Christmas in Heritage America Volume 1
NOW AVAILABLE! Heritage America is So Back! Enjoy the Christmas season with this unique audiobook collection of letters, poems, carols, and stories from the people of America through the centuries. Christmas in Heritage America will renew your appreciation for the history and literature of the American nation.
And remember! Christmas does not end on December 25: in the Christian Calendar, that is merely the first day of Twelve. You can listen to Christmas in Heritage America at any time throughout Advent and Christmas.
Christmas in Heritage America Vol. 1
Table of Contents
* From William Bradford’s History Of Plymouth Plantation, 1606-1646
* From Cotton Mather’s “Grace defended. A censure on the ungodliness, by which the glorious grace of God, is too commonly abused. A sermon preached on the twenty fifth day of December, 1712. Containing some seasonable admonitions of piety…”
* From Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1734 and 1739
* “George Washington’s Christmas Poem,” 1743
* From an Account of Christmas Among Various American Christians, by Peter Kalm, 1749
* From an Account of Washington’s Crossing of the Delaware on Christmas Night, 1776, in A History of Trenton, 1679-1929
* William Billings’ “Shiloh (Methinks I See a Heavenly Host),” 1786
* From William Billings’ “An Anthem for Christmas,” 1794
* From Washington Irving’s Knickerbocker’s History of New York, 1809
* Clement Moore’s “A Visit From Saint Nicholas,” 1823
* From the Letters of Robert E. Lee to His Family, 1846-1860
* From Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Bells,” 1850
* John Henry Hopkins’ “We Three Kings of Orient Are,” 1857
* John Henry Hopkins’ “Gather Around the Christmas Tree,” 1863
* Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day,” 1863
* Mark Twain’s “A Letter From Santa Claus,” 1875
* Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “The Three Kings,” 1878
* John Greenleaf Whittier’s “A Christmas Carmen,” 1888
* John Greenleaf Whittier’s “The Christmas of 1888,” 1888
* O’Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi,” 1905
