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Daniel Boone:
“Back-Woodsman of Kentucky”

Few figures in American history are more enshrouded by myth and legend than Daniel Boone, the famous pioneer and woodsman.

Mary McLeod Bethune

A civil rights activist and educator whose parents had been slaves. As co-founder of the United Negro College Fund, she...

“Bound to be True”:
Hans Brinker by Mary Mapes Dodge

The U.S. needed a pleasant distraction in 1865. It received one in the unlikely form of a children’s novel.

Rachel Carson: Not So Silent

"Silent Spring" has become a kind of biblical text for the environmental movement.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Special to the Newsletter by Michael F. Bishop

Herbert Hoover

Special to the Newsletter by Michael F. Bishop

Rosa Parks

Special to the Newsletter by Michael F. Bishop

Harry Hopkins:
Chief Apostle of the New Deal

Special to the Newsletter by Michael F. Bishop

Barbara Walters

Special to the Newsletter by Michael F. Bishop

Cronkite: “And That’s the Way It Is”

Special to the Newsletter by Michael F. Bishop

George Washington Carver:
Good on this Earth

Special to the Newsletter by Michael F. Bishop

Annie Oakley: More Than Just a Gun

Special to the Newsletter by Michael F. Bishop

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