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Stephen E. Ambrose

Benedict Anderson

Public-conversations
Fred Anderson

Photo by Lilithcat
Herbert Aptheker

Credit: Linda A. Cicero/Stanford News Service (Stanford University)
Rick Atkinson

Columbia University
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks

The 9-11 Commission
John James Audubon

C. Turner (engraver) / Frederick Cruickshank (painter)
Andrew J. Bacevich

Kalman Zabarsky
John Barth

Charles A. Beard

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Edwin C. Bearss

Antony Beevor

Stephen Vincent Benet

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)

Wendell Berry


Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
William Blackstone

Print by T. Hamilton Crawford after Joshua Reynolds, c1930 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-2536)
W.E.B. Du Bois

Photo by Cornelius M. Battey, 1918 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-16767)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Gabor S. Boritt

Photograph by Liz Boritt
William Bradford

Photo by T.S. Custadio (Wikipedia)
Omar N. Bradley

Department of Defense photo
(trumanlibrary.org)
Taylor Branch

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Great Britain

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Wiley Britton

Kathleen M. Brown

University of Pennsylvania
James D. Bulloch

James D. Bulloch, Chief of the Confederate Secret Service in Europe
James MacGregor Burns

Courtesy of the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership
Philip Caputo

Photograph by Stephen Ellis
Richard J. Carwardine

Paul Eros
Bruce Catton

Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

Wikimedia commons
Mary Chesnut

Fromm Wikipedia
Winston Churchill

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)
Carl von Clausewitz

Henry Steele Commager

Henry Steele Commager, 1954 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienFrederick Copleston

the Earl of Cromer

Hal Crowther

R. L. Dabney

Norman Davies

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Oct. 7, 2004
Varina Davis

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Portraits from the Blair Family papers
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-07786)
U.S. War Dept.

Great Seal of the U.S. War Department
Alexander Procofieff. De Seversky

Charles B. Dew

Williams College
Jared Diamond

Thomas Dixon Jr.

Portrait of Thomas Dixon by A.J. Conant.
James Doolittle

Doolittle standing beside an airplane, circa 1944-45.
(history.navy.mil)
Robert Doughty

carl.army.mil
Frederick Douglass

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John W. Dower

Columbia University
Dave Dravecky


Alexandre Dumas

Jubal Anderson Early

Lieutenant-General Jubal A. Early, CSA,from a photograph.
Timothy Egan

Sophie Egan
Stanley M. Elkins

Credit: E.F. Winerock
Joseph J. Ellis

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Ralph Ellison

the Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Maryland

Washington National Cathedral. Photo by user AgnosticPreachersKid / Wikimedia Commons
Olaudah Equiano

This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or less.
Daniel A. Farber

Center for Law, Energy & the Environment
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)

Drew Gilpin Faust

Tony Rinaldo
David Hackett Fischer

Courtesy of David Hackett Fischer
Robert William Fogel

Photo courtesy the
University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Eric Foner

Photo by Greer Gattuso (© 2005 Eric Foner)
Shelby Foote

Richard J. Foster

Stephen Fox

Jerry Bauer
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
John Hope Franklin

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressJ. F. C. Fuller

Image from Tanks, 1914-1918; the log-book of a pioneer (1919) by Sir Albert Gerald Stern
Ernest B. Furgurson

Tom Bethell
John Lewis Gaddis


Gary W. Gallagher

Clifford Geertz

Mary Cross
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Carroll V. Glines

C.V. Glines at the podium during the Raiders Homecoming luncheon at the Emerald Coast Conference Center, Ft. Walton Beach, Fla., May 30, 2008. (U.S. Air Force photo by Lance Cheung/Released)
(defenseimagery.mil)
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Ulysses S. Grant

Major-General U.S. Grant, etching from a photograph probably taken in 1863.
Brian Greene

George Bird Grinnell

c1900, Ruthven Deane Collection (Library of Congress)
Steven Hahn

Columbia University
Alexander Hamilton

James R. Hansen

Photo by Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA)
B. H. Liddell Hart

carl.army.mil
Stephen Hawking

from Wikipedia
F. A. Hayek

Homer H Hickam Jr

courtesy of Homer Hickam
E. J. Hobsbawm

Harold Holzer

Harold Holzer, Lincoln scholar and Co-Chairman of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial 2009 Commission
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Daniel Horowitz

www.whitecollar.us
Tony Horwitz

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Daniel Walker Howe

Daniel Walker Howe, on right. Columbia University.
pulitzer.orgSamuel P. Huntington

Peter Lauth / World Economic Forum
Walter Isaacson

Photograph by Mary Pfaff
Stonewall Jackson

Library of Congress, circa 1861-65
C.L.R. James

Marquis James

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Thomas D. Jones

Photo created by NASA
Michael Kammen

Michael Kazin

Center for American Progress
Thomas a Kempis

Richard Kluger

© 2003 Phyllis Kluger
Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Edward J. Larson

