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Forgotten heroes: inspiring American portraits from our leading historians
Publisher
Free Press
Publication Date
c1998
Language
English
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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.
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9780684843759
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