List of historians by area of study

This is a list of historians categorized by their area of study. See also List of historians.

By time period

Ancient history

• Ram Sharan Sharma Eminent Historian of Ancient India.
• Leonie Archer - Graeco-Roman Palestine
• Michael Crawford (historian)
• Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) - The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• Adrian Goldsworthy (born 1969, British) - Roman history
• Peter Green - Ancient Greece and Macedon
• Josephus
• Herodotus
• Barbara Levick (born 1932tiitys, British) - Roman emperors
• Livy
• Ramsay MacMullen History of Rome
• Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903) History of Rome (Mommsen)
• 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
• Polybius

Medieval history

• Ram Sharan Sharma (born 1919) - early medieval History of India.
• Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman - historian of medieval medicine
• Placido Puccinelli (1609–1685, Italian) - Northern Italy in the 10th 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), Belgian - wrote on early medieval institutional history and feudalism
• Patrick Geary - early Middle Ages
• Geoffrey of Monmouth
• Geraldis Cambrensis
• Johan Huizinga (1872–1945, Dutch) - cultural history, Wrote 'Waning of the Middle Ages'
• Jacques Le Goff (1924, French) - Middle Ages, particularly the 12th and 13th centuries
• 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
• John Tolan
• Chris Wickham
• Retha Warnicke
• Pierre Bonnasie
• Aaron Gurevich
• Eric Christiansen
• Michael Prestwich

By nation or geographical area

North America

History of Canada

• Donald Creighton - Developed the Laurentian thesis
• William J. Eccles - History of New France
• 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

See also List of Canadian historians.

History of the Caribbean

• Manuel Barcia
• Hilary Beckles
• Kamau Brathwaite
• Bridget Brererton
• Carl Campbell
• Selwyn H. H. Carrington
• Matt D. Childs
• Aviva Chomsky
• Edward L. Cox
• Michael Craton
• Maria del Carmen Barcia
• Richard Drayton
• Reinaldo Funes
• Gloria Garcia
• Lillian Guerra
• N.A.T Hall
• B.W. Higman
• Vincent K. Hubbard - writes about St. Kitts and Nevis
• C. L. R. James
• Howard Johnson
• Franklin Knight
• Lucille Mathurin Mair
• Bernard Moitt
• Orlando Paterson
• Walter Rodney
• Verene Shepherd
• Alvin O. Thompson
• Eric Williams (1911–1981) - Focused on slavery and the slave trade, condemned imperialism

History of the United States

See also Category:Historians of the United States

• Stephen Ambrose (1936–2002) - Biographer of Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon
• Edward L. Ayers - U.S. South
• George Bancroft (1800–1891) - wrote first large-scale history of the US
• Charles A. Beard (1874–1948) - revisionist history of Founding Fathers suggesting monetary motivations
• William Brandon (1914–2002), historian of the American West and Native Americans.
• Alan Brinkley - Historian of the Great Depression
• Bruce Catton - American Civil War
• Nancy Cott - Women, the family, and marriage
• William Cronon - American environmental history, the frontier in New England, 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
• Drew Gilpin Faust - Civil War, culture of death, and the Confederacy
• Donald Fixico - Urban Indian identity
• Eric Foner - Civil War and Reconstruction
• Shelby Foote - (1916–2005) - American Civil War
• John Hope Franklin - historian of African Americans
• John A. Garraty
• Elizabeth Fox-Genovese Southern slavery, women's history
• Richard Hofstadter (1916–1970) - Progressivism and U.S. political history
• Peter Iverson - 20th century U.S. West/Native American history (emphasis in Navajo history)
• Paul Johnson - (born 1928) - author of A History of the American People and a biographer of George Washington
• Winthrop Jordan- African-American history
• David Lavender (1910–2003) - Western U.S.
• David McCullough (born 1933) - general study, most notable work is recent biography of John Adams
• James M. McPherson - American Civil War
• Pauline Maier (b.1938) - Late Colonial, Revolution, Constitution
• D. W. Meinig - geographic history of America
• Philip D. Morgan - slavery
• Gary Moulton - edited Lewis and Clark journals (The Definitive Nebraska Edition)
• 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 (born 1974) - political history of the 1960s and 1970s
• Arthur Schlesinger Sr.
• Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
• Cornelius Cole Smith, Jr. (1913–2004) - historian of Arizona, California and the Southwestern United States
• Jean Edward Smith (born 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 (1922–2010) - Political scientist and historian of the United States, often critical of common policies.

