"Brave Companions" by McCullough

Brave Companions: Portraits in History is a 1991^[1] book by American historian David McCullough.
The book consists of previously published essays, most of which are biographical portraits of a specific historical figure or group of figures. It is divided into five sections.

Contents

I. Phenomena
"Journey to the Top of the World" is a portrait of German scientist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, with particular attention paid to the expedition to Latin America he undertook in 1799-1804 with Aimé Bonpland.
"The American Adventure of Louis Agassiz", about the 19th-century scientist and educator Louis Agassiz, focuses on the latter part of his life when he became established in the United States.
"The Unexpected Mrs. Stowe" is a biographical portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.
II. The Real West
"Glory Days in Medora" focuses on the town of Medora, North Dakota and the people who inhabited the area in the 1880s, including Theodore Roosevelt and the Marquis de Mores.
"Remington" is a biographical portrait of the Western artist Frederic Remington.
III. Pioneers
"Steam Road to El Dorado" is about the construction of the original Panama Railway in the 1850s.
"The Builders" concerns the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge in the 1870s, and particularly the life of engineer John A. Roebling and his son, Washington Roebling.
"The Treasure from the Carpentry Shop" concerns the rediscovery of the original plans for the Brooklyn Bridge in 1969.
"Long-Distance Vision" is about the experiences and literary works of several early aviators, including Charles Lindbergh, Antoine de Saint Exupéry, and Beryl Markham.
IV. Figures in a Landscape
In this section, McCullough profiles individuals he is acquainted with personally.
"Cross the Blue Mountain" is a portrait of American author Conrad Richter.
"The Lonely War of a Good Angry Man", written in 1969, concerns the destructive environmental impact of strip mining in eastern Kentucky, and profiles Harry M. Caudill, local author and anti-strip mining political activist.
"Miriam Rothschild" is about the English zoologist and entomologist Miriam Rothschild.
"South of Kankakee: A Day with David Plowden" is a profile of American photographer David Plowden.
V. On We Go
"Washington on the Potomac" is a personal tribute to the city of Washington, DC, where McCullough lived for many years.
"Extraordinary Times", written in 1986, is a look back at the fifty years of world history since 1936.
"Recommended Itinerary" is an address McCullough gave to the 1986 graduating class of Middlebury College, in which he urged graduates to travel abroad to gain a better appreciation of the United States, and to study history in order to gain a better appreciation of their own time.
"Simon Willard's Clock" is an essay concerning the history of the United States Congress, in which McCullough writes that legislators must have a sense of their own institution's history.

List of Childhood of Famous Americans and World Citizens

Christopher Columbus: Young Explorer

Christopher Columbus was born in Italy in 1451. His father was a weaver, but like most young men living near a seaport, Columbus looked to the sea to...

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Leonardo Da Vinci: Young Artist, Writer, and Inventor

Leonardo Da Vinci is best known as the Renaissance painter who created the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. he also made great contributions as a...

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Marie Curie: Young Scientist

Marie Curie was a world-renowned scientist who made many important discoveries, as well as a great teacher and a mother, but her accomplishments...

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Gandhi: Young Nation Builder

The man we remember simply as Gandhi was born Mohandas Gandhi in India in 1869. From an early age he was made keenly aware of the rigid Hindu caste...

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Mother Teresa: Friend to the Poor

Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 1910, Mother Teresa grew up in a small war-torn town in Macedonia. The youngest of three children, Mother Teresa was...

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Pope John Paul II: Young Man of the Church

Pope John Paul II was born Karol Wojtyla on May 18, 1920, in Poland. As a child Karol excelled in school -- especially in religion and literature. He...

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Anne Frank: Young Diarist

In 1933, at the age of four, Anne Frank and her family fled from the Nazis in Germany and sought safe haven in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In 1940,...

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Lady Diana, Princess of Wales: Young Royalty

Diana Spencer grew up to be the princess of Wales. But when she was a little girl, she did not dream she would become a princess. When she was still...

