List of historians by area of study

List of historians by area of study
This is a list of historians categorized by their area of study. See also List of historians.
By time period
Ancient history
Sedat Alp (1913, Veroia, The Ottoman Empire - 2006, Ankara, Türkiye) Hittitolog- Historian, Ancient Anatolian
Ekrem Akurgal (1911, Haifa, The Ottoman Empire- 2002, İzmir, Türkiye) Archaeologist- Historian, Ancient Anatolian
Leonie Archer (born 1955) – Graeco-Roman Palestine
Mary Beard (born 1955)
Anatoly Bokschanin (1903–1979) – Roman history
Fernand Braudel (1902, Luméville-en-Ornois- 1985, Cluses- France ) Roman history
Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton (1900-1903) – Roman history and prosopography
Halet Çambel (1916, Berlin, Germany- 2014, İstanbul, Türkiye) Archaeologist- Historian, Ancient Anatolian
Michael Crawford (born 1939)
Roland Étienne (born 1944, French) – Ancient Greece and Hellenistic period
Moses Finley (1912–1986)
Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) – The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Adrian Goldsworthy (born 1969, British) – Roman history
Peter Green (born 1924) – Ancient Greece and Macedon
Herodotus
Keith Hopkins (1934–2004) - Roman history
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ (born 1914, Bursa-Türkiye) Sumerologist, Sumerian history
Josephus
Yuliya Kolosovskaya (1920–2002) – Roman history and Roman provinces of the Danube
Sergey Kovalev (1886–1960) – Hellenistic and Roman period
Mikhail Kublanov (1914–1998)
Barbara Levick (born 1931) – Roman emperors
Livy
Ramsay MacMullen (1928–2022) – History of Rome
Nikolai Mashkin (1900–1950) – Roman history
Fergus Millar (1935–2019)
Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903) History of Rome
Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776–1831) – Roman history
Orosius
Tahsin Özgüç (1916, Kardzhali, The Ottoman Empire- 2005, Ankara, Türkiye) Archaeologist- Historian, Ancient Anatolian
Edward Togo Salmon (1905–1988) - Roman history
Howard Hayes Scullard (1903–1983) – Roman civilization
Mariya Sergeyenko (1891–1987) – Roman agriculture and daily life
Ram Sharan Sharma (1919–2011) – Ancient India
Elena Shtaerman (1914–1991) – Roman history
Suetonius
Ronald Syme (1903–1989) – Classical period
Tacitus
Joseph Tainter (born 1949)
Lily Ross Taylor (1886-1969) - Roman history
Thucydides
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (born 1951)
Max Weber (1864–1920)
Xenophon
Polybius
Medieval history
John Van Antwerp Fine Jr. (born 1939) - American medievalist specialized in the history of Central and Southeastern Europe, and Balkans
Ram Sharan Sharma (1919–2011) – early medieval History of India
Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman (born 1940) – historian of medieval medicine
Placido Puccinelli (1609–1685, Italian) – Northern Italy in the 10th century and the Florentine church
Marc Bloch (1886–1944, French) – Medieval France
John Boswell (1947–1994, American) – Homosexuality in the Middle Ages
Norman Cantor (1930–2004)
Georges Duby (1924–1996, French) – Specialized in the history of France between the Capets and the Valois
François-Louis Ganshof (1895–1980), Belgian – wrote on early medieval institutional history and feudalism
Geoffrey of Monmouth
Giraldus Cambrensis
Johan Huizinga (1872–1945, Dutch) – cultural history, wrote Waning of the Middle Ages
Jacques Le Goff (1924–2014, French) – Middle Ages, particularly the 12th and 13th centuries
Rev. F. X. Martin (1922–2000, Irish) – Mediævalist and campaigner
Rosamond McKitterick (born 1949) – Frankish and Carolingian history
Henri Pirenne (1862–1935) – the "Pirenne Thesis" of early Medieval development
Eileen Power (1889–1940) – Middle Ages
Miri Rubin (born 1956) – social and religious history, 1100–1500
Steven Runciman (1903–2000) – the Crusades
Richard Southern (1912–2001)
Sidney Painter (1902–1960)
John Julius Norwich (1929–2018)
John V. Tolan (born 1959)
Chris Wickham (born 1950)
Retha Warnicke (born 1939)
Aaron Gurevich (1924–2006)
Jerome Lee Shneidman (1929–2008) – psychohistory
Michael Prestwich (born 1943)
Alessandro Barbero (born 1959)
Dick Harrison (born 1966)
Satish Chandra (1922–2017)
Irfan Habib (born 1931)
Michel Kaplan (born 1946, French) – Byzantinist
Gina Fasoli (1905–1992) – medieval cities, feudal society, and Lombardy
By nation or geographical area
North America
History of Canada
Donald Creighton (1902–1979) – Developed the Laurentian thesis
William J. Eccles (1917–1998) – History of New France
Lionel Groulx (1878–1967) – The history of Quebec in particular and French North America in general
Harold Innis (1894–1952) – Economic historian of Canada
Jack Granatstein (born 1939) – Political and Military historian of Canada
W.L. Morton (1908–1980) – Expert on western Canada
See also List of Canadian historians.
History of the Caribbean
Kamau Brathwaite (1930–2020)
Aviva Chomsky (born 1957)
C. L. R. James (1901–1989)
Lucille M. Mair (1924–2009)
Walter Rodney (1942–1980)
Eric Williams (1911–1981) – Focused on slavery and the slave trade, condemned imperialism
Betty Wood (1945–2021)
History of the United States
Henry Adams (1838–1918) – history of the United States in the presidential administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
Stephen Ambrose (1936–2002) – biographer of Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon
Edward L. Ayers (born 1953) – U.S. South, founder of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) and Digital Scholarship Lab
George Bancroft (1800–1891) – wrote first large-scale history of the US
Charles A. Beard (1874–1948) – revisionist history of Founding Fathers suggesting monetary motivations
Samuel Flagg Bemis (1891–1973) – U.S. foreign policy; won two Pulitzer Prizes
Ira Berlin (1941–2018) - Slavery
William Brandon (1914–2002) – historian of the American West and Native Americans.
Holly Brewer (born 1964) – early American History
Alan Brinkley (1949–2019) – historian of the Great Depression
David H. Burton - U.S. historian and biographer of presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft as well as Clara Barton and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Bruce Catton (1899–1978) – American Civil War
William Cronon (born 1954) – American environmental history, the frontier in New England, and the American West
J. Frank Dobie (1888–1964) – historian of Texas and the Southwestern United States
David Herbert Donald (1920–2009)
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) – historian of the Reconstruction
Drew Gilpin Faust (born 1947) – Civil War, culture of death, and the Confederacy
Robert H. Ferrell (1921–2018) – Harry S. Truman, the 20th-century U.S. presidency, World War I
Eric Foner (born 1943) – Civil War and Reconstruction
John Hope Franklin (1915–2009) – historian of African Americans
John A. Garraty (1920–2007) – biography
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (1941–2007) – Southern slavery, women's history
Doris Kearns Goodwin (born 1943) - U.S. presidents, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
Richard Hofstadter (1916–1970) – Progressivism and U.S. political history
Daniel Walker Howe - political and intellectual history of the early republic and antebellum period
Peter Iverson – 20th century U.S. West/Native American history (emphasis in Navajo history)
Paul Johnson (born 1928) – author of A History of the American People and a biographer of George Washington
Winthrop Jordan (1931–2007) – African-American history
David Lavender (1910–2003) – Western U.S.
