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*[[Forrest McDonald]], political history | *[[Forrest McDonald]], political history | ||
*[[James M. McPherson]] - [[American Civil War]] | *[[James M. McPherson]] - [[American Civil War]] | ||
*[[Edmund Morgan]], colonial and Revolution | |||
*[[David Nasaw]] - biography and U.S. cultural history | *[[David Nasaw]] - biography and U.S. cultural history | ||
*[[Frank Lawrence Owsley]], | *[[Frank Lawrence Owsley]], antebellum South | ||
*[[Francis Parkman]] - | *[[Francis Parkman]] - French and Indian War | ||
*[[Vernon L. Parringon]], | *[[Vernon L. Parringon]], history of ideas | ||
*[[Ulrich B. Phillips]], | *[[Ulrich B. Phillips]], slavery | ||
* [[David M. Potter]], coming of Civil War | * [[David M. Potter]], coming of Civil War | ||
* [[Theodore Roosevelt]], West, War of 1812 | * [[Theodore Roosevelt]], West, War of 1812 | ||
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*[[Norman Davies]] | *[[Norman Davies]] | ||
*[[Elizabeth Eisenstein]], early | *[[Elizabeth Eisenstein]], early printing and transitions in [[Mass media|media]] | ||
*[[John Lukacs]] | *[[John Lukacs]] | ||
*[[Henri-Jean Martin]], early | *[[Henri-Jean Martin]], early printing and writing | ||
*[[Robert Roswell Palmer]] | *[[Robert Roswell Palmer]] | ||
*[[J. Salwyn Schapiro]] | *[[J. Salwyn Schapiro]] | ||
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*[[Maurice Cowling]] - High political history. | *[[Maurice Cowling]] - High political history. | ||
*[[Eamon Duffy]] - 15th-17th century religious history (not "the Reformation") | *[[Eamon Duffy]] - 15th-17th century religious history (not "the Reformation") | ||
*[[Geoffrey Rudolph Elton]] - | *[[Geoffrey Rudolph Elton]] - Tudor period | ||
*[[Antonia Fraser]] - England | |||
*[[Antonia Fraser]] - | |||
*[[J. H. Hexter]] - 17th century England. | *[[J. H. Hexter]] - 17th century England. | ||
*[[Gertrude Himmelfarb]] - Victorian social and cultural history. | *[[Gertrude Himmelfarb]] - Victorian social and cultural history. | ||
*[[Christopher Hill]] ( | *[[Christopher Hill]] (1912-2003) - 17th century England and Revolution | ||
*[[John Edward Lloyd]] ( | *[[John Edward Lloyd]] (1861-1947) - Early Welsh history | ||
*[[Geoffrey of Monmouth]] (died circa | *[[Geoffrey of Monmouth]] (died circa 1154) | ||
*[[Lewis Bernstein Namier]] - 18th century politics | *[[Lewis Bernstein Namier]] - 18th century politics | ||
*[[Andrew Roberts]], modern British history. | *[[Andrew Roberts]], modern British history. | ||
*[[A. L. Rowse]] ( | *[[A. L. Rowse]] (1903-1997) Elizabethan England | ||
*[[Dominic Sandbrook]] (born | *[[Dominic Sandbrook]] (born 1974) - The 1960s and after | ||
*[[John Robert Seeley]] ( | *[[John Robert Seeley]] (1834-1895) | ||
*[[David Starkey]] (born | *[[David Starkey]] (born 1945) - Tudor | ||
*[[E. P. Thompson]], (1924-1993), | *[[E. P. Thompson]], (1924-1993), British working class | ||
*[[Lawrence Stone]], The history of society and the family in England | *[[Lawrence Stone]], The history of society and the family in England | ||
*[[George Macaulay Trevelyan]] ( | *[[George Macaulay Trevelyan]] (1876–1962) - Prolific author on many periods of English history | ||
*[[Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton]] - 17th century Britain | *[[Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton]] - 17th century Britain; Nazi Germany | ||
*[[Retha Warnicke]] (born | *[[Retha Warnicke]] (born 1939) - Tudor history and gender issues | ||
*[[Cicely Veronica Wedgwood]] ( | *[[Cicely Veronica Wedgwood]] (1910-1997) - Glorious Revolution | ||
====[[History of France]]==== | ====[[History of France]]==== |
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This is a list of historians categorized by their area of study. See also List of historians.
