Top People in Values
Top Books in Values
Individuals who have had a major impact on the History of Values including our picks for the Top 100
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Books/Writings
  • History of the United States of America from the Discovery of the Continent
    (Available Used and as a Free Digital Edition)
George Bancroft
1800 – 1891
American

Statesman and writer. He was secretary of the navy, founder of the Naval Academy of Annapolis, and author of a famous ten-volume American history which helped establish the idea of an American "manifest destiny."

Contemporaries
1817–1862Henry David Thoreau
1809–1865Abraham Lincoln
1743–1826Thomas Jefferson
1842–1910William James
1859–1952John Dewey
1857–1938Clarence Darrow
1835–1919Andrew Carnegie
1837–1921John Burroughs
1821–1912Clara Barton
1820–1906Susan B. Anthony
1860–1935Jane Addams