Literary Library

Thomas Bailey Marquis

by Angela Beck
December 19, 1869 - March 22, 1935American historian, ethnographer, writer, printmaker and physicianAuthor of "Memoirs of a White Crow Indian", "Cu...
American History Doctor Ethnographer Historian history Medical Medicine Physician Printmaker Writer

James Oakes

by Angela Beck
December 19, 1953 - American historian, professor and authorAuthor of "The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders", "The Radical and the R...
Abraham Lincoln American History Civil War Frederick Douglass Historian history Professor Slavery Slaves Teach Teacher University

William Cooper Nell

by Angela Beck
December 16, 1816 - May 25, 1874African-American abolitionist, journalist, publisher and writerAuthor of "Services of Colored Americans in the War...
Abolitionist African American African American History American History American Revolution American South Journalism Journalist Patriots Publisher Slavery Slaves Underground Railroad Writer

Carl Abbott

by Angela Beck
December 3, 1944 - American historian, urbanist and academicAuthor of "The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West", "How Cities ...
Academic American History American West City Historian Metropolitan Science Fiction Urban Urbanist West

Richard Stites

by Angela Beck
December 2, 1931 - March 7, 2010American historian and professorAuthor of "The Women's Liberation Movement in Russia: Feminism, Nihilism, and Bolsh...
American History Author Bolshevism Feminism Historian Imperial Russia Professor Russian Russian History Teach Teacher University

George Saunders

by Angela Beck
December 2, 1958 - American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books and novels and journalist and professorAuthor of "Lincoln ...
Abraham Lincoln American History American South Booker Prize Children's Book Children's Book Author Children's Books Civil War Essayist Essays Journalism Journalist Lincoln Novel Novelist Novella PEN/Hemingway Award Professor Short Story Teach Teacher University

Suzanne Lebsock

by Angela Beck
December 1, 1949 - American author and historianAuthor of "The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784 - 1860", "Virg...
American History American South Author Historian history South Southern Southern History Virginia

Michael Beschloss

by Angela Beck
November 30, 1955 - American historian and writerAuthor of "The Crises Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960 - 1963", "Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Jo...
American History Author Historian history John F. Kennedy Kennedy Khrushchev Lyndon Johnson Political Political History President Kennedy Russia Russian Russian History U.S.S.R. USSR White House

Gordon S. Wood

by Angela Beck
November 27, 1933 - American historian and professorAuthor of "The Radicalism of the American Revolution" (for which he won a Pulitzer Prize for H...
Academic American History American Revolution Benjamin Franklin Historian National Humanities Medal Professor Pulitzer Prize Thomas Jefferson US History

Annette Gorden-Reed

by Angela Beck
November 19, 1958 - African-American historian, author and law professorAuthor of "Vernon Can Read: A Memoir", "The Hemingses of Monticello: An Am...
African American American History Historian Law Law Professor National Book Award Professor Pulitzer Prize Teacher

Shelby Foote

by Angela Beck
November 16, 1916 - June 27, 2005American historian, writer and journalistAuthor of "Shiloh", "The Civil War: A Narrative" and "Jordan County"
American History Civil War Historian Journalist News

James Green

by Angela Beck
November 4, 1944 - June 23, 2016American historian, professor, writer and labor activistAuthor of "Taking History to Heart", "Death in the Haymark...
Academic Activist American History Historian Labor Activist Professor Teacher