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Historian, Journalist / 1800 - 1891
George Bancroft was known as the "father of U.S. history." His work, History of the United States, was the first comprehensive study of U.S. History.
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George Bancroft
1800-1891
Historian, Journalist
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Historian, Author / 1915 - 2005
Saul Bellow was a celebrated novelist who won the Pulitzer, the Nobel Prize for Literature and the National Book Award for Fiction three times.
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Saul Bellow
1915-2005
Historian, Author
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Educator, Historian, Philosopher, Scholar, Academic Author, Journalist / 1909 - 1997
Isaiah Berlin was a trailblazing 20th century scholar, philosopher and author, who championed pluralistic thinking and openness to ideas.
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Isaiah Berlin
1909-1997
Educator, Historian, Philosopher, Scholar, Academic Author, Journalist
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Historian, Television Personality, Academic Author, Journalist / 1955 -
Michael Beschloss is an historian and who has written on the John F. Kennedy presidency as well as making frequent appearances on CNN and other news programs.
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Michael Beschloss
1955-
Historian, Television Personality, Academic Author, Journalist
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Historian, Journalist / 1914 - 2004
British historian Alan Bullock is the author of several works on 20th century Europe, including studies of Hitler, Bevin and Stalin.
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Alan Bullock
1914-2004
Historian, Journalist
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Historian, Literary Critic, Journalist / 1898 - 1989
Malcolm Crowley was a literary critic and social historian who took part in Depression-era political debate.
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Malcolm Cowley
1898-1989
Historian, Literary Critic, Journalist
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Historian, Explorer, Political Leader, Missionary, Writer / 1474 - 1566
Originally a soldier, Bartolomé de Las Casas later worked against the oppression of indigenous races by Europeans.
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Bartolomé de Las Casas
1474-1566
Historian, Explorer, Political Leader, Missionary, Writer
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Historian, Academic Author, Journalist, Government Official / 1805 - 1859
Alexis de Tocqueville was a French historian and political scientist best known for his early work on the American political system Democracy in America.
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Alexis de Tocqueville
1805-1859
Historian, Academic Author, Journalist, Government Official
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Historian, Art Collector, Business Leader, Political Leader, Royalty / 1389 - 1464
Cosimo de' Medici was the "Elder" and start of the Medici dynasty that ruled Florence (Italy) from the late Middle Ages through the Renaissance, and after.
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Cosimo de' Medici
1389-1464
Historian, Art Collector, Business Leader, Political Leader, Royalty
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Historian, Diplomat / 1869 - 1940
William Dodd was an American historian and diplomat who wrote about the antebellum South and the Civil War.
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William Dodd
1869-1940
Historian, Diplomat
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Educator, Historian, Scholar, World Leader, Journalist, Sociologist / 1811 - 1888
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento was a writer and scholar who became president of Argentina in 1868.
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Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
1811-1888
Educator, Historian, Scholar, World Leader, Journalist, Sociologist
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Anthropologist, Educator, Historian, Philosopher, Scholar, Activist, Academic Author, Journalist / 1926 - 1984
Michel Foucault was a French philosopher and historian. His best known works are Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality.
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Michel Foucault
1926-1984
Anthropologist, Educator, Historian, Philosopher, Scholar, Activist, Academic Author, Journalist
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Educator, Historian, Journalist / 1915 - 2009
American historian and educator John Hope Franklin is noted for his reappraisal of the American Civil War era and the importance of the black American struggle.
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John Hope Franklin
1915-2009
Educator, Historian, Journalist
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Historian, Military Leader, Journalist / 1878 - 1966
J.F.C. Fuller was a 20th century British military officer, author, advocate of tank warfare and supporter of fascist movements.
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J.F.C. Fuller
1878-1966
Historian, Military Leader, Journalist
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Educator, Historian, Scholar, Literary Critic, Filmmaker, Academic Author, Editor / 1950 -
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is an African-American educator and scholar, and the director of the W. E. B. DuBois Institute for African and African-American Research.
