History Makers: Read-Aloud True Stories of Remarkable People and Events

Continue your journey across the lives of fascinating figures and extraordinary events with History Makers, Volume 2. This second volume of true short stories is tailor-made for reading aloud. Each mini-biography or historical snapshot offers a ten-minute window into the lives of notable figures and impactful events. A set of follow-up discussion questions is included with each chapter to spark conversation and reminiscence. The stories can be easily blended with other activity programs focused on the figures or events such as trivia, movie screenings, “Name That Tune,” and other games to create a memorable journey through history.

Enjoy 20 engaging stories about the following remarkable people and events:

• Rampant Unknowns: The Moon Landing
• Mouse Ears and Imagineers: Walt Disney
• "Complete" Ignorance: John Bidwell
• America's Songwriter: Irving Berlin
• Cleopatra of the Secession: Belle Boyd
• Barnum Before the Big Top: Phineas T. Barnum
• Ten-Penny Tales: Beadle & Adams' Dime Novels
• A St. Louis Secret: Elsa Jane Forest aka "Mountain Charley"
• The Gingham-trimmed Girl of Sorrow: Elizabeth Eckford
• The Vision of Valor: Crazy Horse
• The Michelangelo of Con Artists: Joseph "The Yellow Kid" Weil
• A Daring Dash: George Armstrong Custer
• The Most American Thing in America: Chautauqua
• The Gentleman Bandit: Charles Boles aka "Black Bart"
• A Lucy-Lovin' Nation: Lucille Ball
• I Saw the Yankee: Susie King Taylor
• That Horrendous Hacking: Doc Holliday
• Those Grand Ole Walls: The Grand Ole Opry
• Un-swayed Will: Sarah Walden
• The "Talkies" First Words: The Warner Brothers

History Makers, Volume 2 written by Dennis Goodwin; 2024

ISBN: 978-1-958385-03-6

60 pages; 8-1/2" x 11" softcover book

About the Author
Dennis Goodwin has been a history buff and nonfiction short-story writer for decades. Throughout his career as an activity director and consultant, he has written numerous magazine articles for American History, Wild West, History Magazine, Nostalgia Digest, American Spirit, and other publications.