Latin America

History of Latin America

See also Category:Historians of Latin America

• Marc Becker
• Mark Burkholder
• Aviva Chomsky
• James Dunkerley
• Mark Falcoff
• Ann Farnsworth-Alvear
• Charles Gibson
• Mike Gonzalez
• Clarence H. Haring
• Daniel James (historian)
• Kenneth Maxwell
• William H. Prescott
• Peter Winn
• John Wirth
• John Womack

Chile

• Alonso de Góngora Marmolejo
• Pedro Mariño de Lobera
• Vicente Carvallo y Goyeneche
• Melchor Jufré del Águila

Europe

History of Europe

• Norman Davies
• Elizabeth Eisenstein, early printing and transitions in media
• Julia P. Gelardi, royal history of 19th and 20th centuries
• John Lukacs
• Henri-Jean Martin, early printing and writing
• Henri Pirenne
• Walter Alison Phillips
• John Roberts (historian)
• Robert Roswell Palmer
• J. Salwyn Schapiro
• Norman Stone
• Gordon Wright
• Charlotte Zeepvat, royal history of 19th and 20th centuries

History of Belgium

• Henri Pirenne - Middle ages
• Sophie de Schaepdrijver - World War I

History of England and Britain

• The Venerable Bede (672 – 735) - Britain from 55 BC to 731 AD
• Angus Calder - Great Britain
• Linda Colley (born 1949) - British history
• Maurice Cowling - High political history
• Richard Drayton - British history
• Eamon Duffy - Religious history of the 15th-17th centuries (not "the Reformation")
• Geoffrey Rudolph Elton - England in the Tudor period
• Charles Harding Firth (1857–1936) - Political history of the 17th century
• Antonia Fraser - England
• Mary Anne Everett Green - Calendars of state papers and biographies
• William Gibson Ecclesiastical history
• Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1829–1902) - Political history of the 17th century
• Geoffrey of Monmouth (died circa 1154) - British history
• Edward Hasted - Kent
• J. H. Hexter - England in the 17th century
• Christopher Hill (1912–2003) - England in the 17th century
• Gertrude Himmelfarb - Social and cultural history of the Victorian period
• Eric Hobsbawn (born 1917) - Marxist British history
• David Hume (1711–1776), Scottish Enlightenment philosopher and author of the six volume History of England (originally History of Britain)
• Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609–1674) - English Civil Wars
• John Edward Lloyd (1861–1947) - Early Welsh history
• Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) English writer and historian whose most famous work was The History of England from the Accession of James the Second
• Lewis Bernstein Namier - Political history of the 18th century
• Andrew Roberts - modern British history.
• A. L. Rowse (1903–1997) - Cornish history and Elizabethan England
• Dominic Sandbrook (born 1974) - Britain in the 1960s and after
• John Robert Seeley (1834–1895) - British political history of the modern period
• David Starkey (born 1945) - Tudor historian and TV presenter
• Lawrence Stone - English society and the history of the family
• E. P. Thompson, (1924–1993) - The British working class
• George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876–1962) - English history (many different periods)
• Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton - Britain in the 17th century
• Retha Warnicke (born 1939) - Tudor history and gender issues
• Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910–1997) - British historian
• Perez Zagorin - (born 1920) British/English history of the 16th and 17th centuries

History of the British Empire

• Richard Drayton
• Gerald S. Graham
• Vincent T. Harlow
• William Roger Louis
• P. J. Marshall
• David Quinn
• D. M. Schurman
• Archibald Paton Thornton (1921–2004)
• Glyndwr Williams

History of Finland

• Kesar Ordin
• Mikhail Borodkin

History of France

• Julian T. Jackson (born 1954) - French Historian
• Marc Bloch (1886–1944) - Medieval France
• Vincent Cronin - Louis XIV, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Napoleon, and Paris
• Georges Duby (1924–1996) - Medieval France
• Lucien Febvre (1878–1956) - French historian.
• Alistair Horne - modern French military history.
• Douglas Johnson, historian of Modern France
• Simon Kitson, historian of Vichy France
• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie - history of the French peasantry.
• Antoine Lilte - 18th century France
• Michael Marrus - Vichy France
• Jules Michelet (1798–1874) - French historian
• Roland Mousnier - early modern France.
• Robert Paxton - Vichy France
• Pierre Renouvin-French diplomatic history.
• Zeev Sternhell - French fascism.
• Eugen Weber - modern French history.
• John B. Wolf (born 1907) - French history
• Natalie Zemon Davis - early modern France.
• Isser Woloch - 18th century France
• Robert J. Young, the Third Republic.
• Gordon Wright (1912–2000)

See also List of historians of the French Revolution.

