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Carl Sandburg
American writer and editor (1878–1967)
Leo Strauss
History of Political Philosophy scholar (1899-1973)
William L. Shirer
American journalist (1904–1993)
Edgar Lee Masters
American writer (1868–1950)
Carol Shields
American/Canadian author
Allan Bloom
American philosopher, classicist, and academician (1930–1992)
Vincent Canby
American film and theatre critic (1924–2000)
Julian May
American science fiction, fantasy, horror, science and children's writer (1931–2017)
Richard Roeper
American writer and film critic
Barry Gifford
American novelist, poet, screenwriter, biographer, editor (born 1946)
Francis Otto Matthiessen
American academic (1902–1950)
Randy Shilts
American journalist (1951–1994)
Andrew C. McLaughlin
American historian (1861–1947)
Andrew Bacevich
United States Army officer
Robert Roswell Palmer
American historian (1909–2002)
Edwin R. Thiele
American archaeologist (1895–1986)
Marilyn Yalom
American historian
David C. Lindberg
American historian of science (1935–2015)
John Robert McNeill
American environmental historian, Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, US
James Harvey Robinson
American historian (1863–1936)
Edwin Black
American journalist
John Lancaster Spalding
Catholic bishop
Perry Miller
American historian (1905–1963)
William Irwin Thompson
American poet and social critic (1938–2020)
Linda Gordon
American historian (born 1940)
Amy Knight
American historian
James Grant Wilson
Union Army general, and publisher (1832–1914)
James Loewen
American historian (1942-2021)
Walter Kerr
American writer (1913-1996)
Walter Taylor
anthropologist, archaeologist, United States Marine, (1913–1997)
Don Edward Fehrenbacher
American historian (1920-1997)
Helen Heffron Roberts
American ethno-musicologist (1888–1985)
Michael Beschloss
American historian and author
Max Dashu
American historian
Isaac Newton Arnold
American politician (1815–1884)
James Barnet Fry
Union Army General (1827-1894)
Norman Golb
American historian (1928-2020)
Ralph McGehee
college football player who became a CIA agent and whistle blower (1928–2020)
Noel Ignatiev
American author and historian (1940–2019)
David Satter
American journalist and writer
Katharine Kuh
American art critic (1904–1994)
Charles L. Mee
American dramatist (born 1938)
Elisha Andrews
American economist and educator (1844-1917)
John Hattendorf
American naval historian
Noah Brooks
American journalist and editor (1830–1903)
Allen G. Debus
American historian of science (1926-2009)
Jack N. Rakove
American historian
James Green
American historian
Louis Dyer
American historian
Paul Sidney Martin
American anthropologist and archaeologist (1898–1974)
Carter Eckert
American Koreanist (1945–2024)
Eva Emery Dye
American writer. First to present Sacagawea as an important historical figure. Women's suffrage advocate.
Norman Hapgood
American diplomat, editor, writer and journalist
Seymour Slive
American art historian (1920-2014)
Lilian Whiting
American writer
Robert M. Kingdon
American historian (1927-2010)
Kathleen Thompson
American Feminist Writer
Charlotte Erickson
American historian (1923–2008)
Howard K. Beale
American historian (1899–1959)