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Historian Wilbur F. Gordy presents short chapters on well-known American figures from the viewpoint of the early twentieth century, including explorers, political leaders, military figures and inventors.
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- Preface
- Christopher Columbus and the Discovery Of America 1436-1506
- Hernando De Soto and the Discovery of the Mississippi 1500-1542
- Sir Walter Raleigh and the First English Attempts to Colonize America 1552-1618
- John Smith and the Settlement of Jamestown 1579-1631
- Nathaniel Bacon and the Uprising of the People in Virginia in 1676 1647-1676
- Miles Standish and the Pilgrims 1584-1656
- Roger Williams and the Puritans 1599-1683
- William Penn and the Settlement of Pennsylvania 1644-1718
- Cavelier De La Salle and the French in the Mississippi Valley 1643-1687
- George Washington, the Boy Surveyor and Young Soldier 1732-1799
- James Wolfe, the Hero of 1727-1759
- Patrick Henry and the Stamp Act 1736-1799
- Samuel Adams and the Boston Tea Party 1722-1803
- Paul Revere and the Battle of Concord and Lexington 1735-1818
- Benjamin Franklin and Aid from France 1706-1790
- George Washington, the Virginia Planter and the Revolutionary Soldier 1732-1799
- Nathaniel Greene, the Hero of the South, and Francis Marion, the ''Swamp Fox,'' 1742-1786
- Daniel Boone, the Kentucky Pioneer 1735-1820
- Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase 1743-1826
- Robert Fulton and the Steamboat, Fulton 1765-1815
- Andrew Jackson, the Upholder of the Union 1767-1845
- Daniel Webster, the Defender and Expounder of the Constitution 1782-1852
- Samuel Finley Breese Morse and the Electric Telegraph 1791-1872
- Abraham Lincoln, the Liberator of the Slaves 1809-1865
- Ulysses Simpson Grant and the Civil War 1822-1885
- Some Leaders and Heroes in the War with Spain 1898-1899