List of historians

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

This is a list of historians only for those with a biographical entry in Wikipedia. Major chroniclers and annalists are included. Names are listed by the person's historical period. The entries continue with the specializations, not nationality.

Antiquity

Greco-Roman world

Further information: List of Greek historiographers, Greek historiography, and Roman historiography

Classical period

• Herodotus (484 – c. 420 BC), Halicarnassus, wrote the Histories that established Western historiography.
• Thucydides (460 – c. 400 BC), Peloponnesian War
• Xenophon (431 – c. 360 BC), Athenian knight and student of Socrates
• Ctesias (early 4th century BC), Greek historian of Assyrian, Persian, and Indian history

Hellenistic period

• Ephorus of Cyme (c. 400–330 BC), Greek history
• Theopompus (c. 380 – c. 315 BC), Greek history
• Eudemus of Rhodes (c. 370 – c. 300 BC), Greek historian of science
• Ptolemy I Soter (367 – c. 283 BC), general of Alexander the Great, founder of Ptolemaic Dynasty
• Duris of Samos (c. 350 – after 281 BC), Greek history
• Berossus (early 3rd century BC), Babylonian historian
• Timaeus of Tauromenium (c. 345 BC – c. 250 BC), Greek history
• Manetho (3rd century BC), Egyptian historian and priest from Sebennytos (ancient Egyptian: Tjebnutjer) living in the Ptolemaic era
• Quintus Fabius Pictor (born c. 254 BC), Roman history
• Artapanus of Alexandria (late 3rd – early 2nd centuries BC), Jewish historian of Ptolemaic Egypt
• Cato the Elder (234–149 BC), Roman statesman and historian, author of the Origines
• Cincius Alimentus (late 2nd century BC), Roman history
• Gaius Acilius (fl. 155 BC), Roman history
• Agatharchides (fl. mid–2nd century BC), Greek history
• Polybius (203 – c. 120 BC), early Roman history (in Greek)
• Sempronius Asellio (c. 158 – after 91 BC), early Roman history
• Valerius Antias (1st century BC), Roman history
• Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius (1st century BC), Roman history
• Diodorus of Sicily (1st century BC), Greek history
• Posidonius (c. 135 – 51 BC), Greek and Roman history
• Theophanes of Mytilene (fl. mid 1st-century BC), Roman history

Roman Empire

• Julius Caesar (100 – c. 44 BC), Gallic and civil wars
• Sallust (86–34 BC), Roman history
• Dionysius of Halicarnassus (c. 60 – after 7 BC), Roman history
• Livy (c. 59 BC – c. 17 AD), Roman history
• Memnon of Heraclea (fl. 1st century AD), Greek and Roman history
• Strabo (63 BC – 24 AD), geography, Greek history
• Marcus Velleius Paterculus (c. 19 BC – c. 31 AD), Roman history
• Claudius (10 BC – 54 AD), Roman, Etruscan and Carthaginian history
• Pamphile of Epidaurus (female historian active under Nero, r. 54–68), Greek history
• Marcus Cluvius Rufus, (fl. 41–69), Roman history
• Quintus Curtius Rufus (c. 60–70), Greek history
• Flavius Josephus (37–100), Jewish history
• Dio Chrysostom (c. 40 – c. 115 AD), history of the Getae
• Thallus (early 2nd century AD), Roman history
• Gaius Cornelius Tacitus (c. 56–120), early Roman Empire
• Plutarch (c. 46–120), Parallel Lives of important Greeks and Romans
• Criton of Heraclea (fl. 100), history of the Getae and the Dacian Wars
• Suetonius (c. 69 – after 122), Roman emperors up to the Flavian dynasty
• Appian (c. 95 – c. 165), Roman history
• Arrian (c. 92–175), Greek history
• Granius Licinianus (2nd century), Roman history
• Criton of Pieria (2nd century), Greek history
• Lucius Ampelius (c. 2nd century AD), Roman history
• Dio Cassius (c. 160 – after 229), Roman history
• Marius Maximus (c. 160 – c. 230), biography of Roman emperors
• Diogenes Laërtius (fl. c. 230), history of Greek philosophers
• Sextus Julius Africanus (c. 160 – c. 240), early Christian
• Herodian (c. 170 – c. 240), Roman history
• Publius Anteius Antiochus (early 3rd century)
• Gaius Asinius Quadratus (fl. 248), Roman history
• Dexippus (c. 210 – 273), Roman history
• Ephorus the Younger (late 3rd century), Roman history
• Acholius (late 3rd century), Roman history
• Callinicus (died 273), history of Alexandria
• Eusebius of Caesarea (c. 275 – c. 339), early Christian
• Praxagoras of Athens (fl. early 4th century), Greek and Roman history
• Festus (fl. 370), Roman history
• Aurelius Victor (c. 320 – c. 390), Roman history
• Eutropius (died 390), Roman history
• Ammianus Marcellinus (c. 325 – c. 391), Roman history
• Virius Nicomachus Flavianus (334–394), Roman history
• Sulpicius Alexander (fl. late 4th century), Roman history
• Rufinus of Aquileia (c. 340–410), early Christian
• Eunapius (346–414), biographies of philosophers and universal history
• Orosius (c. 375 – after 418), early Christian
• Philostorgius (368 – c. 439), early Christian
• Socrates of Constantinople (c. 380 – unknown date), early Christian
• Agathangelos (5th century), Armenian history
• Priscus (5th century), Byzantine history
• Sozomen (c. 400 – c. 450), early Christian
• Theodoret (c. 393 – c. 457), early Christian
• Movses Khorenatsi (13 January 410–488), Armenian history
• Hydatius (c. 400 – c. 469), chronicler of Hispania
• Salvian (c. 400/405 – c. 493), early Christian
• Faustus of Byzantium (5th century), Armenian history
• Ghazar Parpetsi (441/443–510/515), Armenian history
• Zosimus (fl. 491–518), late Roman history
• Jordanes (6th century), history of the Goths
• John Malalas (c. 491–578), Early Christian

China

Further information: Historiography of China

• Zuo Qiuming (556–451 BC), attributed author of Zuo zhuan, history of Spring and Autumn period
• Sima Tan (165–110 BC), historian and father of Sima Qian, who completed his Records of the Grand Historian
• Sima Qian (c. 145 – c. 86 BC), founder of Chinese historiography, compiled Records of the Grand Historian (though preceded by Book of Documents and Zuo zhuan)
• Liu Xiang (77-6 BC) (Chinese Han Dynasty), Chinese history
• Ban Biao (AD 3–54) (Chinese Han Dynasty), the Book of Han, completed by son and daughter
• Ban Gu (AD 32–92) (Chinese Han Dynasty), Chinese history
• Ban Zhao (AD 45–116) (Chinese Han Dynasty, China's first female historian)
• Chen Shou (233–297) (Chinese Jin Dynasty) compiled Records of the Three Kingdoms.
• Fa-Hien (c. 337 – c. 422), Chinese Buddhist monk and historian
• Fan Ye (398–445), Chinese history, compiled the Book of Later Han.
• Shen Yue (441–513), Chinese history of the Liu Song Dynasty (420–479)

Middle Ages

Byzantine sphere

Further information: Category:Byzantine historians

• Procopius (c. 500 – c. 565), writings on reigns of Justinian and Theodora
• Constantine of Preslav (late 9th century – early 10th century), Bulgarian historian
• Nestor the Chronicler (c. 1056 – c. 1114, in Kiev), author of the Primary Chronicle
• Joannes Zonaras (12th century), Byzantine chronicler
• Nicetas Choniates (died c. 1220)
• Domentijan (1210–1264), Serbian monk and chronicler

Latin sphere

Further information: Historians of England in the Middle Ages

Early Middle Ages

• Gregory of Tours (538–594), A History of the Franks
• Baudovinia (fl. c. 600), Frankish nun who wrote a biography of Radegund
• Cogitosus (fl. c. 650), Irish historian
• Tírechán (fl. c. 655), Irish biographer of Saint Patrick
• Muirchu moccu Machtheni (7th century), Irish historian
• Adamnan (625–704), Irish historian
• Bede (c. 672–735), Anglo-Saxon England
• Paul the Deacon (8th century), Langobards
• Einhard (9th century), biographer of Charlemagne
• Nennius (c. 9th century), Wales
• Notker of St Gall (9th century), anecdotal biography of Charlemagne
• Martianus Hiberniensis (819–875), Irish teacher and historian
• Asser, Bishop of Sherborne (died 908/909), Welsh historian
• Regino of Prüm (died 915)

High Middle Ages

Further information: Recueil des historiens des croisades

fl. 10th century

• Widukind of Corvey (925–973), Ottonian chronicler
• Liutprand of Cremona (922–972), Byzantine affairs
• Heriger of Lobbes (925–1007), theologian and historian

fl. 11th century

• Thietmar of Merseburg (25 July 975 – 1 December 1018), German, Polish, and Russian affairs
• Michael Psellus (1018 – c. 1078), Greek politician and historian
• Marianus Scotus (1028–1082/1083), Irish chronicler
• Michael Attaleiates (c. 1015 – c. 1080), Byzantine historian
• Guibert of Nogent (1053–1124), Benedictine historian
• Eadmer (c. 1066 – c. 1124), post-Conquest English history
• Adam of Bremen (later 11th century), historian of Scandinavia, Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum

fl. 12th century

• Albert of Aix (fl. c. 1100), historian of the First Crusade
• Florence of Worcester (died 1118), English chronicler
• Symeon of Durham (died after 1129), English chronicler
• Alured of Beverley (fl. 1143), English chronicler
• William of Malmesbury (1095–1143), English historian
• Anna Komnene (Anna Comnena, 1083 – after 1148), Byzantine princess and historian
• John of Worcester (fl. 1150s), English chronicler
• Saxo Grammaticus (12th century), Danish chronicler
• Ambroise (fl. 1190s), Anglo-Norman writer verse narrative of the Third Crusade
• Galbert of Bruges (12th century), Flemish chronicler
• Gallus Anonymus (fl. 11th – 12th centuries), Polish historian
• Svend Aagesen (c. 1140/1150 – unknown date), Danish historian
• Geoffrey of Monmouth (c. 1100 – c. 1155), churchman/historian
• Helmold of Bosau (ca. 1120 – after 1177), German chronicler
• Otto of Freising (c. 1114–1158), German chronicler
• William of Tyre (c. 1128–1186)
• William of Newburgh (1135–1198), English historian called "the father of historical criticism"
• Geoffroi de Villehardouin (c. 1160–1212)

fl. 13th century

• Giraldus Cambrensis (c. 1146 – c. 1223)
• Wincenty Kadlubek (1161–1223), Polish historian
• Adam of Eynsham (died c. 1233), English hagiographer and writer, abbot of Eynsham Abbey
• Snorri Sturluson (c. 1178–1241), Icelandic historian
• Matthew Paris (died 1259)
• Salimbene di Adam (1221 – c. 1290), Italian
• Jans der Enikel (c. 1227–c. 1290)
• Templar of Tyre (c. 1230–1314), end of the Crusades

Late Middle Ages

Historians of the Italian Renaissance are listed under "Renaissance".

