Historical Topics
- the Mayflower
- early American settlements
- Russia under Peter the Great and his successors
- Prussia in the eighteenth century
- the Enlightenment
- the agricultural revolution
- Native American cultures
- the British in India
- the French Revolution
- British-French conflict in Canada
- the American Revolution
- the Napoleonic Wars
- the industrial revolution
- Simón Bolívar’s fight for independence in South America
- the siege of the Alamo
- the California gold rush
- Australia’s beginnings as a penal colony
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Great Men and Women
- Mary Stuart (Mary Queen of Scots) (1542–1587)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543–1616)
- James I of England (1566–1652)
- Queen Nzinga of Angola (1582–1644)
- Shah Jahan (1592–1666)
- Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658)
- Charles I (1600–1649)
- Rembrandt (1606–1669)
- John Milton (1608–1674)
- Robert Boyle (1627–1691)
- Louis XIV of France (1638–1715)
- Isaac Newton (1642–1727)
- William Penn (1644–1718)
- Peter I (Peter the Great) (1672–1725)
- Yoshimune (1684–1751)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
- Frederick William I (Frederick the Great) (1688–1740)
- Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
- Qianlong (1711–1795)
- Maria Theresa (1717–1780)
- Catherine the Great (1729–1796)
- George Washington (1732–1799)
- Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
- Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
- Betsy Ross (1752–1836)
- Phyllis Wheatley (1753–1784)
- Louis XVI (1754–1793)
- Marie Antoinette (1755–1793)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
- George III of England (1760–1820)
- Eli Whitney (1765–1825)
- Captain James Cook (1768–1771)
- Tecumseh (1768–1813)
- Napoleon (1769–1821)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
- Meriwether Lewis (1774–1809) and William Clark (1770–1838)
- Simón Bolívar (1783–1830)
- Shaka Zulu (1787–1828)
- Sacagawea (c. 1788–1812)
- Nat Turner (1800–1831)
Biographies
- Abigail Adams
- John Adams
- Marie Antoinette
- Crispus Attucks
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Daniel Boone
- Buffalo Bill
- Davy Crockett
- Benjamin Franklin
- George Frideric Handel
- Patrick Henry
- Andrew Jackson
- Thomas Jefferson
- Marquis de Lafayette
- James Monroe
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Nur Jahan
- Nzinga
- Molly Pitcher
- Pocahontas
- Paul Revere
- Betsy Ross
- Sacagawea
- Sitting Bull
- Squanto
- Tecumseh
- George Washington
- Martha Washington
- Phillis Wheatley
Memory Work
- At least the beginning of the
Declaration of Independence
- Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty" speech
- Preamble to the Constitution
- First twelve presidents of the United States
- Major wars for the period 1600 to 1850
- Rulers of other countries
- Important discoveries and explorations