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Read by Larry Wilson, Ethan Voth, Piotr Nater, michaelnelson14356, Tatiana Chichilla, B.T. Sullivan, Kyle Donelan, Andrew Gaunce, Margaret, Wayne Cooke, Tommy Aguilar, Chad Jackson, Alan Mapstone, KevinS, BettyB, Ciufi Galeazzi and Hannah Yu · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License
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Preface (4:16) Christopher Columbus and the Discovery Of America 1436-1506 (22:12) Hernando De Soto and the Discovery of the Mississippi 1500-1542 (10:47) Sir Walter Raleigh and the First English Attempts to Colonize America 1552-1618 (13:26) John Smith and the Settlement of Jamestown 1579-1631 (14:48) Nathaniel Bacon and the Uprising of the People in Virginia in 1676 1647-1676 (10:03) Miles Standish and the Pilgrims 1584-1656 (21:02) Roger Williams and the Puritans 1599-1683 (10:15) William Penn and the Settlement of Pennsylvania 1644-1718 (13:26) Cavelier De La Salle and the French in the Mississippi Valley 1643-1687 (15:06) George Washington, the Boy Surveyor and Young Soldier 1732-1799 (22:58) James Wolfe, the Hero of 1727-1759 (10:27) Patrick Henry and the Stamp Act 1736-1799 (12:51) Samuel Adams and the Boston Tea Party 1722-1803 (9:23) Paul Revere and the Battle of Concord and Lexington 1735-1818 (11:52) Benjamin Franklin and Aid from France 1706-1790 (15:33) George Washington, the Virginia Planter and the Revolutionary Soldier 1732-1799 (25:40) Nathaniel Greene, the Hero of the South, and Francis Marion, the ''Swamp Fox,'' 1742-1786 (12:37) Daniel Boone, the Kentucky Pioneer 1735-1820 (13:29) Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase 1743-1826 (12:48) Robert Fulton and the Steamboat, Fulton 1765-1815 (10:05) Andrew Jackson, the Upholder of the Union 1767-1845 (12:37) Daniel Webster, the Defender and Expounder of the Constitution 1782-1852 (12:36) Samuel Finley Breese Morse and the Electric Telegraph 1791-1872 (12:34) Abraham Lincoln, the Liberator of the Slaves 1809-1865 (22:14) Ulysses Simpson Grant and the Civil War 1822-1885 (13:13) Some Leaders and Heroes in the War with Spain 1898-1899 (14:39)
