Carter G. Woodson

Carter G. Woodson

male, deceased (1950)
Negro World contributor, from Washington, D.C., Virginia writer, West Virginia writer, Washington, D.C. writer, Negro World contributors…historian
Carter Godwin Woodson was an African American historian, author, journalist and the founder of Black History Month. He is considered the first to...
Henry Cabot Lodge

Henry Cabot Lodge

male, deceased (1924)
Harvard Law School alumni, death by stroke, Harvard University alumni, United States Republican Party, United States Senator, Cabot family…historian
Henry Cabot Lodge (May 12, 1850 - November 9, 1924) was an American statesman, a Republican politician, and noted historian.
Mircea Eliade

Mircea Eliade

male, deceased (1986)
sacred and profane, Shamanism, La Nuit Bengali, University of Chicago Divinity School, fascism, Iron Guard…historian
Mircea Eliade was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading...
John Lewis Gaddis

John Lewis Gaddis

male
Military historian, Naval War College faculty, Yale University faculty, Academic, University of Texas at Austin, American…historian
John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. He is a noted historian of the Cold War and...
Lewis Mumford

Lewis Mumford

male, deceased (1990)
City University of New York, from New York City, historian, Science writer, American technology writer, Stuyvesant High School alumni…Historian of technology
Lewis Mumford (October 19, 1895 - January 26, 1990) was an American historian of technology and science. Particularly noted for his study of cities...
Murray Rothbard

Murray Rothbard

male, deceased (1995)
Libertarian theorist, anarchist, Austrian School, Murray Newton Rothbard, anarcho-capitalist, Economist…Historian of the United States, historian
Murray Newton Rothbard was a highly influential American economist, historian and natural law theorist belonging to the Austrian School of...
Ammianus Marcellinus

Ammianus Marcellinus

male
historian, Latin writer, greek, Late antique Latin writer, ancient greek, Roman era historian
Ammianus Marcellinus was an Ancient Greek historian. He was the last major historian from the Roman period; his work detailed the history of the...
Drew Gilpin Faust

Drew Gilpin Faust

female, 62 years old
Harvard University, historian, Radcliffe Institute, President of Harvard University, American university and college president, Bryn Mawr College alumni…Society of American Historian, Historian of the United States, civil war historian
Historian Drew Gilpin Faust '68 will shatter one of America's oldest glass ceilings when she becomes the first woman to lead Harvard University in...
Francis Parkman

Francis Parkman

male, deceased (1893)
Harvard Law School alumni, American, Harvard University alumni, Harvard University faculty, Non-fiction writer, Horticulturist…historian
Francis Parkman (September 16, 1823 - November 8, 1893) was an American historian, best known as author of "The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie...
David Starkey

David Starkey

male, 64 years old
Dr. David Robert Starkey, Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, cbe, Westmorland, Geoffrey Elton…historian
Dr. David Robert Starkey CBE (born 3 January 1945) is an English historian, and a specialist in the Tudor period. Starkey was the only child of...