American Leaders and Heroes
Wilbur F. Gordy
27 chapters · 6 h 21 min · English
Read by Larry Wilson, Ethan Voth, Piotr Nater, michaelnelson14356, Tatiana Chichilla, B.T. Sullivan and others
History
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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. - Summary by Larry Wilson
Chapters
1 Preface 4 min 2 Christopher Columbus and the Discovery Of America 1436-1506 22 min 3 Hernando De Soto and the Discovery of the Mississippi 1500-1542 11 min 4 Sir Walter Raleigh and the First English Attempts to Colonize America 1552-1618 13 min 5 John Smith and the Settlement of Jamestown 1579-1631 15 min 6 Nathaniel Bacon and the Uprising of the People in Virginia in 1676 1647-1676 10 min 7 Miles Standish and the Pilgrims 1584-1656 21 min 8 Roger Williams and the Puritans 1599-1683 10 min 9 William Penn and the Settlement of Pennsylvania 1644-1718 13 min 10 Cavelier De La Salle and the French in the Mississippi Valley 1643-1687 15 min 11 George Washington, the Boy Surveyor and Young Soldier 1732-1799 23 min 12 James Wolfe, the Hero of 1727-1759 10 min 13 Patrick Henry and the Stamp Act 1736-1799 13 min 14 Samuel Adams and the Boston Tea Party 1722-1803 9 min 15 Paul Revere and the Battle of Concord and Lexington 1735-1818 12 min 16 Benjamin Franklin and Aid from France 1706-1790 16 min 17 George Washington, the Virginia Planter and the Revolutionary Soldier 1732-1799 26 min 18 Nathaniel Greene, the Hero of the South, and Francis Marion, the ''Swamp Fox,'' 1742-1786 13 min 19 Daniel Boone, the Kentucky Pioneer 1735-1820 13 min 20 Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase 1743-1826 13 min 21 Robert Fulton and the Steamboat, Fulton 1765-1815 10 min 22 Andrew Jackson, the Upholder of the Union 1767-1845 13 min 23 Daniel Webster, the Defender and Expounder of the Constitution 1782-1852 13 min 24 Samuel Finley Breese Morse and the Electric Telegraph 1791-1872 13 min 25 Abraham Lincoln, the Liberator of the Slaves 1809-1865 22 min 26 Ulysses Simpson Grant and the Civil War 1822-1885 13 min 27 Some Leaders and Heroes in the War with Spain 1898-1899 15 min
