List of historians by area of study

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

By time period

Ancient history

Orosius
Ram Sharan Sharma – Eminent Historian of Ancient India
Leonie Archer – Graeco-Roman Palestine
Michael Crawford (historian)
Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) – The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Adrian Goldsworthy (born 1969, British) – Roman history
Peter Green – Ancient Greece and Macedon
Josephus
Herodotus
Barbara Levick (born 1931) – Roman emperors
Livy
Ramsay MacMullen History of Rome
Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903) History of Rome
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
Moses Finley
Mary Beard
Max Weber
Fergus Millar
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Xenophon
Polybius
Anatoly Bokschanin (1903–1979) – Roman history
Elena Shtaerman (1914–1991) – Roman history
Nikolai Mashkin (1900–1950) – Roman history
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ (1914, Bursa-Türkiye) Sumerologist, Sumerian history
Fernand Braudel (1902, Luméville-en-Ornois- 1985, Cluses- France ) Roman history
Mariya Sergeyenko (1891–1987) – Roman agriculture and daily life
Sedat Alp (1913, Veroia, The Ottoman Empire - 2006, Ankara, Türkiye) Hittitolog- Historian, Ancient Anatolian
Ekrem Akurgal (1911, Haifa, The Ottoman Empire- 2002, İzmir, Türkiye) Archaeologist- Historian, Ancient Anatolian
Tahsin Özgüç (1916, Kardzhali,The Ottoman Empire- 2005, Ankara, Türkiye) Archaeologist- Historian, Ancient Anatolian
Halet Çambel (1916, Berlin, Germany- 2014, İstanbul, Türkiye) Archaeologist- Historian, Ancient Anatolian
Yuliya Kolosovskaya (1920–2002) – Roman history and Roman provinces of the Danube
Mikhail Kublanov (1914–1998)
Sergey Kovalev (1886–1960) – Hellenistic and Roman period

Medieval history

Ram Sharan Sharma (born 1919) – early medieval History of India
Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman – historian of medieval medicine
Placido Puccinelli (1609–1685, Italian) – Northern Italy in the 10th century and the Florentine church
Marc Bloch (1886–1944, French) – Medieval France
John Boswell (1947–1994, American) – Homosexuality in the Middle Ages
Norman Cantor (1930–2004)
Georges Duby (1924–1996, French) – Specialized in the history of France between the Capets and the Valois
François-Louis Ganshof (1895–1980), Belgian – wrote on early medieval institutional history and feudalism
Geoffrey of Monmouth
Giraldus Cambrensis
Johan Huizinga (1872–1945, Dutch) – cultural history, wrote Waning of the Middle Ages
Jacques Le Goff (1924, French) – Middle Ages, particularly the 12th and 13th centuries
Rev. F. X. Martin (Irish) – Mediævalist and campaigner
Rosamond McKitterick – Frankish and Carolingian history
Henri Pirenne (1862–1935) – the "Pirenne Thesis" of early Medieval development
Eileen Power – Middle Ages
Miri Rubin – social and religious history, 1100–1500
Steven Runciman (1903–2000) – the Crusades
Richard Southern (1912–2001)
Sidney Painter
John Julius Norwich
John Tolan
Chris Wickham
Retha Warnicke
Aaron Gurevich
Michael Prestwich
Dick Harrison

By nation or geographical area

North America

History of Canada

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

History of the Caribbean

Kamau Brathwaite
Aviva Chomsky
Vincent K. Hubbard – writes about St. Kitts and Nevis
C. L. R. James
Lucille Mathurin Mair
Walter Rodney
Eric Williams (1911–1981) – Focused on slavery and the slave trade, condemned imperialism

