Unknown significant events in American History

Limbaugh’s character Rush Revere with his time machine seems destined to make a sequel.  So what would a character intent on informing about young folks about significant political events which are un-taught by public education do?  Here’s my offer of suggestions.

1. Have him travel back in time to the Great Awakening to revisit George Whitefield. Show how the Awakening gave America a different way of thinking about destiny.  Then show how the US Declaration and Constitution were born of Christianity and its belief in each person’s sacred role in following a unique relationship with God.  Along the way visit with and reintroduce some of the great founding fathers who were once well-known but are now unknown because of their strong religious beliefs—Benjamin Rush, Charles Carrollton, Roger Sherman,etc.  You know, guys who signed everything from Declaration and Articles of Confederation to Constitution and have statues in Capital Hall but no one seems able to identify them nowadays.
2. Visit the birth of a young girl to a mother of African descent in Ohio in the 19^th century.  The child was illegitimate and the father quietly slipped the girl into his rural family.  Two generations later, a boy was born, the future President, Warren Gameliel Harding.  1/8 Afro-American, he is secretly the first ‘black’ President.
3. Go along with soldiers of the Civil War at Chattanooga. Talk to 18-yr-old Colonel Arthur MacArthur of Wisconsin who led green troops up a mountain to defeat the undefeatable Confederate defense.  Then travel with soldiers who found that Confederate General Johnson’s army had forgotten to guard a railroad terminal just south of town.  That railroad capture allowed the Union to quickly mount an insurgency into Atlanta in August 1864.  The unpopular war of an unpopular President, Abraham Lincoln, turned into a tremendous victory and Lincoln escaped sure defeat at the ballot box, winning a squeaker over Democrat McClellan who had vowed to sign a truce with the Confederacy that would have left the nation split and unlikely to have ever blossomed economically, but destined to become like Republic of South Africa or Argentina.    
4. Visit Alexis De Tocqueville and Milton Friedman and learn what makes America work where other countries don’t. Along the way show how Hoover and FDR’s intervention in business in the 30’s turned an otherwise normal recession into the Great Depression, an unusual jobless, recoveryless event that was unique in US history until 2009 when Barack Obama made it happen again in a very similar way.    There, that ought to be a start.