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Cover Page Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction 1. Bulletproof: The French and Indian War—Account of a British Officer

Worship in the Capitol

2. A Declaration of Dependence . . . Upon God: The Signing of the Declaration of Independence 3. A Time for War: Peter Muhlenberg

“Give ’Em Watts, Boys!”

4. His Sons—Captured!: Abraham Clark

Anthony Benezet—Father of American Abolitionism

5. Benjamin Who?: Benjamin Rush 6. Saved by the Fog: Evacuation of Long Island

George Duffield, Patriot Preacher

7. Giving Credit Where It’s Due: Robert Morris

Samuel Adams—A Man Devoted to a Cause

8. Gifted: Phillis Wheatley 9. Into the Presence: First Continental Congress 10. Out of the Jaws of the Wicked: William and Ellen Craft

The History of Juneteenth

11. “Unless You Kill Me”: John Prentiss “Print” Matthews 12. Pirating the Planter: Robert Smalls

Henry Highland Garnet

13. Tired of Giving In: Rosa Parks 14. In a Class of Only One: Ruby Bridges

The Road to Desegregation

15. A Special Instrument Sent of God: Tisquantum—“Squanto”

Native American Contributions to the Government

16. A Covenanted People: The Pilgrims’ Landing at Cape Cod

Jamestown

17. Government by the Gospel: Plymouth, Massachusetts 18. No Justice: C. J. Miller

The Jim Crow Era and Black Codes

19. Innocent Blood Cries Out: Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Lynchings by Race and Year (1882–1960)

20. Freedom’s Railroad: Harriet Tubman

The Underground Railroad

21. “Don’t Let Them Have Him!”: Charles Nalle and Harriet Tubman 22. Begin Again: Bridget “Biddy” Mason

Revivals in War and Peace

23. Crazy Bet: Elizabeth Van Lew 24. They Tried to Forget: Duluth, Minnesota 25. The Holy Experiment: William Penn

State Constitutions

26. Defender of the Union: Daniel Webster

The Star-Spangled Banner

27. One Life to Lose: Nathan Hale

Did You Know? and Laus Deo

28. Empowered to Persuade: Patrick Henry 29. With Regrets: Benedict Arnold 30. The United Cry of the Nation: Abraham Lincoln

The Gettysburg Address

31. Turning Point: Isabella Baumfree—“Sojourner Truth”

Three Remarkable Women

32. Denise. Carole. Cynthia. Addie Mae: Birmingham Bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church 33. Stand Up: Martin Luther King Jr.

Chinese Labor and the Transcontinental Railroad

34. When a Sport Is Something More: Jackie Robinson 35. Lifting a People: Richard Allen

Negro Spirituals

36. The Birth and Second Coming of a Message of Hate: Ku Klux Klan 37. “It Is All So Terribly True”: Woodrow Wilson and The Birth of a Nation 38. “God Save These People”: John Witherspoon 39. The Strong Voice of Freedom: Theodore Weld

The Missouri Compromise and the Fugitive Slave Law

40. The Repentant Slaveholder: Angelina Grimké 41. “As a Mother . . . As a Christian”: Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Power to Get Wealth Inspiration From a Slave

42. A Cycle of Service and Love: John Perkins

1857–1858 Noonday Prayer Meetings

43. “An Impassioned Defense”: John Quincy Adams and the Amistad

A Father’s Advice

44. The Dark Side of Lincoln’s Home: Springfield Riot

The Price of Fear

45. The Right Man at the Right Time: Dwight D. Eisenhower

The Pledge of Allegiance

46. “We Need the Storm, the Whirlwind, and the Earthquake”: Frederick Douglass

First African Americans in Congress

47. What Four Hundred Dollars Can Buy: George and Lewis Latimer

Their Contributions Many

48. Forever Fourteen: Emmett Till

Medgar Evers

49. A Legacy of Freedom: John Jay

Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts

50. “I Will Fight No More Forever”: Chief Joseph and the Nez Percé War

America’s First Nations People

51. The Smuggled Patriot: John Adams

Fifty Years Later

52. “Remember the Ladies”: Abigail Adams

The Construction of the U.S. Capitol

53. The Voice of Reason: Roger Sherman 54. “Turned Loose to the Whirlwind”: Compromise of 1877 55. A Purposeful Life: George Washington Carver

Forty Acres and a Mule Remembering Everyone at the Alamo

56. A Soldier’s View: The Sand Creek Massacre

Mexican-American Pioneer: Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo

57. A Growing Awareness: Benjamin Franklin 58. “Before We Proceed to Business”: Congressional Prayer

What Happened to the Signers of the Declaration of Independence?

59. The Interesting Narrative: Olaudah Equiano 60. Kettle Prayers: Lake Providence, Louisiana

America’s Underground Church

What Is Freedom For? Closing Thoughts From Toby and Michael A Call to Prayer Timeline Bibliography Index Other Books by Author For More Information Back Cover

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