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The Promised Land

Episode 2 of 8

Robert Hughes explains how America was shaped by Europeans - Spaniards in the south west, Pilgrims in the north east and struggling cavaliers in Virginia - who saw the New World as both paradise and hell.

50 minutes

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Mon 1 Jun 202622:00
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