Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A Word about ""Politically Correct"" History; Part One: Nolichunky Jack and Patriotic Horseflies: Stories Lost between the Pages; First in Flight: The Men Who Flew before the Wright Brothers; Nolichunky Jack and the Fourteenth State; The Great Communist Invasion of Texas; National Horsefly Day; Do the British Own California?; A Civil War Story: The Origin of ""Taps""; The Insult That Nearly Sparked the Revolution; Away Down South in ... Ohio?: Strange Origins of America's Music.

The Original Cleveland IndianAmerica's Shortest War; Saga of the American Turtle; Old Civilizations of the ""New World""; Ancient America's New York City; The Mysterious Death of Pocahontas; Part Two: The Midnight Ride of Sibyl Ludington: America's Forgotten Heroes; Leaving Paul Revere in the Dust; Heroines of the Battlefield; The Unsung Pathfinder; America's Michelangelo; Monitor vs. virginia: he Story behind the Ironclads; Bet Freeman's Walk to Freedom; Pied Piper of the West; Slaying the Dragon: The Outcast Who Cured Polio; Part Three: Scandals and Scoundrels: The Underside of History.

General Misconduct: America's Most Infamous OfficerMy Dishonorable Opponent; Beyond the Call of Duty: Military Sex Scandals; Bolsheviks and Anarchists: Terrorism in the Early Twentieth Century; For Lease: The White House; The Rebel Who Refused to Surrender; The Difficult Mrs. Lincoln; Did John Wilkes Booth Escape?; Raising a Glass to General Custer; The Teen 'Angels"" of Salem; Part Four: From Mutton Head to Slick Willie: Little-Known Facts about Famous People; Gipper, Granny, and Tricky Dicky: Presidential Nicknames; Benedict Arnold, American Hero; Andrew Jackson Dodges a Bullet.

The Fantastic Mr. FranklinExecutive Athletics: Sports and the Presidency; The Remarkable Luck of FDR; General Putnam under the Knife; ""Ole Shut the Gates of Mercy""; The Corset Maker Who Shook the World; Part Five: The Vikings, Belle Starr, and Lucky Lindy: Myths That Became History; Wild West Cowboys and Outlaw Queens; The 82nd Man to Fly across the Atlantic; The Truth behind the Boston Tea Party; The First Flag Maker?; The Much-Maligned Lynch; Nathan Hale's Famous Last Words; The Discovery of America, and Other Columbus Myths; The Vikings: Daring Seamen, Poor Navigators.

Washington: The Man and the MythBibliography; Index.