Christopher Columbus (1436–1506), and the Discovery of the New World. By Charles Kendall Adams, President of Cornell University.
John Winthrop (1588–1649), First Governor of the Massachusetts Colony. By Rev. Joseph H. Twichell.
Robert Morris (1734–1806), Superintendent of Finance under the Continental Congress. By Prof. William G. Sumner, of Yale University.
James Edward Oglethorpe (1689–1785), and the Founding of the Georgia Colony. By Henry Bruce, Esq.
John Hughes, D.D. (1797–1864), First Archbishop of New-York: a Representative American Catholic. By Henry A. Brann, D.D.
Robert Fulton (1765–1815): His Life and its Results. By Prof. R.H. Thurston, of Cornell University.
Francis Higginson (1587–1630), Puritan, Author of “New England’s Plantation,” etc. By Thomas W. Higginson.
Peter Stuyvesant (1602–1682), and the Dutch Settlement of New-York. By Bayard Tuckerman, Esq., author of a “Life of General Lafayette,” editor of the “Diary of Philip Hone,” etc., etc.
Thomas Hooker (1586–1647), Theologian, Founder of the Hartford Colony. By George L. Walker, D.D.
Charles Sumner (1811–1874), Statesman. By Anna L. Dawes.
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), Third President of the United States. By James Schouler, Esq., author of “A History of the United States under the Constitution.”
William White (1748–1836), Chaplain of the Continental Congress, Bishop of Pennsylvania, President of the Convention to organize the Protestant Episcopal Church in America. By Rev. Julius H. Ward, with an Introduction by Right Rev. Henry C. Potter, D.D., Bishop of New-York.
Jean Baptiste Lemoine, sieur de Bienville (1680–1768), French Governor of Louisiana, Founder of New Orleans. By Grace King, author of “Monsieur Motte.”
Alexander Hamilton (1757–1804), Statesman, Financier, Secretary of the Treasury. By Prof. William G. Sumner, of Yale University.
Father Juniper Serra (1713–1784), and the Franciscan Missions in California. By John Gilmary Shea, LL.D.
Cotton Mather (1663–1728), Theologian, Author, Believer in Witchcraft and the Supernatural. By Prof. Barrett Wendell, of Harvard University.
Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle (1643–1687), Explorer of the Northwest and the Mississippi. By Edward G. Mason, Esq., President of the Historical Society of Chicago, author of “Illinois” in the Commonwealth Series.
Thomas Nelson (1738–1789), Governor of Virginia, General in the Revolutionary Army. Embracing a Picture of Virginian Colonial Life. By Thomas Nelson Page, author of “Mars Chan,” and other popular stories.
George and Cecilius Calvert, Barons Baltimore of Baltimore (1605–1676), and the Founding of the Maryland Colony. By William Hand Browne, editor of “The Archives of Maryland.”
Sir William Johnson (1715–1774), and The Six Nations. By William Elliot Griffis, D.D., author of “The Mikado’s Empire,” etc., etc.
Sam. Houston (1793–1862), and the Annexation of Texas. By Henry Bruce, Esq.
Joseph Henry, LL.D. (1797–1878), Savant and Natural Philosopher. By Frederic H. Betts, Esq.
Ralph Waldo Emerson. By Prof. Herman Grimm, author of “The Life of Michael Angelo,” “The Life and Times of Goethe,” etc.
