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- Jane Adams
- is a British writer of psychological thrillers. Her first book, The Greenway, was nominated for a John Creasey Award in 1995.
- Frederick Remington
- was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in depictions of the American West.
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- was a black civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. He became a naturalized citizen of Ghana in 1963 at the age of 95.
- Mary Baker Eddy
- : founded the Church of Christ, Scientist in 1879 and was the author of its fundamental doctrinal textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
- Booker T. Washington
- as an American educator, author and leader of the African American community. He was freed from slavery as a child, gained an education, and as a young man was appointed to lead a teachers' college for blacks
- William F. Cody
- was an American soldier, bison hunter and showman. He was born in the Iowa Territory (now the American state of Iowa), near Le Claire. He was one of the most colorful figures of the Old West, and mostly famous for the shows he organized with cowboy themes. Buffalo Bill received the Medal of Honor
- Geronimo
- was a prominent Native American leader of the Chiricahua Apache who defended his people against the encroachment of the United States on their tribal lands for over 25 years
- Victoria Woodhull
- was an American suffragist who was publicized in Gilded Age newspapers as a leader of the American woman's suffrage movement in the 19th century
- John Dewey
- was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, whose thoughts and ideas have been greatly influential in the United States and around the world. He, along with Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, is recognized as one of the founders of the philosophical school of Pragmatism.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- was a physician by profession but achieved fame as a writer; he was one of the best regarded American poets of the 19th century.
- Mark Twain
- an American humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel,[2] and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is also known for his quotations
- William Mckinley
- was the twenty-fifth President of the United States, and the last veteran of the Civil War to be elected
- Emily Dickinson
- was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life.
- William James
- as a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and the philosophy of pragmatism
- William Jennings Bryan
- was an American politician, orator and lawyer. He was a three-time Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States
- Thomas Eakins
- : was a painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He was one of the greatest American painters of his time, an innovating teacher, and an uncompromising realist
- Sitting Bull
- was a Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux holy man, born near the Grand River in South Dakota and killed by police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation during an attempt to arrest him and prevent him from supporting the Ghost Dance movement.
- Ida Wells
- was an African American civil rights advocate and an early women's rights advocate active in the Woman Suffrage Movement