David McCullough (1933-2022) – general study, most notable work is recent biography of John Adams
James M. McPherson (born 1936) – American Civil War
Pauline Maier (1938–2013) – late Colonial, Revolution, Constitution
D. W. Meinig (1924-2020) – geographic history of America
Philip D. Morgan (born 1949) – slavery
David Nasaw (born 1945) – biography and U.S. cultural history
Francis Parkman (1823–1893) – historian of the French and Indian War
William B. Pickett (born 1940)
David Pietrusza (born 1949) - 20th century presidential elections; biography
Dominic Sandbrook (born 1974) – political history of the 1960s and 1970s
Arthur Schlesinger Sr. (1888–1965)
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (1917–2007)
Cornelius Cole Smith, Jr. (1913–2004) – historian of Arizona, California and the Southwestern United States
Jean Edward Smith (1932–2019) – biography, foreign policy, political economy, constitutional law, legal history, and politics
Irma Tam Soong (1912–2001) – history of Chinese immigration in Hawaii
Frederick Jackson Turner (1861–1932) – developed the Frontier Thesis
Frank Vandiver (1925–2005)
Alexander Scott Withers (1792–1865) – primary accounts of colonial western Virginia conflicts
Sean Wilentz (born 1951) - political, social, and cultural history
Betty Wood (1945–2021) – early American history
Gordon S. Wood (born 1933) - American Revolution
C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999) – Southern United States
Howard Zinn (1922–2010) – political scientist and historian of the United States, often critical of common policies
Latin America
History of Latin America
See also :Category:Historians of Latin America
Jeremy Adelman (born 1960)
Marc Becker
David Brading (born 1936)
Aviva Chomsky (born 1957)
James Dunkerley (born 1953)
Mark Falcoff (born 1941)
Ann Farnsworth-Alvear
Charles Gibson (born 1943)
Mike Gonzalez (born 1943)
Clarence H. Haring (1885–1960)
Daniel James (born 1948)
Kenneth Maxwell (born 1941)
William H. Prescott (1796–1859)
Peter Winn
John Wirth (1936–2002)
John Womack (born 1937)
Leslie Bethell (born 1937)
Brazil
Boris Fausto (born 1930)
Lilia Moritz Schwarcz (born 1957)
Chile
Alonso de Góngora Marmolejo (1523–1575)
Pedro Mariño de Lobera (1528–1594)
Vicente Carvallo y Goyeneche (1742–1816)
Peru
Jorge Basadre (1903–1980)
Raúl Porras Barrenechea (1897–1960)
María Rostworowski (1915–2016)
Europe
History of Europe
Patricia Clavin (born 1964) – international relations and transnational relations
Norman Davies (born 1939) – Europe as a whole
Tony Judt (1948–2010) – post 1945
Elizabeth Eisenstein (1923–2016) – early printing and transitions in media
Julia P. Gelardi – royal history of 19th and 20th centuries
John Lukacs (1924–2019) – Cold War
Henri-Jean Martin (1924–2007) – early printing and writing
Effie Pedaliu – history of Italian war crimes and Cold war
Henri Pirenne (1862–1935) – Belgium
Walter Alison Phillips (1864–1950)
Andrew Roberts (born 1963) – Second World War
John Roberts (1928–2003) – Europe
J. Salwyn Schapiro (1879–1973)
Norman Stone (1941–2019)
Charlotte Zeepvat – royal history of 19th and 20th centuries
History of Albania
Stavro Skëndi (1905-1989)
History of Belgium
Henri Pirenne (1862–1935) – Middle Ages
Sophie de Schaepdrijver (born 1961) – World War I
Herman Van der Wee (born 1928) – social and economic history
History of Bosnia and Herzegovina
İbrahim Peçevi (1572–1650)
Antun Knežević (1834–1889)
Bono Benić (1708–1785)
Hamdija Kreševljaković (1888–1959)
Smail Balić (1920–2002)
Enver Redžić (1915–2009)
Marko Vego (1907–1985) – medievalist & archaeologists
Mustafa Imamović (1941–2017)
Salmedin Mesihović (born 1975) – medievalist & archaeologists
History of England and Britain
Donald Adamson (born 1939) – British
Robert C. Allen (born 1947) – British economic
Perry Anderson (born 1938) – British; European history
Leonie Archer (born 1955) – British
Karen Armstrong (born 1944) – religious
Gerald Aylmer (1926–2000) – British; administrative history
Bernard Bailyn (1922–2020) – Atlantic migration
Onyeka – Black Britons
The Venerable Bede (672–735) – Britain from 55 BC to 731 AD
Brian Bond (born 1936) – military
Asa Briggs (1921–2016) – British social.
Herbert Butterfield (1900–1979) – historiography
Angus Calder (1942–2008) – Second World War
David Cannadine (born 1950) – Modern Britain, British business and philanthropy
J.C.D. Clark (born 1951) – 18th century
Linda Colley (born 1949) – 18th century
Patrick Collinson (1929–2011) – Elizabethan England & Puritanism
Maurice Cowling (1926-2005) – 19th and 20th century politics
John Darwin (born 1948) – British Empire
John Davies (1938–2015) - Wales
Susan Doran – Elizabethan
Eamon Duffy (born 1947) – religious history of the 15th–17th centuries
Harold James Dyos (1921–1978) – urban
Geoffrey Rudolph Elton (1921–1994) – Tudor period
Charles Harding Firth (1857–1936) – political history of the 17th century
Antonia Fraser (born 1932) – 17th century
William Gibson (born 1959) – ecclesiastical history
Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1829–1902) – political history of the 17th century
Ruth Goodman (born 1963) – early modern
Andrew Gordon (born 1951) – naval
Geoffrey of Monmouth (died c. 1154) – England
Élie Halévy (1870-1937) - British 19th century
Edward Hasted (1732–1812) – Kent
Max Hastings (born 1945) – military, Second World War
J. H. Hexter (1910–1996) – England in the 17th century
Christopher Hill (1912–2003) – England in the 17th century
Gertrude Himmelfarb (1922–2019) – social and cultural history of the Victorian period
Eric Hobsbawn (1917–2012) – Marxist British history
David Hume (1711–1776) – Scottish Enlightenment philosopher and author of the six volume History of England (originally History of Britain)
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609–1674) – English Civil Wars
John Edward Lloyd (1861–1947) – early Welsh history
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) – English writer and historian whose most famous work was The History of England from the Accession of James the Second
John Morrill (born 1946) Seventeenth-century political and military history
Lewis Bernstein Namier (1888–1960) – political history of the 18th century
Kenneth Morgan (born 1934) – modern Wales
Steven Pincus – 17th and 18th century England
Andrew Roberts (born 1963) – Political biographies, 19th and 20th centuries
A. L. Rowse (1903–1997) – Cornish history and Elizabethan England
Dominic Sandbrook (born 1974) – Britain in the 1960s and after
John Robert Seeley (1834–1895) – British political history of the modern period
Jack Simmons (1915–2000) – railways, topography
