ESL World History
World History ESL Research Project Subjects:
Thomas Edison
Famous inventor
Thomas Jefferson
Writer of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
US President during the Great Depression & World War II
Ronald Reagan
US President in the 1980s
Woodrow Wilson
US President during World War I
Harriet Tubman
Conductor of the 'Underground Railroad', fought for end of slavery in US
Albert Einstein
Mathematical & Scientific Genius
Golda Meir
First female Prime Minister of Israel
Natan Sharansky
Israeli politician & human rights activist
Elizabeth I
Queen of England in 1500s
Queen Victoria
Queen of England in the 1800s
Catherine the Great
Empress of Russia in the 1700s
Mother Teresa
Nun and charity leader in India
Margaret Thatcher
1st Female British PM
Marie Curie
Scientist who developed theories on radioactivity
Louis Pasteur
Scientist who developed germ theory
James Watt
Invented a steam engine
Isaac Newton
Scientist who developed laws of motion
Archimedes
Ancient Greek physicist, Mathematician, engineer, etc.
Pythagoras
Important Greek Mathematician, physicist, etc.
Robert Boyle
Father of Modern Chemistry
Copernicus
Polish astronomer who developed the idea that the planets revolve around the sun
Galileo
Italian astronomer, inventor, and scientist who was convicted as a heretic
William Wilberforce
Ended slavery in the British Empire
William Shakespeare
Great English playwright and poet
John Locke
English philosopher who described natural rights
Thomas Hobbes
English lawyer who said said life is 'nasty, brutish, and short,
Mohandas Gandhi
Indian activist who promoted nonviolence
Indira Gandhi
First female Prime Minister of India
Frida Kahlo
Mexican artist
Voltaire
French Enlightenment Philosopher
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
French Enlightenment Philosopher
Baron de Montesquieu
French Enlightenment Philosopher
Thomas Aquinas
Medieval theologian
Pope John Paul II
20th century reform pope
Oscar Romero
priest and revolutionary
Martin Luther
leader of the Protestant Reformation
John Calvin
Protestant Reformer
Emperor Justinian
Emperor of the Byzantine Empire
Napoleon Bonaparte
French general & emperor
Simon Bolivar
Leader of Revolutions in South America
Lech Walesa
Polish revolutionary, president, & leader of the Solidarity movement
Benito Mussolini
Dictator of Italy during World War II
Joseph Stalin
Dictator of the Soviet Union (Russia)
Mikhail Gorbachev
Premier of the Soviet Union
Vladimir Lenin
Communist Revolutionary & Dictator of Russia
Karl Marx
Communist political philosopher
Nelson Mandela
South African leader against apartheid
Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II
Emperor Hammurabi
Ancient Babylonian emperor
Hideki Tojo
Japanese general and Prime Minister during World War II
Mao Zedong
Dictator of China
Ho Chi Minh
Dictator of Vietnam