• Piers Langtoft (died c. 1307)
• Jean de Joinville (1224–1319)
• Giovanni Villani (1276–1348), Italian chronicler from Florence who wrote the Nuova Cronica'
• John Clyn (fl. 1333–1349), Irish historian
• Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin (died 1372), Irish historian
• Adhamh Ó Cianáin (died 1373)
• John of Fordun (died 1384), Scottish chronicler
• Ruaidhri Ó Cianáin (died 1387), Irish historian
• Jean Froissart (c. 1337 – c. 1405), chronicler
• Dietrich of Nieheim (c. 1345–1418), ecclesiastic history
• Christine de Pizan (c. 1365 – c. 1430), historian, poet and philosopher
• Álvar García de Santa María (1370–1460)
• Giolla Íosa Mór Mac Fhirbhisigh (fl. 1390–1418)
• John Capgrave (1393–1464)
• Alfonso de Cartagena (1396–1456)
• Enguerrand de Monstrelet (c. 1400–1453), French chronicler
• Georges Chastellain (c. 1405 or c. 1415–1475), Burgundian chronicler
• Thomas Basin (1412–1491), French historian
• Jan Długosz (1415–1480), Polish historian and chronicler
• Mathieu d'Escouchy (1420–1482), French chronicler
• Olivier de la Marche (1425–1502), Burgundian chronicler
• Jean Molinet (1435–1507), French chronicler
• Cathal Óg Mac Maghnusa (1439–1498), compiler and annalist
• Philippe de Commines (1447–1511)

Islamic world

Further information: Historiography of early Islam

• Ibn Rustah (10th century), Persian historian and traveler
• Muhammad al-Tabari (838–923), Great Persian historian
• Al-Biruni (973–1048), Persian historian
• Mohammed al-Baydhaq (fl. 1150), Moroccan historian
• Usamah ibn Munqidh (1095–1188)
• Ali ibn al-Athir (1160-1233)
• Abdelwahid al-Marrakushi (born 1185), Moroccan historian
• Ibn al-Khabbaza (died 1239), Moroccan historian
• Ata al-Mulk Juvayni (1226–1283), Persian historian
• Abdelaziz al-Malzuzi (died 1298), Moroccan historian
• Ibn Abi Zar (fl. 1315), Moroccan historian
• Ibn Idhari (late 13th and the early 14th century), Moroccan historian
• Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (1247–1317), Persian historian
• Abdullah Wassaf (1299–1323), Persian historian
• Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406), North African historian "of the world"
• Ismail ibn al-Ahmar (1387–1406), Moroccan historian
• Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi (died 1454), Persian historian

Far East

• Fang Xuanling (579–648) (Chinese Tang Dynasty) compiled the Book of Jin.
• Yao Silian (died 637) (Chinese Tang Dynasty) compiled the Book of Liang and Book of Chen.
• Wei Zheng (580–643), Chinese historian and lead editor of the Book of Sui
• Liu Zhiji (661–721), Chinese history, author of the Shitong, the first Chinese work on Chinese historiography and methods
• Ō no Yasumaro (died 723), Japanese chronicler and editor of the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki
• Liu Xu (888–947), Chinese historian and lead editor of the Old Book of Tang
• Li Fang (925–996), Chinese editor of the Four Great Books of Song
• Song Qi (998–1061), Chinese historian and co-author of the New Book of Tang
• Ouyang Xiu (1007–1072), Chinese historian and co-author of the New Book of Tang
• Sima Guang (1019–1086), Chinese historiographer and politician
• Kim Bu-sik (1075–1151), Korean historian, author of the Samguk Sagi
• Il-yeon (1206–1289), Korean historian, author of the Samguk Yusa
• Lê Văn Hưu (1230–1322), Vietnamese history
• Toqto'a (1314–1356) (Chinese Yuan Dynasty), Mongol historian who compiled the History of Song
• Song Lian (1310–1381) (Chinese Ming Dynasty) wrote the History of Yuan.
• Zhu Quan (1378–1448), Chinese history

South Asia

• Kalhana (c. 12th century), historian of Kashmir and Indian Subcontinent
• Hemachandra (12th century), Jain polymath
• Abdul Malik Isami (14th century), Indian historian and poet
• Jonaraja (15th century) Kashmiri historian and Sanskrit poet
• Padmanābha (15th century), Indian poet and historian
• Yahya bin Ahmad Sirhindi (15th century), Delhi Sultanate

Renaissance to early modern

Renaissance Europe

Western historians during the Italian Renaissance or Northern Renaissance

Individuals born after 1600 are listed under "early modern".

• Baldassarre Bonaiuti (1336–1385), chronicler and historian of the 14th century
• Leonardo Bruni (1370–1444), humanist historian
• Flavio Biondo (1392–1463), humanist historian
• Philippe de Commines (1447 – 18 October 1511), French historian
• Robert Fabyan (died 1513), London alderman and chronicler
• Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527), author of Florentine Histories
• Hector Boece (1465–1536), Scottish philosopher and historian, wrote Historia Gentis Scotorum.
• Albert Krantz (1450–1517), German historian
• Polydore Vergil (c. 1470–1555), Tudor history
• Francesco Guicciardini (1483–1540), historian of the Italian Wars, "Storia d'Italia"
• Paolo Giovio (1486–1552), historian of the Italian Wars and the Renaissance Papacy, Historiae
• Paolo Sarpi (1552–1623), historian of the Council of Trent
• Olaus Magnus (c. 1490–1570), Swedish ecclesiastic
• João de Barros (1496–1570), Portuguese historian
• Aegidius Tschudi (1505–1572), Swiss historian
• Josias Simmler (1530–1576), Swiss classicist
• Arild Huitfeldt (1546–1609), Denmark
• Raphael Holinshed (died c. 1580), chronicler, source for Shakespeare plays
• Caesar Baronius (1538–1607), ecclesiastical historian
• Sigismund von Herberstein (1486–1566), Muscovite affairs
• Paolo Paruta (1540–1598), Venetian historian
• Garcilaso de la Vega (1539–1616), Spanish historian of Inca history
• Pilip Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin (fl. 1579–1590). Irish historian

Early modern period

Western historians of the Early modern and Enlightenment period, c. 1600–1815

• John Hayward (1564–1627)
• James Ussher (1581–1656), chronology of the history of the world
• Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581–1647), Dutch Republic
• William Bradford (1590–1657), Mayflower/Plymouth Colony of America
• Mícheál Ó Cléirigh (c. 1590–1643), Irish historian
• Tadhg Óg Ó Cianáin (died c. 1614), Irish historian
• Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh (Peregrine O'Clery) (died c. 1662/1664), Irish historian
• Sir James Ware (1594–1666), Anglo-Irish historian and antiquarian
• Arthur Wilson (1595–1652), 16th-century Britain
• Placido Puccinelli (1609–1685), Italian historian
• Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange (1610–1688), Medieval and Byzantine historian and philologist
• Mary Bonaventure Browne (c. 1610 – c. 1670), Poor Clare and Irish historian
• Peregrine Ó Duibhgeannain (fl. 1627–1636), Irish historian
• Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh (1629–1716/1718), Irish historian
• Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont (1637–1698), ecclesiastical historian
• Christoph Cellarius (1638–1707), German universal historian
• John Strype (1643–1737), English historian
• Thomas Rymer (c. 1643–1713), English historian and antiquary
• Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh (fl. 1643–1671), Irish historian, annalist, genealogist
• Geoffrey Keating/Seathrún Céitinn (died 1643), Irish historian
• Đorđe Branković (1645–1711), Serbian history
• Josiah Burchett (1666–1746), British naval historian and Admiralty official
• Laurence Echard (c. 1670–1730), England
• Ludovico Antonio Muratori (1672–1750), Italy
• Manuel Teles da Silva, 3rd Marquis of Alegrete (1682–1736), Portuguese historian
• Moses Williams (1685–1742), Welsh scholar and antiquarian
• Archibald Bower (1686–1766), historian of Rome
• Vasily Tatishchev (1686–1750), first historian of modern Russia
• Giambattista Vico (1688–1744), Italian historian, first modern philosopher of history
• Voltaire (1694–1778), writer on Europe and France
• Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim (1694–1755), Lutheran historian
• Charlotta Frölich (1698–1770), Swedish historian
• David Hume (1711–1776), History of England
• Thomas Hutchinson (1711–1780), colonial Massachusetts
• Francisco Jose Freire (1719–1773), Portuguese historian and philologist
• William Robertson (1721–1793), Scottish historian
• Zaharije Orfelin (1726–1785), Austrian Serb historian
• Johann Christoph Gatterer (1727–1799), German historian
• Edward Hasted (1732–1812), Kent, England
• Mikhail Shcherbatov (1733–1790), Russian historian
• August Ludwig von Schlözer (1735–1809), German historian
• John Barrow (fl. 1735–1774), English naval historian and geographer
• Edward Gibbon (1737–1794), Roman Empire and Byzantium
• Alexander Hewat (or Hewatt) (1739–1824), colonial Carolina and Georgia
• Benjamin Incledon (1730–1796), English antiquary and school historian
• Philip Yorke (1743–1804), Welsh historian and politician
• Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803), philosophy of the history of mankind
• Fray Íñigo Abbad y Lasierra (1745–1813), Spanish historian
• David Ramsay (1749–1815), American Revolution; South Carolina
• Johannes von Müller (1752–1809), Switzerland
• Anton Tomaz Linhart (1756–1795), known for Slovenian history
• Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), German historian
• Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin (1766–1826), Russian historian, Russian Empire
• Francesco Maria Appendini (1768–1837), Italian historian, Republic of Ragusa
• Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860), German historian

