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Genres
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Topics
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Eras
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Instruments / Dance / Other
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All Songs
Ballad
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About
Blues
Blues Ballad
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About
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Songs
Fiddle Tune
Hip-Hop
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Other Resources
Jazz
Minstrel
Occupational
Old-Time
Play Party
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About
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Songs
Ragtime
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About
Rhythm and Blues
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Other Resources
Rock & Roll
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Other Resources
Sea Shanty
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About
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Songs
Spiritual
American Revolution
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Songs
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Other Resources
Civil Rights
Civil War
Cold War
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Cowboy
Farming
Fishing
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Songs
Folk Music Revival
Gold Rush
Great Depression
Hunting
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Songs
Immigration
Labor Movement
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Songs
Lumberjack
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Songs
Railroad
Slavery
Soldier
Westward Expansion
Women
Colonization and Settlement (1585-1763)
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Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820s)
Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
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Songs
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Genres
Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
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Songs
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The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
The Emergence Of Modern America (1890-1930)
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Songs
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The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
Postwar United States (1945-1970s)
Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
Instruments
- Banjo Roots and Branches (1 of 4): Exploring the African Roots
- Banjo Roots and Branches (2 of 4): Into the New World – Caribbean Developments
- Banjo Roots and Branches (3 of 4): Into North America – Early Banjo Sightings
- Banjo Roots and Branches (4 of 4): Inquiries into White and Black Banjo in 19th and 20th Century America
Dance
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Songs (Alphabetical)
- Across the Western Ocean
- America the Beautiful
- Battle Cry of Freedom, The
- Blue Tail Fly
- Brazos River, The
- Buffalo Gals
- Crawdad Song
- Get on Board
- Golden Slippers
- Ho! For California!
- Home on the Range
- Home Sweet Home
- Lincoln and Liberty
- Lovely Ohio, The
- O! Say Bonny Lass
- Oh Freedom!
- Oh! Susanna
- Old Chisholm Trail
- Old Settler's Song
- Old Sister Phoebe
- Once More a-Lumbering Go
- Paddy Works on the Railway
- Railroad Bill
- Rambling Gambler
- Red River Valley
- Shenandoah
- Streets of Laredo
- Sweet Betsy from Pike
- Tenting on the Old Camp Ground
- This Little Light of Mine
- Wanderin'
- We Shall Not Be Moved
- When Johnny Comes Marching Home
- Wisconsin Emigrant, The