Name some historic figures you learned about in grade school

[MBony]

I'm trying to gather a list of interesting people and events for children so the library I work for can buy books that children will find interesting. The age range would be from 6-17 or if you can give some examples and list the age range that would be fine as well.

Example: Martin Luther, Benjamin Franklin, WWII, Hindenburng(?) crash, etc.

LMK if I can be anymore precise on my directions.

 

[loup garou]

socrates
napoleon
billy the kid
abraham lincoln
bill s preston, esq

 

[MournSanity]

Hugh Hefner.

 

[0roo0roo]

hitler

 

[rudeguy]

Buffalo Bill
Harriet Tubman
The Wright Brothers
Ben Franklin (I know you already named him, but he is a very interesting person)
Amelia Earhart

as far as events:
WWII > WWI
civil rights battle in the 60's (if there is a fair and balanced book describing the events)

 

[FoBoT]

johnny appleseed

 

[Howard]

Wright bros

 

[thraxes]

My favorite bits of history:
napoleon
luis XIV
robbespierre
lenin
stalin
hitler
churchhill

aaaaand (thx hypersonic - :beer: for U): Hugh Hefner

 

[neutralizer]

abraham lincoln
ulysses s. grant

 

[Semidevil]

pochahontas
squanto
buffalo bill

 

[MrAwesome]

William the Conqueror
Abraham Lincoln
Eric the Red
Genghis Khan
Trishelle of The Real World

 

[Pocatello]

George Washington, Robert E. Lee, Winston Churchill

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Abercrombie

 

[Sid59]

William Hung

 

[DaWhim]

for 5th or 6th grade above, start with Homer....tell them the story of Trojan War. this will get their interest. then to socrates, plato, aristotle, etc. the start of western civilization.

for kids , try to tell them who invented what. like....light blub, plane, car, etc. this is fun, at least I liked them when I was a kid.

 

[Siddhartha]

Albert Einstein

Freud

Julius Caesar

Linus Pauling

Crick and Watson

 

[thraxes]

Originally posted by: DaWhim
for 5th or 6th grade above, start with Homer....tell them the story of Trojan War. this will get their interest. then to socrates, plato, aristotle, etc. the start of western civilization.

for kids , try to tell them who invented what. like....light blub, plane, car, etc. this is fun, at least I liked them when I was a kid.

Yeah... I remember an awesome history lesson done like that when I was 8:

The history of flight, starting from the first Montgolfier hot air balloons over Otto Lilienthals glider experiments, the Wright brothers breakthrough up to Whittle's nifty jet invention.

The real kicker was, who gave me the lesson and where that lesson was held! It was in the cockpit of a 747 flying over the Atlantic and it was held by the entire cockpit crew, with each of the 3 members taking turns. I was probably having as much fun as they were. my parents say I spent over an hour in their "office" listening to them... unthinkable nowadays - which makes me remember this even more fondly.

 

[acemcmac]

Patton :beer::beer:

 

[Compton]

Charles Guiteau
John Wilkes Booth
Lee Harvey Oswald
Carl Weiss
Leon Frank Czolgosz
Sirhan Sirhan
James Earl Ray
CGB Spender

 

[MBony]

Great suggestions so far, thanks to all! :beer:

 

[iliopsoas]

benjamin franklin
george washington
anton leeuwenholk
abraham lincoln
martin luther king jr

 

[DougK62]

Make sure you've got plenty of black people - even if the person's contribution was largely insignificant you still have to spend time on it.

 

[FuZoR]

the only ones i can remember are some usa pres (ie. George and Abraham) and MLK.

 

[chibchakan]

Mangas Colorados
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Emiliano Zapata
Beniffer

 

[MBony]

How about specific events?