Middle East and Islamic Empires

Further information: Safavid Empire, Mughal Empire, and Ottoman Empire

• Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni (1540–1615), Indo-Persian historian
• Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi (1553–1616), Moroccan historian
• Abd al-Aziz al-Fishtali (1549–1621), Moroccan historian
• Bahrey (born 1593), Ethiopian monk and historian; wrote Zenahu le Galla (History of the Galla, now the Oromo)
• Abd al-Rahman al-Fasi (1631–1685), Moroccan historian
• Mohammed al-Ifrani (1670–1745), Moroccan historian
• Mohammed al-Qadiri (1712–1773), Moroccan historian
• Abu al-Qasim al-Zayyani (1734–1833), Moroccan historian and poet
• Sulayman al-Hawwat (1747–1816), Moroccan historian
• Mohammed al-Duayf (born 1752), Moroccan historian
• Abbasgulu Bakikhanov (1794–1847), history of Azerbaijan and the Middle East
• George Grote (1794–1871), classical Greece
• Teimuraz Bagrationi (1782–1846), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
• Mohammed Akensus (1797–1877), Moroccan historian

Far East

• Qian Qianyi (1582–1664) (late Chinese Ming Dynasty)
• Zhang Tingyu (1672–1755) (Chinese Qing Dynasty) compiled the History of Ming.
• Qian Daxin (1728–1804) (Chinese Qing Dynasty)
• Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng (1738–1801), Chinese historian, local histories and essays on historiography
• Yu Deuk-gong (1749–1807), Korean historian

Modern historians

Historians flourishing after 1815, born after 1770

Further information: Historiography of the French Revolution § Contemporary and 19th-century historians

In alphabetical order:

• Lucy Aikin (1781–1864), English historical writer and biographer
• Archibald Alison (1792–1867), English historian
• Thomas Arnold (]1795–1842), English historian and educator
• Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), French Revolution, Germany
• Simonas Daukantas (1793–1864), Lithuanian
• Charles Dezobry (1798–1871), French historian and historical novelist
• John Colin Dunlop (c. 1785–1842), Scottish historian
• George Finlay (1799–1875), Greece
• Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783–1847), Swedish nationalist historian
• François Guizot (1787–1874), French historian of general French, English history
• Henry Hallam (1777–1859), Medieval European history
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), German philosopher of history
• Joachim Lelewel (1786–1861), Polish historian
• Heinrich Leo (1799–1878), Prussian historian
• John Lingard (1771–1851), England
• Louis Gabriel Michaud (1773–1858), French
• 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)
• John Neal (1793-1876), American Revolutionary War history
• Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776–1831), German historian
• František Palacký (1798–1876), Czech
• William H. Prescott (1796–1859), U.S. historian of Spain, Mexico, Peru
• Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886), European diplomacy; most influential German historian
• Adolphe Thiers (1797–1877), French historian of the Revolution, Empire
• George Tucker (1775–1861), American history

Historians born during the 19th century

A

• Lord Acton (1834–1902), Europe
• Henry Adams (1838–1918), U.S. 1800–1816
• Grace Aguilar (1816–1847), Jewish history
• Robert G. Albion (1896–1983), maritime
• 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
• William Ashley (1860–1927), British economic history
• Octave Aubry (1881–1946)
• François Victor Alphonse Aulard (1849–1928), French Revolution and Napoleon I
• Zurab Avalishvili (1876–1944), history of Georgia and the Caucasus

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B

• Jacques Bainville (1879–1936), France
• George Bancroft (1800–1891), United States to 1789
• R. Mildred Barker (1897–1990), Shakers, religion
• Harry Elmer Barnes (1889–1968), World War I; ideas
• Wilhelm Barthold (1869–1930), Muslim and Turkic studies
• Charles Bean (1879–1968), Australia in World War I
• Charles A. Beard (1874–1948), American, economic interpretation, historiography
• Mary Ritter Beard (1876–1958), American, women's history
• Winthrop Pickard Bell (1884–1965), Nova Scotia
• Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953), Europe
• Marc Bloch (1886–1944), medieval France; Annales School
• Herbert Eugene Bolton (1870–1953), Spanish-American borderlands
• Erich Brandenburg (1868–1946), Modern Germany
• Kurt Breysig (1866–1940)
• George Williams Brown (1894–1963), Canada
• Otto Brunner (1898–1982), medieval and early modern Austria
• Geoffrey Bruun (1899–1988), Europe
• Arthur Bryant (1888–1985), Pepys; English warfare
• Henry Thomas Buckle (1821–1862), England, History of Civilization
• Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897), art history, Europe, Renaissance
• John Hill Burton (1809–1881), Scottish Jacobin history
• J.B. Bury (1861–1927), classical, Europe

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C

• Helen Cam (1885–1968), English medieval
• Pierre Caron (1875–1952), French revolution
• E.H. Carr (1892–1982), Soviet history, methodology
• Henri Raymond Casgrain (1831–1904), French Canada
• Antonio Cánovas del Castillo (1828–1897), Spanish historian
• Américo Castro (1885–1972), Spanish identity
• Bruce Catton (1899–1978), American Civil War
• Cesar de Bazancourt (1810–1865), Crimean War
• Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897–1999), India
• Boris Chicherin (1828–1904), Russian historian, history of Russian law
• Hiram M. Chittenden (1858–1917), American West, fur trade
• Winston Churchill (1874–1965), world wars
• Augustin Cochin (1876–1916), history of French Revolution
• R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943), philosophy of history
• Julian Corbett (1854–1922), British naval
• Vladimir Ćorović (1885–1941), Serbia
• Avery Craven (1885–1980), American South
• Edward Shepherd Creasy (1812–1878), warfare
• Benedetto Croce (1866–1952)
• Margaret Campbell Speke Cruwys (1894–1968), Devon
• John Shelton Curtiss (1899–1983), Soviet Union

   [top]

D

• Felix Dahn (1834–1912), medieval
• Angie Debo (1890–1988), Native American and Oklahoma history
• Léopold Delisle (1826–1910), French historian and librarian
• Bernard DeVoto (1897–1955), American West
• William Dodd (1869–1940), American South
• David C. Douglas (1898–1982), Norman England
• Johann Gustav Droysen (1808–1884), German history
• Sir George Dunbar (1878–1962), India
• Ariel Durant (1898–1981), Europe
• Will Durant (1885–1981), Europe

   [top]

E

• Ephraim Emerton (1851–1935), medieval Europe
• Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), historical materialism
• Norbert Elias (1897–1990), process of civilisation

   [top]

F

• Cyril Falls (1888–1971), military, world wars
• Lucien Febvre (1878–1956), France
• Keith Feiling (1884–1977), England, conservatism
• Herbert Feis (1893–1972), World War II diplomacy, international finance
• Charles Harding Firth (1857–1936), 17th-century England
• Herbert A. L. Fisher (1865–1940)
• Walter Lynwood Fleming (1874–1932), U.S. reconstruction
• Edward Augustus Freeman (1823–1892), English politics
• Egon Friedell (1878–1938), cultural history of the modern age
• James Anthony Froude (1818–1894), Tudor England
• J.F.C. Fuller (1878–1966), military
• Frantz Funck-Brentano (1862–1947), France
• John Sydenham Furnivall (1878–1960), Burma, Southeast Asia
• Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830–1889), antiquity, France

   [top]

G

• François-Louis Ganshof (1895–1980), medieval history
• Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1829–1902), 17th-century England
• Alice Gardner (1854–1927), ancient history
• Pieter Geyl (1887–1966), Dutch
• Lawrence Henry Gipson (1882–1970), British Empire before 1775
• Arthur Giry (1848–1899), diplomacy
• Gustave Glotz (1862–1935), Ancient Greece
• George Peabody Gooch (1873–1968), modern diplomacy
• Timofey Granovsky (1813–1855), medieval Germany
• Elizabeth Caroline Gray (1800–1887), Etruscan history
• John Richard Green (1837–1883), English
• Mary Anne Everett Green (1818–1895), English
• Arthur Griffiths (1838–1908), military history
• Lionel Groulx (1878–1967), Quebec
• René Grousset (1885–1952), Oriental history

   [top]

H

• Henry Hoyle Howorth (1842–1923) was a British Conservative politician, barrister and amateur historian and geologist
• Élie Halévy (1870–1937), French historian of 19th-century Britain
• Louis Halphen (1880–1950), Middle Ages
• Clarence H. Haring (1885–1960), Latin American history
• Charles H. Haskins (1870–1937), medieval
• 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
• Mihály Horváth (1809–1878), Hungarian
• Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866–1934), Ukrainian historian
• Johan Huizinga (1872–1945), Dutch historian, author of Waning of the Middle Ages

