21st-century American historians

The list 21st-century American historians includes Lola Van Wagenen, William S. Tribell, Jonathan Steinberg, Burgess Owens and Susan Sontag. The list consists of 2,542 members and 3 sublists.

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Lola Van Wagenen

American historian (born 1938)

Overview: Lola Van Wagenen (born December 12, 1938) is an American historian. In 1970 she co-founded Consumer Action Now, a non-profit educational organization, and in 1995 co-founded Clio Visualizing History, Inc ...

Date of birth: 1 December 1938

Age: 86

Nationality: American

Occupation: Film/TV Producer

Gender: Female

Partner: George Burrill (Married)

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American women environmentalists 197T

Writers from Provo, Utah 37T

21st-century American women writers 4,233T
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William S. Tribell

American poet (born 1977)

Overview: William Stephen Tribell (born August 15, 1977) is an American poet. His work has appeared in a number of anthologies, magazines and journals and online under the pseudonyms Walton S. Tissot, and Wilbur ...

Date of birth: 15 August 1977

Age: 47

Nationality: American

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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Works banned in China 51T

Film producers from Kentucky 16T

21st-century American male writers 3,233T
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Jonathan Steinberg

American, Other

Nationality: American

Occupation: Business

Gender: Male

Partner: Maria Bartiromo (Married)

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20th-century American historians 2,459T

Fellows of Trinity Hall, Cambridge 79T

University of Pennsylvania faculty 1,118T
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Burgess Owens

American politician & football player (born 1951)

Overview: Clarence Burgess Owens (born August 2, 1951) is an American politician, nonprofit executive, and former professional football player serving as the U.S. representative for Utah's 4th congressional district ...

Date of birth: 2 August 1951

Age: 73

Nationality: American

Occupation: Football (American)

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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Players of American football from Columbus, Ohio 140T

21st-century African-American politicians 1,127T

20th-century African-American sportspeople 4,018T
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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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Sarah Vowell

American journalist

Overview: Sarah Vowell is an American author, journalist, essayist, social commentator and actress. Vowell has written seven nonfiction books on American history and culture. She was a contributing editor for the ...

Date of birth: 27 December 1969

Age: 55

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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American women travel writers 81T

American women columnists 383T

Historians from New York (state) 493T
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Ralph Nader

American attorney and political activist

Overview: Ralph Nader (born February 27, 1934) is an American political activist, author, lecturer, and attorney noted for his involvement in consumer protection, environmentalism, and government reform causes.

Date of birth: 27 February 1934

Age: 91

Nationality: American

Occupation: Politician

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 3" (190 cm)

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American dissidents 15T

Princeton School of Public and International Affairs alumni 210T

21st-century American male writers 3,233T
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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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Alexander Soros

American, Business

Overview: Alexander F. G. Soros (born October 27, 1985) is an American philanthropist. He is Deputy Chair of the Open Society Foundations and one of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders of 2018.

Date of birth: 27 October 1985

Age: 39

Nationality: American

Occupation: Business

Gender: Male

Partner: Huma Abedin (Married)

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Children of billionaires 114T

Philanthropists from New York 697T

Soros family 7T
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Elizabeth Topham Kennan

American college president

Overview: Elizabeth Topham Kennan (born February 25, 1938) is an American academic who served as the 16th president of Mount Holyoke College from 1978 to 1995. She also served as president of the Five Colleges ...

Date of birth: 1938

Age: 87

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

Gender: Female

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Catholic University of America School of Arts and Sciences faculty 23T

Historians from Massachusetts 247T

Historians from Pennsylvania 176T
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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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Michael Burns

American actor and historian

Overview: Michael Thornton Burns (born December 30, 1947) is an American professor emeritus of history at Mount Holyoke College, as well as a published author and former television and film teen actor.

Date of birth: 30 December 1947

Age: 77

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni 103T

Historians from New York (state) 771T

21st-century American male writers 6,269T
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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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George McGovern

American historian and politician (1922–2012)

Overview: George Stanley McGovern (July 19, 1922 – October 21, 2012) was an American politician, historian, U.S. representative, U.S. senator, and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential ...

Date of birth: 19 July 1922

Date of death: 21 October 2012

Age: 90 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Politician

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

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Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from South Dakota 9T

Methodists from South Dakota 3T

Democratic Party United States senators from South Dakota 4T
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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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Lorin Morgan-Richards

American cartoonist (born 1975)

Overview: Lorin Morgan-Richards born February 16, 1975, of Amish and Welsh descent, is a Hollywood based writer and illustrator of dark literature and composer of dark storytelling.

Date of birth: 16 February 1975

Age: 50

Nationality: American

Occupation: Author

Gender: Male

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Writers with dyslexia 24T

Underground, Inc. artists 30T

Historians from Ohio 139T
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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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Frances FitzGerald (journalist)

American journalist and historian

Overview: Frances FitzGerald (born October 21, 1940) is an American journalist and historian, who is primarily known for Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (1972), an account of the Vietnam ...

Date of birth: 21 October 1940

Age: 84

Nationality: American

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Female

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Bancroft Prize winners 167T

Foxcroft School alumni 16T

Peabody family 24T
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Robert S. McElvaine

American historian

Overview: Robert S. McElvaine (born January 24, 1947) is Elizabeth Chisholm Professor of Arts and Letters and Chair of the Department of History at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, and the author of eight ...

Date of birth: 24 January 1947

Age: 78

Nationality: American

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Male

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Historians of the United States 574T

American historians 3,989T

1947 births 15,142T
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Burl Barer

American writer

Overview: Burl Barer (born 1947 in Walla Walla, Washington) is an American author, literary historian and radio host. He is best known for his writings about the character Simon Templar.

Date of birth: 8 August 1947

Age: 77

Nationality: American

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Male

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20th-century American male writers 6,911T

American male non-fiction writers 4,581T

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