Stories of Great Men & Women from Vintage Books for Children

Stories are in a very approximate chronological order, determined by a very quick appraisal of when the story takes place or by what might be the climax of a story, this only being ascertained by a quick scanning of the text. This list has been compiled for the use of the author of this site, first and foremost, but is here published, if it might be of any utility for someone who might chance across it. None of the texts have been previewed for anti-Catholic content.

15th Century BC

A Great Egyptian Queen, Hatshepsut (MMPoLA) (b. 1507)

In the Land of the Minotaur (MMPoLA)

14th Century BC

13th Century BC

Agamemnon King of Men (FMoG)

Achilles, Bravest of Greeks (FMoG)

The Fall of Troy (TMFSR) (Ancient Greece, 1275)

The Adventures of Ulysses (FMoG)

Penelope’s Web (TMFSR) (Ancient Greece, after 1275)

The Fair Princess of Bekhten or the Kindness of the Egyptian Moon God (MGoLA) (Ramses II, 1249, see)

12th Century BC

11th Century BC

10th Century BC

David: The Shepherd Boy (TBFH) (ca. 1040-970)

The King and the Bees (FFP) (Ancient Israel, Solomon, d. 931)

9th Century BC

Lycurgus (FMoG) (fl. 820)

8th Century BC

Romulus (FMoR) (753-716)

The Founding of Rome (TMFSR) (Ancient Rome, Romulus and Remus, 771)

King Lear and His Daughters (MPoLA) (ca. 800)

7th Century BC

Numa Pompilius (FMoR) (715-672)

The General and the Fox (FFP) (Ancient Greece, Aristamenes, 685–668)

The Horatii and the Curiatii (FMoR) (650)

Draco and Solon (FMoG) (Draco, 622; Solon, early 6C)

Becos! Becos! Becos! (FFP) (Ancient Egypt, Psamtik I, d. 610)

Saved by a Dolphin (FFP) (Ancient Greece, Arion, during reign of Periander, 627–585)

6th Century BC

A Clever Slave (FFP) (Ancient Greece, Aesop, 620–564)

The Tarquins (FMoR) (6161-510)

The Young Cupbearer (FFP) (Ancient Persia, Cyrus the Great, b. ca. 600)

The Boy and the Robbers (FFP) (Ancient Persia, Otanes, after Cyrus the Great)

As Rich as Croesus (TMFSR) (Ancient Greece, d. 546)

The Golden Tripod (FFP) (Thales, d. 545; Bias, 6C; Pittacus, d. 568; Periander, d. 585, Chilon, 6C; Solo, d. 560)

Pisistratus (FMoG) (d. 527)

Junius Brutus (FMoR) (509)

Horatius (FMoR) (509)

Horatius at the Bridge (FFSR) (509)

Mucius the Left-Handed (FMoR) (509)

5th Century BC

A Story of Old Rome (FFP) (Coriolanus, 493)

Coriolanus (FMoR) (500-450)

The Fabii (FMoR) (500-477)

Miltiades the Hero of Marathaon (FMoG) (490)

Leonidas at Thermopylae (FMoG) (480)

The Brave Three Hundred (FFSR) (Leonidas, Battle of Thermopylae, 480)

Themistocles (FMoG) (d. 453)

Aristides the Just (FMoG) (d. 468, story follows Themistocles)

Cimon (FMoG) (d. 449)

The Story of Cincinnatus (FFSR) (d. 430)

Cincinnatus (FMoR) (519-439)

Pericles & Phidias (FMoG) (d. 429)

Aspasia: The Inspiration of Pericles (NWinH)

Alcibiades (FMoG) (d. 404)

Lysander (FMoG) (404)

Socrates (FMoG) (d. 399)

Socrates and His House (FFSR) (d. 399)

Two Great Painters (FFP) (Zeuxis & Parrhasius, 5C)

A Buddha Story: Or, the Tale of a Wonderful Prince (MMPoLA) (Buddha, 5C)

4th Century BC

Damon and Pythias (FFSR) (Dionysius I of Syracuse, r. 408-367)

The Sword of Damocles (FFSR) (Dionysius II of Syracus, r. 367-344)

Camillus (FMoR) (d. 365)

Manlius Torquatus (FMoR) (d. 384)

Epaminondas and Pelopidas (FMoG) (362)

Xenophon (FMoG) (d. 357)

A Laconic Answer & The Unwelcome Guest (FFSR) (Philip of Macedon, r. 359-336)

How Decius Mus Saved Rome (TMFSR) (Latin War, 340)

Philip of Macedon (FMoG) (d. 336)

Alexander the Great (FMoG)

