What are some topics, or people, that you think young people should know about?

Asked by Kardamom (33297) November 7th, 2017

I don’t mean that they should know about them right this minute, but that you would hope that they would learn about. Classics (or notoriety) if you will. Stuff, situations, and people, from the past (anywhere from 5 years ago on back, through the ages and generations).

What persons and topics would you like to see on that list?

I shall name several, then you can make your own list.

The Beatles

Causes of the Great Depression, and how people lived during that time.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt

Artist Edgar Degas

Woodie Guthrie (and Arlo Guthrie)

Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young

Jonas Salk and the polio vaccine (and the polio epidemic, that preceded the vaccine)

Charles Lindbergh

Laurel and Hardy

Alfred Hitchcock

Paul McCartney and Wings (yes, Paul had another band after The Beatles)

Billie Holiday

Rudolph Valentino (and silent movies)

Scott Joplin (and ragtime music)

Artist Edouard Manet

The gasoline crisis of the 1970’s

Bob Newhart (and all of his TV shows)

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (the original movie, and the 1960’s TV show)

Monty Python’s Flying Circus troupe (the TV show, and the movie The Holy Grail)

George Carlin

Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In

John and Yoko’s Bed-in

The Mary Tyler Moor Show (and her previous gig, The Dick Van Dyke Show)

Sterling Holloway (voice actor for many animated characters including Winnie the Pooh, and Kah the snake from Jungle Book)

Artist Joan Miro

Mark David Chapman, and John Hinckley Jr. (notorious for shooting John Lennon, killing him; and for shooting and wounding President Reagan)

Artist Alexander Calder

Gloria Steinam

Carol Burnett and Tim Conway

Django Reinhardt

Rudolph Nureyev

M*A*S*H

Neil Armstrong

Dizzy Gillespie

I’ll stop here and let you guys add more to the list : )