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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

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

PART THREE -- Antebellum America -- 1815 - 1860

PART FOUR -- The Civil War

Chapter 9 -- Songs of the Civil War

"Old Abe Lincoln"
"The Northern Bonny Blue Flag"
"The Mississippi Volunteers"
"Johnny Is My Darling"
"The Yankee Man of War"
"The Homespun Dress"
"General Lee's Wooing"
"John Brown's Body"
"Oh, Mary Don't You Weep"
"Marching Song of the First of Arkansas"
"Oh, Freedom!"
"The Battle Cry of Freedom"
"Virginia's Bloody Soil"

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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