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. Five Great Works classes have taken this survey since Fall 2004, for a total of 58 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 58) who include that name on their list.
Washington, George (10 of 10; 39 of 58)
Lincoln, Abraham (10 of 10; 38 of 58)
Thomas Jefferson (9 of 10; 25 of 58)
Benjamin Franklin (8 of 10; 23 of 58)
Lee, Robert E. (2 of 10; 16 of 58)
Grant, Ulysses S. (2 of 10; 15 of 58)
Adams, John (4 of 10; 14 of 58)
Hancock, John (4 of 10; 8 of 58)
Tubman, Harriet (2 of 10; 8 of 58)
Jackson, Stonewall (2 of 10; 6 of 58)
Smith, Capt. John (2 of 10; 6 of 58)
Madison, James (2 of 10; 5 of 58)
Revere, Paul (1 of 10; 5 of 58)
Columbus, Christopher (1 of 10; 4 of 58)
Roosevelt, Theodore (0 of 10; 4 of 58)
Adams, Abigail (0 of 10; 3 of 58)
Booth, John Wilkes (0 of 10; 3 of 58)
Two of 58 students also included the following:
Adams (no first name)
Adams, Sam
Arnold, Benedict
Dickinson, Emily
Douglass, Frederick
Hamilton, Alexander
Hayes, Rutherford B.
Jackson, Andrew
Jay, John
"Lewis & Clark"
Lincoln, Mary Todd
Sherman, W. T.
Washington, Martha
One of 58 students also included the following:
Adams, John Quincy, Jr
Allcott, Louisa May
Anthony, Susan B.
Attucks, Crispus
Barton, Clara
Boone, Daniel
Bradford, James
Buchanan, James
Clay, Henry
Crockett, Davy
Davis, Jefferson
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Fillmore, Millard
Henry, Patrick
Keckly, Elizabeth
Lewis, Mariwether (named separately)
Paine, Thomas
Pocahontas
Poe, Edgar Allen
Roosevelt (not specified)
Sacagawea
Sherman, George
Squanto
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Stowe, Harriett Beecher
Taylor, Zachary
Thoreau, Henry David
One or two students listed the following people who don't fit the geographical
or time limits:
Jane Addams, George Washington Carver, Thomas Edison, Dwight D. Eisenhower,
Sarah Orne Jewett, Helen Keller, Marquis de Lafayette, Thurgood Marshall, Margaret
Mitchell, Florence Nightingale, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Scarlett O'Hara, Mr &
Mrs Albert Parker, Rosa Parks, Alice Paul, Margaret Sanger, Amerigo Vespugi,
Woodrow Wilson, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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. Five Great Works classes have taken this survey since Fall 2004, for a total of 58 students; this year 10 students took the survey. The numbers in parentheses represent the number of students (out of this year's 10 and the total 58) who include that name on their list.
Tubman, Harriet (2 of 10; 12 of 58)
Smith, Capt. John (4 of 10; 8 of 58)
"Lewis & Clark" (2 of 10; 6 of 58)
Washington, Martha (0 of 10; 6 of 58)
Booth, John Wilkes (0 of 10; 4 of 58)
Dickinson, Emily (0 of 10; 4 of 58)
Revere, Paul (0 of 10; 4 of 58)
Ross, Betsy (0 of 10; 4 of 58)
Adams, Abigail (0 of 10; 3 of 58)
Barton, Clara (0 of 10; 3 of 58)
Paine, Thomas (1 of 10; 3 of 58)
Sacagawea (2 of 10; 3 of 58)
Two of 58 students also included the following:
Bell, Alexander Graham
Columbus, Christopher
Douglass, Frederick
Lincoln, Mary Todd
Squanto
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
One of 48 students included the following:
Alcott, Louisa May
Anthony, Susan B.
Attucks, Crispus
Boone, Daniel
Brown, John
Clark, George Rogers
Crockett, Davy
Edmonds, Sarah
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Hemmings, Sally
Key, Francis Scott
Osceola
Pitcher, Molly
Pocahontas
Poe, Edgar Allen
Squanto
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Thoreau, Henry David
Twain, Mark
Velaquez, Loretta
One or two students listed the following people who don't fit the geographical,
occupational, or time limits:
Jane Addams, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Calamity Jane, George Washington Carver,
Willa Cather, civil rights leaders, Jim Crowe, Madame Curie, Walt Disney, Thomas
Edison, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Betty Friedan, respondent's
grandparents, John Hancock, Doc Holliday, Rose Hulman, Zora Neale Hurston, Thomas
Jefferson, Sarah Orne Jewett, Billy the Kid, Martin Luther King, John Locke,
Michelangelo, Margaret Mitchell, Florence Nightingale, Scarlett O'Hara, Rosa
Parks, Pablo Picasso, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Margaret Sanger, Upton Sinclair,
Ida Tarbell, Amerigo Vespugi, Madame C.J. Walker, Booker T. Washington, Watson
and Crick, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Wright Brothers.
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