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The History Workgroup creates and improves articles related to history, historiography, and the history discipline. Authors and editors interested in all areas of history are welcomed in this group. If you wish to be an author in this field, please add yourself to Category:History Authors by adding [[Category:History Authors]] to your user page. You free to start right in improving our articles. If you meet the requirements to be a Citizendium Editor for this workgroup, please follow the directions found here.
Style Guide
If you are writing in the History Workgroup, please contribute to the style guide for history articles. Please also follow our agreed style. Thanks.
Priority Articles
In the list of articles below, the existence of an approved version is indicated by italics.
Importing content
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Main subject areas
History | Social history | History of economic thought | History of pre-classical economic thought | Political history | History of Science | History of Technology | Military history | Women's history | World history | Leaders |
Prehistory to Middle Ages
Ancient Egypt | Ancient Greece | Ancient Rome | Byzantine Empire | Caliphate | Crusades | Papacy, history | Holy Roman Empire | Middle Ages | Ottoman Empire | Assyrians | Babylonians | Early Islam |
Renaissance to Industrial Age
Renaissance | The Enlightenment | French Revolution | Napoleon | England, Civil War | Industrial Revolution | Reformation | Scientific Revolution |
National history
China, history | History of the United Kingdom | France, history | Germany, history | India, history | Italy, history | Japan, history | Poland, history | Russia, history | U.S., history | History of Ireland | Australia, history
Notable Historians
British Historians
- Winston Churchill [r]: (1874 -1965) WWI Colonial Secretary and First Lord of the Admiralty; Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who led Britain to victory over Nazi Germany in World War II; Nobel Prize in Literature as a historian [e]
French Historians
- Marc Bloch [r]: French historian and cofounder of the Annales School of French social history. [e]
- Fernand Braudel [r]: The foremost French historian of the postwar (WWII) era, and a leader of the Annales School. [e]
- Lucien Febvre [r]: French historian and cofounder of the Annales School of French social history. [e]
German Historians
Israeli Historians
- Martin Creveld [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Michael Oren [r]: Israeli Ambassador to the U.S (2009-); previously Shalem Center historian and author, Israeli Defense Forces officer; former U.S.-Israel dual citizen [e]
U.S. Historians
- Merle Curti [r]: (1897–1997) American "Progressive" historian and a leader in social and intellectual history. [e]
- Frederick Jackson Turner [r]: (1861–1932) Influential early 20th century American historian. Formulated the Turner Thesis (Also known as the Frontier Theory) [e]
- Charles A. Beard [r]: (1874–1948) one of the most influential American historians of the early 20th century; leader of the "Progressive School" of historiography. [e]
- James Ford Rhodes [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Albert J. Beveridge [r]: Historian and United States Senator from Indiana, widely known as a foremost American imperialist. [e]
- James Randall [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Allen Nevins [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Henry Steele Commanger [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Benjamin P. Thomas [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Richard Hofstadter [r]: (1916–1970) Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian at Columbia University. [e]
- Bruce Catton [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Albert Thayer Mahan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Samuel Eliot Morison [r]: Professional historian who wrote the official history of U.S. Navy operations in the Second World War, rising to reserve rear admiral [e]
- David M. Potter [r]: (1910–1971) Pulitzer Prize-winning American history professor at Yale and Stanford. [e]
- Kenneth M. Stampp [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Benjamin Quarles [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Richard N. Current [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Don E. Fehrenbacher [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Arthur E. Schlesinger Sr. [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Arthur E. Schlesinger Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Hope Franklin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- David Herbert Donald [r]: Add brief definition or description
- James M. McPherson [r]: Add brief definition or description
