This is the grave of Dee Brown. Born in 1908 in Alberta, Louisiana, Brown mostly grew up in Ouachita County, Arkansas and then Little Rock. The family had enough money to go to Little Rock for better schools as Brown and his siblings grew up,...
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This is the grave of Frank Tannenbaum. Born in 1893 in Austria to a Jewish family, Tannenbaum came with his family to the United States in 1905, like so many.
This is the grave of Ray Allen Billington. Born in 1903 in Bay City, Michigan, Billington went to the University of Wisconsin for undergraduate degree. He decided to become a.
This is the grave of Manning Marable. Born in Dayton, Ohio in 1950, Marable came out of the Black activist-intellectual class based in that area since the 19th century. His parents had both gone to Central State in Wilberforce, a long-time center of Black higher...
This is the grave of Stephen Ambrose. Born in 1936 in Lovington, Illinois, Ambrose grew up middle class, the son of a doctor who was in the Navy as a.
This is the grave of Charles McLean Andrews. Born in 1863 in Weathersfield, Connecticut, Andrews grew up the son of a Catholic Apostolic minister. I admit I had to look.
This is the grave of George Bancroft. Born in 1800 in Worcester, Massachusetts, Bancroft came from old Purtian stock, which he loved. His father was a leading Unitarian minister who wrote a biography of George Washington. So Bancroft was an elite child of the Early...
This is the grave of Frederick Merk. Born in 1887 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Merk went to the University of Wisconsin and graduated in 1911. He was into history and went.
This is the grave of Charles and Mary Beard. Born in 1874 in Knightstown, Indiana, Charles Beard grew up reasonably well off. His father was a prosperous Quaker farmer who.
This is the grave of Leroy Vail. Born in 1940 as Hazen Leroy Vail in Boston, Leroy, as very much demanded to be called, was born of Canadian immigrants. Despite this highly questionable background, he proved to be a real smart kid. He just attended...
This is the grave of William H. Prescott. Born in 1796 in Salem, Massachusetts, Prescott grew up well off. His father was a prominent lawyer, his grandfather a colonel in.
This is the grave of James Malin. Born in Edgeley, North Dakota in 1893, Malin grew up in Kansas, with the family moving there in 1903. He was interested in.