List of historians

"Historians" redirects here. For the profession, see Historian.

This is a list of historians.

The names are grouped by order of the historical period in which they were writing, which is not necessarily the same as the period in which they specialize

Chroniclers and annalists, though they are not historians in the true sense, are also listed here for convenience.

See also: List of historians by area of study, List of historians of the French Revolution, English historians in the Middle Ages

Historians of the Ancient Period

• Herodotus, (484 – c. 420 BC), Halicarnassus, "Father of History"
• Thucydides, (460 – c. 400 BC), Peloponnesian War
• Berossus, (early 3rd century BC), Babylonian historian
• Xenophon, (431 – c. 360 BC), an Athenian knight and student of Socrates
• Ptolemy I Soter (367 BC — c. 283 BC), General of Alexander the Great, Founder of Ptolemaic Dynasty.
• Timaeus of Tauromenium, (c. 345 – c. 250 BC), Greek history
• Quintus Fabius Pictor, (c. 254 BC - ?), Roman history
• Gaius Acilius, (fl. 155 BC), Roman history
• Polybius, (203 – c. 120 BC), Early Roman history (written in Greek)
• Sima Qian, (c. 145 - c. 86 BC), Chinese history
• Julius Caesar, (100 – c. 44 BC), Gallic and civil wars
• Diodorus of Sicily, (1st century BC), Greek history
• Sallust, (86 – 34 BC)
• Dionysius of Halicarnassus, (c. 60 - after 7 BC), Roman history
• Livy, (c. 59 BC - c. 17 AD), Roman history
• Marcus Velleius Paterculus, (c. 19 BC – c. 31 AD), Roman history
• Quintus Curtius Rufus, (c. 60-70), Greek history
• Ban Gu, (32 - 92), (Han Dynasty)
• Flavius Josephus, (37 – 100), Jewish history
• Ban Zhao, (45 - 116), (Han Dynasty)
• Thallus, (early 2nd century AD), Roman history
• Plutarch, (c. 46 – 120), would not have counted himself as an historian, but is a useful source because of his Parallel Lives of important Greeks and Romans.
• Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, (c. 56 – c. 120), early Roman Empire
• Suetonius, (75 – 160), Roman emperors up to Flavian dynasty
• Appian, (c. 95 - c. 165), Roman history
• Arrian, (c. 92-175), Greek history
• Lucius Ampelius, (3rd century AD?), Roman history
• Dio Cassius, (c. 160 - after 229), Roman history
• Herodian, (c. 170 - c. 240), Roman History
• Eusebius of Caesarea, (c. 275 - c. 339), Early Christian
• Ammianus Marcellinus, (c. 325 – c. 391), Roman history
• Rufinus of Aquileia, (c. 340 - 410), Early Christian
• Philostorgius, (368 - c. 439), Early Christian
• Socrates of Constantinople, (c. 380 - ?), Early Christian
• Fa-Hien, (c. 337 - c. 422), Chinese Buddhist monk and historian
• Theodoret, (c. 393 - c. 457), Early Christian
• Priscus, (5th century), Byzantine history
• Sozomen (c. 400 - c. 450), Early Christian
• Salvian, (c. 400/405 - c. 493), Early Christian

Medieval historians/chroniclers

• Shen Yue, (441-513), History of the Liu Song Dynasty (420-479)
• Movses Khorenatsi,(January 13, 410-488), History of Armenians since 2492 BC
• Agathangeghos, Armenian historian (IV-V centuries), History of the adoption of Christianity in Armenia as the first Christian state (301)
• John Malalas, (c. 491 - 578), Early Christian
• Zosimus, (fl. 491 - 518), Late Roman history
• Procopius, (c. 500 - c. 565), Byzantines
• Jordanes, (6th century), Goths
• Gregory of Tours, (538 – 594), Franks
• Adamnan, (625 - 704), Irish historian
• Bede, (c. 672 – 735), Anglo-Saxons
• Tírechán, (fl. c. 655), Irish biographer of Saint Patrick
• Cogitosus, (fl. c. 650), Irish historian,
• Muirchu moccu Machtheni, (7th century), Irish historian
• Paul the Deacon, (8th century), Langobards
• Constantine of Preslav, (Late 9th century - Early 10th century), Bulgarian historian
• Nennius, (9th century?), Shadowy historian of Wales
• Martianus Hiberniensis, (819-875), Irish teacher and historian
• Einhard, (9th century) - Biography of Charlemagne
• Notker of St Gall, (9th century), Anecdotal Biography of Charlemagne
• Ibn Rustah, (10th century), Persian historian and traveler
• Asser, Bishop of Sherborne, (died 908/909), Welsh historian
• Regino of Prüm, (died 915)
• Muhammad al-Tabari, (838 – 923), Great Persian historian
• Liutprand of Cremona, (922 – 972), Byzantine affairs
• Li Fang, (925 – 996) Chinese editor of the Four Great Books of Song
• Heriger of Lobbes, 925-1007
• Al-Biruni, (973 – 1048), Persian historian
• Geoffrey of Monmouth, churchman/historian
• Thietmar of Merseburg, German, Polish, and Russian affairs
• Nestor the Chronicler, author of the Russian Primary Chronicle
• Gallus Anonymus, Polish historian
• Albert of Aix, historian of the First Crusade
• Michael Psellus, (1018 – c. 1078)
• Michael Attaleiates, (c. 1015 - c. 1080)
• Sima Guang, (1019–1086), historiographer and politician
• Marianus Scotus, (1028–1082/1083), Irish chronicler
• Guibert of Nogent, (1053–1124)
• Galbert of Bruges, 12th century, Flemish chronicler
• Florence of Worcester, (died 1118), English chronicler
• Eadmer, (c. 1066 – c. 1124), post-Conquest English history
• Kim Bu-sik, (1075–1151), Korean historian, author of the Samguk Sagi
• Symeon of Durham, (died after 1129), English chronicler
• William of Malmesbury, (c. 1080 – c. 1143)
• Anna Comnena, (1083 – after 1148)
• Usamah ibn Munqidh, (1095–1188)
• Adam of Bremen, historian of Scandinavia
• Kalhana, historian of Kashmir.
• Saxo Grammaticus, (12th century), Danish
• Svend Aagesen, (12th century), Danish
• Alured of Beverley, (12th century), English chronicler
• John Zonaras, (12th century), Byzantine chronicler
• Helmold of Bosau, (ca. 1120 – after 1177), German chronicler
• William of Tyre, (c. 1128–1186)
• William of Newburgh, (1135–1198), English historian called "the father of historical criticism"
• Mohammed al-Baydhaq, (fl. 1150), Moroccan historian
• John of Worcester, (fl. 1150s), English chronicler
• Giraldus Cambrensis, (c. 1146 – c. 1223)
• Wincenty Kadlubek, (1161–1223), Polish historian
• Ambroise, (fl. 1190s), Anglo-Norman poet, wrote verse narrative of the Third Crusade
• Geoffroi de Villehardouin, (c. 1160–1212)
• Nicetas Choniates, (died c. 1220)
• Snorri Sturluson, (c. 1178 – 23rd Sept.1241), Icelandic historian
• Abdelwahid al-Marrakushi (born 1185) Moroccan historian
• Ata al-Mulk Juvayni, (1226–83), Persian historian
• Ibn al-Khabbaza (died 1239) Moroccan historian
• Matthew Paris, (died 1259)
• Il-yeon, (1206–1289), Korean historian, author of the Samguk Yusa
• Salimbene di Adam, (1221 – c. 1290), Italian
• Abdelaziz al-Malzuzi (died 1298) Moroccan historian
• Templar of Tyre, (c. 1230–1314), end of the Crusades
• Adam of Eynsham d. c. 1233 - English hagiographer and writer, abbot of Eynsham Abbey
• Jean de Joinville, (1224–1319)
• Rashid-al-Din Hamadani, (1247–1317), Persian historian
• ibn Khaldun, (1332–1406), North African historian "of the world"
• Piers Langtoft, (died c. 1307)
• Ibn Abi Zar (fl. 1315) Moroccan historian
• Abdullah Wassaf, 13th century, Persian historian
• Ibn Idhari (beginning 14th century) Moroccan historian
• John Clyn, fl. 1333-1349, Irish historian
• Jean Froissart, (c. 1337 – c. 1405), chronicler
• Dietrich of Nieheim, (c. 1345–1418), ecclesiastic history
• Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin, d. 1372
• Adhamh Ó Cianáin, d. 1373
• John of Fordun, Scottish chronicler (d. 1384 )
• Ruaidhri Ó Cianáin (died 1387)
• Álvar García de Santa María, (1370–1460)
• Ismail ibn al-Ahmar (1387–1406) Moroccan historian
• Giolla Íosa Mór Mac Fhirbhisigh, fl. 1390-1418
• Alphonsus A Sancta Maria, (1396–1456)
• Jan Długosz, Polish historian and chronicler
• Philippe de Commines, French historian
• Cathal Óg Mac Maghnusa, 1439–1498, compilor and annalist.
• Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi, d. 1454, Persian historian
• John Capgrave, (1393–1464)
• Christine de Pizan, (c. 1365 – c. 1430), historian, poet, philosopher
• Robert Fabyan, (died 1513)
• Albert Krantz, (1450–1517)
• Polydore Vergil, (c. 1470–1555), Tudor history
• Sigismund von Herberstein, (1486–1566), Muscovite affairs
• João de Barros, (1496–1570)
• Niccolò Machiavelli, (1469–1527), author of Florentine Histories
• Francesco Guicciardini, (1483–1540), historian of the Italian Wars, "Storia d'Italia"
• Josias Simmler, (1530–1576)
• Paolo Paruta, (1540–1598), Venetian historian
• Raphael Holinshed, (died c. 1580)
• Hector Boece, Scottish philosopher and historian. Wrote "Historia Gentis Scotorum" (1465–1536)
• Caesar Baronius, (1538–1607)
• Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni, (1540–1615), Indo-Persian historian
• Abd al-Aziz al-Fishtali (1549–1621), Moroccan historian
• Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi (1553–1616) Moroccan historian
• John Hayward, (1564–1627)
• Pilip Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin (fl. 1579–1590)
• Bahrey (1593), an Ethiopian monk and historian. Wrote Zenahu le Galla (History of the Galla, now the Oromo)
• William Bradford, (1590–1657), Mayflower/Plymouth Colony of America
• James Ussher, (4 January 1581 – 21 March 1656), Chronology of the History of the World
• Baldassarre Bonaiuti, a chronicler (historian) of the 14th century

