United States Audio & Video

Not long after I moved with my family to a small town in New Hampshire, I happened upon a path...

In American Notes, Rudyard Kipling, the Nobel Prize-winning author of the Jungle Book, visits the USA. As the travel-diary of an Anglo-Indian Imperialist visiting the USA, these American Notes offer an interesting view of America in the 1880s.

John Muir’s adventure guide for the Yosemite Valley.

In 1994, retired CBS correspondent Charles Kuralt set out to spend a perfect year in America - traveling to his 12 favorite American places, in just the right month for a visit to each.

Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of humor....

Learn about the environmental philosophy of the great John Muir. Muir was an American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States.

I wanted to drive the American roads at the century's end to look at the country again, from border to border and beach to beach...

New York Times best-selling author and New York native Colson Whitehead composes a breathtaking tribute to his hometown....

The companion volume to the 12-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War.

New York City, growing from the small Dutch commercial settlement of New Amsterdam early in the seventeenth century into a bustling multi-cultural city of more than 8 million and metropolis of more than 18 million by the twentieth century, is a place with many stories.