American Identity

Being American

John Smith — The Colonial Promoter

William Penn — The Religious Liberty Advocate

Cotton Mather — The Puritan

Benjamin Franklin — The Improver

Francis Marion — The Guerrilla Soldier

Thomas Jefferson — The Patriot

Abigail Adams — The First Lady

Mother Ann Lee — The Religious Founder

Rittenhouse and Bartram — The Scientists

Eli Whitney — The Inventor

Lewis and Clark — The Explorers

Charles Grandison Finney — The Revivalist

Horace Mann — The Educator

Ralph Waldo Emerson — The Philosopher

Frederick Douglass — The Abolitionist

Edmund Ruffin — The Champion of Slavery

Brigham Young — The Religious Autocrat

Frederick Law Olmsted — The Landscape Architect

William Tecumseh Sherman — The General

Louisa May Alcott — The Professional Writer

Andrew Carnegie — Conscience-Stricken Entrepreneur

“buffalo Bill” — The Westerner

Black Elk — The Holy Man

John Wesley Powell — The Desert Theorist

William Mulholland — The Water Engineer

Samuel Gompers — The Trade Unionist

Booker T. Washington — The "Race Leader"

Emma Goldman — The Anarchist

Abraham Cahan — The Immigrants' Advocate

Isabella Stewart Gardner — The Collector

Oliver Wendell Holmes — The Jurist

Henry Ford — The Mass Producer

Harry Houdini — The Sensationalist

Al Capone — The Crime Boss

Herbert Hoover — The Humanitarian

Helen Keller — The Inspiration

Duke Ellington — The Jazzman

Charles Lindbergh — The Aviator

Douglas MacArthur — The World-Power Warrior

Leonard Bernstein — The Musical Polymath

Shirley Temple — The Child Prodigy

George Wallace — The Demagogue

William (feat. Buckley, Jr. — The Conservative)

Roberto Clemente — The Athlete

Betty Friedan — The Feminist

Jesse Jackson — The Civil Rights Legatee

Stability and Change