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==By nation or geographical area==
===[[North America]]===
====[[History of Canada]]====
*[[Donald Creighton]] - Developed the [[Laurentian thesis]]
*[[Lionel Groulx]] ([[1878]]-[[1967]]) - The history of [[Quebec]] in particular and French North America in general
*[[Harold Innis]] - Economic historian of Canada
*[[Jack Granatstein]] - Political and Military historian of Canada
*[[W.L. Morton]] - Expert on western Canada


See also ''[[List of Canadian historians]]''.


====[[History of the Caribbean]]====
*[[Eric Williams]] ([[1911]]-[[1981]]) - Focused on slavery and the slave trade, condemned imperialism


====[[History of the United States]]====
See also [[:Category:Historians of the United States]]
*[[Stephen Ambrose]] ([936-2002) - Biographer of Eisenhower, Nixon; military history
* [[Thomas A. Bailey]], diplomatic
* [[Bernard Bailyn]], Revolution
*[[George Bancroft]] (1800-1891) - colonial era
*[[Charles A. Beard]] (1874-1948) --economic interpretation
*[[Alan Brinkley]] - Great Depression
*[[Bruce Catton]] - [[American Civil War]]
*[[William Cronon]] - environmental history
*[[David Herbert Donald]]
*[[W.E.B. Du Bois]] - Reconstruction
*[[Eric Foner]] - Reconstruction
*[[Shelby Foote]] - (1916-2005) - American Civil War
*[[John Hope Franklin]] - historian of [[African Americans]]
*[[Milton Friedman]], monetary history
*[[John A. Garraty]], biography, political
* [[Richard Hildreth]], 18th century
*[[Richard Hofstadter]] (1916-1970) - Progessivism and U.S. political history
* [[Russell Kirk]], conservative ideas
* [[Arthur S. Link]], Woodrow Wilson
* [[Seymour Martin Lipset]], political movements
*[[David McCullough]] (1933- ) -  popular biographies of Harry Truman, Teddy Roosevelt, John Adams
*[[Forrest McDonald]], political history
*[[James M. McPherson]] - [[American Civil War]]
*[[Edmund Morgan]], colonial and Revolution
*[[David Nasaw]] - biography and U.S. cultural history
*[[Frank Lawrence Owsley]], antebellum South
*[[Francis Parkman]] - French and Indian War
*[[Vernon L. Parringon]], history of ideas
*[[Ulrich B. Phillips]], slavery
* [[David M. Potter]], coming of Civil War
* [[Theodore Roosevelt]], West, War of 1812
*[[Arthur Schlesinger Sr.]], social history
*[[Arthur Schlesinger Jr.]], political history, biography
*[[Frederick Jackson Turner]] (1861-1932) - Developed the [[Frontier Thesis]]
*[[Frank Vandiver]], military
*[[C. Vann Woodward]] (1908-1999) - The South
*[[Howard Zinn]] (1922- ) - Leftist historian
===Latin America===
====[[History of Brazil]]====
*[[Sergio Buarque de Holanda]]
*[[Gilberto Freyre]]
*[[Caio Prado]]
*[[Fernando Novais]] - the crisis of colonial system
===Europe===
====[[History of Europe]]====
*[[Norman Davies]]
*[[Elizabeth Eisenstein]], early printing and transitions in [[Mass media|media]]
*[[John Lukacs]]
*[[Henri-Jean Martin]], early printing and writing
*[[Robert Roswell Palmer]]
*[[J. Salwyn Schapiro]]
*[[Norman Stone]]
*[[Gordon Wright]]
====[[History of England]] and [[Britain]]====
*Venerable [[Bede]] ([[672]] – [[735]])
*[[Angus Calder]] - [[Great Britain]].
*[[Maurice Cowling]] - High political history.
*[[Eamon Duffy]] - 15th-17th century religious history (not "the Reformation")
*[[Geoffrey Rudolph Elton]] - Tudor period
*[[Antonia Fraser]] - England
*[[J. H. Hexter]] - 17th century England.
*[[Gertrude Himmelfarb]] - Victorian social and cultural history.
*[[Christopher Hill]] (1912-2003) - 17th century England and Revolution
*[[John Edward Lloyd]] (1861-1947) - Early Welsh history
*[[Geoffrey of Monmouth]] (died circa 1154)
*[[Lewis Bernstein Namier]] - 18th century politics
*[[Andrew Roberts]], modern British history.
*[[A. L. Rowse]] (1903-1997) Elizabethan England
*[[Dominic Sandbrook]] (born 1974) - The 1960s and after
*[[John Robert Seeley]] (1834-1895)
*[[David Starkey]] (born 1945) - Tudor
*[[E. P. Thompson]], (1924-1993), British working class
*[[Lawrence Stone]], The history of society and the family in England
*[[George Macaulay Trevelyan]] (1876–1962) - Prolific author on many periods of English history
*[[Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton]] - 17th century Britain; Nazi Germany
*[[Retha Warnicke]] (born 1939) - Tudor history and gender issues
*[[Cicely Veronica Wedgwood]] (1910-1997) - Glorious Revolution
====[[History of France]]====
