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American Leaders and Heroes

Wilbur F. Gordy (1854 - 1929)

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

Genre(s): History

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	Preface	Larry Wilson	00:04:16
Play 01	Christopher Columbus and the Discovery Of America 1436-1506	Ethan Voth	00:22:12
Play 02	Hernando De Soto and the Discovery of the Mississippi 1500-1542	Piotr Nater	00:10:47
Play 03	Sir Walter Raleigh and the First English Attempts to Colonize America 1552-1618	Piotr Nater	00:13:26
Play 04	John Smith and the Settlement of Jamestown 1579-1631	michaelnelson14356	00:14:48
Play 05	Nathaniel Bacon and the Uprising of the People in Virginia in 1676 1647-1676	Piotr Nater	00:10:03
Play 06	Miles Standish and the Pilgrims 1584-1656	Piotr Nater	00:21:02
Play 07	Roger Williams and the Puritans 1599-1683	Tatiana Chichilla	00:10:15
Play 08	William Penn and the Settlement of Pennsylvania 1644-1718	B.T. Sullivan	00:13:26
Play 09	Cavelier De La Salle and the French in the Mississippi Valley 1643-1687	Piotr Nater	00:15:06
Play 10	George Washington, the Boy Surveyor and Young Soldier 1732-1799	Kyle Donelan	00:22:58
Play 11	James Wolfe, the Hero of 1727-1759	Andrew Gaunce	00:10:27
Play 12	Patrick Henry and the Stamp Act 1736-1799	Ethan Voth	00:12:51
Play 13	Samuel Adams and the Boston Tea Party 1722-1803	Margaret	00:09:23
Play 14	Paul Revere and the Battle of Concord and Lexington 1735-1818	Wayne Cooke	00:11:52
Play 15	Benjamin Franklin and Aid from France 1706-1790	Tommy Aguilar	00:15:31
Play 16	George Washington, the Virginia Planter and the Revolutionary Soldier 1732-1799	Tommy Aguilar	00:25:37
Play 17	Nathaniel Greene, the Hero of the South, and Francis Marion, the ''Swamp Fox,'' 1742-1786	Chad Jackson	00:12:37
Play 18	Daniel Boone, the Kentucky Pioneer 1735-1820	Chad Jackson	00:13:29
Play 19	Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase 1743-1826	Chad Jackson	00:12:48
Play 20	Robert Fulton and the Steamboat, Fulton 1765-1815	Alan Mapstone	00:10:05
Play 21	Andrew Jackson, the Upholder of the Union 1767-1845	KevinS	00:12:37
Play 22	Daniel Webster, the Defender and Expounder of the Constitution 1782-1852	BettyB	00:12:36
Play 23	Samuel Finley Breese Morse and the Electric Telegraph 1791-1872	Ciufi Galeazzi	00:12:34
Play 24	Abraham Lincoln, the Liberator of the Slaves 1809-1865	Margaret	00:22:14
Play 25	Ulysses Simpson Grant and the Civil War 1822-1885	Hannah Yu	00:13:13
Play 26	Some Leaders and Heroes in the War with Spain 1898-1899	Hannah Yu	00:14:39

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