the historians

 

George Bancroft (1800 - 1891) (above)
AB Harvard
PhD Gottingen University
See related posts below for considerable background information on Bancroft as well as the Biography section of “the books” for a listing of a number of books that profile Bancroft.
Book Review: George Bancroft
George Bancroft: American Historian

Some Writings:
The Office of the Peoples in Art, Government and Religion
The Progress of the Human Race

Charles Austin Beard (1874 - 1939) (above)
PhD 1904, Columbia University
Some works: An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution (1913), Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy (1915, reprinted 1965), The Economic Basis of Politics (1922). History of the United States (1921), The Rise of American Civilization (2 vol., 1927, repr. 1933) and its sequels (Vol. III and Vol. IV), America in Midpassage (1939), and The American Spirit (1943) were co-written with his wife, Mary Ritter Beard.

 

 

 

Mary Ritter Beard (1876 - 195 (above)
De Pauw University
Some works: Woman’s Work in Municipalities (1915), A Short History of the American Labor Movement (1920). History of the United States (1921), The Rise of American Civilization (2 vol., 1927, repr. 1933) and its sequels (Vol. III and Vol. IV), America in Midpassage (1939), and The American Spirit (1943) were written with husband Charles Beard. Pioneered the field of women’s history. Works on the subject include among others: Understanding Women (1931), America Through Women’s Eyes (1933), A Changing Political Economy as It Affects Women (1934), and Women as Force in History (1946).

 

 

 

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Gabor Boritt (above)

 

 

 

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Bruce Catton (above)

Avery O. Craven (above)

 

 

 

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William C. Davis (above)

Drew Gilpin Faust (above), holds the Lincoln Professorship of History at Harvard University and currently serves as its president. You can read more about President Faust here. She has authored six books, including The Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War , Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, which won the Francis Parkman Prize awarded by the Society of American Historians and the Avery Craven Prize.

David Hackett Fischer (above) is University Professor and Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University.
The Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D. 1962
Princeton University, B.A. 1958 
Photo credit: Brandeis University
Liberty and Freedom, Oxford: New York, 2005
Washington’s Crossing, Oxford University Press, 2004
With James Kelly. Bound Away University Press of Virginia, 2000
The Great Wave: Price Revolution and the Rhythm of History Oxford University Press, 1996
Paul Revere’s Ride Oxford University Press, 1994
Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America Oxford University Press, 1989
Growing Old in America New York: Oxford University Press, 1977
Historian’s Falacies New York: Harper & Row, 1970
The Revolution of American Conservatism New York: Harper & Row, 1965

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Eric Foner (above)
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Douglas Southall Freeman (above)

Frank Freidel (1916 - 1993) (above)
B.A. (1937), M.A. (1939) University of Southern California, 1937
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1942

 

Edward Hagerman (Not Pictured). Author: The American Civil War and the Origins of Modern Warfare: Ideas, Organization, and Field Command.

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William E. Gienapp (above)
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Michael F. Holt  Photo (above) credit: University of Virginia

Peter Charles Hoffer Photo (above) credit: University of Georgia

 

 

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University of Rochester, BA
MA, Harvard 1966
Ph.D. Harvard 1970
Special fields of interest: Early American history and legal history.
Recent work:
Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, and Fraud in the Writing of American History (PublicAffairs, 2004)
Seven Fires: The Urban Infernos that Reshaped American History (PublicAfairs, 2006)
The Brave New World: A History of Early America (Johns Hopkins, 2007); 
The Supreme Court: An Essential History (Kansas, 2007).
He is finishing two book length manuscripts, “The Treason Trials of Aaron Burr,” and “History is Impossible: A Philosophy of History for Our Times.” 

 

 

 

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Archer Jones Photo credit (above): North Dakota State University
1926 - 2006
Bachelor’s degree, Hampton-Sydney College, 1949
Master’s in history (1953), Ph.D. (1955) from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville

Gerald Linderman (placeholder)

 

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James M. McPherson  (above)

 

Allan R. Millett
 

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Kenneth M. Stampp (above)

 

 

An excellent summary of Dr. Stampp’s career is available at History News Network here. 
 

 

 

 

Emory M. Thomas (above), retired University of Georgia Regents Professor of History
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