| Description |
xvi, 363 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Note |
"A Society of American Historians book"--T.p. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-344) and index. |
| Contents |
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 Basset : 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. |
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Myra Colby Bradwell : champion of women's legal rights / Jean Harvey Baker -- Victoria Woodhull : free love in the feminine, first-person singular / Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz -- Emmeline B. Wells : Mormon feminist and journalist / Leonard J. Arrington -- Amazing dummy / Stephen Jay Gould -- John McLuckie : burgess of Homestead / David Brody -- Florence Kelley campaigns against sweatshops in the 1890s / 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. |
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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 -- Trials of Miriam Van Waters / Estelle B. Freedman -- Pauli Murray and the killing of Jane Crow / Rosalind Rosenberg -- Sam Phillips : southern visionary / Joel Williamson. |
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Hazel Brannon 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. |
| Subject |
Heroes -- United States -- Biography.
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United States -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Ware, Susan, 1950-
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| ISBN |
0684843757 |
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