History of the United States

Henry Adams (1838–1918) – history of the United States in the presidential administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
Stephen Ambrose (1936–2002) – biographer of Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon
Edward L. Ayers – U.S. South
George Bancroft (1800–1891) – wrote first large-scale history of the US
Charles A. Beard (1874–1948) – revisionist history of Founding Fathers suggesting monetary motivations
William Brandon (1914–2002) – historian of the American West and Native Americans.
Alan Brinkley – historian of the Great Depression
Bruce Catton – American Civil War
William Cronon – American environmental history, the frontier in New England, and the American West
J. Frank Dobie – historian of Texas and the Southwestern United States
David Herbert Donald
W. E. B. Du Bois – historian of the Reconstruction
Drew Gilpin Faust – Civil War, culture of death, and the Confederacy
Eric Foner – Civil War and Reconstruction
Shelby Foote – (1916–2005) – American Civil War
John Hope Franklin – historian of African Americans
John A. Garraty, biography
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese – Southern slavery, women's history
Richard Hofstadter (1916–1970) – Progressivism and U.S. political history
Peter Iverson – 20th century U.S. West/Native American history (emphasis in Navajo history)
Paul Johnson (born 1928) – author of A History of the American People and a biographer of George Washington
Winthrop Jordan – African-American history
David Lavender (1910–2003) – Western U.S.
David McCullough (born 1933) – general study, most notable work is recent biography of John Adams
James M. McPherson – American Civil War
Pauline Maier (born 1938) – late Colonial, Revolution, Constitution
D. W. Meinig – geographic history of America
Philip D. Morgan – slavery
David Nasaw – biography and U.S. cultural history
Francis Parkman – historian of the French and Indian War
Dominic Sandbrook (born 1974) – political history of the 1960s and 1970s
Arthur Schlesinger Sr.
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Cornelius Cole Smith, Jr. (1913–2004) – historian of Arizona, California and the Southwestern United States
Jean Edward Smith (born 1932) – biography, foreign policy, political economy, constitutional law, legal history, and politics
Frederick Jackson Turner (1861–1932) – developed the Frontier Thesis
Frank Vandiver
Alexander Scott Withers – primary accounts of colonial western Virginia conflicts
C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999) – Southern United States
Howard Zinn (1922–2010) – political scientist and historian of the United States, often critical of common policies

Latin America

History of Latin America

Brazil

Boris Fausto

Chile

Europe

History of Europe

Norman Davies, Europe as a whole
Tony Judt post 1945
Elizabeth Eisenstein – early printing and transitions in media
Julia P. Gelardi – royal history of 19th and 20th centuries
John Lukacs, Cold War
Henri-Jean Martin – early printing and writing
Effie Pedaliu – history of Italian war crimes and Cold war
Henri Pirenne, Belgium
Walter Alison Phillips
Andrew Roberts – Second World War
John Roberts, Europe
J. Salwyn Schapiro
Norman Stone
Charlotte Zeepvat – royal history of 19th and 20th centuries

History of Belgium

Henri Pirenne – Middle ages
Sophie de Schaepdrijver – World War I

History of England and Britain

Donald Adamson (born 1939), British
Robert C. Allen (born 1947), British economic
Perry Anderson (born 1938), British; European history
Leonie Archer, British
Karen Armstrong (born 1944), religious
Bernard Bailyn (born 1922), Atlantic migration
The Venerable Bede (672–735) – Britain from 55 BC to 731 AD
Brian Bond (born 1936) military
Asa Briggs, 1921–), British social.^[1]
Herbert Butterfield (1900–1979), historiography
Angus Calder (1942-2008) – Second World War
I.R. Christie (1919–1998), 18th century
J.C.D. Clark (born 1951), 18th century
Linda Colley (born 1949) – 18th century
Patrick Collinson (born 1929), Elizabethan England & Puritanism
Maurice Cowling – (1926-2005) 19th and 20th century politics
Susan Doran, Elizabethan
Eamon Duffy – religious history of the 15th–17th centuries
Harold James Dyos (1921–78), urban
Geoffrey Rudolph Elton – Tudor period
Charles Harding Firth (1857–1936) – political history of the 17th century
Antonia Fraser – 17th century
William Gibson – ecclesiastical history
Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1829–1902) – political history of the 17th century
Andrew Gordon, naval
Geoffrey of Monmouth (died c. 1154) – England
Edward Hasted – Kent
Max Hastings (born 1945), military, Second World War
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 (1917–2012) – 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 – Political biographies, 19th and 20th centuries
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
Jack Simmons (1915–2000) – railways, topography
David Starkey (born 1945) – Tudor historian and TV presenter
Lawrence Stone – English society and the history of the family
E. P. Thompson (1924–1993) – 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
Perez Zagorin (born 1920) – 16th and 17th centuries

