Hero Tales from History
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92
1922
English
- Preface
- Moses, The Greatest Law-giver, and the Meekest Man
- David, The Giant-killer King
- Homer, The Hero Poet of Ancient Greece
- Socrates, The "Grand Old Man" of Greece
- Alexander, The Boy Who Conquered the World
- Four Familiar Sayings of Julius Caesar
- The Christmas Crowning of Charlemagne
- Alfred, The Greatest of the Saxon Kings
- How William of Normandy Conquered a Kingdom
- Lion-hearted Richard and Wolf-hearted John
- Joan of Arc and the Lilies of France
- Shakespeare, The Greatest Maker of Plays
- How Cromwell Changed Places with the King
- Napoleon, The Corsican Boy Who Ruled Europe
- Nelson, The Hero of Trafalgar
- Columbus, the Map-maker Who Found a New World
- Magellan, The Man of the Straits
- Cortes, The Conqueror
- De Soto, A Gold Hunter in Southern Swamps
- Sir Francis Drake, England's First Great Sailor
- Sir Walter Raleigh, The Favorite of Good Queen Bess
- Henry Hudson, The Man Who Put Himself on the Map
- La Salle And The Mouth of The Mississippi
- Livingstone, The White Man of the Dark Continent
- Peary, A Hero of the Great White North
- John Smith, The Captain of Many Adventures
- Champlain, The Father of New France
- Myles Standish, The Brave Little Captain of Plymouth
- John Winthrop, A Puritan Maker of Massachusetts
- Roger Williams, A Minister Who Lived the Golden Rule
- Lord Baltimore, Calvert and Claiborne, The Three Fathers of Maryland
- William Penn, The Founder of Pennsylvania
- Patrick Henry, The "Firebrand of the Revolution"
- Nathan Hale, Who Spoke the Bravest Words in History
- Lafayette, The Boy Hero of Two Worlds
- The Immortal Reply of John Paul Jones
- General Marion, The Carolina "Swamp Fox"
- Wolfe and Montcalm, The Rival Heroes of Quebec
- Daniel Boone, The Great Indian Fighter of Kentucky
- George Rogers Clark, The Young Hero with a Great Idea
- Lewis and Clark, Two Adventurers in the Far West
- Davy Crockett, The Hero of the Alamo
- How Eli Whitney Made Cotton King
- Fulton's Folly
- How Morse Sent Letters by Lightning
- Cyrus H. M'cormick and the Story of the Reaper
- Elias Howe and His Sewing Machine
- Edison, The Wizard of Many Inventions
- Benjamin Franklin, The Boy Who Was Diligent in Business
- George Washington and His Mother
- Alexander Hamilton, The Orphan Boy from the West Indies
- Thomas Jefferson, The Father of Democracy
- Andrew Jackson, America's Most Popular Hero
- Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Three Great Champions in Congress
- The Kind Heart of Abraham Lincoln
- Ulysses S. Grant, The General Who Hated War
- The Noble Soul of Robert E. Lee
- Davy Farragut, The Hero of Mobile Bay
- The Strenuous Life of Roosevelt
- Clara Barton, "The Angel of the Battlefield"
- Henry W. Longfellow, The American Children's Poet
This volume celebrates stories of great heroes from the pages of history from Moses and David through Clara Barton and Henry Longfellow. It is divided into nine sections: Mighty Men of Long Ago, Heroes of the Middle Ages, Four Leaders in the Old World, Discoverers and Explorers, Colonists and Pioneers, Patriots of the Revolution, Winners of the West, Famous Inventors, and The Greatest Americans, It is written from a distinct Western and American point of view, but each chapter is a short summary of these people deemed “heroes.”
John Burnham was chair of the History and Social Sciences Department at Western State Normal School and Western State Teachers College. He was a nationally known history and social studies educator, and author or co-author of six elementary and secondary U.S. history textbooks that were widely used throughout the United States during the 1920s and 1930
- Summary by Larry Wilson
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