Early modern historians (1500–1799)

A

• Fray Íñigo Abbad y Lasierra (1745–1813) Spanish historian
• Mohammed Akensus (1797–1877) Moroccan historian

B

• Abbasgulu Bakikhanov, (1794–1847), history of Azerbaijan and the Middle East
• Teimuraz Bagrationi, (1782–1846), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
• Archibald Bower, (1686–1766), Rome
• Mary Bonaventure Browne, Poor Clare and Irish historian, c.1610 - c.1670.
• Josiah Burchett, (1666? – 1746), British naval historian and Admiralty official

C

• Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng, (1738–1801), Chinese historian, local histories and essays on historiography
• Thomas Carlyle, (1795–1881), satirical writer, essayist, and historian

D

• Charles Dezobry, (1798–1871), French historian and historical novelist
• Mohammed al-Duayf (born 1752) Moroccan historian
• John Colin Dunlop, (c. 1785–1842)

E

• Laurence Echard, (c.1670–1730), England

F

• Abd al-Rahman al-Fasi (1631–1685), Moroccan historian
• George Finlay, (1799–1875), Greece
• Abd al-Aziz al-Fishtali (1549–1621), Moroccan historian
• Francisco Jose Freire (1719–1773), Portuguese historian and philologist
• Francesco Maria Appendini (1768–1837), Italian historian-Republic of Ragusa
• Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, (1610–1688), Medieval and Byzantine historian and philologist

G

• Garcilaso de la Vega, (1539–1616), Spanish historian. Inca history, culture, and society.
• Erik Gustaf Geijer, Swedish nationalist historian
• Edward Gibbon, (1737–1794), Roman Empire and Byzantium
• George Grote, (1794–1871), classical Greece
• François Guizot, (1787–1874), French historian of general French, English history

H

• Edward Hasted, (1732–1812), Kent
• Sulayman al-Hawwat, (1747–1816) Moroccan historian
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, (1770–1831), German philosopher of history
• Alexander Hewat (or Hewatt), (1739–1824), First historian of pre-revolutionary Carolina and Georgia
• Arild Huitfeldt, (1546–1609), Danish historian.
• David Hume (1711–1776), Scottish Enlightenment Philosopher and author of six volume History of England (originally History of Britain)

I

• Mohammed al-Ifrani (1670–1745) Moroccan historian

K

• Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, (1766–1826), Russian historian - Russian Empire
• Geoffrey Keating/Seathrún Céitinn, d.1643, Irish historian

L

• Joachim Lelewel, (1786–1861), Polish historian
• John Lingard, (1771–1851), England
• Anton Tomaz Linhart, (1756–1795), well known for Slovenian history

M

• Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh, fl.1643–1671, Irish historian, annalist, genealogist
• Jules Michelet, (1798–1874), French
• François Mignet, (1796–1884), French historian of the Revolution, Middle Ages
• Christian Molbech, (1783–1857), Danish history, founder of Historisk Tidsskrift (1839).
• Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim, (1694–1755), Lutheran historian
• Johannes von Müller, (1752–1809)
• Ludovico Antonio Muratori, (1672–1750), Italy.