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
1950-
Educator, Historian, Scholar, Literary Critic, Filmmaker, Academic Author, Editor
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Historian / 1910 - 2004
Art historian George Heard Hamilton was a 19th and 20th century art expert. He directed the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
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George Heard Hamilton
1910-2004
Historian
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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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Thomas Hobbes
1588-1679
Historian, Philosopher, Political Scientist, Scientist, Academic Author, Journalist
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Educator, Historian, Scholar, Academic Author, Journalist / 1914 - 2004
Daniel J. Boorstin was a writer and historian known for his Americans trilogy and The Discoverers.
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Daniel J. Boorstin
1914-2004
Educator, Historian, Scholar, Academic Author, Journalist
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Historian, Diplomat, Academic Author / 1904 - 2005
George F. Kennan served as a U.S. diplomat from 1926 to 1953. He wrote a famous Foreign Affairs article, "The Sources of Soviet Conduct," under the pen name Mr. X.
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George F. Kennan
1904-2005
Historian, Diplomat, Academic Author
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Archaeologist, Educator, Historian, Journalist / 1906 - 1978
Dame Kathleen (Mary) Kenyon was an English archaeologist who excavated Jericho to and showed it to be the oldest known continuously occupied human settlement.
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Kathleen Kenyon
1906-1978
Archaeologist, Educator, Historian, Journalist
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Historian, U.S. Representative, Political Scientist / 1850 - 1924
Henry Cabot Lodge was an American politician from Massachusetts and the first U.S. Senate majority leader.
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Henry Cabot Lodge
1850-1924
Historian, U.S. Representative, Political Scientist
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Educator, Historian, Military Leader, Journalist / 1840 - 1914
Alfred Thayer Mahan was an American naval officer and historian who was an exponent of sea power in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Alfred Thayer Mahan
1840-1914
Educator, Historian, Military Leader, Journalist
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Historian, Journalist, Author / 1922 -
William Manchester was a historian who notably wrote about American president John F. Kennedy and Winston Churchill.
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William Manchester
1922-
Historian, Journalist, Author
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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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Karl Marx
1818-1883
Historian, Economist, Journalist
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Historian, Philosopher, Academic Author / 1773 - 1836
James Mill was a Scottish historian, economist, and philosopher. He supported the radical philosophical belief called Utilitarianism.
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James Mill
1773-1836
Historian, Philosopher, Academic Author
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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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John Milton
1608-1674
Historian, Journalist, Poet
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Educator, Historian, Academic Author / 1909 - 1993
Author Cyril Northcote Parkinson is a British historian. He has written a number of books, but is best known for 1955’s Parkinson’s Law.
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C. Northcote Parkinson
1909-1993
Educator, Historian, Academic Author
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Historian, Academic Author / 1903 - 1997
A.L. Rowse was one of the 20th century's foremost historians on Elizabethan England. He wrote biographies of several English historical and literary figures.
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A.L. Rowse
1903-1997
Historian, Academic Author
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Historian, Academic Author / 1917 - 2007
Historian and political adviser Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. won his second Pulitzer Prize for A Thousand Days, a study of the Kennedy administration.
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
1917-2007
Historian, Academic Author
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Historian, Economist, Writer / 1773 - 1842
J.C.L. Simonde de Sismondi was an 18th-19th century economist and author who espoused pioneering ideas on governmental structures.
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J.C.L. Simonde de Sismondi
1773-1842
Historian, Economist, Writer
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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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Margaret Suckley
1891-1991
Historian, Writer
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Historian, Academic Author / 1906 - 1990
A.J.P. Taylor was a British historian and journalist noted for his lectures on history and for his prose style, who often sparked controversy with his views.
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A.J.P. Taylor
1906-1990
Historian, Academic Author
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Historian, Journalist / 1912 - 1989
Barbara Tuchman, American historian and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, is best known for writing The Guns of August and Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45.
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Barbara Tuchman
1912-1989
Historian, Journalist
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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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Voltaire
1694-1778
Historian, Philosopher, Writer
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Historian, Political Scientist, Journalist / 1891 - 1958
Leonard White was a political scientist and historian who was a leading authority on public administration.
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Leonard D. White
1891-1958
Historian, Political Scientist, Journalist
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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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1875-1950
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