Paul Slack (born 1943) – Early Modern British Social history
David Spring (1918-2004) - British 19th century
David Starkey (born 1945) – Tudor historian and TV presenter
Lawrence Stone (1919–1999) – English society and the history of the family
Keith Thomas (born 1933) – Early Modern English Society
E. P. Thompson (1924–1993) – British working class
George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876–1962) – English history (many different periods)
Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton (1914-2003) – Britain in the 17th century
Retha Warnicke (born 1939) – Tudor history and gender issues
Andy Wood (born 1967) – British social historian, 1500 to present
Daniel Woolf (born 1958) – Early Modern England and History of Historical Writing
Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910–1997) – British
G. M. Young (1882-1959) - Victorian England
Perez Zagorin (1920–2009) – 16th and 17th centuries
History of the British Empire
Antoinette Burton
Robert Bickers (born 1964)
Richard Drayton (born 1964)
Gerald S. Graham (1903–1988)
Vincent T. Harlow (1898–1961)
Wm. Roger Louis (born 1936)
P. J. Marshall (born 1933)
David Quinn (1909–2002)
D. M. Schurman (1924–2013)
Archibald Paton Thornton (1921–2004)
Glyndwr Williams (born 1932)
History of Croatia
Johannes Lucius (1604–1679)
Pavao Ritter Vitezović (1652–1713)
Franjo Rački (1828–1894)
Tadija Smičiklas (1843–1914)
Vjekoslav Klaić (1849–1928)
Ferdo Šišić (1869–1940)
Nada Klaić (1920–1988)
Mirjana Gross (1922–2012)
Trpimir Macan (born 1935)
Ivo Banac (1947–2020)
Radoslav Katičić (1930–2019)
History of Finland
Kesar Ordin (1835–1892)
Mikhail Borodkin (1852–1919)
History of France
Marc Bloch (1886–1944) – medieval France
Jean-Jacques Becker (born 1928) - French historian of contemporary history
Vincent Cronin (1924–2011) – Louis XIV, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Napoleon, and Paris
Natalie Zemon Davis (born 1928) – early modern France
Georges Duby (1924–1996) – medieval France
Lucien Febvre (1878–1956) – French historian
Alistair Horne (1925–2017) – modern French military history
Julian T. Jackson (born 1954) – French historian
Douglas Johnson (1925–2005) – historian of modern France
Simon Kitson (born c. 1967) – historian of Vichy France
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (born 1929) – history of the French peasantry
Michael Marrus (born 1941) – Vichy France
John M. Merriman (born 1946) - French Historian
Jules Michelet (1798–1874) – French historian
Roland Mousnier (1907–1993) – early modern France
Robert Roswell Palmer (1909–2002) – French revolution
Robert Paxton (born 1932) – Vichy France
Pierre Renouvin (1893–1974) – French diplomatic history
Andrew Roberts (born 1963) – Napoleon
John C. Rule (1929–2013) – 17th and 18th century France
Zeev Sternhell (1935–2020) – French fascism
Eugen Weber (1925–2007) – modern French history
John B. Wolf (1907–1996) – French history
Isser Woloch (born 1937) – 18th century France
Gordon Wright (1912–2000)
Robert J. Young (born 1942) – the Third Republic
See also List of historians of the French Revolution.
History of Germany
Celia Applegate – music history and nationalism
David Blackbourn (born 1949)
Gisela Bock (born 1942)
Horst Boog (1928–2016) – military history
Karl Dietrich Bracher (1922–2016)
Martin Broszat (1926–1989)
Alan Bullock (1914–2004)
Robert Citino (born 1958) – military history
Gordon A. Craig (1913–2005)
Richard J. Evans (born 1947)
Joachim Fest (1926–2006)
Fritz Fischer (1908–1999)
Luise Gerbing (1855–1927), history of Thuringia
Deborah Hertz (born 1949)
Klaus Hildebrand (born 1941)
Andreas Hillgruber (1925–1989)
Jonathan House (born 1950)
Christian Hartmann (born 1959) – military history
Gerhard Hirschfeld (born 1946) – 20th century German social, World War I & II
Eberhard Jäckel (1929–2017)
Ian Kershaw (born 1943)
Klemens von Klemperer (1916–2012)
Ernst Klink (1923–1993) – military history
Claudia Koonz (born 1940)
Dieter Langewiesche (born 1943)
Timothy Mason (1940–1990)
Frank McDonough (born 1957)
Wendy Lower (born 1965) – history of National Socialism
Geoffrey P. Megargee (born 1959) – military history
Friedrich Meinecke (1862–1954)
Hans Mommsen (1930–2015)
Wolfgang Mommsen (1930–2004)
George Mosse (1918–1999)
Ernst Nolte (1923–2016)
Steven Ozment (1939–2019)
Detlev Peukert (1950–1990)
Koppel Pinson (1904–1961)
Gerhard Ritter (1888–1967)
Hans Rothfels (1891–1976)
David Schoenbaum (born 1935)
Jean Edward Smith (1932–2019)
Ronald Smelser (born 1942)
Louis Leo Snyder (1907–1993)
Fritz Stern (1926–2016)
David Stahel (born 1975)
Michael Stürmer (born 1938)
Heinrich von Treitschke (1834–1896)
A.J.P. Taylor (1906–1990)
Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914–2003) – British historian and peer who specialized on Nazi leadership and incorrectly verified the authenticity of The Hitler Diaries
Henry Ashby Turner (1932–2008)
Gerd R. Ueberschär (born 1943) – military history
Bernd Wegner (born 1949) – military history and history of National Socialism
Hans-Ulrich Wehler (1931–2014)
Wolfram Wette (born 1940) – military history and history of National Socialism
John Wheeler-Bennett (1902–1975)
Jay Winter (born 1945)
Michael Wolffsohn (born 1947)
Gordon Wright (1912–2000) – Germany – 19th and 20th centuries
David T. Zabecki (born 1947) – military history
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas (born 1947)
Rainer Zitelmann (born 1957)
History of the Habsburg monarchy
John Komlos (born 1944) – economic
History of Ireland
Mary Bonaventure Browne (after 1610–after 1670), Poor Clare and historian
Ann Buckley
Francis John Byrne (1934–2017)
John Clyn (fl. 1333–1349)
James Donnelly (born 1943) – Irish social history
Brian Farrell (1929–2014)
Roy Foster (born 1949)
Kathleen Hughes (1926–1977)
Geoffrey Keating
J.J. Lee (born 1942) – 20th century Ireland
James Francis Lydon (1928–2013)
F.S.L. Lyons (1923–1983) – modern Ireland
Oliver MacDonagh (1924–2002) – modern Ireland
Dermot MacDermot (1906–1989)
Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh (fl. 1643–1671)
Gilla Isa Mor mac Donnchadh MacFhirbhisigh (fl. 1390–1418)
Muirchu moccu Machtheni (fl. late 7th century)
Flann Mainistrech (died 1056)
F.X. Martin (1922–2000)
Kenneth Nicholls
Adhamh Ó Cianáin (died 1373)
Mícheál Ó Cléirigh (c. 1590–1643)
Dáibhí Ó Cróinín (born 1954)
Eugene O'Curry (1794–1862)
John O'Donovan (1806–1861)
Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin (died 1372)
Pilip Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin (fl. 1579–1590)
Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh (1629–1718)