By time period
Ancient history
- Michael Crawford (historian)
- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) - The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Peter Green - Ancient Greece and Macedon
- Herodotus
- Josephus
- Barbara Levick (born 1932, British) - Roman emperors
- Livy
- Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776–1831) - Roman history
- Howard Hayes Scullard (1903-1983) - Roman civilization
- Ronald Syme (1903 - 1989) - Classical period
- Suetonius
- Tacitus
- Joseph Tainter
- Thucydides
- Xenophon
Medieval history
- Placido Puccinelli (1609-1685, Italian) - Northern Italy in the tenth century and the Florentine church
- Marc Bloch (1886-1944, French) - Medieval France
- John Boswell (1947-1994, American) - Homosexuality in the Middle Ages
- Norman Cantor (1930-2004)
- Georges Duby (1924-1996, French) - Specialized in the history of France between the Capets and the Valois
- François-Louis Ganshof (1895-1980), Dutch - wrote on early medieval institutional history and feudalism
- Patrick Geary - early Middle Ages
- Geoffrey of Monmouth
- Geraldis Cambrensis
- Johan Huizinga (Dutch) - Wrote 'Waning of the Middle Ages'
- Jacques Le Goff
- Rev. F. X. Martin (Irish) - Mediævalist and campaigner
- Rosamond McKitterick - Frankish and Carolingian history
- Henri Pirenne (1862-1935) - the "Pirenne Thesis" of early Medieval development
- Eileen Power - Middle Ages
- Miri Rubin - social and religious history, 1100-1500
- Stephen Runciman (1903–2000) - the Crusades
- Richard Southern (1912-2001)
- Sidney Painter
- John Julius Norwich
By nation or geographical area
North America
History of Canada
- Donald Creighton - Developed the Laurentian thesis
- Lionel Groulx (1878-1967) - The history of Quebec in particular and French North America in general
- Harold Innis - Economic historian of Canada
- Jack Granatstein - Political and Military historian of Canada
- W.L. Morton - Expert on western Canada
See also List of Canadian historians.
History of the Caribbean
- Eric Williams (1911-1981) - Focused on slavery and the slave trade, condemned imperialism
History of the United States
See also Category:Historians of the United States
- Stephen Ambrose ([936-2002) - Biographer of Eisenhower, Nixon; military history
- Thomas A. Bailey, diplomatic
- Bernard Bailyn, Revolution
- George Bancroft (1800-1891) - colonial era
- Charles A. Beard (1874-1948) --economic interpretation
- Alan Brinkley - Great Depression
- Bruce Catton - American Civil War
- William Cronon - environmental history
- David Herbert Donald
- W.E.B. Du Bois - Reconstruction
- Eric Foner - Reconstruction
- Shelby Foote - (1916-2005) - American Civil War
- John Hope Franklin - historian of African Americans
- Milton Friedman, monetary history
- John A. Garraty, biography, political
- Richard Hildreth, 18th century
- Richard Hofstadter (1916-1970) - Progessivism and U.S. political history
- Russell Kirk, conservative ideas
- Arthur S. Link, Woodrow Wilson
- Seymour Martin Lipset, political movements
- David McCullough (1933- ) - popular biographies of Harry Truman, Teddy Roosevelt, John Adams
- Forrest McDonald, political history
- James M. McPherson - American Civil War
- Edmund Morgan, colonial and Revolution
- David Nasaw - biography and U.S. cultural history
- Frank Lawrence Owsley, antebellum South
- Francis Parkman - French and Indian War
- Vernon L. Parringon, history of ideas
- Ulrich B. Phillips, slavery
- David M. Potter, coming of Civil War
- Theodore Roosevelt, West, War of 1812
- Arthur Schlesinger Sr., social history
- Arthur Schlesinger Jr., political history, biography
- Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932) - Developed the Frontier Thesis
- Frank Vandiver, military
- C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999) - The South
- Howard Zinn (1922- ) - Leftist historian
Europe
History of Europe
- Norman Davies
- Elizabeth Eisenstein, early printing and transitions in media
- John Lukacs
- Henri-Jean Martin, early printing and writing
- Robert Roswell Palmer
- J. Salwyn Schapiro
- Norman Stone
- Gordon Wright
History of England and Britain
- Venerable Bede (672 – 735)
- Angus Calder - Great Britain.
