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Peter Abelard

John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton

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

Leopoldo Alas

Unknown photographer
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
William Allen

William Allen (1532-1594) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienStephen Ambrose

Benedict Anderson

Public-conversations
Anonymous

Anselm of Aosta

Hannah Arendt

Ludovico Ariosto

Ludovico Ariosto. From Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905). Wikimedia Commons.
Aristotle

Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from 330 BC,
Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Arrian

Clement R. Attlee

United States Army Signal Corps
(trumanlibrary.org)
St. Augustine

Marcus Aurelius

Teresa of Avila

Peter Paul Rubens
M.M. Bakhtin

Matsuo Basho

Portrait of Basho by Buson
Charles A Beard

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

Antony Beevor

Walter Benjamin

Nicolas Berdyaev

Kai Bird

Columbia University
(Kai Bird is at center)
Jean Bodin

Boethius

W. E. B. Du Bois

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

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Catherine Drinker Bowen

Taylor Branch

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Vera Brittain

Mark Gerson
Kathleen M. Brown

University of Pennsylvania
James Bryce

Davis & Sanford (1904)
Jacob Burckhardt

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.
Julius Caesar

public domain
Philip Caputo

Photograph by Stephen Ellis
Clayborne Carson

Courtesy of Clayborne Carson
Bartolome de Las Casas

from Wikipedia
Baldesar Castiglione

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com
Bernal Diaz del Castillo

Bust of Bernal Diaz, Medina del Campo, Spain. Photo by José-Manuel Benito / Wikimedia Commons.
Catullus

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)
Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
Henry Steele Commager.

Henry Steele Commager, 1954 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienAnna Comnena

Byzantine Mosaic
Robert Conquest

Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin wipes a tear after being honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005, during ceremonies at the White House. Looking on are fellow recipients Robert Conquest, left, and Alan Greenspan.
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Capt. James Cook

wikipedia - James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. 1775, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Duff Cooper

Hernando Cortes

Engraving by W. Holl; published by Charles Knight, Library of Congress
Ralf Dahrendorf

Ralf Dahrendorf, 2003. Photo by Holger Noß / Wikimedia Commons.
Dante

by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Norman Davies

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Oct. 7, 2004
John Dee

Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
John Dickinson

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

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

Columbia University
Paul Dukes

Will Durant

Charles A. Eastman

From "AMONG THE SIOUX
A Story of The Twin Cities and The Two Dakotas," Creswell, 1906
(Project Gutenberg)
Crystal Eastman

Source: George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-62094
Jonathan Edwards

from Wikipedia
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.
Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Eusebius

John King Fairbank

Rick Stafford
Frantz Fanon

Paula S. Fass

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Drew Gilpin Faust

Tony Rinaldo
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Norma Field

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Orlando Figes

Frances FitzGerald

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Sheila Fitzpatrick

Photo courtesy the
University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Gustave Flaubert

Eric Foner

Photo by Greer Gattuso (© 2005 Eric Foner)
John Hope Franklin

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Harold Frederic

See below.
John Lewis Gaddis

Eduardo Galeano

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Marcus Garvey

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-109627)
Charles de Gaulle

Official photograph of de Gaulle, by Jean-Marie Marcel.
Clifford Geertz

Mary Cross
Gerald L. Geison

Prof. Gerald Lynn Geison. Photo by Robert Bielk, 1977 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
King of Great Britain 1738-1820 George III

Paul Gilroy

Todd Gitlin

John Burlinson, Nov. 4, 2007
William Golding

Emma Goldman

Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Paul Avrich Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-02894)
Gershom Gorenberg

Asa; Dupree Gray, A. Hunter [editor]

Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
Nathanael Greene

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

Author's website
Alexander Hamilton

Philibert [Gramont, comte de] Hamilton, Anthony

Paul Hazard

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-16572)
(cropped)
John Hersey

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
John Higham

Christopher Hill

Gertrude Himmelfarb

Barbara Ries
E. J. Hobsbawm

David A. Hollinger

University of California Berkeley
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
William Ralph Inge

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

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-105776)
(cropped)
Susan Jacoby

Photo by Chris Ramirez
Harold James

Prof. Harold James. Photo credit: Meinen (2001) (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Matthew Josephson

William Hamilton Sewell

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Juvenal

Woodcut of Juvenal from the Nuremberg Chronicle, created in the late 1400s.
Michael Kammen

