National History Day 2009?

im in ap history. and i am really stuck on who to do for my individual in history for my history day project. i don’t want to do someone big like washington mozart rosa parks. i want something original but important….

i was looking through here and saw Dr. Seuss aka Theodore Geisel
but i wasn’t sure how i can say he actually impacted history.

i am open to suggestions (:

virtually every child (since about 1950) has grown up reading his books so he has helped generations learn to read not to mention his influence on them by the content of his books

in addition he worked in advertising, drew cartoons for newspapers and had a direct input into the war effort –

In 1942, Geisel turned his energies to direct support of the U.S. war effort. First, he worked drawing posters for the Treasury Department and the War Production Board. Then, in 1943, he joined the Army and was commander of the Animation Dept of the First Motion Picture Unit of the United States Army Air Forces, where he wrote films that included Your Job in Germany, a 1945 propaganda film about peace in Europe after World War II, Our Job in Japan, and the Private Snafu series of adult army training films. While in the Army, he was awarded the Legion of Merit.[citation needed] Our Job in Japan became the basis for the commercially released film, Design for Death (1947), a study of Japanese culture that won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature.[4] Gerald McBoing-Boing (1950), which was based on an original story by Seuss, won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film.

should be enough there and in the rest of the article at the link below to show his influence, especially on american children