The Great Lakes are part of a waterway that extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the center of North America.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

The writer John Grisham gave many words of advice to students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

Workers built a huge system of waterways and pumping stations to control the overflow of Lake Okeechobee, north of the Everglades.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

And even though a great civil war was being fought, citizens of the North prepared to choose a leader.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

Within the first few weeks of the Civil War, the Confederate Congress voted to move the capital farther north to Richmond,Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

Mail was usually carried west on ships that sailed around the bottom of South America and then north to California.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

The way was now open for the armies of the North to march into the heart of the Confederacy.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

And,he said he thought that all the free Negroes of the North would come to fight slavery with him.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

That was not a real railroad. It was an organization of people who secretly helped slaves escape to the North.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

The many traditions of North African music she listened to as a child had a big influence on her.

VOA: special.2010.08.11

The battle of Shiloh had brought home to the American people both of the North and South the horror of war.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

The declaration called on the people of the South to unite and be firm in their opposition to the North.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

It was Richard Nixon who brought home most of the troops before South Vietnam fell to the north in nineteen seventy-five.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

Grant had led the Union army of the North to victory over the Confederate army of the South during the Civil War.

VOA: special.2010.02.25