Society of American Historians

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Society of American Historians

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Paul S. Boyer Historian 2-Aug-1935 17-Mar-2012 When Time Shall Be No More

H. W. Brands Historian 7-Aug-1953 Prolific historian, professor at UT-Austin

John W. Dower Historian 21-Jun-1938 Embracing Defeat

W. E. B. Du Bois Sociologist 23-Feb-1868 27-Aug-1963 Civil rights activist

Drew Gilpin Faust Educator 18-Sep-1947 President of Harvard University

Eric Foner Historian 7-Feb-1943 Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution

William W. Freehling Historian 26-Dec-1935 Prelude to Civil War

John Lewis Gaddis Historian 2-Apr-1941 George F. Kennan: An American Life

Stanley Karnow Journalist 4-Feb-1925 27-Jan-2013 In Our Image

Jill Lepore Historian 27-Aug-1966 The Name of War

Nell Irvin Painter Historian 2-Aug-1942 Creating Black Americans

Bradford Perkins Historian 6-Mar-1925 29-Jun-2008 Castlereagh and Adams

Diane Ravitch Government 1-Jul-1938 Education reformer

W. A. Swanberg Author 23-Nov-1907 17-Sep-1992 Citizen Hearst

Sam Tanenhaus Author 31-Oct-1955 Editor, New York Times Book Review

Sean Wilentz Historian 20-Feb-1951 The Rise of American Democracy

Gordon S. Wood Historian 27-Nov-1933 The Creation of the American Republic

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