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The Sounds Of History Record 8: 1890 To 1901 / Reaching For Empire
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The Sounds Of History Record 8: 1890 To 1901 / Reaching For Empire --- 1964
Connective passages read by Charles Collingwood
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From The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
From John D. Rockefeller's statement on big business (1899)
"The New Colossus" by Emma Lasarus (1889)
Mary Antin's firs impressions of America from "The Promised Land" (1912)
John P. Altgeld's letter to President Grover Cleveland (1894)
From Mary Elizabeth Lease's speech to farmers on behalf of the Populists (around 1890)
From a recording made by William Jennings Bryan in 1898 of hs "Cross of Gold" speech originally delivered in 1898
From the joint congressional resolution of April 20,1898, on Cuba
Admiral George Dewey's diary entry after the battle of Manila Bay (May 1,1898)
From "An Ode in Time of Hesitation" by William Baughn Moody (1900)
From "The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane (1898"
Mark Hanna's comment on Theodore Roosevelt's suitability as a vice presidential candidate (1900)
President William McKinley's words upon being shot by an assassin (1901)
Assassin Leon Czolgosz tells why he shot President McKinley (1901)
Mark Hanna's reaction to President McKinley's death (1901)
Theodore Roosevelt's speech on national purpose (1899)
El Capitan
Sixty-Seventh Psalm
To A Wild Rose
Hello Central, Give Me Heaven
Aria From Judith
Break The News To Mother
Chorus From "Hora Novissima"
Gypsy Love Song
Maple Leaf Rag
A Bird In A Gilded Cage
The Washington Post