Alexander and Bucephelous (FFSR) (r. 336-323)

Diogenes the Wise Man (FFSR) (Alexander the Great, 336)

The Gordion Knot (TMFSR) (Alexander the Great, 333)

A Lesson in Justice (FFP) (Alexander the Great)

Why Alexander Wept (TMFSR)

Demosthenes (FMoG) (d. 322)

Aristotle, Zeno, Diogenes, and Apelles (FMoG) (d. 322)

Little People from Tanagra (MPoLA) (4/4 4th C., see)

3rd Century BC

Ptolemy (FMoG) (283)

Appius Claudius Caecus (FMoR) (d. 280)

Pyrus (FMoG) (d. 272)

The Story of Regulus (FFSR) (255)

Regulus (FMoR) (d. 250)

Eureka! (TMRSR) (Hiero II of Syracuse, r. 275-215)

Cleomenes III (FMoG) (d. 222)

Hannibal, The Hero of Carthage (TMFSR) (218)

2nd Century BC

Scipio Africanus (FMoR) (234-183)

Cato the Censer (FMoR) (234-149)

Delenda Est Carthago (TMFSR) (149)

The Gracchi (FMoR) (163-121)

Cornelia’s Jewels (FFSR) (d. 115)

Cornelia: The Mother of the Gracchi (NWinH)

1st Century BC

Marius (FMoR) (155-86)

Sulla (FMoR) (138-78)

Pompey (FMoR) (106-48)

Juilus Caesar (FMoR) (100-44)

Crossing the Rubicon (TMFSR) (49)

Julius Caesar (FFSR) (d. 44)

Vercingetorix (HSF) (52 BC)

Cicero (FMoR) (102-43)

Cleopatra: The World’s Most Famous Beauty (NWinH) (d. 30 BC)

Augustus (FMoR) (63 BC -14 AD)

1st Century AD

Agrippina: A Wicked Woman, A Devoted Motherm(NWiH) (d. 59)

Nero (FMoR) (37-68)

The City of the Seven Hills (MPoLA) (70)

Titus (FMoR) (40-81)

2nd Century AD

Trajan (FMoR) (53-119)

Marcus Aurelius (FMoR) (121-180)

3rd Century AD

Zenobia of Palmyra (HG) (b. 240)

Zenobia: The Empress of Palmyra (NWihH)

Helena of Britain (HG) (b. 246)

Saint Denis the Missionary (HSF) (3rd C.)

4th Century AD

Constantine the Great (FMoR) (272-337)

5th Century AD

Hypatia: The Female Philosopher of Alexandria (NWinH) (380-415)

Pulcheria of Constantinople (HG) (b. 398)

Alaric the Visigoth (FMoMA) (r. 394-410)

Alaric the Visigothic (EHS)

Attila the Hun (FMoMA) (r. 434-453)

Attila the Hun (EHS)

The Coming of Attila the Hun (HSF)

Genseric the Vandal (FMoMA) (r. 427-477)

Genseric the Vandal (EHS)

End of the Western Empire (FMoR) (Julian, Theodosius, 361-476)

Guatama (FFP) (Buddha, d. 400 or 483)

Clotilda of Burgundy (HG) (b. 474)

Saint Patrick (EHS)

6th Century AD

Theodoric the Ostrogoth (FMoMA) (r. 475-526)

Theodoric the Ostrogoth (EHS)

Clovis (FMoMA) (r. 481-511)

Clovis (EHS)

Clovis, The First King of France (HSF)

Justinian the Great (FMoMA) (r. 527-565)

A Story from Colored Glass, or Justinian and Theodora (MMPoLA) (547)

Theodora: The Great Empress of the East (NWinH)

7th Century AD

Woo of Hwang-Ho (HG) (Empress Wu Zetian, b. 624)

Mohammed (FMoMA) (570-632)

The Cowherd Who Became a Poet (FFP) (Caedmon, fl. 657-684)

8th Century AD

Charles Martel and Pepin (FMoMA) (714-768)

Charles Martel (EHS)

Charles the Hammer (HSF)

Pepin and the Do-Nothing Kings (HSF) (r. 751-768)

The Caliph and the Poet (FFP) (Al-Mansur, d. 775)

Charlemagne (FMoMA) (r. 768-814)

Charlemagne (EHS)

Charlemagne and His Kingdom (HSF)

The Song of Roland (HSF)

9th Century AD

Harun al-Rashid (FMoMA) (r. 786-809)

A Lesson in Humility (FFP) (Harun al-Rashid, d. 809)

Egbert (FMoMA) (r. 802-837)