Nollaig Ó Muraíle
Tírechán (fl. late 7th century)
Father Paul Walsh (1885–1941)
Sir James Ware (1594–1666)
History of Italy
Lorenzo Arnone Sipari (born 1973) – social and environmental Italian history
R.J.B. Bosworth (born 1943) – Fascism, Mussolini
Benedetto Croce (1866–1952) – philosophy of history, modern Italian history
Vincent Cronin (1924–2011) – Renaissance art and Sicily
Renzo De Felice (1929–1996) – Fascism, biographer of Mussolini
John Foot (born 1964) – modern Italy history, The City
Emilio Gentile (born 1946) – Fascism
Carlo Ginzburg (born 1939) – witchcraft and agrarian cults, microhistory
Alessandra Kersevan (born 1950) – Italian concentration camps
Claudio Pavone (1920–2016) – Italian fascism, World War II, anti-fascism
Effie Pedaliu – Italian war crimes
John Pollard (born 1944) – The church and Fascism
Paul Ginsborg (born 1945) – The Risorgimento, Italian modern and contemporary history
Lucy Riall (born 1962) – The Risorgimento, Garibaldi, Sicily
Gaetano Salvemini (1873–1957) – Fascism, French Revolution
Denis Mack Smith (1920–2017) – Italian modern history
Arrigo Petacco (1929–2018) – Fascism
History of Moldova/Bessarabia
Nicolae Iorga (1871–1940)
Ion Nistor (1876–1962)
Petre Cazacu (1873–1956)
Charles King (born 1967)
Igor Casu (born 1973)
Gh. Cojocaru (born 1963)
History of the Netherlands
Jaap R. Bruijn (born 1938)
Femme Gaastra (born 1945)
Pieter Geyl (1887–1966)
John Lothrop Motley (1814–1877)
Jonathan Israel (born 1946)
G. J. Renier (1892–1962)
Herbert H. Rowen (1916–1999)
Simon Schama (born 1945)
History of Norway
History of Poland
Norman Davies (born 1939) – modern Polish history
Robert I. Frost (born 1958) — modern Polish history
Pawel Jasienica (1909–1970) – Polish amateur historian
Wickham Steed (1871–1956)
History of Portugal
José Hermano Saraiva (1919–2012)
A. H. de Oliveira Marques (1933–2007) – early modern period
José Mattoso (born 1933) – medieval history
Fernando Rosas (born 1946) – contemporary history
History of Romania
Lucian Boia (born 1944)
Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu (1838–1907)
Nicolae Iorga (1871–1940)
Mihail Kogalniceanu (1817–1891)
Irina Livezeanu (born 1952)
David Mitrany (1888–1975)
Vladimir Tismaneanu (born 1951)
Alexandru D. Xenopol (1847–1920)
Alexandru Zub (born 1934)
History of Russia
Nicholas Bethell (1938–2007)
Robert Conquest (1917–2015) – Soviet Union
Vincent Cronin (1924–2011) – Catherine the Great
Orlando Figes (born 1959)
Patricia Kennedy Grimsted (born 1935) – post-Soviet archives
Geoffrey Hosking (born 1942)
Lindsey Hughes (1949–2007) - C17th and C18th
Leopold Labedz (1920–1993)
Roy Medvedev (born 1925)
Robin Milner-Gulland (born 1936) - cultural history
Richard Pipes (1923–2018) – Soviet Union
William Taubman (born 1941) – Nikita Khrushchev
Peter Kenez (born 1937) – Soviet Union and Soviet cinema
Robert Service (born 1947)
Adam Ulam (1922–2000)
Anne Applebaum (born 1964) – Gulag history
Sheila Fitzpatrick (born 1941) – everyday life under Stalinism
Nicolas Werth (born 1950) – political repressions
Nikita Petrov (born 1957) – political repressions
Viktor Danilov (1927–2016) – history of collectivization
Oleg Khlevniuk (born 1959) – Stalin and Politburo
Moshe Lewin (1921–2010) – collectivization
David Shearer (born 1957) – Stalinist repressions
History of Serbia
Vladimir Ćorović (1885–1941)
Sima Ćirković (1929–2009)
Rade Mihaljčić (1937–2020)
Stojan Novaković (1842–1915)
Stanoje Stanojević (1874–1937)
Jovan I. Deretić (1939–2021)
History of Scotland
G. W. S. Barrow (1924–2013)
Steve Boardman
Hector Boece (1465–1536)
George Buchanan (1506–1582)
Gilbert Burnet (1643–1715)
Tom Devine
John of Fordun
Christopher Harvie (born 1944)
Colin Kidd (born 1964)
Michael Lynch (born 1946)
Norman Macdougall
Rosalind Mitchison (1919–2002)
Richard Oram
T.C. Smout (born 1933) - Scottish social history
Nigel Tranter (1909–2000)
Christopher Whatley
Jenny Wormald (1942–2015)
Historiographer Royal of Scotland
James Fall, 1682
William Robertson (1721–1793), 1763–1793
John Gillies (1747–1836), 1793–1836
George Brodie (1786–1967), 1836–1867
John Hill Burton (1809–1881), 1867–1881
William Forbes Skene (1809–1892), 1881–1893
David Masson (1822–1907), 1893–1908
Peter Hume Brown (1849–1918), 1908–1919
Robert Rait (1874–1936), 1919–1930
Robert Kerr Hannay(1867–1940), FRSE, 1930–1940
J. D. Mackie (1887–1978), OBE, 1958–1978
Gordon Donaldson (1913–1993), CBE, 1979–1993
Christopher Smout (born 1933), CBE, since 1993
History of Slovakia
Vojtech Čelko (born 1946) – political and cultural history of Central Europe in the 20th century; history of Czechoslovak exile after 1948
Ladislav Deák (1931–2011) – foreign policy of Central European states and Yugoslavia in the interwar period; history of Hungarian-Slovak foreign relationships
Gabriela Dudeková (born 1968) – social policy of Austria-Hungary; situation of POWs and civilians in World War I; history of feminism and gender studies
Ivan Kamenec (born 1938) – Holocaust in Slovakia; diplomacy in Central Europe in the interwar period and during World War II
Adam František Kollár (1718–1783) – influential jurist, historian and ethnologist, who coined the term ethnology
Peter Kopecký – history of diplomacy and foreign policy of Slovakia
Juraj Marusiak (born 1970) – history of Slovak-Polish relationships; modern history of Central and Eastern Europe
Thomas Spira (1923–2005) – study of nationalism and ethnicity (born and raised in Slovakia)
Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795–1861) – philologist, poet, Slavist, literary historian and ethnographer
Štefan Šutaj (born 1954) – history of Hungarian minority in Czechoslovakia; Slovak civic (non-communist) political parties after 1945
Zora Mintalová – Zubercová (born 1950) – food history and material culture of Central Europe
History of Slovenia
Bogo Grafenauer (1916–1995)
Alessandra Kersevan (born 1950) – Italian concentration camps
Vasilij Melik (1921–2009) – Slovene Lands in the 19th century.
Jože Pirjevec (born 1940) – Foibe massacres
Milica Kacin Wohinz (born 1930) – Italianization of Slovenes between 1918 and 1943
Marta Verginella (born 1960) – history of the Slovene minority in Italy (1920–1947)
History of Spain
Ida Altman (born 1950) – Early modern Spain, colonial Latin America
Roger Collins (born 1949) – medieval history, Spain, Visigothic Spain, history of Muslim Spain
Rafael Núñez Florencio (born 1956)
Julian Ribera y Tarragó (1858–1934) – Spain, history of the Book, medieval history, history of Muslim Spain
Julia Pavón (born 1968) – medieval history of Navarra
Joseph Pérez (1931-2020) - history of the Spanish Empire.
