List of historians by area of study

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

Contents 1 By time period 1.1 Ancient history 1.2 Medieval history 2 By nation or geographical area 2.1 North America 2.1.1 History of Canada 2.1.2 History of the Caribbean 2.1.3 History of the United States 2.2 Latin America 2.2.1 History of Latin America 2.2.2 Chile 2.3 Europe 2.3.1 History of Europe 2.3.2 History of Belgium 2.3.3 History of England and Britain 2.3.4 History of the British Empire 2.3.5 History of France 2.3.6 History of Germany 2.3.7 History of Ireland 2.3.8 History of Italy 2.3.9 History of the Netherlands 2.3.10 History of Poland 2.3.11 History of Portugal 2.3.12 History of Russia 2.3.13 History of Scotland 2.3.13.1 Historiographer Royal of Scotland 2.3.14 History of Slovakia 2.3.15 History of Slovenia 2.3.16 History of Spain 2.3.17 History of Yugoslavia 2.4 Asia 2.4.1 The Middle East 2.4.2 South Asia 2.4.3 History of India 2.4.4 Far East 2.4.4.1 History of Japan 2.4.4.2 History of Korea 2.5 Africa 2.5.1 History of Ghana 2.6 Oceania 2.6.1 History of Australia 2.6.2 History of Fiji 2.6.3 History of New Zealand 2.6.4 History of Tonga 2.6.5 History of Papua New Guinea 3 By historical viewpoint 3.1 Abolitionist 3.2 Christianity 3.2.1 Pentecostalism 3.2.2 Lutheranism 3.2.3 Mormonism 3.2.4 The Papacy 3.2.5 Presbyterianism 3.2.6 Salvation Army 3.3 Counterfactual 3.4 Holocaust 3.5 Marxist 3.6 Nazi 3.7 Anarchist 3.8 Pacifist 4 By general category 4.1 Architectural history 4.2 Art history 4.3 Economic history 4.4 Environmental history 4.5 History of education 4.6 Espionage 4.7 Maritime history 4.8 Media history 4.9 Military history 4.10 Naval history 4.11 Historiography 4.11.1 Academic protagonists in Australia's "history wars" 4.12 Gender history 4.13 History of ideas, literature, and philosophy 4.14 History of business 4.15 History of international relations 4.16 History of science and technology 4.17 Social history 5 World history 6 Biography

[edit] By time period

[edit] Ancient history

• Ram Sharan Sharma Eminent Historian of Ancient India.
• Michael Crawford (historian)
• Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) - The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• Peter Green - Ancient Greece and Macedon
• Herodotus
• Josephus
• Barbara Levick (born 1932, British) - Roman emperors
• Livy
• 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

[edit] Medieval history

• Ram Sharan Sharma (1919- ) - early medieval History of India.
• Placido Puccinelli (1609-1685, Italian) - Northern Italy in the tenth century and the Florentine church
• Marc Bloch (1886-1944, French) - Medieval France
• John Boswell (1947-1994, American) - Homosexuality in the Middle Ages
• Norman Cantor (1930-2004)
• Georges Duby (1924-1996, French) - Specialized in the history of France between the Capets and the Valois
• François-Louis Ganshof (1895-1980), Belgian - wrote on early medieval institutional history and feudalism
• Patrick Geary - early Middle Ages
• Geoffrey of Monmouth
• Geraldis Cambrensis
• Johan Huizinga (Dutch) - Wrote 'Waning of the Middle Ages'
• Jacques Le Goff
• Rev. F. X. Martin (Irish) - Mediævalist and campaigner
• Rosamond McKitterick - Frankish and Carolingian history
• Henri Pirenne (1862-1935) - the "Pirenne Thesis" of early Medieval development
• Eileen Power - Middle Ages
• Miri Rubin - social and religious history, 1100-1500
• Steven Runciman (1903–2000) - the Crusades
• Richard Southern (1912-2001)
• Sidney Painter
• John Julius Norwich
• Chris Wickham
• Retha Warnicke
• Pierre Bonnasie
• Aaron Gurevich
• Eric Christiansen
• Michael Prestwich

[edit] By nation or geographical area

[edit] North America

[edit] History of Canada

• Donald Creighton - Developed the Laurentian thesis
• Lionel Groulx (1878-1967) - The history of Quebec in particular and French North America in general
• Harold Innis - Economic historian of Canada
• Jack Granatstein - Political and Military historian of Canada
• W.L. Morton - Expert on western Canada

See also List of Canadian historians.

