Historians Posters and Prints
for the social studies and history classrooms, homeschoolers, and theme decor.

Herodotus, Greek Historian

Notable historians through history ;-) posters include the Venerable Bede, Jacques Barzun, Bartolome de las Casas, Eratosthenes, Douglas Freeman, Edward Gibbon, Herodotus, David Hume, Livy, Plutarch, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Abbot Suger, Tacitus, Tocqueville, Arnold Toynbee, Barbara Tuchman, William of Tyre, Giorgio Vasari, and Xenophon.

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Saint Bede the Venerable
b. ca. 672 or 673; England
d. 5-27-735

Bede was a Benedictine monk at a Northumbrian monastery. He is best known as an author and scholar, and his most famous work, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People) gained him the title "The father of English history".

Jacques Barzun / TIME Cover: June 11, 1956, TIME Magazine
b. 11-30-1907; France

• From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present, Jacque Barzun

Bartolome de las Casas
b. 8-24-1484; Spain
d. 7-17-1566; Madrid

Bartolome de las Casas, Dominican priest and the first resident Bishop of Chiapas came to the defense of the indigenous peoples after witnessing the slavery, torture and genocide of the Native Americans by the Spanish colonists.

• In Defense of the Indians: The Defense of the Most Reverend Lord, Don Fray Bartolome de las Casas, of the Order of Preachers, Late Bishop of Chiapa

Eratosthenes
b. 276 BC; Cyrene (Libya)
d. 194 BC; Alexandria

Eratosthenes of Cyrene was a Greek mathematician, poet, athlete, geographer, astronomer and historian who worked to establish dates of events since the conquest of Troy. He studied and worked at Alexandria, the capitol of Hellenized Ptolemaic Egypt, becoming the second librarian of the famed Alexandrian Library.

Eratosthenes created a map of the world based on the available geographical knowledge, is the first known person to have calculated the circumference of the Earth, and devised a system of latitude and longitude.

• The Librarian Who Measured the Earth

Douglas Freeman / TIME Cover: October 18, 1948, TIME Magazine
b. 5-16-1886; Lynchburg, VA
d. 6-13-1953

• Washington, Douglas Southall Freeman

Portrait of Edward Gibbon circa 1779, Joshua Reynolds, Giclee Print
b. 4-27-1737; England
d. 1-16-1794

• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• Wind & Waves Motivational Poster with Gibbon quote “The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”

Herodotus, Greek Historian, Giclee Print, considered the "Father of History"
b. ca. 484 BC; Greece
d. ca. 425 BC

• The Histories
• Map of Egypt, as described by Herodotus print

David Hume, Scottish Philosopher & Historian, Giclee Print

David Hume, Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian, is considered one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy.
b. 4-26-1711; Scotland
d. 8-25-1776

• motivational poster with Hume quote - “The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”
• book - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (The Clarendon Edition of the Works of David Hume)

Titus Livius, Roman Historian and Writer also known as Livy, Giclee Print
b. 59 BC; Italy
d. 17 AD

• Livy: The Early History of Rome

Plutarch, Greek Biographer and Historian, Giclee Print
b. 46; Greece
d. 127 AD

• Parallel Lives I, Plutarch

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. / TIME Cover: December 17, 1965, TIME Magazine
b. 10-15-1917; Columbus, OH
d. 2-28-2007; NY

• A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Abbot Suger
b. c. 1081; France
d. 1-15-1151

Suger, as the abbot or head of the monestary of Saint-Denis, was a statesman - historian involved in secular affairs which included the rebuilding of St. Denis in the new Gothic style of architecture.

• The Deeds of Louis the Fat,
Abbot Suger

Cornelius Tacitus, Roman Orator, Politician, and Historian, Giclee Print
b. c. 56; Greece
d. c. 117 AD

• The Complete Works of Tacitus

Charles-Alexis-Henri Clerel de Tocqueville, 1850, Giclee Print
b. 7-29-1805; France
d. 4-16-1859

• Tocqueville: Democracy in America
• Alexis de Tocqueville quote on Civil Rights

Arnold J. Toynbee / TIME Cover: March 17, 1947
TIME Magazine
b. 4-14-1889; London
d. 10-2-1975

• A Study of History, Toynbee

Books
Motivational Poster
“Books are the carriers of civilization.”
Barbara Tuchman
b. 1-30-1912
d. 2-6-1989

• A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman
• motivational posters

William of Tyre
b. c. 1130; Jerusalem
d. 1185

William, archbishop of Tyre, was a chronicler of the Crusades and the Middle Ages.

• Lebanon posters
• Middle Ages posters
• William of Tyre: Historian of the Latin East

Giorgio Vasari
b. 7-30-1511; Tuscany
d. 6-27-1574

Renaissance architect and painter Giorgio Vasari, who coined the term "Renaissance", is best remembered for his biographies of Italian, The Lives of the Artists.

Xenophon, Greek Soldier and Historian, Giclee Print
b. c. 427 BC; Greece
d. c. 355 BC

• A History of My Times