Are you passionate about History? Here is list of noted historians from countries other than India.
Historians of the Ancient Period
• Herodotus, (484 – c. 420 BC), Halicarnassus, "Father of History"
• Thucydides, (460 – c. 400 BC), Peloponnesian War
• Berossus, (early 3rd century BC), Babylonian historian
• Xenophon, (431 – c. 360 BC), an Athenian knight and student of Socrates
• Ptolemy I Soter (367 BC — c. 283 BC), General of Alexander the Great, Founder of Ptolemaic Dynasty.
• Timaeus of Tauromenium, (c. 345 – c. 250 BC), Greek history
• Quintus Fabius Pictor, (c. 254 BC - ?), Roman history
• Gaius Acilius, (fl. 155 BC), Roman history
• Polybius, (203 – c. 120 BC), Early Roman history (written in Greek)
• Sima Qian, (c. 145 - c. 86 BC), Chinese history
• Julius Caesar, (100 – c. 44 BC), Gallic and civil wars
• Diodorus of Sicily, (1st century BC), Greek history
• Sallust, (86 – 34 BC)
• Dionysius of Halicarnassus, (c. 60 - after 7 BC), Roman history
• Livy, (c. 59 BC – AD 17), Roman history
• Cremutius Cordus, (? - 25), Roman history
• Curtius Rufus, (c. 60-70), Greek history
• Ban Gu, (32 - 92), (Han Dynasty)
• Flavius Josephus, (37 – 100), Jewish history
• Ban Zhao, (45 - 116), (Han Dynasty)
• Thallus, (early 2nd century AD), Roman history
• Plutarch, (c. 46 – 120), would not have counted himself as an historian, but is a useful source because of his Parallel Lives of important Greeks and Romans.
• Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, (c. 56 – c. 120), early Roman Empire
• Suetonius, (75 – 160), Roman emperors up to Flavian dynasty
• Appian, (c. 95 - c. 165), Roman history
• Arrian, (c. 92-175), Greek history
• Lucius Ampelius, (3rd century AD?), Roman history
• Dio Cassius, (c. 160 - after 229), Roman history
• Herodian, (c. 170 - c. 240), Roman History
• Eusebius of Caesarea, (c. 275 - c. 339), Early Christian
• Ammianus Marcellinus, (c. 325 – c. 391)
• Rufinus of Aquileia, (c. 340 - 410), Early Christian
• Philostorgius, (368 - c. 439), Early Christian
• Socrates of Constantinople, (c. 380 - ?), Early Christian
• Fa-Hien, (c. 337 - c. 422), Chinese Buddhist monk and historian
• Priscus, (5th century AD), Byzantine history
• Sozomen (c. 400 - c. 450), Early Christian
• Theodoret, (c. 393 - c. 457), Early Christian
Medieval historians/chroniclers
• Shen Yue, (441-513), History of the Liu Song Dynasty (420-479)
• Zosimus, (fl. 491 - 518), Late Roman history
• Procopius, (c. 500 - c. 565), Byzantines
• John Malalas, (c. 491 - 578), Early Christian
• Jordanes, (6th century), Goths
• Gregory of Tours, (538 – 594), Franks
• Geo Chil-bu, (6th century), Silla historian
• Yi Mun-jin, (7th century), Goguryeo historian
• Adamnan, (625 - 704), Irish historian
• Bede, (c. 672 – 735), Anglo-Saxons
• Tírechán, (fl. c. 655), Irish biographer of Saint Patrick
• Cogitosus, (fl. c. 650), Irish historian,
• Muirchu moccu Machtheni, (7th century), Irish historian
• Paul the Deacon, (8th century), Langobards
• Nennius, (9th century?), Shadowy historian of Wales
• Martianus Hiberniensis, (819-875), Irish teacher and historian
• Einhard, (9th century) - Biography of Charlemagne
• Notker of St Gall, (9th century), Anecdotal Biography of Charlemagne
• Ibn Rustah, (10th century), Persian historian and traveler
• Asser, Bishop of Sherborne, (died 908/909), Welsh historian
• Regino of Prüm, (died 915)
• Muhammad al-Tabari, (838 – 923), Great Persian historian
• Liutprand of Cremona, (922 – 972), Byzantine affairs
• Li Fang, (925 – 996) Chinese editor of the Four Great Books of Song
• Heriger of Lobbes, 925-1007
• Al-Biruni, (973 – 1048), Persian historian
• Geoffrey of Monmouth, churchman/historian
• Thietmar of Merseburg, German, Polish, and Russian affairs
• Nestor the Chronicler, author of the Russian Primary Chronicle
• Gallus Anonymus, Polish historian
• Albert of Aix, historian of the First Crusade
• Michael Psellus, (1018 – c. 1078)
• Sima Guang, (1019 – 1086), historiographer and politician
• Marianus Scotus, (1028 – 1082/1083), Irish chronicler
• Guibert of Nogent, (1053 – 1124)
• Galbert of Bruges, 12th century, Flemish chronicler
• Florence of Worcester, (died 1118), English chronicler
• Eadmer, (c. 1066 – c. 1124), post-Conquest English history
• Kim Bu-sik, (1075 – 1151), Korean historian, author of the Samguk Sagi
• Symeon of Durham, (died after 1129), English chronicler
• William of Malmesbury, (c. 1080 – c. 1143)
• Anna Comnena, (1083 – after 1148)
• Usamah ibn Munqidh, (1095 – 1188)
• Adam of Bremen, historian of Scandinavia
• Kalhana, historian of Kashmir.
• Saxo Grammaticus, (12th century), Danish
• Svend Aagesen, (12th century), Danish
• Alured of Beverley, (12th century), English chronicler
• William of Tyre, (c. 1128 – 1186)
• William of Newburgh, (1135 – 1198), English historian called "the father of historical criticism"
• John of Worcester, (fl. 1150s), English chronicler
• Giraldus Cambrensis, (c. 1146 – c. 1223)
• Wincenty Kadlubek, (1161 – 1223), Polish historian
• Ambroise, (fl. 1190s), Anglo-Norman poet, wrote verse narrative of the Third Crusade
• Geoffroi de Villehardouin, (c. 1160 – 1212)
• Nicetas Choniates, (died c. 1220)
• Snorri Sturluson, (c. 1178 – 23rd Sept.1241), Icelandic historian
• Ata al-Mulk Juvayni, (1226-83), Persian historian
• Matthew Paris, (died 1259)
• Il-yeon, (1206 – 1289), Korean historian, author of the Samguk Yusa
• Salimbene di Adam, (1221 – c. 1290), Italian
• Templar of Tyre, (c. 1230 – 1314), end of the Crusades
• Jean de Joinville, (1224 – 1319)
• Rashid al-Din, (1247 – 1317), Persian historian
• ibn Khaldun, (1332 – 1406), North African historian "of the world"
• Piers Langtoft, (died c. 1307)
• Abdullah Wassaf, 13th century, Persian historian
• John Clyn, fl. 1333-1349, Irish historian
• Jean Froissart, (c. 1337 – c. 1405), chronicler
• Dietrich of Nieheim, (c. 1345 – 1418), ecclesiastic history
• Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin, d. 1372
• Adhamh Ó Cianáin, d. 1373
• John of Fordun, Scottish chronicler (d. 1384 )
• Ruaidhri Ó Cianáin (died 1387)
• Álvar García de Santa María, (1370 – 1460)
• Giolla Íosa Mór Mac Fhirbhisigh, fl. 1390-1418
• Alphonsus A Sancta Maria, (1396 – 1456)
• Jan Długosz, Polish historian and chronicler
• Philippe de Commines, French historian
• Cathal Óg Mac Maghnusa, 1439-1498, compilor and annalist.
• Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi, d. 1454, Persian historian
• John Capgrave, (1393 – 1464)
• Christine de Pizan, (c. 1365 – c. 1430), historian, poet, philosopher
• Robert Fabyan, (died 1513)
• Albert Krantz, (1450 – 1517)
• Polydore Vergil, (c. 1470 – 1555), Tudor history
• Sigismund von Herberstein, (1486 – 1566), Muscovite affairs
• João de Barros, (1496 – 1570)
• Niccolò Machiavelli, (1469 – 1527), author of Florentine Histories
• Josias Simmler, (1530 – 1576)
• Paolo Paruta, (1540 – 1598), Venetian historian
• Raphael Holinshed, (died c. 1580)
• Hector Boece, Scottish philosopher and historian. Wrote "Historia Gentis Scotorum" (1465-1536)
• Caesar Baronius, (1538 – 1607)
• Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni, (1540 – 1615), Indo-Persian historian
• John Hayward, (1564 – 1627)
• Pilip Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin (fl. 1579–1590)
• Bahrey (1593), an Ethiopian monk and historian. Wrote Zenahu le Galla (History of the Galla, now the Oromo)
• William Bradford, (1590 – 1657), Mayflower/Plymouth Colony of America
Early modern historians (1600 – 1799)
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• Fray Iñigo Abbad y Lasierra (1745 – 1813) Spanish historian
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• Teimuraz Bagrationi, (1782 – 1846), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
• Archibald Bower, (1686 – 1766), Rome
• Mary Bonaventure Browne, Poor Clare and Irish historian, c.1610 - c.1670.
• Josiah Burchett, (1666? – 1746), British naval historian and Admiralty official
C
• Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng, (1738 – 1801), Chinese historian, local histories and essays on historiography
D
• John Colin Dunlop, (c. 1785 – 1842)
E
• Laurence Echard, (c.1670 – 1730), England
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• George Finlay, (1799 – 1875), Greece
• Francisco Jose Freire (1719 – 1773), Portuguese historian and philologist
• Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, (1610 – 1688), Medieval and Byzantine historian and philologist
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• Edward Gibbon, (1737 – 1794), Roman Empire and Byzantium, one of the all-time greats
• George Grote, (1794 – 1871), classical Greece
• François Guizot, (1787 – 1874), French historian of general French, English history
• George Peabody Gooch, (1873 – 1968), English historian of Modern Diplomacy
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• Edward Hasted, (1732–1812), Kent
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, (1770 – 1831), German philosopher of history
• David Hume (1711 – 1776), Scottish Enlightenment Philosopher and author of six volume History of England (originally History of Britain)
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• Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, (1766 – 1826), Russian Empire
• Seathrún Céitinn/Geoffrey Keating, d.1643, Irish historian
L
• Joachim Lelewel, (1786 – 1861), Polish historian
• John Lingard, (1771 – 1851), England
• Anton Tomaz Linhart, (1756 – 1795), well known for Slovenian history
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• Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh, fl.1643 – 1671, Irish historian, annalist, genealogist
M
• Jules Michelet, (1798 – 1874), French
• François Mignet, (1796 – 1884), French historian of the Revolution, Middle Ages
• Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim, (1694 – 1755), Lutheran historian
• Johannes von Müller, (1752 – 1809)
• Ludovico Antonio Muratori, (1672 – 1750), Italy
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• Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, (1637 – 1698), ecclesiastical historian
• Barthold Georg Niebuhr, (1776 – 1831), German historian
O
• Tadhg Og Ó Cianáin (died c.1614)
• Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, Irish historian, c.1590 – 1643
• Peregrine Ó Duibhgeannain, Irish historian, fl.1627-1636
• Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh (died c. 1662/1664)
• Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh, Irish historian, 1629 – 1716/1718
• Josiah Ober, American historian of ancient Greece
P
• William H. Prescott, (1796 – 1859), US historian of Spain, Mexico, Peru
• Placido Puccinelli, (1609 – 1685), Italian historian
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• Leopold von Ranke, (1795 – 1886), European diplomacy; probably the greatest German historian
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• Mikhail Shcherbatov, (1733 – 1790), Russian historian
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• Vasily Tatishchev, (1686 – 1750), first historian of modern Russia
• Adolphe Thiers, (1797 – 1877), French historian of the Revolution, Empire
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• Voltaire, (1694 – 1778), French Enlightenment philosopher and historian
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• Sir James Ware, (1594-1666), Anglo-Irish historian and antiquarian
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• Yu Deuk-gong, (1749 – 1807), Korean historian
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Historians born in the 19th century
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• Henry Adams, (1838 – 1918), US 1800-1816
• Grace Aguilar, (1816 – 1847), Jewish history
• Charles McLean Andrews, (1863–1943), American; U.S. colonial history
• Mikhail Artamonov, (1898 – 1972), founder of Khazar studies
• Zurab Avalishvili, (1876 – 1944), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
B
• Charles Bean, (1879 – 1968), Australia in World War I
• Charles A. Beard, (1874 – 1948), American historian, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
• Mary Ritter Beard, (1876 – 1958), American Historian and wife of Charles A. Beard
• Bernard Bailyn, Historian of Early America
• George Bancroft, (1800 – 1891), United States
• Wilhelm Barthold, (1869 – 1930), Muslim studies, Turkology
• Hilaire Belloc, (1870 – 1953) French writer and historian later naturalised British.
