The G.I. Bill,formally the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944,was a law that provided a range of benefits for some of the returning World War II veterans. The original G.I. Bill expired in 1956,but the term "G.I. Bill" is still used to refer to programs created to assist American military veterans.
Andrew Dickson White was an American historian and educator who co-founded Cornell University,one of eight Ivy League universities in the United States,and served as its first president for nearly two decades. He was known for expanding the scope of college curricula. A politician,he had served as New York state senator and was later appointed as U.S. ambassador to Germany and Russia.
David Talbot is an American journalist,author,editor,activist and independent historian. Talbot is known for his books about the "hidden history" of U.S. power and the liberal movements to change America,as well as his public advocacy. He was also the founder and former editor-in-chief of the early web magazine Salon.
Frank Harold Trevor Rhodes was the ninth president of Cornell University from 1977 to 1995.
Michael Monroe Lewis is an American author and financial journalist. He has also been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2009,writing mostly on business,finance,and economics. He is known for his nonfiction work,particularly his coverage of financial crises and behavioral finance.
Robert Sean Wilentz is an American historian who serves as the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University,where he has taught since 1979. His primary research interests include U.S. social and political history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has written numerous award-winning books and articles including,most notably,The Rise of American Democracy:Jefferson to Lincoln,which was awarded the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Stephen Frederick Starr is an American academic. He is a former president of Oberlin College.
David Brion Davis was an American intellectual and cultural historian,and a leading authority on slavery and abolition in the Western world. He was a Sterling Professor of History at Yale University,and founder and director of Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery,Resistance,and Abolition.
The Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam,which became the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam,was a coalition of American antiwar activists formed in November 1966 to organize large demonstrations in opposition to the Vietnam War. The organization was informally known as "the Mobe".
Stuart Taylor Jr. is an American journalist,author,and lawyer. He has served as a fellow at the Brookings Institution. He was a reporter for the Baltimore Sun from 1971 to 1974;The New York Times from 1980 to 1988,covering legal affairs and then primarily the Supreme Court;wrote commentaries and long features for The American Lawyer,Legal Times and their affiliates from 1989 to 1997,and for National Journal and Newsweek from 1998 through 2010. He has coauthored two books.
Debora Kuller Shuger is a literary historian and scholar. She studies early modern,Renaissance,late 16th- and 17th century England. She writes about Tudor-Stuart literature;religious,political,and legal thought;Neo-Latin;and censorship of that period.
George Braziller was an American book publisher and the founder of George Braziller,Inc.,a firm known for its literary and artistic books and its publication of foreign authors.
Simon E. Gikandi is a Kenyan Literature Professor and Postcolonial scholar. He is the Class of 1943 University Professor of English at Princeton University. He is perhaps best known for his co-editorship of The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature. He has also done important work on the modern African novel,and two distinguished African novelists:Chinua Achebe and Ngũgĩwa Thiong'o. In 2019 he became the president of the Modern Language Association.
Fredrik Logevall is a Swedish-American historian and educator at Harvard University,where he is the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and professor of history in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He is a specialist in U.S. politics and foreign policy. Logevall was previously the Stephen and Madeline Anbinder Professor of History at Cornell University,where he also served as vice provost and as director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. He won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Embers of War:The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam. His most recent book,JFK:Coming of Age in the American Century,1917-1956 (2020),won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
Jonathan Sperber is an American academic and historian who is a professor emeritus at the University of Missouri and author of modern European History.
Kevin Michael Kruse is an American historian and a professor of history at Princeton University. His research interests include the political,social,and urban/suburban history of 20th-century America,with a particular focus on the making of modern conservatism. Outside of academia,Kruse has attracted substantial attention and following for his Twitter threads where he provides historical context for and applies historical research to current political events.
Willis Ray Gregg was an American meteorologist and chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau who made major contributions to aviation.
George Joseph Hecht was the founder and publisher of Parents magazine and owner of FAO Schwarz. He is often credited with creating the parenting advice industry through his many publications.
Annabel M. Patterson is the Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University.
The Kings County Colored Mens Association of Brooklyn,New York,in the United States,was a Reconstruction-era political advocacy group. The group,seemingly led by Rev. A. N. Freeman,held regular meetings and debates,elected convention delegates,and endorsed candidates,namely Ulysses S. Grant for president. In 1866 the group met to discuss the progress of civil rights legislation and the conversation turned to the allegiances of President Andrew Johnson.
I am opposed to President Johnson. He is in my way,and in the way of my people,and I don't believe he means to do us justice ... Do you recollect how David prayed for his enemies? I believe he prayed they might be sent to hell...I didn't pray to have Andy Johnson sent to hell. I prayed that he might be taken out of my way;and I thought if the Lord sent him to hell,it would be on his own responsibility. [Laughter]
