573 people found
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Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist
Henry David Thoreau
American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Henry Wilson
Union Army officer, Vice president, politician, historian
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist
Lester Frank Ward
American sociologist and paleontologist
Lewis H. Morgan
United States ethnologist
Hubert Howe Bancroft
American historian and ethnologist
Grant Allen
Canadian science writer
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and literary critic
Alfred Thayer Mahan
United States Navy admiral and historian
William Wells Brown
American abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian
Brooks Adams
American political writer
William Graham Sumner
American academic, sociologist
Edward Tullidge
American historian
Daniel Burnham
American architect and urban designer
Matthew Fontaine Maury
United States Navy officer
Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve
American classical philologist
Oliver Otis Howard
United States Army Medal of Honor recipient and Union Army general
George Fitzhugh
American activist
John Wingate Thornton
American genealogist
Gessner Harrison
American classical philologist
Andrew Dickson White
American politician
Charles Johnson Maynard
American ornithologist
William Henry Holmes
American academic, painter and illustrator
Francis March
American classical philologist
Louis Agassiz
Swiss naturalist
Horace Howard Furness
American Shakespearean scholar
Kepelino
Native Hawaiian cultural historian
Henry Charles Lea
American historian
John Burroughs
American naturalist and essayist
Julian Hawthorne
American journalist
John Gilmary Shea
American historian
Frederick Jones Bancroft
American physician and educator
Ephraim C. Dawes
American military historian
Francis James Child
American folklorist
Cudjoe Lewis
One of the last known survivors of the Atlantic Slave Trade
William Cooper Nell
African-American journalist, historian
John Bull Smith Dimitry
Creole American author, diplomat and professor.
Charles Loring Brace
American philanthropist
Oliver Perry Temple
American attorney