20th-century American historians

The list 20th-century American historians includes Jonathan Steinberg, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Susan Sontag, Alex Haley and Shelby Foote. The list consists of 2,593 members and 3 sublists.

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Jonathan Steinberg

American, Other

Nationality: American

Occupation: Business

Gender: Male

Partner: Maria Bartiromo (Married)

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21st-century American historians 2,410T

Fellows of Trinity Hall, Cambridge 79T

University of Pennsylvania faculty 1,118T
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Henry Louis Gates Jr.

American professor

Overview: Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, professor, historian, filmmaker, and public intellectual who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor ...

Date of birth: 16 September 1950

Age: 74

Nationality: American

Occupation: Author

Gender: Male

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Charles H. Revson Foundation 25T

Historians of African Americans 25T

American male non-fiction writers 4,581T
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Susan Sontag

American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist (1933–2004)

Overview: Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, and political activist. She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her ...

Date of birth: 16 January 1933

Date of death: 28 December 2004

Age: 71 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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LGBT philosophers 23T

American LGBT novelists 396T

American anti-communists 326T
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Alex Haley

American writer (1921–1992)

Overview: Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television m ...

Date of birth: 11 August 1921

Date of death: 10 February 1992

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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United States Coast Guard enlisted 94T

20th-century American biographers 388T

Writers from Ithaca, New York 33T
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Margaret Truman

American socialite and daughter of President Harry S. Truman (1924–2008)

Overview: Mary Margaret Truman Daniel (February 17, 1924 – January 29, 2008) was an American classical soprano, actress, journalist, radio and television personality, writer, and New York socialite. She was the ...

Date of birth: 17 February 1924

Date of death: 29 January 2008

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

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20th-century American memoirists 443T

Writers from Manhattan 402T

Children of vice presidents of the United States 71T
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Ezra Pound

American poet and critic (1885–1972)

Overview: Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during ...

Date of birth: 30 October 1885

Date of death: 1 November 1972

Age: 87 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Male

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People from Felpham 19T

American propagandists 28T

Fascist writers 14T
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Shelby Foote

American writer, historian and journalist (1916–2005)

Overview: Shelby Dade Foote Jr. (November 17, 1916 – June 27, 2005) was an American writer, historian and journalist. Although he viewed himself primarily as a novelist, he is now best known for his The Civil War: ...

Date of birth: 17 November 1916

Date of death: 27 June 2005

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Author

Gender: Male

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Pro-Confederate writers 7T

Lost Cause of the Confederacy 51T

20th-century American male writers 6,911T
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Noam Chomsky

American linguist and activist (born 1928)

Overview: Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American philosopher, linguist, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics" ...

Date of birth: 7 December 1928

Age: 96

Nationality: American

Occupation: Linguist

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

Partner: Valeria Wasserma (Married)

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Philosophers of linguistics 3T

American dissidents 15T

Jewish linguists 13T
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Lincoln Kirstein

American writer

Overview: Lincoln Edward Kirstein (May 4, 1907 – January 5, 1996) was an American writer, impresario, art connoisseur, philanthropist, and cultural figure in New York City, noted especially as co-founder of the ...

Date of birth: 4 May 1907

Date of death: 5 January 1996

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Philanthropist

Gender: Male

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Writers from Rochester, New York 110T

20th-century American non-fiction writers 3,627T

United States Army personnel of World War II 4,472T
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Michio Kaku

American theoretical physicist

Overview: Michio Kaku (Japanese: ミチオカク or 賀来道雄, ; born January 24, 1947) is an American theoretical physicist, futurist, and popularizer of science (science communicator). He is a professor of theoretical physics ...

Date of birth: 24 January 1947

Age: 78

Nationality: American

Occupation: Physicist

Gender: Male

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American string theorists 65T

21st-century American male writers 6,154T

20th-century American male writers 8,941T
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Sebastian Junger

American journalist

Overview: Sebastian Junger (born January 17, 1962) is an American journalist, author and filmmaker. He is noted for his book The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (1997), a creative nonfiction work ...