The Sons of the Caliph (FFP) (al-Ma’mun, r. 813-833)

The Barmecide Feast (FFSR) (Barmakids, under Abbasids, 9C)

How a Prince Learned to Read (FFP) (Alfred the Great, b. 848)

King Alfred and the Cakes (FFSR) (878)

King Alfred and the Beggar (FFSR) (d. 899)

Alfred the Great (FMoMA) (r. 871-901)

King Alfred (HECSK)

King Alfred the Great (EHS)

Rurik the Norseman (EHS) (d. 879)

10th Century AD

Rollo the Viking (FMoMA) (d. 931)

Rollo the Viking (EHS)

How the Northmen Became Normans (HSF)

Henry the Fowler (FMoMA) (r. 919-936)

Henry the Fowler (EHS)

Hugh Capet (EHS) (r. 987-996)

The White-Haired Zal (TMFSR) (Shahnameh Epic, 10C)

11th Century AD

Leif the Lucky (BooC)

Leif Ericsson, the Discoverer (EHS)

The Caliph and the Gardner (FFP) (Almanzor, d. 1002)

Canute the Great (FMoMA) (r. 1014-1035)

King Canute on the Seashore (FFSR) (d. 1035)

Edward the Confessor (FMoMA) (1042-1066)

William the Conqueror (FMoMA) (1066-1087)

William the Conqueror (EHS)

How a Norman Became King of England (HSF)

Death of William the Conquerer (HBS)

The Sons of William the Conquerer (FFSR) (after 1066)

Edith of Scotland (HG) (Queen Matilda of Scotland, b. 1080)

The Cid (FMoMA) (1040-1099)

The Cid (HECSK)

The Cid (EHS)

Peter the Hermit (FMoMA) (1095-1099)

Peter the Hermit Leads the First Crusade (EHS)

How Normandy Became Part of France (FHS)

12th Century AD

The White Ship (FFSR) (1120)

Hugh of Lincoln: The Boy Chorister (TBFH) (b. ca. 1135)

Frederick Barbarossa (FMoMA) (r. 1152-1190)

Frederick Barbarossa (TMFSR) (1190)

Henry II (FMoMA) (r. 1154-1189)

Richard the Lion-Hearted (FMoMA) (r. 1190-1199)

Richard the Lion-Hearted (HECSK)

Richard the Lion-Hearted (EHS)

King Richard and Blondel (TMFSR) (1192)

13th Century AD

King John and Prince Arthur (TMFSR) (1203)

John Lackland (FMoMA) (r. 1199-1216)

Stephen and Nicholas: Boy Crusaders (TBFH) (The Children’s Crusade, Stephen of Cloyes & Nicholas of Cologne, 1212)

The Children’s Crusade (EHS)

The Magna Carta (EHS)

King John and the Magna Carta (TMFSR) (1215)

King John and the Abbot (FFSR) (d. 1216)

A Story of Robin Hood (FFSR) (time of Kings Richard and John)

Robin Hood (HECSK)

“Little Brothers of the Air” (FFP) (Saint Francis of Assisi, d. 1226)

The King and His Hawk (FFSR) (Genghis Khan, d. 1227)

The Shepherd-Boy Painter (FFP) (Giotto, b. 1267)

An Early Italian Painter, Giotto (MMPoLA)

Louis IX (FMoMA) (r. 1226-1270)richard

Saint Louis (HECSK)

The King Who Was a Saint (HSF)

The Tale of a Great Crusade (MMPoLA) (Saint Louis, d. 1270)

Roger Bacon (HMA) (d. ca. 1292)

14th Century AD

Marco Polo (FMoMA) (1254-1324)

Marco Polo (BooC)

Marco Polo (EHS)

The Inchcape Rock (FFSR) (Abbot of Abroath, 14C, 1802 ballad by Robert Southey)

The Story of William Tell (FFSR) (1307)

William Tell (FMoMA) (1307)

William Tell (HECSK)

William Tell (EHS)

Robert Bruce (FMoMA) (r. 1306-1329)

Bruce and the Spider (FFSR) (d. 1329)

The Hunted King (FFP) (Robert the Bruce)

Robert Bruce (HECSK)

Robert Bruce (EHS)

The Black Douglas (FFSR) (d. 1329)

The Heroes of Calais (HSF) (1328)

Francesco Petrarch (EHS) (d. 1374)

Edward the Black Prince (FMoMA) (1330-1376)

Edward the Black Prince (TBFH) (d. 1376)

Edward the Black Prince (EHS)

Arnold Winkelried (FFSR) (1386)

Arnold von Winkelried (FMoMA) (1386)

Arnold von Winkelried (EHS)

