Ken Burns

Ken Burns

male, 56 years old
1990 film, 1994 film, 2001 film, Bates College alumni, Kenneth Lauren Burns, Unforgivable Blackness…TheCivilWar, Winner of the Lincoln Prize, american civil war
Kenneth Lauren Burns (b. July 29, 1953) is an American director and producer of documentary films known for his style of making use of original...
Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote

male, deceased (2005)
historian, Mississippi Delta, TheCivilWar, Shelby Dade Foote, Jr, New South, PBS…Historian of the United States, american civil war
Shelby Dade Foote, Jr. was an American novelist and a noted historian of the American Civil War. With geographic and cultural roots in the...
David McCullough

David McCullough

male, 76 years old
David Gaub McCullough, public broadcasting service, National Book Award, Bonesman, Brave Companions, Skull and Bones…The Great Bridge, TheCivilWar, The American Experience, The Path Between the Seas, The Johnstown Flood
David Gaub McCullough (born July 7, 1933) is an American historian and bestselling author. A two-time winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the...
Ric Burns

Ric Burns

male
Columbia University alumni, Geoffrey C. Ward, The Way West, TheCivilWar, Steeplechase Films, WGBH…the donner party
Eric D. Burns is a documentary filmmaker and writer. Burns has been writing, directing and producing historical documentaries for nearly 20 years,...
Frank Wildhorn

Frank Wildhorn

male
never say goodbye, musician, Atlantic Records, passions, Broadway theatre, Sammy Davis Jr.…TheCivilWar, the scarlet pimpernel
Frank Wildhorn is an American composer. In 1999, Wildhorn became the first American composer in twenty two years to have three shows running...
Jay Ungar

Jay Ungar

male
Michael Merenda, Ashokan Field Campus, Cat Mother and the all-night newsboys, fiddler, Ruth Ungar, The Mammals…Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys, TheCivilWar
Jay Ungar is an American musician and composer. Ungar was born in the Bronx (New York City), the son of immigrant parents from Eastern Europe. He...
Mary Chesnut

Mary Chesnut

female, deceased (1886)
documentary, brigadier general, american civil war, from South Carolina, pulitzer prize, Governor of South Carolina…TheCivilWar, U.S. Department of the Interior
Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut (March 31, 1823 - November 22, 1886) was a South Carolina woman famous for keeping an extremely detailed diary...
Thomas May

Thomas May

male, deceased (1650)
Member of Gray's Inn, poet, English Civil War, University of Cambridge, elizabeth, lucan…TheCivilWar, The Heir, The Victorious Reigne of King Edward III, The Reigne of King Henry II
Thomas May was a poet and historian. May was born in Mayfield, the son of Sir Thomas May. He went to Cambridge, and then to Gray's Inn, but...
Elisha Hunt Rhodes

Elisha Hunt Rhodes

male, deceased (1917)
2nd Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry, Pawtuxet, Rhode Island in the American Civil War, TheCivilWar, Army of the Potomac, Union Army…american civil war
Elisha Hunt Rhodes (March 21 1842 - January 14, 1917) served in the Union Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War. Rhodes' illustrative...
Matt Glaser

Matt Glaser

male
Tufts University, American, jazz violin, TheCivilWar, Stephane Grappelli, Andy Statman…King of the Gypsies
Matt Glaser is an American jazz and bluegrass violinist. He has served as the chair of the string department at the Berklee College of Music for...