American heroes

"What Is an American Hero?" An Introduction

A New World From Many Old Worlds Beginnings-1763

Pocahontas

William Penn

Anne Hutchinson

A Revolutionary Age 1763-1789

Benjamin Franklin

Thomas Paine

George Washington

Abigail Adams

The New Republic 1789-1848

George Mason

Lewis and Clark

Sacagawea

Tecumseh

John Chapman

A New Birth of Freedom Civil War and Reconstruction, 1848-1877

Sojourner Truth

Harriet Tubman

Abraham Lincoln

Clara Barton

Mary Edwards Walker

Frederick Douglass

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

Industry and Empire 1876-1900

Sitting Bull

Chief Joseph

Andrew Carnegie

Queen Lili'uokalani

Alexander Graham Bell

George Washington Carver

Progressivism and the New Deal 1900-1941

Wright Brothers

Theodore Roosevelt

Jane Addams

Matthew Henson

W.E.B. Du Bois

Mary McLeod Bethune

Helen Keller

Alice Paul

Charles Lindbergh

Amelia Earhart

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

War, Prosperity, and Social Change 1941-Present

Albert Einstein

Eleanor Roosevelt

Margaret Mead

Rachel Carson

Thurgood Marshall

Rosa Parks

Jonas Salk

Jackie Robinson

John Glenn

Malcolm X

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Roberto Clemente

Cesar Chavez

Daniel K. Inouye

Heroes of Today: Inspiring Individuals

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