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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