Who makes the cut in history?
I just finished my first draft of a U.S. History textbook, and I began to wonder: Which people made the cut? First, I counted up the people who are named, explicitly, in the book: 476 people. Then I began to break down the statistics. For example:
All 44
people who were U.S. President get a mention.
George Washington
gets the most images in the book, of any person, with five. He’s followed by Richard
Nixon, with three.
The
only other people who get multiple images are Benjamin Franklin, John Adams,
Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon
Johnson, and Bob Dylan.
Half of
the U.S. Presidents (22) have no picture at all.
Martin
Luther King Jr. gets the most quotes, with three, followed by Abraham Lincoln,
J. Edgar Hoover, Dwight Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy, each with two. Quotes range from a sentence to a full paragraph (Of the latter: Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, King's I Have a Dream speech and Letter from Birmingham Jail, and Eisenhower's Farewell Address).
The other
people to be quoted are: Christopher Columbus, George Washington, Thomas
Jefferson, Abigail Adams, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Geronimo, Mark Twain,
Zitkala-Sa, Emma Lazarus, HG Wells, Pete Seeger, WEB du Bois, Calvin Coolidge,
Irving Berlin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Winston Churchill,
Arthur Miller, Richard Nixon, Allen Ginsberg, Mario Savio, Cesar Chavez, Warren
Burger, Madeline Albright, Bill Clinton, and Barrack Obama.
Of the
476, 187 are pictured.
Fourteen
indigenous people are mentioned. Eight are pictured: Pontiac, Tecumseh,
Sacajawea, John Ridge, Sitting Bull, Kanosh, Geronimo, and Ishi. Those not
pictured are Hiawatha, Massasoit, Metacomet, Antonga, Crazy Horse, and Zitkala-Sa.
Sixty black
people are mentioned. Thirty-four are pictured. This makes up 12% of all people
mentioned, and 18% of all people pictured.
Forty-five
people, not including the U.S. Presidents, are categorized as American
politicians or political operatives or activists. Include the U.S. Presidents
and the number jumps to 89. Include non-indigenous foreign political leaders and Presidents
(18 mentioned), and the number jumps to 108, or fully 23% of all people mentioned.
Scientists and inventors make up 37 of the mentions, 7% of the total.
35 mentions are authors, 32
are musicians, 17 are athletes, 12 are miscellaneous entertainers, and 8 are
artists or architects. 35 are actors or actresses. The high number of entertainment
figures is due to "popular culture" sections for each decade, since the 1920s. All
told, artists, athletes, and entertainers make up 139 of the mentions, even
more than the politicians, with 29% of the total.
So those
are some of the fun stats. If you want to delve deeper, feel free. Named people, are, in order:
George
Catlin – Painter
Hiawatha
– Co-founder of the Iroquois confederacy
Christopher
Columbus (pictured, quoted) – Spanish explorer, colonizer
Pinzon Brothers
– Spanish explorers and colonizers
Theodor
de Bry – Engraver
Bartolome
de Las Casas – Spanish priest, historian
Cortez –
Colonizer
Popé
– Tewa leader
Juan
Cabrillo – Spanish explorer
Sir
Francis Drake – English explorer
Giovanni
Verrazano – Italian explorer, sailing for France
Cartier
– French explorer
Champlain
– French explorer
Henry
Hudson – English explorer
Sir
Walter Raleigh – English explorer, colonist
John
Winthrop (pictured) – English colonizer, Puritan leader
Massasoit
– Leader of the Wampanoag confederacy
Metacom
– Leader of the Wampanoag confederacy
William
Penn – Colonist, Quaker leader
Pontiac
(pictured) – Odawa leader
John Hancock
– Merchant, politician
Robert
Morris – Merchant, politician
George
