500 Little-Known Facts in U.S. History
by George W. Givens
The more we know about the past, the better we understand the present.
Author George W. Givens shares 500 fun and interesting historical stories that will add spice to your study of United States history.
Do you know?
• That Pocahontas wasn’t the only daughter of Chief Powhatan to be courted by an English explorer?
• How dead English soldiers took revenge on a tribe of Indians that massacred two thousand unarmed English prisoners?
• The name of the woman patriot who rode five times as far as Paul Revere on the same kind of mission?
• Which two former presidents died fifty years to the day after the signing of the Declaration of Independence?
• What Abraham Lincoln’s last words were just before he was assassinated at Ford’s Theater?
• The name of the president who introduced sexual shenanigans into the White House long before Bill Clinton arrived?
• That the military mounted dummy cannons, known as “Quaker guns,” to protect the White House during World War II?
In this entertaining and enlightening book, you’ll learn little-known facts from America’s colorful past that you’ll never forget!
298 pages
Published: June 2006
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