N

• Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, (1637–1698), ecclesiastical historian
• Barthold Georg Niebuhr, (1776–1831), German historian

O

• Tadhg Og Ó Cianáin (died c.1614)
• Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, Irish historian, c.1590–1643
• Peregrine Ó Duibhgeannain, Irish historian, fl.1627-1636
• Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh (died c. 1662/1664)
• Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh, Irish historian, 1629–1716/1718
• Olaus Magnus, (ca. 1490-1570)

P

• William H. Prescott, (1796–1859), US historian of Spain, Mexico, Peru
• Placido Puccinelli, (1609–1685), Italian historian

Q

• Mohammed al-Qadiri (1712–1773) Moroccan historian

R

• Leopold von Ranke, (1795–1886), European diplomacy; probably the greatest German historian

S

• Mikhail Shcherbatov, (1733–1790), Russian historian
• John Strype, (1643–1737), English historian

T

• Vasily Tatishchev, (1686–1750), first historian of modern Russia
• Adolphe Thiers, (1797–1877), French historian of the Revolution, Empire

V

• Voltaire, (1694–1778), French Enlightenment philosopher and historian

W

• Sir James Ware, (1594–1666), Anglo-Irish historian and antiquarian

Y

• Yu Deuk-gong, (1749–1807), Korean historian

Z

• Abu al-Qasim al-Zayyani (1734–1833)

Historians born in the 19th century

A

• Henry Brooks Adams, (1838–1918), US 1800-1816
• Grace Aguilar, (1816–1847), Jewish history
• Charles McLean Andrews, (1863–1943), American; U.S. colonial history
• Alfred von Arneth, (1819–1897), history of the Austrian Empire
• Mikhail Artamonov, (1898–1972), founder of Khazar studies
• François Victor Alphonse Aulard, (1849–1928), French Revolution and Napoleon I
• Zurab Avalishvili, (1876–1944), history of Georgia and the Caucasus

B

• Harry Elmer Barnes, (1889 - 1968) American
• Charles Bean, (1879–1968), Australia in World War I
• Charles A. Beard, (1874–1948), American historian, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
• Mary Ritter Beard, (1876–1958), American Historian and wife of Charles A. Beard
• George Bancroft, (1800–1891), United States
• Wilhelm Barthold, (1869–1930), Muslim studies, Turkology
• Winthrop Pickard Bell, (1884 - 1965) Nova Scotia
• Hilaire Belloc, (1870–1953) French writer and historian later naturalised British.
• Marc Bloch, (1886–1944), medieval France
• George Williams Brown, (1894–1963), Canada
• Otto Brunner, (1898 - 1982) medieval and early modern Austria
• Geoffrey Bruun (1899–1988), European civilization
• Henry Thomas Buckle, (1821–1862), English, History of Civilization
• Jacob Burckhardt, (1818–1897), art history, European history, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
• Montagu Burrows, (1819–1905) first naval historian at a British university
• John Hill Burton, (1809–1881), Scottish Jacobin history
• J. B. Bury, (1861–1927), classical, Europe

C

• Pierre Caron, (1875–1952), French revolution
• E. H. Carr, (1892–1982) Soviet history, International Relations
• Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, (1828–1897), Spanish historian
• Henri Raymond Casgrain, (1831–1904), priest, author, historian
• Cesar de Bazancourt, (1810–1865), French historian; works on the Crimean War
• Boris Chicherin, (1828–1904), Russian historian - history of Russian laws
• Winston Churchill, (1874–1965) world wars; English
• Augustin Cochin, (1876–1916), history of French Revolution
• Julian Corbett, (1854–1922), British naval historian
• Vladimir Ćorović, (1885 - 1941) Serbia
• Edward Shepherd Creasy, (1812–1878), warfare
• Margaret Campbell Speke Cruwys (1894–1968), Devon historian

D

• Felix Dahn, (1834–1912), European history unfolding during the first millennium CE
• Angie Debo, (1890–1988), Native American and Oklahoma history
• Léopold Delisle, (1826–1910), French historian and librarian
• Bernard DeVoto, (1897–1955), American West
• David C. Douglas, (1898 - 1982) Norman England
• Johann Gustav Droysen, (1808–1884), German historian, professor at Kiel, Jena & Berlin
• Will Durant (1885–1981), Europe

E

• Mary Anne Everett Green, (1818–1895), English
• Ephraim Emerton, (1851–1935), medieval Europe

F

• Cyril Falls, (1888–1971), military
• Lucien Febvre, (1878–1956), French historian
• Walter Lynwood Fleming, (1874–1932) U.S. Reconstruction
• James Anthony Froude, (1818–1894), Tudor England
• J.F.C. Fuller, (1878 - 1966) military
• Frantz Funck-Brentano, (1862–1947), French historian and librarian
• Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, (1830–1889), antiquity, France

G

• François-Louis Ganshof, (1895–1980), medieval history
• Pieter Geyl, (1887 - 1966) Dutch
• Lawrence Henry Gipson, (1882–1970) British Empire before 1775
• Arthur Giry, (1848–1899), diplomatics
• Gustave Glotz, (1862–1935), Ancient Greece
• George Peabody Gooch, (1873–1968), Modern Diplomacy
• Timofey Granovsky, (1813–1855), medieval Germany
• Lionel Groulx, (1878–1967), Quebec
• René Grousset, (1885–1952), Oriental History

H

• Louis Halphen, (1880–1950), Middle Ages
• Clarence H. Haring, (1885–1960), Latin American history
• Charles H. Haskins, (1870–1937), Americans first medieval historian
• Henri Hauser, (1866–1946), French historian, economist, geographer
• Julien Havet, (1853–1893), Middle Ages
• Paul Hazard, (1878–1944), Modern France
• Eli Heckscher, (1879–1954), Swedish economic historian
• Auguste Himly, (1823–1906), French historian and geographer
• Johan Huizinga,(1872–1945), Dutch historian, author of Waning of the Middle Ages

I

• Ibn Zaydan (1873–1946) Moroccan historian
• Dmitry Ilovaisky, (1832–1920), Russian historian - Russian history

J

• Mohammed ibn Jaafar al-Kattani (1858 - 1927) Moroccan
• Muhammad Jaber, (1875–1945), history of the Levant and the Middle-East
• William James (naval historian), historian of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars
• Ivane Javakhishvili, (1876–1940), Georgian historian

K

• Samuel Kamakau, (1815–1876), Hawaiian historian
• Konstantin Kavelin, (1818–1885), Russian historian - history of Russian laws
• Hans Kelsen, (1881 - 1973) legal
• Philip Moore Callow Kermode, (1855–1932), Manx crosses and runic inscriptions
• Alexander William Kinglake, (1809–1891), works on the Crimean War
• Vasily Klyuchevsky, (1841–1911), Russian history
• Dudley Wright Knox, (1877–1960), American naval historian
• Ludwig von Köchel, (1800–1877), writer, composer, botanist, music historian
• Nikodim Kondakov, (1844–1925), Byzantine art
• Nikolay Kostomarov, (1817–1885), Russian and Ukrainian history
• Godefroid Kurth, (1847–1916), Belgian historian

L

• Leonard Woods Labaree, (1897 - 1980) editor of the Benjamin Franklin Papers
• William L. Langer, (1896–1977), US historian, World and diplomatic history
• John Knox Laughton, (1830 - 1915) British naval historian
• Ernest Lavisse (1842-1922), French history
• Georges Lefebvre, (1874–1959), French Revolution
• B. H. Liddell Hart, (1895 - 1970) British military
• John Edward Lloyd, (1861 - 1947) Welshness
• Ferdinand Lot, (1866 - 1952) Middle Ages

