Historical Figure or Event Presentation Name ___________________
Your job is to become an expert on a person or event in US History, and to teach
the class about it. You will create a presentation to teach the class. You can use
Powerpoint, Prezi, or Google Slides to complete the project. Presentations should
be about 5 minutes long. All sources used, including images, ideas, videos, etc.
must be documented with a bibliography. The bibliography must be printed out
for it to be accepted. Here is a list of possible topics you can cover:
Conquistadores (Pizarro, Cortes)
Explorers - Ponce de Leon, Henry Hudson, Samuel de Champlain
Pirates - Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, Black Bart – Bartholomew Roberts
Native Americans - Tribes – such as Apache, Sioux, Aztec, Nez Perce, Iroqouis,
Abenaki, or individuals such as Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Geronimo, Tecumseh,
Chief Joseph.
Am. Revolutionary Figures - George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams,
Samuel Adams, Ben Franklin, Patrick Henry, Tom Paine, Alexander Hamilton,
King George III, Gentleman John Burgoyne, Benedict Arnold, James Madison,
Ethan & Ira Allen, the Green Mt. Boys, Rogers’ Rangers
Am. Rev. Battles - Ticonderoga, Trenton, Princeton, Yorktown, etc.
War of 1812 - Battle of Plattsburgh, Battle of New Orleans, Andrew Jackson
American West – Lewis & Clark, Buffalo Bill Cody, Wild Bill Hickock, Calamity
Jane, Doc Holliday, Jesse James, Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid, Deadwood,
Tombstone, Dodge City)
1800 – 1850 - Abigail Adams, Sally Hemmings, Nat Turner, Noah Webster,
Brigham Young
Civil War – Abe Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, Ulysses Grant, William
Tecumseh Sherman, John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Civil War Battles – Gettysburg, Antietam, Shiloh, Wilderness, Bull Run
Old School Millionaires & The Gilded Age – John Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie,
Cornelius Vanderbilt, J.P. Morgan, William Randolph Hearst, P.T. Barnum, Boss
Tweed, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison,
Progressive Era - Teddy Roosevelt, Margaret Sanger, Eugene Debs, Jane Addams,
Woodrow Wilson, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Eleanor Roosevelt,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
World War I – Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Tsar Alexander, The Black Hand,
Treaty of Versailles, Woodrow Wilson, Ypres, Gallipoli
20’s – Flappers, 20’s Fashion, Jim Thorpe, Jack Johnson, Babe Didrikson, Jazz,
Swing Dancing
Franklin Roosevelt, Stock Market Crash, CCC, Charles Lindbergh, Lindbergh
Baby Kidnapping
Adolf Hitler, Nazi Party, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, Benito Mussolini,
Reinhard Heydrich, Dwight Eisenhower, Enrico Fermi, George Patton, Dachau,
Bernard Montgomery, Normandy Invasion, Pearl Harbor, Winston Churchill,
Guadalcanal, Doolittle Raid, Atomic Bomb, Albert Einstein, Stalingrad, Operation
Market Garden, Harry Truman
Vietnam War, Kent State, Tet Offensive, Protests, Muhammad Ali
Martin Luther King, Jr., Birmingham, Malcolm X, Black Panthers
John F. Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, Lee Harvey Oswald, Bobby Kennedy,
Cuban Missile Crisis
Richard Nixon, Watergate, Jimmy Carter, Iran-Contra Affair, Ronald Reagan,
Persian Gulf War, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, George H.W. Bush, Bill
Clinton, George W. Bush, Barrack Obama, A Presidential Contender
American Writers, Architects, & Artists – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David
Thoreau, Frederick Law Olmstead, Louis Sullivan
Music in History – 60’s Protest Music, Early Rock & Roll, History of Rap, etc.
Fashion History – By era, by decade.
Transportation – Henry Ford, Wright Brothers, History of Cars, Trains, Planes,
etc. by era.
Film History – Hollywood by era or topic.
History of Art in America – Modern, Folk, Street, Hudson Valley, etc.
Athletes – Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson, Billie Jean King, Robbie Rogers,
Michael Sam, Sugar Ray Robinson, Jim Brown
Moguls – Sam Walton, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg
Current Topics – Come up with an idea to study something that is happening in
the world today. Run the idea by me first.
See me if there is something you want to study that is not on the list.