William Manchester
American author, biographer, and historian
20th-century american historians
Robert K. Massie
American journalist and historian
Jill Lepore
American historian and journalist
Russell Kirk
American political theorist, moralist, historian, social critic, and literary critic, known for his influence on 20th-century American conservatism
Thomas S. Kuhn
American philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term paradigm shift, which has since become an English-language idiom
Paul Horgan
American author of fiction and non-fiction, most of which was set in the Southwestern United States
Irving Howe
American literary and social critic and a prominent figure of the Democratic Socialists of America.
David Halberstam
American writer, journalist, and historian, known for his work on the Vietnam War, politics, history, the Civil Rights Movement, business, media, American culture, and later, sports journalism
Shelby Foote
American writer, historian and journalist
Ron Chernow
American writer, journalist, popular historian, and biographer