• Marc Bloch, (1886 – 1944), medieval France
• Geoffrey Bruun (1899 – 1988), European civilization
• Jacob Burckhardt, (1818 – 1897), art history, European history, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
• Montagu Burrows, (1819 - 1905) first naval historian at a British university
• John Hill Burton, (1809 – 1881), Scottish Jacobin history
C
• Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, (1828 – 1897), Spanish historian
• E. H. Carr, (1892 – 1982) Soviet history, International Relations
• Henri Raymond Casgrain, (1831 – 1904), priest, author, historian
• Cesar de Bazancourt, (1810 – 1865), French historian; works on the Crimean War
• Boris Chicherin, (1828 – 1904), history of Russian laws
• Julian Corbett, (1854 - 1922), British naval historian
• Augustin Cochin, (1876 – 1916), history of French Revolution
• Edward Shepherd Creasy, (1812 – 1878), warfare
• Margaret Campbell Speke Cruwys (1894-1968), Devon historian
D
• Felix Dahn, (1834 - 1912), European history unfolding during the first millennium CE
• Angie Debo, (1890 - 1988), Native American and Oklahoma history
• Léopold Delisle, (1826 - 1910), French historian and librarian
• Johann Gustav Droysen, (1808 – 1884), German historian, professor at Kiel, Jena & Berlin
E
• Mary Anne Everett Green, (1818 – 1895), English
F
• Lucien Febvre, (1878 – 1956), French historian
• Frantz Funck-Brentano, (1862 – 1947), French historian and librarian
• Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, (1830 – 1889), antiquity, France
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• François-Louis Ganshof, (1895–1980), medieval history
• Arthur Giry, (1848 – 1899), diplomatics
• Gustave Glotz, (1862-1935), Ancient Greece
• Timofey Granovsky, (1813 – 1855), medieval Germany
• Lionel Groulx, (1878 – 1967), priest, historian
• René Grousset, (1885 – 1952), Oriental History
H
• Louis Halphen, (1880 – 1950), Middle Ages
• Clarence H. Haring, (1885 - 1960), Latin American history
• Charles H. Haskins, (1870 - 1937), Americans first medieval historian
• Henri Hauser, (1866 – 1946), French historian, economist, geographer
• Julien Havet, (1853 - 1893), Middle Ages
• Paul Hazard, (1878 - 1944), Modern France
• Charles Downer Hazen, (1868 – 1941), author of Europe since 1815
• Auguste Himly, (1823 – 1906), French historian and geographer
• Johan Huizinga,(1872 - 1945), Dutch historian, author of Waning of the Middle Ages
I
• Dmitry Ilovaisky, (1832 – 1920), Russian history
J
• Muhammad Jaber, (1875 – 1945), history of the Levant and the Middle-East
• William James (naval historian), historian of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars
• Ivane Javakhishvili, (1876 – 1940), Georgian historian
K
• Samuel Kamakau, (1815 – 1876), Hawaiian historian
• Konstantin Kavelin, (1818 – 1885), history of Russian laws
• Philip Moore Callow Kermode, (1855 – 1932), Manx crosses and runic inscriptions
• Alexander William Kinglake, (1809 – 1891), works on the Crimean War
• Vasily Klyuchevsky, (1841 – 1911), Russian history
• Dudley Wright Knox, (1877 – 1960), American naval historian
• Ludwig von Köchel, (1800 – 1877), writer, composer, botanist, music historian
• Nikodim Kondakov, (1844 – 1925), Byzantine art
• Nikolay Kostomarov, (1817 – 1885), Russian and Ukrainian history
• Godefroid Kurth, (1847 – 1916), Belgian historian
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• William L. Langer, (1896 – 1977), US historian, World and diplomatic history
• John Knox Laughton, British naval historian
• Ferdinand Lot, Middle Ages
Mc and Mac
• Thomas Macaulay, (1800 – 1859), British
M
• Frederic William Maitland, (1850 – 1906), legal history
• Alfred Thayer Mahan, (1840 – 1914), naval history
• Friedrich Meinecke, (1862-1954), 18th-19th century German intellectual and cultural history
• Paul Meyer, Middle Ages
• Auguste Molinier, Middle Ages
• Theodor Mommsen, (1817 – 1903), Roman Empire
• Alfred Morel-Fatio, history of Spain
• Lewis Mumford, (1895 – 1988)
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• Cesare Paoli (1840-1902), Italian History
• Gaston Paris, Middle Ages
• Samuel W. Pennypacker (1843 – 1916), Pennsylvania history
• Henri Pirenne, (1862 – 1935), Belgian and medieval European history
• Sergey Platonov, (1860 – 1933), Oprichnina and Time of Troubles
• Eileen Power, Middle Ages
• H. F. M. Prescott (1896-1972), biographer of Mary I of England and medieval History
• Datto Vaman Potdar, (1890 – 1979), Indian Historian
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• Jules Quicherat, Middle Ages
R
• William Pember Reeves (1857-1932), New Zealand history
• B. H. Roberts, (1857 – 1933), Mormon historian and leader
• Theodore Roosevelt, (1858 – 1919)
• Simon Rutar, (1851 – 1903)
S
• Abram L. Sachar, (1899 – 1993)
• George Sarton, (1884 – 1956), history of science
• Ferdinand Scheville, (1868–1954), author of A History of Europe: From the Reformation to the Present Day
• Sergey Solovyov, (1820 – 1879), Russian historian
• Govind Sakharam Sardesai, (1865 – 1959), Indina Historian and Author of 'The New History of Maratha Empire'
• Goldwin Smith, (1823 – 1910), historian
• Oswald Spengler, (1880-1936), The Decline of the West
• Shin Chaeho, (1880 – 1936), Korean historian
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• Frank Bigelow Tarbell, (1853 – 1920), author of numerous books on ancient art history
• Thatcher, Oliver J., (1857 – 1937), author of A general history of Europe 350 - 1900
• A. Wyatt Tilby, (1880 – 1948), British author of The English People Overseas (Vol. I – VI)
• Alexis de Tocqueville, (1805 – 1859) French historian, author of The Old Regime and the French Revolution, Democracy in America
• Zacharias Topelius, (1818 – 1898)
• Arnold J. Toynbee, (1889 – 1975), A Study of History
• Heinrich von Treitschke, (1834 – 1896)
• George Macaulay Trevelyan, (1876 – 1962)
• Mikheil Tsereteli, (1878 – 1965), Georgian historian
V
• Paul Vinogradoff, (1854 – 1925), later Roman Empire
W
• Mary Wilhelmine Williams, (1878 – 1944), Latin America
• Spenser Wilkinson, British military historian
• Justin Winsor, (1831 – 1897), editor of the Narrative and Critical History of America, (8 vols., 1884-89)
• Ernest Llewellyn Woodward, (1890-1971), British historian, British history and international relations
• Gordon Wright, Modern French History
Y
• Yi Byeongdo, (1896 – 1989), Korean historian
Z
• Faddei Zielinski, (1859 – 1944), Ancient Greece
Modern historians (after 1900)
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• Raouf Abbas, (1939 - 2008) Egyptian historian; modern history of Egypt & Japan, Comparative history, Social history and economic history.
• Irving Abella, Canadian historian & author
• Robert G. Albion, (1896 – 1983), maritime history
• Dean C. Allard, American naval history
• Michael Allen, American historian, trans-Mississippi West
• Gar Alperovitz, American historian, Hiroshima
• Ida Altman, American historian, colonial Spain & Latin America
• Stephen Ambrose, (1936 – 2002), American; WW2, U.S. political, wrote Band of Brothers
• Joyce Appleby, American; US early national
• Herbert Aptheker, (1915 – 2003), American; African American history
• Philippe Aries, French; medieval; childhood
• Karen Armstrong, British; religious history
• Leonard J. Arrington, (1917 – 1999), American; Mormons
• Paul Avrich, Russian history, the Anarchist movement (chiefly in the United States)
B
• Ahron Bregman, Arab-Israeli conflict
• Yehuda Bauer, the Holocaust
• David E. Barclay, German history
• Harry Elmer Barnes, American historian.
• Linda Diane Barnes, American history
• G.W.S. Barrow, Scottish history
• Jacques Barzun, (born 1907), cultural history
• Hanna Batatu, Palestinian historian and author of an authoritative study of modern Iraq
• K. Jack Bauer, (1926 – 1987), U.S. naval, military, and maritime historian
• James Belich (born 1956), New Zealand history
• Isaiah Berlin, (1909 – 1997), history of ideas
• Michael Beschloss, (born 1955) American historian and celebrity intellectual, history of the U.S. presidency
• Nicholas Bethell, Soviet history
• David Blackbourn
• Geoffrey Blainey (born 1930), Australian history
• Hanne Blank (born 1969), historian of virginity
• Gisela Bock, German feminist historian.
• Brian Bond, British military historian
• Daniel J. Boorstin, (1914 – 2004), intellectual history, American history
• John Boswell, (1947 – 1994), medievalist and gay history
• Gérard Bouchard, Canadian historian
• Joanna Bourke, military history
• Mark Bowden, wrote Black Hawk Down regarding the Battle of Mogadishu
• Paul S. Boyer, American historian
• Karl Dietrich Bracher, (1922-), modern German history
• James C. Bradford, (1944- ), American naval history
• William Brandon, (1914 – 2002), historian of the American West and Native Americans
• Fernand Braudel, (1902-1985) World history
• Martin Broszat, (1926-1989) Nazi Germany
• Peter Brown
• Christopher Browning, the Holocaust
• Otto Brunner, medieval and early modern Austria
• Alan Bullock, (1914 – 2004)
• Peter Burke
• Michael Burns - actor and historian
• J. B. Bury, classical history
• Briton C. Busch, ((1936 – 2004)), British diplomatic and American maritime history
• Richard Bushman, (1931 -), American colonial society, American colonial politics, American colonial religion
• Herbert Butterfield, author of The Whig Interpretation of History
C
• Angus Calder, (1942 – 2008), British historian, British history
• Helen Cam (1885–1968) English medieval historian
• Otto Maria Carpeaux, (1900 – 1978) foremost historian of literature
• Sir Raymond Carr (born 1919) Spanish and Latin American history
• Paul Cartledge, Classical Historian (5th Century Athens and Sparta, and Alexander the Great)
• Carolyn Joyce Carty [1957- )Faith
• Lionel Casson
• Boris Celovsky, Czech-German relations
• Howard I. Chapelle, maritime history
• Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri, history of Leftism, Indian history
• Maher Charif, Palestinian historian specialising in modern Arab intellectual history and political movements
• Iris Chang, (1968-2004) Chinese in American & Japanese war crimes
• Alexander Campbell Cheyne, Scottish Ecclesiastical Historian
• Winston Churchill, (1874 – 1965) political, biographical, military history.
• J. C. D. Clark, British historian of ideas.