History of Germany

• Gisela Bock
• Alan Bullock
• Karl Dietrich Bracher
• Martin Broszat
• Gordon A. Craig
• Richard J. Evans
• Joachim Fest
• Fritz Fischer
• Deborah Hertz
• Klaus Hildebrand
• Andreas Hillgruber
• Heinz Zollin Hohne
• Eberhard Jäckel
• Ian Kershaw
• Klemens von Klemperer
• Claudia Koonz
• Timothy Mason
• Frank McDonough
• Friedrich Meinecke
• Hans Mommsen
• Wolfgang Mommsen
• George Mosse
• Ernst Nolte'
• Steven Ozment
• Detlev Peukert
• Gerhard Ritter
• Hans Rothfels
• David Schoenbaum
• 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

History of Ireland

• Tírechán, fl. late 7th century
• Muirchu moccu Machtheni, fl. late 7th century
• Flann Mainistrech, died 25 November 1056
• John Clyn, fl. 1333 - 1349
• Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin, d.1372
• Adhamh Ó Cianáin
• Gilla Isa Mor mac Donnchadh MacFhirbhisigh, fl. 1390–1418
• Pilip Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin, fl. 1579–1590
• Geoffrey Keating
• Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, c. 1590–1643
• Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh, fl. 1643 - 1671
• Sir James Ware, 1594–1666
• Mary Bonaventure Browne, Poor Clare and historian, b. after 1610, d. after 1670
• Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh, 1629–1718
• Eugene O'Curry, 20 November 1794 – 30 July 1862
• John O'Donovan, 25 July 1806 – 10 December 1861
• Father Paul Walsh, 19 June 1885 – 18 June 1941
• Dermot MacDermot, 1906–1989
• Kathleen Hughes, d. 20 April 1977
• F.X. Martin, 1922 – 13 February 2000
• Brian Farrell b. 1929
• Francis John Byrne b. 1934
• Kenneth Nicholls
• Dáibhí Ó Cróinín
• Ann Buckley
• Nollaig Ó Muraíle
• Catherine Swift
• Ailbhe MacShamhráin

History of Italy

• Roger Absalom Sheffield Hallam University : Resistance, Fascism, Modern Italian History
• Lorenzo Arnone Sipari, Social and Environmental Italian History
• Piero Bevilacqua Università di Roma "Sapienza : The Italian South
• R.J.B. Bosworth University of Western Australia, Reading University UK : Fascism, Mussolini,Historiography of Fascism
• Giorgio Candeloro Modern Italian History
• Patrick Anthony Cavaliere Laurentian University / Università di Roma "Sapienza"/ Fascism
• Martin Clark University of Edinburgh: Modern Italian History
• Simona Colarizi Università di Roma "Sapienza : Modern Italian History
• Enzo Collotti Università di Firenze: Fascism
• Paul Corner Fascism
• Benedetto Croce Philosophy of History, Modern Italian History
• Vincent Cronin Renaissance Art and Sicily
• Costantino De Felice Abruzzo, Molise
• Renzo De Felice Fascism, biographer of Mussolini
• Alexander De Grand Fascism
• Victoria De Grazia Fascism, Women under Fascism
• Giovanni De Luna Action Party
• John Dickie Italian South, Italian nationalism and national identities, cultural history of liberal Italy, cultural and critical theory, organized crime, Italian food.
• Jonathan Dunnage Modern Italian Social History
• Christopher Duggan Modern Italian History
• John Foot Modern Italy History, The City
• Emilio Gentile Fascism
• Antonio Gibelli First World War
• Paul Ginsborg Università di Firenze: Postwar Italian History, Venetian revolution 1848
• Carlo Ginzburg Witchcraft and Agrarian cults, Microhistory
• M Isnenghi First World War, Fascism
• Adrian Lyttelton Fascism, Modern Italian History
• Robert Lumley The Italian South
• Salvatore Lupo Fascism,The Mafia
• Luisa Passerini Oral History, Fascism
• Claudio Pavone Italian fascism, World War II and of antifascism.
• John Pollard The Church and Fascism
• Giuliano Procacci Modern Italian History
• Lucy Riall The Risorgimento, Garibaldi, Sicily
• Gaetano Salvemini Fascism, The French Revolution
• Christopher Seton-Watson Modern Italian History
• Denis Mack Smith Italian Modern History
• F M Snowden Modern Italian History, Fascism
• Nicola Tranfaglia Modern Italian History, Fascism, Anti-fascism Historiography
• Perry Willson University of Dundee: Fascism, Women under fascism

