American Leaders and Heroes

Narrators: 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, Hannah Yu

Number of Chapters: 27

Length: 06 hours and 20 minutes

Language: English

Historian Wilbur F. Gordy presents short chapters on well-known American figures from the viewpoint of the early twentieth century, including explorers, political leaders, military figures and inventors. - Summary by Larry Wilson

Preface (Larry Wilson)

Christopher Columbus and the Discovery Of America 1436-1506 (Ethan Voth)

Hernando De Soto and the Discovery of the Mississippi 1500-1542 (Piotr Nater)

Sir Walter Raleigh and the First English Attempts to Colonize America 1552-1618 (Piotr Nater)

John Smith and the Settlement of Jamestown 1579-1631 (michaelnelson14356)

Nathaniel Bacon and the Uprising of the People in Virginia in 1676 1647-1676 (Piotr Nater)

Miles Standish and the Pilgrims 1584-1656 (Piotr Nater)

Roger Williams and the Puritans 1599-1683 (Tatiana Chichilla)

William Penn and the Settlement of Pennsylvania 1644-1718 (B.T. Sullivan)

Cavelier De La Salle and the French in the Mississippi Valley 1643-1687 (Piotr Nater)

George Washington, the Boy Surveyor and Young Soldier 1732-1799 (Kyle Donelan)

James Wolfe, the Hero of 1727-1759 (Andrew Gaunce)

Patrick Henry and the Stamp Act 1736-1799 (Ethan Voth)

Samuel Adams and the Boston Tea Party 1722-1803 (Margaret)

Paul Revere and the Battle of Concord and Lexington 1735-1818 (Wayne Cooke)

Benjamin Franklin and Aid from France 1706-1790 (Tommy Aguilar)

George Washington, the Virginia Planter and the Revolutionary Soldier 1732-1799 (Tommy Aguilar)

Nathaniel Greene, the Hero of the South, and Francis Marion, the ''Swamp Fox,'' 1742-1786 (Chad Jackson)

Daniel Boone, the Kentucky Pioneer 1735-1820 (Chad Jackson)

Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase 1743-1826 (Chad Jackson)

Robert Fulton and the Steamboat, Fulton 1765-1815 (Alan Mapstone)

Andrew Jackson, the Upholder of the Union 1767-1845 (KevinS)

Daniel Webster, the Defender and Expounder of the Constitution 1782-1852 (BettyB)

Samuel Finley Breese Morse and the Electric Telegraph 1791-1872 (Ciufi Galeazzi)

Abraham Lincoln, the Liberator of the Slaves 1809-1865 (Margaret)

Ulysses Simpson Grant and the Civil War 1822-1885 (Hannah Yu)

Some Leaders and Heroes in the War with Spain 1898-1899 (Hannah Yu)

The audiobook American Leaders and Heroes falls under the genres of History. It is written by Wilbur F. Gordy.

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