• Manning Clark, (1915 – 1991) pre-eminent in Australian history
• Robert Conquest, (born 1917) Russia, Soviet Union
• Gordon A. Craig, (1913-) German history & diplomatic history
• Vincent Cronin, (1924-) European and art history
• Pamela Kyle Crossley, Chinese, Manchu and Central Asian history
• Dan Cruickshank, British and architectural history, TV presenter
• John S. Curtiss, inter alia, debunker of the The Protocols of Zion
• Vladimir Ćorović, Serbian historian
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• Robert Dallek, biographer of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson and John F. Kennedy
• Vahakn N. Dadrian, Armenian genocide
• David B. Danbom rural America
• Robert Darnton eighteenth-century France
• Lucy Dawidowicz, Jewish history and the Holocaust
• Saul David, military history
• John Davies Welsh historian
• Norman Davies, Polish and British history
• Natalie Zemon Davis, feminist cultural historian, early modern France, film and history
• Kenneth S. Davis, biographer of Franklin D. Roosevelt
• R. H. C. Davis, British historian of European Middle Ages
• David Day, Australian historian
• Renzo De Felice, Italian fascism
• Carl N. Degler, American historian
• Esther Delisle, (born 1954), French-Canadian historian & author
• Jean Delumeau French historian specializing in the Catholic church history
• Marcel Detienne, ancient Greece
• Alexandre Deulofeu, (1903-1978), Catalan historian & author
• Isaac Deutscher, (1907 – 1967) biographer of Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin
• Tom M. Devine, Scottish historian
• Bernard DeVoto, (1897 - 1955), American historian specializing in the history of the American West
• Wu Di, (1951 – ), film critic and historian of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
• Igor M. Diakonov, (1914 – 1999), Ancient Near East
• David Herbert Donald Lincoln and Civil War
• Gordon Donaldson Scottish historian
• John W. Dower, Japan in 1940s
• Georges Duby, (1924 – 1996), Middle Ages
• William S. Dudley, ((1936–), American naval history
• Eamon Duffy, 15th-17th century religious history
• A. Hunter Dupree, American science and technology
• Trevor Dupuy, (1916 - 1995) military historian
• Will Durant, philosopher and author of the Story of Civilization series
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• Elizabeth Eisenstein, French Revolution, early printing, transitions in media
• Geoff Eley British historian of German history
• John Elliott, (born 1941) Early Modern Spain
• Joseph J. Ellis biographer of US Founding Fathers
• Geoffrey Elton, (1921 – 1994) , Tudor England
• Peter Englund, Swedish
• Richard J. Evans, German social history
• Alf Evers, (1905-2004) American historian
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• Cyril Falls, (1888 - 1971), British military historian
• Brian Farrell, (born 1929)
• Niall Ferguson, British historian, author of The Pity of War: Explaining World War I
• Marc Ferro, French historian
• Joachim Fest, (born 1926), Nazi Germany
• David Feuerwerker (1912-1980), French historian of the Emancipation of Jews.
• Heinrich Fichtenau (1912-2000), Austrian historian; medievalism, diplomatics
• Orlando Figes, (born 1957), Russia
• Samuel Finer (1915 – 1993), political scientist and writer on world history
• Robert O. Fink, (1905-1988), American classical scholar and papyrologist
• Moses Finley, Historian of the Ancient World, especially Economic History
• David Hackett Fischer, American economic historian, author of The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
• Fritz Fischer, German historian
• Frances Fitzgerald, American journalist and historian, author of Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
• Robert Fogel, American economic history
• Eric Foner, Reconstruction
• Shelby Foote, (1916 – 2005), American Civil War
• Michel Foucault, (1926 – 1984), French historian of ideas / philosopher
• Robin Lane Fox, Oxford historian who has written on Alexander the Great and the Ancient World
• Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, cultural & social history, women's history and Southern history
• Walter Frank, (1905 – 1945), Nazi historian and anti-Semitic writer
• H. Bruce Franklin, American historian of the Vietnam War, author of M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America
• Antonia Fraser, England
• Henry Friedlander, Holocaust historian.
• Saul Friedländer, history of the Holocaust
• Sheppard Frere
• David Fromkin
• Bruno Fuligni
• Francis Fukuyama, (born 1955)
• J.F.C. Fuller , military historian, author of A Military History of the Western World, 3 vols.
• François Furet, French historian
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• Femme Gaastra, Dutch East India Company
• John Lewis Gaddis, diplomatic history
• Lloyd Gardner, diplomatic history
• Franklin Garrett, history of Atlanta
• Peter Gay, psychohistory, European Enlightenment & 19th century social history
• Eugene Genovese, (1930-) Southern history
• Christian Gerlach, Holocaust and genocide history
• Pieter Geyl, Dutch historian
• N. H. Gibbs, history of war
• William Gibson, ecclesiastical historian
• Martin Gilbert, Holocaust
• Carlo Ginzburg, pioneer of microhistory
• James Goldrick, Australian naval officer and naval historian
• Justo Gonzalez, historian and theologian
• George Peabody Gooch, (1873 – 1968), British historian, "British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914" (ed.)
• Andrew Gordon, British naval historian
• Gerald S. Graham, British imperial history
• Peter Green, ancient history
• Vivian H. H. Green, (1915 – 2005), author of A New History of Christianity
• Leonid Grinin, Philosophy of History
• Ranajit Guha, history of India and critical historiography
• Lev Gumilyov, (1912 – 1992), Soviet historian
• John Guy, leading Tudor specialist
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• Irfan Habib, History of India
• Bruce Barrymore Halpenny, Airfields, WW2, Bomber & Fighter Command, Military Aircraft
• Nicholas G. L. Hammond, (1907 - 2001) Macedonia and Greece
• Victor Davis Hanson, ancient warfare
• Dick Harrison, Swedish & Medieval history
• Max Hastings, military historian and journalist
• John Hattendorf, maritime historian
• Ragnhild Hatton, 17th and 18th century European international history
• Denys Hay, (1915 - 1994), medieval and Renaissance Europe
• John Daniel Hayes, (1902 - 1991), American naval historian
• Jeffrey Herf, German and European history
• Arthur Herman, American and British history
• Raul Hilberg, (1926 - 2007), Political Scientist and historian of the Holocaust
• Klaus Hildebrand, 19th-20th German history
• Christopher Hill (historian), (1912 - 2003), 17th century England
• Andreas Hillgruber, 20th German history
• Richard L. Hills (born 1936), history of technology
• Gertrude Himmelfarb, (born 1924) 19th century British intellectual, social and cultural history
• Harry Hinsley, (1918 - 1998), English historian and cryptanalyst (Bletchley Park)
• Eric Hobsbawm, (born 1917) British historian, labour history
• Marshall Hodgson, History of Islamic Civilization
• Richard Hofstadter, (1916 - 1970), American political historian.
• David Hoggan, neo-Nazi historian.
• Hajo Holborn, (1902 - 1969), modern Germany
• Richard Holmes, Military History.*Ed Hooper, Southern Appalachia, Tennessee, Old South
• A. G. Hopkins, British historian
• Keith Hopkins, Ancient Historian and Sociologist.
• William Hoskins, Landscape History
• Albert Hourani, Middle Eastern history
• Daniel Horowitz, United States intellectual history; history of consumer culture
• Joseph Kinsey Howard, (1906 - 1951), history of Montana and prairie Canada
• Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, history of women, sexuality, and higher education
• Michiel Horn, Canadian history and Canadian academic history
• Alistair Horne, modern French history
• Michael Howard Military History
• Tristram Hunt, (born 1974)
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• Michael Ignatieff, (born 1947) author of Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond
• Halil Inalcik, Turkish historian of the Ottoman Empire
• Jonathan Israel (born 1946), British historian of the Netherlands, the Age of Enlightenment and European Jewry
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• Eberhard Jäckel, Nazi Germany
• Julian T. Jackson, French Historian
• Harold James, modern Germany, modern European economic history
• Nikoloz Janashia, (1931 – 1982), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
• Simon Janashia, (1900 – 1947), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
• Pawel Jasienica, (1909 – 1970), Polish historian, Polish history
• Merrill Jensen (1905 – 1980), American Revolution, U.S. Articles of Confederation
• Paul Johnson, (born 1928), British historian, Western civilization
• Robert Erwin Johnson (1923-2008), American naval and coast guard historian
• Mauno Jokipii, Finnish historian, World War II
• Gwyn Jones, medieval history
• Loe de Jong, Dutch historian, author of The Kingdom of the Netherlands during the Second World War
• Tony Judt, British historian, specializing in contemporary European studies
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• Donald Kagan, ancient Greek history
• John Keegan, (born 1934) English historian, popular military history
• Hans Kelsen, legal history
• John H. Kemble, (1912 – 1990), American maritime historian
• Elizabeth Topham Kennan - medievalist and former president, Mount Holyoke College
• George F. Kennan, (a.k.a. 'X') American diplomat and historian, history of US-Soviet relations
• James Kennedy, American historian, history of the Netherlands
• Paul Kennedy, British historian
• W. Hudson Kensel, western American historian
• Ian Kershaw, German history
• Daniel J. Kevles, history of science, In the Name of Eugenics, and The Physicists
• Michael King (1945-2004), New Zealand history
• Simon Kitson, Historian of Vichy France
• Matti Klinge, Finnish historian
• R.J.B. Knight, British naval historian
• Eberhard Kolb, German historian
• Gabriel Kolko, American political history
• Claudia Koonz, women's history under Nazi Germany.
• Kim Jung-bae, (born 1940), Korean historian
• Andrey Korotayev, (born 1961), Cliometrics
• Thomas Kuhn, (1922 - 1996), history of science
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• Benjamin Woods Labaree, American colonial and maritime history
• Brij Lal, history of Fiji
• Sione Lātūkefu, Tongan history
• Leonard Woods Labaree, editor of the Benjamin Franklin Papers
• Leopold Labedz(1920 – 1993), Soviet history
• Andrew Lambert, British naval history
• David Lavender, (1910 – 2003), history of the American West
• Walter LaFeber, diplomatic history
• Jacques Le Goff, medieval French historian
• William Leuchtenburg, American political and legal history
• Barbara Levick, English historian; Roman emperors
• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, French historian
• Lee Ki-baek, (1924 – 2004), Korean historian
• Li Ao, (born 1935), Chinese historian
• Basil Liddell Hart, British military historian.
• Leon F. Litwack, American history & African-American history
• Mario Liverani, ancient Middle East
• John Edward Lloyd, historian of Welshness
• James W. Loewen, American history, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me
• Walter Lord, American history, author of A Night to Remember
• David J. Logan, Australian history, The Role of The Crown in Australia
• John Lukacs, Hungarian-American historian of modern Europe.
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• Charles B. MacDonald, World War II
• Stuart Macintyre (born 1947), Australian history
• Forrest McDonald early national US, presidency
• K. B. McFarlane, English medievalist
• Rosamond McKitterick, medieval history
• Margaret MacMillan 20th century international relations, author of Paris 1919, among others.
• Ramsay MacMullen, Roman history
• Magnus Magnusson, Norse history
• Piers Mackesy, British military history
• J. D. Mackie Scottish historian
• Leonard Maltin, famous Disney historian
• Charles S. Maier, 20th century Europe
• William Manchester, Author of "The Last Lion", among others. A definitive Churchill biographer.
