Originally intended as a teaching aid for senior high school social studies and covering a broad scope of civic, government, economic, citizenship and immigration issues, this compilation provides a provocative mid-century impression of America culled from witnesses to the first half of the twentieth century. We are treated to songs from Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Malvina Reynolds; speeches from Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Martin Luther King, Jr.. and Williams Jennings Bryan; so-called "brag talk" by cowboys; and pronouncement of an oath of loyalty by Chief John Oberly of the "Osage Tribe of Indians" affirming that he will not conspire with any political parties to overthrow the US government.

Tracklist:

Skada in America
Bragg Talk
Immigrant Worker
He Lies in the American Land
German-American Loyalty
American Indian Loyalty Oath
Two Good Men
Ballad of Sherman Wu
Immortality 1
The Lord's Prayer 1
F.D.R's Back Again 1
Then and Now 1
Puerto Ricans in New York 1
Roll on Columbia 1
Conestoga Wagoner's Complaint 1
Trusts 1
Banks of Marble 1
The Farmer 1
The Farmer Is the Man (Who Feeds Us All) 2
One-Third of a Nation 2
Pastures of Plenty 2
Labor Strife 2
Ludlow Massacre 2
Money, Money, Money 2
Too Old to Work 2
Corruption 2
Teacher's Blues 2
The Taxation Tyranny 2
Van Buren 3
The Political Smear 3
If He's Good Enough for Lindy 3
I'm a Migrant 3
Keep Moving 3
Too Many Bookmakers 3
The Delinquent 3
Let's Move It 3
The Negro Voter 3
Desegregation at Little Rock 3
The State of Arkansas 4
The Supreme Court 4
The Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan 4
They Go Wild Over Me 4
First, Fifth and Sixth Amendments 4
The Communist 11 4
Land of the Daily Worker 4
Landing of the A.E.F 4
Let's Bury the Hatchet 4
The Spanish Civil War 4
Valley of Jarama (Jarama Valley) 5
Isolationism 5
Quarantine Speech 5
The Sinking of the Reuben James 5
The League of Nations 5
The United Nations 5
The Marshall Plan 5
Isolationism 5
The Red Issue 5
Little Joe the Rustler 5
The Baruch Plan 6
Strontium 90 6
Nuclear Control 6
Doomsday Blues 6
Inagural Address 6
Then We'll Have Peace

UPC: 093070580220
Label: Folkways Records
Release Date: 5.30.12
Format: CD

American History In Ballad & S - American Ballad Song 2 / Various (CD)