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Have Fun with American Heroes: Activities, Projects, and Fascinating Facts
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David C. King is a former history teacher and an award-winning author who has written more than thirty books for children and young adults, including the books in Wiley's American Kids in History and American Heritage, American Voices series.
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Introduction.

PART 1. HEROES OF EARLY AMERICA.

1. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790).

2. George Washington (1732-1799).

3. Daniel Boone (1734-1820).

4. Paul Revere (1735-1818).

5. Patrick Henry (1736-1799).

6. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826).

7. Betsy Ross (1752-1836).

8. Lewis & Clark (1774-1809) (1770-1838).

9. Sacagawea (ca. 1787-1812?).

PART 2. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

10. Sequoyah (c. 1770-1843).

11. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865).

12. Frederick Douglass (1817 or 1818-1895).

13. Harriet Tubman (ca. 1820-1913).

14. Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906).

15. Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885).

16. Sitting Bull (ca. 1831-1890).

17. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931).

18. Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922).

19. Booker T. Washington (1856-1915).

PART 3. THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY.

20. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935).

21. Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919).

22. Jane Addams (1860-1935).

23. The Wright Brothers (1867-1912) (1871-1948).

24. W.E.B. DuBois (1868-1963).

25. Albert Einstein (1879-1955).

26. Hellen Keller (1880-1968).

27. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945).

28. Frances Perkins (1882-1965).

29. Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962).

30. Babe Ruth (1895-1948).

31. Amelia Earhart (1897-1937?).

32. Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-1974).

33. Jesse Owens (1913-1980).

PART 4. THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY.

34. Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964).

35. Rachel Carson (1907-1964).

36. Rosa Parks (1912-     ).

37. John F. Kennedy (1917-1963).

38. Jackie Robinson (1919-1972).

39. Betty Friedan (1921-     ).

40. Cesar Chavez (1927-1993).

41. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968).

42. Neil Armstrong (1930-     ).

43. Sally Ride (1959-     ).

44. Maya Lin (1959-     ).

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Index.

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