HISTORY IN SONG

• THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
• SONGS OF THE SEA
• 1800s: IMMIGRATION FROM EUROPE & THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT
• OUTLAWS & BADMEN (and -WOMEN)
• SONGS FROM PENITENTIARIES & CHAIN GANGS
• THE CIVIL WAR
• THE RAILROAD IN AMERICAN SONG
• TRAMPS, HOBOES, MIGRANT WORKERS, HOMELESS
• TRAGEDIES AND DISASTERS
• WORLD WAR I
• THE LABOR MOVEMENT
• 1920s & 1930s; THE DEPRESSION & THE NEW DEAL
• WORLD WAR II
• LATE 1940s & 1950s: McCARTHY "WITCH-HUNTS;" NUCLEAR ARMS RACE, THE KOREA WAR
• RACE RELATIONS & THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• 1960s: THE BOMB SCARE, THE GENERATION GAP, THE VIET-NAM WAR

• ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF SONG TITLES

• THE DIXON BROTHERS (HOWARD & DORSEY DIXON)
• BOB DYLAN
• JIM GARLAND
• TOM GLAZER
• SARAH OGAN GUNNING
• WOODY GUTHRIE & THE ALMANAC SINGERS
• JOE HILL
• AUNT MOLLY JACKSON
• PETER LAFARGE
• MILLARD LAMPELL
• DAVE McCARN
• BOB MILLER
• PHIL OCHS
• BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE

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