• Golo Mann, (1909 – 1994)
• Robert Mann, American historian of the Vietnam War, wrote A Grand Delusion: America's Descent into Vietnam
• Arthur Marder, British naval history
• Timothy Mason, history of Nazi Germany
• Henri-Jean Martin, history of the book, early printing, writing, libraries in France
• Tyrone G. Martin, USS Constitution
• Rev. F.X. Martin, Irish medievalist and campaigner
• Michael Marrus, French and Jewish history
• David McCullough, American. Two-time winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
• William S. McFeely - 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Grant: A Biography
• James M. McPherson, very noteworthy US Civil War historian; wrote Battle Cry of Freedom
• William McNeill, world history
• Laurence Marvin, American historian, French medievalist
• Garrett Mattingly, early modern Europe
• Arno J. Mayer, World War I and Europe
• Richard Maybury, United States, especially WWI, WWII, and the Middle East
• Friedrich Meinecke, German historian
• D. W. Meinig, geographic history of America
• Russell Menard, Colonial American
• Thomas C. Mendenhall (historian)
• Josef W. Meri, Islamic world, Jews of Islamic Lands, Interfaith Relations
• Barbara Metcalf, Indian subcontinent, Muslims of India and Pakistan
• Perry Miller, intellectual historian
• Hans Mommsen
• Wolfgang Mommsen
• Edmund Morgan American colonial and Revolution
• Kenneth O. Morgan
• William J. Morgan (historian), U.S. naval historian
• Samuel Eliot Morison, naval history
• Benny Morris, Middle-Eastern history
• George Mosse, German, Jewish, fascist and sexual history
• Roland Mousnier, early modern France
• Mubarak Ali (b. 1941) Pakistani Historian on Mughals era and feminism
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• Lewis Bernstein Namier, 18th century British history and 20th century diplomatic history
• Allan Nevins, US political and business history; Civil War
• Leo Niehorster, military history
• Ernst Nolte, fascism and communism
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• Robin O'Neil, Holocaust researcher
• Heiko Oberman, Reformation
• W. H. Oliver (born 1925), New Zealand history
• Charles Oman, 19th century military history
• Michael Oren, Modern middle east
• Ilber Ortayli, Turkish historian of the Ottoman Empire
• Mark Ovenden, Graphic design & architecture in public transport
• Richard Overy, WW2
• Steven Ozment, Germany
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• Michael Parenti, 20th-21st century political analyst and modern/classical historian.
• Simo Parpola, Ancient Middle East
• J. H. Parry,(1914 - 1982) maritime historian
• Thomas Paterson Cold War
• Peter Paret, military history
• Geoffrey Parker, early modern military history
• Abel Paz Spanish anarchist movement
• Henry Francis Pelham, Roman history
• William Armstrong Percy, Medieval Europe and ancient Greek and Roman history. History of Homosexuality.
• Hrvoje Petric, early modern history, environmental history, economic history
• Detlev Peukert, historian of Alltagsgeschichte (history of everyday life) in the Weimar & Nazi eras.
• Liza Picard, London
• Boris B. Piotrovsky, (1908 – 1990), Urartu and Scythia
• Richard Pipes, Russian and Soviet
• J.H. Plumb, (1911 – 2001), British historian of the 18th century
• J. G. A. Pocock (born 1924), early modern period and Enlightenment
• Roy Porter, (1946 – 2002), history of medicine & Britain
• Gordon W. Prange, American Historian, World War II Pacific, notably Pearl Harbor and Midway
• Joshua Prawer, Israeli historian of the Crusader states
• Janko Prunk, (1942 -) Slovenian historian for modern history
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• Wailun Quan, Chinese Historian, Warring States Period and Qin Dynasty
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• Werner Rahn, German naval history
• Jack N. Rakove, US Constitution and early politics
• Šerbo Rastoder, Montenegrin history from the 20th century to today
• René Rémond, French political history
• Henry A. Reynolds (born 1938), Aboriginal - white relations in Australia
• Susan Reynolds, critic of feudal concepts in medieval history
• Richard Rhodes, The Manhattan Project, the Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, and the SS-Einsatzgruppen
• Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond, British naval historian
• Jonathan Riley-Smith, Crusades
• Charles Ritcheson, Anglo-American relations 1775-1815
• Gerhard Ritter, German history.
• Andrew Roberts, British history.
• J. M. Roberts, European history
• N.A.M. Rodger, British naval history
• William Ledyard Rodgers, ancient naval history
• Theodore Ropp, military historian
• W.J. Rorabaugh, 19th and 20th century U.S.
• Ron Rosenbaum, Hitler
• Charles E. Rosenberg, medicine and science
• Stephen Roskill, British naval history
• Theodore Roosevelt, War of 1812, frontier
• Michael Rostovtzeff, ancient history
• Hans Rothfels, modern German history
• Sheila Rowbotham, (born 1943) Feminism Socialism
• Herbert H. Rowen, Dutch history
• A. L. Rowse, (1903 – 1997)
• Miri Rubin, social history of Europe between 1100-1600.
• R. J. Rummel, genocide
• Steven Runciman, Crusades
• Leila J.Rupp , feminist historian
• Conrad Russell, 17th century Britain
• Cornelius Ryan, (1920 – 1974), World War II
• Boris Rybakov, (1908 – 2001), leader of Soviet anti-Normanists
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• Ram Sharan Sharma Eminent Historian of Ancient India
• Edgar V. Saks, (1910–1984), Estonian Middle Ages
• Richard G. Salomon, (1884-1966), German-American medievalist and Church historian
• J. Salwyn Schapiro, fascism
• Dominic Sandbrook, (born 1974), modern Britain and the United States
• Usha Sanyal, Asian history, Islam and Sufism, especially Barelwi movement
• Simon Schama, (born 1945), British historian and TV presenter, European and art history
• Arthur Schlesinger, Sr.
• Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Andrew Jackson, New Deal, John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy; Pulitzer prize winner
• Jean-Claude Schmitt, Middle Ages
• David Schoenbaum, modern German history & American-Israeli relations.
• Carl Schorske, Vienna, Modernism, intellectual history.
• Helena Schrader, Ancient Sparta, Knights Templar, Middle Ages, WWII German Resistance, WWII Women Aviators
• Paul W. Schroeder, late sixteenth- to twentieth-century European international politics, Central Europe, theory of history
• D. M. Schurman, British imperial and naval history
• Joan Scott US Feminism
• Howard Hayes Scullard, (1903 – 1983), ancient history
• Tom Segev, Israeli history
• Robert Service Soviet and Russian history
• James J. Sheehan modern Germany
• William L. Shirer, American journalist, expert on the Third Reich, wrote The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
• Dasharatha Sharma, History of Rajasthan
• He Shu, (1948 – ), historian of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
• Keith Sinclair (1922-1993), New Zealand history
• Helene J. Sinnreich, Holocaust history
• Nathan Sivin, History of Chinese Themes
• Quentin Skinner, early modern Britain
• Theda Skocpol, Institutions and comparative method
• Richard Slotkin, Environment
• Henry Nash Smith US cultural historian
• Jean Edward Smith US Foreign Policy, Constitutional Law, Legal History, Political Economy, Biography, Modern Germany
• Justin Harvey Smith, Mexican-American war; Pulitzer Prize winner
• Richard Norton Smith, U.S. presidential historian.
• T. C. Smout Scottish environmental and social historian
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, (born 1918), Russian historian and novelist
• Louis Leo Snyder, German nationalism
• Albert Soboul, (1913 – 1982), French revolution
• Richard Southern, medieval historian
• Dr. E. Lee Spence, (born 1947), shipwreck historian (16th-21st century shipwrecks, worldwide)
• Jonathan Spence, Chinese history
• Jackson J. Spielvogel, Pennsylvania State University
• Kenneth Stampp, American history, author The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South
• David Starkey, (born 1945), Tudor historian and TV presenter
• James M. Stayer, German Reformation historian.
• Wickham Steed, British historian of Eastern Europe.
• Valerie Steele, fashion historian
• Gerald J. Steinacher, Austrian Historian on Nazi-Germany
• Jean Stengers, Belgian historian
• Frank Stenton, Anglo-Saxon historian.
• Fritz Stern, American historian of Germany & Jewish history.
• Zeev Sternhell, history of fascism.
• William N. Still, Jr., U.S. naval history and Confederate naval history
• Lawrence Stone, early modern British social, economic and family history
• Norman Stone, military history
• Hew Strachan, military historian
• Floyd Benjamin Streeter, Kansas, Old American West
• Michael Stürmer, modern German history.
• Viktor Suvorov, Soviet historian
• David Syrett, British naval history
• Ronald Syme, (1903 – 1989), ancient history
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• J. L. Talmon,(1916 – 1980), Modern History, "The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy"
• A.J.P. Taylor, (1906 – 1990), Historian of European International relations
• Alexander Smith Taylor (1817 – 1876), considered first bibliographer of California.
• Alasdair and Hettie Tayler, Scottish historians
• Ronald Takaki, American, ethnic studies historian
• Antonio Tellez, (1921 – 2005), Spanish Anarchism and anti-fascist resistance
• Harold Temperley, (1879 – 1939), British historian on 19c and early 20c century diplomatic history
• Romila Thapar, (born 1931), Ancient India
• Barbara Thiering, (born 1930), Rediscovered the "Pesher technique" of early Christian history
• Joan Thirsk ( born 1922), History of agriculture
• Hugh Thomas, Spanish Civil War, Cuba, Atlantic Slave Trade
• E. P. Thompson, (1924 – 1993), British Labour historian and peace activist
• John Toland, (1912-2004), WW1 and WW2 Histories
• K. Ross Toole, (1920-1981), history of Montana
• Marc Trachtenberg, Cold War history
• Hugh Trevor-Roper, (1914 – 2003), British historian and peer, specialist on the Nazi leadership
• Barbara Tuchman, (1912 – 1989) 20c military
• Robert C. Tucker, Stalin
• Peter Turchin, (born 1958), Cliodynamics
• Henry Ashby Turner, Jr., Weimar and Nazi Germany
• Frederick Jackson Turner, (1861 – 1932), American historian who developed the Frontier Thesis
• Denis Twitchett, (1925-2006), Cambridge scholar who greatly exapanded interest in the History of China
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• Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Historian of Early America
• Mladen Urem, Croatian literary historian
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• Jean-Pierre Vernant,(1914 – 2007), French historian, ancient Greece
• Paul Veyne, French historian, ancient Greece and Rome
• Pierre Vidal-Naquet, (1930 – 2006), French historian, ancient Greece, Civil Rights activist
• Hans van de Ven, Dutch-born British historian, modern China
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• John Waiko (born 1944), Papua New Guinean history
• Retha Warnicke, (born 1939), Tudor history & gender issues
• Eugen Weber, modern French history
• Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, (1910 – 1997) British
• Hans-Ulrich Wehler, 19c German social history
• Russell Weigley, military history
• Gerhard Weinberg, World War Two.
• Roberto Weiss Renaissance historian
• Frank Welsh (born 1931), British imperial history
• Christopher Whatley, Scottish historian
• John Wheeler-Bennett, German history
• John Whyte, focused on Northern Ireland and on divided societies
• Christopher Wickham, medieval history
• Alexander Wilkinson,(born 1975)Early Modern European History, The History of the Book in France, Spain & Portugal
• Eric Williams, (1911 – ), Guianese historian, Caribbean history, anti-imperialist themes
• Glanmor Williams
• Glyndwr Williams, history of exploration
• William Appleman Williams US diplomatic
• Clyde N. Wilson, 19c American; John C. Calhoun
• Ian Wilson, (born 1941) religious historian
• Heinrich August Winkler, (born 1938) German history
• Keith Windschuttle, (born 1942) Australian history & historiography
• Gordon Wright, Modern French History
• Robert S. Wistrich, Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and Jews in the 20th Century.
• John B. Wolf, French history
• Michael Wolffsohn, German Jewish history.
• Gordon S. Wood, American Revolution
• Michael Wood
• C. Vann Woodward, (1908 – 1999), American South
• Lawrence C. Wroth, American printing trade
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• Robert J. Young, Canadian historian of the French Third Republic.
• Robert M. Young, (born 1935), American historian, history of medicine, and human sciences.
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• Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, Cuban-American historian of the German expulsions after World War Two.
• Howard Zinn, (born 1922) American historian, popular U.S. history, the Left in the U.S.
• Rainer Zitelmann, German historian.