Washington (pictured 5x, quoted) – General, first President of the United
States
Charles
Wilson Peale – Painter
Thomas
Paine – Author
Benjamin
Franklin (pictured 2x) – Scientist, politician, polymath
John
Adams (pictured 2x) – Lawyer, second President of the United States
Crispus
Attucks – Victim of the Boston Massacre
Paul Revere
– Revolutionary
Thomas
Jefferson (pictured, quoted) – Politician, third President of the United States
John
Dickinson (pictured) – Politician
Marquis
de Lafayette (pictured) – Revolutionary
Cornwallis
(pictured) – British general
Abigail
Adams (pictured, quoted) – First Lady
John
Ridge (pictured) – Cherokee leader
Andrew
Jackson (pictured) – General, seventh President of the United States
Alexander
Hamilton – Politician
James
Madison – Politician, fourth President of the United States
John
Jay (pictured) – Politician, Chief Justice
Gilbert
Stuart – Painter
Lewis
(pictured) – Explorer
Clark
(pictured) – Explorer
Sacajawea
(pictured) – Shoshone guide
Tecumseh
(pictured) – Shawnee leader
William
Henry Harrison – General, ninth President of the United States
Sally
Hemmings – Slave
James
Monroe – Fifth President of the United States
John
Quincy Adams – Sixth President of the United States
Sarah
Northrup – Wife of John Ridge
Martin
Van Buren – Eighth President of the United States
John
Tyler – Tenth President of the United States
Davy
Crockett – Frontiersman
Winfield
Scott – General
Polk –
Eleventh President of the United States
Paul
Cuffe (pictured) – Abolitionist
Jesus
of Nazareth – Founder of Christianity
Dolly
Madison – First Lady
Zachary
Taylor – Twelfth President of the United States
Millard
Fillmore – Thirteenth President of the United States
Queen
Victoria – Queen of Great Britain
Solomon
Northrup (pictured) – Slave
Eli
Whitney – Inventor
Ralph
Waldo Emerson (quoted) – Author
Franklin
Pierce – Fourteenth President of the United States
John
Brown (pictured) – Abolitionist
Nat
Turner – Slave
Frederick
Douglass (pictured) – Abolitionist
Roger
Taney – Chief Justice
Samuel
Colt – Inventor
Herman
Melville – Author
Washington
Irving – Author
James
Fenimore Cooper – Author
Nathaniel
Hawthorne – Author
Emily
Dickinson (pictured) – Author
Walt
Whitman – Author
Henry
David Thoreau – Author
Gandhi –
Indian nationalist leader
Martin
Luther King Jr. (pictured 2x, quoted 3x) – Civil Rights leader
Abraham
Lincoln (pictured 2x, quoted 2x) – Sixteenth President of the United States
Buchanan
– Fifteenth President of the United States 11
Harriet
Beecher Stowe – Author
Stephen
Douglas – Politician
Harriet
Tubman (pictured) – Abolitionist
Robert
E. Lee – Confederate general
Ulysses
S. Grant (pictured) – General, eighteenth President of the United States
William
Tecumseh Sherman – General
John
Wilkes Booth (pictured) – Assassin
Andrew
Johnson (pictured) – Seventeenth President of the United States
Joseph
Rainey – Politician
Hiram
Revels (pictured) – Politician
Blanche
Bruce – Politician
Rutherford
B. Hayes – Nineteenth President of the United States
Sitting
Bull (pictured) – Lakota leader
Buffalo
Bill (pictured) – Entertainer
Geronimo
(pictured, quoted) – Apache leader
Charles
Darwin – British scientist
Frederick
Turner – Historian
Joseph
Smith – Religious leader
Brigham
Young – Religious leader
Antonga
– Timapanogas leader
Kanosh (pictured)
– Ute leader
George
Custer – General
Crazy
Horse – Lakota leader
Jean
Baptiste Point du Sable – Settler
Elisha
Grey – Inventor
Alexander
Graham Bell (pictured) – Inventor
Thomas
Edison – Inventor
William
Dickson – Inventor
Nikola
Tesla (pictured) – Inventor
Booker
T. Washington (pictured) – Educator
Robert
Ingersoll (pictured) – Orator
Cornelius
Vanderbilt – Tycoon
Mark
Twain (pictured, quoted) – Author
John
Lewis (pictured) – Farmer
JP
Morgan (pictured) – Banker
John D.
