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Louisa May Alcott

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

Author of children's books Chris Van Allsburg (right) and NASA engineer Jennifer Keyes (center) speak with Digital Learning Network host Rachael Manzer during a live videoconference on Nov. 16 at Langley Research Center. Photo by Jeff Caplan.
(nasa.gov)
Stephen Ambrose

Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Aristotle

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

The 9-11 Commission
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W. H. Auden

Red Auerbach

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley
Augustine

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Louis Bayard

louisbayard.com
Bede

Mike Berenstain

Bernard of Clairvaux

Christ and St. Bernard by Francisco Ribalta, early 17th century.
Carl Bernstein

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Philip Bobbitt

Matthew Fuller
Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Robert H. Bork

Wikipedia (U.S. Dept. of Justice Photo)
Jim Bouton

jimbouton.com
Sarah Bradford

William Bradford

Photo by T.S. Custadio (Wikipedia)
James Bradley

Secretary of the Navy Gordon R. England presents author James Bradley the Department of the Navy Superior Public Service Award for his contributions in keeping alive the history of the Navy and Marine Corps.
H.W. Brands

John Burlinson, January 5, 2008
John Bright

John Bright (1811-1889), British politician
Source: "Great Britain and the American Civil War,"
by Ephraim Douglass Adams
(Project Gutenberg)
Douglas Brinkley

flickr user
eschipul(cropped by uploader)
Charlotte Bronte

Source: "Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women
in Europe and America," by Evert A. Duyckinick
(New York, 1873)
(colored by Jan Arkesteijn)
Emily Brontë

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Richard Brookhiser

Richard Brookhiser (left) at the 2008 National Humanities Medal award ceremony. White House photo by Chris Greenberg
Geraldine Brooks

William F. Buckley Jr.

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

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.)
Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Jreberlein
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Melody Carlson

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.)
M. Scott Carpenter

Wikimedia Commons (Photo created by NASA)
Lewis Carroll

Clayborne Carson (ed.)

Courtesy of Clayborne Carson
Bernal Diaz del Castillo

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

Ron Chernow

Sigrid Estrada
G. K. Chesterton

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

Winston Churchill

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

William Sloane Coffin

Henry Steele Commager

Henry Steele Commager, 1954 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienJames Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Frank Moore Cross

David A Curry

Alan M. Dershowitz

Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Jared M. Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Frederick Douglass

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

from Wikipedia
Alexandre Dumas

Will Durant

Bruce Eckel

From Bruce Eckel's Website.
Copyright © Bruce Eckel. All rights reserved.
Joseph J. Ellis

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Desiderius Erasmus

Anne Fausto-Sterling

Courtesy of Anne Fausto-Sterling
John Feinstein

Judith Finlayson

Judith Finlayson
David Hackett Fischer

Courtesy of David Hackett Fischer
F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers, Manuscripts Division,
Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections,
Princeton University Library
(photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Eric Forner

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

George Foreman

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressH. F. W. Gesenius

Kahlil Gibran

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
Photographed circa 1898 in costume by F. Holland Day
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-48305)
Newt Gingrich

Thomas V. Nash
William Goldman

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

Congressional Portrait
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Jan Crawford Greenburg

Library of Congress
Graham Greene

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a40574 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a40574, REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-40235 (b&w film copy neg.)
Winston Groom

Tom Corcoran
David Halberstam

Alexander Hamilton

Edith Hamilton

Stephen L. Harris

B. H. Liddell Hart

carl.army.mil
Nathanial Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Ernest Hemingway

Lee Samuels,
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
A. E. Housman

Daniel Walker Howe

Daniel Walker Howe, on right. Columbia University.
pulitzer.orgDavid Hume

from Wikipedia
Douglas Hunter

Zora Neale Hurston

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-79898 DLC
Pope John Paul II

Walter Isaacson

Photograph by Mary Pfaff
Michael Jackson

Crop from bigger picture. Taken by Päivi Kuusjärvi, Helsinki Beer Festival, April 2004.
Bill James

Brita Meng Outzen
Boston Red Sox
Henry James

Wikipedia
Ken Jennings

Whistling in the Dark
Roger Kahn

MDCarchives
Immanuel Kant

Stanley Karnow

Credit: Linda A. Cicero/Stanford News Service (Stanford University)
Michael Kazin

