ANNOUNCER: Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. Daniel Webster In eighteen fifty, the United States faced the threat of a split between northern and southern states. The two sides disagreed strongly over the...
The Use of History There are two ways of thinking of history. There is, first, history regarded as a way of looking at other things, really the temporal aspect of anything, from the universe to this nib with which I am writing. Everything has its hi...
Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. During the first half of the nineteenth century, leaders of the United States could find no answer to the question of slavery. The dispute grew more threatening after the war...
Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. The United States faced a deep national crisis in eighteen fifty. That crisis threatened to split the nation in two. It began over the issue of slavery in the new territories...
ANNOUNCER: Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. General Zachary Taylor The Whig Party considered four candidates for the presidential election of eighteen forty-eight: Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky, General Zac...
ANNOUNCER: Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. James Polk In eighteen forty-eight, while James Polk was president, there was a great constitutional debate in the United States. It arose over slavery in the new...
Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. In the middle of the eighteen forties, the United States offered to buy California from Mexico. The government of Mexico refused to negotiate. American President James Polk f...
Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. An 1836 map of Texas In eighteen thirty-six, Texas declared its independence from Mexico. Nine years later, in eighteen forty-five, the United States Congress passed a res...
Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. In eighteen forty-three, Texas was a major issue in American politics. President John Tyler wanted to make Texas a state in the Union. But his secretary of state, Daniel Webs...
The Israeli military has closed in on densely populated areas of the Gaza Strip, seeking to kill gunmen loyal to the militant group Hamas. Israeli war planes are pounding targets in Gaza as part of an effort to stop rocket attacks aimed at the Jewis...