part 1. lecture 1. Being American -- lecture 2. John Smith, the colonial promoter -- lecture 3. William Penn, the religious liberty advocate -- lecture 4. Cotton Mather, the Puritan -- lecture 5. Benjamin Franklin, the improver -- lecture 6. Francis Marion, the guerrilla soldier -- lecture 7. Thomas Jefferson, the patriot -- lecture 8. Abigail Adams, the First Lady -- lecture 9. Mother Ann Lee, the religious founder -- lecture 10. Rittenhouse and Bartram, the scientists -- lecture 11. Eli Whitney, the inventor -- lecture 12. Lewis and Clark, the explorers.
part 2. lecture 13. Charles Grandison Finney, the revivalist -- lecture 14. Horace Mann, the educator -- lecture 15. Ralph Waldo Emerson, the philosopher -- lecture 16. Frederick Douglass, the abolitionist -- lecture 17. Edmund Ruffin, the champion of slavery -- lecture 18. Brigham Young, the religious autocrat -- lecture 19. Frederick Law Olmsted, the landscape architect -- lecture 20. William Tecumseh Sherman, the General -- lecture 21. Louisa May Alcott, the professional writer -- lecture 22. Andrew Carnegie, conscience-stricken entrepreneur -- lecture 23. "Buffalo Bill," the westerner -- lecture 24. Black Elk, the Holy Man.
part 3. lecture 25. John Wesley Powell, the desert theorist -- lecture 26. William Mulholland, the water engineer -- lecture 27. Samuel Gompers, the trade unionist -- lecture 28. Booker T. Washington, the "race leader" -- lecture 29. Emma Goldman, the anarchist -- lecture. 31. Isabella Stewart Gardner, the collector -- lecture 32. Oliver Wendell Holmes, the jurist -- lecture 33. Henry Ford, the mass producer -- lecture 34. Harry Houdini, the sensationalist -- lecture 35. Al Capone, the crime boss -- lecture 36. Herbert Hoover, the humanitarian.
part 4. lecture 37. Helen Keller, the inspiration -- lecture 38. Duke Ellington, the Jazzman -- lecture 39. Charles Lindbergh, the aviator -- lecture 40. Douglas MacArthur, the world-power warrior -- lecture 41. Leonard Bernstein, the musical polymath -- lecture 42. Shirley Temple, the child prodigy -- lecture 43. George Wallace, the demagogue -- lecture 44. William F. Buckley, Jr., the conservative -- lecture 45. Roberto Clemente, the athlete -- lecture 46. Betty Friedan, the feminist -- lecture 47. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leagatee -- lecture 48. Stability and change.
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