Forgotten heroes: inspiring American portraits from our leading historians

Introduction: Historians' forgotten heroes / Susan Ware.

John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) / William E. Leuchtenburg.

Henry Knox's wilderness epic / Tom Wicker.

Mary Dyer: religious martyr / Patricia U. Bonomi.

Robert Bassett: a drumbeat for liberty / William S. McFeely.

Thomas Peters: millwright and deliverer / Gary B. Nash.

James A. Bayard: savior of the Constitution / James M. Banner, Jr.

John Quincy Adams: the failed president whose real triumphs should be known / Alfred Kazin.

Nicholas Trist: the disobedient diplomat / Thomas Fleming.

George Drouillard: mountain man / Robert M. Utley.

Susie King Taylor: a black woman's civil war / Catherine Clinton.

Myra Colby Bradwell: champion of women's legal rights / Jean Harvey Baker.

Victoria Woodall: free love in the feminine, first-person singular / Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz.

Emmeline B. Wells: mormon feminist and journalist / Leonard J. Arrington.

The amazing dummy / Stephen J. Gould.

John McLuckie: burgess of Homestead / David Brody.

Florence Kelley campaigns against sweatshops in the 1890's / Kathryn Kish Sklar.

George Dewey: naval hero and political disaster / Justin Kaplan.

Local hero: J. C. M. Hanson and the politics of library classification / Neil Harris.

William Chandler Bagley: Dr. Know of American education / Diane Ravitch.

O. Delight Smith: a labor organizer's odyssey / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall.

"Brave about words": Margaret Anderson and the Ulysses trial / Christine Stansell.

Ned Cobb: he stood his ground / Jacqueline Jones.

Carlo Tresca: "Every inch a fighter" / John Patrick Diggins.

Alice Paul: friend and foe of the Equal Rights Amendment / Joan Hoff.

Samuel Seabury: the man who rode the tiger / Herbert Mitgang.

Edward Prichard: forgotten New Dealer / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Caroline F. Ware: crusader for social justice / Thomas Dublin.

Lew Ayres: conscience in Hollywood / Bernard A. Weisberger.

The trials of Miriam Van Waters / Estelle B. Freeman.

Pauli Murray and the killing of Jane Crow / Rosalind Rosenberg.

Sam Phillips: southern visionary / Joel Williamson.

Hazel Bronson Smith: white martyr for civil rights / Kathleen Brady.

Gertrude Ederle: "America's best girl" ....... / Susan Ware.

"Manila John" of Guadalcanal: hero of the Pacific War / Kenneth T. Jackson.

Frederick Funston: a song of rage / Mark C. Carnes.