Quote of the day
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
John Hope Franklin

Born: January 2, 1915
Died: March 25, 2009 (aged 94)
Bio: John Hope Franklin was an American historian of the United States and former president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association.
Known for:
- From slavery to freedom (1947)
- Mirror to America (2005)
- Runaway slaves (1999)
- Reconstruction after the Civil War (1961)
- The militant South, 1800-1861 (1956)