Subject Headings for Important Historical Figures
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935, Social and political activist
Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906, Suffragist
Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin), 1874-1948, Historian and Political scientist
Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941, Supreme Court justice
Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925, Democratic presidential nominee in 1896, 1900, 1908; Secretary of State
Burns, Lucy, 1879-1966, Suffragist
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919, Steel magnate, Philanthropist
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947, Suffragist
Croly, Herbert David, 1869-1930, Journalist
Dewey, John, 1859-1952, Philosopher
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, Black scholar
Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931, Inventor
Ford, Henry, 1863-1947, Automaker
Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940, Black leader
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935, Feminist
Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940, Anarchist, Philosopher, Writer
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, Photographer
Jones, Mother, 1837-1930, Union activist
Kelley, Florence, 1859-1932, Child advocate
Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974, Journalist
Mayo, Charles H. (Charles Horace), 1865-1939, American medical practitioner
Mayo, William James, 1861-1939, American medical practitioner
Mott, John R. (John Raleigh), 1865-1955, YMCA leader
Naismith, James, 1861-1939, Sports coach and innovator
Paul, Alice, 1885-1977, Suffragist
Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946, Conservationist
Rauschenbusch, Walter, 1861-1918, Theologian of social gospel
Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914, Reformer
Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1839-1937, Industrialist
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919, President
Root, Elihu, 1845-1937, Statesman
Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966, Proponent of birth control
Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919, Suffragist
Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968, Novelist
Small, Albion W., 1854-1926, Sociologist
Starr, Ellen Gates, 1859-1940, Sociologist
Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930, President and Chief Justice
Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944, Muckraker
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 1861-1932, Historian
Ward, Lester F. (Lester Frank), 1841-1913, Sociologist
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915, Black leader, Educator
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924, President
Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931, Black leader
Wheeler, Burton K. (Burton Kendall), 1882-1975, Montana politician