List of historians by area of study
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This is a list of historians categorized by their area of study. See also List of historians.
[edit] By time period
[edit] Ancient history
- Michael Crawford (historian)
- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) - The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Peter Green - Ancient Greece and Macedon
- Herodotus
- Josephus
- Barbara Levick (born 1932, British) - Roman emperors
- Livy
- Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776–1831) - Roman history
- Howard Hayes Scullard (1903-1983) - Roman civilization
- Ronald Syme (1903 - 1989) - Classical period
- Suetonius
- Tacitus
- Joseph Tainter
- Thucydides
- Xenophon
[edit] Medieval history
- Placido Puccinelli (1609-1685, Italian) - Northern Italy in the tenth 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), Dutch - wrote on early medieval institutional history and feudalism
- Patrick Geary - early Middle Ages
- Geoffrey of Monmouth
- Geraldis Cambrensis
- Johan Huizinga (Dutch) - Wrote 'Waning of the Middle Ages'
- Jacques Le Goff
- 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 - social and religious history, 1100-1500
- Steven Runciman (1903–2000) - the Crusades
- Richard Southern (1912-2001)
- Sidney Painter
- John Julius Norwich
- Chris Wickham
- Pierre Bonnasie
- Aaron Gurevich
- Eric Christiansen
[edit] By nation or geographical area
[edit] North America
[edit] 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
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[edit] History of the Caribbean
- Eric Williams (1911-1981) - Focused on slavery and the slave trade, condemned imperialism
[edit] History of the United States
See also Category:Historians of the United States
- Stephen Ambrose (1936-2002) - Biographer of Eisenhower
- George Bancroft (1800-1891) - wrote first large-scale history of the US
- Charles A. Beard (1874-1948)
- William Brandon (1914–2002), historian of the American West and Native Americans.
- Alan Brinkley - Historian of the Great Depression
- Bruce Catton - American Civil War
- William Cronon - American environmental history and the American West
- J. Frank Dobie - historian of Texas and the Southwestern United States
- David Herbert Donald
- W.E.B. Du Bois - historian of the Reconstruction
- Eric Foner - Civil War and Reconstruction
- Shelby Foote - (1916-2005) - American Civil War
- John Hope Franklin - historian of African Americans
- John A. Garraty
- Richard Hofstadter (1916-1970) - Progessivism and U.S. political history
- David Lavender (1910-2003) - Western U.S.
- David McCullough (1933- ) - general study, most notable work is recent biography of John Adams
- James M. McPherson - American Civil War
- D.W. Meinig - geographic history of America
- Gary Moulton - prominent Lewis and Clark historian
- David Nasaw - biography and U.S. cultural history
- Francis Parkman - Historian of the French and Indian War
- Harry W. Pfanz - American Civil War
- Dominic Sandbrook (1974-) - political history of the 1960s and 1970s
- Arthur Schlesinger Sr.
- Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
- Jean Edward Smith (1932- ) - biography, foreign policy, political economy, constitutional law, legal history, and politics
- Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932) - Developed the Frontier Thesis
- Frank Vandiver
- Alexander Scott Withers - Primary accounts of colonial western Virginia conflicts
- C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999) - Southern United States
- Howard Zinn (1922- ) - Political scientist and historian of the United States, often critical of common policies.
[edit] Europe
[edit] History of Europe
- Norman Davies
- Elizabeth Eisenstein, early printing and transitions in media
- John Lukacs
- Henri-Jean Martin, early printing and writing
- Robert Roswell Palmer
- J. Salwyn Schapiro
- Norman Stone
- Gordon Wright
[edit] 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 England.
- Edward Hasted - Kent
- Antonia Fraser - England.
- William Gibson ecclesiastical history
- Mary Anne Everett Green - Calendars of state papers and biographies
- J. H. Hexter - 17th century England.
- Gertrude Himmelfarb - Victorian social and cultural history.
- Christopher Hill (1912-2003) - 17th century England
- 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) - The history of Cornwall and Elizabethan England
- Dominic Sandbrook (born 1974) - The 1960s and after
- John Robert Seeley (1834-1895)
- David Starkey (born 1945) - Tudor historian and TV presenter
- E. P. Thompson, (1924-1993), historian of the 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.