Historians of the Ancient Period
• Herodotus, (484 – c. 420 BC), Halicarnassus, "Father of History"
• Thucydides, (460 – c. 400 BC), Peloponnesian War
• Berossus, (early 3rd century BC), Babylonian historian
• Xenophon, (431 – c. 360 BC), an Athenian knight and student of Socrates
• Ptolemy I Soter (367 BC — c. 283 BC), General of Alexander the Great, Founder of Ptolemaic Dynasty.
• Timaeus of Tauromenium, (c. 345 – c. 250 BC), Greek history
• Quintus Fabius Pictor, (c. 254 BC - ?), Roman history
• Gaius Acilius, (fl. 155 BC), Roman history
• Polybius, (203 – c. 120 BC), Early Roman history (written in Greek)
• Sima Qian, (c. 145 - c. 86 BC), Chinese history
• Julius Caesar, (100 – c. 44 BC), Gallic and civil wars
• Diodorus of Sicily, (1st century BC), Greek history
• Sallust, (86 – 34 BC)
• Dionysius of Halicarnassus, (c. 60 - after 7 BC), Roman history
• Livy, (c. 59 BC – AD 17), Roman history
• Cremutius Cordus, (? - 25), Roman history
• Curtius Rufus, (c. 60-70), Greek history
• Ban Gu, (32 - 92), (Han Dynasty)
• Flavius Josephus, (37 – 100), Jewish history
• Ban Zhao, (45 - 116), (Han Dynasty)
• Thallus, (early 2nd century AD), Roman history
• Plutarch, (c. 46 – 120), would not have counted himself as an historian, but is a useful source because of his Parallel Lives of important Greeks and Romans.
• Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, (c. 56 – c. 120), early Roman Empire
• Suetonius, (75 – 160), Roman emperors up to Flavian dynasty
• Appian, (c. 95 - c. 165), Roman history
• Arrian, (c. 92-175), Greek history
• Lucius Ampelius, (3rd century AD?), Roman history
• Dio Cassius, (c. 160 - after 229), Roman history
• Herodian, (c. 170 - c. 240), Roman History
• Eusebius of Caesarea, (c. 275 - c. 339), Early Christian
• Ammianus Marcellinus, (c. 325 – c. 391)
• Rufinus of Aquileia, (c. 340 - 410), Early Christian
• Philostorgius, (368 - c. 439), Early Christian
• Socrates of Constantinople, (c. 380 - ?), Early Christian
• Fa-Hien, (c. 337 - c. 422), Chinese Buddhist monk and historian
• Priscus, (5th century AD), Byzantine history
• Sozomen (c. 400 - c. 450), Early Christian
• Theodoret, (c. 393 - c. 457), Early Christian
Medieval historians/chroniclers
• Shen Yue, (441-513), History of the Liu Song Dynasty (420-479)
• Zosimus, (fl. 491 - 518), Late Roman history
• Procopius, (c. 500 - c. 565), Byzantines
• John Malalas, (c. 491 - 578), Early Christian
• Jordanes, (6th century), Goths
• Gregory of Tours, (538 – 594), Franks
• Geo Chil-bu, (6th century), Silla historian
• Yi Mun-jin, (7th century), Goguryeo historian
• Adamnan, (625 - 704), Irish historian
• Bede, (c. 672 – 735), Anglo-Saxons
• Tírechán, (fl. c. 655), Irish biographer of Saint Patrick
• Cogitosus, (fl. c. 650), Irish historian,
• Muirchu moccu Machtheni, (7th century), Irish historian
• Paul the Deacon, (8th century), Langobards
• Nennius, (9th century?), Shadowy historian of Wales
• Martianus Hiberniensis, (819-875), Irish teacher and historian
• Einhard, (9th century) - Biography of Charlemagne
• Notker of St Gall, (9th century), Anecdotal Biography of Charlemagne
• Ibn Rustah, (10th century), Persian historian and traveler
• Asser, Bishop of Sherborne, (died 908/909), Welsh historian
• Regino of Prüm, (died 915)
• Muhammad al-Tabari, (838 – 923), Great Persian historian
• Liutprand of Cremona, (922 – 972), Byzantine affairs
• Li Fang, (925 – 996) Chinese editor of the Four Great Books of Song
• Heriger of Lobbes, 925-1007
• Al-Biruni, (973 – 1048), Persian historian
• Geoffrey of Monmouth, churchman/historian
• Thietmar of Merseburg, German, Polish, and Russian affairs
• Nestor the Chronicler, author of the Russian Primary Chronicle
• Gallus Anonymus, Polish historian
• Albert of Aix, historian of the First Crusade
• Michael Psellus, (1018 – c. 1078)
• Sima Guang, (1019 – 1086), historiographer and politician
• Marianus Scotus, (1028 – 1082/1083), Irish chronicler
• Guibert of Nogent, (1053 – 1124)
• Galbert of Bruges, 12th century, Flemish chronicler
• Florence of Worcester, (died 1118), English chronicler
• Eadmer, (c. 1066 – c. 1124), post-Conquest English history
• Kim Bu-sik, (1075 – 1151), Korean historian, author of the Samguk Sagi
• Symeon of Durham, (died after 1129), English chronicler
• William of Malmesbury, (c. 1080 – c. 1143)
• Anna Comnena, (1083 – after 1148)
• Usamah ibn Munqidh, (1095 – 1188)
• Adam of Bremen, historian of Scandinavia
• Kalhana, historian of Kashmir.
• Saxo Grammaticus, (12th century), Danish
• Svend Aagesen, (12th century), Danish
• Alured of Beverley, (12th century), English chronicler
• William of Tyre, (c. 1128 – 1186)
• William of Newburgh, (1135 – 1198), English historian called "the father of historical criticism"
• John of Worcester, (fl. 1150s), English chronicler
• Giraldus Cambrensis, (c. 1146 – c. 1223)
• Wincenty Kadlubek, (1161 – 1223), Polish historian
• Ambroise, (fl. 1190s), Anglo-Norman poet, wrote verse narrative of the Third Crusade
• Geoffroi de Villehardouin, (c. 1160 – 1212)
• Nicetas Choniates, (died c. 1220)
• Snorri Sturluson, (c. 1178 – 23rd Sept.1241), Icelandic historian
• Ata al-Mulk Juvayni, (1226-83), Persian historian
• Matthew Paris, (died 1259)
• Il-yeon, (1206 – 1289), Korean historian, author of the Samguk Yusa
• Salimbene di Adam, (1221 – c. 1290), Italian
• Templar of Tyre, (c. 1230 – 1314), end of the Crusades
• Jean de Joinville, (1224 – 1319)
• Rashid al-Din, (1247 – 1317), Persian historian
• ibn Khaldun, (1332 – 1406), North African historian "of the world"
• Piers Langtoft, (died c. 1307)
• Abdullah Wassaf, 13th century, Persian historian
• John Clyn, fl. 1333-1349, Irish historian
• Jean Froissart, (c. 1337 – c. 1405), chronicler
• Dietrich of Nieheim, (c. 1345 – 1418), ecclesiastic history
• Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin, d. 1372
• Adhamh Ó Cianáin, d. 1373
• John of Fordun, Scottish chronicler (d. 1384 )
• Ruaidhri Ó Cianáin (died 1387)
• Álvar García de Santa María, (1370 – 1460)
• Giolla Íosa Mór Mac Fhirbhisigh, fl. 1390-1418
• Alphonsus A Sancta Maria, (1396 – 1456)
• Jan Długosz, Polish historian and chronicler
• Philippe de Commines, French historian
• Cathal Óg Mac Maghnusa, 1439-1498, compilor and annalist.
• Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi, d. 1454, Persian historian
• John Capgrave, (1393 – 1464)
• Christine de Pizan, (c. 1365 – c. 1430), historian, poet, philosopher
• Robert Fabyan, (died 1513)
• Albert Krantz, (1450 – 1517)
• Polydore Vergil, (c. 1470 – 1555), Tudor history
• Sigismund von Herberstein, (1486 – 1566), Muscovite affairs
• João de Barros, (1496 – 1570)
• Niccolò Machiavelli, (1469 – 1527), author of Florentine Histories
• Josias Simmler, (1530 – 1576)
• Paolo Paruta, (1540 – 1598), Venetian historian
• Raphael Holinshed, (died c. 1580)
• Hector Boece, Scottish philosopher and historian. Wrote "Historia Gentis Scotorum" (1465-1536)
• Caesar Baronius, (1538 – 1607)
• Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni, (1540 – 1615), Indo-Persian historian
• John Hayward, (1564 – 1627)
• Pilip Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin (fl. 1579–1590)
• Bahrey (1593), an Ethiopian monk and historian. Wrote Zenahu le Galla (History of the Galla, now the Oromo)
• William Bradford, (1590 – 1657), Mayflower/Plymouth Colony of America
Early modern historians (1600 – 1799)
A
• Fray Iñigo Abbad y Lasierra (1745 – 1813) Spanish historian
B
• Teimuraz Bagrationi, (1782 – 1846), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
• Archibald Bower, (1686 – 1766), Rome
• Mary Bonaventure Browne, Poor Clare and Irish historian, c.1610 - c.1670.
• Josiah Burchett, (1666? – 1746), British naval historian and Admiralty official
C
• Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng, (1738 – 1801), Chinese historian, local histories and essays on historiography
D
• John Colin Dunlop, (c. 1785 – 1842)
E
• Laurence Echard, (c.1670 – 1730), England
F
• George Finlay, (1799 – 1875), Greece
• Francisco Jose Freire (1719 – 1773), Portuguese historian and philologist
• Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, (1610 – 1688), Medieval and Byzantine historian and philologist
G
• Edward Gibbon, (1737 – 1794), Roman Empire and Byzantium, one of the all-time greats
• George Grote, (1794 – 1871), classical Greece
• François Guizot, (1787 – 1874), French historian of general French, English history
• George Peabody Gooch, (1873 – 1968), English historian of Modern Diplomacy
H
• Edward Hasted, (1732–1812), Kent
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, (1770 – 1831), German philosopher of history
• David Hume (1711 – 1776), Scottish Enlightenment Philosopher and author of six volume History of England (originally History of Britain)
I
J
K
• Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, (1766 – 1826), Russian Empire
• Seathrún Céitinn/Geoffrey Keating, d.1643, Irish historian
L
• Joachim Lelewel, (1786 – 1861), Polish historian
• John Lingard, (1771 – 1851), England
• Anton Tomaz Linhart, (1756 – 1795), well known for Slovenian history
Mc and Mac
• Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh, fl.1643 – 1671, Irish historian, annalist, genealogist
M
• Jules Michelet, (1798 – 1874), French
• François Mignet, (1796 – 1884), French historian of the Revolution, Middle Ages
• Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim, (1694 – 1755), Lutheran historian
• Johannes von Müller, (1752 – 1809)
• Ludovico Antonio Muratori, (1672 – 1750), Italy
N
• Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, (1637 – 1698), ecclesiastical historian
• Barthold Georg Niebuhr, (1776 – 1831), German historian
O
• Tadhg Og Ó Cianáin (died c.1614)
• Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, Irish historian, c.1590 – 1643
• Peregrine Ó Duibhgeannain, Irish historian, fl.1627-1636
• Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh (died c. 1662/1664)
• Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh, Irish historian, 1629 – 1716/1718
• Josiah Ober, American historian of ancient Greece
P
• William H. Prescott, (1796 – 1859), US historian of Spain, Mexico, Peru
• Placido Puccinelli, (1609 – 1685), Italian historian
Q
R
• Leopold von Ranke, (1795 – 1886), European diplomacy; probably the greatest German historian
S
• Mikhail Shcherbatov, (1733 – 1790), Russian historian
T
• Vasily Tatishchev, (1686 – 1750), first historian of modern Russia
• Adolphe Thiers, (1797 – 1877), French historian of the Revolution, Empire
U
V
• Voltaire, (1694 – 1778), French Enlightenment philosopher and historian
W
• Sir James Ware, (1594-1666), Anglo-Irish historian and antiquarian
X
Y
• Yu Deuk-gong, (1749 – 1807), Korean historian
Z
Historians born in the 19th century
A
• Henry Adams, (1838 – 1918), US 1800-1816
• Grace Aguilar, (1816 – 1847), Jewish history
• Charles McLean Andrews, (1863–1943), American; U.S. colonial history
• Mikhail Artamonov, (1898 – 1972), founder of Khazar studies
• Zurab Avalishvili, (1876 – 1944), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
B
• Charles Bean, (1879 – 1968), Australia in World War I
• Charles A. Beard, (1874 – 1948), American historian, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
• Mary Ritter Beard, (1876 – 1958), American Historian and wife of Charles A. Beard
• Bernard Bailyn, Historian of Early America
• George Bancroft, (1800 – 1891), United States
• Wilhelm Barthold, (1869 – 1930), Muslim studies, Turkology
• Hilaire Belloc, (1870 – 1953) French writer and historian later naturalised British.
