Many Lives, Many Stories: A Biography Reader Book

Introduction    Biography in Cultural and Historical Perspective

Meeting of Cultures, To 11550

        Hiawatha/Deganawidah

        Virginia Dare

        Las Casas

Making an Old World New, 1580-1770

        Pocahontas

        John Winthrop

        Olaudah Equiano

Colonial America, 1700-1780

        John Woolman

        Martha Ballard

        Benjamin Frnaklin

Prelude to Revolution, 1750-1776

        Samuel Adams

        Thomas Hutchinson

The American Revolution, 1776-1786

        Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea)

        Mercy Otis Warren

Forging the Nation, 1787-1800

        Matthew Lyon

        Charles Willson Peale

The Early Republic, 1790-1824

        Dolley Madison

        Tenskwatawa

Democracy and Expansion, 1824-1840

        DeWitt Clinton 
        Davy Crockett

The Antebellum South, 1800-1850

        Hinton Rowan Helper

        Harriet Jacobs

Economy & Society in the North, 1790-1840

        Charles and Lydia FInney

        Samuel Slater

A New America Society, 1770-1850

        Mother Ann Lee

        Walt Whitman

Manifest Destiny, 1830-1860

        Jim Beckwourth

        Juan Seguín

The Sectional Crisis, 1850-1860

        John Brown

        Dred and Harriet Scott

The Civil War, 1861-1865

        Judah Benjamin

        Louis Schuyler

Reconstruction, 1863-1877

        Tunis Campbell

        Nathan Bedford Forrest