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Lucius Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor, c. 105 BC - 35 BC. Erudite Greek scholar who was sold into slavery in Rome, later freed and made a Roman citizen. His writings, said to have been extensive, survive only through quotes in the writings of others. His precise philosophical affiliation, if any, is unclear; he may have been largely a historian of philosophy.
Contains sites relating to the life and work of author and historian Stephen Ambrose.
Joyce Appleby, Stanford '50 Claremont Ph.D. '66, has been a professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles since 1981, having started her career at San Diego State University in 1967.Writing on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England and France in addition to early America, she has had an abiding interest in how changing economic systems prompted new ways of thinking about human nature and social action. Her principal works are Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century England (1978), Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Republican Vision of the 1790s (1984), Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination (1992), and Telling the Truth about History, with Lynn Hunt and Margaret Jacob (1994). In 1997 she edited Recollections of the Early Republic: Selected Autobiographies from Northeastern University Press.
In 1991, she served as President of the Organization of American Historians, and in 1997 as the President of the American Historical Association.
Sites about the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and former Librarian of Congress.
| Description: Diogenes Laertius (Laertios), fl. 3rd century AD. Late classical biographer, an important but often unreliable source on the history of ancient philosophy. His sole extant work is known as The Lives of the Philosophers. |
Diogenes Laertius (Laertios), fl. 3rd century AD. Late classical biographer, an important but often unreliable source on the history of ancient philosophy. His sole extant work is known as The Lives of the Philosophers.
The British intellectual historian and journalist Paul Johnson has authored 28 books, including The History of Christianity (1976), The History of the Jews (1987), The Intellectuals (1988), and The Birth of the Modern Age (1991).
His most famous and controversial work, Modern Times (1983), relates the history of twentieth-century tyrannies, arguing that communist totalitarian regimes defended by left-wing intellectuals are morally indistinguishable from the right-wing regimes they criticize.
Johnson lives with his wife, Marigold Hunt, in Bayswater, London.
Currently a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Currently the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, USNR (1887-1976) was a distinguished naval historian, a 1961 recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences' Emerson-Thoreau Medal for distinguished literary achievement, and of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964.
Sites about the eighth century Celtic author.
Sites relating to the English historian Geoffrey Parker. Professor Parker is a specialist in Early Modern Europe, particularly Spain. He is closely identified with the hypothesis that Early Modern Europe underwent a military revolution which laid the foundation for future world dominance.
Sites about the sixth century Byzantine historian.
The economic historian and social reformer Arnold Toynbee (1852-1883) is chiefly known for The Industrial Revolution in England, and is sometimes credited with popularizing the term “industrial revolution.”He was the uncle of Arnold J. Toynbee.
Arnold J. Toynbee (1889-1975) was a professor of international history at the University of London.His most famous work, A Study of History, was published in twelve volumes between 1934 and 1961 and traces the development of about two dozen civilizations. In it, Toynbee famously posits world history as a succession of civilizations rather than states, that these civilizations pass through stages of development, and that the demise of civilizations owes to moral or religious failures rather than external ones.
He was the nephew of the nephew of the economic historian Arnold Toynbee.
Zosimus is believed to have been a Byzantine, as he wrote in Greek and cited Greek sources. His primary work was the polemic Historia Nova, a "new history" in which he attributes the fall of Roman power to barbarization and the decline of paganism. Although occasionally confusing people and chronologies, he is considered an important source for fourth and fifth century Roman history, and particularly studied for his account of Rome's withdrawal from Britain in the early fifth century.
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