*[[Marc Bloch]] ([[1886]]-[[1944]]) - Medieval France
*[[Georges Duby]] ([[1924]]-[[1996]]) - Medieval France
*[[Lucien Febvre]] ([[1878]]-[[1956]]) - French historian.
*[[Alistair Horne]] - modern French military history.
*[[Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie]] - history of the French peasantry.
*[[Michael Marrus]] - Vichy France
*[[Roland Mousnier]] - early modern France.
*[[Zeev Sternhell]] - French fascism.
*[[Eugen Weber]] - modern French history.
*[[John Baptist Wolf|John B. Wolf]] ([[1907]]-???) - French history
*[[Natalie Zemon Davis]] - early modern France.
*[[Gordon Wright]] ([[1912]]-[[2000]])
:''See also [[List of historians of the French Revolution]]''.
====[[History of Germany]]====
*[[Gisela Bock]]
*[[Alan Bullock]]
*[[Karl Dietrich Bracher]]
*[[Martin Broszat]]
*[[Gordon A. Craig]]
*[[Richard J. Evans]]
*[[Joachim Fest]]
*[[Fritz Fischer]]
*[[Klaus Hildebrand]]
*[[Andreas Hillgruber]]
*[[Heinz Zollin Hohne]]
*[[Eberhard Jäckel]]
*[[Ian Kershaw]]
*[[Klemens von Klemperer]]
*[[Claudia Koonz]]
*[[Timothy Mason]]
*[[Friedrich Meinecke]]
*[[Hans Mommsen]]
*[[Wolfgang Mommsen]]
*[[George Mosse]]
*[[Ernst Nolte]]'
*[[Steven Ozment]]
*[[Detlev Peukert]]
*[[Gerhard Ritter]]
*[[Hans Rothfels]]
*[[Louis Leo Snyder]]
*[[Fritz Stern]]
*[[Michael Sturmer]]
*[[Hans-Ulrich Wehler]]
*[[Heinrich von Treitschke]]
*[[A.J.P. Taylor]]
*[[Hugh Trevor-Roper]] ([[1914]]-[[2003]]) - British historian and [[peerage|peer]] who specialized on [[Nazism|Nazi]] leadership and incorrectly verified the authenticity of ''The [[Hitler Diaries]]''
*[[Henry Ashby Turner]]
*[[Robert Waite]]
*[[John Wheeler-Bennett]]
*[[Michael Wolffsohn]]
*[[Alfred-Maurice de Zayas]]
*[[Rainer Zitelmann]]
====[[History of Ireland]]====
*[[Brian Farrell]] (born [[1929]]) - Irish political history, historian and emeritus Associated Professor of Politics, [[University College Dublin|UCD]]
====[[History of Italy]]====
*[[Renzo De Felice]]
====[[History of Poland]]====
*[[Norman Davies]] ([[1939]]-) - modern Polish history.
*[[Pawel Jasienica]] ([[1909]]-[[1970]]) - Polish amateur historian.
*[[Wickham Steed]]
====[[History of Russia]]====
*[[Nicholas Bethell]]
*[[Robert Conquest]] - The [[Soviet Union]]
*[[Leopold Labedz]]
*[[Roy Medvedev]]
*[[Richard Pipes]] - The [[Soviet Union]]
*[[Condoleezza Rice]] - [[Soviet Union]]
*[[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] (born [[1918]]) - [[Russia]]n historian responsible for forcing knowledge of Soviet atrocities on the world
*[[William Taubman]] - [[Nikita Khrushchev]]
====[[History of Slovenia]]====
*[[Bogo Grafenauer]] (1916--1995)
====[[History of Spain]]====
*[[Ida Altman]] - [[Early modern Europe|Early modern]] [[History of Spain|Spain]], [[History of Latin America#Colonialism|colonial]] [[History of Latin America|Latin America]]
*[[Maria Luisa Ávila]]-[[Medieval History]], [[History of Spain|Spain]], [[History of Muslim Spain]], [[Women's History]]
*[[Robert I. Burns]]-[[History of Spain|Spain]], [[Medieval History]], [[History of Muslim Spain]], [[Visigothic Spain]]
*[[Brian A Catlos]]-[[History of Spain|Spain]], [[Medieval History]], [[History of Muslim Spain]]
*[[Roger Collins]]-[[Medieval History]], [[History of Spain|Spain]], [[Visigothic Spain]],[[History of Muslim Spain]]
*[[Olivia Remie Constable,]]-[[History of Spain|Spain]], [[Medieval History]], [[Commercial History]]
*[[Hipólito Escolar]]-[[History of Spain|Spain]], [[History of the Book]]
*[[Pierre Guichard]]-[[History of Spain|Spain]], [[Medieval History]], [[Visigothic Spain]], [[History of Muslim Spain]]
*[[S.I Imamuddin]]-[[History of Spain|Spain]], [[Medieval History]], [[History of Muslim Spain]]
*[[Manuela Marin]]-[[Women's History]], [[Social History]], [[History of Spain|Spain]], [[History of Muslim Spain]]
*[[Julian Ribera y Tarragó]]-[[History of Spain|Spain]], [[History of the Book]], [[Medieval History]], [[History of Muslim Spain]]
*[[Samuel Miklos Stern]]-[[History of Spain|Spain]], [[History of the Book]], [[Medieval History]], [[History of Muslim Spain]], [[Literary History]]
====[[History of Yugoslavia]]====
*[[Stephen Schwartz (journalist)|Stephen Schwartz]]
===The [[Middle East]]===
*[[George Antonius]] ([[1891]]-[[1941]]) - Historian of [[Arab nationalism]]
*[[Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb]] ([[1895]]-[[1971]]) - Editor, The [[Encyclopaedia of Islam]]
