American Leaders and Heroes


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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

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Preface 4:16 Gelesen von Larry Wilson
Christopher Columbus and the Discovery Of America 1436-1506 22:12 Gelesen von Ethan Voth
Hernando De Soto and the Discovery of the Mississippi 1500-1542 10:47 Gelesen von Piotr Nater
Sir Walter Raleigh and the First English Attempts to Colonize America 1552-1618 13:26 Gelesen von Piotr Nater
John Smith and the Settlement of Jamestown 1579-1631 14:48 Gelesen von michaelnelson14356
Nathaniel Bacon and the Uprising of the People in Virginia in 1676 1647-1676 10:03 Gelesen von Piotr Nater
Miles Standish and the Pilgrims 1584-1656 21:02 Gelesen von Piotr Nater
Roger Williams and the Puritans 1599-1683 10:15 Gelesen von Tatiana Chichilla
William Penn and the Settlement of Pennsylvania 1644-1718 13:26 Gelesen von B.T. Sullivan
Cavelier De La Salle and the French in the Mississippi Valley 1643-1687 15:06 Gelesen von Piotr Nater
George Washington, the Boy Surveyor and Young Soldier 1732-1799 22:58 Gelesen von Kyle Donelan
James Wolfe, the Hero of 1727-1759 10:27 Gelesen von Andrew Gaunce
Patrick Henry and the Stamp Act 1736-1799 12:51 Gelesen von Ethan Voth
Samuel Adams and the Boston Tea Party 1722-1803 9:23 Gelesen von Margaret
Paul Revere and the Battle of Concord and Lexington 1735-1818 11:52 Gelesen von Wayne Cooke
Benjamin Franklin and Aid from France 1706-1790 15:31 Gelesen von Tommy Aguilar
George Washington, the Virginia Planter and the Revolutionary Soldier 1732-1799 25:37 Gelesen von Tommy Aguilar
Nathaniel Greene, the Hero of the South, and Francis Marion, the ''Swamp Fox,'' 1742-1786 12:37 Gelesen von Chad Jackson
Daniel Boone, the Kentucky Pioneer 1735-1820 13:29 Gelesen von Chad Jackson
Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase 1743-1826 12:48 Gelesen von Chad Jackson
Robert Fulton and the Steamboat, Fulton 1765-1815 10:05 Gelesen von Alan Mapstone
Andrew Jackson, the Upholder of the Union 1767-1845 12:37 Gelesen von KevinS
Daniel Webster, the Defender and Expounder of the Constitution 1782-1852 12:36 Gelesen von BettyB
Samuel Finley Breese Morse and the Electric Telegraph 1791-1872 12:34 Gelesen von Ciufi Galeazzi
Abraham Lincoln, the Liberator of the Slaves 1809-1865 22:14 Gelesen von Margaret
Ulysses Simpson Grant and the Civil War 1822-1885 13:13 Gelesen von Hannah Yu
Some Leaders and Heroes in the War with Spain 1898-1899 14:39 Gelesen von Hannah Yu