- Maurice Cowling - High political history.
- Eamon Duffy - 15th-17th century religious history (not "the Reformation")
- Geoffrey Rudolph Elton - Tudor period
- Antonia Fraser - England
- J. H. Hexter - 17th century England.
- Gertrude Himmelfarb - Victorian social and cultural history.
- Christopher Hill (1912-2003) - 17th century England and Revolution
- John Edward Lloyd (1861-1947) - Early Welsh history
- Geoffrey of Monmouth (died circa 1154)
- Lewis Bernstein Namier - 18th century politics
- Andrew Roberts, modern British history.
- A. L. Rowse (1903-1997) Elizabethan England
- Dominic Sandbrook (born 1974) - The 1960s and after
- John Robert Seeley (1834-1895)
- David Starkey (born 1945) - Tudor
- E. P. Thompson, (1924-1993), British working class
- Lawrence Stone, The history of society and the family in England
- George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876–1962) - Prolific author on many periods of English history
- Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton - 17th century Britain; Nazi Germany
- Retha Warnicke (born 1939) - Tudor history and gender issues
- Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910-1997) - Glorious Revolution
History of France
- Marc Bloch (1886-1944) - Medieval France
- Georges Duby (1924-1996) - Medieval France
- Lucien Febvre (1878-1956) - French historian.
- Alistair Horne - modern French military history.
- Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie - history of the French peasantry.
- Michael Marrus - Vichy France
- Roland Mousnier - early modern France.
- Zeev Sternhell - French fascism.
- Eugen Weber - modern French history.
- John B. Wolf (1907-???) - French history
- Natalie Zemon Davis - early modern France.
- Gordon Wright (1912-2000)
History of Germany
- Gisela Bock
- Alan Bullock
- Karl Dietrich Bracher
- Martin Broszat
- Gordon A. Craig
- Richard J. Evans
- Joachim Fest
- Fritz Fischer
- Klaus Hildebrand
- Andreas Hillgruber
- Heinz Zollin Hohne
- Eberhard Jäckel
- Ian Kershaw
- Klemens von Klemperer
- Claudia Koonz
- Timothy Mason
- Friedrich Meinecke
- Hans Mommsen
- Wolfgang Mommsen
- George Mosse
- Ernst Nolte'
- Steven Ozment
- Detlev Peukert
- Gerhard Ritter
- Hans Rothfels
- Louis Leo Snyder
- Fritz Stern
- Michael Sturmer
- Hans-Ulrich Wehler
- Heinrich von Treitschke
- A.J.P. Taylor
- Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914-2003) - British historian and peer who specialized on Nazi leadership and incorrectly verified the authenticity of The Hitler Diaries
- Henry Ashby Turner
- Robert Waite
- John Wheeler-Bennett
- Michael Wolffsohn
- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
- Rainer Zitelmann
History of Ireland
- Brian Farrell (born 1929) - Irish political history, historian and emeritus Associated Professor of Politics, UCD
History of Italy
History of Poland
- Norman Davies (1939-) - modern Polish history.
- Pawel Jasienica (1909-1970) - Polish amateur historian.