History of Sweden
Peter Englund (born 1957)
Anders Fryxell (1795–1881)
Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783–1847)
Jan Glete (1947–2009)
Carl Grimberg (1875–1941)
Dick Harrison (born 1966)
Ragnhild Hatton (1913–1995) – biographer of King Charles XII
Sten Lindroth (1914–1980)
Erik Lönnroth (1910–2002)
Olaus Magnus (1490–1557)
Samuel von Pufendorf (1632–1694)
Erik Ringmar (born 1960)
Michael Roberts (1908–1996)
John Robinson (1650–1723)
Curt Weibull (1886–1991)
Lauritz Weibull (1873–1960)
History of Yugoslavia
Ivo Banac (1947–2020)
Misha Glenny (born 1958)
Barbara Jelavich (1923–1995) – wrote extensively on Balkan history, along with her husband Charles Jelavich
John R. Lampe – author of Yugoslavia As History: Twice There Was a Country
Stevan K. Pavlowitch (born 1933)
Catherine Samary – author of Yugoslavia Dismembered
Stephen Schwartz (born 1948)
Jozo Tomasevich (1908–1994)
Europe and Asia
History of The Republic of Turkey and Turkish Empires
Halil İnalcık (1916–2016), İstanbul, Türkiye), history of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey
İlber Ortaylı (born 1947, Bregen, Österreich), history of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey
Heath W. Lowry (born 1942, America), history of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey
Mehmet Fuat Köprülü (1890–1966, İstanbul, Türkiye), Turcologist and historian, history of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey
Yusuf Halaçoğlu (born 1949, Adana, Türkiye), history of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey
Reşat Ekrem Koçu (1905–1975, İstanbul, Türkiye), writer and historian, history of the Ottoman Empire
Ahmed Cevad Pasha (Kabaağaçlızade Ahmet Cevat Paşa) (1851–1900, İstanbul, Türkiye), Ottoman statesman (Grand Vizier), history of the Ottoman Empire
Aşıkpaşazade (Âşıkpasazâde Derviş Ahmet Âşıkî) (yak. 1400, Amasya–yak. 1484), Ottoman Empire/ Türkiye) history of the Ottoman Empire
Ibn Kemal (Kemal Paşazade (ibn-i Kemâl)) (1468–1534, The Ottoman Empire/Türkiye), Ottoman statesman, history of the Ottoman Empire
Koçi Bey (Mustafa Koçi Bey) (?–1650, The Ottoman Empire/Türkiye), Ottoman statesman, history of the Ottoman Empire
Katip Çelebi (Haci Halife Kalfa) (1609–1657, İstanbul, The Ottoman Empire/Türkiye), history of the Ottoman Empire
Asia
Middle East
George Antonius (1891–1941) – historian of Arab nationalism
Vincent Cronin (1924–2011) – study of the Faiqani tribe of South Persia
Neilson Debevoise (1903–1992) – history of the Parthian Empire
Caroline Finkel
Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb (1895–1971) – Editor, The Encyclopaedia of Islam
Bernard Lewis (1916–2018) – history of Islam and the Middle East
Albert Hourani (1915–1993)
‘Ala’ al-Din ‘Ata Malik Juvayni (1226–1283) – Ta’rīkh-I-Jahān Gushā (A History of the World-Conqueror Chingis Khān)
Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406)
Walid Khalidi (born 1925) – Palestinian historian
D. S. Margoliouth (1858–1940)
Michael Oren (born 1955)
Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (circa 1247–1318) – Jāmi‛ al-Tawārīkh (Compendium of Chronicles), Ta’rīkh–i-Ghāzānī (a history of the Mongols and Turks)
Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg (1944–2000) – Achaemenid history
Ibn al-Tiqtaqa (born c. 1262) – Shi'i historian, wrote Al-Fakhīr
Central Asia
Denis Sinor (1916–2011), Hungarian-American historian of Central Asia
Edward A. Allworth (1920–2016), American historian specializing in Central Asia
Étienne de la Vaissière (born 1969), French specialist of Sogdian culture and early medieval Central Asia
Geoffrey Wheeler (1897–1990), British soldier and historian of Central Asia
Lola Dodkhudoeva (born 1951), Tajikistani historian specialising in medieval Central Asian affairs
Svetlana Gorshenina (born 1969), Uzbek specialist on Pre-Islamic Central Asia
South Asia
History of the Indian Subcontinent
Muzaffar Alam (born 1947)
A. L. Basham (1914–1986)
Chris Bayly (1945–2015)
Dipesh Chakrabarty (born 1948)
Bernard Cohn (1928–2003)
Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1870–1958)
R. C. Majumdar (1884–1980)
Niharranjan Ray (1903–1981)
Datto Vaman Potdar (1890–1979)
Tryambak Shankar Shejwalkar (1895–1963)
Ram Sharan Sharma (1919–2011)
Nicholas Dirks
Ranajit Guha (1923–2023)
Ayesha Jalal (born 1956)
John Keay (born 1941)
Sumit Sarkar (born 1939)
Romila Thapar (born 1931)
Thomas Metcalf (born 1934)
Barbara Metcalf (born 1941)
Percival Spear (1901–1982)
Bipan Chandra (1928–2014)
Gyan Prakash (born 1952)
Tanika Sarkar
Barbara Ramusack (born 1937)
Thomas Trautmann (born 1940)
K. K. Aziz (1927–2009)
Mubarak Ali (born 1941)
Mohammad Ishaq Khan (1946–2013)
NS Rajaram (1943–2019)
Sukumar Sen (linguist)
Suniti Kumar Chatterji
History of India
Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman (born 1940) – Unani historian
History of Pakistan
K. K. Aziz (1927–2009)
Imran Khan (born 1952)
Far East
History of Japan
William George Aston (1841–1911)
Gail Lee Bernstein (born 1939)
Harold Bolitho (1939–2010)
Hugh Borton (1903–1995)
Albert M. Craig (born 1927)
Sheldon Garon (born 1951)
Carol Gluck (born 1941)
Andrew Gordon (born 1952)
William Elliot Griffis (1843–1928)
John Whitney Hall (1916–1997)
Susan Hanley (born 1939)
Marius Jansen (1922–2000)
Donald Keene (1922–2019)
Joyce Lebra (1925-2021)
Jeffrey Mass (1940–2001)
Richard Ponsonby-Fane (1878–1937)
Tetsuo Najita (1936–2021)
Ian Nish (1926–2022)
Edwin O. Reischauer (1910–1990)
Donald Richie (1924–2013)
George Bailey Sansom (1883–1965)
Ernest Mason Satow (1843–1929)
Amy Stanley (born 1978)
Conrad Totman (born 1934)
Stephen Turnbull (born 1948)
Barak Kushner (born 1968)
History of Korea
Bruce Cumings (born 1943) – modern Korea
Carter J. Eckert
James Palais (1934–2006)
Il-yeon (1206–1289)
Kim Bu-sik (1075–1151) – early annalist
Kim Dae-mun
Lee Ki-baek (1924–2004)
James Hoare (born 1943)
Shin Chaeho (1880–1936) – ancient Korean history
Andre Schmid (born 1963)
Yu Deuk-gong (1749–1807) – Balhae
Odd Arne Westad (born 1960) – professor at the London School of Economics
History of China
Robert Bickers (born 1964) - modern China
Immanuel C.Y. Hsu (1923-2005) - modern China
John Herman (1889–1950)
Ann Paludan (1928–2014) – ancient China
Sima Qian – compiled Records of the Grand Historian
Chen Shou (233–297) – author of the Records of Three Kingdoms.