“Try, Try Again!” (FFP) (Timur, r. 1370-1405)

Tamerland (FMoMA) (1333-1405)

15th Century AD

Jacqueline of Holland (HG) (Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut, b. 1401)

Whittington and His Cat (FFSR) (d. 1423, play and ballad in 1604 & 1605)

Henry V (FMoMA) (r. 1413-1422)

Joan of Arc (FMoMA) (1412-1431)

Jeanne d’Arc (TGFH) (d. 1431)

Joan, Maid of Orleans, The French Maid Who Saved Her Country (MPoLA) (d. 1431)

Joan of Arc (EHS)

The Story of Jeanne d’Arc (HSF)

The First Printer (TMFSR) (Johannes Gutenberg, 1450)

Gutenburg (FMoMA) (1400-1468)

John Gutenberg and the Voices (TMFSR) (d. 1468)

John Gutenburg (EHS)

Catherine of Venice (HG) (Catherine Cornaro, Queen of Cyrpus, b. 1454)

Warwick the Kingmaker (FMoMA) (1428-1471)

Lorenzo the Magnificent (FMoMT) (1449-1492)

The Horseshoe Nails (FFP) (King Richard III, 1485)

Ferdinand of Aragon (FMoMT) (1452-1516)

Christopher Columbus (FMMT) (1435-1506)

Columbus and the Egg (TMFSR) (d. 1506)

Christopher Columbus (BooC)

Christopher Columbus (EHS)

Christopher Columbus Who First Crossed the Atlantic (AHS)

Isabella of Castile (NwinH) (1451-1504)

John Cabot (BooC)

Vasco da Gama (FMoMT) (1469-1524)

Vasco da Gama (EHS)

16th Century AD

Henry VII’s Devotion to the Sacraments (1509)

The Little Federigo Gonzaga (MPoLA) (1510, see)

Upon a Peak in Darien (TMFSR) (Balboa, 1510)

Balbao and Pizarro (BooC)

The Fountain of Youth (TMFSR) (Ponce de Leon, 1513)

Ponce de Leon (BooC)

Teresa of Avila (HG) (b. 1515)

Ferdinand Magellan (EHS) (1519)

Ferdinand Magellan Who Found the Way Around the World (AHS)

Hernando Cortez (BooC) (1519-1521)

The Field of the Cloth of Gold (MPoLA) (Henry VIII & Francis I, 1520)

The Field of the Cloth of Gold (HSF)

Chevalier Bayard (FMoMT) (1476-1524)

Bayard the Brave, or, The Knight without Fear and without Reproach (MPoLA) (Chevalier de Bayard, d. 1524)

Pierre Bayard, the Perfect Knight (HSF)

Verrazano (BooC) (1522-1524)

Cardinal Wolsey (FMoMT) (1471-1530)

Katherine of Aragon: Heroine of the World’s Most Famous Divorce (NWinH) (d. 1536)

Ann Boleyn: A “Martyred” Queen of Henry VIII (NWinH) (d. 1536)

Mary Tudor: “Bloody Mary” … (NWinH) (d. 1558)

Elizabeth of Tudor (HG) (b. 1533)

Queen Elizabeth: “Good Queen Bess”; The Virgin Queen (NWinH) (1533-1603)

Jacques Cartier (BooC) (1534-1542)

Cofachiqui: An Indian Princess of Historic Legend (TSFG) (DeSoto, 1540)

Hernando de Soto (BooC)

Charles V of Germany (FMoMT) (1500-1558)

Lady Jane Grey: The Nine Day Queen (TSFG) (1553)

Lady Jane Grey: A Nine Days’ Queen (NWinH) (d. 1554)

Lady Jane Grey: The Girl of Tudor England (HG)

Solyman the Sublime (FMoMT) (1490-1566)

A Great Sculptor: Michelangelo (MMPoLA) (d. 1564)

Jean Ribault (BooC) (1565)

Upon a Peak in Darien, Second Story (TMFSR) (Francis Drake, 1572)

The Story of Coligny (HSF) (Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, 1572, Protestant perspective)

Sir Francis Drake (FMoMT) (1540-1596)

Sir Francis Drake (BooC)

Francis Drake, Seaman of Queen Elizabeth (AHS)

Sir Humphrey Gilbert (FFSR) (d. 1583)

Sir Walter Raleigh (BooC)

Sir Walter Raleigh (FFSR) (d. 1618)

Sir Walter Raleigh (FMoMT) (1552-1561)

Sir Philip Sidney (FFSR) (d. 1586)

Mary Queen of Scots: A Victim of Her Own Intrigues (NWinH) (d. 1587)

