Stanley Nider Katz (born April 23, 1934 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American historian specializing in American legal and constitutional history and the history of philanthropy.
 He is director of the Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies and director emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies.
 He graduated from Harvard University with an AB (1955), MA (1959), and PhD in American colonial history (1961).
 He taught at Harvard from 1961 to 1965, serving as Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Leverett House from 1963 to 1965.
 He went on to teach at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1965–70), the University of Chicago Law School (1970–78), Princeton University (1978–1986), and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
 In addition to serving as president of the Organization of American Historians (1987-1988), Katz served as president of the American Council of Learned Societies from 1986 to 1997, for which he was awarded a 2010 United States National Humanities Medal.
 Since 2013, Katz has served as Chair of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.
Brian Patrick Lamb ( ; born October 9, 1941) is an American journalist and the founder, executive chairman, and now retired CEO of C-SPAN; an American cable network which provides coverage of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate as well as other public affairs events.
 Prior to launching C-SPAN in 1979, Lamb held various communications roles including White House telecommunications policy staffer and Washington bureau chief for "Cablevision" magazine.
 He also served as a commissioned officer in the United States Navy for four years.
 Lamb has conducted thousands of interviews in his lifetime, including those on C-SPAN's "Booknotes" and "Q&A", and is known for his unique interview style, focusing on short, direct questions.
 Over the course of his career Lamb has received numerous honors and awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Humanities Medal.
Lewis E. "Lew" Lehrman (born August 15, 1938 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is an American investment banker, businessman, Republican politician, economist, and amateur historian who supports the ongoing study of American history based on original source documents.
 He was presented the National Humanities Medal at the White House in 2005 for his contributions to American History, the study of President Abraham Lincoln and monetary policy.
 He was a member of the Advisory Committee of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and the Lincoln Forum.
 In addition to co-authoring "Money and the Coming World Order" and "The Case for Gold", Lehrman's has written "Lincoln at Peoria: The Turning Point," (2008), "The True Gold Standard, Newly Revised and Enlarged, Second Edition" (2012), "Money, Gold, and History" (2013) and "Lincoln "by littles"" (2013).
 He has written for major news publications such as the "Washington Post", the "New York Times" and the "Wall Street Journal", and has lectured widely on American history and economics.
 Lehrman also writes for the "Lincoln Institute" which has created award-winning websites on the 16th President.
 Lehrman achieved national political prominence in a 1982 campaign for Governor of New York, in which he ran against Democratic candidate Mario Cuomo, losing the election by only two percentage points.
 He is a senior partner at L. E. Lehrman & Co., an investment firm he established in 1981.
 He is also the chairman of the Lehrman Institute, a public policy research and grant making foundation founded in 1972.
 He and Richard Gilder were awarded the National Humanities Medal in an Oval Office ceremony on Thursday, November 10, 2005.
 The Medal was presented by President George W. Bush.
 He converted to Catholicism.
Harvey Claflin Mansfield, Jr. (born March 21, 1932) is an American political philosopher.
 He is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1962.
 He has held Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships and has been a Fellow at the National Humanities Center; he also received the National Humanities Medal in 2004 and delivered the Jefferson Lecture in 2007.
 He is a Carol G. Simon Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
 He is notable for his generally conservative stance on political issues in his writings.
Bernard Bailyn (born September 9, 1922) is an American historian, author, and academic specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History.
 He has been a professor at Harvard University since 1953.
 Bailyn has won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice (in 1968 and 1987).
 In 1998 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected him for the Jefferson Lecture.
 He was a recipient of the 2010 National Humanities Medal.
 He is married to MIT Professor of Management Lotte Bailyn (née Lotte Lazarsfeld) and is the father of Yale astrophysicist Charles Bailyn and Stony Brook Linguist John Bailyn.
David Brion Davis (born February 16, 1927) is an American intellectual and cultural historian, and a leading authority on slavery and abolition in the Western world.
 He is a Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University, and founder and director emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.
 The author and editor of 17 books, he received the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, and the National Humanities Medal, presented by President Barack Obama in 2014 for "reshaping our understanding of history."
 He also received the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction, the 2015 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for lifetime achievement in contributions to public understanding of racism and appreciation of cultural diversity, and the 2015 Biennial Coif Book Award, a top honor from the Association of American Law Schools for the leading law-related book published in 2013 and 2014.
The National Humanities Medal is an American award that annually recognizes several individuals, groups, or institutions for work that has "deepened the nation's understanding of the humanities, broadened our citizens' engagement with the humanities, or helped preserve and expand Americans' access to important resources in the humanities."
Gabor S. Boritt (born 1940 in Budapest, Hungary) is an American historian.
 He was the Robert Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies and Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College.
 Born and raised in Hungary, he participated as a teenager in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 against the Soviet Union before escaping to America, where he received his higher education and became a scholar of Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War.
 He is the author, co-author, or editor of 16 books about Lincoln or the War.
 Boritt received the National Humanities Medal in 2008 from President George W. Bush.
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009.
 He was also the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000.
 After graduating from Yale University in 1968 and Harvard Business School in 1975, he worked in the oil industry.
 Bush married Laura Welch in 1977 and ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives shortly thereafter.
 He later co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team before defeating Ann Richards in the 1994 Texas gubernatorial election.
 Bush was elected president in 2000 after a close and controversial win over Democratic rival Al Gore, becoming the fourth president to be elected while receiving fewer popular votes than his opponent.
The University of Michigan Press is part of Michigan Publishing at the University of Michigan Library.
 It publishes 170 new titles each year in the humanities and social sciences.
 Titles from the Press have earned numerous awards, including Lambda Literary Awards, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Joe A. Callaway Award, and the Nautilus Book Award.
 The Press has published works by authors who have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Humanities Medal and the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Question:  In 2008, Gabor Boritt received the National Humanities Medal from a politician that was governor of what state from 1995 to 2000? 
Answer: Texas