Childhood of Famous Americans

  *      Henry Ford: Young Man with Ideas

 *      John Jacob Astor

* John Deere

 * John Smith

 * Patrick Henry

 * Meriwether Lewis: Boy Explorer

 * Allan Pinkerton: Young Detective

 * Harry Houdini: Young Magician

  * Eugene Field

 * Dan Morgan: Wilderness Boy

 * George Gershwin

 * Lucretia Mott: Girl of Old Nantucket

* Jed Smith: Young Western Explorer

 * John Alden: Young Puritan

 * John Wanamaker: Boy Merchant

 * Luther Burbank: Boy Wizard

 * The Ringling Brothers: Circus Boys

 * Osceola Young Seminole Indian

   * Robert Peary: Boy of the North

 * Black Hawk, Young Sauk Warrior

 * John Hancock New England Boy

 * Herbert Hoover Boy Engineer

 * Elias Howe Inventive Boy

* Babe Didrikson: Girl Athlete

 * Jeff Davis: Confederate Boy

 * Cyrus McCormick Farmer Boy

  * Lee DeForest

 * Abner Doubleday: Young Baseball Pioneer

* George Westinghouse: Young Inventor

  * Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

 * John Burrough: Boy of Field and Stream

  * John Fitzgerald Kennedy: America's Youngest         President

 * Rachel Jackson: Tennessee Girl

 * Tom Edison: Boy Inventor

 * Albert Einstein: Young Thinker

 * A. P. Giannini: Boy of San Francisco

  * Will and Charlie Mayo: Boy Doctors

  * Andrew Carnegie: Young Steelmaker

 * Elizabeth Blackwell: Girl Doctor

 * George Eastman: Young Photographer

   * Robert Fulton: Boy Craftsman

 * Alec Hamilton: The Little Lion

  * Juliette Low: Girl Scout

  * Noah Webster: Boy of Words

 * Stephen Foster: Boy Minstrel

    * Walter Reed: Boy Who Wanted To Know

  * Amelia Earhart: Young Aviator

 * Dwight D. Eisenhower: Young Military Leader

 * Harry S. Truman: Missouri Farm Boy

 * Brigham Young: Covered Wagon Boy

  * David Farragut: Boy Midshipman

  * Douglas MacArthur: Young Protector

 * George Dewey: Vermont Boy

  * Oliver Hazard Perry: Boy of the Sea

   * John Peter Zenger: Young Defender of a Free Press

  * Dan Beard: Boy Scout

  * Frances Willard: Girl Crusader

   * Kate Douglas Wiggin: The Little Schoolteacher

   * John Audubon: Boy Naturalist

   * Mark Twain: Boy of Old Missouri

   * Mary Mapes Dodge: Jolly Girl

    * William Penn: Friendly Boy

  * Dorothea Dix: Girl Reformer

   * Maria Mitchell: Girl Astronomer

  * Crispus Attucks: Black Leader of Colonial Patriots

  * Martin Luther King, Jr.: Young Man with a Dream

  * James Whitcomb Riley: Young Poet

  * Robert E. Lee: Young Confederate

   * Dolly Madison: Quaker Girl

   * Henry Clay: Young Kentucky Orator

   * John Marshall: Boy of Young America

   * Susan B. Anthony: Champion of Women's Rights

  * Tom Jackson: Young Stonewall

  * Tom Jefferson: Third President of the United States

   * Woodrow Wilson: Boy President

 * J. Sterling Morton: Arbor Day Boy

   * Robert Goddard: Pioneer Rocket Boy

   * F. W. Woolworth: Five and Ten Boy

  * George Pullman: Young Sleeping Car Builder

    * Katherine Lee Bates: Girl Poet

    * Carl Ben Eielson Young Alaskan Pilot

  * Cecil B. DeMille

   * Vilhjalmur Stefansson: Young Artic Explorer

   * Liliuokalani: Young Hawaiian Queen

  * Gail Borden

 * Bedford Forest: Boy on Horseback

  * Davy Crockett: Young Rifleman

  * James Oglethorpe: Young Defender

  * Teddy Roosevelt: Young Rough Rider

   * Nathaniel Greene

    * Pontiac and the Indian Uprising

    * William Henry Harrison: Young Tippecanoe

  * Lotta Crabtree: Gold Rush Girl

 * Lew Wallace

* Matthew Calbraith Perry

* Bird Girl: Sacagawea

   * Pocahontas: Brave Girl

  * Dan Webster: Union Boy

  * Stephen Decatur: Gallant Boy

   * William Bradford: Pilgrim Boy

