| 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] |