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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Episodes
Preface
Episode 0 · 4:16
Christopher Columbus and the Discovery Of America 1436-1506
Episode 1 · 22:12
Hernando De Soto and the Discovery of the Mississippi 1500-1542
Episode 2 · 10:47
Sir Walter Raleigh and the First English Attempts to Colonize America 1552-1618
Episode 3 · 13:26
John Smith and the Settlement of Jamestown 1579-1631
Episode 4 · 14:48
Nathaniel Bacon and the Uprising of the People in Virginia in 1676 1647-1676
Episode 5 · 10:03
Miles Standish and the Pilgrims 1584-1656
Episode 6 · 21:02
Roger Williams and the Puritans 1599-1683
Episode 7 · 10:15
William Penn and the Settlement of Pennsylvania 1644-1718
Episode 8 · 13:26
Cavelier De La Salle and the French in the Mississippi Valley 1643-1687
Episode 9 · 15:06
George Washington, the Boy Surveyor and Young Soldier 1732-1799
Episode 10 · 22:58
James Wolfe, the Hero of 1727-1759
Episode 11 · 10:27
Patrick Henry and the Stamp Act 1736-1799
Episode 12 · 12:51
Samuel Adams and the Boston Tea Party 1722-1803
Episode 13 · 9:23
Paul Revere and the Battle of Concord and Lexington 1735-1818
Episode 14 · 11:52
Benjamin Franklin and Aid from France 1706-1790
Episode 15 · 15:31
George Washington, the Virginia Planter and the Revolutionary Soldier 1732-1799
Episode 16 · 25:37
Nathaniel Greene, the Hero of the South, and Francis Marion, the ''Swamp Fox,'' 1742-1786
Episode 17 · 12:37
Daniel Boone, the Kentucky Pioneer 1735-1820
Episode 18 · 13:29
Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase 1743-1826
Episode 19 · 12:48
Robert Fulton and the Steamboat, Fulton 1765-1815
Episode 20 · 10:05
Andrew Jackson, the Upholder of the Union 1767-1845
Episode 21 · 12:37
Daniel Webster, the Defender and Expounder of the Constitution 1782-1852
Episode 22 · 12:36
Samuel Finley Breese Morse and the Electric Telegraph 1791-1872
Episode 23 · 12:34
Abraham Lincoln, the Liberator of the Slaves 1809-1865
Episode 24 · 22:14
Ulysses Simpson Grant and the Civil War 1822-1885
Episode 25 · 13:13
Some Leaders and Heroes in the War with Spain 1898-1899