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

Elaine Pagels
Nell Irvin Painter
Francis Parkman

Vernon Louis Parrington
Petrarch

Elaine Pagels, née Hiesey
b. 2-13-1943; Palo Alto, CA

Nell Irvin Painter
b. 8-2-1942; Houston, TX

Francis Parkman
b. 9-16-1823; Boston, MA
d. 11-8-1893; Jamaica Plain, MA

FYI - Theodore Roosevelt dedicated his The Winning of the West, to Parkman, who was also a Harvard Professor of Horticulture and first leader of the Arnold Arboretum.

Vernon Louis Parrington
b. 8-3-1871; Aurora, IL
d. 6-16-1929

Parrington was awarded the 1928 Pulitizer Prize in History for his three volume work Main Currents in American History. He concluded “that the Jeffersonian farmer, the Progressives' traditional democratic hero, had joined forces with the greedy business community to produce a destructive form of capitalism which culminated in the 1920s”.

Francesco Petrarca
“Petrarch”
b. 7-20-1304; Arezzo, Italy
d. 7-19-1374; Veneto

Petrarch, one of the earliest Renaissance scholars and poets was also a historian, is credited with coining the phrase “Dark Ages” to describe the dismal quality of the era preceding his own.

• The Portable Petrarch

Plutarch, neé Plutarcho
b. 46; Greece
d. c. 127 AD

Plutarch, a priest of Apollo at the Oracle of Delphi, is better know as a biographer and historian for works like Parallel Lives and Moralia.

Plutarch quotes ~
• “It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die.” - Life of Alexander/Life of Julius Caesar
• “The soul, being eternal, after death is like a caged bird that has been released. If it has been a long time in the body, and has become tame by many affairs and long habit, the soul will immediately take another body and once again become involved in the troubles of the world. The worst thing about old age is that the soul's memory of the other world grows dim, while at the same time its attachment to things of this world becomes so strong that the soul tends to retain the form that it had in the body. But that soul which remains only a short time within a body, until liberated by the higher powers, quickly recovers its fire and goes on to higher things.” - The Consolation, Moralia

FYI ~ Plutarch's works were inspirational to Montaigne.

William H. Prescott
b. 5-4-1796; Salem, MA
d. 1-28-1859; Boston (stroke)

FYI - The town of Prescott, Arizona is named after Prescott. Also Prescott's grandfather, also named William, was a colonel in command of rebels at the Battle of Bunker Hill.