[edit] 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
• 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

[edit] History of the United States

See also Category:Historians of the United States

• Stephen Ambrose (1936-2002) - Biographer of President Dwight D. Eisenhower
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 - (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 (1933- ) - general study, most notable work is recent biography of John Adams
• James M. McPherson - American Civil War
• D. W. Meinig - geographic history of America
• Gary Moulton - 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 (1974-) - political history of the 1960s and 1970s
• Arthur Schlesinger Sr.
• Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
• Jean Edward Smith (1932- ) - biography, foreign policy, political economy, constitutional law, legal history, and politics
• Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932) - Developed the Frontier Thesis
• Frank Vandiver
• Alexander Scott Withers - Primary accounts of colonial western Virginia conflicts
• C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999) - Southern United States
• Howard Zinn (1922- ) - Political scientist and historian of the United States, often critical of common policies.

[edit] Latin America

[edit] History of Latin America

See also Category:Historians of Latin America

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

[edit] Chile

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

[edit] Europe

[edit] History of Europe

• Norman Davies
• Elizabeth Eisenstein, early printing and transitions in media
• John Lukacs
• Henri-Jean Martin, early printing and writing
• Henri Pirenne
• Robert Roswell Palmer
• J. Salwyn Schapiro
• Norman Stone
• Gordon Wright
• John Roberts (historian)

[edit] History of Belgium

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

[edit] 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
• 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 - (1920 -) British/English history of the 16th and 17th centuries

[edit] History of the British Empire

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

[edit] History of France

• Julian T. Jackson (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
• Roland Mousnier - early modern France.
• Robert Paxton - Vichy France
• Zeev Sternhell - French fascism.
• Eugen Weber - modern French history.
• John B. Wolf (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.

[edit] 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
• 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

[edit] 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

[edit] History of Italy

• Roger Absalom Sheffield Hallam University : Resistance, Fascism, Modern 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
• 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
• Philip Morgan Fascism
• 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

[edit] History of the Netherlands

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

[edit] History of Poland

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

[edit] History of Portugal

• José Hermano Saraiva

[edit] History of Russia

• Nicholas Bethell
• Robert Conquest - The Soviet Union
• 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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 Sangster 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

[edit] History of Slovakia

• Gabriela Dudeková

[edit] History of Slovenia

• Bogo Grafenauer (1916–1995)

[edit] History of Spain

• Ida Altman - Early modern Spain, colonial Latin America
• Maria Luisa Ávila-Medieval History, Spain, History of Muslim Spain, Women's History
• Robert I. Burns-Spain, Medieval History, History of Muslim Spain, Visigothic Spain
• Brian A Catlos-Spain, Medieval History, History of Muslim Spain
• Roger Collins-Medieval History, Spain, Visigothic Spain, History of Muslim Spain
• Olivia Remie Constable-Spain, Medieval History, Commercial History
• Hipólito Escolar-Spain, History of the Book
• Pierre Guichard-Spain, Medieval History, Visigothic Spain, History of Muslim Spain
• S.I Imamuddin-Spain, Medieval History, History of Muslim Spain
• Manuela Marin-Women's History, Social History, Spain, History of Muslim Spain
• Julian Ribera y Tarragó-Spain, History of the Book, Medieval History, History of Muslim Spain
• Samuel Miklos Stern-Spain, History of the Book, Medieval History, History of Muslim Spain, Literary History

[edit] History of Yugoslavia

• 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

[edit] Asia

[edit] The Middle East

• George Antonius (1891-1941) - Historian of Arab nationalism
• Anders Bjørkelo
• Vincent Cronin - study of the Faiqani tribe of South Persia
• 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 (circa 1247-1318) Jāmi‛-al-Tawārīkh (‘A Comprehensive Collection of Histories'), Ta’rīkh–i-Ghāzānī - a history of the Mongo
• 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

[edit] South Asia

[edit] History of India

• Govind Sakharam Sardesai
• Sir Jadunath Sarkar
• Datto Vaman Potdar
• Tryambak Shankar Shejwalkar
• Ram Sharan Sharma

 Ranjan Chakrabarti

• A. L. Basham
• Urvashi Butalia
• Vincent Cronin
• Nicholas Dirks
• Ranajit Guha
• Ayesha Jalal
• John Keay
• Christian Lassen
• Sumit Sarkar
• Tanika Sarkar
• Percival Spear
• Romila Thapar
• Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri
• Bipin Chandra
  • Gyan Prakash
  • Sumit Sarkar
  • Rosalind O Hanlon
  • David Washbrook
• Richard Maxwell Eaton
  • Tanika Sarkar
  • Mrinalini Sinha
  • Barbara Ramusack

