Series: Library of American lives and times
Peter Stuyvesant: New Amsterdam and the origins of New York
Robert Fulton and the development of the steamboat
Sam Houston: for Texas and the Union
Stephen F. Austin and the founding of Texas
Eli Whitney: the cotton gin and American manufacturing
George Washington: leader of a new nation
John Sutter: Sutter's Fort and the California Gold Rush
W.E.B. Du Bois: the fight for civil rights