History of the British Empire

History of Croatia

History of Denmark

History of Finland

History of France

Julian T. Jackson (born 1954) – French historian
Marc Bloch (1886–1944) – medieval France
Vincent Cronin – Louis XIV, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Napoleon, and Paris
Georges Duby (1924–1996) – medieval France
Lucien Febvre (1878–1956) – French historian
Alistair Horne – modern French military history
Douglas Johnson (historian) – historian of modern France
Simon Kitson – historian of Vichy France
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie – history of the French peasantry
Michael Marrus – Vichy France
Jules Michelet (1798–1874) – French historian
Roland Mousnier – early modern France
Robert Roswell Palmer, French revolution
Robert Paxton – Vichy France
Pierre Renouvin – French diplomatic history
Andrew Roberts – Napoleon
John C. Rule – 17th and 18th century France
Zeev Sternhell – French fascism
Eugen Weber – modern French history
John B. Wolf (born 1907) – French history
Natalie Zemon Davis – early modern France
Isser Woloch – 18th century France
Robert J. Young – the Third Republic
Gordon Wright (1912–2000)

See also List of historians of the French Revolution.

History of Italy

Lorenzo Arnone Sipari, social and environmental Italian history
R.J.B. Bosworth, Fascism, Mussolini
Benedetto Croce, philosophy of history, modern Italian history
Vincent Cronin, Renaissance art and Sicily
Renzo De Felice, Fascism, biographer of Mussolini
John Foot, modern Italy history, The City
Emilio Gentile, Fascism
Carlo Ginzburg, witchcraft and agrarian cults, microhistory
Alessandra Kersevan, Italian concentration camps
Claudio Pavone, Italian fascism, World War II, anti-fascism
Effie Pedaliu, Italian war crimes
John Pollard, The Church and Fascism
Paul Ginsborg, The Risorgimento, Italian modern and contemporary history
Lucy Riall, The Risorgimento, Garibaldi, Sicily
Gaetano Salvemini, Fascism, French Revolution
Denis Mack Smith, Italian modern history

History of Moldova/Bessarabia

History of the Netherlands

History of Norway

History of Poland

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

History of Portugal

José Hermano Saraiva
A. H. de Oliveira Marques – early modern period
José Mattoso – medieval history
Rui Ramos – contemporary history
Fernando Rosas – contemporary history

History of Romania

History of Russia

Nicholas Bethell
Robert Conquest – Soviet Union
Vincent Cronin – Catherine the Great
Orlando Figes
Patricia Kennedy Grimsted – post-Soviet archives
Geoffrey Hosking
Leopold Labedz
Roy Medvedev
Richard Pipes – Soviet Union
William Taubman – Nikita Khrushchev
Peter Kenez – Soviet Union and Soviet cinema
Robert Service
Adam Ulam
Anne Applebaum – Gulag history
Sheila Fitzpatrick – everyday life under Stalinism
Nicolas Werth – political repressions
Nikita Petrov – political repressions
Viktor Danilov – history of collectivization
Oleg Khlevniuk – Stalin and Politburo
Moshe Lewin – collectivization
David Shearer – Stalinist repressions

History of Serbia

History of Scotland

Historiographer Royal of Scotland

James Fall, 1682
William Robertson, 1763–1793
John Gillies, 1793–1836
George Brodie, 1836–1867
John Hill Burton, 1867–1881
William Forbes Skene, 1881–1893
David Masson, 1893–1908
Peter Hume Brown, 1908–1919
Robert Rait, 1919–1930
Robert Kerr Hannay FRSE, 1930–1940
J. D. Mackie OBE, 1958–1978
Gordon Donaldson, CBE, 1979–1993
Christopher Smout, CBE, born 1993

History of Slovakia

Vojtech Čelko (1946) – political and cultural history of Central Europe in the 20th century; history of Czechoslovak exile after 1948
Ladislav Deák (1931–2011) – foreign policy of Central European states and Yugoslavia in the interwar period; history of Hungarian-Slovak foreign relationships
Gabriela Dudeková (1968) – social policy of Austria-Hungary; situation of POWs and civilians in World War I; history of feminism and gender studies
Ivan Kamenec (1938) – Holocaust in Slovakia; diplomacy in Central Europe in the interwar period and during World War II
Adam František Kollár (1718–1783) – influential jurist, historian and ethnologist, who coined the term ethnology
Peter Kopecký – history of diplomacy and foreign policy of Slovakia
Juraj Marusiak (1970) – history of Slovak-Polish relationships; modern history of Central and Eastern Europe
Thomas Spira (1923–2005) – study of nationalism and ethnicity (born and raised in Slovakia)
Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795–1861) – philologist, poet, Slavist, literary historian and ethnographer
Štefan Šutaj (1955) – history of Hungarian minority in Czechoslovakia; Slovak civic (non-communist) political parties after 1945
Zora Mintalová – Zubercová (1950) – food history and material culture of Central Europe

