Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Detail from The Battle of New Orleans by E. Percy Morgan The United States and Britain agreed late in December of eighteen fourteen to end the war between them. The peace tre...
Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Most recently in our series, we have been talking about the War of Eighteen Twelve between the United States and Britain. In the summer of eighteen fourteen, the two countrie...
The delegates at the U.N. conference on climate change in Ghana say they are pleased with the progress made after a week of negotiations. Brent Latham reports from our West Africa bureau in Dakar, the parties hope to shape a new global environmental...
United Nations and International agencies are stepping up aid to victims of the conflict between Georgia and Russia that erupted Friday in the breakaway region of South Ossetia. The agencies say lack of access to South Ossetia is the biggest problem...
Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. As we described last week, British forces attacked Washington in the summer of eighteen fourteen. They burned the Capitol building, the White House and other public buildings...
Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Detail of a mural by Allyn Cox in the Capitol building. The painting shows the burning of the Capitol in 1814. The United States declared war on Britain in eighteen twelve. I...
ANNOUNCER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. James Madison In the spring of eighteen twelve, the United States and Britain were moving closer to war. Congress had approved a ninety-day embargo to stop America...
President James Madison wanted the warring British and French to honor American neutrality. Transcript of radio broadcast: 30 July 2008 Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. James Madison James Madison of Virgini...
On his grave he wanted written, ''Here was buried Thomas Jefferson -- author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Virginia Law for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia.'' Transcript of radio broadcast: 23 July 2...
''For a time, I think the embargo is less evil than war,'' the outgoing president said. Finally he accepted a compromise -- trade, except with Britain and France. Transcript of radio broadcast: 16 July 2008 ANNOUNCER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATI...