The Well-Trained Mind

Historical Topics

• Africa under European control
• the Indian mutinies
• the Crimean War
• the Victorian era
• suffrage movement and the Seneca Falls declaration
• the War between the States (Civil War)
• exploration of the American West
• Euro-American conflict with the Native American tribes
• the Boxer Rebellion
• World War I
• the Russian Revolution
• the Soviet Union
• the Great Depression
• the New Deal
• civil war in Spain
• the Axis and the Allies
• World War II
• Nazi Germany/Hitler
• the Holocaust
• Zionism/the Jews’ return to Palestine
• apartheid/South African segregation
• China under Mao
• the Korean War
• the American civil rights movement
• the Vietnam War
• space race and landing on the moon

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Great Men and Women

• Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
• Louis Joseph Papineau (1786–1871)
• Samuel Morse (1791–1872)
• Commodore Matthew Perry (1794–1858)
• Santa Anna (1794–1876)
• Robert E. Lee (1807–1870)
• Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
• David Livingstone (1813–1873)
• Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898)
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)
• Karl Marx (1818–1883)
• Queen Victoria (1819–1901)
• Victor Emmanuel II (1820–1878)
• Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)
• Florence Nightingale (1820–1910)
• Harriet Tubman (1820–1913)
• Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885)
• Catewayo of the Zulus (1826–1884)
• Sitting Bull (1831–1890)
• Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835–1910)
• Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908)
• Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835–1910)
• George Custer (1839–1876)
• Claude Monet (1840–1926)
• Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922)
• Thomas Edison (1847–1931)
• Mutsuhito (emperor of Japan) (1852–1912)
• Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)
• Henry Ford (1863–1947)
• Wilbur Wright (1867–1912) and Orville Wright (1871–1948)
• Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948)
• Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924)
• Winston Churchill (1874–1965)
• Josef Stalin (1879–1953)
• Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
• Benito Mussolini (1883–1945)
• Adolf Hitler (1889–1945)
• Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969)
• Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970)
• Francisco Franco (1892–1975)
• Mao Zedong (1893–1976)
• Czar Nicholas II (1895–1917)
• Amelia Earhart (1897–1932)
• Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
• Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974)
• John F. Kennedy (1917–1963)
• Nelson Mandela (1918–2013)
• Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013)
• Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968)
• Neil Armstrong (1930–2012)
• Saddam Hussein (1937–2006)
• Bill Gates (1955–)

Biographies

• Louisa May Alcott
• Susan B. Anthony
• Clara Barton
• Mary McLeod Bethune
• Elizabeth Blackwell
• George Washington Carver
• Cesar Chavez
• Winston Churchill
• Cixi
• Charles Darwin
• Frederick Douglass
• Amelia Earhart
• Thomas Edison
• Emma Edmonds
• Albert Einstein
• Henry Ford
• Mohandas Gandhi
• Langston Hughes
• Helen Keller
• John F. Kennedy
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Abraham Lincoln
• Thurgood Marshall
• Rosa Parks
• Louis Pasteur
• Molly Pitcher
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Babe Ruth
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Harriet Tubman
• Mark Twain
• Queen Victoria
• Wilbur and Orville Wright

Memory Work

• Preamble to the Constitution
• Gettysburg Address
• Purpose of the amendments to the Constitution
• Presidents of the United States from 1850 to the present
• Major wars since 1850
• Capitals of the fifty states