List of historians by area of study
Appearance
This is a list of historians categorized by their area of study. See also List of historians.
By time period
- 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
- 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
- Donald Creighton – Developed the Laurentian thesis
- William J. Eccles – History of New France
- Lionel Groulx (1878–1967) – The history of Quebec in particular and French North America in general
- Harold Innis – Economic historian of Canada
- Jack Granatstein – Political and Military historian of Canada
- W.L. Morton – Expert on western Canada
See also List of Canadian historians.
- 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
See also Category:Historians 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
See also Category:Historians of Latin America
- Marc Becker
- David Brading
- Aviva Chomsky
- James Dunkerley
- Mark Falcoff
- Ann Farnsworth-Alvear
- Charles Gibson
- Mike Gonzalez
- Clarence H. Haring
- Daniel James
- Kenneth Maxwell
- William H. Prescott
- Peter Winn
- John Wirth
- John Womack
Brazil
Chile
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
- Henri Pirenne – Middle ages
- Sophie de Schaepdrijver – World War I
- 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
- Richard Drayton
- Gerald S. Graham
- Vincent T. Harlow
- William Roger Louis
- P. J. Marshall
- David Quinn
- D. M. Schurman
- Archibald Paton Thornton (1921–2004)
- Glyndwr Williams
History of Croatia
- Johannes Lucius
- Pavao Ritter Vitezović
- Franjo Rački
- Tadija Smičiklas
- Vjekoslav Klaić
- Ferdo Šišić
- Nada Klaić
- Mirjana Gross
- Trpimir Macan
- Ivo Banac
- Radoslav Katičić
- 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)
- Gisela Bock
- Alan Bullock
- Karl Dietrich Bracher
- Martin Broszat
- Gordon A. Craig
- Richard J. Evans
- Joachim Fest
- Fritz Fischer
- Deborah Hertz
- Klaus Hildebrand
- Andreas Hillgruber
- Eberhard Jäckel
- Ian Kershaw
- Klemens von Klemperer
- Claudia Koonz
- Timothy Mason
- Frank McDonough
- Friedrich Meinecke
- Hans Mommsen
- Wolfgang Mommsen
- George Mosse
- Ernst Nolte
- Steven Ozment
- Detlev Peukert
- Koppel Pinson
- Gerhard Ritter
- Hans Rothfels
- David Schoenbaum
- Jean Edward Smith
- Ronald Smelser
- Louis Leo Snyder
- Fritz Stern
- Michael Stürmer
- Heinrich von Treitschke
- A.J.P. Taylor
- Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914–2003) – British historian and peer who specialized on Nazi leadership and incorrectly verified the authenticity of The Hitler Diaries
- Henry Ashby Turner
- Hans-Ulrich Wehler
- John Wheeler-Bennett
- Michael Wolffsohn
- Gordon Wright, Germany – 19th and 20th centuries
- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
- Rainer Zitelmann
History of the Habsburg Monarchy
- John Komlos, economic
- Tírechán (fl. late 7th century)
- Muirchu moccu Machtheni (fl. late 7th century)
- Flann Mainistrech (d. 25 November 1056)
- John Clyn (fl. 1333–1349)
- Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin (d.1372)
- Adhamh Ó Cianáin
- Gilla Isa Mor mac Donnchadh MacFhirbhisigh (fl. 1390–1418)
- Pilip Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin (fl. 1579–1590)
- Geoffrey Keating
- Mícheál Ó Cléirigh (c. 1590–1643)
- Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh (fl. 1643–1671)
- Sir James Ware (1594–1666)
- Mary Bonaventure Browne (after 1610–after 1670), Poor Clare and historian
- Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh (1629–1718)
- Eugene O'Curry (20 November 1794 – 30 July 1862)
- John O'Donovan (25 July 1806 – 10 December 1861)
- Father Paul Walsh (19 June 1885 – 18 June 1941)
- Dermot MacDermot (1906–1989)
- Kathleen Hughes (d. 20 April 1977)
- F.X. Martin (1922–13 February 2000)
- James Francis Lydon (1928–2013)
- Brian Farrell (born 1929)
- Francis John Byrne (born 1934)
- Kenneth Nicholls
- Dáibhí Ó Cróinín
- Ann Buckley
- Nollaig Ó Muraíle
- 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
- Jaap R. Bruijn
- Femme Gaastra
- Pieter Geyl
- John Lothrop Motley
- Jonathan Israel
- G. J. Renier
- Herbert H. Rowen
- Simon Schama
- Norman Davies (born 1939) – modern Polish history
- Pawel Jasienica (1909–1970) – Polish amateur historian
- Wickham Steed
- 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
- Nicolae Iorga