Rockefeller – Tycoon
Richard
Hunt Morris – Architect
Zitkala-Sa
(quoted) – Lakota author
Ambrose
Bierce – Author
Emma
Goldman (pictured) – Protestor
McKinley
– Twenty-fifth President of the United States
Lucretia
Mott (pictured) – Feminist
Sojourner
Truth (pictured) – Feminist
Elizabeth
Cady Stanton – Feminist
Susan
B. Anthony – Feminist
Matthew
Perry – Commodore
Emma
Lazarus (quoted) – Author
Jacob
Riis – Journalist
Andrew Carnegie
– Tycoon
Henry
Clay Frick – Tycoon
Grover
Cleveland – Twenty-second and twenty-fourth President of the United States
Jane
Addams – Social worker
Franz
Boas – Sociologist
William
James – Psychologist
John
Dewey – Educator
Sigmund
Freud – Austrian psychologist
Willis
Carrier – Inventor
William
Randolph Hearst – Journalist
Joseph
Pulitzer – Journalist
Thomas
Nast – Cartoonist
William
Tweed – Politician
Theodore
Roosevelt (pictured) – Twenty-sixth President of the United States
William
Taft – Twenty-seventh President of the United States
James
Garfield – Twentieth President of the United States
Henry
Ford – Industrialist
Frank
Gilbreth – Efficiency expert
Lilian
Gilbreth – Efficiency expert
Woodrow
Wilson – Twenty-eighth President of the United States
Samuel
Gompers (pictured) – Labor leader
Ida
Tarbell – Journalist
Upton
Sinclair (pictured) – Author
John
Muir – Environmentalist
Alice
Paul – Feminist
Jeanette
Rankin – Politician
Hattie
Carraway – Politician
Margaret
Sanger (pictured) – Feminist
HG
Wells (quoted) – British author
Eugene
Debs – Politician
Woody
Guthrie – Musician
Pete
Seeger (quoted) – Musician
Sanford
Dole – Colonizer
Queen Liliuokalani
(pictured) – Queen of Hawai’i
Orville
Wright – Inventor
Wilbur
Wright – Inventor
Ivy Lee
– Public Relations
Clem
Whitaker – Political operative
Leon
Baxter – Political operative
DW
Griffiths – Film director
WEB du
Bois (pictured, quoted) – Civil Rights leader, Educator
Chester
A. Arthur – Twenty-first President of the United States
Benjamin
Harrison – Twenty-third President of the United States
Frances
Folsom – First Lady
Warren
G. Harding – Twenty-ninth President of the United States
Calvin
Coolidge (quoted) – Thirtieth President of the United States
Irving
Berlin (quoted) – Musician
Franklin
Delano Roosevelt (pictured, quoted) – Thirty-second President of the United States
Langston
Hughes (pictured) – Author
Al
Capone – Gangster
Bugs
Moran – Gangster
Duke
Ellington (pictured) – Musician
Louis Sullivan
– Architect
Frank
Lloyd Wright – Architect
Charles
Lindbergh (pictured) – Aviator
Oliver
Wendell Holmes – Justice
Adolph
Hitler – German dictator
Ishi (pictured)
– Indigenous survivor
Scopes –
Schoolteacher
Clarence
Darrow (pictured) – Lawyer
William
Jennings Bryan (pictured) – Politician
Philo
Farnsworth – Inventor
David
Sarnoff – Broadcaster
William
Paley – Broadcaster
Amadeo
Giannini – Banker
Charles
Merrill – Financier
Herbert
Hoover – Thirty-first President of the United States
John
Lewis (pictured) – Labor leader
Eleanor
Roosevelt (pictured, quoted) – First lady
Louis
Armstrong (pictured) – Musician
Babe
Ruth (pictured) – Athlete
Shoeless
Joe Jackson (pictured) – Athlete
Hank
Aaron – Athlete
Buster
Keaton (pictured) – Actor
Al
Jolson (pictured) – Actor
F.
