History Matters
"History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future." - Robert Penn Warren
History Matters
- Chris Hughes (co-founder of Facebook)
- Howard Stringer (chairman and CEO of the Sony Corporation)
- Carly Fiorina (president and CEO of Hewlett-Packard; History and Philosophy)
- Chelsea Clinton
- Martha Stewart
- Lee Iacocca (American automobile executive best known for spearheading the development of the Ford Mustang; CEO of Chrysler)
- Robert Johnson (CEO of BET TV)
- Charles Sennott (co-founder and vice president of Global News)
- Howard Stringer (chairman and CEO of the Sony Corporation)
- Louis Theroux - inquisitive documentary maker
- Susan Wojcicki (CEO of YouTube; History and Literature)
- Steve Carell – comedy icon / actor, holds a history degree from Denison University
- Lawrence Gene "Larry" David – comedian, writer, actor, television producer
- Tony Danza – actor (“Who’s the Boss?”)
- Janeane Garofalo – actress, stand-up comedian, liberal activist
- John Arthur Lithgow – actor (“3rd Rock from the Sun” and other comedies)
- Jonathan Ross – entertainment talk-show host (Looks like those skills of analysis come in handy for a successful career in media…)
- Conan O’Brien – entertainment talk-show host
- Edward Norton – actor (most notable for roles in “Fight Club” and “American History X” holds not only a history degree but a decent command of languages)
- Dean Cain – actor (“Lois & Clark: Superman”)
- Sacha Baron Cohen – actor (notable for his morally flawed character portrayal in “Borat”; though, he proves in reality, genuinely intelligent as a history graduate from Cambridge - a top-ranking UK school)
- Michael Palin (Monty Python founder, in fact his co-founder Terry Jones, has published extensively on medieval history and hosted a History Channel series on the Middle Ages)
- Jimmy Buffett – musician, actor, author, businessman
- Julia Child - chef and television personality
- Katharine Hepburn - actress
- Prince Charles - the Prince of Wales holds a degree in Archaeology, Anthropology and
History, and was the first ever heir apparent to gain such a qualification.
- United States Presidents with History Degrees:
- George W. Bush
- Theodore Roosevelt (also president of the American Historical Association, 1912)
- Woodrow Wilson (also president of the American Historical Association, 1924)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- John F. Kennedy
- Richard Nixon
- Dwight Eisenhower
- Other Notable Politicians/Public Figures Who Studied History:
- Newt Gingrich
- George McGovern
- George Mitchell
- Tim Johnson
- Joe Biden
- Cory Booker
- Robert Gates
- Samantha Power
- Salman Rushdie – prolific novelist and essayist
- H.G. Wells - War of The Worlds
- Ayn Rand - Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter
- David Hume - historian, philosopher, author
- Niccolo Machiavelli - historian, politician, philosopher, author, humanist, diplomat
- Flo Steinberg - pioneer publisher of underground comic books
- Kevin Fagan - cartoonist and creator of the syndicated strip “Drabble”
- Malcolm Gladwell
- Carl Sandburg
- Annie Proulx
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
- Bill Bradley
- Andrew DeClercq
- Ken Dryden
- Grant Hill