   [top]

I

• Ibn Zaydan (1873–1946), Moroccan historian
• Dmitry Ilovaisky (1832–1920), Russian history
• Harold Innis (1894–1952), Canadian economic history

   [top]

J

• Mohammed ibn Jaafar al-Kattani (1858–1927), Moroccan
• Muhammad Jaber (1875–1945), history of the Levant and the Middle-East
• William James (1780–1827), historian of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars
• Ivane Javakhishvili (1876–1940), Georgian historian
• Arthur Johnson (1845–1927), historian at Oxford University

   [top]

K

• Samuel Kamakau (1815–1876), Hawaiian historian
• Konstantin Kavelin (1818–1885), Russian historian, history of Russian laws
• François Christophe Edmond de Kellermann (1802–1868), French political historian
• 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
• William Kingsford (1819–1898), Canadian
• Vasily Klyuchevsky (1841–1911), Russian history
• David Knowles (1896–1974), English medieval
• Dudley Wright Knox (1877–1960), American naval historian
• Ludwig von Köchel (1800–1877), writer, botanist and music historian
• Mihail Kogălniceanu (1817–1891), Romanian
• Hans Kohn (1891–1971), European nationalism
• Nikodim Kondakov (1844–1925), Byzantine art
• Mehmet Fuad Köprülü (1890–1966), Turkish historian
• Nikolay Kostomarov (1817–1885), Russian and Ukrainian history
• Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), economics, sociology and political history
• Godefroid Kurth (1847–1916), Belgian historian

   [top]

L

• Leonard Woods Labaree (1897–1980), editor of the Benjamin Franklin papers
• Harold Lamb (1892–1962), American
• Karl Lamprecht (1856–1915), German art and economic history
• William L. Langer (1896–1977), U.S. historian, world and diplomatic history
• John Knox Laughton (1830–1915), British naval historian
• Ernest Lavisse (1842–1922), French history
• William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1838–1903), England and Ireland
• Georges Lefebvre (1874–1959), French Revolution
• Anna Lewis (1885–1961), Southwestern United States
• Liang Qichao (1873–1929), Chinese and Western history and historiography
• B.H. Liddell Hart (1895–1970), military
• John Edward Lloyd (1861–1947), Welshness
• Ferdinand Lot (1866–1952), Middle Ages
• Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873–1962), intellectual history
• Arthur R.M. Lower (1889–1988), Canadian

   [top]

M

• Thomas Macaulay (1800–1859), British
• R. B. McCallum (1898–1973) British
• J. D. Mackie (1887–1978), Scottish
• William Archibald Mackintosh (1895–1970), Canadian economic
• Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840–1914), naval
• Frederic William Maitland (1850–1906), English legal, medieval
• Ramesh Chandra Majumdar (1888–1980), Indian history
• J. A. R. Marriott (1859–1945), modern Britain and Europe
• Karl Marx (1818–1883), European society and economy
• 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
• John Lothrop Motley (1814–1877), the Netherlands
• Lewis Mumford (1895–1988), cities

   [top]

N

• Lewis Bernstein Namier (1888–1960), 18th-century British and 20th-century diplomatic history
• Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri (1835–1897), Moroccan
• J. E. Neale (1890–1975), Elizabethan England
• Allan Nevins (1890–1971), U.S. political and business; Civil War; biography
• A. P. Newton (1873–1942), British Empire
• Stojan Novaković (1842–1915), Serbian

   [top]

O

• Charles Oman (1860–1946), 19th-century military
• Herbert L. Osgood (1855–1918), American colonial

   [top]

P

• K. M. Panikkar (1895–1963), Indian historian
• Cesare Paoli (1840–1902), Italian history
• Gaston Paris (1839–1903), Middle Ages
• Francis Parkman (1823–1893), colonial North America
• Herbert Paul (1853–1935), 19th-century Britain
• Henry Francis Pelham (1846–1907), Roman
• Samuel W. Pennypacker (1843–1916), Pennsylvania history
• Dexter Perkins (1889–1984), American history
• Ivy Pinchbeck (1898–1982), English women and children
• Henri Pirenne (1862–1935), Belgian and medieval European history
• Sergey Platonov (1860–1933), Rucxian
• Mikhail Pokrovsky (1868–1932), economics and soviet history
• Datto Vaman Potdar (1890–1979), Indian historian
• Eileen Power (1889–1940), Middle Ages
• F. M. Powicke (1879–1963, English medieval
• H. F. M. Prescott (1896–1972), biographer of Mary I of England and medieval History

   [top]

Q

• Jules Quicherat (1814–1882), Middle Ages

   [top]

R

• William Pember Reeves (1857–1932), New Zealand
• Pierre Renouvin (1893–1974), diplomatic historian
• Herbert Richmond (1871–1946), British naval
• James Riker (1822–1889), New York
• B. H. Roberts (1857–1933), Mormon
• James Harvey Robinson (1863–1936), European
• Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), American west and naval history
• John Holland Rose (1855–1942), modern Europe, Britain and France
• Michael Rostovtzeff (1870–1952), ancient history
• Hans Rothfels (1891–1976), modern German
• Simon Rutar (1851–1903), Slovenian
• Ilarion Ruvarac (1832–1905), Serbian

   [top]

S

• Abram L. Sachar (1899–1993), modern European history
• Govind Sakharam Sardesai (1865–1959), Indian
• Richard G. Salomon (1884–1966), medieval and church
• Jadunath Sarkar (1870–1958), history of India
• George Sarton (1884–1956), history of science
• Gustave Schlumberger (1844–1929), French
• Otto Seeck (1850–1921), German
• John Robert Seeley (1834–1895), British Empire
• J. Salwyn Schapiro (1879–1973), fascism
• Arthur Schlesinger, Sr. (1888–1965) American social history
• Shin Chaeho (1880–1936), Korean
• Adam Shortt (1859–1931), Canadian
• Charlotte Fell Smith (1851–1937), English early modern
• Goldwin Smith (1823–1910), British and Canadian
• Justin Harvey Smith (1857–1930), Mexican–American War
• Sergey Solovyov (1820–1879), Russian historian
• Oswald Spengler (1880–1936), world; The Decline of the West
• Stanoje Stanojević (1874–1937), Serbia
• Frank Stenton (1880–1967), English medieval
• Doris Mary Stenton (1894–1971), English medieval
• William Stubbs (1825–1902), English law

   [top]

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), Britain, The English People Overseas
• Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859), France
• Zacharias Topelius (1818–1898)
• Thomas Frederick Tout (1855–1929), England
• Arnold J. Toynbee (1889–1975), world history, A Study of History
• Heinrich Gotthard von Treitschke (1834–1896), German historian and nationalist
• George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876–1962), British
• Mikheil Tsereteli (1878–1965), Georgian historian
• Frederick Jackson Turner (1861–1932), American frontier

   [top]

U

• Frank Underhill (1889–1971), Canadian

   [top]

V

• Paul Vinogradoff (1854–1925), medieval England

   [top]

W

• Spencer Walpole (1839–1907), English historian
• Charles Webster (1886–1961), British diplomatic history
• Curt Weibull (1886–1991), Swedish historian
• Lauritz Weibull (1873–1960), Swedish historian
• Spenser Wilkinson (1853–1937), Britain, military historian
• Mary Wilhelmine Williams (1878–1944), Latin America
• James A. Williamson (1886–1964), Britain,maritime historian and historian of exploration
• Esmé Cecil Wingfield-Stratford (1882–1971), England
• Justin Winsor (1831–1897), America, Narrative and Critical History of America
• Carl Frederick Wittke (1892–1971), American ethnics
• Ernest Llewellyn Woodward (1890–1971), British history and international relations
• Muriel Hazel Wright (1889–1975), Oklahoma, Native Americans
• George MacKinnon Wrong (1860–1948), Canadian

   [top]

Y

• Yi Byeongdo (1896–1989), Korea

   [top]

Z

• Nicolas Zafra (1892–1979), Philippines
• Johann Kaspar Zeuss (1806–1856), Celts
• Faddei Zielinski (1859–1944), ancient Greece

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Historians born in the 20th century

A

• Raouf Abbas (1939–2008), Egyptian
• Irving Abella (born 1940), Canadian
• Aberjhani (born 1957), African American, Harlem Renaissance, Literary
• David Abulafia (born 1949), Mediterranean history
• Ezequiel Adamovsky (born 1971), Argentina
• Donald Adamson (born 1939), Britain
• Teodoro Agoncillo (1912–1985), Philippines (Philippine) history
• Dean C. Allard (1933–2018), American naval
• Robert C. Allen (born 1947), British economy
• Gar Alperovitz (born 1936), America, Hiroshima
• Ida Altman (born 1950), America, colonial Spain and Latin America
• Mor Altshuler (born 1957), Hasidism, Kabbalism, and Jewish messianism
• Abbas Amanat (born 1947) Iran, America
• Stephen Ambrose (1936–2002), World War II, U.S. political
• Henri Amouroux (1920–2007), French, Nazi occupation of France
• Perry Anderson (born 1938), British and European history
• Joyce Appleby (1929–2016), U.S. early national
• Herbert Aptheker (1915–2003), African American history
• Leonie Archer (born 1955), England
• Philippe Ariès (1914–1984), French medieval, childhood
• Karen Armstrong (born 1944), British religious
• Andrea Aromatico (born 1966), Italian esotericism and Hermetic iconography
• Leonard J. Arrington (1917–1999), America, Mormons
• Thomas Asbridge (living), Crusades
• Maurice Ashley (1907–1994), 17th-century England
• Paul Avrich (1931–2006), Russian, the Anarchist movement
• Ali Azaykou (1942–2004), Moroccan
• Eiichiro Azuma (born 1966), American

