* 1957 – Aviva Chomsky, American historian, daughter of Noam Chomsky

* 1865 – James Henry Breasted, American archaeologist and historian ( d. 1935 )

* 1916 – Richard Hofstadter, American historian ( d. 1970 )

* 1955 – Caleb Carr, American author and historian

* 1972 – Thomas Woods, American historian, economist, and educator

* 1999 – Byron Farwell, American historian ( b. 1921 )

* 1922 – Gertrude Himmelfarb, American historian

* 1921 – Alex Haley, American historian ( d. 1992 )

* 1938 – Ellen Schrecker, American historian

* 1957 – Brooks D. Simpson, American historian

* 1722 – Robert Beverley, Jr., American historian ( b. 1673 )

Art historian Richard Poss took a more flexible approach, maintaining that the astronomical rock art of the North American Southwest should be read employing " the hermeneutic traditions of western art history and art criticism " Astronomers, however, raise different questions, seeking to provide their students with identifiable precursors of their discipline, and are especially concerned with the important question of how to confirm that specific sites are, indeed, intentionally astronomical.

The title of the album was apparently inspired by historian Eric Lott's book Love & Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class, which was published in 1993.

The historian Richard Hofstadter addressed the role of paranoia and conspiracism throughout American history in his essay The Paranoid Style in American Politics, published in 1964.

* Cyrus Townsend Brady, American journalist, historian and adventure writer

* Aviva Chomsky ( born 1957 ), American historian

* 1910 – Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine ( d. 1991 )

* 1935 – David Hackett Fischer, American historian

* 1726 – Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian ( b. 1665 )

* 1914 – Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian ( b. 1840 )

* 1947 – Michael Burns, American historian

* 1904 – William L. Shirer, American historian ( d. 1993 )

* 1957 – Steve Farhood, American boxing historian and analyst

* 1942 – James Loewen, American sociologist and historian

`` As an independent American I considered all who were not for us, and you amongst the rest, as against us, yet be assured that John Jay never ceased to be the friend of Peter Van Schaack ''.

That John Locke's philosophy of the social contract fathered the American Revolution with its Declaration of Independence, I believe, we generally accept.

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Monday, May 22nd, 1961, as National Maritime Day, reminding our citizens that American Merchant ships and American seamen are ready at all times to serve our Nation in the cause of freedom and justice.

In her letter to John Brown, `` E. B. '', the Quakeress from Newport, had suggested that the American people owed more honor to John Brown for seeking to free the slaves than they did to George Washington.

This is the tale of one John Enright, an American who has accidentally killed a man in the prize ring and is now trying to forget about it in a quiet place where he may become a quiet man.

The field was pioneered by staff of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology, men such as John Wesley Powell and Frank Hamilton Cushing.

* John Arnold Austin ( 1905 – 1941 ), American sailor

As a young man, Nobel studied with chemist Nikolai Zinin ; then, in 1850, went to Paris to further the work ; and, at 18, he went to the United States for four years to study chemistry, collaborating for a short period under inventor John Ericsson, who designed the American Civil War ironclad USS Monitor.

* 1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.

* 1947 – John Ratzenberger, American actor

* 1960 – John Pizzarelli, American jazz guitarist, songwriter, singer and bandleader

* 1940 – John Hagee, American pastor and televangelist

* 1904 – John Hay Whitney, American businessman, publisher, and diplomat, founded J. H.

* 1948 – John Mehler, American drummer ( Love Song )

* 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Cedar Mountain – At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope.

* 1955 – John E. Sweeney, American politician

* 1962 – John " Hot Rod " Williams, American basketball player

* 1962 – John Slattery, American actor

* 1871 – John French Sloan, American artist ( d. 1951 )

* 1939 – John W. Snow, American politician, 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury

* 1968 – John Stanier, American drummer ( Helmet, Tomahawk, The Mark of Cain, and Battles )

* 1996 – John McSherry, American baseball umpire ( b. 1944 )

* 2010 – John Forsythe, American actor ( b. 1918 )