Mc and Mac

• Thomas Macaulay, (1800–1859), British
• J. D. Mackie, (1887 - 1978) Scottish

M

• Frederic William Maitland, (1850–1906), English legal
• Alfred Thayer Mahan, (1840–1914), naval
• Ramesh Chandra Majumdar, (1888–1980), Indian history
• Albert Mathiez, (1874–1932), French Revolution
• Friedrich Meinecke, (1862–1954), German intellectual and cultural
• Krste Misirkov, (1874–1926), Macedonian historian and author
• Auguste Molinier, (1851–1904), Middle Ages
• Theodor Mommsen, (1817–1903), Roman Empire
• Alfred Morel-Fatio, (1850–1924), Spain
• Samuel Eliot Morison, (1887 - 1976) Naval, American colonial
• Lewis Mumford, (1895–1988), urban

N

• Lewis Bernstein Namier, (1888 - 1960) 18th century British and 20th century diplomatic
• Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri (1835–1897), Moroccan historian
• J. E. Neale (1890–1975), Elizabethan England
• Allan Nevins, (1890 - 1971) US political and business; Civil War; biography

O

• Charles Oman, (1860 - 1946) 19th century military

P

• Cesare Paoli (1840–1902), Italian History
• Gaston Paris, (1839 - 1903) Middle Ages
• Henry Francis Pelham, (1846 - 1907) Roman
• Samuel W. Pennypacker, (1843–1916) Pennsylvania history
• Dexter Perkins, (1889 - 1984) USA
• Henri Pirenne, (1862–1935), Belgian and medieval European history
• Sergey Platonov, (1860–1933), Oprichnina and Time of Troubles
• Eileen Power, (1889 - 1940) Middle Ages
• H. F. M. Prescott, (1896–1972) biographer of Mary I of England and medieval History
• Datto Vaman Potdar, (1890–1979) Indian Historian

Q

• Jules Quicherat, (1814 - 1882) Middle Ages

R

• William Pember Reeves (1857–1932), New Zealand
• Pierre Renouvin, (1893–1974),diplomatic historian.
• B. H. Roberts, (1857–1933), Mormon
• Theodore Roosevelt, (1858–1919), American west, naval
• Simon Rutar, (1851–1903), Slovenian

S

• Abram L. Sachar, (1899–1993)
• George Sarton, (1884–1956), history of science
• Sergey Solovyov, (1820–1879), Russian historian
• Govind Sakharam Sardesai, (1865–1959), Indian Historian and Author of 'The New History of Maratha Empire'
• Goldwin Smith, (1823–1910), historian
• Oswald Spengler, (1880–1936), The Decline of the West
• Shin Chaeho, (1880–1936), Korean historian
• Doris Mary Stenton, (1894–1971), English medievalist

T

• Hippolyte Taine, (1828–1893), French Revolution
• Frank Bigelow Tarbell, (1853–1920), ancient art history
• Yevgeny Tarle, (1874–1955), Russian historian
• A. Wyatt Tilby, (1880–1948), British author of The English People Overseas (Vol. I – VI)
• Alexis de Tocqueville, (1805–1859) French historian, author of The Old Regime and the French Revolution, Democracy in America
• Zacharias Topelius, (1818–1898)
• Arnold J. Toynbee, (1889–1975), A Study of History, world history
• Heinrich Gotthard von Treitschke (1834–1896), German historian and nationalist
• George Macaulay Trevelyan, (1876–1962), British
• Mikheil Tsereteli, (1878–1965), Georgian historian

V

• Paul Vinogradoff, (1854–1925), later Roman Empire

W

• Curt Weibull, (1886–1991), Swedish historian
• Lauritz Weibull (1873–1960), Swedish historian
• Mary Wilhelmine Williams, (1878–1944), Latin America
• Spenser Wilkinson, (1853 - 1937) British military historian
• James A. Williamson, (1886 - 1964) English maritime historian and historian of exploration.
• Justin Winsor, (1831–1897), editor of the Narrative and Critical History of America, (8 vols., 1884–89)
• Ernest Llewellyn Woodward, (1890–1971), British historian, British history and international relations

Y

• Yi Byeongdo, (1896–1989), Korean historian

Z

• Faddei Zielinski, (1859–1944), Ancient Greece

Modern s (after 1900)

A

• Raouf Abbas, (1939–2008) Egyptian
• Irving Abella, (born 1940) Canadian
• David Abulafia, (born 1949) Mediterranean history
• Donald Adamson, (born 1939) British
• Teodoro Agoncillo, (1912–1985), Filipino, Philippine history
• Robert G. Albion, (1896–1983), maritime
• Dean C. Allard, (born 1933) American naval
• Michael Allen, American, trans-Mississippi West
• Robert C. Allen, (born 1947) British economic
• Gar Alperovitz, (born 1936) American, Hiroshima
• Ida Altman, (born 1950) American, colonial Spain & Latin America
• Henri Amouroux, (1920–2007), French; the Nazi occupation of France
• Stephen Ambrose, (1936–2002), American; WW2, U.S. political
• Joyce Appleby, (born 1929) American; US early national
• Herbert Aptheker, (1915–2003), American; African American
• Leonie Archer, British
• Philippe Ariès, (1914 - 1984) French; medieval; childhood
• Karen Armstrong, (born 1944) British; religious
• Leonard J. Arrington, (1917–1999), American; Mormons
• Thomas Asbridge, crusades
• Paul Avrich, (1931 - 2006) Russian, the Anarchist movement
• Ali Azaykou (1942–2004), Moroccan

