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 prints and photographs. Among his most notable productions are the 1990 film, "The Civil War", the 1994 film, "Baseball", and the 2001 film, "JAZZ".

Shelby Dade Foote, Jr. was an American novelist and a noted historian of the American Civil War. With geographic and cultural roots in the Mississippi Delta alluvium, Foote's life and writing paralleled the radical shift from the agrarian planter system of the Old South to the Civil Rights era of the New South. Foote was relatively unknown to the general public for most of his career until his appearance in Ken Burns' PBS documentary "The Civil War" in 1990, …

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 National Book Award, he is widely referred to as a "master of the art of narrative history." Among his most well-known books are "The Path Between the Seas", "Truman", "John Adams", and his most recent volume, "1776" (a "New York Times" and Amazon bestseller).

Eric D. Burns is a documentary filmmaker and writer. Burns has been writing, directing and producing historical documentaries for nearly 20 years, since his collaboration on the celebrated PBS series "The Civil War", (1990), which he produced with his brother Ken Burns, and wrote with Geoffrey C. Ward. Since founding Steeplechase Films in 1989, he has directed several programs for WGBH Boston's American Experience, including "Coney Island" (1991).

Frank Wildhorn is an American composer. In 1999, Wildhorn became the first American composer in twenty two years to have three shows running simultaneously on Broadway: "Jekyll & Hyde" at the Plymouth Theatre, "The Scarlet Pimpernel" at the Minskoff, and "The Civil War" at the St. James Theatre. Currently, he is engaged to Brandi Burkhardt. His fiancée is currently on Passions, playing the contract role of Siren, …

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 frequented Greenwich Village music venues during his formative period, and was a member of Cat Mother and the all-night newsboys & the Putnam String County Band. Although he has often played with David Bromberg, he is probably best known for "Ashokan Farewell", …

Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut (March 31, 1823 - November 22, 1886) was a South Carolina woman famous for keeping an extremely detailed diary describing the American Civil War. She was born in Statesburg, South Carolina, to Mary Boykin and Stephen Decatur Miller, who had been a U.S. Senator and governor of South Carolina. On April 23, 1840, she married James Chesnut, Jr., who was elected to the Senate in 1850.

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 discarded law for literature. In 1622 he produced his first comedy, "The Heir", and also a translation of Virgil's "Georgics". Six years later, in 1627, appeared his translation of "Lucan", which gained him the favour of Charles I at whose command he wrote two poems, "The Reigne of King Henry II", …

Elisha Hunt Rhodes (March 21 1842 - January 14, 1917) served in the Union Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War. Rhodes' illustrative diary of his war service was quoted prominently in Ken Burns' PBS documentary "The Civil War". Rhodes was born in Pawtuxet, Rhode Island, to Elisha H. and Eliza A. Rhodes. He had one sister and two brothers. At age 14, Rhodes went to a business academy. Soon after his father was believed to have died at sea.

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 more than twenty years. He holds an M.M. degree from Tufts University. He has performed at Carnegie Hall with Stephane Grappelli and Yo-Yo Ma, and at the Boston Globe Jazz Festival with Gunther Schuller. He has also performed with Bob Dylan, Ralph Stanley, Lee Konitz, David Grisman, Mark O'Connor, Andy Statman, Jamey Haddad, …

Alex Turner was a slave who escaped from his plantation at the start of the Civil War, and joined the 1st New Jersey Cavalry under the Union army. In the Spring of 1863, Turner guided his regiment to his old plantation in Port Royal, Virginia where he killed his former overseer. At the end of the war, Turner returned to New England where he worked as a logger. In 1883, his daughter Daisy Turner was born. Daisy can be seen reciting Civil War poetry, …

</gallery>;Beth Leavel (born November 1, 1955 in Raleigh, North Carolina) is an American musical theatre actress. Leavel attended Meredith College in her undergraduate years and completed a musical theatre degree at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She acted during college, appearing in productions such as "Cabaret" and "Hello, Dolly!". Her Broadway debut was in the 1980 production of "42nd Street" as a replacement for Annie.

Akbar Turajonzoda (born in 1954) is a Senator in the National Assembly of Tajikistan. He served as the Qazi Qalon, the highest Muslim authority in Tajikistan, from 1988 to 1991. He served as the second-in-command of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan and the United Tajik Opposition from 1993 until his expulsion from the party in 1999. He served as the Deputy Prime Minister in the Tajik government after the civil war.

Chad Kimball is an American Theater Actor. After graduating from Boston Conservatory, Chad moved to New York and was hired in the Broadway show, "The Civil War". Soon he was in the Off-Broadway revival of "Godspell", and in the revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods". Later, he appeared in the Broadway musical "Lennon".

Felix Doh was a rebel leader in Côte d'Ivoire. He was the leader of the Ivorian Popular Movement of the Great West (MPIGO), based around the western town of Danane, during the civil war that was fought in Côte d'Ivoire from late 2002 to early 2003. He seems to have fought alongside Liberian mercenaries initially, but fighting later erupted between the Ivorian rebels and these mercenaries in April 2003. Doh was reportedly killed by the Liberian mercenaries, …

Peter Mews (March 25, 1619 - November 9, 1706), English royalist and divine, was born at Caundle Purse in Dorset, and was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, and at St John's College, Oxford, of which he was scholar and fellow. When the Civil War broke out in 1642 he joined the Royalist army, and, having been made a captain, was taken prisoner at Naseby; but he was soon released and in 1648 sought refuge in Holland.

Rakhmon Nabiyev served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan and twice as the President of Tajikistan. He partly instigated the civil war. Rising out of the regional nomenklatura, Nabiyev ascended to power in 1982 as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan. In 1985 he was ousted in a corruption scandal. After Tajik leaders declared the independence of the Republic of Tajikistan in September 1991, …

William T. Kirby (1911-1990) was a founding member of the board of directors and Chairman of the Board of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Kirby, John MacArthur's attorney, and Paul Doolen, MacArthur's CFO, suggested that the MacArthurs create a foundation which was endowed by the MacArthur's vast fortune. The legal document, written by Kirby, that created the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation was two pages long and written in plain English.

Cardinal Emmanuel Kiwanuka Nsubuga (5 November, 1914 - 20 April, 1991), was the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Uganda and Archbishop of Kampala between 1976 and 1990. He was an opponent of human rights abuses of the military dictatorship of Idi Amin. During Amin's rule, Cardinal Nsubuga spoke against the Government's human rights abuses.

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Evan Bayh is a heartland Democrat with a history of advancing progressive values in a traditionally Republican state. First elected Indiana governor at age 32-America's youngest governor at the time-he served two terms as Indiana's chief executive and is now in his second term in the United States Senate. Throughout his career in public service, Evan Bayh has been a common-sense pragmatist who focuses on innovative solutions to help tackle our toughest challenges at home and abroad.

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