History
- 2008 — Edmund S. Morgan
- 2002 — John Hope Franklin
- 1996 — Peter Gay
- 1990 — C. Vann Woodward
- 1984 — George F. Kennan
- 1972 — Henry Steele Commager
- 1967 — Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
- 1957 — Allan Nevins
- 1952 — Carl Sandburg
- 1948 — Charles Austin Beard
- 1937 — Charles M. Andrews
- 1927 — William M. Sloane
- 1918 — William Roscoe Thayer
- 1910 — James Ford Rhodes
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Famous quotes containing the word history:
“The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.”
—Richard M. Nixon (1913–1995)
“I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.”
—Edmond De Goncourt (1822–1896)