B

• Nigel Bagnall, (1927 - 2002) Ancient Rome, Greece
• Bernard Bailyn, (born 1922) Early American
• David E. Barclay, (born 1948) German
• Juliet Barker, (born 1958) Late Middle Ages, literary biography
• Frank Barlow, (1911 - 2009) medieval biography
• Linda Diane Barnes, American
• G.W.S. Barrow, (born 1924) Scottish
• H. Arnold Barton, (born 1929) Scandinavian
• Jacques Barzun, (born 1907), cultural
• Hanna Batatu, (1926 - 2000) Palestinian of an authoritative study of modern Iraq
• K. Jack Bauer, (1926–1987), U.S. naval, military, and maritime
• Yehuda Bauer, (born 1926) the Holocaust
• David Bebbington, (born 1949), The History of Evangelicalism
• Antony Beevor, (born 1946), WW2
• James Belich (born 1956), New Zealand
• Abdelmajid Benjelloun (born 1944) Morocco
• Laurence Bergreen, born 1950) biography
• Isaiah Berlin, (1909–1997), of ideas
• Michael Beschloss, (born 1955) Cold War
• Nicholas Bethell, (1938 - 2007) Soviet
• Anthony Birley, (born 1937) Ancient Rome
• David Blackbourn, (born 1949) German
• Geoffrey Blainey (born 1930), Australian
• Gisela Bock, (born 1942) German feminist
• Brian Bond, (born 1936) British military
• Daniel J. Boorstin, (1914–2004), American
• Georges Bordonove, (1920 - 2007), France
• John Boswell, (1947–1994), Medievalist
• Robert Bothwell, (born 1944), Canadian history
• Gérard Bouchard, (born 1943) Canadian
• Joanna Bourke, (born 1963) military
• Paul S. Boyer, (born 1935) American
• Karl Dietrich Bracher, (born 1922) modern German
• Jim Bradbury, (born 1937) Middle Ages
• James C. Bradford, (born 1944), American naval
• William Brandon, (1914–2002), American West
• Fernand Braudel, (1902–1985) World, Mediterranean
• Ahron Bregman, (born 1958) Arab-Israeli conflict
• Timothy Brook, (born 1951) China
• Martin Broszat, (1926–1989) Nazi Germany
• Peter Brown, (born 1935) Medieval
• Christopher Browning, (born 1944) the Holocaust
• Alan Bullock, (1914–2004), 1940s
• Peter Burke (born 1937)
• Briton C. Busch, (1936–2004)), British diplomatic and American maritime
• Richard Bushman, (born 1931), American colonial
• Herbert Butterfield, (1900 - 1979) historiography

C

• Angus Calder, (1942–2008), British
• Helen Cam (1885–1968) English medieval
• Sir Raymond Carr (born 1919) Spanish and Latin American
• Paul Cartledge, (born 1947) Classical
• Lionel Casson (1914 - 2009)
• Boris Celovsky, (1923 - 2008) Czech-German relations
• Howard I. Chapelle, (1901 - 1975) maritime
• Maher Charif, Arab
• Iris Chang, (1968–2004) China
• Louis Chevalier, (1911–2001) France
• Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri, (born 1935) India
• Alexander Campbell Cheyne, (1924 - 2006) Scotland
• Alan Clark, (1928–1999), World Wars
• J. C. D. Clark, (born 1951) British
• Manning Clark, (1915–1991) Australia
• Patrick Collinson, (born 1929), Elizabethan England & Puritanism
• Robert Conquest, (born 1917) Russia
• Peter Cottrell, (born 1964) Anglo-Irish
• Gordon A. Craig, (born 1913) German & diplomatic
• Vincent Cronin, (born 1924) European and art history
• William Cronon, (born 1954), American environmental
• Pamela Kyle Crossley, (born 1955) China
• Dan Cruickshank, (born 1949) British and architectural history
• Barry Cunliffe, (born 1939) archaeology

D

• Robert Dallek, (born 1934) American politics, diplomacy
• Vahakn N. Dadrian, (born 1926) Armenia
• David B. Danbom, American rural
• Ahmad Hasan Dani, (1920 - 2009) South Asia
• Robert Darnton (born 1939) 18th-century France
• Lucy Dawidowicz, (1915 - 1990) Holocaust
• Saul David, (born 1966) military
• John Davies (born 1938) Wales
• Norman Davies, (born 1939) Polish and British
• Natalie Zemon Davis, (born 1928) early modern France, film
• Kenneth S. Davis, (1912 - 1999) Franklin D. Roosevelt
• R. H. C. Davis, (1918 - 1991) Middle Ages
• David Day, (born 1949) Australia
• Renzo De Felice, (1929 - 1996) Italian fascism
• Len Deighton, (born 1929) British military
• Carl N. Degler, (born 1921) American
• Esther Delisle, (born 1954), French-Canadian
• Jean Delumeau (born 1923) Catholic Church
• Marcel Detienne, (born 1935) ancient Greece
• Alexandre Deulofeu, (1903–1978), Catalan
• Isaac Deutscher, (1907–1967) Soviet +
• Tom M. Devine, (born 1945) Scottish
• Wu Di, (born 1951), China +
• Igor M. Diakonov, (1914–1999), Ancient Near East
• David Herbert Donald (1920 - 2009) American Civil War
• Gordon Donaldson (1913 - 1993) Scottish
• Susan Doran, Elizabethan England
• William Doyle, (born 1932), French Revolution +
• Georges Duby, (1924–1996), Middle Ages
• William S. Dudley, (1936–), American naval +
• Eamon Duffy, (born 1947) 15th-17th century religious
• A. Hunter Dupree, (born 1921) American science and technology
• Trevor Dupuy, (1916–1995) military

E

• Elizabeth Eisenstein, French Revolution, books
• Geoff Eley (born 1949) German
• John Elliott, (born 1941) Spanish
• Joseph J. Ellis (born 1943) American early Republic
• Geoffrey Elton, (1921–1994), Tudor England
• Peter Englund, (born 1957) Swedish
• Richard J. Evans, (born 1947) German social
• Alf Evers, (1905–2004) American history

F

• Brian Farrell, (born 1929)
• Niall Ferguson, (born 1964) military, business, economic, imperial
• Marc Ferro, (born 1924) World War I
• Joachim Fest, (1926–2006), Nazi Germany
• David Feuerwerker (1912–1980), Jewish
• Heinrich Fichtenau (1912–2000), medievalism, diplomatics
• Orlando Figes, (born 1957), Russian
• Robert O. Fink, (1905–1988), classical
• Moses Finley, (1912 - 1986) ancient, especially economic
• David Hackett Fischer, (born 1935) American Revolution, cycles
• Fritz Fischer, (1908 - 1999) German
• Frances FitzGerald, (born 1940) Vietnam; history textbooks
• Judith Flanders, (born 1959), Victorian British social
• Robert Fogel, (born 1926) American economic, cliometrics
• Eric Foner, (born 1943) Reconstruction
• Shelby Foote, (1916–2005), American Civil War
• Michel Foucault, (1926–1984), ideas
• Jo Fox, twentieth-century film and propaganda
• Robin Lane Fox, (born 1946) Ancient
• Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, (1941 - 2007) American South; cultural & social, women
• Walter Frank, (1905–1945), Nazi historian
• H. Bruce Franklin, (born 1934) American historian of the Vietnam War
• Antonia Fraser (born 1932), English
• Frank Freidel, (1916 - 1993) American; Franklin Roosevelt
• Henry Friedlander, (born 1930) Holocaust
• Saul Friedländer, (born 1932) Holocaust
• Sheppard Frere (born 1916)
• David Fromkin (born 1932)
• Bruno Fuligni (born 1968)
• Francis Fukuyama, (born 1955) world
• François Furet, (1927 - 1997) French Revolution

