American novelist John Dos Passos.

John Dos Passos

(1896 - 1970)

Simon Bolivar Buckner

(1823 - 1914)

Photograph of Soviet Russian writer and journalist Vasily Grossman.

Vasily Grossman

(1905 - 1964)

Color photograph of Osama bin Laden, founder of militant Islamist group al-Qaeda.

Osama bin Laden

(1957 - 2011)

British historian Edward Gibbon.

Edward Gibbon

(1737 - 1794)

Black and white photograph of Ryszard Kapuściński holding a book.

Ryszard Kapuściński

(1932 - 2007)

Jean Hatzfeld

Ron Ridenhour

(1946 - 1998)

Photograph of President Abraham Lincoln sitting in a chair.

Abraham Lincoln

(1809 - 1865)

Black and white photograph of Russian author Leo Tolstoy.

Leo Tolstoy

(1828 - 1910)

Eugene Sledge

(1923 - 2001)

Vladimir Lenin

(1870 - 1924)

Gregory of Tours

(c. 538 - 594)

British novelist and historian Tom Holland.

Tom Holland

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

(1841 - 1935)

Josephus

(37 - 100)

Curzio Malaparte

(1898 - 1957)

Winston Churchill

(1874 - 1965)

Central Intelligence Agency

Eduardo Galeano

(1940 - 2015)

Kurt Vonnegut

(1922 - 2007)

Sepia image of a woman with head veiled

Julia Ward Howe

(1819 - 1910)

Photograph of John B. Hood

John B. Hood

(1831 - 1879)

Pauline Léon

(1768 - 1838)

President of the United States and five-star general Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

(1890 - 1969)

Wilhelm II

(1859 - 1941)

Caleb Carr

Black and white photograph of a young John Ruskin wearing a suit.

John Ruskin

(1819 - 1900)

Ammianus Marcellinus

(c. 330 - 395)

American psychologist and philosopher William James.

William James

(1842 - 1910)

Portrait bust of Roman poet Virgil.

Virgil

(70 BC - 19 BC)

Saint Augustine (detail), by Philippe de Champaigne, c. 1645.

Saint Augustine

(354 - 430)

Cecil Woodham-Smith

(1896 - 1977)

Ulysses S. Grant

(1822 - 1885)

Albert Einstein in a suit and tie standing in front of a chalkboard

Albert Einstein

(1879 - 1955)

George Patton

(1885 - 1945)

John Mueller

Bartolomé de Las Casas

(1484 - 1566)

Portrait bust of presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey Homer.

Homer

(c. 800 BC - 725 BC)

Sun Tzu

(c. 544 BC - c. 496 BC)

German-born American historian Fritz Stern.

Fritz Stern

(1926 - 2016)

Henry Stimson

(1867 - 1950)

Joseph Heller

Joseph Heller

(1923 - 1999)

Erich Maria Remarque

(1898 - 1970)

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

(1659 - 1719)

David Howarth

(1912 - 1991)

Black and white photograph of William Golding wearing an ascot.

William Golding

(1911 - 1993)

Elizabeth I

(1533 - 1603)

Woodrow Wilson

(1856 - 1924)

Statue of French medieval poet and historian Jean Froissart.

Jean Froissart

(c. 1337 - c. 1405)

Mary Jemison

(1743 - 1833)

Polybius

(c. 200 BC - c. 120 BC)

English novelist, essayist, and critic George Orwell.

George Orwell

(1903 - 1950)

Lucan

(39 - 65)

Engraving of William Shakespeare from the first folio edition.

William Shakespeare

(1564 - 1616)

American poet, journalist, and essayist Walt Whitman.

Walt Whitman

(1819 - 1892)

American poet E.E. Cummings.

E.E. Cummings

(1894 - 1962)

American novelist Tim O’Brien.

Tim O’Brien

Henry Kissinger

Tecumseh

(1768 - 1813)

Nicholas II

(1868 - 1918)

Randall Jarrell

(1914 - 1965)

W.H. Auden

(1907 - 1973)

Colorized engraving of Voltaire wearing a wig.

Voltaire

(1694 - 1778)

Seated man with slicked back hair speaking into a microphone

William Laurence

(1888 - 1977)

Lewis Lapham at his desk

Lewis H. Lapham

Jessica Lynch

French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline.

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

(1894 - 1961)

Sultan Selim I

(1470 - 1520)

Illuminated manuscript illustration of a bearded man wearing a mitre and holding a staff

Urban II

(c. 1035 - 1099)

English author Robert Southey.

Robert Southey

(1774 - 1843)

Black and white photograph of English poet Wilfred Owen.

Wilfred Owen

(1893 - 1918)

Black and white photograph of a young Mark Twain with dark hair.

Mark Twain

(1835 - 1910)

Black and white photograph of Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud with cigar.

Sigmund Freud

(1856 - 1949)

Former President of the United States Richard Nixon.

Richard Nixon

(1914 - 1994)

American civil war general William Tecumseh Sherman.

William Tecumseh Sherman

(1820 - 1891)

Joseph Goebbels

(1897 - 1945)

Bertran de Born

(c. 1140 - c. 1212)

Statue depicting Roman orator and historian Tacitus.

Tacitus

(56 - c. 120)

Photograph of American writer William Langewiesche.

William Langewiesche

Classical bust of Thucydides.

Thucydides

(c. 460 BC - c. 404 BC)

Sculpture bust of Greek historian Herodotus.

Herodotus

(c. 484 BC - c. 425 BC)

John Keegan

(1934 - 2012)

English poet and novelist Siegfried Sassoon.

Siegfried Sassoon

(1886 - 1967)

George W. Bush