History/Catalogs/Historians by area of study

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

Ancient history

• Thucydides
• Xenophon
• Herodotus
• Josephus
• Livy
• Suetonius
• Tacitus

• Michael Crawford
• Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) - Roman Empire
• Peter Green - Ancient Greece and Macedon
• Barbara Levick (born 1932, British) - Roman emperors
• Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776–1831) - Roman
• Howard Hayes Scullard (1903-1983) - Roman civilization
• Ronald Syme (1903 - 1989) Rome
• Joseph Tainter

Medieval history

• Geoffrey of Monmouth
• Geraldis Cambrensis

• Placido Puccinelli (1609-1685, - Italy
• Marc Bloch (1886-1944, French) France, methodology
• John Boswell (1947-1994, American - Homosexuality
• Norman Cantor (1930-2004), England, historiography
• Georges Duby (1924-1996), France
• François-Louis Ganshof (1895-1980), Dutch
• Patrick Geary
• Johan Huizinga Dutch
• George Sarton, science
• Jacques Le Goff, French
• Rev. F. X. Martin (Irish) - Mediævalist and campaigner
• Rosamond McKitterick - Frankish and Carolingian history
• Henri Pirenne (1862-1935) - the "Pirenne Thesis" of early Medieval development
• Eileen Power - Middle Ages
• Miri Rubin - religion
• Stephen Runciman (1903–2000) - the Crusades
• Richard Southern (1912-2001), religion
• Sidney Painter
• John Julius Norwich

Canada, history

• Francis Parkman - French and Indian War; Canada
• Donald Creighton - Developed the Laurentian thesis
• Lionel Groulx (1878-1967) - history of Quebec
• Harold Innis - Economic history
• Jack Granatstein - Political and military
• W.L. Morton - Manitoba

Caribbean

• Eric Williams (1911-1981) - slavery

U.S., History

• Stephen Ambrose (1936-2002) - Biographer of Eisenhower, Nixon; military history
• Thomas A. Bailey, diplomatic
• Bernard Bailyn, Revolution
• George Bancroft (1800-1891) - colonial and Revolution
• Charles A. Beard (1874-1948) economic interpretation
• Alan Brinkley - 1930s
• Bruce Catton - American Civil War
• William Cronon - environmental history
• David Herbert Donald, Civil War, Reconstruction
• W.E.B. Du Bois - Reconstruction
• Eric Foner - Reconstruction
• Shelby Foote - (1916-2005) - American Civil War
• John Hope Franklin - 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 sociology of 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
• Frank Lawrence Owsley, antebellum South
• Francis Parkman - French and Indian War; Canada
• 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 and sectionalism thesis
• Frank Vandiver, military
• C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999) - The South
• Howard Zinn (1922- ) - Leftist historian

Neoabolitionist

Early 20th century

• George Washington Williams
• W.E.B. Du Bois
• Herbert Aptheker
• Philip Foner
• Dwight Dumond

Post 1950

• David W, Blight
• Martin Duberman
• Paul Finkelman
• Eric Foner
• John Hope Franklin
• Lawrence Levine
• Leon Litwack
• William S. McFeely
• James M. McPherson
• Gary Nash
• Leonard Richards
• Kenneth Stampp
• Howard Zinn

Dunning School

• E. Merton Coulter
• William Archibald Dunning
• Walter Lynwood Fleming
• Charles W. Ramsdell

Latin America

Brazil

• Sergio Buarque de Holanda
• Gilberto Freyre
• Caio Prado
• Fernando Novais - the crisis of colonial system

Europe

• Norman Davies
• Elizabeth Eisenstein, printing
• John Lukacs, Cold War
• Henri-Jean Martin, early printing and writing
• Robert Roswell Palmer, French Revolution
• J. Salwyn Schapiro
• Norman Stone, World War I
• Gordon Wright, World War II

Britain

• Venerable Bede (672 – 735)
• Geoffrey of Monmouth (died circa 1154)
• Angus Calder - World War II.
• Maurice Cowling - political history.
• Eamon Duffy - 15th-17th century religious history
• Geoffrey Rudolph Elton - Tudor period
• Antonia Fraser - 17th century
• J. H. Hexter - Revolution; methodology
• Gertrude Himmelfarb - Victorian social and cultural history.
• Christopher Hill (1912-2003) - 17th century England and Revolution
• John Edward Lloyd (1861-1947) - Early Welsh history
• 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), working class
• Lawrence Stone, The history of society and the family in England
• George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876–1962) 17th-18th centuries;
• Hugh Trevor-Roper - 17th century; Nazi Germany
• Retha Warnicke (born 1939) - Tudor history and gender issues
• C, V. Veronica Wedgwood (1910-1997) - Glorious Revolution