G

• Femme Gaastra, (born 1945) Dutch
• John Lewis Gaddis, (born 1941) Cold War
• Lloyd Gardner, US diplomatic
• Peter Gay, (born 1923) psychohistory, Enlightenment & 19th century social
• Eugene Genovese, (born 1930) US South, slavery
• François Géré, (born 1950) military
• Christian Gerlach, (born 1963) Holocaust
• N. H. Gibbs, (1910 - 1990) military
• William Gibson, (born 1959) ecclesiastical
• Martin Gilbert, (born 1936) Holocaust
• Carlo Ginzburg, (born 1939) social
• Jan Glete (1947–2009), Swedish
• James Goldrick, Australian
• Adrian Goldsworthy, (born 1969) ancient
• Brison D. Gooch, (born 1925) Europe, Belgium
• Doris Kearns Goodwin, (born 1943) American presidential
• Andrew Gordon, British naval
• Gerald S. Graham, (1903 - 1988) British imperial
• Peter Green, (born 1924) ancient
• Vivian H. H. Green, (1915–2005), Christianity
• Ranajit Guha, (born 1923) Indian
• Ramchandra Guha, (born 1958), India, environment
• Lev Gumilyov, (1912–1992), Soviet
• Oliver Gurney, (1911 - 2001) Assyria, Hittites
• John Guy, (born 1949) Tudor England

H

• Irfan Habib, (born 1931) India
• Sheldon Hackney, U.S. South
• Claude Hall (1922–2001), American diplomacy
• John Whitney Hall (1916–1997), Japan
• Bruce Barrymore Halpenny, WW2 air war
• Nicholas G. L. Hammond, (1907–2001) Macedonia and Greece
• Victor Davis Hanson, (born 1953) ancient warfare
• Dick Harrison, (born 1966) Swedish & Medieval
• Peter Harrison, (born 1955) Early modern intellectual
• Max Hastings, (born 1945) military, WW2
• John Hattendorf, (born 1941) maritime
• Ragnhild Hatton, (1913 - 1995) 17th and 18th century European international
• Denys Hay, (1915–1994), medieval and Renaissance Europe
• John Daniel Hayes, (1902–1991), American naval
• Jeffrey Herf, (born 1947) German and European
• Arthur Herman, (born 1956) American and British
• Raul Hilberg, (1926–2007), Holocaust
• Klaus Hildebrand, (born 1941) 19th-20th German
• Christopher Hill, (1912–2003), 17th century England
• Andreas Hillgruber, (1925 - 1989) 20th German
• Richard L. Hills (born 1936), technology
• Gertrude Himmelfarb, (born 1924) British
• Harry Hinsley, (1918–1998), British intelligence, WW2
• Eric Hobsbawm, (born 1917) labour; Marxism
• Marshall Hodgson, (1922 - 1968) Islamic
• Richard Hofstadter, (1916–1970), American political
• Peter Hoffmann, National Socialism
• David Hoggan, (1923 - 1988) neo-Nazi
• Hajo Holborn, (1902–1969), Germany
• Tom Holland, (born 1968) Ancient Greece, Rome, Middle Ages
• C. Warren Hollister, (1930 - 1997) Middle Ages
• George Holmes (professor), (1927-209), Medieval
• Richard Holmes, (1946 - 2011) Military
• Ed Hooper, (born 1964) Southern Appalachia, Tennessee, Old South
• A. G. Hopkins, (born 1938) British
• Keith Hopkins, (1934 - 2004) Ancient
• Albert Hourani, (1915 - 1993) Middle Eastern
• Youssef Hourany, (born 1931), Lebanese, Ancient
• Daniel Horowitz, (born 1954) American cultural
• Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, women
• Michiel Horn, (born 1939) Canadian
• Alistair Horne, (born 1925) modern French
• Michael Howard (born 1922) Military
• Robert Hughes, (born 1938) Australia, cities
• Andrew Hunt, (born 1968) Cold War America
• Tristram Hunt, (born 1974)
• Mark C. Hunter, (born 1974) Naval

I

• Halil Inalcik, (born 1916) Ottoman Empire
• Jonathan Israel (born 1946), Netherlands, Enlightenment, Jewry

J

• Eberhard Jäckel, (born 1929) Nazi Germany
• Julian T. Jackson, (born 1954) French
• Harold James, (born 1956) modern Germany,
• Nikoloz Janashia, (1931–1982), Georgia and the Caucasus
• Simon Janashia, (1900–1947), of Georgia and the Caucasus
• Marius Jansen, (1922 - 2000) Japan
• Pawel Jasienica, (1909–1970), Polish
• Merrill Jensen (1905–1980), American Revolution
• Paul Johnson, (born 1928), British, Western civilization
• Robert Erwin Johnson (1923–2008), American naval
• Mauno Jokipii, (1924 - 2007) Finnish, World War II
• A.H.M. Jones (1904–1970), later Roman Empire
• Gwyn Jones, (1907 - 1999) medieval
• Loe de Jong, (1914 - 2005) Dutch
• Tony Judt, (1948–2010), 20c European

K

• David S. Katz, early modern English religious
• Donald Kagan, (born 1932) ancient Greek
• John Keegan, (born 1934) military
• John H. Kemble, (1912–1990), American maritime
• Paul Murray Kendall, (1911 - 1973), Late Middle Ages
• Elizabeth Topham Kennan, (born 1938) medievalist and former president, Mount Holyoke College
• George F. Kennan, (a.k.a. 'X') (1904 - 2005) US-Soviet relations
• James Kennedy, (born 1963) Netherlands
• Paul Kennedy, (born 1945) world, military
• W. Hudson Kensel, (born 1928) western American
• Ian Kershaw, (born 1943) Nazi Germany
• Daniel J. Kevles, (born 1939) science
• Kim Jung-bae, (born 1940), Korean
• Michael King, (1945–2004) New Zealand
• Patrick Kinross, (1904 - 1976) Ottoman Empire
• Martin Kitchen, (born 1936) modern European history
• Simon Kitson, Vichy France
• Matti Klinge, (born 1936) Finnish
• R.J.B. Knight, (born 1944) British naval
• Yuri Knorozov, (1922–1999), Russian, particularly renowned for the pivotal role his research played in the decipherment of the Maya script
• Eberhard Kolb, (born 1933) German
• Gabriel Kolko, (born 1932) American political
• Claudia Koonz, Nazi Germany
• Andrey Korotayev, (born 1961), Russian, cliodynamics
• Ernst Kossmann, (1922 - 2003) Low Countries
• Thomas Kuhn, (1922–1996), science
• Myoma Myint Kywe, (born 1960) Burmese writer and historian

L

• Benjamin Woods Labaree, (born 1927) American colonial and maritime
• Brij Lal, Fiji
• Abdallah Laroui, (born 1933)
• Leopold Labedz, (1920–1993), Soviet
• Andrew Lambert, (born 1956) British naval
• Ricardo Lancaster-Jones y Verea, (1905–1983), haciendas in Western Mexico
• David Lavender, (1910–2003), American West
• Walter LaFeber, (born 1933) diplomatic
• Jacques Le Goff, (born 1924) medieval
• Robert Leckie, (1920–2001), American military
• William Leuchtenburg, (born 1922) American political and legal
• Barbara Levick, (born 1931) Roman emperors
• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, (born 1929) French
• Lee Ki-baek, (1924–2004), Korean
• Li Ao, (born 1935), Chinese
• Leon F. Litwack, (born 1929) American and African-American
• Xinru Liu, Ancient Indian and Chinese
• Mario Liverani, (born 1939) ancient Middle East
• David Loades, (born 1934), Tudor England
• James W. Loewen, (born 1942) American
• Erik Lönnroth (1910–2002)
• Walter Lord, (1917 - 2002) American
• John Lukacs, (born 1924) modern Europe

