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George Bancroft
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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(1800-1891)
Historian, Journalist
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Saul Bellow
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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(1915-2005)
Historian, Author
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Isaiah Berlin
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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(1909-1997)
Educator, Historian, Philosopher, Scholar, Academic Author, Journalist
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Michael Beschloss
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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(1955-)
Historian, Television Personality, Academic Author, Journalist
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Alan Bullock
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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(1914-2004)
Historian, Journalist
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Malcolm Cowley
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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(1898-1989)
Historian, Literary Critic, Journalist
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Bartolomé de Las Casas
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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(1474-1566)
Historian, Explorer, Political Leader, Missionary, Writer
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Alexis de Tocqueville
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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(1805-1859)
Historian, Academic Author, Journalist, Government Official
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Cosimo de' Medici
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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(1389-1464)
Historian, Art Collector, Business Leader, Political Leader, Royalty
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William Dodd
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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(1869-1940)
Historian, Diplomat
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Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
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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(1811-1888)
Educator, Historian, Scholar, World Leader, Journalist, Sociologist
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Michel Foucault
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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(1926-1984)
Anthropologist, Educator, Historian, Philosopher, Scholar, Activist, Academic Author, Journalist
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John Hope Franklin
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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(1915-2009)
Educator, Historian, Journalist
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J.F.C. Fuller
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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(1878-1966)
Historian, Military Leader, Journalist
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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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(1950-)
Educator, Historian, Scholar, Literary Critic, Filmmaker, Academic Author, Editor
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George Heard Hamilton
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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(1910-2004)
Historian
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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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(1588-1679)
Historian, Philosopher, Political Scientist, Scientist, Academic Author, Journalist
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Daniel J. Boorstin
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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(1914-2004)
Educator, Historian, Scholar, Academic Author, Journalist
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George F. Kennan
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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(1904-2005)
Historian, Diplomat, Academic Author
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Kathleen Kenyon
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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(1906-1978)
Archaeologist, Educator, Historian, Journalist
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Henry Cabot Lodge
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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(1850-1924)
Historian, U.S. Representative, Political Scientist
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Alfred Thayer Mahan
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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(1840-1914)
Educator, Historian, Military Leader, Journalist
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William Manchester
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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(1922-)
Historian, Journalist, Author
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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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(1818-1883)
Historian, Economist, Journalist
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James Mill
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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(1773-1836)
Historian, Philosopher, Academic Author
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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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(1608-1674)
Historian, Journalist, Poet
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C. Northcote Parkinson
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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(1909-1993)
Educator, Historian, Academic Author
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A.L. Rowse
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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(1903-1997)
Historian, Academic Author
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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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(1917-2007)
Historian, Academic Author
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J.C.L. Simonde de Sismondi
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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(1773-1842)
Historian, Economist, Writer
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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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(1891-1991)
Historian, Writer
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A.J.P. Taylor
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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(1906-1990)
Historian, Academic Author
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Barbara Tuchman
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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(1912-1989)
Historian, Journalist
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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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(1694-1778)
Historian, Philosopher, Writer
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Leonard D. White
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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(1891-1958)
Historian, Political Scientist, Journalist
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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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