France, history

• Voltaire (1694-1778)
• Augustin Thierry (1795-1856) - Revolution
• François Guizot (1787-1874) - Revolution
• Jules Michelet (1798-1874) - Revolution
• Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) -ancien regime
• CharlesVictor Langlois (1863-1929) - methods
• Charles Seignobos (1854-1842) - methods
• Alphone Aulard (1849-1928) - Revolution
• Albert Mathiez (1874-1932) - Revolution
• Georges Lefebvre (1874-1959) - Revolution
• Albert Soboul (1914-1982) - Revolution
• François Furet (1927- ) - Revolution

Annales School

• Marc Bloch (1886-1944) - Medieval
• Lucien Febvre (1878-1956) - geography
• Robert Mandrou (1921-1984) - psychology
• Georges Duby (1924-1996) - Medieval
• Ernest Labrousse (1895-1986) - quantitative
• Fernand Braudel (1902-1985) - Mediterranean
• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie peasants
• Jacques Le Goff medieval
• Pierre Goubert (1915- ) - 18th century
• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929- ) - peasantry
• Roland Mousnier - early modern
• Michel Vovelle (1933- ) -religion
• Jacques Revel

outside France

• Keith M. Baker - Revolution
• David Chandler - Napoleon
• Alfred Cobban - Revolution
• Natalie Zemon Davis - early modern
• William Doyle - Revolution
• Alistair Horne - modern military
• Robert R. Palmer - Revolution
• Robert O. Paxton - Vichy
• Eugen Weber - modern
• John B. Wolf (1907-96) Louis XIV
• Gordon Wright (1912-2000) - 20th century

Germany, history

• Gisela Bock
• Alan Bullock
• Karl Dietrich Bracher
• Martin Broszat
• Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881 - Friedrich der Grosse (the Great)
• Gordon A. Craig
• Richard J. Evans
• Joachim Fest
• Fritz Fischer
• Klaus Hildebrand
• Andreas Hillgruber
• Heinz Zollin Hohne
• Eberhard Jäckel
• Ian Kershaw
• Klemens von Klemperer
• Claudia Koonz
• Timothy Mason
• Friedrich Meinecke
• Hans Mommsen
• Wolfgang Mommsen
• George Mosse
• Ernst Nolte'
• Steven Ozment
• Detlev Peukert
• Gerhard Ritter
• Hans Rothfels
• Louis Leo Snyder
• Fritz Stern
• Michael Sturmer
• Hans-Ulrich Wehler
• Heinrich von Treitschke
• A.J.P. Taylor
• Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914-2003) - British historian and peer who specialized on Nazi leadership and incorrectly verified the authenticity of The Hitler Diaries
• Henry Ashby Turner
• Robert Waite
• John Wheeler-Bennett
• Michael Wolffsohn
• Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
• Rainer Zitelmann

Ireland, history

• Brian Farrell (born 1929) - political

Italy, history

• Renzo De Felice

Poland

• Norman Davies (1939-) - modern Polish history.
• Franciszek Bujak (1875-1953)
• Jan Rutkowski (1886-1949),

Russia, history

• Nicholas Bethell
• Robert Conquest 20c
• Leopold Labedz
• Roy Medvedev Stalin
• Richard Pipes - 20c
• William Taubman - Nikita Khrushchev

History of Slovenia

• Bogo Grafenauer (1916--1995)

History of Spain

• Ida Altman - Early modern
• Maria Luisa Ávila-Muslim Spain, Women
• Robert I. Burns -Medieval
• Brian A Catlos -Muslim Spain
• Roger Collins Muslim Spain
• Olivia Remie Constable,- Medieval History
• Hipólito Escolar - printing
• Pierre Guichard - Muslim Spain]]
• S.I Imamuddin Muslim Spain]]
• Manuela Marin- Women
• Julian Ribera y Tarragó
• Samuel Miklos Stern

Russia

• Roi Medvedev - Stalin biographer

Norway

• Halvdan Koht (1873-1965) - peasants; Ibsen

Serbia

• Ilarion Ruvarac (1832-1905)
• Vladimir Dedijer

The Middle East

• Ibn Khaldun
• 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
• George Antonius (1891-1941) - Arab nationalism
• Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb (1895-1971)
• Bernard Lewis - the Middle East
• Albert Hourani
• Walid Khalidi Palestinian historian
• Michael Oren
• David Pryce-Jones
• 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.
• 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