*[[Bernard Lewis]] - [[History of Islam]] and the Middle East
*[[Albert Hourani]]
*[[Ibn Khaldun]]
*[[Walid Khalidi]] Palestinian historian
*[[Michael Oren]]
*[[David Pryce-Jones]]
*[[Ibn al-Tiqtaqa]] (b. circa 1262) [[Shi'i]] historian wrote [[Al-Fakhīr]]
*[[‘Ala’ al-Din ‘Ata Malik Juvayni]] (1226-1283) [[Ta’rīkh-I-Jahān Gushā (‘A History of the World-Conqueror Chingis Khān)]]
*[[Rashid al-Din]] (circa 1247-1318) [[Jāmi‛-al-Tawārīkh]] [[(‘A Comprehensive Collection of Histories')]], [[Ta’rīkh–i-Ghāzānī]] - a history of the Mongols and Turks
*[[D. S. Margoliouth]]
*[[Caroline Finkel]]
*[[Rex Sean O'Fahey]]
*[[Knut Vikør]]
*[[Anders Bjørkelo]]
===Asia===
====[[China, history]]====
*[[Sima Qian]] - Compiled [[Records of the Grand Historian]]
* Fairbank, John King
* Goldman, Merle
* Gernet, Jacques,
* Hsü, Immanuel Chung-yueh
* Huang, Ray
*  MacFarquhar, Roderick
* Michael, Franz
* Mote, Frederick W.
* Needham, Joseph
* Schwartz, Benjamin
* Spence, Jonathan D.
* [http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/chinesehistory/pgp/index.html Studies of Modern Chinese History: Reviews and Historiographical Essays]
====[[History of Korea]]====
*[[Bruce Cumings]] - modern Korea
*[[Il-yeon]]
*[[Kim Bu-sik]] - early annalist
*[[Kim Dae-Mun]]
*[[Lee Ki-baek]] - (1924-2004)
*[[Suh Dae-sook]] - [[Korean War]] and [[North Korea]]
*[[Yu Deuk-gong]] - [[Balhae]]
====[[History of India]]====
*[[A. L. Basham]]
*[[Urvashi Butalia]]
*[[Nicholas Dirks]]
*[[Ranajit Guha]]
*[[Ayesha Jalal]]
*[[John Keay]]
*[[Christian Lassen]] 
*[[Sumit Sarkar]]
*[[Tanika Sarkar]]
*[[Percival Spear]]
*[[Romila Thapar]]
*[[Bipin Chandra]]
====[[Japan]]====
*[[Karl Friday]]
===[[Australasia]]===
====[[History of Australia]]====
*[[Manning Clark]]
*[[Geoffrey Blainey]]
==By historical viewpoint==
===[[Abolitionist]]===
*[[George Washington Williams]] - Early [[African-American]] historian
===[[Christianity]]===
* Ahlstron, Sydney, American religion
*[[Eusebius of Caesarea]] (~[[275]]–[[339]]) - "Father of Church history"
*[[Alexander Campbell Cheyne]], Scottish Ecclesiastical Historian
* Latourette, Kenneth Scott
*[[John Gilmary Shea]] ([[1824]]-[[1892]]) Father of American [[Catholic]] History
*[[Barbara Thiering]] ([[1930]]-  ) Rediscovered the "Pesher technique"
====[[Lutheranism]]====
*[[Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim]] ([[1694]]-[[1755]]) - [[Lutheran]] historian of Christianity from its inception through the [[18th century]]
====[[Mormonism]]====
*Leonard J. Arrington - 1975-1982
*[[B.H. Roberts]]
*[[Fawn M. Brodie]]
* Shipps, Jan
====[[History of the Papacy|The Papacy]]====
*[[Ludwig von Pastor]], wrote 40 volume history of the popes
===[[Holocaust]]===
*[[Yehuda Bauer]]
*[[Martin Broszat]]
*[[Christopher Browning]]
*[[Lucy Dawidowicz]]
*[[Norman Finkelstein]]
*[[Henry Friedlander]]
*[[Saul Friedländer]]
*[[Daniel Goldhagen]]
*[[Raul Hilberg]]
*[[Michael Marrus]]
*[[Hans Mommsen]]
*[[R. J. Rummel]]
===[[Marxist]]===
* [[Eugene D. Genovese]] - Marxist historian of southern [[US history]] and [[slavery]]
* [[Ranajit Guha]] - Indian marxist historian
* [[Christopher Hill]] - 17th century [[England]].
* [[Eric Hobsbawm]] - Marxist historian of the modern world.
* [[Timothy Wright Mason]] - Marxist historian who worked on the history of [[Nazism|National Socialism]] and the German working-class.
* [[Maxime Rodinson]]  Islam
* [[Sumit Sarkar]] Indian marxist historian
* E. P. Thompson, British
===Annales School===
* [[Marc Bloch]]
* [[Fernand Braudel]]
* [[Georges Duby]]
* [[Lucien Febvre]]
* [[Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie]]
* [[Jacques Le Goff]]
<ref> see David Moon, "Fernand Braudel and the Annales School" at [http://www.scribd.com/doc/185264/Fernand-Braudel-and-the-Annales-School]; Peter Burke, ''The French Historical Revolution: The Annales School, 1929-1989.'' (1991), [http://www.amazon.com/French-Historical-Revolution-Contemporary-Thinkers/dp/0804718369/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197345477&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]; François Dosse. ''The New History in France: The Triumph of the Annales.'' (1994) [http://www.amazon.com/New-History-France-TRIUMPH-ANNALES/dp/0252063732/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197345552&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search ]</ref>