Nikolaˆi Mikhaˆilovich Karamzin

(Library of Congress Division of Prints and Photographs LC-USZ62-128265)
George Kennan

Photo circa 1870-1886
(George Kennan Papers,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-128296)
George F. Kennan

Photo credit: Princeton University Archives, circa 1961-1963 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
David M. Kennedy

Library of Congress
Paul Kennedy

(c)Robert Lisak
Ian Kershaw

John Maynard Keynes

Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev

Louis Kronenberger

Peter (Edited By James Allen Rogers) Kropotkin

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

Harvard Square Library
Edward J. Larson

Photo by user Ragesoss / Wikimedia Commons
T. E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
William Edward Leuchtenburg

Stacy Marsh, UNC-Chapel Hill
David L. Lewis

Columbia University
Dominic Lieven

Titus Livy

from Wikipedia
Niccolo Machiavelli

John Mandeville

Full-page portrait of Sir John Mandeville, 1459
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Benjamin] Maurois [Disraeli, Andre

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

John L. McLucas

af.mil
Menander

Roman copy of the Imperial era
after a Greek original (ca. 343–291 BC),
Museo Chiaramonti
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Louis Menand

© Joe Tabacca
Pierre Mendès France

Mendès-France as prime minister
Carolyn Merchant

University of California at Berkeley
Paul Miliukov

From McClure's Magazine, May 1908 (Project Gutenberg)
John Stuart Mill

1884 carte de visite of photograph of painting by Ernst Hader (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-76491)
Jean Monnet

Deutsches Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-F001192-0003
Foto: Unterberg, Rolf (1953-12-19)
Elizabeth Robinson Montagu

Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Edmund S. Morgan

Columbia University
Samuel Eliot Morison

U.S. Naval Historical Center
John MORLEY

Photo by Underwood & Underwood, from "Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie," 1919
Project Gutenberg
George L. Mosse

used by permission of the
Mosse Program in History
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jawaharial Nehru Edited By: Robert I. Crane

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
Elaine Pagels

Elaine Hiesey Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton University. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 1996 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
R.R Palmer

Credit: Emily S. Palmer
Petronius

Richard Pipes

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Oct. 20, 2004
de Pisan Christine

from Wikipedia
Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Plautus

Georgiĭ Valentinovich Plekhanov

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Papers of Charles Edward Russell.
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-128996)
Plutarch

Polybius

Constantine Porphyrogenitus

Gold solidus of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos, 913-959.
Alexander Rabinowitch-

Courtesy of Indiana University
Jack N. Rakove

Columbia University
Robert B. Reich

Perian Flaherty
David Remnick

David Remnick (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Richard Rhodes

Nancy Warner
W W Rostow

Walt Rostow at a meeting in the Cabinet Room, White House, Oct. 7, 1968. LBJ Library photo by Yoichi R. Okamoto
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
Sallust

All the works of that famous historian Salust (London, 1692).
Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
SCHLESINGER ARTHUR M.

From Wikipedia.com
Desmond Seward

courtesy of Desmond Seward
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Steven Shapin

Ragesoss
Martin J. Sherwin

Claudio Vazquez
Edith Sitwell, Dame

Roger Fry (1866-1934)
U.S. Department of State

United States Department of State seal
George steiner

Lytton Strachey

from Wikipedia Commons
Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Ronald Grigor Suny

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Tacitus

Studs Terkel

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Theocritus

Image from Sixteen select idyls of Theocritus (1839) edited by D. B. Hickie
E. P. Thompson

David Thomson

Lucy Gray
Thucydides

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
New York Times

Robert Scoble
Alexis De Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
George Otto Trevelyan, Sir

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

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-35130
Frederick Jackson Turner

Wikipedia
Voltaire

James D. Watson

Wikipedia
Sidney Webb

George Grantham Bain Collection,
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-36741
Walter Prescott Webb

Texas State Library & Archives Commission.
Max Weber

Robin W. Winks, ed.

Michael Marsland / Yale University
Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Wikipedia
Tsao Hsueh-Chin

Photo by user Yongxinge / Wikimedia Commons
Boris Yeltsin

Credit: White House Office photo, Oct. 23, 1995, New Hyde Park, NY
(Collection WJC-WHPO: Photographs of the
White House Photograph Office (Clinton Administration),
National Archives and Records Administration,
ARC identifier: 596517)
Anzia Yezierska

Lima News (Ohio), July 3rd, 1922.
Emile Zola

Wikipédia France
Olivier Zunz

Courtesy of the author.
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