• Marc Bloch, (1886 – 1944), medieval France
• Geoffrey Bruun (1899 – 1988), European civilization
• Jacob Burckhardt, (1818 – 1897), art history, European history, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
• Montagu Burrows, (1819 - 1905) first naval historian at a British university
• John Hill Burton, (1809 – 1881), Scottish Jacobin history
C
• Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, (1828 – 1897), Spanish historian
• E. H. Carr, (1892 – 1982) Soviet history, International Relations
• Henri Raymond Casgrain, (1831 – 1904), priest, author, historian
• Cesar de Bazancourt, (1810 – 1865), French historian; works on the Crimean War
• Boris Chicherin, (1828 – 1904), history of Russian laws
• Julian Corbett, (1854 - 1922), British naval historian
• Augustin Cochin, (1876 – 1916), history of French Revolution
• Edward Shepherd Creasy, (1812 – 1878), warfare
• Margaret Campbell Speke Cruwys (1894-1968), Devon historian
D
• Felix Dahn, (1834 - 1912), European history unfolding during the first millennium CE
• Angie Debo, (1890 - 1988), Native American and Oklahoma history
• Léopold Delisle, (1826 - 1910), French historian and librarian
• Johann Gustav Droysen, (1808 – 1884), German historian, professor at Kiel, Jena & Berlin
E
• Mary Anne Everett Green, (1818 – 1895), English
F
• Lucien Febvre, (1878 – 1956), French historian
• Frantz Funck-Brentano, (1862 – 1947), French historian and librarian
• Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, (1830 – 1889), antiquity, France
G
• François-Louis Ganshof, (1895–1980), medieval history
• Arthur Giry, (1848 – 1899), diplomatics
• Gustave Glotz, (1862-1935), Ancient Greece
• Timofey Granovsky, (1813 – 1855), medieval Germany
• Lionel Groulx, (1878 – 1967), priest, historian
• René Grousset, (1885 – 1952), Oriental History
H
• Louis Halphen, (1880 – 1950), Middle Ages
• Clarence H. Haring, (1885 - 1960), Latin American history
• Charles H. Haskins, (1870 - 1937), Americans first medieval historian
• Henri Hauser, (1866 – 1946), French historian, economist, geographer
• Julien Havet, (1853 - 1893), Middle Ages
• Paul Hazard, (1878 - 1944), Modern France
• Charles Downer Hazen, (1868 – 1941), author of Europe since 1815
• Auguste Himly, (1823 – 1906), French historian and geographer
• Johan Huizinga,(1872 - 1945), Dutch historian, author of Waning of the Middle Ages
I
• Dmitry Ilovaisky, (1832 – 1920), Russian history
J
• Muhammad Jaber, (1875 – 1945), history of the Levant and the Middle-East
• William James (naval historian), historian of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars
• Ivane Javakhishvili, (1876 – 1940), Georgian historian
K
• Samuel Kamakau, (1815 – 1876), Hawaiian historian
• Konstantin Kavelin, (1818 – 1885), history of Russian laws
• Philip Moore Callow Kermode, (1855 – 1932), Manx crosses and runic inscriptions
• Alexander William Kinglake, (1809 – 1891), works on the Crimean War
• Vasily Klyuchevsky, (1841 – 1911), Russian history
• Dudley Wright Knox, (1877 – 1960), American naval historian
• Ludwig von Köchel, (1800 – 1877), writer, composer, botanist, music historian
• Nikodim Kondakov, (1844 – 1925), Byzantine art
• Nikolay Kostomarov, (1817 – 1885), Russian and Ukrainian history
• Godefroid Kurth, (1847 – 1916), Belgian historian
L
• William L. Langer, (1896 – 1977), US historian, World and diplomatic history
• John Knox Laughton, British naval historian
• Ferdinand Lot, Middle Ages
Mc and Mac
• Thomas Macaulay, (1800 – 1859), British
M
• Frederic William Maitland, (1850 – 1906), legal history
• Alfred Thayer Mahan, (1840 – 1914), naval history
• Friedrich Meinecke, (1862-1954), 18th-19th century German intellectual and cultural history
• Paul Meyer, Middle Ages
• Auguste Molinier, Middle Ages
• Theodor Mommsen, (1817 – 1903), Roman Empire
• Alfred Morel-Fatio, history of Spain
• Lewis Mumford, (1895 – 1988)
N
O
P
• Cesare Paoli (1840-1902), Italian History
• Gaston Paris, Middle Ages
• Samuel W. Pennypacker (1843 – 1916), Pennsylvania history
• Henri Pirenne, (1862 – 1935), Belgian and medieval European history
• Sergey Platonov, (1860 – 1933), Oprichnina and Time of Troubles
• Eileen Power, Middle Ages
• H. F. M. Prescott (1896-1972), biographer of Mary I of England and medieval History
• Datto Vaman Potdar, (1890 – 1979), Indian Historian
Q
• Jules Quicherat, Middle Ages
R
• William Pember Reeves (1857-1932), New Zealand history
• B. H. Roberts, (1857 – 1933), Mormon historian and leader
• Theodore Roosevelt, (1858 – 1919)
• Simon Rutar, (1851 – 1903)
S
• Abram L. Sachar, (1899 – 1993)
• George Sarton, (1884 – 1956), history of science
• Ferdinand Scheville, (1868–1954), author of A History of Europe: From the Reformation to the Present Day
• Sergey Solovyov, (1820 – 1879), Russian historian
• Govind Sakharam Sardesai, (1865 – 1959), Indina Historian and Author of 'The New History of Maratha Empire'
• Goldwin Smith, (1823 – 1910), historian
• Oswald Spengler, (1880-1936), The Decline of the West
• Shin Chaeho, (1880 – 1936), Korean historian
T
• Frank Bigelow Tarbell, (1853 – 1920), author of numerous books on ancient art history
• Thatcher, Oliver J., (1857 – 1937), author of A general history of Europe 350 - 1900
• A. Wyatt Tilby, (1880 – 1948), British author of The English People Overseas (Vol. I – VI)
• Alexis de Tocqueville, (1805 – 1859) French historian, author of The Old Regime and the French Revolution, Democracy in America
• Zacharias Topelius, (1818 – 1898)
• Arnold J. Toynbee, (1889 – 1975), A Study of History
• Heinrich von Treitschke, (1834 – 1896)
• George Macaulay Trevelyan, (1876 – 1962)
• Mikheil Tsereteli, (1878 – 1965), Georgian historian
V
• Paul Vinogradoff, (1854 – 1925), later Roman Empire
W
• Mary Wilhelmine Williams, (1878 – 1944), Latin America
• Spenser Wilkinson, British military historian
• Justin Winsor, (1831 – 1897), editor of the Narrative and Critical History of America, (8 vols., 1884-89)
• Ernest Llewellyn Woodward, (1890-1971), British historian, British history and international relations
• Gordon Wright, Modern French History
Y
• Yi Byeongdo, (1896 – 1989), Korean historian
Z
• Faddei Zielinski, (1859 – 1944), Ancient Greece
Modern historians (after 1900)
A
• Raouf Abbas, (1939 - 2008) Egyptian historian; modern history of Egypt & Japan, Comparative history, Social history and economic history.
• Irving Abella, Canadian historian & author
• Robert G. Albion, (1896 – 1983), maritime history
• Dean C. Allard, American naval history
• Michael Allen, American historian, trans-Mississippi West
• Gar Alperovitz, American historian, Hiroshima
• Ida Altman, American historian, colonial Spain & Latin America
• Stephen Ambrose, (1936 – 2002), American; WW2, U.S. political, wrote Band of Brothers
• Joyce Appleby, American; US early national
• Herbert Aptheker, (1915 – 2003), American; African American history
• Philippe Aries, French; medieval; childhood
• Karen Armstrong, British; religious history
• Leonard J. Arrington, (1917 – 1999), American; Mormons
• Paul Avrich, Russian history, the Anarchist movement (chiefly in the United States)
B
• Ahron Bregman, Arab-Israeli conflict
• Yehuda Bauer, the Holocaust
• David E. Barclay, German history
• Harry Elmer Barnes, American historian.
• Linda Diane Barnes, American history
• G.W.S. Barrow, Scottish history
• Jacques Barzun, (born 1907), cultural history
• Hanna Batatu, Palestinian historian and author of an authoritative study of modern Iraq
• K. Jack Bauer, (1926 – 1987), U.S. naval, military, and maritime historian
• James Belich (born 1956), New Zealand history
• Isaiah Berlin, (1909 – 1997), history of ideas
• Michael Beschloss, (born 1955) American historian and celebrity intellectual, history of the U.S. presidency
• Nicholas Bethell, Soviet history
• David Blackbourn
• Geoffrey Blainey (born 1930), Australian history
• Hanne Blank (born 1969), historian of virginity
• Gisela Bock, German feminist historian.
• Brian Bond, British military historian
• Daniel J. Boorstin, (1914 – 2004), intellectual history, American history
• John Boswell, (1947 – 1994), medievalist and gay history
• Gérard Bouchard, Canadian historian
• Joanna Bourke, military history
• Mark Bowden, wrote Black Hawk Down regarding the Battle of Mogadishu
• Paul S. Boyer, American historian
• Karl Dietrich Bracher, (1922-), modern German history
• James C. Bradford, (1944- ), American naval history
• William Brandon, (1914 – 2002), historian of the American West and Native Americans
• Fernand Braudel, (1902-1985) World history
• Martin Broszat, (1926-1989) Nazi Germany
• Peter Brown
• Christopher Browning, the Holocaust
• Otto Brunner, medieval and early modern Austria
• Alan Bullock, (1914 – 2004)
• Peter Burke
• Michael Burns - actor and historian
• J. B. Bury, classical history
• Briton C. Busch, ((1936 – 2004)), British diplomatic and American maritime history
• Richard Bushman, (1931 -), American colonial society, American colonial politics, American colonial religion
• Herbert Butterfield, author of The Whig Interpretation of History
C
• Angus Calder, (1942 – 2008), British historian, British history
• Helen Cam (1885–1968) English medieval historian
• Otto Maria Carpeaux, (1900 – 1978) foremost historian of literature
• Sir Raymond Carr (born 1919) Spanish and Latin American history
• Paul Cartledge, Classical Historian (5th Century Athens and Sparta, and Alexander the Great)
• Carolyn Joyce Carty [1957- )Faith
• Lionel Casson
• Boris Celovsky, Czech-German relations
• Howard I. Chapelle, maritime history
• Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri, history of Leftism, Indian history
• Maher Charif, Palestinian historian specialising in modern Arab intellectual history and political movements
• Iris Chang, (1968-2004) Chinese in American & Japanese war crimes
• Alexander Campbell Cheyne, Scottish Ecclesiastical Historian
• Winston Churchill, (1874 – 1965) political, biographical, military history.
• J. C. D. Clark, British historian of ideas.