Photo by user Ragesoss / Wikimedia Commons
Ted W. Lawson

Jim Lehrer

Credit: Larry D. Moore,2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Jill Lepore

Dari Michele
Bruce Levine

Bernard Lewis

Office of Communications, Princeton University
David Levering Lewis

Columbia University
Meriwether Lewis

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Charles Lindbergh

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Edward G. Longacre

courtesy of Rutledge Hill Press
Martin Luther

Douglas MacArthur

Department of Defense
Niccolo Machiavelli

Nancy K. MacLean

Photo courtesy of Nancy MacLean
A. T. Mahan

c1904, Library of Congress
Chandra Manning

Jenny Trurano
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
George B. McClellan

Major-General George B. McClellan, etching from a wartime photograph.
Stephanie McCurry

University of Pennsylvania
James M. McPherson

Prof. James M. McPherson (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Louis Menand

© Joe Tabacca
Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
James A. Michener

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Clay Morgan

Edmund S. Morgan

Columbia University
Robert Morgan

The crew of the Memphis Belle after their 25th mission: (l to r) Tech. Sgt. Loch, Staff Sgt. Scott, Tech. Sgt. Hanson, Capt. Verinis, Capt. Morgan, Capt. Evans, Staff Sgt. Quinlan, Staff Sgt. Nastal, Capt. Leighton and Staff Sgt. Winchell. (USAF photo)
Samuel Eliot Morison

U.S. Naval Historical Center
Division of Publications National Park Service (U.S.)

El Capitan and Merced River, Yosemite National Park, California
pdphoto.orgCraig Nelson

Kathryn Millan
Barnes & Noble

Signage outside the recently closed store at 600 Fifth Avenue, New York, taken by Lampbane
Mark A. Noll

Used by permission of
Baker Publishing Group, copyright © 2008. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published(see © info.)
Stephen B. Oates

Dr. Stephen B Oates speaking at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. (An NPS photo)
Barack Obama

David M. Oshinsky

Courtesy of Columbia University.
Richard Overy

Thomas Paine

Portrait (c. 1806/1807) by John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840) Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
Laurence Parent

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Francis Parkman

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ61-97
Randy Pausch

Randy Pausch
Nathaniel Philbrick

Christopher Phillips

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Kevin Phillips

Plutarch

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Albert J. Raboteau

Albert J. Raboteau, Henry W. Putnam Professor of Relligion, Princeton University. Photo by J.T. Miller, 1990 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Jack N. Rakove

Columbia University
William H. Rehnquist

Official portrait of Chief Justice of the United States William Rehnquist
David S. Reynolds

© 2004 Aline Pansoy
Richard Reynolds

Maggie Hannan
Robert Rogers

Robert Rogers (1731-1795)
Source: "Canada," by Agnes C. Laut
(Boston, 1909)
(Project Gutenberg)
Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
Arthur Meier Schlesinger

From Wikipedia.com
Walter Sir Scott

From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
(Project Gutenberg)
Raphael Semmes

Rear Admiral Raphael Semmes, CSA, CSN,Captain of the "Alabama" from a photograph taken in England after the loss of his ship.
Jeff Shaara

courtesy of Jeff Shaara
Ernest Shackleton

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-04778)
(cropped)
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Robert Gould. Ed. Russell Duncan Shaw

Robert Gould Shaw. Frontispiece from Memorial R.G.S. [Robert Gould Shaw] (1864)
William Tecumseh Sherman

E. & H.T. Anthony & Co.
Hampton Sides

Arkansas Literary Festival 2007, photo by David W. Quinn
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY

Headquarters, National Audubon Society, 2005. Photo by user Geographer / Wikipedia.
Peter N. Stearns

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Rick Steves

ricksteves.com
Geoffrey Stone

Photo by Lilithcat
I.F. Stone

Kzitelman
James L. Swanson

Library of Congress
Allen Tate

Allen Tate as a young man
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Alexis Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE

Sojourner Truth

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Richard Howard
United States

Cropped from "I want you for the U.S. Army nearest recruiting station" by James Montgomery Flagg. Wikimedia Commons.
Various

Virgil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Richard Wagner

from Wikipedia
Immanuel Wallerstein

Yale University
Andrew Ward

Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons
Henry Clay Warmoth

from a portrait at Louisiana State University
Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
John Waugh

John C. Waugh
Max Weber

William C. Westmoreland

Wikimedia Commons (U.S. Army Photo)
Martin J. Wiener

Rice University
Sean Wilentz

Prof. Sean Wilentz (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Garry Wills

I took this photo!
Douglas L. Wilson

Library of Congress
Owen Wister

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-06086)
Thomas Wolfe

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42508 DLC
World Almanac Books

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
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