First Question
The following are the names that Hanover students have supplied on being asked to name the first ten people who come to mind for American history through the Civil War. The list is organized with the most often cited names first. Ten Great Works classes have taken this survey since Fall 2004, for a total of 110 students; this year, 10 students took the survey. The numbers in parentheses represent the number of students (out of this year's 10 and out of the total 110) who include that name on their list.
Lincoln, Abraham (6 of 10; 80 of 110)
Washington, George (7 of 10; 79 of 110)
Jefferson, Thomas (2 of 10; 53 of 110)
Franklin, Benjamin (2 of 10; 51 of 110)
Adams, John (2 of 10; 36 of 110)
Lee, Robert E. (2 of 10; 33 of 110)
Grant, Ulysses S. (2 of 10; 31 of 110)
Hancock, John (3 of 10; 26 of 110)
Columbus, Christopher (2 of 10; 12 of 110)
Jackson, Stonewall (0 of 10; 12 of 110)
Booth, John Wilkes (1 of 10; 11 of 110)
Smith, John (0 of 10; 11 of 110)
Tubman, Harriet (0 of 10; 11 of 110)
Revere, Paul (0 of 10; 10 of 110)
Madison, James (0 of 10; 8 of 110)
Jackson, Andrew (0 of 10; 7 of 110)
Adams, Abigail (0 of 10; 6 of 110)
Adams, John Quincy (0 of 10; 6 of 110)
Douglass, Frederick (0 of 10; 6 of 110)
Arnold, Benedict (0 of 10; 5 of 110)
Washington, Martha (0 of 10; 5 of 110)
Davis, Jefferson (0 of 10; 4 of 110)
Jackson (no first name) (1 of 10; 4 of 110)
Lewis & Clark (1 of 10; 4 of 110)
Three of 110 students also included the following:
Adams, no first name
Adams, Sam
Hamilton, Alexander (1 of 10)
Henry, Patrick
Pocahontas
Taylor, Zachary
Two of 110 students also included the following:
Addams, Jane
Clark (no first name)
Clay, Henry
Dickinson, Emily
Hayes, Rutherford B.
Jay, John
Lewis (no first name)
Lewis, Meriwether (see also Lewis & Clark)
Lincoln, Mary Todd
Shays, Daniel
Sherman, W. T.
Stowe, Harriett Beecher
Whitney, Eli (1 of 10)
One of 110 students also included the following:
Allcott, Louisa May
Anthony, Susan B.
Attucks, Crispus
Barton, Clara
Bibb, Henry (1 of 10)
Boone, Daniel
Bradford, James
Buchanan, James
Calhoun, John C.
Chamberlain, Joshua
Clark, George Rogers
Crockett, Davy
Custer, George Armstrong
Dolly Madison
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Fillmore, Millard
Keckly, Elizabeth? [Heckley, Elizabeth]
Key, Francis Scott
Lafayette, Marquis de
Meade, George
Paine, Thomas
Poe, Edgar Allen
Polk, James
Ross, Betsy
Sacagawea
Sherman, George
Sojourner Truth
Squanto
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Tecumseh
Thoreau, Henry David
Vanderbilt family
Eight students (one this term) listed Thomas Edison (who doesn't fit the time limits).
One to three students listed the following people who don't fit the geographical or time limits:
Rhett Butler, Jimmy Carter, George Washington Carver, Walt Disney, Dwight Eisenhower, Henry Ford, John Henry, Sarah Orne Jewett, Helen Keller, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., John Locke, Ferdinand Magellan, Thurgood Marshall, Margaret Mitchell, Florence Nightingale, Scarlett O'Hara, Lee Harvey Oswold, Mr. & Mrs. Albert Parker, Rosa Parks, Alice Paul, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Roosevelt (no first name), Theodore Roosevelt, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Col. Harlan Sanders, Margaret Sanger, John Taylor, Amerigo Vespucci, Woodrow Wilson
Second Question
The following are the names that Hanover students have supplied on being asked the follow-up question, "What are the first ten names that come to mind, if you exclude presidents, generals, statesmen, or other figures in official public life?" The list is organized with the most often cited names first. Ten Great Works classes have taken this survey since Fall 2004, for a total of 110 students; this year, 10 students took the survey. The numbers in parentheses represent the number of students (out of this year's 10 and out of the total 110) who include that name on their list.
Tubman, Harriet (0 of 10; 20 of 110)
Booth, John Wilkes (0 of 10; 10 of 110)
Columbus, Christopher (2 of 10; 10 of 110)
Lewis & Clark (2 of 10; 10 of 110)
Smith, John (0 of 10; 10 of 110)
Ross, Betsy (0 of 10; 8 of 110)
Washington, Martha (0 of 10; 7 of 110)
Adams, Abigail (0 of 10; 6 of 110)
Sacagewea (2 of 10; 6 of 110)
Revere, Paul (0 of 10; 5 of 110)
Barton, Clara (0 of 10; 4 of 110)
Dickinson, Emily (0 of 10; 4 of 110)
Paine, Thomas (0 of 10; 4 of 110)
Douglass, Frederick (0 of 10; 3 of 110)
Pocahontas (1 of 10; 3 of 110)
Squanto (0 of 10; 3 of 110)
Two of 110 students also included the following:
Bell, Alexander Graham
Crockett, Davy
Franklin, Benjamin (2 of 10)
Lincoln, Mary Todd
Pitcher, Molly
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Twain, Mark
One of 110 students also included the following:
Alcott, Louisa May
Anthony, Susan B.
Arnold, Benedict
Attucks, Crispus
Boone, Daniel
Brown, John
Clark, George Rogers
Cornwallis, Gen.
Edmonds, Sarah
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Hemmings, Sally
Key, Francis Scott
Madison, Dolly
Osceola
Poe, Edgar Allen
Scott, Dred
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Stewart [?]
Thoreau
Vanderbilts
Velaquez, Loretta
Wade, Jenny
Whitney, Eli
Five students listed Thomas Edison (who does not fit the time limits).
One to three students listed the following people who don't fit the geographical or time limits:
Jane Addams, Billy the Kid, Calamity Jane, George Washington Carver, Willa Cather, Joshua Chamberlain, civil rights leaders, Jim Crowe, Madame Curie, Walt Disney, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Henry Ford, Anne Frank, Betty Friedan, Doc Holiday, Rose Holman, Zora Neale Hurston, Sarah Orne Jewett, Helen Keller, Martin Luther King, Jr., Margaret Mitchell, Florence Nightingale, Scarlett O'Hara, Lee Harvey Oswald, Rosa Parks, Alice Paul, John Procter, John D. Rockefeller, Eleanor Roosevelt, Margaret Sanger, Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Amerigo Vespucci, Madame C.J. Walker, Booker T. Washington, Watson & Crick, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Wright Brothers, the student's grandparents.
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