Ellen Ullman

Black and white photograph of German-language writer Franz Kafka.

Franz Kafka

(1883 - 1924)

Edith Simcox

(1844 - 1901)

Anne Boleyn

(c. 1507 - 1536)

Charlie Chaplin

(1889 - 1977)

American physicist Richard Feynman.

Richard Feynman

(1918 - 1988)

Olympe de Gouges

(1748 - 1793)

David Frost

(1939 - 2013)

Hans Holbein portrait of Sir Thomas More.

Thomas More

(1478 - 1535)

Paul Butler

E.P. Thompson

(1924 - 1993)

al-Mawardi

(c. 972 - 1058)

Catherine the Great

(1729 - 1796)

M. Edith Durham

(1863 - 1944)

Black and white image of Greek biographer and writer Plutarch.

Plutarch

(46 - c. 120)

Myron H. Thompson

Angela Y. Davis

Nat Nakasa

(1937 - 1965)

Livy

(c. 59 BC - c. 17)

Jill Leovy

Erica Benner

Erica Benner

Photograph of Native American poet and novelist Leslie Marmon Silko.

Leslie Marmon Silko

T. Obinkaram Echewa

Wheel of Fortune from the Carmina Burana.

Carmina Burana

Painted portrait of Scottish philosopher David Hume.

David Hume

(1711 - 1776)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

(1933 - 2020)

Gratian

(c. 1099 - c. 1159)

José Hernández

(1834 - 1886)

Joseph de Maistre

(1753 - 1821)

Ralph Nader

William Cowper

(1731 - 1800)

Jewish philosopher, jurist, and physician Moses Maimonides.

Moses Maimonides

(1135 - 1204)

Juvenal

(c. 60 - c. 130)

John Marshall

(1755 - 1835)

Sepia toned photograph of Lewis Carroll in a suit, reading a book

Lewis Carroll

(1832 - 1898)

Han Fei

(c. 280 BC - 233 BC)

Black and white image of English philosopher and political theorist John Stuart Mill.

John Stuart Mill

(1806 - 1873)

Horace Gray

(1828 - 1902)

Photograph of President Abraham Lincoln sitting in a chair.

Abraham Lincoln

(1809 - 1865)

Nikolay Bukharin

(1888 - 1938)

Jacobo Timerman

(1923 - 1999)

Sculpture bust of Greek dramatist Euripides.

Euripides

(c. 484 BC - c. 406 BC)

Immanuel Kant

(1724 - 1804)

William Blackstone

(1723 - 1780)

John Lyde Wilson

(1784 - 1849)

Black and white photograph of Friedrich Nietzsche with a huge mustache.

Friedrich Nietzsche

(1844 - 1900)

William Hogeland

William Hogeland

Janet Malcolm

(1934 - 2021)

French general and emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.

Napoleon Bonaparte

(1769 - 1821)

Color portrait of English philosopher John Locke.

John Locke

(1632 - 1704)

Former President of the United States Richard Nixon.

Richard Nixon

(1914 - 1994)

Jon Wiener

John Paul Stevens

Mary Ware Dennett

(1872 - 1947)

Photograph of African American abolitionist and U.S. diplomat Frederick Douglass.

Frederick Douglass

(c. 1818 - 1895)

British historian Edward Gibbon.

Edward Gibbon

(1737 - 1794)

Portrait of French political philosopher Montesquieu.

Montesquieu

(1689 - 1755)

Isabella Whitney

(c. 1540 - c. 1580)

Photograph of English novelist Charles Dickens.

Charles Dickens

(1812 - 1870)

Arundhati Roy

Rafael Marques

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

(1841 - 1935)

American Congregational minister Cotton Mather.

Cotton Mather

(1663 - 1728)

Black and white photograph of American anarchist Emma Goldman.

Emma Goldman

(1869 - 1940)

Lewis Lapham at his desk

Lewis H. Lapham

(1935 - 2024)

Lucy Stone.

Lucy Stone

(1818 - 1893)

Muhammad al-Muwaylihi

(1858 - 1930)

Okuni Takamasa

(1793 - 1871)

Madame Roland

(1754 - 1793)

Joan Cocks

Joan Cocks

Image of Renaissance humanist and scholar Poggio Bracciolini.

Poggio Bracciolini

(1380 - 1459)

Galileo Galilei

(1564 - 1642)

Color portrait of German theologian and reformer Martin Luther.

Martin Luther

(1483 - 1546)

Color photograph of author David Graeber wearing a t-shirt.

David Graeber

(1961 - 2020)

Richard Cohen. Photograph by Christopher Dickey

Richard Cohen

Eugène Sue

(1804 - 1857)

Elizabeth I

(1533 - 1603)