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Born May 16, 1886 • Lynchburg • Virginia
Died June 13, 1953 (aged 67) • Virginia
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize
Subjects Of Study Confederate States of America
Adams, Henry
Henry Adams
American historian
Robert Caro smiling, wearing glasses, a dark suit, and a burgundy tie, seated in front of bookshelves at Strand Bookstore in New York City.
Robert Caro
American historian and author
David McCullough
David McCullough
American historian
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Allan Nevins
American author
Morison, Samuel Eliot
Samuel Eliot Morison
American historian and biographer
Beveridge, Albert J.
Albert J. Beveridge
United States senator and historian
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Dumas Malone
American historian, editor, and the author
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Charles Edward Russell
American writer
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Laura E. Richards
American author
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Leon Edel
American critic and biographer
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
American historian and educator
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Justin Kaplan
American writer, biographer, and editor
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Richard Ellmann
American scholar
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Ralph Barton Perry
American philosopher
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W. Jackson Bate
American biographer
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Carl Van Doren
American critic
Ray Stannard Baker
Ray Stannard Baker
American writer
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Herschel Vespasian Johnson
American politician and jurist
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Richard S. Ewell
Confederate general
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Varina Davis
first lady of the Confederate States