Scott Fitzgerald – Author
Harry
Houdini (pictured) – Illusionist
Jesse
Owens (pictured) – Athlete
Robert
Johnson (pictured) – Musician
Shirley
Temple (pictured) – Actress
John
Steinbeck – Author
Frank L
Baum – Author
Judy
Garland (pictured) – Actress
Walt
Disney (pictured) – Animator
Mussolini
– Italian dictator
Franco –
Spanish dictator
Hirohito
– Japanese Emperor
Eisenhower
(pictured, quoted 2x) – General, thirty-fourth President of the United States
Father
Coughlin – Radio host
Huey
Long – Politician
Fred
Korematsu – Civil Rights activist
Charles
de Gaulle – French Resistance leader, President of France
Winston
Churchill (pictured, quoted) – Prime Minister of Great Britain
Robert
Goddard (pictured) – Inventor
Enrico
Fermi – Scientist
Robert
Oppenheimer – Scientist
Chester
Nimitz (pictured) – Admiral
Josef
Stalin (pictured) – Soviet dictator
Harry
Truman (pictured) – Thirty-second President of the United States
Greta
Zimmer Friedman (pictured) – Bystander
George
Marshall – General
Ralph
Bunche (pictured) – Diplomat
Leo
Burnett (pictured) – Advertiser
Walter
Reuther (pictured) – Labor leader
Jonas
Salk (pictured) – Vaccinologist
Jackie
Robinson (pictured) – Athlete
Humphrey
Bogart (pictured) – Actor
Ingrid
Bergman (pictured) – Swedish actress
Robert
Penn Warren – Author
Orson
Welles (pictured) – Actor
Frank Sinatra
(pictured) – Musician
William
Levitt – Developer
Joseph
McCarthy (pictured) – Politician
Arthur
Miller (pictured, quoted) – Author
Albert
Einstein (pictured) – Physicist
Werner
Von Braun (pictured) – Physicist
Julius
Rosenberg (pictured) – Spy
Ethel
Rosenberg (pictured) – Spy
Roy
Cohn – Political operative
Donald
Trump (pictured) – Forty-fifth President of the United States
Joseph
Welch (pictured) – Lawyer
Ray
Kroc – Businessman
Ricky
Nelson – Musician
Chuck
Berry (pictured) – Musician
Little
Richard – Musician
Fats
Domino (pictured) – Musician
Bo
Diddley (pictured) – Musician
Elvis
Presley – Musician
Fred
Koch – Political activist, businessman
Mao
Zedong (pictured) – Chinese dictator
Douglas
MacArthur (pictured) – General
Yuri
Gagarin – Soviet astronaut
Marilyn
Monroe (pictured) – Actress
Joe
DiMaggio – Athlete
Johnny
Unitas (pictured) – Athlete
Pete
Rozelle – Commissioner
Lucille
Ball (pictured) – Actress
Desi Arnaz
(pictured – Actor
J.
