| Volume One | Volume Two |
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| Unit One | Unit One |
| Introduction | Introduction |
| John Smith by Norman Risjord | Philip H. Sheridan by Paul Andrew Hutton |
| Anne Hutchinson by Elizabeth Anticaglia | Susan LaFlesche Picotte by Valerie Sherer Mathes |
| Mary Rowlandson by Nancy Woloch | Mary Lease by Rebecca Edwards |
| William Penn by Norman Risjord | Henry McNeal Turner by John Dittmer |
| | John D. Rockefeller by Robert Heilbroner |
| | Stephen Crane by Stephen B. Oates |
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| Unit Two | Unit Two |
| Introduction | Introduction |
| Benjamin Franklin by Richard B. Morris | Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris |
| Daniel Boone by Jo Tice Bloom | Eugene V. Debs by Francis Russell |
| Tecumseh by Alvin M. Josephy | W.E.B. DuBois by Elliot Rudwick |
| Phillis Wheatley by Paul Engle | Margaret Sanger by Margaret Forster |
| John Marshall by Brian McGinty | Eleanor Roosevelt by William H. Chafe |
| | Huey Long by Peter J. King |
| | George Patton by Stephen E. Ambrose and Judith D. Ambrose |
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| Unit Three | Unit Three |
| Introduction | Introduction |
| Andrew Jackson by Albert Castel | Ray Kroc by Ted C. Hinckley and Roderick C. Johnson |
| Frances Wright by Nancy Woloch | Joseph McCarthy by Fred Cook |
| Nat Turner by Stephen B. Oates | Martin Luther King Jr. by Stephen B. Oates |
| Mary Richardson Walker by Patricia Horner | Betty Freidan by David Halberstam |
| Elizabeth Blackwell by Margaret Forster | Cesar Chavez by Cletus E. Daniel |
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| Unit Four | |
| Introduction | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe by David McCullough | |
| John Brown by Stephen B. Oates | |
| William T. Sherman by Stephen E. Ambrose | |
| Emily Lyles Harris by Philip N. Racine | |
| James T. Rapier by Loren Schweninger | |
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