People at Your Favorite Things

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• Reference: Bibliography: History  (31)
• Society: History: By Region: North America: United States: Wars: Civil War: Personalities  (86)
• Society: History: By Region: North America: United States: West: Personalities  (63)

• Alexander W. Livingston - A pioneering seedsman best known as a developer of tomato varieties in the United States.
• Daniel Coit Gilman - Founder and first president of Johns Hopkins University and a leading light in the development of research universities in the United States.
• Edith Jemima Simcox - Victorian Scholar and Reformer - A biography and bibliography, and includes pictures, reprinted articles, and information on movements/reform efforts.
• Edward St John Daniel, VC - Detailed biography of the first man and only officer to forfeit the Victoria Cross, includes genealogy information.
• First-Person Narratives of the American South - Diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives of relatively inaccessible populations, including women, African Americans, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• The Internet African American History Challenge - Profiles of prominent people.
• J. Bruce Ismay - Biographical profile with links and a photograph.
• John Edgerley - Pioneer, Plant Collector, Botanist, Nurseryman - Biography with links and images.
• Johnson Chesnut Whittaker - Brief narrative of one of the first three African-Americans to attend West Point.
• The Life and Times of Fred Kimble - A book review.
• Nancy Hart Confederate Spy - Presents a brief biography, facts, unanswered questions, and photos.
• The Orestes Brownson Society - Devoted to the transcription and dissemination of the Quarterly Review, his works, and other writings, and includes articles and links.
• The Penniman House - A Whaling Story - A lesson plan on teaching historic people and places.
• Phineas Parkhurst Quimby - Profile of a philosopher and healer.
• Priscilla on the Trail of Tears - A search for knowledge of Priscilla Silkwood.
• Story of the Hutchinsons - The classic history of the family of social reformers and philanthropists.
• Village Life in America, 1852—1872 - Diary of the young Caroline Richards published as a book in 1913.
• Voyaging with Henry - The biography of a seaman, cook, and steward.
• Wild Rose - Civil War Spy - Book review on Rose O’Neale Greenhow.