- Retha Warnicke (born 1939) - Tudor history and gender issues
- Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910-1997) - British historian
- Perez Zagorin - (1920 - ) 16th and 17th century British/English history
[edit] History of the British Empire
- Gerald S. Graham
- Vincent T. Harlow
- William Roger Louis
- P. J. Marshall
- David Quinn
- D. M. Schurman
- Glyndwr Williams
[edit] 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 B. Wolf (1907-???) - French history
- Natalie Zemon Davis - early modern France.
- Gordon Wright (1912-2000)
[edit] 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
- Jean Edward Smith
- 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
[edit] History of Ireland
- Brian Farrell (born 1929) - Irish political history, historian and emeritus Associated Professor of Politics, UCD
[edit] History of Italy
[edit] History of Poland
- Norman Davies (1939-) - modern Polish history.
- Pawel Jasienica (1909-1970) - Polish amateur historian.
- Wickham Steed
[edit] History of Portugal
- José Hermano Saraiva
[edit] History of Russia
- Nicholas Bethell
- Robert Conquest - The Soviet Union
- Orlando Figes
- Leopold Labedz
- Roy Medvedev
- Richard Pipes - The Soviet Union
- William Taubman - Nikita Khrushchev
[edit] History of Slovakia
[edit] History of Slovenia
- Bogo Grafenauer (1916--1995)
[edit] History of Spain
- Ida Altman - Early modern Spain, colonial Latin America
- Maria Luisa Ávila-Medieval History, Spain, History of Muslim Spain, Women's History
- Robert I. Burns-Spain, Medieval History, History of Muslim Spain, Visigothic Spain
- Brian A Catlos-Spain, Medieval History, History of Muslim Spain
- Roger Collins-Medieval History, Spain, Visigothic Spain,History of Muslim Spain
- Olivia Remie Constable,-Spain, Medieval History, Commercial History
- Hipólito Escolar-Spain, History of the Book
- Pierre Guichard-Spain, Medieval History, Visigothic Spain, History of Muslim Spain
- S.I Imamuddin-Spain, Medieval History, History of Muslim Spain
- Manuela Marin-Women's History, Social History, Spain, History of Muslim Spain
- Julian Ribera y Tarragó-Spain, History of the Book, Medieval History, History of Muslim Spain
- Samuel Miklos Stern-Spain, History of the Book, Medieval History, History of Muslim Spain, Literary History
[edit] History of Yugoslavia
[edit] 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
[edit] Asia
[edit] History of China
- Li Ao (born 1935) - Historian, author, and politician and broadcaster in the Republic of China on Taiwan
- Iris Chang - the Rape of Nanking.
- Rafe de Crespigny - Han dynasty
- John King Fairbank
- Sima Qian - Compiled Records of the Grand Historian
- Jonathan Spence
- Denis Twitchett - (1925-2006) Cambridge scholar, and editor of The Cambridge History of China
- Frederic Wakeman, Jr.
- Odd Arne Westad - Professor at the London School of Economics and author of many books on China
[edit] 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
- Odd Arne Westad - Professor at the London School of Economics
[edit] 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
- Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri
- Bipin Chandra
[edit] History of Japan
- Karl Friday
- Rotem Kowner
[edit] Africa
[edit] History of Ghana
[edit] Australasia
[edit] History of Australia
[edit] By historical viewpoint
[edit] Abolitionist
- George Washington Williams - Early African-American historian
[edit] Christianity
- Eusebius of Caesarea (~275–339) - "Father of Church history"
- Alexander Campbell Cheyne, Scottish Ecclesiastical Historian
- John Gilmary Shea (1824-1892) Father of American Catholic History
- Barbara Thiering (1930- ) Rediscovered the "Pesher technique"
[edit] Lutheranism
- Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim (1694-1755) - Lutheran historian of Christianity from its inception through the 18th century
[edit] Mormonism
- Leonard J. Arrington - LDS Church historian 1975-1982
- B.H. Roberts
- Fawn M. Brodie
[edit] The Papacy
- Ludwig von Pastor, wrote 40 volume history of the popes making extensive use of the Vatican Secret Archives
[edit] Salvation Army
- Rob Brettle (1963- ) Co-founder Christian Mission Historical Society
- Harry Hayes - founder Salvation Army Philatelic Society
- Glenn Horridge - Co-founder Christian Mission Historical Society
[edit] 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
[edit] Marxist
- Eric Foner - Marxist historian of the American Civil War and Reconstruction
- 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 French marxist historian on the history of islam
- Sumit Sarkar Indian marxist historian
- Edward Palmer Thompson British marxist historian, author of "The Making of the English Working Class"
[edit] Nazi
- Walter Frank (1905-1945) - Nazi historian and anti-Semitic writer
- David Hoggan (1923-1988)
[edit] Anarchist
- Paul Avrich, USA 1931-2006. (Oral-)History of the US and Russia
- David Berry, France, Movement in France.
