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Brief biographies from American history, for the fifth and sixth grades
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- BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY 0:00
- BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY: PREFACE 0:08
- PUBLISHERS’ NOTE 1:34
- CONTENTS 2:19
- Leif the Lucky 2:27
- Marco Polo A Famous Traveler 9:49
- Christopher Columbus The Great Admiral 19:47
- Ferdinand De Soto The Discoverer of the Mississippi River 33:20
- John Cabot The Discoverer of the Continent of North America 41:07
- Sir Francis Drake A Famous English Adventurer 45:58
- Sir Walter Raleigh The Father of American Colonization 52:36
- Captain John Smith 59:17
- Pocahontas An Indian Princess 1:08:21
- Miles Standish A Pilgrim Leader 1:13:14
- John Winthrop A Puritan Governor 1:23:02
- Roger Williams An Advocate of Religious Liberty 1:30:23
- Henry Hudson 1:35:06
- Peter Minuit 1:41:20
- Peter Stuyvesant The Last Dutch Governor of New York 1:46:56
- Samuel de Champlain The Father of New France 1:53:18
- Robert de la Salle The Explorer of the Mississippi River 2:00:50
- Lords Baltimore of Baltimore 2:06:31
- William Penn A Famous Quaker 2:12:41
- James Edward Oglethorpe The Founder of Georgia 2:18:24
- Philip An Indian King 2:23:48
- Nathaniel Bacon The Leader of the Great Rebellion 2:28:48
- Benjamin Franklin A Great Typical American 2:33:19
- Montcalm and Wolfe 2:45:41
- Patrick Henry An Eloquent Orator 2:53:16
- Samuel Adams A Massachusetts Patriot 3:01:38
- George Washington The Leader of the Revolution 3:11:31
- Philip Schuyler 3:28:07
- Nathanael Greene 3:36:27
- John Paul Jones Our First Naval Hero 3:43:05
- Thomas Jefferson The Author of the Declaration of Independence 3:49:02
- Alexander Hamilton The Founder of the Federalist Party 3:58:12
- Daniel Boone The Pioneer of Kentucky 4:07:04
- Oliver Hazard Perry and Thomas Macdonough Two Naval Commanders in the War of 1812 4:12:34
- Marquis de Lafayette A French Patriot 4:22:46
- Some American Improvements and Inventions 4:26:58
- Andrew Jackson The Man of the People 4:57:24
- Henry Clay The Great Peacemaker 5:06:47
- Daniel Webster A Famous Orator 5:13:18
- Abraham Lincoln The War President 5:19:24
- Ulysses Simpson Grant 5:32:17
- Robert E. Lee The Leader of the Confederate Armies 5:44:51
- David G. Farragut Our First Admiral 5:51:51
- Clara Barton The President of the American Red Cross Society 6:01:13
- George B. Dewey 6:04:30
- Andrew Carnegie The Steel King 6:10:34