The Troubles of Philip II, King of Spain (EHS) (r. 1556-1598)

Which Was the King (FFP) (Henry IV of France, r. 1589-1610)

King Henry of Navarre (HSF)

Henry of Navarre (FMoMT) (1553-1610)

The Invincible Armada (EHS) (1596-1597)

Friar Bacon and the Brazen Head (TMFSR) (16C story about 13C monk)

17th Century AD

Mataoka of Powhatan (HG) (Pocahontas, b. 1596)

Pocahontas: The Indian Girl of the Virginia Forest (TAGFH) (b. 1596)

Pocahontas (FFSR) (1607)

Pochahontas: The Girl of the Virginia Wood Woods (HG)

John Smith and Pocahontas (BooC)

John Smith, the Father of Virginia (AHS)

Champlain (BooC) (1608-1615)

Samuel de Champlain, the Founder of Quebec (AHS)

Henry Hudson (BooC) (1609-1611)

The Feast of Saint Nicholas (MPoLA) (Rembrandt, b. 1606)

Priscilla Alden: The Girl of Plymouth (HG)

Miles Standish and the Pilgrims (BooC)

Miles Standish, Commander in Chief of the Pilgrims (AHS)

Wallenstein (FMoMT) (1583-1634)

Gustavus Adolphus (FMoMT) (1594-1632)

Gustavus Adolphus (EHS)

Christina of Sweden (HG) (b. 1626)

Queen Christina of Sweden: A Royal Wanderer in Europe (NWinH)

Lord Baltimore (BooC) (1632)

Roger Williams (BooC) (1636)

Peter Minuit (BOOC) (1638)

Cardinal Richelieu (FMoMT) (1585-1642)

The Rise of Richelieu (HSF)

The Charcoal Man and the King (FFP) (Louis XIV, b. 1638)

Louis XIV (FMoMT) (1638-1715)

Louis XIV and Versailles (HSF)

Galileo (FMoMT) (1564-1642)

Galileo and the Lamps (TMFSR) (d. 1642)

The First Governor of Boston (SoGAfLA) (John Winthrop, governor 1630-1645, d. 1649)

Governor Winthrop and the Puritans (BooC)

The Story of John Winthrop, of Boston (HA)

Peter Stuyvesant (BooC) (1647-1664)

Peter Stuyvesant, Last Dutch Governor of New York (AHS)

Oliver Cromwell (FMoMT) (1599-1658)

The Ungrateful Soldier (FFSR) (Dano-Swedish War, 1658-1660?)

At the Court of Philip IV of Spain (MMPoLA) (d. 1665)

Sir Isaac Newton and the Apple (TMFSR) (1666)

Sir Isaac Newton (FMoMT) (1642-1727)

La Salle (BooC) (1669)

Marquette in Iowa (SoGAfLA) (Jacques Marquette & Louis Joliet, 1673)

Joliet and Marquette (BooC)

The Men Who Explored the Mississippi (AHS) (La Salle, Marquette, & Joliet)

Mississippi’s Blackrobe

King Philip’s War (BooC) (1675-1678)

King Philip, Chief of the Wampanoags (AHS)

Nathaniel Bacon (BooC) (1676-1677)

William Penn and the Indians (SoGAfLA) (1683)

William Penn (BooC)

William Penn, Who Founded Pennsylvania (AHS)

Sobieski (FMoMT) (1683, 1624-1696)

Madeleine de Vercheres: The Heroine of Castle Dangerous (TSFG) (Madeleine de Verchères, 1692)

One Little Bag of Rice (SoGAfLA) (Thomas Smith, Landgrave, SC, 1693)

18th Century AD

The Bomb (FFP) (King Carl XII of Sweden, r. 1697-1718)

Man in the Iron Mask (TMFSR) (d. 1703)

The Story of a Great Story (FFP) (Alexander Selkirk, 1704-1709)

Peter the Great (FMoMT) (1672-1725)

Peter the Great (EHS)

Queen Anne: The Commonplace Queen of a Majestic Era (NWinH) (1665-1744)

Charles XII of Sweden (FMoMT) (1682-1718)

The Whistle (FFP) (Benjamin Franklin, 1715)

Franklin, His Own Teacher (SoGAfLA) (and four more stories about Franklin)

Benjamin Franklin (BooC)

Sally Wister: A Girl of the American Revolution (TGFH) (1717)

General James Oglethorpe (BooC) (1730)

George Washington and His Hatchet (FFSR) (b. 1732)

Washington and His Hatchet (SoGAfLA)

Our First Great Painter (FFP) (Benjaminn West, b. 1738)

