For every widely renowned hero, there are many more individuals who selflessly did what was right without achieving recognition. Gathering together 30 remarkable stories about unknown champions, explorers, inventors, and activists who never made the pages of American history textbooks, here are accounts of the tailor who saved George Washington's life twice, the first African-American combat pilot, a Choctaw code talker from World War I, a visionary rice farmer, and the 62-year-old female muckraking journalist who refused to turn her back on injustice.