   [top]

B

• Nigel Bagnall (1927–2002), Ancient Rome, Greece
• Bernard Bailyn (born 1922), early America; Atlantic
• David E. Barclay (born 1948), German
• Juliet Barker (born 1958), late Middle Ages, literary biography
• Frank Barlow (1911–2009), medieval biography
• Linda Diane Barnes (living), American
• Geoffrey Barraclough (1908–1984), Germany, world
• G.W.S. Barrow (1924–2013), Scotland
• H. Arnold Barton (1929–2016), Scandinavia
• Paul R. Bartrop (born 1955), Holocaust, genocide
• Jacques Barzun (1907–2012), cultural
• Jorge Basadre (1903–1980), Peru
• Hanna Batatu (1926–2000), Palestinian, modern Iraq
• K. Jack Bauer (1926–1987), U.S. naval, military, and maritime
• Yehuda Bauer (born 1926), Holocaust
• Stephen B. Baxter (living), late 17th – early 18th-century English
• David Bebbington (born 1949), Evangelicalism
• Antony Beevor (born 1946), World War II
• David Bell (living), Early Modern France, cultural history
• James Belich (born 1956), New Zealand
• Abdelmajid Benjelloun (born 1944), Morocco
• Laurence Bergreen (born 1950), biography
• Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997), ideas
• Michael Beschloss (born 1955), Cold War
• Nicholas Bethell (1938–2007), Soviet
• Robert Bickers (born 1964), modern China and colonialism
• Anthony Birley (born 1937), Ancient Rome
• David Blackbourn (born 1949), German
• Geoffrey Blainey (born 1930), Australian
• Lesley Blanch (1904–2007), English
• Gisela Bock (born 1942), German feminist
• Brian Bond (born 1936), British military
• Chrystelle Trump Bond (1938–2020), American dance historian
• Daniel J. Boorstin (1914–2004), American
• Georges Bordonove (1920–2007), France
• John Boswell (1947–1994), medievalist
• Robert Bothwell (born 1944), Canada
• Gérard Bouchard (born 1943), Canada
• Joanna Bourke (born 1963), military
• Paul S. Boyer (1935–2012), American morality
• Karl Dietrich Bracher (1922–2016), modern German
• Jim Bradbury (born 1937), Middle Ages
• James C. Bradford (born 1944), American naval
• David Brading (born 1936), Mexican history
• William Brandon (1914–2002), American West
• Fernand Braudel (1902–1985), world, Mediterranean
• Ahron Bregman (born 1958), Arab-Israeli conflict
• Carl Bridenbaugh (1903–1992), American colonial
• Asa Briggs (1921–2016), British social history
• Timothy Brook (born 1951), China
• Martin Broszat (1926–1989), Nazi Germany
• Gregory S. Brown (living), Early Modern French History, Cultural History
• Peter Brown (born 1935), medieval
• Christopher Browning (born 1944), Holocaust
• Alan Bullock (1914–2004), 1940s
• Peter Burke (born 1937)
• Michael Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln
• Briton C. Busch (1936–2004), British diplomatic and American maritime
• Richard Bushman (born 1931), American colonial and Mormon
• Herbert Butterfield (1900–1979), historiography

   [top]

C

• Angus Calder (1942–2008), Second World War
• Philip L. Cantelon (born 1940), United States
• Julio Caro Baroja (1914–1995), anthropologist
• Sir Raymond Carr (1919–2015), Spain and Latin America
• Paul Cartledge (born 1947), classicist
• Lionel Casson (1914–2009), classicist
• Boris Celovsky (1923–2008), Czech-German relations
• Iris Chang (1968–2004), China
• Howard I. Chapelle (1901–1975), maritime
• Maher Charif (living), Arab
• Louis Chevalier (1911–2001), France
• Alexander Campbell Cheyne (1924–2006), Scotland
• Thomas Childers (born 1976), war and society, both world wars
• Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri (1935–2016), India
• I. R. Christie (1919–1998), Britain
• Alan Clark (1928–1999), World Wars
• Christopher Clark (born 1960), Prussia
• J.C.D. Clark (born 1951), British
• Manning Clark (1915–1991), Australia
• Oliver Edmund Clubb (1901–1989), China
• Patrick Collinson (1929–2011), Elizabethan England and Puritanism
• Robert Conquest (1917–2015), Russia
• Margaret Conrad (born 1946), Canada
• John Milton Cooper (born 1940), Woodrow Wilson
• Peter Cottrell (born 1964), Anglo-Irish
• Gordon A. Craig (1913–2005), German and diplomatic
• Donald Creighton (1902–1979), Canadian
• Vincent Cronin (1924–2011), European and art history
• William Cronon (born 1954), American environmental
• Pamela Kyle Crossley (born 1955), China
• Dan Cruickshank (born 1949), Britain, architecture
• Gemma Cruz (born 1943), Rizaliana, Philippines
• Barry Cunliffe (born 1939), archaeology

   [top]

D

• Vahakn N. Dadrian (1926–2019), Armenia
• Robert Dallek (born 1934), 20th-century U.S. presidents
• William Dalrymple (born 1965), Scottish
• David B. Danbom (born 1947), American rural
• Ahmad Hasan Dani (1920–2009), South Asia
• Robert Darnton (born 1939), 18th-century France
• Saul David (born 1966), military
• John Davies (1938–2015), Wales
• Norman Davies (born 1939), Poland, Britain
• Kenneth S. Davis (1912–1999), Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Natalie Zemon Davis (born 1928), early modern France, film
• R. H. C. Davis (1918–1991), Middle Ages
• Lucy Dawidowicz (1915–1990), Holocaust
• David Day (born 1949), Australia
• Renzo De Felice (1929–1996), Italian fascism
• Carl N. Degler (1921–2014), American
• Len Deighton (born 1929), British military
• Esther Delisle (born 1954), French-Canadian
• Jean Delumeau (1923–2020), Catholic Church
• Marcel Detienne (1935–2019), ancient Greece
• Alexandre Deulofeu (1903–1978), Catalan
• Isaac Deutscher (1907–1967), Soviet
• 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), Scotland
• Susan Doran (living), Elizabethan England
• William Doyle (born 1932), French Revolution
• Georges Duby (1924–1996), Middle Ages
• William S. Dudley (born 1936), American naval
• Robert Dudley Edwards (1909–1988), Ireland
• Eamon Duffy (born 1947), 15th–17th-century religious
• Hermann Walther von der Dunk (1928–2018), 20th-century Dutch and German
• Mary Maples Dunn (1931–2017), early American, women's history
• Richard Slator Dunn (born 1928), early American, slavery
• A. Hunter Dupree (1921–2019), American science and technology
• Trevor Dupuy (1916–1995), military
• Jean-Baptiste Duroselle (1917–1994), French diplomacy
• Harold James Dyos (1921–1978), British urban

   [top]

E

• Elizabeth Eisenstein (1923–2016), French Revolution, books
• Geoff Eley (born 1949), German
• John Elliott (born 1930), Spanish
• Joseph J. Ellis (born 1943), American early Republic
• Geoffrey Elton (1921–1994), Tudor England
• Peter Englund (born 1957), Sweden
• Robert Malcolm Errington (born 1939), Britain
• Richard J. Evans (born 1947), German social
• Alf Evers (1905–2004), America

   [top]

F

• Esther Farbstein (born 1946), Israeli, Holocaust
• Grahame Farr (1912–1983), maritime, south-west of England
• Brian Farrell (1929–2014), Ireland
• John Lister Illingworth Fennell (1918–1992), medieval Russia
• Niall Ferguson (born 1964), military, business, imperial
• Božidar Ferjančić (1929–1998), medieval
• Robert H. Ferrell (1921–2018), American history, the U.S. presidency, World War I, U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy, Harry S. Truman
• Marc Ferro (born 1924), World War I
• Joachim Fest (1926–2006), Nazi Germany
• David Feuerwerker (1912–1980), Jewish
• Heinrich Fichtenau (1912–2000), medieval, diplomacy
• David Kenneth Fieldhouse (1925–2018), British Empire
• 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), Germany
• Frances FitzGerald (born 1940), Vietnam, history textbooks
• Judith Flanders (born 1959), Victorian British social
• Robert Fogel (1926–2013), American economic, cliometrics
• Eric Foner (born 1943), Reconstruction
• Shelby Foote (1916–2005), American Civil War
• Amanda Foreman (born 1968), Georgian England, American Civil War, women's history
• Michel Foucault (1926–1984), ideas
• Jo Fox (living), 20th-century film and propaganda
• Robin Lane Fox (born 1946), ancient
• Stephen Fox (born 1938), U.S. in World War II
• Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (1941–2007), American South, cultural and social, women
• Walter Frank (1905–1945), Nazi historian
• H. Bruce Franklin (born 1934), Vietnam War
• Antonia Fraser (born 1932), England
• Frank Freidel (1916–1993), Franklin Roosevelt
• Joseph Friedenson (1922–2013), Holocaust
• Henry Friedlander (1930–2012), Holocaust
• Saul Friedländer (born 1932), Holocaust
• Sheppard Frere (1916–2015), anthropologist, Roman Empire
• David Fromkin (1932–2017), Middle East
• Francis Fukuyama (born 1955), world
• Bruno Fuligni (born 1968), French history
• François Furet (1927–1997), French Revolution
• Halima Ferhat (born 1941), Middle Ages of the Maghreb

   [top]

