500 LittleKnown Facts in US History Author:George W. Givens The more we know about the past, the better we understand the present. 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 wh... more »o 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! From the author of 500 Little-Known Facts in Mormon History and 500 More Little-Known Facts in Mormon History.« less