- Murray Bookchin USA 1921-2006.Writer; Founder of "Social Ecology"
- Roland Creagh Editor of "Research on Anarchism" the interactive website/data base in various languages. (France)
- Hans Jürgen Degen, Germany, Writer, Editor of "Lexikon der Anarchie"
- Sam Dolgoff USA 1902-1990, writer, activist, co-founder of Anarcho-Syndicalist Review.
- Sébastian Faure France, Encyclopedie Anarchiste, 4 volumes (1932-34)
- Joao Freire, Portugal, Movement of Portugal/CGT.
- Sharif Gemie, editor of "Anarchist Studies" (United Kingdom)
- David Goodway, (UK, writer, editor)
- Daniel Guerin, France 1904-1988. writer, editor Libertarian Communist
- Robert Graham, (USA, writer, editor)
- Peter Marshall, England 1946, historian, philosopher, writer (of 'Demanding the Impossible. A History of Anarchism, 1992).
- Chuck Morse, USA, Writer, Founder of "Institute for Anarchist Studies/IAS.
- Max Nettlau, 1865-1944, Austria, writer of "Geschichte der Anarchie", seven volumes.
- Barry Pateman
- Alex Prichard
- Abel Paz, (Spain, Civilwar , Durruti, CNT/FAI )
- José Peirats, (Spain, Historian of the CNT/FAI)
- Jochen Schmück, Germany, Publisher, Founder of DadA - Datenbank des deutschsprachigen Anarchismus, webdata of german languages books on Anarchism and dadaweb.de.
- Alexandre Skirda
- Peter Staudenmaier
- Horst Stowasser, Germany, Founder of "AnArchiv", Anarchistisches Dokumentationszentrum, Writer.
- Antonio Tellez
- Dana Ward, Founder of "Anarchist Archives", Online Research on the History and Theory of Anarchism, (USA).
- George Woodcock
- Howard Zinn
[edit] Pacifist
- Ludwig Quidde (1858-1941) - Prescient German pacifist and student of history who combined his specialties in his condemnation of Kaiser Wilhelm II
[edit] By general category
[edit] Architectural history
- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (born ca. 80/70 BC?; died ca. 25 BC) Roman architect and engineer, author of De architectura
- Leone Battista Alberti (born 1404; died 1472) Italian polymath, active in many fields, author of De Re Aedificatoria among others.
- Josef Strzygowski (born 1862)
- Joseph Rykwert (born 1926)
- Manfredo Tafuri (1935-1994)
- David Watkin (historian) (born 1941)
- Alberto Pérez-Gómez (born 1949)
[edit] Art history
- Nicholas Pevsner (1903–1983) History of art and English architecture
- Simon Schama (born 1945) - Art history
[edit] Economic history
[edit] History of Education
- David Hogan Professor of Educaton at the University of Tasmania.
[edit] Espionage
[edit] Maritime history
[edit] Military history
- Correlli Barnett - British military historian.
- Antony Beevor - British military historian.
- Caleb Carr - American military historian.
- Michael Carver - British soldier & historian.
- Alan Clark - British M.P & historian.
- Martin van Creveld - Israeli military historian.
- Saul David - Military history
- Adrian Goldsworthy - British military historian.
- Jack Granatstein - Canadian military historian.
- Bruce Barrymore Halpenny Writer and military historian
- Victor Davis Hanson - American classicist & military historian.
- Andreas Hillgruber - German military historian.