- Alexandru D. Xenopol
- Irina Livezeanu
- Vladimir Tismaneanu
- David Mitrany
- Alexandru Zub
- Lucian Boia
- Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu
- Mihail Kogalniceanu
- 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
- G. W. S. Barrow
- Steve Boardman
- Hector Boece
- George Buchanan
- Gilbert Burnet
- Tom Devine
- John of Fordun
- Colin Kidd
- Michael Lynch
- Norman Macdougall
- Rosalind Mitchison
- Richard Oram
- Nigel Tranter
- Christopher Whatley
- Jenny Wormald
Historiographer Royal of Scotland
- James 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
- 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
- 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)
- Ida Altman – Early modern Spain, colonial Latin America
- Roger Collins – medieval history, Spain, Visigothic Spain, history of Muslim Spain
- Julian Ribera y Tarragó – Spain, history of the Book, medieval history, history of Muslim Spain
- 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
- 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
- Muzaffar Alam
- A. L. Basham
- Chris Bayly
- Dipesh Chakrabarty
- Bernard Cohn
- Sir Jadunath Sarkar
- R. C. Majumdar
- Niharranjan Ray
- Datto Vaman Potdar
- Tryambak Shankar Shejwalkar
- Ram Sharan Sharma
- A. L. Basham
- Nicholas Dirks
- Ranajit Guha
- Ayesha Jalal
- Sumit Sarkar
- Romila Thapar
- Thomas Metcalf
- Barbara Metcalf
- Percival Spear
- Bipan Chandra
- Gyan Prakash
- Tanika Sarkar
- Barbara Ramusack
- Thomas Trautmann
- K. K. Aziz
- Mubarak Ali
- Mohammad Ishaq Khan
History of India
- Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, Unani historian
History of Pakistan
Far East
- William George Aston
- Harold Bolitho
- Basil Hall Chamberlain
- Albert M. Craig
- William Elliot Griffis
- John Whitney Hall
- Donald Keene
- Richard Ponsonby-Fane
- Ian Nish
- Jirō Osaragi
- Edwin O. Reischauer
- Donald Richie
- George Bailey Sansom
- Ernest Mason Satow
- Isaac Titsingh
- Stephen Turnbull
- Eiji Yoshikawa
- 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
- 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
- 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
By historical viewpoint
- George Washington Williams – Early African-American historian
- Niall Ferguson, Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals (1997)
- Yitzhak Arad
- Yehuda Bauer
- Martin Broszat
- Christopher Browning
- Lucy Dawidowicz
- Norman Finkelstein
- Joseph Friedenson
- Henry Friedlander
- Saul Friedländer
- Martin Gilbert
- Israel Gutman
- Daniel Goldhagen
- Raul Hilberg
- Dov Levin
- Michael Marrus
- Hans Mommsen
- Dina Porat
- R. J. Rummel
- Hanna Yablonka
- 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
- Walter Frank (1905–1945) – Nazi historian and anti-Semitic writer
- David Hoggan (1923–1988)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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"
- Johann Lorenz von Mosheim (1694–1755) – Lutheran historian of Christianity from its inception through the 18th century
- Leonard J. Arrington – LDS Church historian 1975–1982
- B.H. Roberts
- Fawn M. Brodie
- Richard Bushman
- Ludwig von Pastor – wrote 40 volume history of the popes making extensive use of the Vatican Secret Archives
- 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
- Robert G. Albion
- William A. Baker
- Jaap R. Bruijn
- Howard I. Chapelle
- Femme Gaastra
- John Hattendorf
- John de Courcy Ireland
- Benjamin Woods Labaree
- Samuel Eliot Morison
- J. H. Parry
- Glyndwr Williams
Media history
History of newspapers and magazines, History of radio, History of television, and History of the Internet
- Asa Briggs (born 1921)
- 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
- 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
- Ram Sharan Sharma
- Marc Bloch
- Fernand Braudel
- Herbert Butterfield
- E. H. Carr
- R. G. Collingwood
- Geoffrey Elton
- Richard J. Evans
- Pieter Geyl
- J. H. Hexter
- Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
- Peter Novick
- Leopold von Ranke
- Hayden White
- Frank Ankersmit
Academic protagonists in Australia's "history wars"
- 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)
- 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
- 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