The American identity

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.