Extra Credit Essay: Biographical Sketch

Instructions: Using writings—letters, speeches, decisions, or other documents, inclusing contemporary sources, write a brief account of the accomplishments of the person or persons you select. For this project a written biography may be used as a source. You would not necessarily have to read an entire biography.

The Robber Barons: Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Morgan, Carnegie, and others.

Resources
Native American Leaders: Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Chief Joseph
National Museum American Indian
Theodore Roosevelt: Progressive
Theodore Roosevelt Island
Woodrow Wilson, Scholar in the White House
Labor Leaders: Haywood, Debs, Gompers
Wiki on Labor History
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt

FDR Memorial

Women Leaders: Alice Paul and Others
National Women's Hall of Fame
Harry Truman
Truman Library
The Generals: Marshall, Eisenhower, MacArthur

National World War II Memorial

Post World War II Figures: Their Librariy/Museums

TBA
Writing Projects History 122 | Updated January 26, 2011