  * Eli Whitney: Boy Mechanic

    * John Paul Jones: Salt-Water Boy

    * Raphael Semmes: Tidewater Boy

   * Samuel Morse

    * Sequoyah: Young Cherokee Guide

 * Francis Marion: Young Swamp Fox

  * John Sevier: Pioneer Boy

  * Abe Lincoln: Frontier Boy

    * Andy Jackson: Boy Soldier

    * Anthony Wayne: Daring Boy

    * Ben Franklin: Boy Printer

    * Booker T. Washington: Ambitious Boy

    * Buffalo Bill: Boy of the Plains

    * Clara Barton: Founder of the American Red Cross

    * Daniel Boone: Young Hunter and Tracker

    * Francis Scott Key: Maryland Boy

    * George Carver: Boy Scientist

    * George Custer: Boy of Action

    * George Washington: Young Leader

    * Israel Putnam: Fearless Boy

    * John Fitch: Steamboat Boy

    * Kit Carson: Boy Trapper

    * Molly Pitcher: Girl Patriot

    * Myles Standish: Adventurous Boy

    * Nancy Hanks: Kentucky Girl

    * Nathan Hale: Puritan Boy

    * Paul Revere: Boy of Old Boston

    * P. T. Barnum: Circus Boy

    * Sam Houston: Boy Chiefton

    * Sitting Bull: Dakota Boy

    * Squanto: Young Indian Hunter

    * Tecumseh: Shawnee Boy

    * U. S. Grant: Young Horseman

    * Virginia Dare: Mystery Girl

    * Wilbur and Orville Wright: Boy with Wings

    * Zeb Pike: Boy Traveler

    * Babe Ruth: One of Baseball's Greatest

    * Jim Thorpe: Olympic Champion

    * Knute Rockne: Young Athlete

    * Lou Gehrig: One of Baseball's Greatest

    * Richard Byrd: Boy of the South Pole

    * Will Rogers, Jr.: Young Cowboy

 * Abigail Adams: Girl of Colonial Days

    * Jane Addams: Little Lame Girl

    * Jessie Fremont: Girl of Capitol Hill

    * Julia Ward Howe: Girl of Old New York

    * Louisa Alcott: Girl of Old Boston

    * Martha Washington: America's First First Lady

  * Narcissa Whitman: Pioneer Girl

    * Joel Chandler Harris: Young Storyteller

    * Walter Chrysler: Boy Machinist

 * Betsy Ross: Designer of Our Flag

    * Eleanor Roosevelt: Fighter for Social Justice

    * Franklin Roosevelt: Boy of the Four Freedoms

    * John Philip Sousa: Marching Boy

    * John Quincy Adams: Boy Patriot

    * Aleck Bell: Ingenious Boy

    * DeWitt Clinton

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Connecticut Girl

James Monroe: Good Neighbor Boy

 * Peter Stuyvesant: Boy with Wooden Shoes

* Washington Irving: Boy of Old New York

    * Clyde Beatty: Boy Animal Trainer

    * George Rogers Clark: Boy of the Old Northwest

    * Helen Keller: From Tragedy to Triumph

    * Mary Todd Lincoln: Girl of the Bluegrass

    * Simon Kenton: Young Trail Blazer

    * Will Clark: Boy in Buckskins

    * William Fargo: Boy Mail Carrier

    * Zack Taylor: Young Rough and Ready

    * Ernie Pyle: Boy From Back Home

    * Ethan Allen

    * James Fenimore Cooper: Leatherstocking Boy

    * Jeb Stuart: Boy in the Saddle

    * Jim Bowie: Boy with a Hunting Knife

•    Jim Bridger

Scripture Hero link for devotional, bios, etc.

This is a great link from my friend, RaNae...

You could use it for ideas for devotional, biographies, leadership, or history.

The RedHeaded Hostess scripture hero bookmarks

Link to page where she tells how to use it:

http://www.theredheadedhostess.com/?p=713

2009-2012 Lens Record Overview

Link for more downloadable/edit-able version:
Lens Record

Vanguard Youth by Lens (Thanks, Marni, for pooling this info together!)

THEMES

2009-2010

September – Life and Pursuit of Happiness

October – Liberty

November – Property

December-Pursuit of Happiness

January – Worshipping God

February – Leadership

March – Society – security vs. freedom:  Where to draw the line?