• Manning Clark, (1915 – 1991) pre-eminent in Australian history
• Robert Conquest, (born 1917) Russia, Soviet Union
• Gordon A. Craig, (1913-) German history & diplomatic history
• Vincent Cronin, (1924-) European and art history
• Pamela Kyle Crossley, Chinese, Manchu and Central Asian history
• Dan Cruickshank, British and architectural history, TV presenter
• John S. Curtiss, inter alia, debunker of the The Protocols of Zion
• Vladimir Ćorović, Serbian historian
D
• Robert Dallek, biographer of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson and John F. Kennedy
• Vahakn N. Dadrian, Armenian genocide
• David B. Danbom rural America
• Robert Darnton eighteenth-century France
• Lucy Dawidowicz, Jewish history and the Holocaust
• Saul David, military history
• John Davies Welsh historian
• Norman Davies, Polish and British history
• Natalie Zemon Davis, feminist cultural historian, early modern France, film and history
• Kenneth S. Davis, biographer of Franklin D. Roosevelt
• R. H. C. Davis, British historian of European Middle Ages
• David Day, Australian historian
• Renzo De Felice, Italian fascism
• Carl N. Degler, American historian
• Esther Delisle, (born 1954), French-Canadian historian & author
• Jean Delumeau French historian specializing in the Catholic church history
• Marcel Detienne, ancient Greece
• Alexandre Deulofeu, (1903-1978), Catalan historian & author
• Isaac Deutscher, (1907 – 1967) biographer of Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin
• Tom M. Devine, Scottish historian
• Bernard DeVoto, (1897 - 1955), American historian specializing in the history of the American West
• Wu Di, (1951 – ), film critic and historian of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
• Igor M. Diakonov, (1914 – 1999), Ancient Near East
• David Herbert Donald Lincoln and Civil War
• Gordon Donaldson Scottish historian
• John W. Dower, Japan in 1940s
• Georges Duby, (1924 – 1996), Middle Ages
• William S. Dudley, ((1936–), American naval history
• Eamon Duffy, 15th-17th century religious history
• A. Hunter Dupree, American science and technology
• Trevor Dupuy, (1916 - 1995) military historian
• Will Durant, philosopher and author of the Story of Civilization series
E
• Elizabeth Eisenstein, French Revolution, early printing, transitions in media
• Geoff Eley British historian of German history
• John Elliott, (born 1941) Early Modern Spain
• Joseph J. Ellis biographer of US Founding Fathers
• Geoffrey Elton, (1921 – 1994) , Tudor England
• Peter Englund, Swedish
• Richard J. Evans, German social history
• Alf Evers, (1905-2004) American historian
F
• Cyril Falls, (1888 - 1971), British military historian
• Brian Farrell, (born 1929)
• Niall Ferguson, British historian, author of The Pity of War: Explaining World War I
• Marc Ferro, French historian
• Joachim Fest, (born 1926), Nazi Germany
• David Feuerwerker (1912-1980), French historian of the Emancipation of Jews.
• Heinrich Fichtenau (1912-2000), Austrian historian; medievalism, diplomatics
• Orlando Figes, (born 1957), Russia
• Samuel Finer (1915 – 1993), political scientist and writer on world history
• Robert O. Fink, (1905-1988), American classical scholar and papyrologist
• Moses Finley, Historian of the Ancient World, especially Economic History
• David Hackett Fischer, American economic historian, author of The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
• Fritz Fischer, German historian
• Frances Fitzgerald, American journalist and historian, author of Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
• Robert Fogel, American economic history
• Eric Foner, Reconstruction
• Shelby Foote, (1916 – 2005), American Civil War
• Michel Foucault, (1926 – 1984), French historian of ideas / philosopher
• Robin Lane Fox, Oxford historian who has written on Alexander the Great and the Ancient World
• Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, cultural & social history, women's history and Southern history
• Walter Frank, (1905 – 1945), Nazi historian and anti-Semitic writer
• H. Bruce Franklin, American historian of the Vietnam War, author of M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America
• Antonia Fraser, England
• Henry Friedlander, Holocaust historian.
• Saul Friedländer, history of the Holocaust
• Sheppard Frere
• David Fromkin
• Bruno Fuligni
• Francis Fukuyama, (born 1955)
• J.F.C. Fuller , military historian, author of A Military History of the Western World, 3 vols.
• François Furet, French historian
G
• Femme Gaastra, Dutch East India Company
• John Lewis Gaddis, diplomatic history
• Lloyd Gardner, diplomatic history
• Franklin Garrett, history of Atlanta
• Peter Gay, psychohistory, European Enlightenment & 19th century social history
• Eugene Genovese, (1930-) Southern history
• Christian Gerlach, Holocaust and genocide history
• Pieter Geyl, Dutch historian
• N. H. Gibbs, history of war
• William Gibson, ecclesiastical historian
• Martin Gilbert, Holocaust
• Carlo Ginzburg, pioneer of microhistory
• James Goldrick, Australian naval officer and naval historian
• Justo Gonzalez, historian and theologian
• George Peabody Gooch, (1873 – 1968), British historian, "British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914" (ed.)
• Andrew Gordon, British naval historian
• Gerald S. Graham, British imperial history
• Peter Green, ancient history
• Vivian H. H. Green, (1915 – 2005), author of A New History of Christianity
• Leonid Grinin, Philosophy of History
• Ranajit Guha, history of India and critical historiography
• Lev Gumilyov, (1912 – 1992), Soviet historian
• John Guy, leading Tudor specialist
H
• Irfan Habib, History of India
• Bruce Barrymore Halpenny, Airfields, WW2, Bomber & Fighter Command, Military Aircraft
• Nicholas G. L. Hammond, (1907 - 2001) Macedonia and Greece
• Victor Davis Hanson, ancient warfare
• Dick Harrison, Swedish & Medieval history
• Max Hastings, military historian and journalist
• John Hattendorf, maritime historian
• Ragnhild Hatton, 17th and 18th century European international history
• Denys Hay, (1915 - 1994), medieval and Renaissance Europe
• John Daniel Hayes, (1902 - 1991), American naval historian
• Jeffrey Herf, German and European history
• Arthur Herman, American and British history
• Raul Hilberg, (1926 - 2007), Political Scientist and historian of the Holocaust
• Klaus Hildebrand, 19th-20th German history
• Christopher Hill (historian), (1912 - 2003), 17th century England
• Andreas Hillgruber, 20th German history
• Richard L. Hills (born 1936), history of technology
• Gertrude Himmelfarb, (born 1924) 19th century British intellectual, social and cultural history
• Harry Hinsley, (1918 - 1998), English historian and cryptanalyst (Bletchley Park)
• Eric Hobsbawm, (born 1917) British historian, labour history
• Marshall Hodgson, History of Islamic Civilization
• Richard Hofstadter, (1916 - 1970), American political historian.
• David Hoggan, neo-Nazi historian.
• Hajo Holborn, (1902 - 1969), modern Germany
• Richard Holmes, Military History.*Ed Hooper, Southern Appalachia, Tennessee, Old South
• A. G. Hopkins, British historian
• Keith Hopkins, Ancient Historian and Sociologist.
• William Hoskins, Landscape History
• Albert Hourani, Middle Eastern history
• Daniel Horowitz, United States intellectual history; history of consumer culture
• Joseph Kinsey Howard, (1906 - 1951), history of Montana and prairie Canada
• Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, history of women, sexuality, and higher education
• Michiel Horn, Canadian history and Canadian academic history
• Alistair Horne, modern French history
• Michael Howard Military History
• Tristram Hunt, (born 1974)
I
• Michael Ignatieff, (born 1947) author of Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond
• Halil Inalcik, Turkish historian of the Ottoman Empire
• Jonathan Israel (born 1946), British historian of the Netherlands, the Age of Enlightenment and European Jewry
J
• Eberhard Jäckel, Nazi Germany
• Julian T. Jackson, French Historian
• Harold James, modern Germany, modern European economic history
• Nikoloz Janashia, (1931 – 1982), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
• Simon Janashia, (1900 – 1947), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
• Pawel Jasienica, (1909 – 1970), Polish historian, Polish history
• Merrill Jensen (1905 – 1980), American Revolution, U.S. Articles of Confederation
• Paul Johnson, (born 1928), British historian, Western civilization
• Robert Erwin Johnson (1923-2008), American naval and coast guard historian
• Mauno Jokipii, Finnish historian, World War II
• Gwyn Jones, medieval history
• Loe de Jong, Dutch historian, author of The Kingdom of the Netherlands during the Second World War
• Tony Judt, British historian, specializing in contemporary European studies
K
• Donald Kagan, ancient Greek history
• John Keegan, (born 1934) English historian, popular military history
• Hans Kelsen, legal history
• John H. Kemble, (1912 – 1990), American maritime historian
• Elizabeth Topham Kennan - medievalist and former president, Mount Holyoke College
• George F. Kennan, (a.k.a. 'X') American diplomat and historian, history of US-Soviet relations
• James Kennedy, American historian, history of the Netherlands
• Paul Kennedy, British historian
• W. Hudson Kensel, western American historian
• Ian Kershaw, German history
• Daniel J. Kevles, history of science, In the Name of Eugenics, and The Physicists
• Michael King (1945-2004), New Zealand history
• Simon Kitson, Historian of Vichy France
• Matti Klinge, Finnish historian
• R.J.B. Knight, British naval historian
• Eberhard Kolb, German historian
• Gabriel Kolko, American political history
• Claudia Koonz, women's history under Nazi Germany.
• Kim Jung-bae, (born 1940), Korean historian
• Andrey Korotayev, (born 1961), Cliometrics
• Thomas Kuhn, (1922 - 1996), history of science
L
• Benjamin Woods Labaree, American colonial and maritime history
• Brij Lal, history of Fiji
• Sione Lātūkefu, Tongan history
• Leonard Woods Labaree, editor of the Benjamin Franklin Papers
• Leopold Labedz(1920 – 1993), Soviet history
• Andrew Lambert, British naval history
• David Lavender, (1910 – 2003), history of the American West
• Walter LaFeber, diplomatic history
• Jacques Le Goff, medieval French historian
• William Leuchtenburg, American political and legal history
• Barbara Levick, English historian; Roman emperors
• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, French historian
• Lee Ki-baek, (1924 – 2004), Korean historian
• Li Ao, (born 1935), Chinese historian
• Basil Liddell Hart, British military historian.
• Leon F. Litwack, American history & African-American history
• Mario Liverani, ancient Middle East
• John Edward Lloyd, historian of Welshness
• James W. Loewen, American history, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me
• Walter Lord, American history, author of A Night to Remember
• David J. Logan, Australian history, The Role of The Crown in Australia
• John Lukacs, Hungarian-American historian of modern Europe.
M
• Charles B. MacDonald, World War II
• Stuart Macintyre (born 1947), Australian history
• Forrest McDonald early national US, presidency
• K. B. McFarlane, English medievalist
• Rosamond McKitterick, medieval history
• Margaret MacMillan 20th century international relations, author of Paris 1919, among others.
• Ramsay MacMullen, Roman history
• Magnus Magnusson, Norse history
• Piers Mackesy, British military history
• J. D. Mackie Scottish historian
• Leonard Maltin, famous Disney historian
• Charles S. Maier, 20th century Europe
• William Manchester, Author of "The Last Lion", among others. A definitive Churchill biographer.
