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Elaine Pagels
Nell Irvin Painter
Francis Parkman

Vernon Louis Parrington
Petrarch

Plutarch
William H. Prescott

Elaine Pagels -
The Origins
of Satan

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Elaine Pagels, née Hiesey
b. 2-13-1943; Palo Alto, CA

Princeton Professor of Religion, Elaine Pagels, is best known for her studies and writing on the Gnostic Gospels and how women have been viewed throughout Christian history.

Nell Irvin Painter -
The History of
White People

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Nell Irvin Painter
b. 8-2-1942; Houston, TX

Historian and artist Nell Irvin Painter is the author of seven books and numerous articles and reviews. Her latest book, The History of White People, was released in March, 2010. Painter is the Edwards Professor of American History at Princeton University.

The Francis Parkman Reader

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Francis Parkman
b. 9-16-1823; Boston, MA
d. 11-8-1893; Jamaica Plain, MA

Francis Parkman was the author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and the seven volume France and England in North America. His work, while criticized for biases, is highly valued as literature.

FYI - Theodore Roosevelt dedicated his The Winning of the West, to Parkman, who was also a Harvard Professor of Horticulture and first leader of the Arnold Arboretum.

Main Currents in American Thoughts Volume One 1620-1800 The Colonial Mind
Main Currents in
American Thoughts
Volume One
1620-1800
The Colonial Mind

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Vernon Louis Parrington
b. 8-3-1871; Aurora, IL
d. 6-16-1929

Professor Vernon Parrington is considered a founder of “American Studies” with Perry Miller, F. O. Matthiessen, and Robert Spiller.

Parrington was awarded the 1928 Pulitizer Prize in History for his three volume work Main Currents in American History. He concluded “that the Jeffersonian farmer, the Progressives' traditional democratic hero, had joined forces with the greedy business community to produce a destructive form of capitalism which culminated in the 1920s”.

Petrarch from the Villa Carducci Series of Famous Men and Women, circa 1450, Giclee Print

Francesco Petrarca
“Petrarch”
b. 7-20-1304; Italy
d. 7-19-1374

Petrarch, one of the earliest Renaissance scholars and poets was also a historian, is credited with coining the phrase “Dark Ages” to describe the dismal quality of the era preceding his own.

• The Portable Petrarch

Plutarch, Greek Biographer and Historian, Giclee Print
Plutarch
Giclee Print

Plutarch
b. 46; Greece
d. c. 127 AD

Plutarch, born Plutarcho, a priest of Apollo at the Oracle of Delphi, is better know as a biographer and historian for works like Parallel Lives and Moralia.

William H. Prescott, print
William H. Prescott,
print

William H. Prescott
b. 5-4-1796; Salem, MA
d. 1-28-1859; Boston (stroke)

The historian William H. Prescott is best remembered for his books The History of the Conquest of Mexico and The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic.

FYI - The town of Prescott, Arizona is named after Prescott. Also Prescott's grandfather, also named William, was a colonel in command of rebels at the Battle of Bunker Hill.

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Notable Historians, Posters & Prints “P...-” educational posters for social studies classrooms, home schools, and theme decor for office.

Notable Historians, Posters & Prints “P...-”
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