History of Slovenia

Bogo Grafenauer (1916–1995)
Alessandra Kersevan, Italian concentration camps
Vasilij Melik, Slovene Lands in the 19th century.
Jože Pirjevec, Foibe massacres
Milica Kacin Wohinz, Italianization of Slovenes between 1918 and 1943
Marta Verginella, history of the Slovene minority in Italy (1920–1947)

History of Spain

History of Sweden

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

History of Yugoslavia

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

Europe and Asia

History of The Republic of Turkey and Turkish Empires

Halil İnalcık (born 1916, İstanbul, Türkiye), history of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey
İlber Ortaylı (born 1947, Bregen, Österreich), history of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey
Heath W. Lowry (born 1942, America), history of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey
Mehmet Fuat Köprülü (1890–1966, İstanbul, Türkiye), Turcologist and historian, history of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey
Yusuf Halaçoğlu (born 1949, Adana, Türkiye), history of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey
Reşat Ekrem Koçu (1905–1975, İstanbul, Türkiye), writer and historian, history of the Ottoman Empire
Ahmed Cevad Pasha (Kabaağaçlızade Ahmet Cevat Paşa) (1851–1900, İstanbul, Türkiye), Ottoman statesman (Grand Vizier), history of the Ottoman Empire
Aşıkpaşazade (Âşıkpasazâde Derviş Ahmet Âşıkî) (yak. 1400,Amasya–yak. 1484), Ottoman Empire/ Türkiye) history of the Ottoman Empire
Ibn Kemal (Kemal Paşazade (ibn-i Kemâl)) (1468–1534,The Ottoman Empire/Türkiye), Ottoman statesman, history of the Ottoman Empire
Koçi Bey (Mustafa Koçi Bey) (?–1650,The Ottoman Empire/Türkiye), Ottoman statesman, history of the Ottoman Empire
Katip Çelebi (Haci Halife Kalfa) (1609–1657, İstanbul, The Ottoman Empire/Türkiye), history of the Ottoman Empire

Asia

The Middle East

George Antonius (1891–1941) – historian of Arab nationalism
Vincent Cronin – study of the Faiqani tribe of South Persia
Heleen Sancisi Weerdenburg (1944–2000) – Achaemenid history
Caroline Finkel
Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb (1895–1971) – Editor, The Encyclopaedia of Islam
Bernard Lewis – history of Islam and the Middle East
Albert Hourani
Ibn Khaldun
Walid Khalidi – Palestinian historian
D. S. Margoliouth
Michael Oren
Ibn al-Tiqtaqa (born c. 1262) – Shi'i historian, wrote Al-Fakhīr
‘Ala’ al-Din ‘Ata Malik Juvayni (1226–1283) – Ta’rīkh-I-Jahān Gushā (A History of the World-Conqueror Chingis Khān)
Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (circa 1247–1318) – Jāmi‛ al-Tawārīkh (Compendium of Chronicles), Ta’rīkh–i-Ghāzānī (a history of the Mongols and Turks)

South Asia

History of the Indian Subcontinent

History of India

Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, Unani historian

History of Pakistan

Far East

History of Japan

History of Korea

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

History of China

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

Africa

History of the Serers

Alioune Sarr (born 1908), Senegalese specialist on Serer medieval history
Henry Gravrand (1921–2003), French specialist on Serer ancient history, Serer medieval history and Serer religion
Issa Laye Thiaw (born 1943), Senegalese specialist on Serer general history and Serer religion
Alhaji Alieu Ebrima Cham Joof (1924–2011), Gambian specialist on Serer general history and history of Senegambia (Senegal and Gambia)
Marguerite Dupire (born 1920), French scholar of Serer religion and history
Louis Diène Faye (born 1936), Senegalese scholar of Serer religion and history