The Story of a Little Quaker Boy: Benjamin West (MPoLA) (b. 1738)

How Benny West Learned to Be a Painter (SoGAfLA)

The King and the Page (FFP) (Frederick the Great of Prussia, r. 1740-1786)

Frederick the Great (FMoMT) (1712-1786)

Maria Theresa of Austria: The True Founder of the Austrian Empire (NWinH) (1717-1780)

Catherine II: The Semiramis of the North (NWinH) (1729-1796)

Catherine the Great: The Girl of Stettin (HG)

Eliza Lucas: A Girl Planter of the 18th C. (TSFG) (1741)

Another Wolf Story (FFP) (Israel Putnam, 1743)

Putnam and the Wolf (SoGAfLA)

A Lesson in Manners (FFP) (Jonathan Swift, d. 1745)

Benjamin Franklin (TSoGAM) (1752)

The Story of Benjamin Franklin, of Philadelphia (HA)

John Stark and the Indians (SoGAfLA) (1752)

Going to Sea (FFP) (George Washington, 1746)

Geroge Washington, The Young Soldier (AHS) (1755)

Montcalm and Wolfe (BooC) (French & Indian War, 1754-1763)

James Wolfe, Who Captured Quebec (AHS)

Sir William Johnson (BooC) (1763)

“Read, and You Will Know” (FFP) (William Jones, b. 1746)

The Story of James Otis, of Boston (HA) (1761-1764)

James Watt and the Tea Kettle (TMFSR) (1759)

William Pitt (FMoMT) (1708-1778)

When Pontiac Besieged Detroit (AHS) (1763)

The Boy and the Wolf (FFP) (Lafayette, 1763)

Mozart: The Boy Musician (TBFH) (1767)

The Ettrick Shepherd (FFP) (James Hogg, b. 1770)

Doctor Goldsmith (FFSR) (Oliver Goldsmith, d. 1774)

Daniel Boone and His Grapevine Swing (SoGAfLA) (1774, and one more story)

Daniel Boone, The Kentucky Pioneer (AHS)

The Midnight Ride (FFP) (Paul Revere, 1774)

The First Day of the Revolution (AHS) (Paul Revere)

In the Time of Paul Revere (MMPoLA)

Israel Putnam, Soldier of the Revolution (AHS) (1775)

Patrick Henry (TSoGAM) (1775)

The Story of Patrick Henry (HA)

A Great Good Man (SoGAfLA) (Anthony Benezet, 1775)

George Washington (FMoMT) (1732-1799)

George Washington (HECSK) (1732-1799)

The Inspiring History of George Washington (TSoGAM)

The Story of George Washington, of Mount Vernon (HA)

Dorothy Quincy: The Girl of Colonial Days Who Heard the First Gun Fired for Independence (TAGFH) (1775)

The Story of Samuel Adams, of Boston (HA) (1775-1776)

The Story of John Adams, of Braintree (HA) (1775-1776)

The Entertaining History of John Paul Jones (TSoGAM) (1776, 1747-1792)

John Paul Jones and His Sea Fights for America (AHS)

Washington’s Christmas Gift (SoGAfLA) (1776) (plus two more)

A Christmas Surprise (AHS) (George Washington, 1776)

Adrienne de Lafayette (TSFG) (1777)

Lafayette, Friend of the United States (HSF)

A Winter at Valley Forge (AHS) (Lafayette, 1778)

Molly Pitcher: The Brave Gunner of the Battle of Monmouth (TAGFH) (1778)

Clark and His Men (SoGAfLA) (George Rogers Clark, 1778-1779)

How “Mad Anthony” Took Stony Point (AHS) (1779)

George Rogers Clark, Who Gave Three States to the Union (AHS) (1779)

The Dark Day (FFP) (Abraham Davenport, 1780)

Marion’s Tower (SoGAfLA) (Francis Marion, Siege of Fort Watson, 1781)

How the “Swamp Fox” Made the British Miserable (AHS) (Francis Marion)

Webster and the Woodchuck (TMFSR) (Daniel Webster, b. 1782)

The Lad Who Rode Sidesaddle (FFP) (Dabiel Webster)

Daniel Webster and His Brother (SoGAfLA)

The Story of Daniel Webster, of Marshfield (HA)

Dr. Johnson and His Father (TMFSR) (Samuel Johnson, d. 1784)

The French Revolution (HSF)

Marie Antoinette: The Diamond Necklace and the Guillotine (NWinH) (1755-1795)

Madame Roland (BNW) (1754-1793)

Robespierre (FMoMT) (1758-1794)

The Story of Alexander Hamilton (FA) (d. 1804)

