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

Historiography

World history

Oswald Spengler, German historian, Decline of the West (1918-22)
Arnold J. Toynbee, British historian, A Study of History (1934-61)
William McNeill (born 1917) American;
Jackson J. Spielvogel - Pennsylvania State University, author of several major world history textbooks
Immanuel Wallerstein

Ancient history

see also [[Ancient Rome > Bibliography]]
Thucydides
Xenophon
Herodotus
Josephus
Livy
Julius Caesar
Suetonius
Tacitus

Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) - Roman Empire
Michael Grant Greece and Rome^[11]
Peter Green (1924- )- Ancient Greece^[12]
Barbara Levick (1932- ) Roman emperors ^[13]
Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776–1831) - Rome
M. I. Rostovtzeff (1870-1952) ^[14]
Howard H. Scullard (1903-1983) - Rome ^[15]
Ronald Syme (1903 - 1989) Rome^[16]

Medieval history

Placido Puccinelli (1609-1685, - Italy
Marc Bloch (1886-1944, French) France, methodology; Annales School
John Boswell (1947-1994) - Homosexuality
Norman Cantor (1930-2004), England, historiography
Georges Duby (1924-1996), France; Annales School
François-Louis Ganshof (1895-1980), Dutch
Patrick Geary
Johan Huizinga Dutch
George Sarton, science
Jacques Le Goff, French, Annales School
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

Modern history

Canada, history

Francis Parkman - French colonial; French and Indian War
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, conservatism
William Cronon - environmental history
John Hope Franklin - African Americans
Milton Friedman, monetary history
John A. Garraty, biography, political
Richard Hildreth, politics to 1840
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
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 and literature
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) - South after 1877
Howard Zinn (1922- ) - Left

Civil War and Reconstruction

Bruce Catton - combat
David Herbert Donald, politics
Shelby Foote - (1916-2005) battles

Neoabolitionist

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, Revolution
George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876–1962) 17th-18th centuries;
Hugh Trevor-Roper - 17th century; Nazi Germany
C. V. Wedgwood (1910-1997) - Glorious Revolution

Czech historians

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

Heinrich von Treitschke

20th century scholars in Germany

Martin Broszat, Nazi era
Werner Conze
Fritz Fischer - World War I
Klaus Hildebrand
Andreas Hillgruber
Eberhard Jäckel -Nazi era
Jürgen Kocka - Bielefeld school; scoial history
Hartmut Kaelble
Friedrich Meinecke
Hans Mommsen
Wolfgang Mommsen
Ernst Nolte
Detlev Peukert
Gerhard Ritter
Michael Sturmer -20c; geography*Klemens von Klemperer - Nazi era
Hans-Ulrich Wehler Bielefeld School; new social history; 19c
Michael Wolffsohn
Rainer Zitelmann - Nazi era

outside Germany

Thomas Carlyle Frederick the Great^[17]

Alan Bullock - Hitler^[18]
Gordon A. Craig - Army^[19]
Richard J. Evans - Nazi era^[20]
Ian Kershaw, Hitler^[21]
Claudia Koonz - Women in Nazi era^[22]
Timothy Mason -Nazis^[23]
George Mosse --19c-20c culture ^[24]
Steven Ozment Reformation ^[25]
Hans Rothfels - military
Fritz Stern - cultural^[26]
Henry Ashby Turner - 20c esp business^[27]

Ireland, history

R. F. Foster^[28]

Italy, history

Renzo De Felice ^[29]

Norway

Halvdan Koht (1873-1965) - peasants; Ibsen

Poland

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

Asia

China, history

Sima Qian - Compiled Records of the Grand Historian
John King Fairbank, survey ^[31]
Merle Goldman 20th c. ^[32]
Jacques Gernet, survey ^[33]
Immanuel Chung-yueh Hsü, survey ^[34]
Ray Huang ^[35]
Roderick MacFarquhar, Mao ^[36]
Michael, Franz
Frederick W. Mote imperial ^[37]
Joseph Needham, science ^[38]
Benjamin Schwartz ^[39]
Jonathan D. Spence ^[40]
Studies of Modern Chinese History: Reviews and Historiographical Essays

Korea, history

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

Religion

Christianity

Sydney Ahlstron, American religion
Eusebius of Caesarea (275–339) - "Father of Church history"
Alexander Campbell Cheyne, Scottish Ecclesiastical Historian
Kenneth Scott Latourette
John Gilmary Shea (1824-1892) Father of American Catholic History

Lutheranism

Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim (1694-1755)

Mormonism

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

Art history

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

Economic history

Military History

see Military History
Correlli Barnett - naval^[41]
Martin van Creveld - technology^[42]
Jack Granatstein - Canadian^[43]
Victor Davis Hanson - ancient^[44]
Alistair Horne - French^[45]
Michael Howard (1922- ) - Europe^[46]
John Keegan (1934-) -warfare, combat^[47]
Basil Liddell Hart (1895–1970) -World War I^[48]
Edward Luttwak (1942- ) stretegy^[49]
Alfred Thayer Mahan, sea power^[50]
S. L. A. Marshall - combat behavior^[51]
Samuel Eliot Morison (1887-1976) - World War II, Columbus, Jones^[52]
Peter Paret -ideas^[53]
Gordon Prange - World War II-Pacific^[54]
Gerhard Ritter - German^[55]
Hew Strachan - World War I.^[56]
Gerhard Weinberg - World War II^[57]

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, Columbus, Jones, WWII

Gender

John Boswell (1947-1994, American) - Homosexuality in medieval times
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 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
Joseph Needham, China ^[58]
David F. Noble, industrial development
Abraham Pais, physics; Einstein
A. I. Sabra, optics, Islamic science
George Sarton, medieval

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