:23
  189. 1870 Cavalcade of America - They Also Serve 30:18
  190. 1870 Election Song - Victorias Banner - Women's Suffrage 0:46
  191. 1870 Frontier Fighters - Cochise & Captain Tom Jeffords 15:14
  192. 1874 Cavalcade of America - Annie Oakley 28:00
  193. 1874 Cavalcade of America - Humanitarian Urge 30:08
  194. 1874 Frontier Fighters - Dakota Territory 14:54
  195. 1875 Destination Freedom - Senator Blanche K Bruce 30:03
  196. 1876 Election Song - Boys in Blue ( Hayes) 1:03
  197. 1876 Election Song - For Hayes & Wheeler Too 1:22
  198. 1877 Cavalcade of America - Ernestine Schumann-Heink 30:09
  199. 1879 American Trail - The Rich Desert 14:32
  200. 1880 Cavalcade of America - Edward Mc Dowell 29:34
  201. 1880 Cavalcade of America - Elmer Ambrose Sperry 30:39
  202. 1880 Election Song - If Johnnies Get into Power Again ( Garfield) 1:48
  203. 1881 Cavalcade of America - Joel Chandler Harris 26:03
  204. 1884 Election Song - for Victory Again ( Blaine & Logan) 1:17
  205. 1886 Cavalcade of America - Admiral Peary Discovers the Pole 30:41
  206. 1887 Cavalcade of America - Anne Sullivan Macy 30:20
  207. 1888 Election Song - Grover's End ( Harrison) 0:49
  208. 1888 Election Song - He's All Right ( Harrison) 1:23
  209. 1888 Election Song - His Grandfather's Hat ( Anti-Harrison) 0:54
  210. 1889 Cavalcade of America - Spirit of Competition 30:12
  211. 1889 Cavalcade of America - Women in Public Service 31:04
  212. 1890 Frontier Fighters - I, Burton Perrine 15:05
  213. 1891 Adventures in Research - Gustave Dalen 15:00
  214. 1892 Destination Freedom - Mary Church Terrell 30:17
  215. 1892 Election Song - Anti-Cleveland 3:20
  216. 1892 Election Song - Democrats, Good Democrats ( Cleveland) 1:40
  217. 1892 Election Song - Tammany ( No Candidate) 1:51
  218. 1892 Grover Cleveland 1:21
  219. 1893 Cavalcade of America - Black Rust 25:51
  220. 1893 Destination Freedom - Heart of George Cotton 29:10
  221. 1894 Adventures in Research - Sting of Death 15:00
  222. 1895 Destination Freedom - Tales of Stackalee 30:04
  223. 1896 Election Song - Bryan 1:03
  224. 1896 Election Song - Marching with Mc Kinley 2:06
  225. 1896 William Mc Kinley - Campaign Speech 1:12
  226. 1897 Destination Freedom Boy Who Was Traded for a Horse 29:43
  227. 1898 Cavalcade of America - Thomas Edison 29:42
  228. 1900 Election Song - Then & Now Prohibition 2:37
  229. 1903 American Trail, The - Blue Younder 14:13
  230. 1904 Election Song - Roosevelt's the Cry 1:18
  231. 1905 Death Valley Days - Burro Who Had No Name 24:13
  232. 1906 Len Spencer First Recorded Promotional Message on the Edison 2:09
  233. 1908 Elizabeth Pankhurst - Votes for Women 1:17
  234. 1908 Mr President - Ghost in William Howard Tafts Cellar 29:29
  235. 1909 Ernest Shackleton - Expedition to the South Pole 1:56
  236. 1910 Destination Freedom - Birth of the Urban League 30:08
  237. 1912 Adventures in Research - Electronics in Transportation 15:00
  238. 1912 Charles Lightoller - Sinking of the Titanic 1:56
  239. 1912 Theodore Roosevelt - Address to the Boys Progressive League 1:29
  240. 1912 Theodore Roosevelt - Boy's Progressive League 0:44
  241. 1912 Theodore Roosevelt - Farmer & the Business Man
  242. 1912 Theodore Roosevelt - Right of the People to Rule 3:59
  243. 1912 Theodore Roosevelt - Special Interests Speech 1:20
  244. 1914 WWI Song - It's a Long Way to Tipperary 3:08
  245. 1915 Dwight D Eisenhower - Westpoint & Beyond 29:12
  246. 1915 Edward Dwyer - With Our Boys at the Front 1:17
  247. 1916 Cavalcade of America - Stories of American Dyes 30:19
  248. 1916 WWI Song - America, I Love You 3:15
  249. 1917 James Gerard Watson - The German Peril 2:54
  250. 1917 WWI Song - Let's All Be Americans Now 2:57