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Carter G. Woodson
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Carter G. Woodson
Historian / 1875 - 1950
Carter G. Woodson was an African-American writer and historian known as the "Father of Black History Month." He penned the influential book The Mis-Education of the Negro.
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Thomas Hobbes
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Thomas Hobbes
Historian, Philosopher, Political Scientist, Scientist, Academic Author, Journalist / 1588 - 1679
Thomas Hobbes, an English philosopher in the 17th century, was best known for his book Leviathan (1651) and his political views on society.
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Karl Marx
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Karl Marx
Historian, Economist, Journalist / 1818 - 1883
German philosopher and revolutionary socialist Karl Marx published The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, anticapitalist works that form the basis of Marxism.
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Voltaire
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Voltaire
Historian, Philosopher, Writer / 1694 - 1778
Author Voltaire wrote the satirical novella Candide and, despite controversy during his lifetime, is widely considered one of France's greatest Enlightenment writers.
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Margaret Suckley
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Margaret Suckley
Historian, Writer / 1891 - 1991
Margaret Suckley was a close friend and confidante of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and served as the archivist for the first American presidential library.
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John Milton
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John Milton
Historian, Journalist, Poet / 1608 - 1674
John Milton, English poet, pamphleteer, and historian, is best known for writing Paradise Lost, widely regarded as the greatest epic poem in English.
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