M

• Charles B. MacDonald, (1922 - 1990) World War II
• Stuart Macintyre (born 1947), Australian
• Forrest McDonald (born 1927) early national US, presidency, business
• K. B. McFarlane, (1903 - 1966) English medievalist
• Rosamond McKitterick, (born 1949) Medieval
• Margaret MacMillan (born 1943) 20th century international relations
• Ramsay MacMullen, (born 1928) Roman
• Magnus Magnusson, (1929 - 2007) Norse
• Piers Mackesy, (born 1924) British military
• Leonard Maltin, (born 1950) Film
• Charles S. Maier, (born 1939) 20th century Europe
• Paul L. Maier, (born 1930) Ancient history
• Pauline Maier, (born 1938) Early American
• William Manchester, (1922 - 2004) Churchill
• Adel Manna, (born 1947) Palestine in the Ottoman period
• Golo Mann, (1909–1994)
• Robert Mann, Vietnam War
• Philip Mansel, (born 1951) France, Ottoman Empire
• Arthur Marder, (1910 - 1980) British naval
• Timothy Mason, (1940 - 1990) Nazi Germany
• Henri-Jean Martin, (1924 - 2007) the book
• Rev. F.X. Martin, (1922 - 2000) Irish medievalist and campaigner
• Michael Marrus, (born 1941) French and Jewish
• David McCullough, (born 1933) American
• William S. McFeely American Civil War
• James M. McPherson, (born 1936) American Civil War
• William McNeill, (born 1917) World
• Laurence Marvin, American, French medievalist
• Garrett Mattingly, (1900 - 1962) Early modern Europe
• Arno J. Mayer, (born 1926) World War I and Europe
• Richard Maybury, (born 1946) United States, especially WWI, WWII, and the Middle East
• D. W. Meinig, (born 1924) American geography
• Evaldo Cabral de Mello, (born 1936) Dutch Brazil
• Russell Menard, Colonial American
• Thomas C. Mendenhall, (1910 - 1998)
• Josef W. Meri, (born 1969) Islamic world, Jews
• Barbara Metcalf, India
• Perry Miller, (1905 - 1963) Intellectual
• Giles Milton, (born 1966) Exploration
• Hans Mommsen, (born 1930) German
• Wolfgang Mommsen, (1930 - 2004) British and German
• Simon Sebag Montefiore, (born 1965) Russia, Middle East
• Edmund Morgan (born 1916) American colonial and revolution
• Kenneth O. Morgan (born 1934) British political
• William J. Morgan (historian), (1917 - 2003) U.S. naval
• Benny Morris, (born 1948) Middle-Eastern
• Ian Mortimer, (born 1967) Middle Ages
• George Mosse, (1918 - 1999) German, Jewish, fascist and sexual
• Roland Mousnier, (1907 - 1993) Early modern France
• Mubarak Ali (b. 1941) Pakistani

N

• Cynthia Neville, late medieval social, cultural and legal history; Scotland and England; Gaelic culture
• Leo Niehorster, (born 1947) military
• Thomas Nipperdey (1927–1992) German history from 1800 to 1918
• Ernst Nolte, (born 1923) German; fascism and communism

O

• Robin O'Neil, Holocaust
• Josiah Ober, ancient Greece
• Heiko Oberman, (1930 - 2001) Reformation
• W. H. Oliver (born 1925), New Zealand
• Michael Oren, (born 1955) Modern middle east
• Ilber Ortayli, (born 1947) Turkish of the Ottoman Empire
• Richard Overy, (born 1947) WW2
• Steven Ozment, (born 1939) Germany

P

• Thomas Pakenham, (born 1933), Africa
• Hasan Bülent Paksoy, (born 1948) Central Asia
• Ilan Pappé, (born 1954) Israel
• Simo Parpola, (born 1943) Ancient Middle East
• J. H. Parry,(1914–1982) maritime
• Thomas Paterson Cold War
• Peter Paret, (born 1924) military
• Geoffrey Parker, (born 1943) early modern military
• Abel Paz, (1921 - 2009) Spanish anarchist movement
• Morgan D. Peoples, (1919 - 1998) Louisiana
• William Armstrong Percy, (born 1933) Medieval Europe and ancient Greek and Roman, homosexuality
• Bradford Perkins, (1925 - 2008) U.S. diplomatic
• Detlev Peukert, (1950 - 1990) of Alltagsgeschichte (of everyday life) in the Weimar & Nazi eras.
• Liza Picard, (born 1927) London
• Boris B. Piotrovsky, (1908–1990), Urartu and Scythia
• Richard Pipes, (born 1923) Russian and Soviet
• J.H. Plumb, (1911–2001), British of the 18th century
• J. G. A. Pocock (born 1924), early modern period and Enlightenment
• Roy Porter, (1946–2002), of medicine & Britain
• Gordon W. Prange, (1910 - 1980) American, World War II Pacific, notably Pearl Harbor and Midway
• Joshua Prawer, (1917 - 1990) Crusades
• Michael Prestwich, (born 1943) medieval England
• Janko Prunk, (born 1942) Slovenian

R

• Werner Rahn, German naval
• Jack N. Rakove, US Constitution and early politics
• Šerbo Rastoder, Montenegrin
• René Rémond, French political
• Timothy Reuter, (1947 - 2002) Medieval Germany
• Henry A. Reynolds (born 1938), Australian
• Susan Reynolds, medieval
• Richard Rhodes, World War II, Hydrogen Bomb
• Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Russian
• Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond, British naval
• Jonathan Riley-Smith, Crusades
• Blaze Ristovski, Macedonian
• Charles Ritcheson, Anglo-American relations 1775-1815
• Gerhard Ritter, German
• Andrew Roberts, British
• J. M. Roberts, European
• N.A.M. Rodger, British naval
• William Ledyard Rodgers, ancient naval
• Theodore Ropp, military
• W.J. Rorabaugh, 19th and 20th century U.S.
• Ron Rosenbaum, Hitler
• Charles E. Rosenberg, medicine and science
• Stephen Roskill, British naval
• Theodore Roosevelt, War of 1812, frontier
• Michael Rostovtzeff, ancient
• Hans Rothfels, modern German
• Sheila Rowbotham, (born 1943) Feminism Socialism
• Herbert H. Rowen, Dutch
• A. L. Rowse, (1903–1997), English
• Miri Rubin, social, Europe 1100-1600
• George Rudé, (1910–1993), French revolution
• R. J. Rummel, genocide
• Steven Runciman, (1903 - 2000) Crusades
• Leila J.Rupp, feminist
• Conrad Russell, 17th century Britain
• Cornelius Ryan, (1920–1974), World War II, popular
• Boris Rybakov, (1908–2001), leader of Soviet anti-Normanists