• Golo Mann, (1909 – 1994)
• Robert Mann, American historian of the Vietnam War, wrote A Grand Delusion: America's Descent into Vietnam
• Arthur Marder, British naval history
• Timothy Mason, history of Nazi Germany
• Henri-Jean Martin, history of the book, early printing, writing, libraries in France
• Tyrone G. Martin, USS Constitution
• Rev. F.X. Martin, Irish medievalist and campaigner
• Michael Marrus, French and Jewish history
• David McCullough, American. Two-time winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
• William S. McFeely - 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Grant: A Biography
• James M. McPherson, very noteworthy US Civil War historian; wrote Battle Cry of Freedom
• William McNeill, world history
• Laurence Marvin, American historian, French medievalist
• Garrett Mattingly, early modern Europe
• Arno J. Mayer, World War I and Europe
• Richard Maybury, United States, especially WWI, WWII, and the Middle East
• Friedrich Meinecke, German historian
• D. W. Meinig, geographic history of America
• Russell Menard, Colonial American
• Thomas C. Mendenhall (historian)
• Josef W. Meri, Islamic world, Jews of Islamic Lands, Interfaith Relations
• Barbara Metcalf, Indian subcontinent, Muslims of India and Pakistan
• Perry Miller, intellectual historian
• Hans Mommsen
• Wolfgang Mommsen
• Edmund Morgan American colonial and Revolution
• Kenneth O. Morgan
• William J. Morgan (historian), U.S. naval historian
• Samuel Eliot Morison, naval history
• Benny Morris, Middle-Eastern history
• George Mosse, German, Jewish, fascist and sexual history
• Roland Mousnier, early modern France
• Mubarak Ali (b. 1941) Pakistani Historian on Mughals era and feminism
N
• Lewis Bernstein Namier, 18th century British history and 20th century diplomatic history
• Allan Nevins, US political and business history; Civil War
• Leo Niehorster, military history
• Ernst Nolte, fascism and communism
O
• Robin O'Neil, Holocaust researcher
• Heiko Oberman, Reformation
• W. H. Oliver (born 1925), New Zealand history
• Charles Oman, 19th century military history
• Michael Oren, Modern middle east
• Ilber Ortayli, Turkish historian of the Ottoman Empire
• Mark Ovenden, Graphic design & architecture in public transport
• Richard Overy, WW2
• Steven Ozment, Germany
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• Michael Parenti, 20th-21st century political analyst and modern/classical historian.
• Simo Parpola, Ancient Middle East
• J. H. Parry,(1914 - 1982) maritime historian
• Thomas Paterson Cold War
• Peter Paret, military history
• Geoffrey Parker, early modern military history
• Abel Paz Spanish anarchist movement
• Henry Francis Pelham, Roman history
• William Armstrong Percy, Medieval Europe and ancient Greek and Roman history. History of Homosexuality.
• Hrvoje Petric, early modern history, environmental history, economic history
• Detlev Peukert, historian of Alltagsgeschichte (history of everyday life) in the Weimar & Nazi eras.
• Liza Picard, London
• Boris B. Piotrovsky, (1908 – 1990), Urartu and Scythia
• Richard Pipes, Russian and Soviet
• J.H. Plumb, (1911 – 2001), British historian of the 18th century
• J. G. A. Pocock (born 1924), early modern period and Enlightenment
• Roy Porter, (1946 – 2002), history of medicine & Britain
• Gordon W. Prange, American Historian, World War II Pacific, notably Pearl Harbor and Midway
• Joshua Prawer, Israeli historian of the Crusader states
• Janko Prunk, (1942 -) Slovenian historian for modern history
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• Wailun Quan, Chinese Historian, Warring States Period and Qin Dynasty
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• Werner Rahn, German naval history
• Jack N. Rakove, US Constitution and early politics
• Šerbo Rastoder, Montenegrin history from the 20th century to today
• René Rémond, French political history
• Henry A. Reynolds (born 1938), Aboriginal - white relations in Australia
• Susan Reynolds, critic of feudal concepts in medieval history
• Richard Rhodes, The Manhattan Project, the Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, and the SS-Einsatzgruppen
• Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond, British naval historian
• Jonathan Riley-Smith, Crusades
• Charles Ritcheson, Anglo-American relations 1775-1815
• Gerhard Ritter, German history.
• Andrew Roberts, British history.
• J. M. Roberts, European history
• N.A.M. Rodger, British naval history
• William Ledyard Rodgers, ancient naval history
• Theodore Ropp, military historian
• W.J. Rorabaugh, 19th and 20th century U.S.
• Ron Rosenbaum, Hitler
• Charles E. Rosenberg, medicine and science
• Stephen Roskill, British naval history
• Theodore Roosevelt, War of 1812, frontier
• Michael Rostovtzeff, ancient history
• Hans Rothfels, modern German history
• Sheila Rowbotham, (born 1943) Feminism Socialism
• Herbert H. Rowen, Dutch history
• A. L. Rowse, (1903 – 1997)
• Miri Rubin, social history of Europe between 1100-1600.
• R. J. Rummel, genocide
• Steven Runciman, Crusades
• Leila J.Rupp , feminist historian
• Conrad Russell, 17th century Britain
• Cornelius Ryan, (1920 – 1974), World War II
• Boris Rybakov, (1908 – 2001), leader of Soviet anti-Normanists
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• Ram Sharan Sharma Eminent Historian of Ancient India
• Edgar V. Saks, (1910–1984), Estonian Middle Ages
• Richard G. Salomon, (1884-1966), German-American medievalist and Church historian
• J. Salwyn Schapiro, fascism
• Dominic Sandbrook, (born 1974), modern Britain and the United States
• Usha Sanyal, Asian history, Islam and Sufism, especially Barelwi movement
• Simon Schama, (born 1945), British historian and TV presenter, European and art history
• Arthur Schlesinger, Sr.
• Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Andrew Jackson, New Deal, John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy; Pulitzer prize winner
• Jean-Claude Schmitt, Middle Ages
• David Schoenbaum, modern German history & American-Israeli relations.
• Carl Schorske, Vienna, Modernism, intellectual history.
• Helena Schrader, Ancient Sparta, Knights Templar, Middle Ages, WWII German Resistance, WWII Women Aviators
• Paul W. Schroeder, late sixteenth- to twentieth-century European international politics, Central Europe, theory of history
• D. M. Schurman, British imperial and naval history
• Joan Scott US Feminism
• Howard Hayes Scullard, (1903 – 1983), ancient history
• Tom Segev, Israeli history
• Robert Service Soviet and Russian history
• James J. Sheehan modern Germany
• William L. Shirer, American journalist, expert on the Third Reich, wrote The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
• Dasharatha Sharma, History of Rajasthan
• He Shu, (1948 – ), historian of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
• Keith Sinclair (1922-1993), New Zealand history
• Helene J. Sinnreich, Holocaust history
• Nathan Sivin, History of Chinese Themes
• Quentin Skinner, early modern Britain
• Theda Skocpol, Institutions and comparative method
• Richard Slotkin, Environment
• Henry Nash Smith US cultural historian
• Jean Edward Smith US Foreign Policy, Constitutional Law, Legal History, Political Economy, Biography, Modern Germany
• Justin Harvey Smith, Mexican-American war; Pulitzer Prize winner
• Richard Norton Smith, U.S. presidential historian.
• T. C. Smout Scottish environmental and social historian
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, (born 1918), Russian historian and novelist
• Louis Leo Snyder, German nationalism
• Albert Soboul, (1913 – 1982), French revolution
• Richard Southern, medieval historian
• Dr. E. Lee Spence, (born 1947), shipwreck historian (16th-21st century shipwrecks, worldwide)
• Jonathan Spence, Chinese history
• Jackson J. Spielvogel, Pennsylvania State University
• Kenneth Stampp, American history, author The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South
• David Starkey, (born 1945), Tudor historian and TV presenter
• James M. Stayer, German Reformation historian.
• Wickham Steed, British historian of Eastern Europe.
• Valerie Steele, fashion historian
• Gerald J. Steinacher, Austrian Historian on Nazi-Germany
• Jean Stengers, Belgian historian
• Frank Stenton, Anglo-Saxon historian.
• Fritz Stern, American historian of Germany & Jewish history.
• Zeev Sternhell, history of fascism.
• William N. Still, Jr., U.S. naval history and Confederate naval history
• Lawrence Stone, early modern British social, economic and family history
• Norman Stone, military history
• Hew Strachan, military historian
• Floyd Benjamin Streeter, Kansas, Old American West
• Michael Stürmer, modern German history.
• Viktor Suvorov, Soviet historian
• David Syrett, British naval history
• Ronald Syme, (1903 – 1989), ancient history
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• J. L. Talmon,(1916 – 1980), Modern History, "The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy"
• A.J.P. Taylor, (1906 – 1990), Historian of European International relations
• Alexander Smith Taylor (1817 – 1876), considered first bibliographer of California.
• Alasdair and Hettie Tayler, Scottish historians
• Ronald Takaki, American, ethnic studies historian
• Antonio Tellez, (1921 – 2005), Spanish Anarchism and anti-fascist resistance
• Harold Temperley, (1879 – 1939), British historian on 19c and early 20c century diplomatic history
• Romila Thapar, (born 1931), Ancient India
• Barbara Thiering, (born 1930), Rediscovered the "Pesher technique" of early Christian history
• Joan Thirsk ( born 1922), History of agriculture
• Hugh Thomas, Spanish Civil War, Cuba, Atlantic Slave Trade
• E. P. Thompson, (1924 – 1993), British Labour historian and peace activist
• John Toland, (1912-2004), WW1 and WW2 Histories
• K. Ross Toole, (1920-1981), history of Montana
• Marc Trachtenberg, Cold War history
• Hugh Trevor-Roper, (1914 – 2003), British historian and peer, specialist on the Nazi leadership
• Barbara Tuchman, (1912 – 1989) 20c military
• Robert C. Tucker, Stalin
• Peter Turchin, (born 1958), Cliodynamics
• Henry Ashby Turner, Jr., Weimar and Nazi Germany
• Frederick Jackson Turner, (1861 – 1932), American historian who developed the Frontier Thesis
• Denis Twitchett, (1925-2006), Cambridge scholar who greatly exapanded interest in the History of China
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• Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Historian of Early America
• Mladen Urem, Croatian literary historian
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• Jean-Pierre Vernant,(1914 – 2007), French historian, ancient Greece
• Paul Veyne, French historian, ancient Greece and Rome
• Pierre Vidal-Naquet, (1930 – 2006), French historian, ancient Greece, Civil Rights activist
• Hans van de Ven, Dutch-born British historian, modern China
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• John Waiko (born 1944), Papua New Guinean history
• Retha Warnicke, (born 1939), Tudor history & gender issues
• Eugen Weber, modern French history
• Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, (1910 – 1997) British
• Hans-Ulrich Wehler, 19c German social history
• Russell Weigley, military history
• Gerhard Weinberg, World War Two.
• Roberto Weiss Renaissance historian
• Frank Welsh (born 1931), British imperial history
• Christopher Whatley, Scottish historian
• John Wheeler-Bennett, German history
• John Whyte, focused on Northern Ireland and on divided societies
• Christopher Wickham, medieval history
• Alexander Wilkinson,(born 1975)Early Modern European History, The History of the Book in France, Spain & Portugal
• Eric Williams, (1911 – ), Guianese historian, Caribbean history, anti-imperialist themes
• Glanmor Williams
• Glyndwr Williams, history of exploration
• William Appleman Williams US diplomatic
• Clyde N. Wilson, 19c American; John C. Calhoun
• Ian Wilson, (born 1941) religious historian
• Heinrich August Winkler, (born 1938) German history
• Keith Windschuttle, (born 1942) Australian history & historiography
• Gordon Wright, Modern French History
• Robert S. Wistrich, Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and Jews in the 20th Century.
• John B. Wolf, French history
• Michael Wolffsohn, German Jewish history.
• Gordon S. Wood, American Revolution
• Michael Wood
• C. Vann Woodward, (1908 – 1999), American South
• Lawrence C. Wroth, American printing trade
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• Robert J. Young, Canadian historian of the French Third Republic.
• Robert M. Young, (born 1935), American historian, history of medicine, and human sciences.
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• Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, Cuban-American historian of the German expulsions after World War Two.
• Howard Zinn, (born 1922) American historian, popular U.S. history, the Left in the U.S.
• Rainer Zitelmann, German historian.
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