A Few Great Americans

Social Activists/Political World

 Politicians in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans - http://politicalgraveyard.com/special/hall-of-fame.html

Cesar Chavez  http://www.chavezfoundation.org/Default.aspx?pi=33

Benjamin Franklin   http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/index.html

John Glenn  http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/glenn-j.html

Thomas Jefferson    http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/

JFK   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy

 photos http://www.historyplace.com/kennedy/gallery.htm

Robert F. Kennedy    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy

Martin Luther King, Jr. http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/

Abraham Lincoln  - http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org

Malcolm X    - http://www.cmgww.com/historic/malcolm/home.php

Joseph McCarthy       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy

Richard Nixon   http://nixon.archives.gov/index.php

Thomas Paine      http://www.ushistory.org/paine/

Rosa Parks - http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0pro-1

Colin Powell    http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96apr/powell.html

Eleanor Roosevelt    http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/ar32.html

Dredd Scott    http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/21.htm

Sacco and Vanzetti http://www.courttv.com/archive/greatesttrials/sacco.vanzetti

Earl Warren  - http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/legal_entity/88/overview   

Inventors / Explorers / Early Leaders

Alexander Bell      http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/telephone/peopleevents/mabell.html

Christopher Columbus -  web resources - journal articles - http://www.franciscan-archive.org/columbus/

 1492 Exhibit - Exploring the Historical Context: http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/1492.exhibit/Intro.html

History of Columbus Day video: http://www.history.com/

Henry Ford     http://www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/hf/default.asp

Benjamin Franklin    http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/index.html

John Glenn      http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/glenn-j.html 

Charles Lindbergh      http://www.charleslindbergh.com/        

James Oglethorpe - http://www.ourgeorgiahistory.com/people/oglethorpe.html

William Penn   http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/PENN/pnhome.html

Military Leaders

Robert E. Lee    http://www.civilwarhome.com/leebio.htm

Athletes

Mohammed Ali / Cassius Clay  -  http://www.ali.com/

Joe di Maggio  -  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dimaggio/    

Magic Johnson  -  http://www.nba.com/history/players/johnsonm_summary.html

Michael Jordan  - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jordan

O.J. Simpson   -  http://espn.go.com/classic/biography/s/simpson_oj.html

Cultural Figures

Buffalo Bill  -  http://www.buffalobill.org/history.htm

Kurt Cobain  -  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Cobain

Davy Crockett  -  http://www.rootsweb.com/~tngibson/Generation/DavyBio.htm

James Dean  -  http://www.jamesdean.com/index.php

John Dewey  -  http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-dewey.htm

Bob Dylan  -  http://www.bobdylan.com/index.html

William Faulkner  -  http://www.olemiss.edu/mwp/dir/faulkner_william/

Clark Gable  -  http://www.meredy.com/gable/bio-filmo.html

Geronimo  -  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geronimo

Billy Graham     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Graham

W. R. Hearst  -  http://www.lambiek.net/hearst_wr.htm

Ernest Hemmingway  -  http://www.ernest.hemingway.com/

                                more resources: http://www.lostgeneration.com/hrc.htm

Jimi Hendrix  -  http://www.jimi-hendrix.com/

Edward Hopper - http://www.artchive.com/artchive/H/hopper.html

Janis Joplin  -  http://www.officialjanis.com/

Roy Lichtenstein  - http://www.lichtensteinfoundation.org/

Elvis Presley  -  http://www.elvis.com/elvisology/

H. Beecher Stowe  -  http://www.harrietbeecherstowe.org/

 Mark Twain  -  http://www.marktwainhouse.org/theman/bio.shtml

Andy Warhol  -  about him: http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95aug/warhol.html

                       the museum: http://www.warhol.org/

Booker T. Washington  -  bio:   http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/bookert.html

                                      writings:  http://www.historycooperative.org/btw/

Oprah Winfrey  - http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/win0bio-1

Frank Lloyd Wright  -  http://www.delmars.com/wright/flwright.htm

Just Plain Notorious

Timothy McVeigh  -  http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/notorious/mcveigh/dawning_1.html 

Lee Harvey Oswald  -  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/oswald/

Wealthy Americans

 Andrew Carnegie  -  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/sfeature/meet_andrews.html

 Bill Gates  -  http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/bio.asp

 John D. Rockefeller - http://tarbell.alleg.edu/archives/jdr.html

Well-known Religious Leaders

Mary Baker Eddy  -  http://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/

Billy Graham  -  USA Today story - http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2005-05-15-graham-cover_x.htm

                        bio - http://www.beliefnet.com/billygraham.html

Ron Hubbard  -  http://www.lronhubbard.org/

Brigham Young  -  http://unicomm.byu.edu/about/brigham/

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