American Pageant Inventors, Artisans, etc. from chapter 15 of the 12th Edition, in order of appearance.
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| 14842592 | Thomas Paine | Author; wrote "Common Sense" and "The Age of Reason", the latter of which shockingly opposed churches. | 0 | |
| 14842593 | Benjamin Franklin | Prominent author and inventor; a genius of his time, responsible for bifocals, the library, electricity and was a noted Deist. | 1 | |
| 14842594 | Noah Webster | Yale-educated Yankee, known as the "Schoolmaster of the Republic", whose reading lessons were used widely in part to promote patriotism. He also authored Webster's Dictionary. | 2 | |
| 14842595 | William H. McGuffey | Teacher/Preacher whose grade-school readers hammered home lasting lessons in morality, patriotism, and idealism. | 3 | |
| 14842596 | Thomas Jefferson | Third president of the United States, founding father, and reknowned architect. | 4 | |
| 14842597 | T.S. Arthur | Author of the "melodramatic" novel, "Ten Nights in a Barroom and What I Saw There" | 5 | |
| 14842598 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" | 6 | |
| 14842599 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Author of "The Blithedale Romance" | 7 | |
| 14842600 | John Audubon | A naturalist and fantastic artist; he painted American wildlife, noteably birds--hence the Audubon Society for the protection of birds. | 8 | |
| 14842601 | Gilbert Stuart | Rhode Island artist, who painted Washington in often idealized and dehumanized manners. | 9 | |
| 14842602 | Charles Willson Peale | Marylander whom painted some sixty portraits of Washington, who sat patiently for about fourteen of them. | 10 | |
| 14842603 | John Trumbull | Artist, who had fought in the Revolutionary War, and afterwards painted striking battle scenes and such. | 11 | |
| 14842604 | Stephen C. Foster | Songwriter, author of "Old Folks at Home", a popular black song. | 12 | |
| 14842605 | Washington Irving | Author; first American to be internationally recognized as a literary figure and author of Knickerboxer's History of New York, The Sketch Book, Rip Van Winkle, and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. | 13 | |
| 14844970 | James Fenimore Cooper | First American novelist; author of The Spy, Leatherstocking Tales, and The Last of the Mohicans. | 14 | |
| 14844971 | William Cullen Bryant | Author of "Thanatopsis", one of the first high-quality poems produced in the United States. | 15 | |
| 14844972 | Henry David Thoreau | Poet and gifted prose writer; authored Walden: Or Life in the Woods as well as his essay On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, the latter which inspired people from Ghandi to M. L. K, Jr. | 16 | |
| 14844973 | Walt Whitman | Author of the famous collection of poems, Leaves of Grass, which was very romantic and at times highly controversial. | 17 | |
| 14844974 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Reknowned poet--the only American ever to be honored with a bust in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey. | 18 | |
| 14844975 | John Greenleaf Whittier | Quaker poet, not nearly as talented as Longfellow but more of an influence in social action. | 19 | |
| 14844976 | Professor James Russell Lowell | Poet and distinguished essayist, literary critic, editor, and diplomat. Authored Biglow Papers. | 20 | |
| 14844977 | Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes | Taught anatomy at Harvard Medical, a prominent poet, essayist, novelist, lecturer, and wit. "The Last Leaf." | 21 | |
| 14844978 | Louisa May Alcott | Massachusetts author of Little Women. | 22 | |
| 14844979 | Emily Dickinson | Talented poet who refused to publish any of her poems. | 23 | |
| 14844980 | Edgar Allan Poe | Poet; one of the world's most famous, author of The Raven and | 24 | |
| 14844981 | William Gilmore Simms | Author of eighty two novels and the most noteworthy literary figure produced by the South prior to the Civil War. | 25 |