Edgar Hoover (pictured, quoted 2x) – FBI Director
Herman
Hollerith – Inventor
Alan
Turing – British computer programmer
Lucky
Luciano – Gangster
Meyer
Lansky (pictured) – Gangster
Fred
Hampton (pictured) – Civil Rights leader
Jacobo
Arbenz (pictured) – Guatemalan President
Rafael
Trujillo (pictured) – Dominican Republican President
Fidel
Castro (pictured) – Cuban President
Kennedy
(pictured 2x, quoted 2x) – Thirty-fourth President of the United States
Lyndon
Johnson (pictured 2x) – Thirty-fifth President of the United States
Rosa
Parks (pictured 2x) – Civil Rights activist
Rodgers
– Musician
Hammerstein
– Musician
Emmett
Till – Lynching victim
Henrietta
Lacks – Medical donor
Claudette
Colvin – Civil Rights activist
Malcolm
X (pictured) – Civil Rights leader
Huey
Newton – Civil Rights leader
Bobby
Seale – Civil Rights leader
George
Wallace (pictured) – Politician
Strom
Thurmond – Politician
Ruby
Bridges (pictured) – Student
Neil
Armstrong – Astronaut
Buzz
Aldrin (pictured) – Astronaut
Michael
Collins – Astronaut
Khrushchev
– Soviet dictator
Lee
Harvey Oswald – Assassin
Jack
Ruby – Assassin
Robert
Kennedy – Politician
Hubert
Humphrey – Politician
Richard
Nixon (pictured 3x, quoted) – Thirty-sixth President of the United States
Ho Chi
Minh – Vietnamese leader
Robert
McNamara (pictured) – Politician
Thích
Quảng Đức – Vietnamese monk
Jack
Kerouac (pictured) – Author
Allen
Ginsberg (pictured, quoted) – Author
Lawrence
Fehrlinghetti (pictured) – Author
Michael
McClure (pictured) – Author
Bob Dylan
(pictured 2x) – Musician
Timothy
Leary (pictured) – Educator
Hunter
S. Thompson (pictured) – Author
John
Lennon – British musician
Yoko
Ono – British musician
Clark
Kerr – Educator
Mario
Savio (pictured, quoted) – Activist
Ronald
Reagan (pictured) – Fortieth President of the United States
Joe
Kennedy Sr. – Political operative
Gerald
Ford (pictured) – Thirty-eighth President of the United States
Jimmy
Carter (pictured) – Thirty-ninth President of the United States
Nancy
Reagan – First Lady
George
HW Bush (pictured) – Forty-first President of the United States
Bill
Clinton (pictured, quoted) – Forty-second President of the United States
George
W. Bush (pictured) – Forty-third President of the United States
Barrack
Obama (pictured, quoted) – Forty-fourth President of the United States
Billie
Jean King (pictured) – Athlete
Bobby
Riggs – Athlete
Leonard
Bernstein – Musician
Stephen
Sondheim – Musician
Jerome
Robbins – Choreographer
Lerner –
Musician
Loewe –
Musician
Lionel
Bart – Musician
Sidney
Poitier (pictured) – Actor
Harper
Lee – Author
George
Takei – Actor
Nichelle
Nichols (pictured) – Actress
Cesar
Chavez (pictured, quoted) – Labor leader
Barbara
McClintock (pictured) – Scientist
Robert
Noyce (pictured) – Computer programmer
Steve
Jobs (pictured) – Computer programmer
Steve
Wozniak – Computer programmer
Bill
Gates – Computer programmer
Paul
Allen – Computer programmer
Thomas
Hunt Morgan – Scientist
James
Watson – Scientist
Francis
Crick – British scientist
Norman
Borlaug – Scientist
Rachel
Carson (pictured) – Scientist
Clair
Patterson (pictured) – Scientist
Willard
Libby – Scientist
Leakey –
British anthropologists
Billy Graham
– Religious leader
Paul Tillich
– Religious educator
Reinhold
Niebuhr – Religious educator
Jim
Henson – Puppeteer
Hannah –
Animator
Barbera
– Animator
Rodgers
– Puppeteer
Simone de
Beauvoir – French feminist
Betty
Friedan (pictured) – Feminist
Angela
Davis (pictured) – Feminist
Shirley
Chisholm (pictured) – Politician
Gloria
Steinem – Feminist
Bella
Abzug – Politician
Phyllis