==By general category==
==By general category==

Revision as of 18:26, 15 December 2007

This is a list of historians categorized by their area of study. See also History for overview of historiography

By time period

Ancient history

Medieval history

By nation or geographical area

North America

History of Canada

See also List of Canadian historians.

History of the Caribbean

History of the United States

See also Category:Historians of the United States

Latin America

History of Brazil

Europe

History of Europe

History of England and Britain

History of France

See also List of historians of the French Revolution.

History of Germany

History of Ireland

  • Brian Farrell (born 1929) - Irish political history, historian and emeritus Associated Professor of Politics, UCD

History of Italy

History of Poland

History of Russia

History of Slovenia

History of Spain

History of Yugoslavia

The Middle East

Asia

China, history


History of Korea

History of India

Japan

Australasia

History of Australia

By historical viewpoint

Abolitionist

Christianity

Lutheranism

Mormonism

The Papacy

Holocaust

Marxist

Annales School

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By general category

Art history

Economic history

Espionage

Maritime history

Military History

Historiography

Gender

History of ideas

History of Phillosophy

Litterary History

History of Concepts

Other

History of business

History of international relations

History of science and technology


World history

Biography

notes

  1. ↑ see David Moon, "Fernand Braudel and the Annales School" at [1]; Peter Burke, The French Historical Revolution: The Annales School, 1929-1989. (1991), excerpt and text search; François Dosse. The New History in France: The Triumph of the Annales. (1994) excerpt and text search
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