G

• Femme Gaastra (born 1945), Dutch
• John Lewis Gaddis (born 1941), Cold War
• Lloyd Gardner (born 1934), U.S. diplomatic
• Edwin Gaustad (1923–2011), religion in America
• Peter Gay (1923–2015), psycho-history, Enlightenment and 19th-century social
• Eugene Genovese (1930–2012), U.S. South, slavery
• Imanuel Geiss (1931–2012), 19th/20th-century Germany
• François Géré (born 1950), military
• Christian Gerlach (born 1963), Holocaust
• N.H. Gibbs (1910–1990), military
• William Gibson (born 1959), ecclesiastical history
• Martin Gilbert (1936–2015), Holocaust
• Carlo Ginzburg (born 1939), social history
• Jan Glete (1947–2009), Swedish
• Eric F. Goldman (1916–1989), 20th-century American
• James Goldrick (born 1958), Australian
• Adrian Goldsworthy (born 1969), ancient history
• Guillermo Gómez (born 1936), Philippines (Philippine) history
• Doris Kearns Goodwin (born 1943), American presidential
• Andrew Gordon (born 1951), British naval history
• Svetlana Gorshenina (born 1969), Central Asian history
• Gerald S. Graham (1903–1988), British imperial
• Jack Granatstein (born 1939), Canada
• Michael Grant (1914–2004), ancient
• Peter Green (born 1924), ancient
• Vivian H.H. Green (1915–2005), Christianity
• John Robert Greene (born 1955), American presidency
• Roger D. Griffin (born 1948), fascism, political and religious fanaticism
• Ramchandra Guha (born 1958), India, environment
• Ranajit Guha (born 1923), Indian
• Lev Gumilyov (1912–1992), Soviet
• Oliver Gurney (1911–2001), Assyria, Hittites
• John Guy (born 1949), Tudor England

   [top]

H

• Irfan Habib (born 1931), India
• Sheldon Hackney (1943–2013), U.S. South
• Kenneth J. Hagan (born 1936), U.S. naval
• John Whitney Hall (1916–1997), Japan
• Bruce Barrymore Halpenny (born 1937), World War II air war
• N. G. L. Hammond (1907–2001), ancient Greek history
• Victor Davis Hanson (born 1953), ancient warfare
• Syed Nomanul Haq (born 1948), history and philosophy of science
• Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976), Israeli, military, Medieval, prehistorical
• Dick Harrison (born 1966), Swedish and Medieval
• Peter Harrison (born 1955), early modern intellectual
• Max Hastings (born 1945), military, WWII
• John Hattendorf (born 1941), maritime
• Ragnhild Hatton (1913–1995), 17th–18th-century European international
• Denys Hay (1915–1994), medieval and Renaissance Europe
• John Daniel Hayes (1902–1991), American naval
• Peter Hayes (born c. 1947), Holocaust
• Joel Hayward (born 1964), Islamic, maritime, military
• Ingo Heidbrink (born 1968), maritime history, history of technology
• Jeffrey Herf (born 1947), Germany, Europe
• Arthur L. Herman (born 1956), America, Britain
• Michael Hicks (born 1948), late medieval England
• Raul Hilberg (1926–2007), Holocaust
• Klaus Hildebrand (born 1941), 19th/20th-century Germany
• Christopher Hill (1912–2003), 17th-century England
• Andreas Hillgruber (1925–1989), 20th-century Germany
• Richard L. Hills (1936–2019), technology
• Gertrude Himmelfarb (1922–2019), Britain
• Harry Hinsley (1918–1998), British intelligence, World War II
• Gerhard Hirschfeld (born 1946), 20th-century Germany, WWI, WWII
• Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012), labour; Marxism
• Marshall Hodgson (1922–1968), Islamic
• Peter Hoffmann (born 1930), National Socialism
• Richard Hofstadter (1916–1970), American political
• 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 (1927–2009), medieval
• Richard Holmes (1946–2011), military
• Ed Hooper (born 1964), Southern Appalachia, Tennessee, Old South
• A.G. Hopkins (born 1938), Britain
• Keith Hopkins (1934–2004), ancient
• Michiel Horn (born 1939), Canada
• Alistair Horne (1925–2017), modern French
• Daniel Horowitz (born 1954), American cultural
• Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz (born 1942), women
• Albert Hourani (1915–1993), Middle Eastern
• Youssef Hourany (1931–2019), Lebanon, ancient
• Michael Howard (1922–2019), military
• Robert Hughes (1938–2012), Australia, cities
• Andrew Hunt (born 1968), Cold War America
• Tristram Hunt (born 1974)
• Mark C. Hunter (born 1974), naval

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I

• Halil Inalcik (1916–2016), Ottoman Empire
• Jonathan Israel (born 1946), Netherlands, Enlightenment, Jewry

   [top]

J

• Eberhard Jäckel (1929–2017), Nazi Germany
• Julian T. Jackson (born 1954), French
• Harold James (born 1956), modern Germany
• Nikoloz Janashia (1931–1982), Georgia and Caucasus
• Simon Janashia (1900–1947), Georgia and Caucasus
• Marius Jansen (1922–2000), Japan
• Pawel Jasienica (1909–1970), Poland
• Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones (born 1942), American intelligence
• Merrill Jensen (1905–1980), American Revolution
• Richard J. Jensen (born 1941), America
• Khasnor Johan (living), Malaysian historian
• Paul Johnson (born 1928), Britain, 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
• George Hilton Jones III (1924–2008), England
• Gwyn Jones (1907–1999), medieval
• Loe de Jong (1914–2005), Netherlands
• Tony Judt (1948–2010), 20th-century European, postwar

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K

• Donald Kagan (born 1932), ancient Greek
• Michel Kaplan (born 1946), French Byzantinist
• David S. Katz (born 1953), early modern English religious
• Elie Kedourie (1926–1992), Middle East
• Rod Kedward (born 1937), 20th-century France
• John Keegan (1934–2012), military
• Nushiravan Keihanizadeh (born 1937), Iran
• John H. Kemble (1912–1990), American maritime
• Paul Murray Kendall (1911–1973), late Middle Ages
• Elizabeth Topham Kennan (born 1938), medieval
• George F. Kennan (1904–2005), U.S.-Soviet relations
• James Kennedy (born 1963), Netherlands
• Paul Kennedy (born 1945), world, military
• W. Hudson Kensel (1928–2014), western America
• Ian Kershaw (born 1943), Nazi Germany, Hitler
• Daniel J. Kevles (born 1939), science
• Khan Roshan Khan (1914–1988), Pakistan
• Kim Jung-bae (born 1940), Korea
• Michael King (1945–2004), New Zealand
• Patrick Kinross (1904–1976), Ottoman Empire
• Henry Kissinger (born 1923), 19th-century Europe; late 20th-century
• Martin Kitchen (born 1936), modern Europe
• Simon Kitson (born c. 1967), Vichy France
• Matti Klinge (born 1936), Finnish
• Felix Klos (born 1992), American/ Dutch, Modern European
• R.J.B. Knight (born 1944), British naval
• Yuri Knorozov (1922–1999), historical linguist
• Eberhard Kolb (born 1933), German
• Gabriel Kolko (1932–2014), American
• Claudia Koonz (born 1940), Nazi Germany
• Andrey Korotayev (born 1961), economic, Near East, Islamic and pre-Islamic
• Ernst Kossmann (1922–2003), Low Countries
• Philip A. Kuhn (1933–2016), China
• Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996), science
• Myoma Myint Kywe (born 1960), Burmese writer and historian

   [top]

L

• Benjamin Woods Labaree (born 1927), American colonial and maritime
• Leopold Labedz (1920–1993), Soviet
• Walter LaFeber (born 1933), diplomatic, Cold War
• Brij Lal (living), Fiji
• K. S. Lal (1920–2002), Medieval India
• Andrew Lambert (born 1956), British naval
• Ricardo Lancaster-Jones y Verea (1905–1983), haciendas in Western Mexico
• Dieter Langewiesche (born 1943), 19th–20th century, nationalism and liberalism
• Abdallah Laroui (born 1933), Maghreb
• David Lavender (1910–2003), American West
• Jacques Le Goff (1924–2014), medieval
• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (born 1929), French
• Daniel Leab (1936–2016), 20th century
• Robert Leckie (1920–2001), American military
• Ulrich L. Lehner (born 1976), intellectual and cultural history
• Lee Ki-baek (1924–2004), Korean
• William Leuchtenburg (born 1922), American political and legal
• Barbara Levick (born 1931), Roman emperors
• David Levering Lewis (born 1936), African American, Harlem Renaissance
• Li Ao (1935–2018), Chinese
• Leon F. Litwack (born 1929), America, African-American
• Xinru Liu (born 1951), Ancient Indian and Chinese
• Mario Liverani (born 1939), ancient Middle East
• Radoš Ljušić (born 1949), Serbia
• David Loades (1934–2016), Tudor England
• Roger Lockyer (1927–2017), Stuart England
• James W. Loewen (born 1942), America
• Elizabeth Longford (1906–2002), Victorian England
• Erik Lönnroth (1910–2002), Scandinavia
• Walter Lord (1917–2002), America
• John Lukacs (1924–2019), modern Europe

   [top]