History of the Netherlands

• Jaap R. Bruijn
• Femme Gaastra
• Pieter Geyl
• John Lothrop Motley
• Jonathan Israel
• G. J. Renier
• Herbert H. Rowen
• Simon Schama

History of Poland

• Norman Davies (born 1939) - modern Polish history.
• Pawel Jasienica (1909–1970) - Polish amateur historian.
• Wickham Steed

History of Portugal

• José Hermano Saraiva
• A. H. de Oliveira Marques - Early Modern Period
• José Mattoso - Medieval History
• João Paulo oliveira e Costa - Maritime
• Rui Ramos - Contemporary History
• Espinha da Silveira - 19th Century
• Fernanda Rollo - Contemporary History
• Fernando Rosas - Contemporary History

History of Russia

• Nicholas Bethell
• Robert Conquest - The Soviet Union
• Vincent Cronin - Catherine the Great
• Orlando Figes
• Leopold Labedz
• Roy Medvedev
• Richard Pipes - The Soviet Union
• William Taubman - Nikita Khrushchev
• Peter Kenez -The Soviet Union and Soviet cinema
• Robert Service
• Adam Ulam

History of Scotland

• G. W. S. Barrow
• Steve Boardman
• Hector Boece
• George Buchanan
• Gilbert Burnet
• Tom Devine
• John of Fordun
• Colin Kidd
• Michael Lynch
• Norman Macdougall
• Rosalind Mitchison
• Richard Oram
• Nigel Tranter
• Christopher Whatley
• Jenny Wormald

Historiographer Royal of Scotland

• James Crawford, 1681–1682
• William Turner, 1682
• James Fall, 1682
• Christopher Irving, 1686–1693
• William Dunlop, 1693–1700
• Daniel Campbell, 1700–1704
• David Crawford, 1704–1708
• David Sympsone, 1708–1709
• William Robertson, 1763–1793
• John Gillies, 1793–1836
• George Brodie, 1836–1867
• John Hill Burton, 1867–1881
• William Forbes Skene, 1881–1893
• David Masson, 1893–1908
• Peter Hume Brown, 1908–1919
• Robert Rait, 1919–1930
• Robert Kerr Hannay, FRSE, 1930–1940
• Henry William Meikle, 1940–1958
• J. D. Mackie, OBE, 1958–1978
• Gordon Donaldson, CBE, 1979–1993
• Christopher Smout, CBE, 1993–present

History of Slovakia

• Gabriela Dudeková

History of Slovenia

• Bogo Grafenauer (1916–1995)

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

History of Sweden

• Peter Englund
• Anders Fryxell
• Erik Gustaf Geijer
• Jan Glete
• Carl Grimberg
• Ragnhild Hatton, biographer of King Charles XII
• Sten Lindroth
• Erik Lönnroth
• Olaus Magnus
• Samuel von Pufendorf
• Michael Roberts
• John Robinson (1650–1723)
• Curt Weibull
• Lauritz Weibull

History of Yugoslavia

• Stephen Schwartz
• Misha Glenny
• John R. Lampe author of Yugoslavia As History: Twice There Was a Country
• Barbara Jelavich wrote extensively on Balkan history, along with her husband Charles Jelavich
• Ivo Banac -nationalism
• Catherine Samary author of Yugoslavia Dismembered

