Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. (October 15, 1917 – February 28, 2007) was an American historian and social critic. He graduated at Harvard University in 1938. After serving in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II, he taught at Harvard and won the Pulitzer Prize for The Age of Jackson. His work explored the American liberalism of political leaders including Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy.
Samuel Willard is also an American scholar who’s got a deep interest in the antiquity, i.e. the Classical world of Greece and Rome.