Birth Name:

William H. McNeill (historian)

Male

Birth Date:

Wed, Oct 31, 1917

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Age:

106

Zodiac Sign:

Scorpio

Astrology Data:

Sun

7°

Sco

50'

About William H. McNeill (historian)

William Hardy McNeill (October 31, 1917 – July 8, 2016) was an American historian and author, noted for his argument that contact and exchange among civilizations is what drives human history forward, first postulated in The Rise of the West (1963). He was the Robert A. Millikan Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago, where he taught from 1947 until his retirement in 1987.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• The MESA Debate: The Scholars, the Media, and the Middle East, video from the debate 22 November 1986, Boston MA. Participants: Bernard Lewis, Edward Said, Leon Wieseltier and Christopher Hitchens. The chairman: William H. McNeill

• The Changing Shape of World History, William H. McNeill, Paper originally presented at the History and Theory World History Conference, March 25–26, 1994.

• Decline of the West?, William H. McNeill, Review of Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. The New York Review of Books. January 9, 1997.

• J.H. Elliott (16 May 1974), "Where We Started", The New York Review of Books, retrieved 2010-05-26 – joint review of four books including two by McNeill

• McNeill, William H. "Discrepancies among the Social Sciences." Conspectus of History 1.7 (1981): 35–45.

• Appearances on C-SPAN

• Works by or about William H. McNeill at Internet Archive

• William H. McNeill at Find a Grave

• Guides to the William H. McNeill Papers 1963–1991 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for William H. McNeill (historian): Sun 7 Scorpio, Moon 28 Taurus, Mercury 5 Scorpio, Venus 22 Sagittarius, Mars 29 Leo, Jupiter 9 Gemini, Saturn 13 Leo, Uranus 19 Aquarius, Neptune 7 Leo, Pluto 5 Cancer, Sun Quincunx Jupiter, Sun Trine Pluto, Sun Square Neptune, Sun Conjunct Mercury, Mercury Square Neptune, Sun Semi Square Venus, Mercury Semi Square Venus, Mercury Trine Pluto, Venus Sextile Uranus, Venus Sesquiquadrate Neptune, Jupiter Sextile Neptune, Saturn Conjunct Neptune, Uranus Sesquiquadrate Pluto, Neptune Semi Sextile Pluto

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