Asia

The Middle East

• George Antonius (1891–1941) - Historian of Arab nationalism
• Anders Bjørkelo
• Vincent Cronin - study of the Faiqani tribe of South Persia
• Heleen Sancisi Weerdenburg (1944–2000) - Achaemenid history
• Caroline Finkel
• 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
• D. S. Margoliouth
• Michael Oren
• 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 Hamadani (circa 1247-1318) Jāmi‛ al-Tawārīkh (Compendium of Chronicles), Ta’rīkh–i-Ghāzānī (a history of the Mongols and Turks)

South Asia

History of the Indian Subcontinent

• Muzaffar Alam
• Shahid Amin
• Gautam Bhadra
• A. L. Basham
• Neeladri Bhattacharya
• Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
• Chris Bayly
• Dipesh Chakrabarty
• B. D. Chattopadhyay
• Bernard Cohn
• Sir Jadunath Sarkar
• R. C. Majumdar
• Niharranjan Ray
• Datto Vaman Potdar
• Tryambak Shankar Shejwalkar
• Ram Sharan Sharma
• Ranjan Chakrabarti
• A. L. Basham
• Nicholas Dirks
• Ranajit Guha
• Ayesha Jalal
• Sushobhan Sarkar
• Sumit Sarkar
• Romila Thapar
• Thomas Metcalf
• Barbara Metcalf
• Partha Mitter
• David Ludden
• Percival Spear
• Romila Thapar
• Bipin Chandra
• Crispin Bates
• Gyan Prakash
• Gyan Pandey
• Rosalind O Hanlon
• David Washbrook
• Richard Maxwell Eaton
• Tanika Sarkar
• Mrinalini Sinha
• Barbara Ramusack
• Thomas Trautmann
• K. K. Aziz
• Mubarak Ali
• Mohammad Ishaq Khan

History of India

• Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, Unani historian

History of Pakistan

• K. K. Aziz

History of Pakhtunkhwa and Afghanistan

• Fazal-ur-Rahim Marwat, Dr.
• Razia Sultana, Dr.
• Syed Minhaj-ul-Hassan, Dr.
• Sayed Wiqar Ali Shah, Dr.

South-East Asia

• Viktor Pogadayev

Far East

History of Japan

• William George Aston
• Harold Bolitho
• Basil Hall Chamberlain
• Albert M. Craig
• William Elliot Griffis
• John Whitney Hall
• Donald Keene
• Richard Ponsonby-Fane
• Ian Nish
• Jirō Osaragi
• Edwin O. Reischauer
• Donald Richie
• George Bailey Sansom
• Ernest Mason Satow
• Isaac Titsingh
• Stephen Turnbull
• Eiji Yoshikawa

History of Korea

• Bruce Cumings - modern Korea
• Carter J. Eckert
• James Palais
• Il-yeon
• Kim Bu-sik - early annalist
• Kim Dae-mun
• Lee Ki-baek - (1924–2004)
• James Hoare
• Shin Chaeho - The ancient Korean history
• Andre Schmid
• Suh Dae-sook - Korean War and North Korea
• Yu Deuk-gong - Balhae
• Odd Arne Westad - Professor at the London School of Economics

History of China

• Ann Paludan – (born 1928) – ancient China
• Chen Shou - The author of the Records of Three Kingdoms.
• Sima Qian - Compiled Records of the Grand Historian
• Jonathan Spence
• Denis Twitchett - (1925–2006) Cambridge scholar, and editor of The Cambridge History of China
• Hans van de Ven
• Frederic Wakeman, Jr.
• Odd Arne Westad - Professor at the London School of Economics and author of many books on China
• John Herman

Africa

• Larry Yarak
• Clapperton Mavhunga
• David Cohen
• Nancy Rose Hunt

Oceania

History of Australia

• Manning Clark
• Geoffrey Blainey
• Bujar Kocana
• Stuart Macintyre
• Henry Reynolds
• Frank Welsh

History of Fiji

• Brij Lal

History of New Zealand

• James Belich
• Michael King
• W. H. Oliver
• William Pember Reeves
• J. G. A. Pocock
• Keith Sinclair

History of Tonga

• Sione Lātūkefu

History of Papua New Guinea

• John Waiko

By historical viewpoint

Abolitionist

• George Washington Williams - Early African-American historian

Christianity

• Eusebius of Caesarea (~275–339) - "Father of Church history"
• Alexander Campbell Cheyne, Scottish Ecclesiastical Historian
• John Gilmary Shea (1824–1892) Father of American CatholicHistory
• Barbara Thiering (born 1930) Rediscovered the "Pesher technique"

