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A Ballad of America:

A History of the United States through Folk Song

Table of Contents

Introduction

PART ONE -- The Colonial Period -- Beginnings to 1763

Chapter 1 -- The Traditional Ballads of North America

Chapter 2 -- Colonial Songs and Ballads

PART TWO -- Revolution and War -- 1763 - 1815

PART THREE -- Antebellum America -- 1815 - 1860

PART FOUR -- The Civil War

PART FIVE -- Continental Empire 1870 - 1914

PART SIX -- Between Two Wars 1914 - 1945

PART SEVEN -- Human Rights and the Cold War

Folksong In The Classroom and us

Index

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