Louis Seventeenth: The Boy King Who Never Reigned (TBFH) (France, d. 1795)

The Story of John Jay, of Bedford (HA) (1789-1795)

Washington Irving as a Boy (SoGAfLA) (1783-1859)

The Story of El Whitney, of New Haven (HA) (1793)

Casabianca (FFSR) (1826 poem about 1798 Battle of the Nile)

The Landlord’s Mistake (FFP) (Thomas Jefferson, 1797-1801)

How Napoleon Crossed the Alps (FFSR) (1800)

The Kingdoms (FFSR) [not sure which Frederick William]

Thaddeus Kosciusko (FMoMT) (1746-1817)

19th Century AD

Speaking a Piece (FFP) (Edward Everett, b. 1794)

Peter Klaus the Goatherd (TMFSR) (folk tale published 1800)

Horatio Nelson (FMoMT) (1758-1805)

Decatur and the Pirates (SoGAfLA) (Stephen Decatur, 1803)

Captain Clark’ Burning Glass (SoGAfLA) (Lewis & Clark, 1804-1806)

Merriweather Lewis and William Clark (AHS)

Jane Austen (BNW) (1775-1817)

Stories about Jefferson (SoGAfLA) (Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826)

The Story of Thomas Jefferson, of Monticello (HA)

The Story of Robert Morris, of Philadelphia (HA) (d. 1806)

The Paddle-Wheel Boat (FFP) (Robert Fulton, b. 1765)

The True Story of Robert Fulton (TSoGAM) (1807)

Quicksilver Bob (SoGAfLA) (Robert Fulton)

Napoleon Bonaparte (FMoMT) (1769-1821)

Napoleon Bonaparte (EHS)

Napoleon the Great and the First Empire (HSF)

Napoleon the Little (HSF)

Fanny Burney: The Girl of London (1752-1840) (HG)

Fanny Burney (Madame d’Arblay) (BNW)

Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845) (BNW)

Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855) (BNW)

Mary Somerville (1780-1872) (BNW)

Charlotte and Emily Bronte (BNW)

Sister Dora (1832-1878) (BNW)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) (BNW)

Why He Carried the Turkey (FFP) (John Marshall, Chief Justice 1801-1835)

The Story of John Marshall, of Richmond (HA)

Maximilian and the Goose Boy (FFSR) [not sure which Maximilian]

David Farragut: The Boy Midshipman (TBFH) (1812)

Oliver Hazard Perry, Who Captured a British Fleet (AHS) (1812)

Grandfather’s Rhyme (SoGAfLA) (James Lawrence, 1812)

The Star-Spangled Banner (SoGAfLA) (Francis Scott Key, 1812)

The Star-Spangled Banner (AHS)

Dolly Madison, Who Guarded the Nation’s Treasures (AHS)

The Story of James Madison, of Montpellier (1809-1817)

Longfellow as a Boy (SoGAfLA) (b. 1807)

Robert E. Lee: A Boy’s Impressions (HECSK) (b. 1807)

The Youth of Lincoln (HECSK) (b. 1809)

The Whisperer (FFP) (Elihu Burritt, b. 1810)

Horace Greeley as a Boy (SoGAfLA) (b. 1811)

David Crockett, The Tennessee Pioneer (AHS)

Antonio Canova (FSSR) (d. 1822)

The Story of James Monroe, of Westmoreland (HA) (1817-1825)

The Story of John Quincy Adams, of Quincy (HA) (1825-1829)

The Surly Guest (FFP) (John Randolph of Roanoke, d. 1833)

The Story of Andrew Jackson, of the Hermitage (HA) (1829-1837)

The Story of Washington Irving, of New York (HA) (1783-1859)

Saving the Birds (FFP) (Abraham Lincoln, 1830s?)

The Story of Samuel Finley Breese Morse, of New York (HA) (1832)

Picciola (FFSR) (1836 novel, time of Napoleon, d. 1821)

How Audobon Came to Know bout Birds (SoGAfLA) (James Audobon, 1827-1838)

James Audobon, Lover and Student of Birds (HoP)

Kit Carson and the Bears (SoGAfLA) (1834)

The Story of John Caldwell Calhoun, of South Carolina (HA) (1829-1839)

Horace Mann, of Boston (HA) (1837)

Grace Darling (FFSR) (1838)

Cyrus H. McCormick, Inventor of the Reaper (HoP) (1840)

Christopher Carson, Trapper and Guide (AHS) (1809-1868)

A Wonderful Woman (SoGAfLA) (Dorothea Dix, 1802-1887)

The Young Scout (FFP) (Andrew Jackson, 1842)

