Noah Webster and the Birth of American English

The Blue-Back Speller, the 1828 'An American Dictionary of the English Language' and the dictionary wars: how one man split American spelling from British — colour from color.

Playlist by @birth_of_dictionary

12 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. Who was Noah Webster? - Drive Thru History with Dave Stotts — ColdWater Media
2. Noah Webster - Father of American Culture - Unknown Founder - Author of the Dictionary — Traveling Through History
3. Noah Webster's Fight for America's Words #shorts — Legacy Living Media
4. Noah Webster: Beyond Words! — America's Great Stories
5. Webster, Worcester and the Dictionary Wars, Part 1 | STUFF YOU MISSED IN HISTORY CLASS — Stuff You Missed in History Class
6. 100 Objects #5: Blue Back Speller — 99% Invisible
7. History of the Code: Part 3 Reform: Noah Webster's Spelling Reform — The Children of the Code Project
8. Webster's 1828 Dictionary: Defining of a People? — EACH 1 TEACH 1
9. Our Dictionary Through Time - Merriam-Webster Ask the Editor — Merriam-Webster
10. How the English Language Came About, Different Spellings, Johnson and Webster Dictionaries — EBLItube
11. Pequot Library Presents: The Words and Wisdom of Noah Webster — Pequot Library
12. Noah Webster and the American language — Easy English NEWS