Notable Historians, Posters & Prints “H...-”
educational posters for social studies classrooms, home schools, and theme decor for office.

Edith Hamilton
G. W. F. Hegel
Herodotus

Richard Hofstadter
Raphael Holinshed
Johan Huizinga

Joy Hakim
b. 1931; raised in Vermont

Teacher Joy Hakim has authored the ten-volume History of US which has been made into the 16 part PBS program Freedom: A History of US. Hakim has also written volumes for The Story of Science.

Joy Hakim quotes ~
• “History is full of stories – true stories – the best ever. Those stories have real heroes and real villains. When you read history, you are reading about real-life adventures.”

Edith Hamilton
b. 8-12-1867; Dresden, Germany (raised in Fort Wayne, IN)
d. 5-31-1963; Washington, DC

Historian, author, and educator Edith Hamilton was “recognized as the greatest woman Classicist”. She was sixty-two years old when The Greek Way, her first book, was published in 1930; and her 1942 Mythology is still a classroom standard introductory text.

Edith Hamilton quotes ~
• “To be able to be caught up into the world of thought – that is educated.”
• “Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.”
• “There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.”
• “Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.”
• “When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.”

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Portrait, Giclee Print

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
b. 8-27-1770; Stuttgart, Württemberg, Germany
d. 11-14-1831; Berlin

Hegel best remembered as a philosopher, who put forth a historicist and idealist account of reality which was an important precursor to Continental philosophy and Marxism. His comprehensive philosophical framework, or “system”, integrated mind and nature, the subject and object of knowledge, and psychology, the state, history, art, religion and philosophy.

Hegel quotes ~
• “Education is the art of making man ethical.”
• “Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.”
• “The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.”
• “History, is a conscious, self-meditating process — Spirit emptied out into Time.”
• “What experience and history teach is this — that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.”

• The Accessible Hegel

Herodotus Giclee Print

Herodotus
b. ca. 484 BC; Greece
d. ca. 425 BC

Herodotus is considered the “Father of History” and considered the first writer to “collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a well-constructed and vivid narrative.” He self proclaimed he wished “to preserve the memory of the past by putting on record the astonishing achievements both of our own and of other peoples; and more particularly, to show how they came into conflict.”

• The Histories
• Map of Egypt, as described by Herodotus print

“Concerning Egypt I will now speak at length, because nowhere are there so many marvelous things, nor in the whole world beside are there to be seen so many works of unspeakable greatness.”

Richard Hofstadter
b. 8-6-1916; Buffalo, NY
d. 10-24-1970 (leukemia)

Historian Richard Hofstadter's was awarded the Pulitizer Prize twice for his works such as Social Darwinism in American Thought, 1860–1915 (1944); The American Political Tradition (1948); The Age of Reform (1955); Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1963), and the essays collected in The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964).

A Jousting Tournament, from “Chronicles of England” by Holinshed, 1577, Giclee Print

Raphael Holinshed
b. 1529; Chesire (?), England
d. 1580

Chronicler Raphael Holinshed was a major source of inspiration William Shakespeare's plays like Macbeth, Cymbeline, and King Lear.

FYI - A chronicle is a historical account of facts and events ranged in chronological order.

Johan Huizinga
b. 12-7-1872; Groningen, The Netherlands
d. 2-1-1945; De Steeg, Gelderland, near Arnhem

Johan Huizinga, Professor of General and Dutch History at Groningen University and one of the founders of modern cultural history, looked at art and spectacle as expressed by different cultures. He studied comparative linguistics leading to a command of Sanskrit; his doctoral thesis was about the jester in Indian drama.

Huizinga was held in detention by the Nazi's from 1942 till his death in 1945.

David Hume, Giclee Print

David Hume
b. 4-26-1711; Edinburgh, Scotland
d. 8-25-1776; Edinburgh

David Hume, Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian, is considered one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy.

David Hume quotes ~
• “A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.”
• “The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.”
• “Everything in the world is purchased by labor.”
• “Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”
• “Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.”
• “Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.”
• “Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore, are not conclusions of our reason.”

• motivational poster with Hume quote - “The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”
• book - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (The Clarendon Edition of the Works of David Hume)

Ada Louise Huxtable, Photographic Print Eisendstaedt

Ada Louise Huxtable
b. 3-14-1921; New York City, NY
d. 1-7-2013; NYC

Ada Louise Huxtable is an art historian, architectural critic and industrial designer.