Jonathan Spence (born 1936)
Denis Twitchett (1925–2006) – Cambridge scholar, and editor of The Cambridge History of China
Hans van de Ven (born 1958)
Frederic Wakeman, Jr. (1937–2006)
Odd Arne Westad (born 1960) – professor at the London School of Economics and author of many books on China
History of Hong Kong
Steve Tsang (born 1959)
Africa
David Cohen (born 1943)
A. G. Hopkins (born 1938) – European colonialism and globalisation
William Miller Macmillan (1885–1974)
Jocelyne Dakhlia (born 1959) – political and cultural history of Islam in the Maghreb
Jan Vansina (1929–2017)
History of the Serers
Alioune Sarr (1908–2001), Senegalese specialist on Serer medieval history
Henry Gravrand (1921–2003), French specialist on Serer ancient history, Serer medieval history and Serer religion
Issa Laye Thiaw (1943–2017), Senegalese specialist on Serer general history and Serer religion
Alhaji Alieu Ebrima Cham Joof (1924–2011), Gambian specialist on Serer general history and history of Senegambia (Senegal and Gambia)
Marguerite Dupire (1920–2015), French scholar of Serer religion and history
Louis Diène Faye (born 1936), Senegalese scholar of Serer religion and history
Oceania
History of Australia
Manning Clark (1915–1991)
Keith Windschuttle (born 1942)
Geoffrey Blainey (born 1930)
Stuart Macintyre (1947–2021)
Henry Reynolds (born 1938)
Frank Welsh (born 1931)
Andrew Moore
History of Fiji
Brij Lal
History of New Zealand
James Belich (born 1956)
Michael King (1945–2004)
W. H. Oliver (1925–2015)
William Pember Reeves (1857–1932)
J. G. A. Pocock (born 1924)
Keith Sinclair (1922–1993)
History of Tonga
Sione Lātūkefu
History of Papua New Guinea
John Waiko (born 1945)
By historical viewpoint
Abolitionist
George Washington Williams (1849–1891) – Early African-American historian
Counterfactual
Niall Ferguson (born 1964) – Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals (1997)
Marxist
Eric Foner (born 1943) – Marxist historian of the American Civil War and Reconstruction
Eugene D. Genovese (1930–2012) – Marxist historian of southern US history and slavery
Ranajit Guha (born 1923) – Indian Marxist historian
Christopher Hill (1912–2003) – 17th century England
Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012) – Marxist historian of the modern world
Gerald Horne (born 1949) – African American Marxist historian
Timothy Wright Mason (1940–1990) – Marxist historian who worked on the history of National Socialism and the German working-class
Maxime Rodinson (1915–2004) – French Marxist historian on the history of Islam
Sumit Sarkar (born 1939) – Indian Marxist historian
Edward Palmer Thompson (1924–1993) – British Marxist historian, author of The Making of the English Working Class
Walter Rodney (1942–1980) – Marxist historian of Africa
Nazi
Walter Frank (1905–1945) – Nazi historian and anti-Semitic writer
David Hoggan (1923–1988)
Anarchist
Paul Avrich (1931–2006) – USA, oral history of the U.S. and Russia
Murray Bookchin (1921–2006) – USA, writer; founder of "social ecology"
Sam Dolgoff (1902–1990) – USA, writer, activist, co-founder of Anarcho-Syndicalist Review
Sébastien Faure (1858–1942) – France, Encyclopedie Anarchiste, 4 volumes (1932–1934)
David Goodway – UK, writer, editor
Daniel Guérin (1904–1988) – France, writer, editor Libertarian Communist
Robert Graham (born 1958) – USA, writer, editor
Andrej Grubacic – Bulgarian history and anarchism, lecturer at University of San Francisco
Peter Marshall (born 1946) – England, historian, philosopher, writer (of Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism, 1992)
Chuck W. Morse (born 1969) – USA, writer, founder of "Institute for Anarchist Studies/IAS
Max Nettlau (1865–1944) – Austria, writer of Geschichte der Anarchie, seven volumes
Abel Paz (1921–2009) – Spain, Civil war, Durruti, CNT/FAI
José Peirats (1908–1989) – Spain, historian of the CNT/FAI
Alexandre Skirda (1942–2020)
Antonio Tellez (1921–2005)
Dana Ward – founder of "Anarchist Archives", Online Research on the History and Theory of Anarchism, (USA)
George Woodcock (1912–1995)
Howard Zinn (1922–2010)
Pacifist
Ludwig Quidde (1858–1941) – Prescient German pacifist and student of history who combined his specialties in his condemnation of Kaiser Wilhelm II
By general category
Architectural history
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (c. 80/70 BC?–c. 25 BC) – Roman architect and engineer, author of De architectura
Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) – Italian polymath, active in many fields, author of De Re Aedificatoria among others
Josef Strzygowski (1862–1941)
Joseph Rykwert (born 1926)
Manfredo Tafuri (1935–1994)
David Watkin (historian) (1941–2018)
Alberto Pérez-Gómez (born 1949)
Doğan Kuban (1926–2021) – architect, history of architecture and art history
Art history
Nurhan Atasoy (born 1934, Tokat, Türkiye) – Turkish and Islamic Art History
Vincent Cronin (1924–2011) – French and Italian art and architectural history
Oleg Grabar (1929–2011) – Islamic Art History
Catherine Mason – British computer and digital art history
Nicholas Pevsner (1903–1983) – History of art and English architecture
Alena Potůčková (1953–2018) – Czech art history
Simon Schama (born 1945) – Art history
Ichimatsu Tanaka (1895–1983) – Japanese art history
Renáta Tyršová (1854–1937) – Czech ethnography and art history
Yukio Yashiro (1890–1975) – Japanese art history; Botticelli and the Florentine Renaissance
Christianity
Eusebius of Caesarea (c. 275–339) – "Father of Church history"
Alexander Campbell Cheyne (1924–2006) – Scottish ecclesiastical historian
John Gilmary Shea (1824–1892) – father of American Catholic History
Bengt Hägglund (1920–2015) – historian of Christian theology
Barbara Thiering (1930–2015) – rediscovered the "Pesher technique"
Classical Antiquity
Werner Eck (born 1939)
Robert Malcolm Errington (born 1939)
Erich S. Gruen (born 1935)
Ronald Syme (1903–1989)
Robert Garland (born 1947)
Economic history
Robert C. Allen (born 1947)
Leah Boustan
Eli Heckscher (1879–1952)
Barry Eichengreen (born 1952)
Niall Ferguson (born 1964)
Robert Fogel (1926–2013)
Alexander Gerschenkron (1904–1978)
Claudia Goldin (born 1946)
Susan Howson (born 1945)
Harold James (born 1956)
John Komlos (born 1944)
Naomi Lamoreaux (born 1950)
David S. Landes (1924–2013)
Joel Mokyr (born 1946)
Thomas Piketty (born 1971)
W. W. Rostow (1916–2003)
Tirthankar Roy (born 1960)
Ram Sharan Sharma (1919–2011) – economic history of ancient India
Robert Skidelsky (born 1939)
R. H. Tawney (1880–1962)
Egyptology
Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert (born 1954)
Ludwig David Morenz (born 1965)
Richard B. Parkinson (born 1963)
William Kelly Simpson (1928–2017)
John W. Tait (born 1945)
Edward F. Wente (born 1930)
Penelope Wilson
Environmental history
Christopher Smout (born 1933)
William Cronon (born 1954) – Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Espionage
Christopher Andrew (born 1941)
John Barron (1930–2005)
John Earl Haynes (born 1944)
David Kahn (born 1930)
Victor Suvorov (born 1947)
Nigel West (born 1951)
Food history
Sidney Mintz (1922–2015)
Massimo Montanari (born 1949)
Zora Mintalová – Zubercová (born 1950)
Gender history
John Boswell (1947–1994, American) – homosexuality in medieval times
Francisca de Haan (fl. 1998-) – Central, Eastern and South Eastern European Women's and Gender History
Nahema Hanafi (born 1983) - gender studies
George Mosse (1918–1999)
Marysa Navarro (born 1934) - feminism
Retha Warnicke (born 1939) – gender issues
Historiography
Ram Sharan Sharma (1919–2011)
Alphonse Balleydier (1810–1859)
Marc Bloch (1886–1944)
Fernand Braudel (1902–1985)
Herbert Butterfield (1900–1979)
E. H. Carr (1892–1982)
R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943)
Geoffrey Elton (1921–1994)
Richard J. Evans (born 1947)
Pieter Geyl (1887–1966)
J. H. Hexter (1910–1996)
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (born 1929)
Peter Novick (1934–2012)
Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886)
Hayden White (1928–2018)
Frank Ankersmit (born 1945)
Academic protagonists in Australia's "history wars"
Geoffrey Blainey (born 1930)
Stuart Macintyre (1947–2021)
Robert Manne (born 1947)
Henry Reynolds (born 1938)
Lyndall Ryan (born 1943)
Keith Windschuttle (born 1942)
History of business
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1918–2007)
Jan Glete (1947–2009) – Swedish business history
Allan Nevins (1890–1971)
History of ideas, culture, literature, and philosophy
Ram Sharan Sharma (1919–2011) – material culture in Ancient India
Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) – history of ideas
J.C.D. Clark (born 1951) – British historian of 18th century ideas
Jovan Deretić (1934–2002), Serbian literary history
Michel Foucault (1926–1984) – history of ideas
Peter Gay (1923–2015) – history of ideas
A.O. Lovejoy (1873-1962) - history of ideas
Lewis Mumford (1895–1988) – history of technology
Hüseyin Nihâl Atsız (1905–1975, İstanbul, Türkiye) – Turkology, Turkish Literature
Pertev Naili Boratav (Mustafa Pertev) (1907–1998) – Turkish folklorist, Ottoman and Turkish culture
Sedat Alp (1913–2006) – Hittitolo, historian, ancient Anatolian languages
History of international relations
Harry Elmer Barnes (1889–1968)
Herbert Butterfield (1900–1979)
E.H. Carr (1892–1982)
Gordon A. Craig (1913–2005)
John Lewis Gaddis (born 1941) – historian of the Cold War
Ragnhild Hatton (1913–1995) – historian of 17th- and 18th-century international relations
Klaus Hildebrand (born 1941)
Andreas Hillgruber (1925–1989)
Paul Kennedy (born 1945) – British historian, author of influential The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
William L. Langer (1896–1977)
Arno J. Mayer (born 1926)
Lewis Bernstein Namier (1888–1960)
Paul W. Schroeder (1927–2020) – U.S. historian, 19th-century European international relations
Jean Edward Smith (1932–2019)
A.J.P. Taylor (1906–1990) – historian of European international relations
Harold Temperley, (1879–1939) – British historian, Cambridge, 19th- and early 20th-century diplomatic history, British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914 (ed.)