Oceania

History of Australia

History of Fiji

Brij Lal

History of New Zealand

History of Tonga

Sione Lātūkefu

History of Papua New Guinea

John Waiko

By historical viewpoint

abolitionist

George Washington Williams – Early African-American historian

Counterfactual

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

Holocaust

Marxist

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

Nazi

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

Anarchist

Paul Avrich (1931–2006) USA, oral history of the U.S. and Russia
Murray Bookchin (1921–2006) USA, writer; founder of "social ecology"
Sam Dolgoff (1902–1990) USA, writer, activist, co-founder of Anarcho-Syndicalist Review
Sébastien Faure France, Encyclopedie Anarchiste, 4 volumes (1932–1934)
David Goodway UK, writer, editor
Daniel Guérin (1904–1988) France, writer, editor Libertarian Communist
Robert Graham USA, writer, editor
Andrej Grubacic Bulgarian history and anarchism, lecturer at University of San Francisco
Peter Marshall (born 1946) England, 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
Abel Paz Spain, Civil war, Durruti, CNT/FAI
José Peirats Spain, historian of the CNT/FAI
Alexandre Skirda
Antonio Tellez
Dana Ward founder of "Anarchist Archives", Online Research on the History and Theory of Anarchism, (USA)
George Woodcock
Howard Zinn

Pacifist

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

By general category

Architectural history

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (c. 80/70 BC?–c. 25 BC) – Roman architect and engineer, author of De architectura
Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) – 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)
Doğan Kuban (born 1926, Paris, France) – architect, history of architecture and art history

Art history

Vincent Cronin (born 1924) – French and Italian art and architectural history
Nicholas Pevsner (1903–1983) – History of art and English architecture
Simon Schama (born 1945) – Art history
Ichimatsu Tanaka (1895–1983) – Japanese art history
Yukio Yashiro (1890–1975) – Japanese art history; Botticelli and the Florentine Renaissance
Nurhan Atasoy (born 1934, Tokat, Türkiye) – Turkish and Islamic Art History
Oleg Grabar (1929, Strasbourg, France–2011, New Jersey, USA) – Islamic Art History

Christianity

Eusebius of Caesarea (c. 275–339) – "Father of Church history"
Alexander Campbell Cheyne – Scottish ecclesiastical historian
John Gilmary Shea (1824–1892) – father of American Catholic History
Bengt Hägglund (born 1920) – historian of Christian theology
Barbara Thiering (born 1930) – rediscovered the "Pesher technique"

Lutheranism

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

Mormonism

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

The Papacy

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

Presbyterianism

D.G. Hart

Economic history

Robert C. Allen
Eli Heckscher
Niall Ferguson
Robert Fogel
John Komlos
David S. Landes
Joel Mokyr
W. W. Rostow
Ram Sharan Sharma – economic history of ancient India
R. H. Tawney

Environmental history

Christopher Smout
William Cronon – Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Espionage

Maritime history

Media history

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

Asa Briggs (born 1921)

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 and historian
Alan Clark – British M.P. and 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 and 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) – Died 2 August 2012 specializes in 20th-century wars
B. H. Liddell Hart (1895–1970) – military history
Edward Luttwak (born 1942) – military strategy
Piers Mackesy – 18th century
S. L. A. Marshall – American military historian
Peter Paret – military history
Gordon Prange
Gunther E. Rothenberg (1923–2004) – military history
Gerhard Ritter – German military historian
Cornelius Ryan (1920–1974) – World War II
Digby Smith (1935) Napoleonic Wars
Jean Edward Smith (born 1932) – U.S. and German military historian
Hew Strachan – British military historian
Gerhard Weinberg – U.S. military historian
Spenser Wilkinson

Naval history

Robert G. Albion – maritime history
Daniel A. Baugh
Ulane Bonnel
Josiah Burchett
Montagu Burrows
Geoffrey Callender
Howard I. Chapelle – maritime history
William Bell Clark
Julian Corbett
William S. Dudley
Michael Duffy
Jan Glete
James Goldrick
Andrew Gordon – Battle of Jutland
Barry M. Gough
Kenneth J. Hagan
Paul G. Halpern
C.I. Hamilton
John Hattendorf
John Daniel Hayes
J. Richard Hill
William James
Paul Kennedy
R.J.B. Knight
Dudley W. Knox
Andrew Lambert
Harold D. Langley
John Knox Laughton
Michael Lewis
Christopher Lloyd
Alfred Mahan
Arthur Marder
Tyrone G. Martin – historian of the USS Constitution and of the history of ironclads
William J. Morgan
Samuel Eliot Morison (1887–1976) – wrote History of United States Naval Operations in World War II and numerous works about the maritime exploration of the Americas
Henry Newbolt (1862–1938) – wrote The Naval History of the Great War
Michael Oppenheim
Charles O. Paullin
Werner Rahn
Bryan Ranft
Clark G. Reynolds
Herbert Richmond
N.A.M. Rodger
Stephen Roskill
John Darrell Sherwood
D.M. Schurman
William N. Still, Jr.
Craig Symonds
David Syrett
Geoffrey Till
Johan Carel Marinus Warnsinck
Colin White

