American History
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Polymath, writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher. Founding Father of the United States, drafter and signer of the Declaration of Independence, and first postmaster general.
Author, journalist, and professor. President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair and CEO of CNN, and editor of Time.
American journalist and author. Known for her books "The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration" and "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents". First woman of African-American heritage to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism.
Author of Americana: A 400 Year History of American Capitalism.
Howard Zinn was a historian, playwright, and social activist. He was a shipyard worker and a bombardier with the U.S. Army Air Force in Europe during the Second World War before he went to college under the GI Bill and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Zinn taught at Spelman College and Boston University, and was a visiting professor at the University of Paris and the University of Bologna. He received the Thomas Merton Award, the Eugene V. Debs Award, the Upton Sinclair Award, and the Lannan Literary Award. He lived in Auburndale, Massachusetts.
Chris is a former staff writer and London Bureau Chief for Fortune Magazine. He has contributed to the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. A past trustee of the Teton Raptor Center, he currently serves as Immediate Past Chair of the Board of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and Sea Center. He is an avid fly fisherman, birder, and pool player.
A graduate of Harvard College, with a focus on English literature.
American historian at the University of Chicago, twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress, instrumental in the creation of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress.
Making documentary films for 40 years