Ernest Llewellyn Woodward, (1890–1971)
History of science and technology
Michael Adas (born 1943) – colonialism and imperialism, global history
Jim Bennett (born 1947) – mathematics, scientific instruments and astronomy
Stephen G. Brush (born 1935)
Vincent Cronin (1924–2011)
Allen G. Debus (1926–2009) – chemistry and medicine
A. Hunter Dupree (1921–2019) – botany; U.S. government policy on science and technology
Peter Galison (born 1955) – physics, philosophy, objectivity
John L. Heilbron (born 1934) – physics, quantification, astronomy, religion and science
Richard L. Hills (1936–2019) – technology, steam power
Thomas P. Hughes (1923–2014) – technology
Evelyn Fox Keller (born 1936) – science and gender, biology
Melvin Kranzberg (1917–1995) – technology
Daniel J. Kevles (born 1939) – science and politics, physics, biology, eugenics
Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996) – physics, "paradigm shifts"
James Mosley (born 1935) – printing
David F. Noble (1945–2010) – science and technology-based industrial development
Abraham Pais (1918–2000) – physics
Giuliano Pancaldi (born 1946) – Italian science
Theodore M. Porter (born 1953)
A. I. Sabra (1924–2013) – optics, Islamic science
George Sarton (1884–1956)
Jack Simmons (1915–2000) – railway history
Nathan Sivin (born 1931) – history of science in China
Kim H. Veltman (1948–2020) – science and art
M. Norton Wise (born 1940)
History of the papacy
Ludwig von Pastor (1854–1928) – wrote 40 volume history of the popes making extensive use of the Vatican Secret Archives
Holocaust
Götz Aly (born 1947)
Jean Ancel (1940–2008)
Yitzhak Arad (1926–2021)
David Bankier (1947–2010)
Omer Bartov (born 1954)
Paul R. Bartrop (born 1955)
Yehuda Bauer (born 1926)
Georges Bensoussan (born 1952)
Wolfgang Benz (born 1941)
Michael Berenbaum (born 1945)
Ruth Bettina Birn (born 1952)
Donald Bloxham
Randolph L. Braham (1922–2018)
Richard Breitman (born 1947)
Martin Broszat (1926–1989)
Christopher Browning (born 1944)
Michael Burleigh (born 1955)
David Cesarani (1956–2015)
Catherine Chatterley
Richard I. Cohen (born 1946)
John S. Conway (1929–2017)
David M. Crowe
Danuta Czech (1922–2004)
Szymon Datner (1902–1989)
Lucy Dawidowicz (1915–1990)
Terrence Des Pres (1939–1987)
Deborah Dwork
Leo Eitinger (1912–1996)
David Engel (born 1951)
Barbara Engelking (born 1962)
Richard J. Evans (born 1947)
Andrew Ezergailis (born 1930)
Esther Farbstein (born 1946)
Norman Finkelstein (born 1953)
Jack Fischel (born 1937)
Michael Fleming
Joseph Friedenson (1922–2013)
Henry Friedlander (1930–2012)
Saul Friedländer (born 1932)
Tuvia Friling (born 1953)
Christian Gerlach (born 1963)
Martin Gilbert (1936–2015)
Daniel Goldhagen (born 1959)
Jan Grabowski (born 1962)
Gideon Greif (born 1951)
Jan T. Gross (born 1947)
Israel Gutman (1923–2013)
Peter Hayes
Susanne Heim (born 1955)
Raul Hilberg (1926–2007)
Klaus Hildebrand (born 1941)
Eberhard Jäckel (1929–2017)
Miroslav Kárný (1919–2001)
Steven T. Katz (born 1944)
Ian Kershaw (born 1943)
Ernst Klee (1942–2013)
David Kranzler (1930–2007)
Shmuel Krakowski (1926–2018)
Erich Kulka (1911–1995)
Otto Dov Kulka (1933–2021)
Konrad Kwiet (born 1941)
Lawrence Langer (born 1929)
Jacek Leociak (born 1957)
Dariusz Libionka (born 1963)
Deborah Lipstadt (born 1947)
Peter Longerich (born 1955)
Richard C. Lukas (born 1937)
Eugen Kogon (1903–1987)
Michael Marrus (born 1941)
Jürgen Matthäus (born 1959)
Hans Mommsen (1930–2015)
Kurt Pätzold (1930–2016)
Franciszek Piper (born 1941)
Detlev Peukert (1950–1990)
Léon Poliakov (1910–1997)
Antony Polonsky (born 1940)
Dina Porat (born 1943)
Laurence Rees (born 1957)
Alvin H. Rosenfeld (born 1938)
Mark Roseman (born 1958)
John K. Roth
Livia Rothkirchen (1922–2013)
R. J. Rummel (1932–2014)
Tom Segev (born 1945)
Timothy D. Snyder (born 1969)
Nicholas Stargardt (born 1962)
Sybille Steinbacher (born 1966)
Alan E. Steinweis (born 1957)
Dan Stone (born 1971)
Robert Jan van Pelt (born 1955)
Nikolaus Wachsmann (born 1971)
Kenneth Waltzer (born 1942)
Rebecca Wittmann (born 1970)
David Wyman (1929–2018)
Hanna Yablonka (born 1950)
Leni Yahil (1912–2007)
Lutheranism
Johann Lorenz von Mosheim (1694–1755) – Lutheran historian of Christianity from its inception through the 18th century
Maritime history
Robert G. Albion (1896–1983)
William A. Baker (1911–1981)
Jaap R. Bruijn (born 1938)
Howard I. Chapelle (1901–1975)
Grahame Farr (1912–1983)
Femme Gaastra (born 1945)
John Hattendorf (born 1941)
John de Courcy Ireland (1911–2006)
Benjamin Woods Labaree (1927–2021)
Samuel Eliot Morison (1887–1976)
J. H. Parry (1914–1982)
Glyndwr Williams (born 1932)
Media history
History of newspapers and magazines,
History of radio, History of television, and
History of the Internet
Asa Briggs (1921–2016)
Military history
C.T. Atkinson (1874-1964), historian of the British Army and Marlborough's Army
Correlli Barnett (born 1927) – British military historian
Antony Beevor (born 1946) – British military historian
Brian Bond (born 1936) – First World War
Caleb Carr (born 1955) – American military historian
Michael Carver (1915–2001) – British soldier and historian
Alan Clark (1928–1999) – British M.P. and historian
Martin van Creveld (born 1946) – Israeli military historian
Saul David (born 1966) – Military history
N.H. Gibbs (1910–1990) – Interwar period
Adrian Goldsworthy (born 1969) – British military historian
Jack Granatstein (born 1939) – Canadian military historian
Bruce Barrymore Halpenny (born 1937) – writer and military historian
Victor Davis Hanson (born 1953) – American classicist and military historian
Andreas Hillgruber (1925–1989) – German military historian
Richard Holmes (1946–2011) – British military history
Alistair Horne (1925–2017) – British historian of French military history