Historiography

Academic protagonists in Australia's "history wars"

Gender history

John Boswell (1947–1994, American) – homosexuality in medieval times
George Mosse
Retha Warnicke (born 1939) – gender issues

History of ideas, culture, literature, and philosophy

Ram Sharan Sharma (born 1919) – material culture in Ancient India
Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) – history of ideas
J.C.D. Clark – British historian of 18th century ideas
Jovan Deretić (1934–2002), Serbian literary history
Michel Foucault (1926–1984) – history of ideas
Peter Gay (born 1923) – history of ideas
Lewis Mumford (1895–1988) – history of technology
Hasan Bülent Paksoy – history of governance in Central Asian literature
Hüseyin Nihâl Atsız (1905–1975, İstanbul, Türkiye) – Turkology, Turkish Literature
Pertev Naili Boratav (Mustafa Pertev) (1907, Zlatograd, Bulgaria–1998, Paris, France) – Turkish folklorist, Ottoman and Turkish culture
Sedat Alp (1913, Veroia, The Ottoman Empire–2006, Ankara, Türkiye) – Hittitolo, historian, ancient Anatolian languages

History of business

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

History of international relations

Harry Elmer Barnes
Herbert Butterfield
E.H. Carr
Gordon A. Craig
John Lewis Gaddis, historian of the Cold War
Ragnhild Hatton, historian of 17th- and 18th-century international relations
Klaus Hildebrand
Andreas Hillgruber
Paul Kennedy, British historian, author of influential The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
William L. Langer, (1896–1977)
Arno J. Mayer
Lewis Bernstein Namier
Paul W. Schroeder, U.S. historian, 19th-century European international relations
Jean Edward Smith
A.J.P. Taylor (1906–1990) – historian of European international relations
Harold Temperley, (1879–1939), British historian, Cambridge, 19th- and early 20th-century diplomatic history, British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914 (ed.)
Ernest Llewellyn Woodward, (1890–1971)

History of science and technology

Michael Adas, colonialism and imperialism, global history
Vincent Cronin
Allen G. Debus, chemistry and medicine
A. Hunter Dupree, botany; U.S. government policy on science and technology
Peter Galison, physics, philosophy, objectivity
John L. Heilbron, physics, quantification, astronomy, religion and science
Richard L. Hills, technology, steam power
Thomas P. Hughes, technology
Evelyn Fox Keller, science and gender, biology
Melvin Kranzberg, technology
Daniel J. Kevles, science and politics, physics, biology, eugenics
Thomas Kuhn, physics, "paradigm shifts"
James Mosley, printing
David F. Noble, science and technology-based industrial development
Abraham Pais, physics
Theodore M. Porter
A. I. Sabra, optics, Islamic science
George Sarton
Jack Simmons, railway history
Nathan Sivin, history of science in China
M. Norton Wise

Social history

Ram Sharan Sharma, social history of ancient India
Lloyd deMause, psychohistory
Gabriela Dudeková

Food history

World history

Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Will Durant (1885–1981) – author of The Story of Civilization
Ram Sharan Sharma (born 1919) – author of Vishwa Itihaas ki Bhumika in Hindi.
Ferdinand Braudel (1902–1985) – social and economic history
Francis Fukuyama (born 1955) – "End of history" thesis
Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882–1944) – world history and geography for younger readers
William McNeill (born 1917) – author of The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community
Jackson J. Spielvogel – Pennsylvania State University, author of several major world history textbooks
Arnold J. Toynbee (1889–1975) – wrote landmark text A Study of History
Immanuel Wallerstein
John Roberts (historian) (1928–2003) – author of History of the World

Biography

Alan Bullock (1914–2004) – historian best known for his influential biography of Hitler
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) – Friedrich der Grosse (the Great)
Vincent Cronin – Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, and Napoleon
Ragnhild Hatton – biographer of King Charles XII of Sweden and King George I of Great Britain
Ian Kershaw (born 1943) – historian well known for his influential study of Hitler
Ralph G. Martin (1920–2013) – biographer of Hubert H. Humphrey, Harry S. Truman, Edward VIII, Golda Meir and John F. Kennedy
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

References

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