Nell Irvin Painter

Nell Irvin Painter

female
historian, HistorianoftheUnitedStates, organization of american historian, American
Nell Irvin Painter is an American historian and the current President of the Organization of American Historians.
George Bancroft

George Bancroft

male, deceased (1891)
United States Naval Academy, from Washington, D.C., from Worcester, Massachusetts, statesman, American, annapolis…United States Secretary of the Navy, HistorianoftheUnitedStates, Ambassador of the United States, historian, U.S. Secretary of the Navy
George Bancroft (October 3, 1800 - January 17, 1891) was an American historian and statesman who was prominent in promoting secondary education...
Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn

male, 87 years old
American military personnel of World War II, Marxist, tax resister, American Civil Rights Movement, anarchist, Playwright…Historian of anarchism, A People's History of the United States, United States Army officer, historian, HistorianoftheUnitedStates
Howard Zinn (born August 24, 1922) is an American historian, political scientist, social critic, activist and playwright, best known as author of...
Stephen Ambrose

Stephen Ambrose

male, deceased (2002)
historian, Military historian, richard m. nixon, Naval War College faculty, Louisiana State University faculty, Ph.D.…University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni, HistorianoftheUnitedStates
Stephen Edward Ambrose, Ph.D. (January 10, 1936 – October 13, 2002) was an American historian and biographer of U.S. Presidents Dwight Eisenhower an...
Frederick Jackson Turner

Frederick Jackson Turner

male, deceased (1932)
historian, University of Wisconsin-Madison, phi kappa phi, University of Wisconsin, Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University faculty…HistorianoftheUnitedStates, University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni
Frederick Jackson Turner was, with Charles A. Beard, the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He is best known for "The...
Eric Foner

Eric Foner

male, deceased (1943) (New York City Area, United States)
republican party, American, Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, Academic, Reconstruction, Columbia University faculty…HistorianoftheUnitedStates, historian, president of the Organization, President of the American Historical Association, Society of Columbia Graduates
Starting October 1, 2001 , Eric Foner will moderate a month-long open discussion on teaching about Reconstruction on the HISTORY MATTERS Web site...
Robert V. Remini

Robert V. Remini

male
Fordham University, jacksonian era, Employee of the United States Congress, University Of Illinois At Chicago, American, HistorianoftheUnitedStates…historian
Robert V. Remini (b. July 17, 1921) is a historian and a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of numerous works...
C. Vann Woodward

C. Vann Woodward

male, deceased (1999)
Columbia University, Emory University, communist party, historian, from Arkansas, HistorianoftheUnitedStates…University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
Comer Vann Woodward (November 13, 1908 - December 17, 1999) was a pre-eminent American historian focusing primarily on the American South and race...
Samuel Eliot Morison

Samuel Eliot Morison

male, deceased (1976)
historian, Harvard University faculty, Harvard University alumni, reserve, United States Navy admiral, HistorianoftheUnitedStates…Naval historian, presidential medal of freedom, Maritime historian, United States Naval Reserve
Samuel Eliot Morison, Rear Admiral, Reserve (July 9, 1887 – May 15, 1976) was an American historian, noted for producing works of maritime hi...