Biographies for Eighth Grade History

Twenty Remarkable Men and Women Susan Cook has assembled the stories of twenty remarkable men and women from around the world including:

• John Harrison – 18th Century England
• Eli Whitney – 18th/19th Century United States
• Sequoyah – 19th Century North America
• Simon Bolivar – 19th Century South America
• Benito Juarez – 19th Century Mexico
• Frederick Douglass – 19th Century United States
• Harriet Tubman – 19th/20th Century United States
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton – 19th Century United States
• Clara Barton – 19th/20th Century United States
• Marie Curie – 19th/20th Century Poland/France
• Janusz Korczak – 19th/20th Century Poland
• Mohandas Gandhi – 19th/20th Century India
• Hellen Keller – 19th/20th Century United States
• Mao Zedong – 20th Century China
• Nien Cheng – 20th Century China
• Jomo Kenyatta – 20th Century Kenya
• Nelson Mandela – 20th Century South Africa
• Martin Luther King, Jr. – 20th Century United States
• Cesar Chavez – 20th Century United States
• Wangari Maathai – 20th/21st Century Kenya

Each chapter has one or more illustrations by students from the San Francisco Waldorf School.