April – Citizenship

2010-2011

September – Meaningful Life and Pursuit of Happiness

October – Liberty

November – Property – value of work and ownership

January – God – Duty to God, Finding Your Mission

February – Leadership

March – Society – what is the government responsible for and what are the people responsible for?

April - Citizenship

2011-2012

September – Meaningful Life and Pursuit of Happiness

October – Role of “natural law” and God in society

November – Property – lessons learned through work

January – Service-Oriented Leadership

February – Liberty – What is true freedom? Who decides that?

March – Society

April – Citizenship – role of a good citizen

LEADERSHIP

(numbers listed are principles from “5000 Year Leap,” books were mentioned in the inspirements)

2009-2010

September – MLK, Jr., “Life’s Pathway,” Elder Eyring’s April 2009 message, “Door in the Wall”

October – Thomas Jefferson, “Red Scarf Girl”

November – Lincoln, “Little Britches”

December-Pres. Hinckley, “Seven Wonders of Sassafrass Springs”

January – Joseph Smith, #4, “Boy in Striped Pajamas”

February – George Washington, #3,  “The Whipping Boy”

March – #12, 13, 16-18, 19, 21, “Common Sense” by Thomas Paine, Bastiat’s “The Law” and “Essays on Political Economy”

April - #10, 11, “Who is responsible to determine what is right, and how can they do what needs to be done?”  Esther, David, Moroni, etc., “

2010-2011

September – Hellen Keller, Anne Sullivan, Nathaniel Bowditch, #1, 6-8, 22-24, 28

October – Olaudah Equiano, #2, 8, 9, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

November – Handel, #7, 14, 15, 27, “Up from Slavery” by Booker T. Washington

January – Mother Theresa, #4, 5, “The Alchemist”

February – Gandhi, #3, “Autobiography of Gandhi”

March – Hannah Szenes, #10, 13, 19, “Proper Role of Government,” Bastiat’s “The Law” and “Essays on Political Economy”

April – Harriet Tubman, #11, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

2011-2012

September – Mormon

October – Socrates, #4, “The Apology”

November - Alexander

January – Confucius, #3, “Core and Crust of Leadership”

February – Buddha, “Jataka Tales”

March – Jesus Christ, #13

April – Augustine of Hippo, #10, “Confessions of Saint Augustine”

MATH/SCIENCE

2009-2010

September – Pythagorus

October – Archimedes

November – Sir Isaac Newton

December-Beginner’s Guide-Universe Ch. 1

January – Hypatia

February – Amalie Emmy Noether and Algebra

March – Evariste Galois - algebra

April – John Napier

2010-2011

September – Fermat, Andrew Wiles

October – Marie Curie, Galen, Pasteur

November – Edison, Franklin

January – Eratosthenes

February – Da Vinci, Sarah Flannery

March – Da Vinci

April - Pascal

2011-2012

September – Archimedes

October – Thales and the Egyptians

November – Pythagoras and early Greeks

January – Ancient roots of math – abacus, Lui Hui, Brahmagupta, Arabhata I

February – Zhang Heng

March – Mayan Mathematics

April - Aristotle

HISTORY

2009-2010

September – South America: Inca/Aztec/Maya

October – Buddha (Asia)

November – Native American tribes (North America)

December-Mansa Musa (Africa)

January – Romans (Europe)

February – Joan of Arc (Europe)

March –James Cook (Oceania)

April – Ernest Shackleton (Antarctica)

2010-2011

September – Simon Bolivar, Jose De San Martin

October – Egyptian Pharaoh

November – Lewis and Clark

January – Chinese Dynasty

February – Celts, Franks

March – Russian Czars (lots of “Greats” and “Terribles”)

April – James Cook

2011-2012

September – Ether

October – Battle of Troy and the Olympics

November – Caesar, Mark Anthony, Augustus Caesar, Ciscero

January – Shi Huangdi and the Qin Dynasty

February – David

March – 3 and 4 Nephi

April – Joseph of Egypt

Susan Wise Bauer's Well-trained mind resource list

I thought this is a great resource, found on her website at www.welltrainedmind.com.

It has links and activities for teaching math, science, and ancient history.