| CHAPTER | | PAGE |
| I. | Christopher Columbus and the Discovery Of America, | 1 |
| II. | Hernando De Soto and the Discovery of the Mississippi, | 22 |
| III. | Sir Walter Raleigh and the First English Attempts to Colonize America, | 31 |
| IV. | John Smith and the Settlement of Jamestown, | 42 |
| V. | Nathaniel Bacon and the Uprising of the People in Virginia in 1676, | 55 |
| VI. | Miles Standish and the Pilgrims, | 64 |
| VII. | Roger Williams and the Puritans, | 81 |
| VIII. | William Penn and the Settlement of Pennsylvania, | 92 |
| IX. | Cavelier De La Salle and the French in the Mississippi Valley, | 103 |
| X. | George Washington, the Boy Surveyor and Young Soldier, | 116 |
| XI. | James Wolfe, the Hero of Quebec, | 136 |
| XII. | Patrick Henry and the Stamp Act, | 146 |
| XIII. | Samuel Adams and the Boston Tea Party, | 156 |
| XIV. | Paul Revere and the Battle of Concord and Lexington, | 165 |
| XV. | Benjamin Franklin and Aid from France, | 175 |
| XVI. | George Washington, the Virginia Planter and the Revolutionary Soldier, | 189 |
| XVII. | Nathaniel Greene, the Hero of the South, and Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox," | 211 |
| XVIII. | Daniel Boone, the Kentucky Pioneer, | 222 |
| XIX. | Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase, | 234 |
| XX. | Robert Fulton and the Steamboat, | 246 |
| XXI. | Andrew Jackson, the Upholder of the Union, | 253 |
| XXII. | Daniel Webster, the Defender and Expounder of the Constitution, | 264 |
| XXIII. | Samuel Finley Breese Morse and the Electric Telegraph, | 273 |
| XXIV. | Abraham Lincoln, the Liberator of the Slaves, | 282 |
| XXV. | Ulysses Simpson Grant and the Civil War, | 302 |
| XXVI. | Some Leaders and Heroes in the War with Spain, | 314 |
