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American history is a fascinating subject written by many fascinating figures. Take a look at important American historians in these articles.
Featured Article: Lewis Mumford
Mumford, Lewis (1895–1990), a United States historian and social critic. Many of his writings deal with the relation between human beings and their environment, especially in cities. See more »
Henry S. Commager
Commager, Henry Steele (1902–1998), a United States historian and educator. His first book, The Growth of the American Republic (2 volumes, 1930 and later editions), written with Samuel E.
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Tarbell, Ida M. (Minerva) (1857–1944), a United States author. Her book The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904), which was serialized in McClure's Magazine, was one of the first and best-known contributions to the muckraking movement (a journalistic movement that exposed social, economic, and political evils in the United States).
See more »James Breasted
Breasted, James Henry (1865–1935), a United States Egyptologist, archeologist, and historian.
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Rhodes, James Ford (1848-1927), a United States historian. His seven-volume History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 (1893-1906) runs through the Civil War and closes with the end of the Reconstruction period in the South in 1877.
See more »James Truslow Adams
Adams, James Truslow (1878–1949), a United States historian. Adams was an authority on the history of New England and the New England Adamses (to whom he was not related).
See more »Jared Sparks
Sparks, Jared (1789–1866), a United States historian, educator, and editor. He pioneered in the use of original documents as source material, setting a precedent for historical research.
See more »John Fiske
Fiske, John (1842–1901), a United States philosopher and historian. Fiske popularized the ideas on evolution of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer.
See more »John George Nicolay
Nicolay, John George (1832–1901), a United States author and public official. He and John Hay wrote the authoritative Abraham Lincoln: A History (10 volumes, 1890), which was authorized by Lincoln in 1861.
See more »John Hope Franklin
Franklin, John Hope (1915–), a United States historian and educator, considered by scholars to be the foremost authority on the history of black Americans.
See more »John L. Motley
Motley, John Lothrop (1814–1877), a United States historian. His reputation rests mainly upon The Rise of the Dutch Republic (3 volumes, 1856).
See more »Lewis Mumford
Mumford, Lewis (1895–1990), a United States historian and social critic. Many of his writings deal with the relation between human beings and their environment, especially in cities.
See more »Mari Sandoz
Sandoz, Mari (1901–1966), a United States author. She wrote biographies, histories, and novels dealing mainly with inhabitants of the Great Plains in the 19th century.
See more »Moses C. Tyler
Tyler, Moses Coit (1835–1900), a United States historian who was a pioneer in the study of American literary history.
See more »Owen Lattimore
Lattimore, Owen (1900-1989), a United States expert on the Far East. Lattimore, who had been an advisor to the State Department during the 1940's, came to public attention in 1950, during a period of fervent anti-Communism.
See more »Paul Horgan
Horgan, Paul (1903–1995), a United States author. Two of his books—Great River: the Rio Grande in North American History (1954) and Lamy of Santa Fe (1975)—won Pulitzer Prizes in history.
See more »Ray S. Baker
Baker, Ray Stannard (1870–1946), a United States journalist and author. He was a close friend of President Wilson and was his authorized biographer.
See more »Samuel Eliot Morison
Morison, Samuel Eliot (1887–1976), a United States historian, considered a master of narrative history and historical biography.
See more »Vernon Parrington
, Vernon L. (Louis) (1871–1929), a United States literary critic and educator. His Main Currents in American Thought (3 volumes, 1927–30) examines, from the viewpoint of a Jeffersonian liberal, American ideas and economic influences as expressed in literature.
See more »Will Durant
Durant, Will (William James Durant) (1885–1981), a United States author. The Story of Civilization (11 volumes, 1935–75) is his major work.
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