American+Icons+Project

An American Icon is someone or something that is American and is easily identified by popular culture to represent America or American ideals. But, what does it take to be an American Icon? Click the picture to the left to hear audio of a radio show on the book series //American Icons: An Encyclopedia of the People, Places, and Things that Have Shaped our Culture//.

Research Paper Guidelines:
 * 3-5 pages (title page & works cited page do not count towards page requirements)
 * MLA format (no word art or pictures are allowed in your report)
 * Minimum of 5 sources cited on on Works Cited page and throughout paper
 * At least one book source
 * At least one book source

Topic Categories ||||< Topic Ideas (You do NOT have to choose from this list) || Leaders & Statesmen ||< Colin Powell, Douglas MacArthur, William Jennings Bryan, Benjamin Franklin, King Kamehameha I,George C. Marshall, Thurgood Marshall,George S. Patton Jr.,John Joseph Pershing, Pocahontas || U.S. Presidents ||< John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Dwight D. Eisenhower, William Henry Harrison,Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, James Madison, James Monroe, James Polk, Theodore Roosevelt, John Tyler, Martin Van Buren,George Washington || Activists & Reformers ||< Jane Addams,Rachel Carson, Cesar Chavez, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois,Helen Keller,Martin Luther King Jr., Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Tubman || Adventurers & Explorers ||< Amelia Earhart, Meriwether Lewis & William Clark || Writers & Artists ||< Langston Hughes, Dorothea Lange, Mark Twain, Frank Lloyd Wright || Astronauts ||< John Glen, Neal Armstrong, Chuck Jaeger || Scientists & Inventors ||< Wright Brothers, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Ben Franklin,George Washington Carver || Political Leaders ||< Sandra Day O'Connor || American Outlaws/ Wild West ||< Jesse James, Wyatt Earp, Buffalo Bill Cody, "Wild" Bill Hickock || Musicians & Composers ||< Leonard Bernstein, Duke Ellington, John Philip Sousa, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley,Michael Jackson, Ella Fitzgerald || Entertainers ||< George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Humphrey Bogart, James Stewart, Bette Davis,Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Katherine Hepburn, John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, Bob Hope, Judy Garland, Jim Henson, Ginger Rogers, Harry Houdini, John Wayne, Stan Lee || Industrialists & Entrepreneurs ||< Sam Walton, Ray Kroc, Bill Gates, Lee Iacocca, Andrew Carnegie, Howard Hughes,Ted Turner, Henry Ford, Walt Disney, Andrew Carnegie, Walt Disney || Sports Icons ||< Jackie Robinson, Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, Jim Brown,Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Richard Petty, Arthur Ashe, Billie Jean King,Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Muhammed Ali || American Symbols/ Toys/Characters ||< Apple pie, Baseball, American Flag, The Bald Eagle, Hot Dogs, Barbie,Cabbage Patch Kids,Mustangs, The McDonald's Golden Arches, Superman, The Muppets, Crayola Crayon, The U.S. Constitution, The Star Spangled Banner, //Peanuts,// Harley Davidson || Locations & Monuments ||< Statue of Liberty, Alcatraz, Mount Rushmore, National Parks, Sears Tower, Empire State Building, Great Lakes, Great Salt Lake, Golden Gate Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, Disney World, Disney Land, Coney Island, The Alamo, Route 66 ||

Check These Out: Topic Websites: || [|Iconic American Places] [|10 Iconic American Foods] [|Meet Amazing Americans] [|Fact Monster] [|Kids Click Biography List] [|American History] [|PBS - Biographies] [|Academy of Achievement] [|Women] [|Distinguished Women of Past and Present]

[|Yahoo Kids] - Biographies - History [| Inventors Hall of Fame] [|Multimedia Biographies] [| Who2?] [|Time Magazine’s top 100 people] [|American Writers] [|Nobel Prize] ||