A
Abernathy, Ralph D.
Abzug, Bella
Adams, Abigail (quoted)
Adams, Charles Francis
Adams, John “the Atlas” of Independence
Adams, John Quincy (quoted)
Adams, Laurence R. III
Adams, Louisa
Adams, Samuel “The Rebel Rouser” “Father of Patriots” (quoted)
Addams, Jane (quoted)
Agnew, Spiro
Albright, Madeleine
Alcott, Bronson
Alden, John
Allen, Ethan (quoted)
Allen, Florence
Allen, Ira
Allen, Levi
Allen, Richard
Anderson, Johannes S.
Anderson, L. Z.
Anderson, Marian
Anderson, Robert
Angelou, Maya
Anthony, Susan B. (quoted)
Antonio, Joseph J.
Antrim, Richard Not
Apess, William
Appleseed, Johnny
Arabus, Jack
Archer, Lee
Arendt, Hannah
Armistead, James
Armstrong, Neil (quoted)
Armstrong, Samuel Chapman
Arnold, Henry “Hap”
Arthur, Chester
Arthur, Ellen
Attucks, Crispus
Austin, Warren Robinson
B
Bachmann, Michele
Baez, Joan
Bainbridge, William
Bake, Henry, Jr.
Baker, Brister
Baker, Ella
Baker, Vernon
Bakke, Allan P.
Balch, Emily Greene
Baldwin, Roger
Bancroft, George “the father of American history”
Bangs, Edward (quoted)
Banks, Nathaniel P.
Banneker, Benjamin
Barbadoes, James
Capt. William Barber’s son
Barkley, Alben William
Barney, Joshua
Barrett, Rebecca
Barrett, Meliscent
Barron, Hannah (also Barns, Burns)
Barry, John “father of the Navy”
Bartlett, Josiah “the Self-made man”
Barton, Clara “the angel of the battlefield”
Barton, William
Bates, Daisy
Bates, Katharine Lee (quoted)
Batherick, Mother
Baugh, Dalton
Bayley, Solomon
Beals, Melba Pattillo
Beamer, Todd (quoted)
Beard, Mary Ritter
Beck, Glenn
Beckwourth, James
Beecher, Henry Ward (quoted)
Beers, Clifford
Behrens, Ralph
Belknap, Jeremy
Bellamy, Francis (quoted)
Benedict, Ruth (quoted)
Benezet, Anthony
Benfold, Edward
Bennett, Henry Holcomb (quoted)
Bennett, Steven L.
Benton, Thomas Hart “Old Bullion”
Bernstein, Carl
Berra, Yogi (quoted)
Bethune, Mary McLeod
Biddle, Nicholas
Biden, Joe
Big Foot
Bird, William C.
Birney, James Gillespie
Blackmun, Harry
Blackstone, William
Blackwell, Antoinette L. Brown
Blackwell, Elizabeth
Blackwell, Henry
Blair, Francis Preston Jr.
Blair, Montgomery
Bliss, Betty Taylor
Bloomer, Amelia Jenks
Blue Arm, Charley
Boardman, Mabel Thorp
Boehner, John
Bondsteel, James L.
Bong, Richard I.
Bonneville, Benjamin
Boone, Daniel
Booth, Evangeline Cory
Borlaug, Norman E.
Borman, Frank
Boston, John
Boudinot, Annis Stockton
Boudinot, Elias
Bowie, James
Bowles, Charles
Bowman, Thaddeus
Boyington, Gregory
Braddock, James “Cinderella Man”
Bradford, Sarah H.
Bradford, William (1590–1657) (quoted)
Bradford, William (1663–1752)
Bradley, Omar the “G.I. General”
Bradstreet, Anne
Brandeis. Louis D. “the people’s attorney” (quoted)
Brattle, Thomas
Braxton, Carter
Breckinridge, John C.
Brennan, William J., Jr.
Brewster, William
Bridger, James
Bristow, Benjamin H.
Bronson, Deming
Brown, Dorothy
Brown, Jacob J.
Brown, John (a Minuteman at Lexington
Brown, John “Old Brown of Osawatomie”
Brown, Lew (quoted)
Brown, Linda
Brown, Oliver
Bruce, Blanche K.
Bryant, William Cullen (quoted)
Buchanan, James “The Bachelor President”
Buckles, Frank
Budd, John
Bullard, Eugene
Bunche, Ralph Johnson
Bunner, Henry Cuyler (quoted)
Bunning, Jim
Burger, Warren
Burke, Arleigh
Burnett, Tom
Burns, Lucy
Burnside, Ambrose E.
Burr, Aaron
Burr, Seymour
Bush, Barbara (quoted)
Bush, George H. W. (quoted)
Bush, George W. (quoted)
Bush, Laura
Bustill, Cyrus
Butler, Benjamin F.
Butler, Nicholas M.