- Wickham Steed
History of Russia
- Nicholas Bethell
- Robert Conquest - The Soviet Union
- Leopold Labedz
- Roy Medvedev
- Richard Pipes - The Soviet Union
- Condoleezza Rice - Soviet Union
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (born 1918) - Russian historian responsible for forcing knowledge of Soviet atrocities on the world
- William Taubman - Nikita Khrushchev
History of Slovenia
- Bogo Grafenauer (1916--1995)
History of Spain
- Ida Altman - Early modern Spain, colonial Latin America
- Maria Luisa Ávila-Medieval History, Spain, History of Muslim Spain, Women's History
- Robert I. Burns-Spain, Medieval History, History of Muslim Spain, Visigothic Spain
- Brian A Catlos-Spain, Medieval History, History of Muslim Spain
- Roger Collins-Medieval History, Spain, Visigothic Spain,History of Muslim Spain
- Olivia Remie Constable,-Spain, Medieval History, Commercial History
- Hipólito Escolar-Spain, History of the Book
- Pierre Guichard-Spain, Medieval History, Visigothic Spain, History of Muslim Spain
- S.I Imamuddin-Spain, Medieval History, History of Muslim Spain
- Manuela Marin-Women's History, Social History, Spain, History of Muslim Spain
- Julian Ribera y Tarragó-Spain, History of the Book, Medieval History, History of Muslim Spain
- Samuel Miklos Stern-Spain, History of the Book, Medieval History, History of Muslim Spain, Literary History
History of Yugoslavia
The Middle East
- George Antonius (1891-1941) - Historian of Arab nationalism
- Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb (1895-1971) - Editor, The Encyclopaedia of Islam
- Bernard Lewis - History of Islam and the Middle East
- Albert Hourani
- Ibn Khaldun
- Walid Khalidi Palestinian historian
- Michael Oren
- David Pryce-Jones
- Ibn al-Tiqtaqa (b. circa 1262) Shi'i historian wrote Al-Fakhīr
- ‘Ala’ al-Din ‘Ata Malik Juvayni (1226-1283) Ta’rīkh-I-Jahān Gushā (‘A History of the World-Conqueror Chingis Khān)
- Rashid al-Din (circa 1247-1318) Jāmi‛-al-Tawārīkh (‘A Comprehensive Collection of Histories'), Ta’rīkh–i-Ghāzānī - a history of the Mongols and Turks
- D. S. Margoliouth
- Caroline Finkel
- Rex Sean O'Fahey
- Knut Vikør
- Anders Bjørkelo
Asia
History of China
- Li Ao (born 1935) - Historian, author, and politician and broadcaster in the Republic of China on Taiwan
- Iris Chang - the Rape of Nanking.
- Rafe de Crespigny - Han dynasty
- Sima Qian - Compiled Records of the Grand Historian
- Odd Arne Westad - Professor at the London School of Economics and author of many books on China
History of Korea
- Bruce Cumings - modern Korea
- Il-yeon
- Kim Bu-sik - early annalist
- Kim Dae-Mun
- Lee Ki-baek - (1924-2004)
- Suh Dae-sook - Korean War and North Korea
- Yu Deuk-gong - Balhae
- Odd Arne Westad - Professor at the London School of Economics
History of India
- A. L. Basham
- Urvashi Butalia
- Nicholas Dirks
- Ranajit Guha
- Ayesha Jalal
- John Keay
- Christian Lassen
- Sumit Sarkar
- Tanika Sarkar
- Percival Spear
- Romila Thapar
- Bipin Chandra
History of Japan
Australasia
History of Australia
By historical viewpoint
Abolitionist
- George Washington Williams - Early African-American historian
Christianity
- Eusebius of Caesarea (~275–339) - "Father of Church history"
- Alexander Campbell Cheyne, Scottish Ecclesiastical Historian
- John Gilmary Shea (1824-1892) Father of American Catholic History
- Barbara Thiering (1930- ) Rediscovered the "Pesher technique"
Lutheranism
- Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim (1694-1755) - Lutheran historian of Christianity from its inception through the 18th century
Mormonism
- Leonard J. Arrington - LDS Church historian 1975-1982
- B.H. Roberts
- Fawn M. Brodie
The Papacy
- Ludwig von Pastor, wrote 40 volume history of the popes making extensive use of the Vatican Secret Archives
Salvation Army
- Rob Brettle (1963- ) Co-founder Christian Mission Historical Society
- Harry Hayes - founder Salvation Army Philatelic Society
- Glenn Horridge - Co-founder Christian Mission Historical Society
Holocaust
- Yehuda Bauer
- Martin Broszat
- Christopher Browning
- Lucy Dawidowicz
- Norman Finkelstein
- Henry Friedlander
- Saul Friedländer
- Daniel Goldhagen
- Raul Hilberg
- Michael Marrus
- Hans Mommsen
- R. J. Rummel
Marxist
- Eric Foner - Marxist historian of the American Civil War and Reconstruction
- Eugene D. Genovese - Marxist historian of southern US history and slavery
- Ranajit Guha - Indian marxist historian
- Christopher Hill - 17th century England.
- Eric Hobsbawm - Marxist historian of the modern world.
- Timothy Wright Mason - Marxist historian who worked on the history of National Socialism and the German working-class.
- Maxime Rodinson French marxist historian on the history of islam
- Sumit Sarkar Indian marxist historian
- Edward Palmer Thompson British marxist historian, author of "The Making of the English Working Class"
By general category
Art history
- Nicholas Pevsner (1903–1983) History of art and English architecture
- Josef Strzygowski (born 1862) - Architectural history
Economic history
- Niall Ferguson, Harvard U.
