Forgotten Heroes Book

Contents

FOREWORD BY DAVID McCULLOUGH

TIMELINE

Introduction: Historians' Forgotten Heroes

Susan Ware

John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed)

William E. Leuchtenburg

Henry Knox's Wilderness Epic

Tom Wicker

Mary Dyer: Religious Martyr

Patricia U. Bonomi

Robert Basset: A Drumbeat for Liberty

William S. McFeely

Thomas Peters: Millwright and Deliverer

Gary B. Nash

James A. Bayard: Savior of the Constitution

James M. Banner, Jr.

John Quincy Adams: The Failed President Whose Real Triumphs Should Be Known

Alfred Kazin

Nicholas Trist: The Disobedient Diplomat

Thomas Fleming

George Drouillard: Mountain Man

Robert M. Utley

Susie King Taylor: A Black Woman's Civil War

Catherine Clinton

Myra Colby Bradwell: Champion of Women's Legal Rights

Jean Harvey Baker

Victoria Woodhull: Free Love in the Feminine, First-Person Singular

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

Emmeline B. Wells: Mormon Feminist and Journalist

Leonard J. Arrington

The Amazing Dummy

Stephen Jay Gould

John McLuckie: Burgess of Homestead

David Brody

Florence Kelley Campaigns against Sweatshops in the 1890s

Kathryn Kish Sklar

George Dewey: Naval Hero and Political Disaster

Justin Kaplan

Local Hero: J. C. M. Hanson and the Politics of Library Classification

Neil Harris

William Chandler Bagley: Dr. Know of American Education

Diane Ravitch

O. Delight Smith: A Labor Organizer's Odyssey

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

"Brave about Words": Margaret Anderson and the Ulysses Trial

Christine Stansell

Ned Cobb: He Stood His Ground

Jacqueline Jones

Carlo Tresca: "Every Inch a Fighter"

John Patrick Diggins

Alice Paul: Friend and Foe of the Equal Rights AmendmentJoan Hoff

Samuel Seabury: The Man Who Rode the Tiger

Herbert Mitgang

Edward Prichard: Forgotten New Dealer

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Caroline F. Ware: Crusader for Social Justice

Thomas Dublin

Lew Ayres: Conscience in Hollywood

Bernard A. Weisberger

The Trials of Miriam Van Waters

Estelle B. Freedman

Pauli Murray and the Killing of Jane Crow

Rosalind Rosenberg

Sam Phillips: Southern Visionary

Joel Williamson

Hazel Brannon Smith: White Martyr for Civil Rights

Kathleen Brady

Gertrude Ederle: "America's Best Girl"

Susan Ware

"Manila John" of Guadalcanal: Hero of the Pacific War

Kenneth T. Jackson

Frederick Funston: A Song of Rage

Mark C. Carnes

SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INDEX