[edit] Far East

[edit] 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

[edit] History of Korea

• Bruce Cumings - modern Korea
• 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
• Suh Dae-sook - Korean War and North Korea
• Yu Deuk-gong - Balhae
• Odd Arne Westad - Professor at the London School of Economics

[edit] Africa

[edit] History of Ghana

• Larry Yarak

[edit] Oceania

[edit] History of Australia

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

[edit] History of Fiji

• Brij Lal

[edit] History of New Zealand

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

[edit] History of Tonga

• Sione Lātūkefu

[edit] History of Papua New Guinea

• John Waiko

[edit] By historical viewpoint

[edit] Abolitionist

• George Washington Williams - Early African-American historian

[edit] Christianity

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

[edit] Pentecostalism

• Pentecostal Movement in Britain & Ireland

[edit] Lutheranism

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

[edit] Mormonism

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

[edit] The Papacy

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

[edit] Presbyterianism

• D.G. Hart

[edit] Salvation Army

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

[edit] Counterfactual

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

[edit] 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

[edit] Marxist

• Eric Foner - Marxist historian of the American Civil War and Reconstruction
• Eugene D. Genovese - Marxist historian of southern US history and slavery
• Ranajit Guha - Indian Marxist historian
• Christopher Hill - 17th century England.
• Eric Hobsbawm - Marxist historian of the modern world.
• Timothy Wright Mason - Marxist historian who worked on the history of National Socialism and the German working-class.
• Maxime Rodinson French Marxist historian on the history of Islam
• Sumit Sarkar Indian Marxist historian
• Edward Palmer Thompson British Marxist historian, author of "The Making of the English Working Class"

[edit] Nazi

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

[edit] Anarchist

• Paul Avrich, USA 1931-2006. (Oral-)History of the US and Russia
• David Berry, France, Movement in France.
• Murray Bookchin USA 1921-2006.Writer; Founder of "Social Ecology"
• 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.
• Sébastian Faure France, Encyclopedie Anarchiste, 4 volumes (1932-34)
• Joao Freire, Portugal, Movement of Portugal/CGT.
• Sharif Gemie, editor of "Anarchist Studies" (United Kingdom)
• David Goodway, (UK, writer, editor)
• Daniel Guerin, France 1904-1988. writer, editor Libertarian Communist
• Robert Graham, (USA, writer, editor)
• 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

[edit] Pacifist

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

[edit] By general category

[edit] Architectural history

• Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (born ca. 80/70 BC?; died ca. 25 BC) Roman architect and engineer, author of De architectura
• Leone Battista Alberti (born 1404; died 1472) Italian polymath, active in many fields, author of De Re Aedificatoria among others.
• Josef Strzygowski (born 1862)
• Joseph Rykwert (born 1926)
• Manfredo Tafuri (1935-1994)
• David Watkin (historian) (born 1941)
• Alberto Pérez-Gómez (born 1949)

[edit] Art history

• 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

[edit] Economic history

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

[edit] Environmental history

• Christopher Smout

   Ranjan Chakrabarti

[edit] History of education

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

[edit] Espionage

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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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.
• Basil Liddell Hart (1895–1970) Military History
• Edward Luttwak (born 1942) Military strategy
• Piers Mackesy - Eighteenth century
• S. L. A. Marshall - American military historian.
• Leo Niehorster (born 1947) - World War II
• Peter Paret - Military history
• Gordon Prange
• Gerhard Ritter - German military historian.
• Cornelius Ryan (1920-1974) - World War II
• Jean Edward Smith (born 1932) - U.S. and German military historian.
• Hew Strachan - British military historian.
• Gerhard Weinberg - U.S. military historian.
• Spenser Wilkinson

[edit] 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
• James Goldrick
• Andrew Gordon - Battle of Jutland
• 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

[edit] 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
• Leopold von Ranke
• Hayden White
• Frank Ankersmit

[edit] Academic protagonists in Australia's "history wars"

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

[edit] Gender history

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

[edit] History of ideas, literature, and philosophy

• Ram Sharan Sharma (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 (1923-) - History of ideas.
• Lewis Mumford (1895-1988) - History of technology
• Ivan Prijatelj (1875-1937) - Literary history
• France Kidric (1880-1950) - Literary history

[edit] History of business

• Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.

[edit] 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)

[edit] History of science and technology

• 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
• M. Norton Wise

[edit] Social history

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

[edit] World history

• Will Durant (1885-1981) - Author of The Story of Civilization
• Ram Sharan Sharma (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

[edit] 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.
• 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