Schlafly – Political activist
George
Pincus – Scientist
Dolores
Huerta (pictured) – Labor leader
Larry
Itliong – Labor leader
Bruce
Lee (pictured) – Actor, athlete
Muhammad
Ali (pictured) – Athlete
Joe
Frazier – Athlete
George
Foreman (pictured) – Athlete
Stevie
Wonder (pictured) – Musician
Stephen
King (pictured) – Author
Marlon
Brando – Actor
Al
Pacino (pictured) – Actor
Diane
Keaton – Actress
Robert
DeNiro – Actor
Chevy
Chase (pictured) – Actor
Dan Ackroyd
(pictured) – Actor
Jim
Belushi (pictured) – Actor
Lorne
Michaels (pictured) – Comedian
George
Lucas – Film director
Steven Spielberg
– Film director
Tom
Cruise (pictured) – Actor
Magic
Johnson (pictured) – Athlete
Madonna
(pictured) – Musician
Debbie
Harry – Musician
Toni
Morrison – Author
Oprah
Winfrey (pictured) – Entertainer
Warren
Burger (quoted) – Chief Justice
Salvador
Allende – Chilean President
Augusto
Pinochet – Chilean dictator
Bob
Woodward – Journalist
Carl
Bernstein – Journalist
Spiro
Agnew – Politician
David
Frost – British reporter
Anwar
Sadat (pictured) – Egyptian President
Menachem
Begin (pictured) – Israeli President
Shah –
Iranian leader
Ayatollah
Khomeini – Iranian leader
Barry
Goldwater – Politician
Oliver
North – Lt. Colonel
Betty
Ford – First Lady
Mikhail
Gorbachev (pictured) – Soviet leader
Saddam
Hussein – Iraqi dictator
Harvey
Milk (pictured) – Politician
Barney
Frank – Politician
George
Harrison – British musician
Osama
bin Laden – Saudi terrorist
Tom
Hanks (pictured) – Actor
Tony
Kushner (pictured) – Author
Tupac
Shakur (pictured) – Musician
Notorious
BIG – Musician
Tony
Hawk (pictured) – Athlete
Beyonce
(pictured) – Musician
Jay Z –
Musician
Brian K
Vaughan – Author
Pia
Guerra – Illustrator
Chris
Ware – Author
Alison
Bechdel – Author
Tom
Brady (pictured) – Athlete
Meryl
Streep (pictured) – Actress
Jon Stewart
(pictured) – Comedian
Stephen
Colbert – Comedian
John
Oliver – British comedian
Samantha
Bee – Comedian
Wyatt
Cenac – Comedian
Larry
Willmore – Comedian
Jordan
Klepper – Comedian
Steve
Carrell – Actor
Madeline
Albright (quoted) – Politician
Colin
Powell (pictured) – Politician
Yitzhak
Rabin (pictured) – Israeli President
Yasser
Arafat (pictured) – Palestinian leader
Newt
Gingrich (pictured) – Politician
Monica
Lewinsky – Intern
Tim
Berners-Lee – Computer programmer
Al Gore
(pictured) – Politician
Clarence
Thomas – Justice
Anita
Hill – Lawyer
Brett
Kavanaugh – Justice
Christine
Blasey Ford – Educator
Sam
Walton – Businessman
Alan
Greenspan (pictured) – Politician
Kendrick
Lamar (pictured) – Musician
Leonardo
DiCaprio (pictured) – Actor
Robert
Downey Jr. – Actor
Chris
Evans – Actor
Mark
Ruffalo – Actor
Scarlet
Johansson – Actress
Jeremy
Renner – Actor
Chris
Hemsworth – Australian actor
Chadwick
Boseman – Actor
Brie
Larson – Actress
Samuel
L. Jackson – Actor
Michael
Phelps (pictured) – Athlete
John
Green – Author
Mark
Zuckerberg (pictured) – Computer programmer, businenessman
John
McCain – Politician
Jeff Bezos
– Businessman
Warren
Buffett – Businessman
Nancy
Pelosi (pictured) – Politician
Mitch
McConnell (pictured) – Politician
Maurice
Hilleman – Vaccinologist
Trayvon
Martin – Victim
Freddie
Gray – Victim
Eric
Garner – Victim
Bernie
Sanders (pictured) – Politician
George
Floyd – Victim
Breonna
Taylor – Victim
Anwar
al-Awlaki (pictured) – Terrorist
Edward
Snowden – Whistleblower
Chelsea
Manning – Whistleblower
Hillary
Clinton – First Lady, politician
Vladimir
Putin (pictured) – Russian President
Harvey Weinstein
– Film mogul
Roger
Stone – Political operative
Elon Musk
– Inventor
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