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Western Civilization II: Home

Welcome

This guide is designed to help you complete the final assignment for Dr. Nichola Harris's Western Civilization II.

Suggested Subjects

The Macdonald DeWitt Library has biographies available on the following subjects.  These are just suggestions.  If there is a person you would like to research who is not on this list, we can help you find resources.  Please come to the information desk and a librarian will help you.

  • Alexander von Humboldt
  • Alfred Hitchcock
  • Angela Merkel
  • Ataturk
  • Bach
  • Beethoven
  • Berthe Morisot
  • Bismarck
  • Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton
  • Catherine the Great (1729-1796)
  • Cervantes
  • Charles Darwin
  • Charles Dickens
  • Charlie Chaplin
  • Charlotte Bronte
  • Coco Chanel
  • Cromwell
  • Dostoevsky
  • Einstein
  • Eleanor Marx
  • Elisabeth of Bohemia (1596-1662)
  • Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun
  • Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • Emily Bronte
  • Florence Nightingale
  • Freud
  • Galileo
  • Gertrude Bell
  • Goya
  • Handel
  • Henry Prince of Wales 1594-1612
  • Indira Gandhi
  • Ingmar Bergman
  • Isaac Newton
  • J.M.W. Turner
  • James Hutton
  • Jane Goodall
  • John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough
  • John Dee
  • John Lennon
  • John Locke
  • Josephine Bonaparte
  • C.G. Jung
  • Kaiser Wilhelm II
  • Karl Marx
  • King Edward VII of England (1841-1910)
  • Lord Nelson
  • Louis XIII (1601-1643)
  • Louis XIV (1638-1715)
  • Louis XVI (1754-1793)
  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • Mahler
  • Margaret Thatcher
  • Marie Curie
  • Mary Anning
  • Mary Seacole
  • Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Maud Gonne
  • Monet
  • Maria Montessori
  • Mountbatten
  • Mozart
  • Napoleon I (1769-1821)
  • Nelson Mandela
  • Nikola Tesla
  • Paul McCartney
  • Peter the Great (1672-1725)
  • Picasso
  • Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022)
  • Queen Victoria of England (1819-1901)
  • Rasputin
  • Robespierre
  • Rommel
  • Rosalind Franklin
  • Sarah Bernhardt
  • Stalin
  • Stephen Hawking
  • T.E.Lawrence
  • Vladimir Putin
  • Voltaire
  • Wallenberg
  • Gerrard Winstanley
  • Winston Churchill
  • Yoko Ono

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Portrait of Catherine the Great

Tcherny, Andreï Ivanovich. Portrait of Catherine the Great. enamel on copper, 1765. Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh (Russia). Visual Arts Legacy Collection. Artstor, JSTOR, https://jstor.org/stable/community.13937919. Accessed 17 June 2025.

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