S

• Ram Sharan Sharma Ancient India
• Edgar V. Saks, (1910–1984), Estonian
• Richard G. Salomon, (1884–1966), medieval and Church
• J. Salwyn Schapiro, fascism
• Dominic Sandbrook, (born 1974), modern Britain and the United States
• Usha Sanyal, Asian, Islam and Sufism
• Simon Schama, (born 1945), British, Dutch, American, French
• Arthur Schlesinger, Sr. American social
• Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Andrew Jackson, New Deal, politics
• Jean-Claude Schmitt, Middle Ages
• David Schoenbaum, modern German & American-Israeli relations.
• Carl Schorske, Vienna, Modernism, intellectual
• Paul W. Schroeder, European diplomacy
• D. M. Schurman, British imperial and naval
• William Henry Scott, (1921–1993), Philippine Cordillera, Pre-colonial Philippines
• Joan Scott Feminism
• Howard Hayes Scullard, (1903–1983), ancient
• Tom Segev, Israeli
• Robert Service Soviet and Russian
• James J. Sheehan modern German
• William L. Shirer, American journalist, expert on the Third Reich,
• Dasharatha Sharma, Rajasthan
• He Shu, (born 1948), Chinese Cultural Revolution
• Keith Sinclair (1922–1993), New Zealand
• Helene J. Sinnreich, Holocaust
• Nathan Sivin, China
• Quentin Skinner, early modern Britain
• Alexandre Skirda, Russian
• Theda Skocpol, Institutions and comparative method; sociological
• Richard Slotkin, American environment & West
• Cornelius Cole Smith, Jr. (1913–2004), military history, expert on the American Old West
• Digby Smith, Military
• Henry Nash Smith US cultural
• Jean Edward Smith US Foreign Policy, Constitutional Law, Biography,
• Justin Harvey Smith, Mexican-American war
• Richard Norton Smith, U.S. presidential
• T. C. Smout Scottish environmental and social
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, (born 1918), Russian Gulag
• Louis Leo Snyder, German nationalism
• Timothy D. Snyder, United States
• Albert Soboul, (1913–1982), French revolution
• Pat Southern, (born 1948) ancient Rome
• Richard Southern, medieval
• Dr. E. Lee Spence, (born 1947), shipwrecks
• Jonathan Spence, Chinese
• Jackson J. Spielvogel, world
• Kenneth Stampp, South, slavery
• David Starkey, (born 1945), Tudor
• James M. Stayer, German Reformation
• Wickham Steed, Eastern Europe.
• Valerie Steele, fashion
• Gerald J. Steinacher, Nazi-Germany
• Jean Stengers, Belgian
• Frank Stenton, Anglo-Saxon
• Fritz Stern, Germany & Jewish
• Zeev Sternhell, fascism.
• William N. Still, Jr., U.S. naval and Confederate naval
• Lawrence Stone, early modern British social, economic and family
• Norman Stone, military
• Hew Strachan, military
• Floyd Benjamin Streeter, Kansas, Old American West
• Michael Stürmer, modern German
• Viktor Suvorov, Soviet
• David Syrett, British naval
• Ronald Syme, (1903–1989), ancient

T

• J. L. Talmon,(1916–1980), Modern, "The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy"
• A.J.P. Taylor, (1906–1990), Britain, modern European
• Alasdair and Hettie Tayler, Scottish
• Ronald Takaki, (1939–2009), American, ethnic studies
• Abdelhadi Tazi, (born 1921), Moroccan
• Antonio Tellez, (1921–2005), Spanish Anarchism and anti-fascist resistance
• Harold Temperley, (1879–1939), 19c and early 20c century diplomatic
• Romila Thapar, (born 1931), Ancient India
• Barbara Thiering, (born 1930), Biblical
• Joan Thirsk ( born 1922), agriculture
• Hugh Thomas, Spanish Civil War, Cuba, Atlantic Slave Trade
• E. P. Thompson, (1924–1993), British labour
• John Toland, (1912–2004), WW1 and WW2 Histories
• K. Ross Toole, (1920–1981), Montana
• Ahmed Toufiq, (born 1943), Moroccan
• Marc Trachtenberg, Cold War
• Hugh Trevor-Roper, (1914–2003), Nazi; British
• Gil Troy, Modern American, the Presidency
• Barbara Tuchman, (1912–1989) 20c military
• Robert C. Tucker, Stalin
• Peter Turchin, (born 1958), Cliodynamics
• Henry Ashby Turner, Jr., 20c German
• Frederick Jackson Turner, (1861–1932), American Frontier
• Denis Twitchett, (1925–2006), China

U

• Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Early America
• Mladen Urem, Croatian literary
• Robert M. Utley, (born 1929), 19th Century American West

V

• Jean-Pierre Vernant,(1914–2007), French, ancient Greece
• Paul Veyne, French, ancient Greece and Rome
• Pierre Vidal-Naquet, (1930–2006), French, ancient Greece, Civil Rights activist
• Hans van de Ven, Dutch-born British, modern China

W

• John Waiko (born 1944), Papua New Guinean
• J. Samuel Walker US NRC historian, nuclear energy and weapons
• Retha Warnicke, (born 1939), Tudor & gender issues
• Eugen Weber, modern French
• Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, (1910–1997) Europe 16th-17th century
• Hans-Ulrich Wehler, 19c German social
• Russell Weigley, military
• Gerhard Weinberg, World War II
• Roberto Weiss Renaissance
• Frank Welsh (born 1931), British imperial
• Christopher Whatley, Scottish
• John Wheeler-Bennett, German
• John Whyte, Northern Ireland and on divided societies
• Christopher Wickham, medieval
• Alexander Wilkinson,(born 1975)Early Modern European; books
• Toby Wilkinson, (born 1969) Ancient Egypt
• Eric Williams, (1911–1981), Guianese, Caribbean
• Glanmor Williams
• Glyndwr Williams, exploration
• William Appleman Williams US diplomatic
• Clyde N. Wilson, 19c US South
• Ian Wilson, (born 1941) religious
• Heinrich August Winkler, (born 1938) German
• Keith Windschuttle, (born 1942) Australian & historiography
• Gordon Wright, (1912 - 2000) Modern French
• Robert S. Wistrich, Anti-Semitism, Holocaust, Jews
• John B. Wolf, French
• Michael Wolffsohn, German Jewish
• Gordon S. Wood, American Revolution
• Michael Wood
• C. Vann Woodward, (1908–1999), American South
• Lucy Worsley, British
• Lawrence C. Wroth, American printing trade

X

• Robert J. Young, French Third Republic.
• Robert M. Young, (born 1935), medicine

Z

• Nicolas Zafra, (1892–1979), Filipino
• Gregorio F. Zaide, (1907–1986), Filipino
• Adam Zamoyski, (born 1949) Napoleonic era
• Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, German
• Howard Zinn, (1922–2010) American
• Rainer Zitelmann, German

See also

• Historiography
• History
• List of Canadian historians
• List of Irish historians
• List of Jewish historians
• List of Russian historians
• Lists of authors
• Historian

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