Pentecostalism

• Pentecostal Movement in Britain & Ireland

Lutheranism

• Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim (1694–1755) - Lutheran historian of Christianity from its inception through the 18th century

Mormonism

• Leonard J. Arrington - LDS Church historian 1975-1982
• B.H. Roberts
• Fawn M. Brodie
• Richard Bushman

The Papacy

• Ludwig von Pastor, wrote 40 volume history of the popes making extensive use of the Vatican Secret Archives

Presbyterianism

• D.G. Hart

Salvation Army

• Rob Brettle (born 1963) Co-founder Christian Mission Historical Society
• Harry Hayes - founder Salvation Army Philatelic Society
• Glenn Horridge - Co-founder Christian Mission Historical Society

Counterfactual

• Niall Ferguson, Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals (1997).

Holocaust

• Yitzhak Arad
• Yehuda Bauer
• Martin Broszat
• Christopher Browning
• Lucy Dawidowicz
• Norman Finkelstein
• Henry Friedlander
• Saul Friedländer
• Martin Gilbert
• Israel Gutman
• Daniel Goldhagen
• Raul Hilberg
• Dov Levin
• Michael Marrus
• Hans Mommsen
• Dina Porat
• R. J. Rummel
• Hanna Yablonka

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.
• Gerald Horne - African American Marxist historian
• 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"

Nazi

• Walter Frank (1905–1945) - Nazi historian and anti-Semitic writer
• David Hoggan (1923–1988)

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"
• Ronald 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.
• Sébastien 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 Guérin, France 1904-1988. writer, editor Libertarian Communist
• Robert Graham, (USA, writer, editor)
• Andrej Grubacic, Bulgarian history and Anarchism, lecturer at University of San Francisco.
• Peter Marshall, England 1946, historian, philosopher, writer (of 'Demanding the Impossible. A History of Anarchism, 1992).
• Chuck W. 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

Pacifist

• Ludwig Quidde (1858–1941) - Prescient German pacifist and student of history who combined his specialties in his condemnation of Kaiser Wilhelm II

By general category

Architectural history

• Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (born ca. 80/70 BC?; died ca. 25 BC) Roman architect and engineer, author of De architectura
• Leon 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)

Art history

• Vincent Cronin (born 1924) - French and Italian art and architectural history
• Nicholas Pevsner (1903–1983) History of art and English architecture
• Simon Schama (born 1945) - Art history
• Ichimatsu Tanaka ‎ (1895–1983), Japanese art history
• Yukio Yashiro (1890–1975), Japanese art history; Botticelli and the Florentine Renaissance ‎

Economic history

• Robert C. Allen
• Eli Heckscher
• Niall Ferguson
• Robert Fogel
• David S. Landes
• W. W. Rostow
• Ram Sharan Sharma Economic History of Ancient India
• R. H. Tawney

Environmental history

• Christopher Smout
• Ranjan Chakrabarti

History of education

• David Hogan Professor of Education at the University of Tasmania.

Espionage

• Christopher Andrew
• John Barron
• John Earl Haynes
• David Kahn
• Victor Suvorov
• Nigel West

Maritime history

• Robert G. Albion
• William A. Baker
• Jaap R. Bruijn
• Howard I. Chapelle
• Femme Gaastra
• John Hattendorf
• John de Courcy Ireland
• Benjamin Woods Labaree
• Samuel Eliot Morison
• J. H. Parry
• Glyndwr Williams

Media history

History of newspapers and magazines, History of radio, History of television, and History of the Internet

• Albert Abramson (born 1922)
• Asa Briggs (born 1921)
• Knut Hickethier (born 1945)
• Frank J. Kahn (born 1938)

Military history

• Correlli Barnett - British military historian.
• Antony Beevor - British military historian.
• Brian Bond - First World War
• 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
• N.H. Gibbs - Interwar period
• 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 historian.
• B. H. Liddell Hart (1895–1970) Military History
• Edward Luttwak (born 1942) Military strategy
• Piers Mackesy - 18th century
• S. L. A. Marshall - American military historian.
• Leo Niehorster (born 1947) - World War II
• Peter Paret - Military history
• Gordon Prange
• Gunther E. Rothenberg (1923 – 2004) – Military history
• Gerhard Ritter - German military historian.
• Cornelius Ryan (1920–1974) - World War II
• Digby Smith (1935- Napoleonic Wars esp.
• Jean Edward Smith (born 1932) - U.S. and German military historian.
• Hew Strachan - British military historian.
• Gerhard Weinberg - U.S. military historian.
• Spenser Wilkinson