M

• Charles B. MacDonald (1922–1990), World War II
• Stuart Macintyre (born 1947), Australia
• Piers Mackesy (1924–2014), British military
• Margaret MacMillan (born 1943), 20th-century international relations
• William Miller Macmillan (1885–1974), liberal South African historiography
• Ramsay MacMullen (born 1928), Roman
• Magnus Magnusson (1929–2007), Norse
• Charles S. Maier (born 1939), 20th-century Europe
• Paul L. Maier (born 1930), ancient history
• Pauline Maier (1938–2013), early America
• Leonard Maltin (born 1950), film
• William Manchester (1922–2004), Churchill
• Golo Mann (1909–1994), general
• Susan Mann (born 1941), Canadian
• Susan L. Mann (born 1943), history of China and women
• Adel Manna (born 1947), Palestine in Ottoman period
• Philip Mansel (born 1951), France, Ottoman Empire
• Arthur Marder (1910–1980), British naval
• Michael Marrus (born 1941), French and Jewish
• Rev. F.X. Martin (1922–2000), Irish medievalist and campaigner
• Henri-Jean Martin (1924–2007), the book
• Laurence Marvin (living), American, French medievalist
• Timothy Mason (1940–1990), Nazi Germany
• Garrett Mattingly (1900–1962), early modern Europe
• Ernest R. May (1928–2009), 20th-century warfare and international relations
• Richard J. Maybury (born 1946), America, WW I, WW II, Middle East
• Arno J. Mayer (born 1926), World War I and Europe
• Mark Mazower (born 1958), Balkans, Greece
• David McCullough (born 1933), American
• Forrest McDonald (1927–2016), early national America, presidency, business
• K. B. McFarlane (1903–1966), English medievalist
• William S. McFeely (1930–2019), American Civil War
• W. David McIntyre (born 1932), Commonwealth, New Zealand
• Neil McKendrick (born 1935), modern economic and social history
• Ross McKibbin (born 1942), 20th-century Britain
• Rosamond McKitterick (born 1949), medieval
• William McNeill (1917–2016), world
• James M. McPherson (born 1936), American Civil War
• D. W. Meinig (born 1924), American geography
• Evaldo Cabral de Mello (born 1936), Dutch Brazil
• Russell Menard (living), colonial American
• Thomas C. Mendenhall (1910–1998), history of sport
• Josef W. Meri (born 1969), Islamic world, Jews
• Barbara Metcalf (born 1941), India
• Rade Mihaljčić (born 1937), medieval Serbia
• Perry Miller (1905–1963), American intellectual
• Giles Milton (born 1966), exploration
• Zora Mintalová – Zubercová (born 1950), food history and material culture of Central Europe
• Yagutil Mishiev (born 1927), Derbent, Dagestan, Russia
• Hans Mommsen (1930–2015), Germany
• Wolfgang Mommsen (1930–2004), Britain, Germany
• Indro Montanelli (1909–2001) general
• Simon Sebag Montefiore (born 1965), Russia, Middle East
• Theodore William Moody (1907–1984), Ireland
• Edmund Morgan (1916–2013), American colonial and Revolution
• Kenneth O. Morgan (born 1934), British politics, Wales
• William J. Morgan (1917–2003), American naval
• Samuel Eliot Morison (1887–1976), American colonial and naval
• Benny Morris (born 1948), Middle East
• Ian Mortimer (born 1967), Middle Ages
• W.L. Morton (1908–1980), Canada
• George Mosse (1918–1999), German, Jewish, fascist, sexual
• Roland Mousnier (1907–1993), early modern France
• Mubarak Ali (born 1941), Pakistan

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N

• Joseph Needham (1900–1995), Chinese science and technology
• Cynthia Neville (living), late medieval, Scotland and England, Gaelic culture
• Thomas Nipperdey (1927–1992), 19th c. German history
• Ernst Nolte (1923–2016), German, fascism and communism

   [top]

O

• Josiah Ober (living), ancient Greece
• Heiko Oberman (1930–2001), Reformation
• Ambeth Ocampo (born 1961), Philippines
• W. H. Oliver (1925–2015), New Zealand
• Robin O'Neil (living), Holocaust
• Vincent Orange (1935–2012), military, World War II, aviation
• Michael Oren (born 1955), modern Middle East
• Margaret Ormsby (1909–1996), Canada
• İlber Ortaylı (born 1947), Turkey
• Fernand Ouellet (born 1926), French Canada
• Richard Overy (born 1947), World War II
• Steven Ozment (1939–2019), Germany

   [top]

P

• Thomas Pakenham (born 1933), Africa
• Madhavan K. Palat (born 1947), Russia and Europe
• Ilan Pappé (born 1954), Israel
• Peter Paret (born 1924), military
• Geoffrey Parker (born 1943), early modern military
• Simo Parpola (born 1943), ancient Middle East
• J. H. Parry (1914–1982), maritime
• T. T. Paterson (1909–1994), archaeologist and sociologist
• Fred Patten (1940–2018), science fiction
• Stanley G. Payne (born 1934), Spain, fascism
• Abel Paz (1921–2009), Spanish anarchist movement
• William Armstrong Percy (born 1933), Medieval Europe and ancient Greek and Roman, homosexuality
• Bradford Perkins (1925–2008), U.S. diplomatic
• Detlev Peukert (1950–1990), everyday life in Weimar and Nazi eras
• Liza Picard (born 1927), London
• William B. Pickett (born 1940), American history, Dwight D. Eisenhower
• David Pietrusza (born 1949), American
• Boris B. Piotrovsky (1908–1990), Urartu, Scythia
• Richard Pipes (1923–2018), Russian and Soviet
• J.H. Plumb (1911–2001), 18th-century Britain
• J. G. A. Pocock (born 1924), early modern intellectual
• Kwok Kin Poon (born 1949), Chinese Southern and Northern Dynasties
• Barbara Corrado Pope (born 1941), America, Belle Époque, women's studies
• Roy Porter (1946–2002), medicine, British social and cultural
• Norman Pounds (1912–2006), geography and England
• Gordon W. Prange (1910–1980), World War II Pacific
• Joshua Prawer (1917–1990), Crusades
• Michael Prestwich (born 1943), medieval England
• Clement Alexander Price (1945–2014), America
• Francis Paul Prucha (1921–2015), American Indians
• Janko Prunk (born 1942), Slovenia

   [top]

Q

• Carroll Quigley (1910–1977), classical, western history, theorist of civilizations

   [top]

R

• Marc Raeff (1923–2008), Russian Empire
• Werner Rahn (born 1939), German naval
• Jack N. Rakove (born 1947), U.S. Constitution and early politics
• Šerbo Rastoder (living), Montenegrin
• René Rémond (1918–2007), French politics
• Timothy Reuter (1947–2002), Medieval Germany
• Henry A. Reynolds (born 1938), Australia
• Susan Reynolds (born 1929), medieval
• Richard Rhodes (born 1937), World War II, hydrogen bomb
• Nicholas V. Riasanovsky (1923–2011), Russia
• Jonathan Riley-Smith (1938–2016), Crusades
• Blaze Ristovski (1931–2018), Macedonia
• Charles Ritcheson (1925–2011), Anglo-American relations 1775–1815
• Gerhard A. Ritter (1929–2015), Germany
• Andrew Roberts (born 1963), Britain
• J. M. Roberts (1928–2003), Europe
• Nicholas A. M. Rodger (born 1949), British naval
• William Ledyard Rodgers (1860–1944), ancient naval
• Walter Rodney (1942–1980), Guyana
• Theodore Ropp (1911–2000), military
• W. J. Rorabaugh (born 1945), 19th and 20th-century U.S.
• Ron Rosenbaum (born 1946), Hitler
• Charles E. Rosenberg (born 1936), medicine and science
• Stephen Roskill (1903–1982), British naval
• Maarten van Rossem (born 1943), 20th-century U.S.
• María Rostworowski (1915–2016), Peruvian
• Sheila Rowbotham (born 1943), feminism, socialism
• Herbert H. Rowen (1916–1999), Netherlands
• A. L. Rowse (1903–1997), English
• Miri Rubin (born 1956), social, Europe 1100–1600
• George Rudé (1910–1993), French revolution
• R. J. Rummel (1932–2014), genocide
• Steven Runciman (1903–2000), Crusades
• Leila J. Rupp (born 1950), feminist
• Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell (1937–2004), 17th-century Britain
• Cornelius Ryan (1920–1974), World War II, popular
• Boris Rybakov (1908–2001), Soviet

   [top]

S

• Edgar V. Saks (1910–1984), Estonia
• Dominic Sandbrook (born 1974), recent Britain and America
• Usha Sanyal (living), Asian, Islam, Sufism
• S. Srikanta Sastri (1904–1974), Indian
• Simon Schama (born 1945), British, Dutch, American, French
• Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (1917–2007), Andrew Jackson, New Deal, politics
• Jean-Claude Schmitt (born 1946), Middle Ages
• David Schoenbaum (born 1935), modern German and American–Israeli relations
• Carl Emil Schorske (1915–2015), Vienna, Modernism, intellectual
• Paul W. Schroeder (born 1927), European diplomacy
• D. M. Schurman (1924–2013), British imperial and naval
• Dorothy Schwieder, (1933–2014), Iowa
• Joan Scott (born 1941), feminism
• William Henry Scott (1921–1993), Philippines
• Howard Hayes Scullard (1903–1983), ancient
• Oscar Secco Ellauri (1904–1990), Uruguayan historian and politician
• Jules Sedney (1922–2020), Surinamese historian and former prime minister
• Tom Segev (born 1945), Israeli
• Robert Service (born 1947), Soviet, Russian
• Dasharatha Sharma (1903–1976), Rajasthan
• Ram Sharan Sharma (1919–2011), ancient India
• James J. Sheehan (born 1937), modern Germany
• William L. Shirer (1904–1993), America, Third Reich
• He Shu (born 1948), Chinese cultural revolution
• Jack Simmons (1915–2000), English historian, railway history
• Keith Sinclair (1922–1993), New Zealand
• Helene J. Sinnreich (born 1975), Holocaust
• Nathan Sivin (born 1931), China
• Quentin Skinner (born 1940), early modern Britain
• Alexandre Skirda (born 1942), Russia
• Theda Skocpol (born 1947), institutions and comparative method; sociological
• Richard Slotkin (born 1942), American environment and West
• Cornelius Cole Smith, Jr. (1913–2004), military history, American Old West
• Digby Smith (born 1935), military
• Henry Nash Smith (1906–1986), U.S. cultural
• Jean Edward Smith (1932–2019), U.S. foreign policy, constitutional law, biography
• Page Smith (1917–1995), U.S.
• Richard Norton Smith (born 1953), U.S. presidential
• T. C. Smout (born 1933), Scottish environmental and social
• Louis Leo Snyder (1907–1993), German nationalism
• Timothy D. Snyder (born 1969), Eastern Europe
• Albert Soboul (1913–1982), French revolution
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008), Russian Gulag
• Pat Southern (born 1948), ancient Rome
• Richard Southern (1912–2001), medieval
• E. Lee Spence (born 1947), shipwrecks
• Jonathan Spence (born 1936), China
• Jackson J. Spielvogel (born 1939), world
• Kenneth Stampp (1912–2009), U.S. South, slavery
• George Stanley (1907–2002), Canada
• David Starkey (born 1945), Tudor
• Leften Stavros Stavrianos (1913—2004), world
• James M. Stayer (born 1935), German Reformation
• Wickham Steed (1871–1956), Eastern Europe
• Valerie Steele (born 1955), fashion
• Jean Stengers (1922–2002), Belgian
• Frank Stenton (1880–1967), Anglo-Saxon
• Fritz Stern (1926–2016), Germany and Jewish
• Zeev Sternhell (born 1935), fascism
• Floyd Benjamin Streeter (1888–1956), Kansas, American West
• William N. Still, Jr. (born 1932), U.S. naval
• Lawrence Stone (1919–1999), early modern British social, economic and family
• Norman Stone (1941–2019), military
• Hew Strachan (born 1949), military
• Barry S. Strauss (born 1953), ancient military
• Michael Stürmer (born 1938), modern German
• Ronald Suleski (born 1942), China
• Viktor Suvorov (born 1947), Soviet
• Ronald Syme (1903–1989), ancient
• David Syrett (1939–2004), British naval