The India Rubber Man (SoGAfLA) (Charles Goodyear, 1800-1860, 1844)

Charles Goodyear, A Man who Persevered (HoP) (1844)

Virginia Reed: Midnight Heroine of the Plains in Pioneer Days of America (TAGFH) (1846)

William T. G.. Morton, Master of Pain (HoP) (1846)

Elias Howe, Inventor of the Sewing Machine (HoP) (1846)

Maria Mitchell, Astronomer and Teacher (HoP) (1848)

The Story of Henry Clay, of Ashland (HA) (d. 1852)

Henry Oscar Houghton, Printer and Publisher (HoP) (1852)

Doctor Kane in the Frozen Sea (SoGAfLA) (Elisha Kent Kane, 1850-1851)

William Ewart Gladstone (FMoMT) (1852, 1809-1898)

Louisa M. Alcott: Author of Little Women (TAGFH) (1854)

Cyrus W. Field, The Man Who Laid the Atlantic Cable (HoP) (1858)

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, Beloved Teacher of Science (HoP) (1860)

Julia Ward Howe, Author of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” (HoP) (1861)

Anna Dickinson: The Girl Oratory (TAGFH) (1861)

The Remarkable History of Ulysses S. Grant (TSoGAM)

The Story of Ulysses S. Grant, of Galena (HA)

The Stirring Story of Robert E. Lee (TSoGAM)

Another Bird Story (FFP) (Robert E. Lee, 1860s)

Gentle Annie: A Daughter of the Regiment (TSFG) (Anna Etheridge, Civil War, 1860s)

Clara Barton: “The Angel of the Battlefields” (TSGFH) (1860s)

Elizabeth Van Lew: The Girl Who Risked All That Slavery Might Be Abolished and The Union Preserved (TAGFH) (1864)

Tyrant Tad: The Boy in the White House (TBFH) (Tad Lincoln, 1865)

Abraham Lincoln (FMoMT) (1809-1865)

The Notable History of Abraham Lincoln (TSoGAM)

The Story Abraham Lincoln, of Springfield (HA)

Abraham Lincoln, Pioneer and President (AHS)

Peter of Haarlem: The Boy Who Saved His Country (TBFH) (Hans Brinker, 1865)

The Author of “Little Women” (SoGAfLA) (Louisa May Alcott, 1832-1888)

George Thorndike Angell, Knight of Kindness to Animals (HoP) (1868)

Story of the Benevolent Life of George Peabody (TSoGAM) (d. 1869)

Ida Lewis: The Girl Who Kept Lime Rock Burning; A Heroic Lifesaver (TAGFH) (1869)

Clara Morris: The Girl Who Won Fame as an Actress (TAGFH) (1869)

Count Von Bismarck (FMoMT) (1870, 1815-1898)

Luther Burbank, Plant-Breeder (HoP) (1875)

Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor of the Telephone (HoP) (1876)

The Marvelous Genius of Thomas A. Edison (TSoGAM) (1876, 1847-1931)

John Wanamaker, Founder of the Department Store (HoP) (1876)

Marshal MacMahon (HBS) (1875-1879)

Frances E. Willard, Temperance Reformer (HoP) (1879)

The Eventful Life of James A. Garfield (TSoGAM) (1881)

Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross (HoP) (1881)

Booker T. Washington, Founder of the Tuskegee Institute (HoP) (1881)

The Story of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (HA) (d. 1886)

Jenny Lind: The Swedish Nightingale (TSFG) (d. 1887)

Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Greatest American Sculptor (HoP) (1887)

Victoria: A Girl Queen of England (TGFH) (r. 1837-1901)

Father Damien (HECSK) (d. 1889)

James Jerome Hill, Builder of Railroads (HoP) (1890)

John Muir, The Man Who Loved Trees and Mountains (HoP) (1890)

Theodore Thomas, The Man Who Taught Us to Love Music (HoP) (1890)

Thomas Alva Medicine, Inventor (HoP) (1893)

Edwin Austin Abbey, Illustrator and Painter (HoP) (1895-1902)

Samuel Pierpont Langley (HoP) (1896)

Andrew Carnegie, The Man Who Would Not Die Rich (HoP) (1899)

20th Century AD

William McKinley (TSoGAM) (1901)

The Story of the Youngest President, Theodore Roosevelt (TSoGAM) (1901-1909)

William Crawford Gorgas, Who Made the Canal Zone Safe (HoP) (1904)

Rober E. Peary, Discoverer of the North Pole (HoP) (1909)

George Washington Goethals (HOP) (1916)

In the Days of Marshal Foch (HSF) (1918-1920)