History/Catalogs/Historians by area of study
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This is a list of historians categorized by their area of study. See also History for overview of historiography
By time period
Ancient history
- Michael Crawford
- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) - 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
- Howard Hayes Scullard (1903-1983) - Roman civilization
- Ronald Syme (1903 - 1989) Rome
- 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, methodology
- John Boswell (1947-1994, American) - Homosexuality in the Middle Ages
- Norman Cantor (1930-2004), England, historiography
- Georges Duby (1924-1996, French) - 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), religion
- Sidney Painter
- John Julius Norwich
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
- Reinhardt Koselleck
Gender
- John Boswell (1947-1994, American) - Homosexuality in medieval times
- George Mosse
- Retha Warnicke (born 1939) - Gender issues
History of ideas
History of Phillosophy
Litterary History
- Ivan Prijatelj (1875-1937)
- France Kidric (1880-1950)
- Erich Auerbach (1892-1957)
- Hans Robert Jauss (1921-1997)
- Hans-Ulrich Gumbrecht (1948-)
History of Concepts
Other
- 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
History of business
History of international relations
- Harry Elmer Barnes, World wars; revisionist (denied German Guilt in 1914)
- Herbert Butterfield
- Gordon A. Craig, Germany
- John Lewis Gaddis, 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, 19c Europe
- A.J.P. Taylor (1906-1990) - Europe and England
- Harold Temperley, (1879-1939), British editor of "British Documents on the Originis of the War, 1898-1914"
- Odd Arne Westad - Professor at the London School of Economics
- 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
- William McNeill (born 1917) American;
- Jackson J. Spielvogel - Pennsylvania State University, author of several major world history textbooks
- Arnold J. Toynbee (1889-1975) A Study of History
- Immanuel Wallerstein
Biography
- Alan Bullock (1914-2004) - on Hitler
- Roi Medvedev - Stalin biographer
- Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881 - Friedrich der Grosse (the Great)