- Richard Holmes - British military history
- Alistair Horne - British historian of French military history.
- Michael Howard - modern military history.
- John Keegan (born 1934, English) - Specializes in 20th-century wars
- Richard Landwehr - military histoiran.
- Basil Liddell Hart (1895–1970) Military History
- Edward Luttwak (born 1942) Military strategy
- S. L. A. Marshall - American military historian.
- Leo Niehorster (born 1947) - World War II
- Aryeh Nusbacher - American military historian.
- Peter Paret - Military history
- Gordon Prange
- Gerhard Ritter - German military historian.
- Cornelius Ryan (1920-1974) - World War II
- Jean Edward Smith (born 1932) - U.S. and German military historian.
- Hew Strachan - British military historian.
- Gerhard Weinberg - U.S. military historian.
[edit] Naval history
- Robert G. Albion - Maritime history
- Howard I. Chapelle - Maritime history
- Andrew Gordon - Battle of Jutland
- John Hattendorf
- R.J.B. Knight
- Andrew Lambert
- Alfred Mahan
- Tyrone G. Martin - Historian of the USS Constitution and of the history of ironclads
- 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.
- Werner Rahn
- N.A.M. Rodger
[edit] Historiography
- Marc Bloch
- Fernand Braudel
- Herbert Butterfield
- E. H. Carr
- R. G. Collingwood
- Geoffrey Elton
- Richard J. Evans
- Pieter Geyl
- J. H. Hexter
- Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
- Leopold von Ranke
- Hayden White
- Frank Ankersmit
[edit] Gender and sexuality studies
- John Boswell (1947-1994, American) - Homosexuality in medieval times
- George Mosse
- Retha Warnicke (born 1939) - Gender issues
[edit] History of ideas, literature, and philosophy
- Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) - History of ideas
- J. C. D. Clark, British historian of 18th century ideas.
- Michel Foucault (1926 - 1984) - History of ideas
- Peter Gay (1923-) - History of ideas.
- Lewis Mumford (1895-1988) - History of technology
- Ivan Prijatelj (1875-1937) - Literary history
- France Kidric (1880-1950) - Literary history
[edit] History of business
[edit] History of international relations
- Harry Elmer Barnes
- Herbert Butterfield
- E. H. Carr
- Gordon A. Craig
- John Lewis Gaddis, historian of the Cold War.
- Klaus Hildebrand
- Andreas Hillgruber
- Paul Kennedy, British historian, 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, US historian, 19c European International Relations
- Jean Edward Smith
- A.J.P. Taylor (1906-1990) - Historian of European International Relations
- Harold Temperley, (1879-1939), British historian, Cambridge, 19c and early 20c century diplomatic history, "British Documents on the Originis of the War, 1898-1914" (ed.)
- Ernest Llewellyn Woodward, (1890-1971)
[edit] History of science and technology
- Allen G. Debus, chemistry and medicine
- A. Hunter Dupree, botany; U.S. government policy on science and technology
- Peter Galison, physics, philosophy, objectivity
- John L. Heilbron, physics, quantification, astronomy, religion and science
- Richard L. Hills, technology, steam power
- 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, physics, "paradigm shifts"
- David F. Noble, science & technology-based industrial development
- Abraham Pais, physics
- Theodore M. Porter
- A. I. Sabra, optics, Islamic science
- George Sarton
- M. Norton Wise
[edit] Social history
[edit] World history
- Ferdinand Braudel (1902-1985) - Social and economic history
- Francis Fukuyama (born 1955) - "End of history" thesis
- Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882-1944) - World history and geography for younger readers
- William McNeill (born 1917) - Author of The Rise of the West
- Jackson J. Spielvogel - Pennsylvania State University, author of several major world history textbooks
- Arnold J. Toynbee (1889-1975) - Wrote landmark text A Study of History
- Immanuel Wallerstein
[edit] Biography
- Alan Bullock (1914-2004) - Historian best known for his influential biography of Hitler
- Roi Medvedev - Stalin biographer
- Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881 - Friedrich der Grosse (the Great)
- Ron Rosenbaum - author of Explaining Hitler.
- Jean Edward Smith - author of biographies on Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, John Marshall, and Lucius D. Clay