Alphabet Lists: History
Whether you are a teacher or parent who is teaching children the alphabet, or just someone who loves words, alphabetizing, alliteration, or all of the above, we hope you find these word lists useful.
These are not meant to be exhaustive--just thorough, covering the basics from many categories that can be tied to the academic curriculum.
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Filter by: USA, WorldA
Abolition, Adams (Abigail), Adams (John Quincey), Adams (John), African Slave Trade, Alamo, Alexander the Great, Amendments, Anglo-Saxons, Anthony (Susan B.), Antietam, Apache, Apollo 11, Archimedes, Aristotle, Armstrong (Neil), Attila the Hun, AztecsB
Baby Boomers, Babylon, Bacon (Francis), Bill of Rights, Black Death, Bootleggers, Boston Tea Party, British Empire, Bronze Age, Buchanan (James), Buddha, Bull Run (Battle), Bunker Hill (Battle), Bush (George H. W.), Bush (George W.), Byzantine EmpireC
Capitalism, Captain James Cook, Carnegie (Andrew), Carter (Jimmy), Catherine the Great, Centurion (Rome), Chamberlain (Joshua Lawrence), Charlemagne, Cherokee, Churchill (Winston), Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Cleopatra, Cleveland (Grover), Clinton (Bill), Cold War, Colonialism, Columbus (Christopher), Communism, Confederacy, Confucius, Constantine, Constantinople, Constitution, Continental Congress, Coolidge (Calvin), Crusades (The), Cuban Missile Crisis, Cuneiform, Curie (Marie)D
D-Day, Dalai Lama, Darwin (Charles), Declaration of Independence, Descartes (Rene), Disney (Walt), Douglass (Frederick), Drake (Francis), Dust BowlE
Earhart (Amelia), East India Trading Company, Edison (Thomas), Egypt, Einstein (Albert), Eisenhower (Dwight), Emancipation Proclamation, Emperor, Empress, EnlightenmentF
Feudalism, Ford (Gerald), Fort Knox, Frank (Anne), Franklin (Benjamin), French and Indian War, Freud (Sigmund)G
Galileo, Gandhi (Mahatma), Gates (Bill), Generation X, Genghis Khan, Gettysburg, Gilded Age, Gold Rush, Gone with the Wind, Grant (Ulysses), Great Depression, Greece, Greek, Gutenberg (Johannes)H
Hamilton (Alexander), Harlem Reniassance, Hawking (Stephen), Hawthorne (Nathaniel), Hemmingway (Ernest), Hieroglyphs (Egypt), Hiroshima, Hitler (Adolf), Homer (Greece), Hoover (Herbert), Huckleberry FinnI
Immigration, Inauguration, Inca Empire, Independence Hall, Industrial Revolution, Information Age, Iron Age, Iroquois, Islamic Conquests, Iwo Jima (Battle)J
Jackson (Andrew), Jamestown, Jazz Age, Jefferson (Thomas), Jesus Christ, Jim Crow Laws, Joan of Arc, Jobs (Steve), Johnson (Lyndon B.), Julius CaesarK
Kennedy (John F.), Key (Francis Scott), King (Martin Luther), King Alfred, King Henry VIII, King Philip’s War, King Solomon (Israel), Kitty Hawk (First Flight), Korean WarL
Lafayette (Marquis), Latin, Leif Erickson, Lewis and Clark Expedition, Liberty Bell, Lincoln (Abraham), Lindbergh (Charles), Longfellow (Henry Wadsworth), Louisiana TerritoryM
Madison (James), Magellan, Malcolm X, Mandela (Nelson), Manifest Destiny, Marx (Karl), Mary Queen of Scots, Mayans, Mayflower, Mesopotamia, Middle Ages, Millay (Edna St. Vincent), Ming Dynasty (China), Mongols, Monroe (James), MuhammadN
Napoleon Bonaparte, NASA, Native Americans, Nazi Germany, Nero, Newton (Isaac), Nightingale (Florence), Nixon (Richard), Nuclear WarO
Obama (Barack), Ottoman EmpireP
Panama Canal, Parks (Rosa), Pasteur (Louis), Pearl Harbor, Persia, Pharaoh, Pilgrims, Pioneers, Plato, Pocahontas, Poe (Edgar Allen), Polk (James), Polo (Marco), Powhatan, President, Prime Minister, Prohibition, Protestant Reformation, PuritansQ
Qin Dynasty (China), Queen Elizabeth I, Queen of Sheba, Queen VictoriaR
Ramses II, Rasputin, Reagan (Ronald), Reconstruction Era, Renaissance, Revolutionary War, Robert the Bruce (Scotland), Rockefeller (John D.), Roman Catholic Church, Roman Empire, Rome, Roosevelt (Eleanor), Roosevelt (Franklin D.), Roosevelt (Theodore), Ross (Betsy)S
Saint Paul, Sakagawea, Seminole, Seneca Falls, September 11, Shakespeare, Sioux, Smith (John), Social Security, Socrates, Space Race, Spirit of St. Louis, Squanto, Stalin (Joseph), Stanton (Elizabeth Cady), Star Spangled Banner, Statue of Liberty, Stowe (Harriet Beecher)T
Taft (William Howard), Thatcher (Margaret), Thirteen Colonies, Trail of Tears, Transcontinental Railroad, Truman (Harry), Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Tubman (Harriet), Tutankhamun, Twain (Mark)U
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, United NationsV
Van Buren (Martin), Victorian Era, Vietnam War, Vikings, VoltaireW
Wabanaki, Wall Street, Wampanoag, War of 1812, Washington (George), Watergate Scandal, White House, Wilberforce (William), Wilson (Woodrow), World War I, World War II, Wright (Wilbur and Orville)X
Xia Dynasty (China)Z
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