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American Leaders and Heroes

by Wilbur F. GORDY (1854 - 1929)

John Smith and the Settlement of Jamestown 1579-1631

American Leaders and Heroes

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

Listen next episodes of American Leaders and Heroes:
Abraham Lincoln, the Liberator of the Slaves 1809-1865 , Andrew Jackson, the Upholder of the Union 1767-1845 , Benjamin Franklin and Aid from France 1706-1790 , Cavelier De La Salle and the French in the Mississippi Valley 1643-1687 , Daniel Boone, the Kentucky Pioneer 1735-1820 , Daniel Webster, the Defender and Expounder of the Constitution 1782-1852 , George Washington, the Boy Surveyor and Young Soldier 1732-1799 , George Washington, the Virginia Planter and the Revolutionary Soldier 1732-1799 , James Wolfe, the Hero of 1727-1759 , Miles Standish and the Pilgrims 1584-1656 , Nathaniel Bacon and the Uprising of the People in Virginia in 1676 1647-1676 , Nathaniel Greene, the Hero of the South, and Francis Marion, the ''Swamp Fox,'' 1742-1786 , Patrick Henry and the Stamp Act 1736-1799 , Paul Revere and the Battle of Concord and Lexington 1735-1818 , Robert Fulton and the Steamboat, Fulton 1765-1815 , Roger Williams and the Puritans 1599-1683 , Samuel Adams and the Boston Tea Party 1722-1803 , Samuel Finley Breese Morse and the Electric Telegraph 1791-1872 , Some Leaders and Heroes in the War with Spain 1898-1899 , Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase 1743-1826 , Ulysses Simpson Grant and the Civil War 1822-1885 , William Penn and the Settlement of Pennsylvania 1644-1718