Australia, history

• Manning Clark
• Geoffrey Blainey

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

Lutheranism

• Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim (1694-1755)

Mormonism

• Leonard J. Arrington - 1975-1982
• Fawn M. Brodie]]
• Shipps, Jan

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 National Socialism and the German working-class.
• Maxime Rodinson Islam
• Sumit Sarkar Indian marxist historian
• E. P. Thompson, British

Art history

• Nicholas Pevsner (1903–1983) History of art and English architecture
• Josef Strzygowski (born 1862) - Architectural history

Economic history

• Niall Ferguson, 19th-20th century
• Robert Fogel US slavery; health
• David S. Landes, Europe
• W. W. Rostow, industrialization
• R. H. Tawney, Industrial Revolution

Espionage

• John Earl Haynes, American historian of Communist espionage
• David Kahn, historian of codes
• Victor Suvorov
• Nigel West

Maritime history

• Robert G. Albion
• Howard I. Chapelle
• John Hattendorf
• Samuel Eliot Morison, Pulitzer prize winner

Military History

• Correlli Barnett - British
• Terry Copp - Canadian
• Martin van Creveld - Israeli
• Jack Granatstein - Canadian
• Victor Davis Hanson - American classicist
• Richard Holmes - British
• Alistair Horne - British historian of French military history.
• Michael Howard -
• John Keegan (born 1934, English)
• Basil Liddell Hart (1895–1970)
• Edward Luttwak (born 1942)
• Alfred Thayer Mahan, American theorist of sea power
• S. L. A. Marshall - American military historian.
• Samuel Eliot Morison (1887-1976) - World War II, Columbus, Jones
• Peter Paret
• Gordon Prange - World War II
• Gerhard Ritter - German
• Hew Strachan - World War I.
• Gerhard Weinberg - World War II

Historiography

• Marc Bloch
• Fernand Braudel
• Herbert Butterfield
• Edward H. Carr
• R. G. Collingwood
• Geoffrey Elton
• Richard J. Evans
• Pieter Geyl
• J. H. Hexter
• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
• Leopold von Ranke
• Hayden White
• Reinhardt Koselleck

Gender

• John Boswell (1947-1994, American) - Homosexuality in medieval times
• George Mosse
• Retha Warnicke (born 1939) - Gender issues

History of ideas

• Arthur Lovejoy(1873-1962)
• Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997
• J. C. D. Clark, 18th century Britain
• Michel Foucault (1926 - 1984)
• Peter Gay (1923- ) Enlightenment; 20th century

History of business

• Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.

History of international relations

• Harry Elmer Barnes, World wars; revisionist (denied German Guilt in 1914)
• Herbert Butterfield
• Gordon A. Craig, Germany
• John Lewis Gaddis, Cold War.
• Klaus Hildebrand
• Andreas Hillgruber
• Paul Kennedy, British historian now at Yale, author of influential "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers"
• William L. Langer, (1896]]-1977)
• Eduard Mark
• Arno J. Mayer
• W.N. Medlicott
• Lewis Bernstein Namier
• Paul W. Schroeder, 19c Europe
• A.J.P. Taylor (1906-1990) - Europe and England
• Harold Temperley, (1879-1939), British editor of "British Documents on the Originis of the War, 1898-1914"
• Odd Arne Westad - Professor at the London School of Economics
• Ernest Llewellyn Woodward, (1890-1971)

History of science and technology

• Peter Galison, physics, philosophy, objectivity
• John L. Heilbron, physics, quantification, astronomy, religion and science
• Richard L. Hills, technology
• Thomas P. Hughes, technology
• Evelyn Fox Keller, science and gender, biology
• Melvin Kranzberg, technology
• Daniel J. Kevles, science and politics, physics, biology, eugenics
• Thomas Kuhn, astronomy, historiography
• David F. Noble, industrial development
• Abraham Pais, physics; Einstein
• A. I. Sabra, optics, Islamic science
• George Sarton, medieval

World history

• William McNeill (born 1917) American;
• Jackson J. Spielvogel - Pennsylvania State University, author of several major world history textbooks
• Arnold J. Toynbee (1889-1975) A Study of History
• Immanuel Wallerstein

Historicist

• Wilhelm Dilthey
• Hans Georg Gadamer