Nat Hentoff

Nat Hentoff

male, 84 years old
ideological left, Censorship, Left-wing politics, Critic, Political writer, music historian…historian
Nat Hentoff contributes regularly to Village Voice and The Wall Street Journal . Among other publications in which his work has appeared are The...
Michael Howard

Michael Howard

male, 87 years old
Army Officer, Recipient of the Military Cross, British Military, Military writer, Italian Campaign, Order of the British Empire…historian, Military historian
Sir Michael Eliot Howard, OM, CH, CBE, MC (born 29 November 1922) is a retired British military historian, formerly Chichele Professor of the...
Will Durant

Will Durant

male, deceased (1981)
American of French Canadian descent, The Story of Civilization, French American, philosopher, William James Durant, historian…historian, and writer
William James Durant (November 5, 1885-November 7, 1981) was an American philosopher, historian, and writer. He is best known for his authorship...
Robert Dallek

Robert Dallek

male
Columbia University, Oxford University, Boston University, Bancroft Prize, historian, UCLA
Robert Dallek, born May 16 1934, is a prominent American historian with a specialism of American Presidents. He is a Professor of History at Boston...

William Gibson

male, 50 years old
Gloucester, Huish’s Grammar School, Richard Huish College, Taunton, St David’s University College, Church, State and Society, 1760-1850, The Church of England 1688-1832 Unity and Accord…historian
William Thomas Gibson is a historian, academic, and professor who specialises in the history of religion in Britain in the early modern period. The...

John Wilson

male, 230 years old
historian, Our Israelitish Origin, Anglo-Israel Association, Pyramidology, Rawlinson, British Israelism
John Wilson (born in 1779 at Kilmarnock) was the ideological architect of British Israelism. Wilson commenced studying at great length in the...
Barbara Tuchman

Barbara Tuchman

female, deceased (1989)
historian, Radcliffe College alumni, American, Military writer, World War I historian, The Guns of August…Historian of the United States
Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (January 30, 1912 - February 6, 1989) was an American historian and author, and became best known for "The Guns of...
Isaiah Berlin

Isaiah Berlin

male, deceased (1997) (United States)
Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, Old Pauline, Russian, From RIGA, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford…historian of ideas, historian
Sir Isaiah Berlin, OM (June 6 1909 – November 5 1997), was a political philosopher and historian of ideas, regarded as one of the leading liberal th...
Diodorus Siculus

Diodorus Siculus

male
Bibliotheca historica, angry mob, Classical geography, Ptolemaic Egypt, Chronica, BC death…Roman era historian, historian
Diodorus Siculus (Greek), ca. 90 BC- ca. 30 BC, was a Greek historian, born at Agyrium in Sicily (now called Agira). Jerome writes that Diodorus...
Winfield Scott

Winfield Scott

male, deceased (1866)
War of 1812 prisoners of war, College of William and Mary alumni, mexican-american war, United States Army general, historian, american civil war
Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786 - May 29, 1866) was a United States Army general, diplomat, and presidential candidate. Known as "Old Fuss and...