Naval history

• Robert G. Albion - Maritime history
• Daniel A. Baugh
• Ulane Bonnel
• Josiah Burchett
• Montagu Burrows
• Geoffrey Callender
• Howard I. Chapelle - Maritime history
• William Bell Clark
• Julian Corbett
• William S. Dudley
• Michael Duffy
• Jan Glete
• James Goldrick
• Andrew Gordon - Battle of Jutland
• Barry M. Gough
• C. I. Hamilton
• John Hattendorf
• John Daniel Hayes
• J. Richard Hill
• William James
• Paul Kennedy
• R.J.B. Knight
• Dudley W. Knox
• Andrew Lambert
• Harold D. Langley
• John Knox Laughton
• Michael Lewis
• Christopher Lloyd
• Alfred Mahan
• Arthur Marder
• Tyrone G. Martin - Historian of the USS Constitution and of the history of ironclads
• William J. Morgan
• 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.
• Michael Oppenheim
• Charles O. Paullin
• Werner Rahn
• Bryan Ranft
• Clark G. Reynolds
• Herbert Richmond
• N.A.M. Rodger
• Stephen Roskill
• John Darrell Sherwood
• D.M. Schurman
• William N. Still, Jr.
• Craig Symonds
• David Syrett
• Geoffrey Till
• Johan Carel Marinus Warnsinck
• Colin White

Historiography

• Ram Sharan Sharma
• 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
• Peter Novick
• Leopold von Ranke
• Hayden White
• Frank Ankersmit

Academic protagonists in Australia's "history wars"

• Geoffrey Blainey
• Stuart Macintyre
• Robert Manne
• Henry Reynolds
• Lyndall Ryan
• Keith Windschuttle

Gender history

• John Boswell (1947–1994, American) - Homosexuality in medieval times
• George Mosse
• Retha Warnicke (born 1939) - Gender issues

History of ideas, literature, and philosophy

• Ram Sharan Sharma (born 1919) - Material Culture in Ancient India
• 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 (born 1923) - History of ideas.
• Lewis Mumford (1895–1988) - History of technology
• Hasan Bülent Paksoy - History of Governance in Central Asian Literature.
• Ivan Prijatelj (1875–1937) - Literary history
• France Kidric (1880–1950) - Literary history

History of business

• Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
• Jan Glete, Swedish business history
• Allan Nevins

History of international relations

• Harry Elmer Barnes
• Herbert Butterfield
• E. H. Carr
• Gordon A. Craig
• John Lewis Gaddis, historian of the Cold War.
• Ragnhild Hatton, historian of 17th and 18th century international relations
• 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 Origins of the War, 1898-1914" (ed.)
• Ernest Llewellyn Woodward, (1890–1971)

History of science and technology

• Michael Adas, colonialism and imperialism, global history
• Vincent Cronin
• 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"
• Stephen F. Mason, science
• David F. Noble, science & technology-based industrial development
• Abraham Pais, physics
• Theodore M. Porter
• A. I. Sabra, optics, Islamic science
• George Sarton
• Nathan Sivin, history of science in China
• M. Norton Wise

Social history

• Ram Sharan Sharma Social History of Ancient India
• Lloyd deMause, psychohistory
• Gabriela Dudeková

World history

• Felipe Fernández-Armesto
• Will Durant (1885–1981) - Author of The Story of Civilization
• Ram Sharan Sharma (born 1919) - Author of Vishwa Itihaas ki Bhumika in Hindi.
• 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: A History of the Human Community
• 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
• Roisin McVeigh
• John Roberts (historian) (1928–2003) - Author of History of the World

Biography

• Alan Bullock (1914–2004) - Historian best known for his influential biography of Hitler
• Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881 - Friedrich der Grosse (the Great)
• Vincent Cronin - Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, and Napoleon
• Ragnhild Hatton, biographer of King Charles XII of Sweden and King George I of Great Britain.
• Ian Kershaw (1943- Historian well known for his influential study of Hitler
• Roi Medvedev - Stalin biographer
• 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