Quote of the day
Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven,
When drooping health and spirits go amiss?
How tasteless then whatever can be given!
Health is the vital principle of bliss,
And exercise, of health.
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)