Michael Howard (1922–2019) – modern military history
John Keegan (1934–2012, English) – specialised in 20th-century wars
Anthony Kemp (1939–2018) – English historian of history of World War II
Frederic Kidder (1804–1885) - American historian of New England including military operations
B. H. Liddell Hart (1895–1970) – military history
Edward Luttwak (born 1942) – military strategy
Piers Mackesy (1924–2014) – 18th century
S. L. A. Marshall (1900–1977) – American military historian
Jürgen Möller (born 1959) – German military historian
Peter Paret (1924–2020) – military history
Gordon Prange (1910–1980)
Gerhard Ritter (1888–1967) – German military historian
Cornelius Ryan (1920–1974) – World War II
Digby Smith (born 1935) Napoleonic Wars
Jean Edward Smith (1932–2019) – U.S. and German military historian
Hew Strachan (born 1949) – British military historian
Gerhard Weinberg (born 1928) – U.S. military historian
Spenser Wilkinson (1853–1937)
Mormonism
Leonard J. Arrington (1917–1999) – LDS Church historian 1975–1982
B.H. Roberts (1857–1933)
Fawn M. Brodie (1915–1981)
Richard Bushman (born 1931)
Naval history
Robert G. Albion (1896–1983) – maritime history
Daniel A. Baugh (born 1931)
Ulane Bonnel (1918–2006)
Josiah Burchett (1666–1746)
Montagu Burrows (1819–1905)
Geoffrey Callender (1875–1946)
Howard I. Chapelle (1901–1975) – maritime history
William Bell Clark (1889–1968)
Julian Corbett (1854–1922)
William S. Dudley (born 1936)
Michael Duffy
Jan Glete (1947–2009)
James Goldrick (born 1958)
Andrew Gordon (born 1951) – Battle of Jutland
Barry M. Gough (born 1938)
Kenneth J. Hagan (born 1936)
Paul G. Halpern (born 1937)
John Hattendorf (born 1941)
John Daniel Hayes (1902–1991)
J. Richard Hill (1929–2017)
William James (1780–1827)
Paul Kennedy (born 1945)
R.J.B. Knight (born 1944)
Dudley W. Knox (1877–1960)
Andrew Lambert (born 1956)
Harold D. Langley (1925–2020)
John Knox Laughton (1830–1915)
Michael Lewis (1890–1970)
Christopher Lloyd (1906–1986)
Alfred Mahan (1840–1914)
Arthur Marder (1910–1980)
Tyrone G. Martin (born 1930) – historian of the USS Constitution and of the history of ironclads
William J. Morgan (1917–2003)
Samuel Eliot Morison (1887–1976) – wrote History of United States Naval Operations in World War II and numerous works about the maritime exploration of the Americas
Henry Newbolt (1862–1938) – wrote The Naval History of the Great War
Michael Oppenheim (1853–1927)
Charles O. Paullin (1869–1944)
Werner Rahn (born 1939)
Bryan Ranft (1917–2001)
Clark G. Reynolds (1939–2005)
Herbert Richmond (1871–1946)
N.A.M. Rodger (born 1949)
Stephen Roskill (1903–1982)
John Darrell Sherwood (born 1966)
D.M. Schurman (1924–2013)
William N. Still, Jr. (born 1932)
Craig Symonds (born 1946)
David Syrett (1939–2004)
Geoffrey Till (born 1945)
Johan Carel Marinus Warnsinck (1882–1943)
Colin White (1951–2008)
Presbyterianism
D.G. Hart (born 1956)
Social history
David Rothman (1937-2020) — Father of American social history and the role of institutions in shaping history and society.
Ram Sharan Sharma (1919–2011) – social history of ancient India
Lloyd deMause (born 1931) – psychohistory
Gabriela Dudeková (born 1968)
Ruth Goodman (born 1963) – early modern, British social history
World history
Felipe Fernández-Armesto (born 1950)
Christopher Bayly (1945–2015) – British Empire and India
Ferdinand Braudel (1902–1985) – social and economic history
Will Durant (1885–1981) – author of The Story of Civilization
Francis Fukuyama (born 1955) – "End of history" thesis
Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882–1944) – world history and geography for younger readers
William McNeill (1917–2016) – author of The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community
Jürgen Osterhammel (born 1952)
John Roberts (1928–2003) – author of History of the World
Ram Sharan Sharma (1919–2011)) – author of Vishwa Itihaas ki Bhumika in Hindi.
Jackson J. Spielvogel (born 1939) – Pennsylvania State University, author of several major world history textbooks
Arnold J. Toynbee (1889–1975) – wrote landmark text A Study of History
Immanuel Wallerstein (1930–2019)
Biography
Peter Ackroyd (born 1949) - Dickens, Blake, Thomas More, Eliot, Newton
James Boswell (1740–1795) - Samuel Johnson
Alan Bullock (1914–2004) – historian best known for his influential biography of Hitler
Robert Caro (born 1935) – biographer of Lyndon Johnson
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) – Friedrich der Grosse (the Great)
Vincent Cronin (1924–2011) – Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, and Napoleon
Leon Edel (1907–1997) - Henry James
Richard Ellmann (1918–1987) – James Joyce
Erik Erikson (1902–1994) - psychoanalytic biographies of Luther and Gandhi
Roy Foster (born 1949) - W.B. Yeats
Joseph Frank (1918–2013) - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) - Charlotte Brontë
Stephen Greenblatt (born 1943) - Shakespeare
Ragnhild Hatton (1913–1995) – biographer of King Charles XII of Sweden and King George I of Great Britain
Walter Isaacson (born 1952) - Einstein
Ian Kershaw (born 1943) – historian well known for his influential study of Hitler
Ralph G. Martin (1920–2013) – biographer of Hubert H. Humphrey, Harry S. Truman, Edward VIII, Golda Meir and John F. Kennedy
Roi Medvedev (born 1925) – Stalin biographer
Susan Quinn (born 1940) - Marie Curie
Ron Rosenbaum (born 1946) – author of Explaining Hitler
Norman Sherry (1925–2016) - Graham Greene
Jean Edward Smith (1932–2019) – author of biographies on Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, John Marshall, and Lucius D. Clay
Suetonius - lives of the Caesars
Lytton Strachey (1880–1932) - Eminent Victorians
A.N. Wilson (born 1950) - Tolstoy
References
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