Center for American Progress
David M. Kennedy

Library of Congress
Ross King

Rudyard Kipling

Russell Kirk

Henry Kissinger

Alan Charles Kors

Alan C. Kors, receiving the National Humanities Medal, 2005. White House photo by Eric Draper.
D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Harper Lee

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
Gwendolyn Leick

Primo Levi

C.S. Lewis

John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
Edward G. Longacre

courtesy of Rutledge Hill Press
Max Lucado

Niccolo Machiavelli

Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
David Maraniss

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Andrew Matthews

Andrew Matthews
www.andrewmatthews.com
James McBride

Photo by Judy Lawne
Jenny McCarthy

Photo by "Gamerscoreblog" (Flickr & Wikimedia Commons)
Frank McCourt

James M. McPherson

Prof. James M. McPherson (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Bruce M. Metzger

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.)
John Stuart Mill

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

Theodor Mommsen

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

wikipedia
Philip D. Morehead

Wikipedia
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
Jan Morris

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Peggy Noonan

Barack Obama

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)
Thomas Paine

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

Joseph E. Persico Papers. M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives, University at Albany Libraries, State University of New York
Marcus Pfister

Nathaniel Philbrick

Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
George Plimpton (ed.)

MDCarchives
Plutarch

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Joe Posnanski

Joe Posnanski (seated). Dave Hogg, July 20, 2007
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Arnold Rampersad

Brigitte Carnochan
William H Rehnquist

Official portrait of Chief Justice of the United States William Rehnquist
Society for American Baseball Research

Society for American Baseball Research
Elisha Hunt Rhodes

Image from The Second Rhode Island volunteers at the siege of Petersburg, Virginia (1915) by Elisha Hunt Rhodes
James D. Richardson

1909 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-123874)
Rainer Maria Rilke

James M. Robinson

Norman Rockwell

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
J-K Rowling

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Bertrand Russell

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

J.D. Salinger

Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Photograph by New York World-Telegram & Sun
staff photographer, Al. Ravenna, 1955
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Sark

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Jean-Paul Sartre

Antonin Scalia

Wikimedia Commons (Official U.S. Supreme Court Portait)
Lawrence H. Schiffman

Stacy Schiff

Columbia University
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

From Wikipedia.com
Herbert Schlossberg

Photo courtesy of Herbert Schlossberg
Patricia Schultz

Library of Congress
Norman Schwarzkopf

U.S. Army photograph (1988) by Russell Roederer.
Jon Scieszka

Sir Walter Scott

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

David Shankbone
Christopher R. Seitz

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.)
Maurice Sendak

Dr. Seuss

1982, oil on canvas by Everett Raymond Kinstler (Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College) Image should not be reproduced or distributed without permission of the
Hood Museum of ArtWilliam Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Alan Shepard

nix.ksc.nasa.gov
Shel Silverstein

Adam Smith

Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
National Geographic Society

Sen. Arlen Specter

Wikimedia Commons (Official U.S. Senate Portrait)
Kenneth W. Starr

Wikimedia Commons (U.S. Dept. of Justice Photo)
United States Department of State

United States Department of State seal
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
John Stott

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.)
Harrient Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe, ca. 1870s-80s (Defense Visual Information Center, War and Conflict CD Collection, ID: HDSN9901775)
James Strong

James Strong (1822-1894)
Photograph dated circa 1855-1865.
(Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, Library of Congress)
James L. Swanson

Library of Congress
Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
Alexis de Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
J. R. R. Tolkien

Scott Turow

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Sun-tzu

Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)
Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Jim Wallis

Sam Watkins

Civil War Preservation Trust
John Waugh

John C. Waugh
Simone Weil

Julius Wellhausen

Julius Wellhausen
H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienJohn Wesley

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

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
Elie Wiesel

Elena Seibert
Simon Wiesenthal

Oscar Wilde

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
Dallas Willard

George F. Will

Photo by Scott Ableman
William H. Willimon

Garry Wills

I took this photo!
Douglas L. Wilson

Library of Congress
Douglas Wood

Courtesy of Douglas Wood
Bob Woodward

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