Historical Figures

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Anthony, Susan B. (1820-1906)

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American leader of the suffrage movement to grant women the right to vote.

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Bolívar, Simón (1783-1830)

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South and Central American general and liberator. Liberated Venezuela, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru from Spanish rule in the 19th century.

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Castro, Fidel (1926-2016)

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Cuban Communist revolutionary and dictator.

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Churchill, Winston (1874-1965)

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British Prime Minister during WWII.

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Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658)

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British general, member of Parliament, and revolutionary who ruled as Lord Protector without a king during the mid-1600s.

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Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889)

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President of the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War.

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Douglass, Frederick (1817-1895)

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Perhaps the foremost African American abolitionist.

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Gandhi, Mohandas K. (Mohatma) (1869-1948)

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Indian leader who achieved independence for India from the British through an organized campaign of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience.

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Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879)

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Noted American abolitionist.

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Grant, Ulysses S. (1822-1885)

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U.S. president after being general of the Union forces during the U.S. Civil War.

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Guevara, Che (1928-1967)

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Famous communist revolutionary in South and Central America.

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Henry VIII (1491-1547)

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British monarch who began the Church of England in the 16th century.

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Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)

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U.S. president and author of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

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Kennedy, John F. (1917-1963)

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U.S. president during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.

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Lee, Robert E. (1807-1870)

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The most successful general of the Confederate forces during the U.S. Civil War.

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Lenin, Vladimir (1870-1924)

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Leader of the Russian Revolution of 1917. First leader of the Soviet Union. Bolshevik and Communist.

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Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)

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U.S. president who governed during the U.S. Civil War. Issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

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Louis XIV (1638-1715)

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Known also as the "Sun King." His rule represents the height of the French monarchy at Versailles. He was an absolute monarch who claimed to rule by Divine Right.

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Louis XVI (1754-1793)

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French monarch who ruled until the French Revolution.

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Mao Tse-Tung (Zedong) (1893-1976)

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Chinese revolutionary who established communism in mainland China.

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Marx, Karl (1818-1883)

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Philosopher who first articulated the economic principles of communism.

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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

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Emperor who ruled France and much of Europe following the French Revolution. Nearly conquered Europe but waged an unsuccessful campaign in Russia and two years later lost a key battle at Waterloo.

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Nation, Carry (1846-1911)

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Leader of the temperance movement (banning alcohol).

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Robespierre, Maximilien (1758-1794)

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French revolutionary who ruled brutally during the early years of the French Revolution.

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945)

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U.S. president elected to four terms of office. President during the New Deal and the bulk of WWII.

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Smith, Adam (1723-1790)

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British economist and author. Wrote The Wealth of Nations (1776), which outlines the basic ideas of free-market (laissez-faire) capitalism.

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Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)

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Soviet leader during WWII and the Cold War years that followed.

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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (1815-1902)

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American leader of the women's suffrage movement.

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Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915)

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Important African American spokesperson and scholar of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Washington, George (1732-1799)

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First U.S. president and general of the American Colonies' revolutionary army.