Includes bibliographical references (pages 376-378) and index.

Bulletproof : the French and Indian War : account of a British officer -- A declaration of dependence ... upon God : the signing of the Declaration of Independence -- A time for war : Peter Muhlenberg -- His sons -- captured! : Abraham Clark -- Benjamin who? : Benjamin Rush -- Saved by the fog : evacuation of Long Island -- Giving credit where it's due : Robert Morris -- Gifted : Phillis Wheatley -- Into the presence : First Continental Congress -- Out of the jaws of the wicked : William and Ellen Craft -- "Unless you kill me" : John Prentiss "Print" Matthews -- Pirating the Planter : Robert Smalls -- Tired of giving in : Rosa Parks -- In a class of only one : Ruby Bridges -- A special instrument sent of God : Tisquantum -- "Squanto" -- A covenanted people : The Pilgrims' anding at Cape Cod -- Government by the Gospel : Plymouth, Massachusetts -- No justice : C.J. Miller -- Innocent blood cries out : Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- Freedom's railroad : Harriet Tubman -- "Don't let them have him!" : Charles Nalle and Harriet Tubman -- Begin again : Bridget "Biddy" Mason -- Crazy bet : Elizabeth Van Lew -- They tried to forget : Duluth, Minnesota -- The holy experiment : William Penn -- Defender of the Union : Daniel Webster -- One life to lose : Nathan Hale -- Empowered to persuade : Patrick Henry -- With regrets : Benedict Arnold -- The united cry of the nation : Abraham Lincoln -- Turning point : Isabella Baumfree -- "Sojourner Truth" -- Denise, Carole, Cynthia, Addie Mae : Birmingham bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church -- Stand up : Martin Luther King, Jr. -- When a sport is something more : Jackie Robinson -- Lifting a people : Richard Allen -- The birth and second coming of a message of hate : the Ku Klux Klan -- "It is all so terribly true" : Woodrow Wilson and The Birth of a Nation -- "God save these people" : John Witherspoon -- The strong voice of freedom : Theodore Weld -- The repentant slaveholder : Angela Grimk�e -- "As a mother ... as a Christian" : Harriet Beecher Stowe -- A cycle of service and love : John Perkins -- "An impassioned defense : John Quincy Adamsa and the Amistad -- The dark side of Lincoln's home : the Springfield Riot -- The right man at the right time : Dwight D. Eisenhower -- "We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake" : Frederick Douglass -- What four hundred dollars can buy : George and Lewia Latimer -- Forever fourteen : Emmett Till -- A legacy of freedom : John Jay -- "I will fight no more forever" : Chief Joseph and the Nez Perc�e War -- The smuggled patriot : John Adams -- "Remember the ladies" : Abigail Adams -- The voice of reason : Roger Sherman -- "Turned loose to the whirlwind" : Compromise of 1877 -- A purposeful life : George Washington Carver -- A soldier's view : the Sand Creek Massacre -- A growing awareness : Benjamin Franklin -- "Before we proceed to business" : Congressional prayer -- The interesting narrative : Olaudah Equiano -- Kettle prayers : Lake Providence, Louisiana.

A collection of short stories about our heritage.