Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University, PhD in History from the University of Chicago, Fluent Teacher and Speaker of English, German, French, Dutch, Hebrew, and Yiddish : A historian of modern Jewish and European history. He is especially interested in the interplay between Jewish history and transnational minority politics since the Enlightenment. (From : Vanderbilt.edu.)

(1862 - 1925) ~ American Clergyman, Lecturer, Writer, Christian Socialist Activist, Social Gospel Movement Organizer : ...an American clergyman, lecturer, writer and Christian socialist activist. Herron is best remembered as a leading exponent of the so-called Social Gospel movement and for his highly publicized divorce and remarriage to the daughter of a wealthy benefactor which scandalized polite society of the day. A self-imposed exile followed. (From : Wikipedia.org.)

(1809 - 1880) ~ French Statesman, Lawyer, Post-1870 Commune Leader of the Opportunist Republicans in the National Assembly, Active Revolutionary Since the Revolution of 1830 : A French statesman and lawyer. After the establishment of the Third Republic in September 1870, he became one of the leaders of the Opportunist Republicans in the National Assembly. (From : Wikipedia.org.)

Early 19th-Century Free Lover, Anarchist, Socialist

(bce446 - bce386) ~ Great Grandfather of Comedy, Author of the First Sex Joke(s), Destroyer and Upholder of Traditions : A comic playwright or comedy-writer of ancient Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These provide the most valuable examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy and are used to define it, along with fragments from dozens of lost plays by Aristophanes and his contemporaries. (From : Wikipedia.org.)

"Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities," by Anna Sun, Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2013.

"Of Education," by Charles Fourier, Source: The History Guide; Translated: by Julia Franklin, and published as Selections from the Works of Fourier. First published in Th?orie de l?Unit? Universelle, 2nd ed., 1838.

"The Paris Commune: An Episode in the History of the Socialist Movement," by Edward S. Mason, New York, Howard Fertig, 1967.

"North and South," by George Orwell, 1937.