Date of birth: 17 January 1962

Age: 63

Nationality: American

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Male

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American male television writers 1,879T

Historians from New York (state) 493T

Film producers from Massachusetts 66T
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Jesse Lasky Jr.

American screenwriter, novelist, playwright and poet (1910–1988)

Overview: Jesse Louis Lasky Jr. (September 19, 1910 – April 11, 1988) was an American screenwriter, novelist, playwright and poet.

Date of birth: 19 September 1910

Date of death: 11 April 1988

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Screenwriter

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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American male television writers 1,879T

20th-century American male writers 6,911T

American male non-fiction writers 4,581T
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Doris Kearns Goodwin

American biographer

Overview: Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist and political commentator.

Date of birth: 4 January 1943

Age: 82

Nationality: American

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Female

Partner: Richard N. Goodwin (Married)

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20th-century American women journalists 548T

21st-century American women journalists 319T

21st-century American memoirists 463T
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David Halberstam

American writer, journalist and historian (1934–2007)

Overview: David Halberstam (April 10, 1934 – April 23, 2007) was an American writer, journalist, and historian, known for his work on the Vietnam War, politics, history, the Civil Rights Movement, business, media ...

Date of birth: 10 April 1934

Date of death: 23 April 2007

Age: 73 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Male

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Historians from Connecticut 119T

American war correspondents of the Vietnam War 44T

Historians from New York (state) 771T
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Alan Lomax

American folklorist and musicologist

Overview: Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music of the 20th century. He was also a musician himself, as well ...

Date of birth: 31 January 1915

Date of death: 19 July 2002

Age: 87 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Soundtrack

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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American ethnomusicologists 38T

20th-century American male writers 9,106T

American male non-fiction writers 7,389T
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Hannah Arendt

German-born American political theorist

Overview: Hannah Arendt (, , 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a German-born American political theorist. Her many books and articles have had a lasting influence on political theory and philosophy. Arendt ...

Date of birth: 14 October 1906

Date of death: 4 December 1975

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Female

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Augustine scholars 6T

Gurs internment camp survivors 35T

Women legal scholars 286T
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Robert Bradford Fox

Filipino historian

Overview: Robert Bradford Fox (1918-1985) was an anthropologist and leading historian on pre-Hispanic Philippines.

Date of birth: 1918

Date of death: 1985

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Anthropologist

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Historians of the Philippines 6T

20th-century historians 3,336T

20th-century anthropologists 766T
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Ayesha Jalal

Pakistani historian (born 1956)

Overview: Ayesha Jalal (Punjabi, Urdu: عائشہ جلال‎) is a Pakistani-American historian who serves as the Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University, and was the recipient of the 1998 MacArthur ...

Nationality: Pakistani

Occupation: Teacher

Gender: Female

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Punjabi women 34T

American academics of Pakistani descent 31T

Recipients of Sitara-i-Imtiaz 249T
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Anna J. Cooper

African-American author, educator, speaker, and scholar (1858–1964)

Overview: Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (August 10, 1858 – February 27, 1964) was an American author, educator, sociologist, speaker, Black liberation activist, and one of the most prominent African-American scholars ...

Date of birth: 10 August 1858

Date of death: 27 February 1964

Age: 105 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Female

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Women slaves 13T

20th-century American academics 4T

20th-century African-American writers 568T
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William James Sidis

American prodigy

Overview: William James Sidis (April 1, 1898 – July 17, 1944) was an American child prodigy with exceptional mathematical and linguistic skills. He is notable for his 1920 book The Animate and the Inanimate, in ...

Date of birth: 1 April 1898

Date of death: 17 July 1944

Age: 46 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Inventor

Gender: Male

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American spiritualists 65T

20th-century American mathematicians 2,244T

20th-century anthropologists 766T