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

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

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

Post 1950

Dunning School

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) - 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
John Robert Seeley (1834-1895)
David Starkey (born 1945) - Tudor
E. P. Thompson, (1924-1993), working class
Lawrence Stone, family
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

Czech

Bohuslav Balbín (1621-88)
Gelasius Dibner (1719-1790)
Josef Dobrofský (1753-1829)
František Palacký (1798-1876) - 5 vol history to 1526
Jaroslav Goll (1846-1929) - leader of scientific school
Václav Novotný )1869-1932) -Hussites
Josef Pekař (1870-1937), social and economic

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
Gabriel Monod (1844 - 1912) - editor Revue Historique (1875- )
Henri Berr (1863-1954) -editor of Revue de synthèse historique (1900- )
Charles-Victor 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

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

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

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