American History is a subject worth exploring for anyone, especially young impressionable minds. I recently read a book that on the topic that I found very informative. Scholastic published 100 People Who Changed America which highlights some of the greats in American history. Among the subjects covered are Art & Literature, Inventors, Politics, etc.
A very easy read, being published by Scholastic, I went through the small book in about an hour and found out some interesting facts such as:
Madame C.J.Walker was born Sarah Breedlove McWilliams Walker and the C.J. in her name actually stood for her husband, Charles Joseph.
Oprah Winfrey was actually named after Orpah from the Holy Bible book of Ruth. The change came when her name was misspelled on her birth certificate.
Abraham Lincoln, our nation's sixteenth president, once grew a beard because an 11-year-old wrote him a letter asking him to do so.
Albert Einstein didn't speak until he was FOUR YEARS OLD then went on to earn the Nobel Peace Prize in Physics in 1921.
These facts and much more fill the pages of this informative little book. Do you think it will be of interest to my teens? Well, let us do a test. I will present them with the book today and give them a few hours to read it from front to back. Let us check in again by tomorrow and I will have the results of the question, Will my teens be intrigued?
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