Great moments in American history

Profiles Cynthia Ann Parker, who was captured in 1836 at the age of nine and lived as a Comanche for more than twenty years.

Relates interviews Sojourner Truth had with Olive Gilbert and Frances Titus which later became published in two books describing Truth's life as a slave, her escape to freedom, and her fight to end slavery and win rights for women.

In 1897, while working as a train porter, Nat "Deadeye Dick" Love tells a young boy and his aunt how he was born a slave, after Emancipation became a cowboy renowned for his riding and shooting, and wound up a Pullman porter.

Tells the story of Wild Bill Hickok's shoot-out with his old adversary Davis Tutt in Springfield, Missouri, in 1865, over a question of honor. Includes reproductions of primary source documents.

Poetess and freed slave Phillis Wheatley writes a poem celebrating General George Washington's leadership in the American Revolution, and is invited to his camp to meet the future president.

Paul Revere sets off to warn the American colonists of the approach of British soldiers in the spring of 1775.

Describes the life of famous nineteenth-century sharpshooter Annie Oakley, and imagines her tryout for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

In 1827, Betsy Ross remembers the day in 1776 when George Washington came to her upholstery shop to ask for help with designing and making an American flag.

An account of the events leading up to the famous 1804 duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, two important figures in the early politics of the United States.

Chronicles Davy Crockett's battle against General Santa Anna and his men at the Alamo and describes the showdown's legacy, providing color illustrations, a glossary, and a discussion of primary sources.