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T

• Ronald Takaki (1939–2009), America, ethnic studies
• J. L. Talmon (1916–1980), Modern, The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy
• Alasdair and Hettie Tayler (1870–1937/1869–1951), Scotland
• A. J. P. Taylor (1906–1990), Britain, modern Europe
• Abdelhadi Tazi (1921–2015), Moroccan
• Antonio Tellez (1921–2005), Spanish Anarchism, anti-fascist resistance
• Harold Temperley (1879–1939), 19th and early 20th-century diplomacy
• Romila Thapar (born 1931), ancient India
• Stephan Thernstrom (born 1934), American ethnic
• Barbara Thiering (1930–2015), Biblical
• Joan Thirsk (1922–2013), agriculture
• Hugh Thomas (1931–2017), Spanish Civil War, Atlantic slave trade
• E. P. Thompson (1924–1993), British labor history
• Mark Thompson (born 1959), Balkans, WW 1 Italy
• John Toland (1912–2004), World War I and World War II
• K. Ross Toole (1920–1981), Montana
• Ahmed Toufiq (born 1943), Moroccan
• Marc Trachtenberg (born 1946), Cold War
• Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914–2003), Nazi; British
• Gil Troy (born 1961), modern American, the Presidency
• Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989), 20th-century military
• Robert C. Tucker (1918–2010), Stalin
• Peter Turchin (born 1957), Russian historian of historical dynamics
• Henry Ashby Turner, Jr. (1932–2008), 20th-century German
• Denis Twitchett (1925–2006), China
• David Tyack (1930–2016), American education

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U

• Walter Ullmann (1910–1983), medieval
• Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (born 1938), early America
• David Underdown (1925–2009), 17th-century England
• Mladen Urem (born 1964), Croatian literary
• Robert M. Utley (born 1929), 19th-century American West

   [top]

V

• Hans van de Ven (born 1958), Britain, modern China
• Frank Vandiver (1925–2005), U.S. Civil War
• Jan Vansina (1929–2017), Belgian; African history
• Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914–2007), French, ancient Greece
• Paul Veyne (born 1930), French, ancient Greece and Rome
• César Vidal Manzanares (born 1958), Spanish
• Pierre Vidal-Naquet (1930–2006), French, ancient Greece, civil rights activist
• Richard Vinen (living), British
• Klemens von Klemperer (1916–2012) German-born, Nazi Germany

   [top]

W

• John Waiko (born 1944), Papua New Guinea
• J. Samuel Walker (living), nuclear energy and weapons
• Immanuel Wallerstein (1930–2019), world-systems theory
• Retha Warnicke (born 1939), Tudor and gender issues
• Peter Watson (born 1943), intellectual history
• Eugen Weber (1925–2007), modern French
• Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910–1997), 16th and 17th-century Europe
• Hans-Ulrich Wehler (1931–2014), 19th-century German social
• Russell Weigley (1930–2004), military
• Gerhard Weinberg (born 1928), Germany, World War II
• Roberto Weiss (1906–1969), Renaissance
• Frank Welsh (born 1931), British imperial
• Christopher Whatley (living), Scotland
• John Wheeler-Bennett (1902–1975), Germany
• John Whyte (1928–1990), Northern Ireland, divided societies
• Christopher Wickham (born 1950), medieval
• Alexander Wilkinson (born 1975), early modern European, books
• Toby Wilkinson (born 1969), ancient Egypt
• Eric Williams (1911–1981), Guiana, Caribbean
• Glanmor Williams (1920–2005), Wales
• Glyndwr Williams (born 1932), exploration
• William Appleman Williams (1921–1990), U.S. diplomacy
• John Willingham (born 1946), Texas
• Andrew Wilson (born 1961), Ukraine
• Clyde N. Wilson (born 1941), 19th-century U.S. South
• Ian Wilson (born 1941), religious
• Keith Windschuttle (born 1942), Australia; historiography
• Henry Winkler (born 1938), German
• Robert S. Wistrich (1945–2015), Anti-Semitism, Holocaust, Jews
• John B. Wolf (1907–1996), French
• Michael Wolffsohn (born 1947), German Jewish
• Herwig Wolfram (born 1934), medieval
• Gordon S. Wood (born 1933), American Revolution
• Michael Wood (born 1948), England
• Thomas Woods (born 1972), America; conservatism
• C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999), American South
• Daniel Woolf (born 1958), Britain, historiography
• Lucy Worsley (born 1973), Britain
• Gordon Wright (1912–2000), modern France
• Lawrence C. Wroth (1884–1970), American printing

   [top]

Y

• Robert J. Young (born 1942), French Third Republic
• Robert M. Young (1935–2019), medicine

   [top]

Z

• Gregorio F. Zaide (1907–1986), Philippines
• Adam Zamoyski (born 1949), Napoleonic era
• Alfred-Maurice de Zayas (born 1947), German
• Howard Zinn (1922–2010), American
• Rainer Zitelmann (born 1957), German
• Marek Żukow-Karczewski (born 1961), Poland, Kraków

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See also

General

• Historiography
  • Historiography of the British Empire
  • Historiography of the United Kingdom
  • Historiography of Canada
  • Historiography of the French Revolution
  • Historiography of Germany
  • Historiography of the United States
  • Historiography of World War II
• History
• List of history journals

Lists of historians

• List of historians by area of study
• List of Canadian historians
• List of historians of England in the Middle Ages
• List of Historians of the French Revolution
• List of contemporary French historians
• List of Irish historians
• List of Jewish historians
• List of Russian historians

Bibliography

• The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature, ed. by Mary Beth Norton and Pamela Gerardi (3rd ed. 2 vol, Oxford U.P. 1995), 2064 pages; annotated guide to 27,000 of the most important English language history books in all fields and topics vol 1 online, vol 2 online
  • Allison, William Henry et al. eds. A guide to historical literature (1931), comprehensive bibliography for scholarship to 1930 as selected by scholars from the American Historical Association online edition;
• Barnes, Harry Elmer. A history of historical writing (1962)
• Barnes, Harry Elmer. History, its rise and development: a survey of the progress of historical writing from its origins to the present day (1922), online
• Barraclough, Geoffrey. History: Main Trends of Research in the Social and Human Sciences, (1978)
• Bentley, Michael. ed., Companion to Historiography, Routledge, 1997, ISBN 9780415285575; 39 chapters by experts
• Boyd, Kelly, ed. (1999). Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing. Taylor and Francis 2 vol. ISBN 9781884964336. {{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link); detailed coverage of historians and major themes.
• Breisach, Ernst. Historiography: Ancient, Medieval and Modern, 3rd edition, 2007, ISBN 0-226-07278-9
• Elton, G. R. Modern Historians on British History 1485–1945: A Critical Bibliography 1945–1969 (1969), annotated guide to 1000 history books on every major topic, plus book reviews and major scholarly articles. online
• Gilderhus, Mark T. History an Historiographical Introduction, 2002, ISBN 0-13-044824-9
• Gooch, G. P. History and historians in the nineteenth century (1913), online
• Iggers, Georg G. Historiography in the 20th Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge (2005)
• Kramer, Lloyd, and Sarah Maza, eds. A Companion to Western Historical Thought Blackwell 2006. 520pp; ISBN 978-1-4051-4961-7.
• Momigliano, Arnaldo. The Classical Foundation of Modern Historiography, 1990, ISBN 978-0-226-07283-8
• Rahman, M. M. ed. Encyclopaedia of Historiography (2006), Excerpt and text search
• E. Sreedharan, A Textbook of Historiography, 500 B.C. to A.D. 2000 (2004)
• Thompson, James, and Bernard J. Holm. A History of Historical Writing: Volume I: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Seventeenth Century (2nd ed. 1967), 678 pp.; A History of Historical Writing: Volume II: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (2nd ed. 1967), 676pp vol 1 of 1942 first edition; vol 2 of 1942 first edition; highly detailed coverage of European writers to 1900
• Woolf D. R. A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) (2 vols. 1998), excerpt and text search
• Woolf, Daniel, et al. The Oxford History of Historical Writing (5 vol 2011–12), covers all major historians since ancient times to present; see vol 1

External links

• "Making History", covering British historians and institutions from Institute of Historical Research