Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

I want to urge all of you guys to do whatever you can to help the people of Nashville.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

Glenn's flight plan called for him to spend most of the first orbit getting used to the feeling of being weightless.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

"Aylmer," said Georgiana, "I do not know what the cost would be to both of us to remove this birthmark.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

The World Health Organization, the United Nations health agency, uses a system of six phases to warn of possible influenza pandemics.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

People should tie a bright-colored object to the top of their car to increase the chance of rescue.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

He says scientists can compare genes of the frog to those of other creatures with backbones, including humans.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

So you really just need to turn off a handful of machines to have this type of disruption."

VOA: special.2011.02.21

Teachers can use online services that compare papers to thousands of others to search for copied work.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

And will, to the best of my ability... And will, to the best of my ability...

VOA: special.2009.01.19

Taney said the Constitution gave the right of citizenship only to members of the white race.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

India's seven to eight million pullers usually pay one-third of their earnings to the owner of a rickshaw to use it by the day.

VOA: special.2009.05.11

But he gave the Defense Department forty-five days to think of ways to enforce the existing law "in a more humane and fair manner."

VOA: special.2010.02.06

Corporations are willing to pay a lot of money to be corporate sponsors of these teams.

VOA: special.2010.07.26