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
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 amendment / Joan 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
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.
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 --
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 amendment / Joan 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 --
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.