- Robert Fogel Nobe l Prize winner in economic history; author of The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism (book by Robert William Fogel)
- [[David S. Landes, American
- W. W. Rostow, American historian of industrialization
- R. H. Tawney, English historian of Industrial Revolution
Espionage
- John Earl Haynes, American historian of Communist espionage
- David Kahn, historian of codes
- Victor Suvorov
- Nigel West
Maritime history
- Robert G. Albion
- Howard I. Chapelle
- John Hattendorf
- Samuel Eliot Morison, Pulitzer prize winner
Military History
- Correlli Barnett - British
- Terry Copp - Canadian
- Martin van Creveld - Israeli
- Jack Granatstein - Canadian
- Victor Davis Hanson - American classicist
- Richard Holmes - British
- Alistair Horne - British historian of French military history.
- Michael Howard -
- John Keegan (born 1934, English)
- Basil Liddell Hart (1895–1970)
- Edward Luttwak (born 1942)
- Alfred Thayer Mahan, American theorist of sea power
- S. L. A. Marshall - American military historian.
- Samuel Eliot Morison (1887-1976) - World War II, Columbus, Jones
- Peter Paret
- Gordon Prange - World War II
- Gerhard Ritter - German
- Hew Strachan - World War I.
- Gerhard Weinberg - World War II
Historiography
- Marc Bloch
- Fernand Braudel
- Herbert Butterfield
- Edward H. Carr
- R. G. Collingwood
- Geoffrey Elton
- Richard J. Evans
- Pieter Geyl
- J. H. Hexter
- Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
- Leopold von Ranke
- Hayden White
Gender and sexuality studies
- John Boswell (1947-1994, American) - Homosexuality in medieval times
- George Mosse
- Retha Warnicke (born 1939) - Gender issues
History of ideas, literature, and philosophy
- Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) - History of ideas
- J. C. D. Clark, British historian of 18th century ideas.
- Michel Foucault (1926 - 1984) - History of ideas
- Peter Gay (1923-) - History of ideas.
- Lewis Mumford (1895-1988) - History of technology
- Ivan Prijatelj (1875-1937) - Literary history
- France Kidric (1880-1950) - Literary history
History of business
History of international relations
- Harry Elmer Barnes, World wars; revisionist
- Herbert Butterfield
- Gordon A. Craig, Germany
- John Lewis Gaddis, American now at Yale; Cold War.
- Klaus Hildebrand
- Andreas Hillgruber
- Paul Kennedy, British historian now at Yale, author of influential "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers"
- William L. Langer, (1896-1977)
- Eduard Mark
- Arno J. Mayer
- W.N. Medlicott
- Lewis Bernstein Namier
- Paul W. Schroeder, American historian, 19c European International Relations
- A.J.P. Taylor (1906-1990) - English specialist on Europe and England
- Harold Temperley, (1879-1939), British editor of "British Documents on the Originis of the War, 1898-1914"
- Ernest Llewellyn Woodward, (1890-1971)
History of science and technology
- Peter Galison, physics, philosophy, objectivity
- John L. Heilbron, physics, quantification, astronomy, religion and science
- Richard L. Hills, technology, steam power
- Thomas P. Hughes, technology
- Evelyn Fox Keller, science and gender, biology
- Melvin Kranzberg, technology
- Daniel J. Kevles, science and politics, physics, biology, eugenics
- Thomas Kuhn, physics, "paradigm shifts"
- David F. Noble, science & technology-based industrial development
- Abraham Pais, physics
- A. I. Sabra, optics, Islamic science
- George Sarton, Harvard;
World history
- Fernand Braudel (1902-1985) French specialist oin Mediterranean
- William McNeill (born 1917) American;
- Jackson J. Spielvogel - Pennsylvania State University, author of several major world history textbooks
- Arnold J. Toynbee (1889-1975) - Wrote landmark text A Study of History
- Immanuel Wallerstein
Biography
- Alan Bullock (1914-2004) - Historian best known for his influential biography of Hitler
- Roi Medvedev - Stalin biographer
- Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881 - Friedrich der Grosse (the Great)
- Ron Rosenbaum - author of Explaining Hitler.