This is alist of historians categorized by their area of study . See alsoList of historians andList of women historians by area of study .
Sedat Alp (1913, Veroia, The Ottoman Empire - 2006, Ankara, Türkiye) Hittitolog- Historian, Ancient AnatolianEkrem Akurgal (1911, Haifa, The Ottoman Empire- 2002, İzmir, Türkiye) Archaeologist- Historian, Ancient AnatolianLeonie Archer (born 1955) – Graeco-Roman PalestineMary Beard (born 1955)Anatoly Bokschanin (1903–1979) – Roman historyFernand Braudel (1902, Luméville-en-Ornois, France - 1985, Cluses, France ) Roman historyThomas Robert Shannon Broughton (1900–1993) – Roman history andprosopography Halet Çambel (1916, Berlin, Germany- 2014, İstanbul, Türkiye) Archaeologist- Historian, Ancient AnatolianMichael Crawford (born 1939)Roland Étienne (born 1944, French) –Ancient Greece andHellenistic period Moses Finley (1912–1986)Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) –The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Adrian Goldsworthy (born 1969, British) – Roman historyPeter Green (1924–2024) – Ancient Greece and MacedonHerodotus Keith Hopkins (1934–2004) - Roman historyMuazzez İlmiye Çığ (1914–2024, Bursa-Türkiye) Sumerologist, Sumerian historyJosephus Yuliya Kolosovskaya (1920–2002) – Roman history andRoman provinces of theDanube Sergey Kovalev (1886–1960) – Hellenistic and Roman periodMikhail Kublanov (1914–1998)Barbara Levick (1931–2023) –Roman emperors Livy Ramsay MacMullen (1928–2022) – History of RomeNikolai Mashkin (1900–1950) – Roman historyFergus Millar (1935–2019)Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903)History of Rome Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776–1831) – Roman historyOrosius Tahsin Özgüç (1916, Kardzhali, The Ottoman Empire- 2005, Ankara, Türkiye) Archaeologist- Historian, Ancient AnatolianEdward Togo Salmon (1905–1988) - Roman historyHoward Hayes Scullard (1903–1983) – Roman civilizationMariya Sergeyenko (1891–1987) – Roman agriculture and daily lifeRam Sharan Sharma (1919–2011) – Ancient IndiaElena Shtaerman (1914–1991) – Roman historySuetonius Ronald Syme (1903–1989) – Classical periodTacitus Joseph Tainter (born 1949)Lily Ross Taylor (1886–1969) - Roman historyThucydides Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (born 1951)Max Weber (1864–1920)Xenophon Polybius John Van Antwerp Fine Jr. (born 1939) - American medievalist specialized in the history of Central and Southeastern Europe, and BalkansRam Sharan Sharma (1919–2011) – early medievalHistory of India Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman (born 1940) – historian of medieval medicinePlacido Puccinelli (1609–1685, Italian) –Northern Italy in the 10th century and theFlorentine churchMarc Bloch (1886–1944, French) – Medieval FranceUta-Renate Blumenthal (1935–2025, American) – Investiture Controversy and Pope Gregory VII.John Boswell (1947–1994, American) –Homosexuality in the Middle AgesNorman Cantor (1929–2004)Georges Duby (1924–1996, French) – Specialized in the history of France between theCapets and theValois François-Louis Ganshof (1895–1980, Belgian) – wrote on early medieval institutional history and feudalismGeoffrey of Monmouth Giraldus Cambrensis Johan Huizinga (1872–1945, Dutch) – cultural history, wroteWaning of the Middle Ages Jacques Le Goff (1924–2014, French) – Middle Ages, particularly the 12th and 13th centuriesRev.F. X. Martin (1922–2000, Irish) – Mediævalist and campaigner Rosamond McKitterick (born 1949) –Frankish andCarolingian historyHenri Pirenne (1862–1935) – the "Pirenne Thesis" of early Medieval developmentEileen Power (1889–1940) –Middle Ages Miri Rubin (born 1956) – social and religious history, 1100–1500Steven Runciman (1903–2000) – theCrusades Richard Southern (1912–2001)Sidney Painter (1902–1960)John Julius Norwich (1929–2018)John V. Tolan (born 1959)Chris Wickham (born 1950)Retha Warnicke (born 1939)Aaron Gurevich (1924–2006)Jerome Lee Shneidman (1929–2008) – psychohistory[ 1] Michael Prestwich (born 1943)Alessandro Barbero (born 1959)Dick Harrison (born 1966)Satish Chandra (1922–2017)Irfan Habib (born 1931)Michel Kaplan (born 1946, French) –Byzantinist Gina Fasoli (1905–1992) – medieval cities, feudal society, andLombardy Rachel Reid (1876-1952) – Tudor history,Medieval Scotland By nation or geographical area [ edit ] See alsoList of Canadian historians
History of the Caribbean [ edit ] History of the United States [ edit ] Henry Adams (1838–1918) – history of the United States in the presidential administrations ofThomas Jefferson andJames Madison Stephen Ambrose (1936–2002) – biographer of PresidentsDwight D. Eisenhower andRichard M. Nixon Edward L. Ayers (born 1953) – U.S. South, founder of theInstitute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) and Digital Scholarship LabGeorge Bancroft (1800–1891) – wrote first large-scale history of the USCharles A. Beard (1874–1948) – revisionist history ofFounding Fathers suggesting monetary motivationsSamuel Flagg Bemis (1891–1973) – U.S. foreign policy; won two Pulitzer PrizesIra Berlin (1941–2018) - SlaveryWilliam Brandon (1914–2002) – historian of theAmerican West andNative Americans .Holly Brewer (born 1964) – early American HistoryAlan Brinkley (1949–2019) – historian of theGreat Depression David H. Burton - U.S. historian and biographer of presidentsTheodore Roosevelt andWilliam Howard Taft as well asClara Barton andOliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Bruce Catton (1899–1978) –American Civil War William Cronon (born 1954) – Americanenvironmental history , the frontier inNew England , and theAmerican West J. Frank Dobie (1888–1964) – historian ofTexas and theSouthwestern United States David Herbert Donald (1920–2009)W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) – historian of theReconstruction Drew Gilpin Faust (born 1947) – Civil War, culture of death, and the ConfederacyRobert H. Ferrell (1921–2018) –Harry S. Truman , the 20th-century U.S. presidency,World War I Eric Foner (born 1943) – Civil War andReconstruction John Hope Franklin (1915–2009) – historian ofAfrican Americans John A. Garraty (1920–2007) – biographyElizabeth Fox-Genovese (1941–2007) – Southern slavery,women's history Doris Kearns Goodwin (born 1943) - U.S. presidents, won aPulitzer Prize in 1995 forNo Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II Richard Hofstadter (1916–1970) – Progressivism and U.S. political historyDaniel Walker Howe - political and intellectual history of the early republic andantebellum periodPeter Iverson – 20th century U.S. West/Native American history (emphasis in Navajo history)Paul Johnson (born 1928) – author ofA History of the American People and a biographer ofGeorge Washington Winthrop Jordan (1931–2007) – African-American historyWillard L. King (1893–1981) – biography and lawDavid Lavender (1910–2003) –Western United States David McCullough (1933–2022) – general study, most notable work is recent biography ofJohn Adams James M. McPherson (born 1936) –American Civil War Pauline Maier (1938–2013) – late Colonial, Revolution, ConstitutionD. W. Meinig (1924–2020) – geographic history of AmericaPhilip D. Morgan (born 1949) – slaveryDavid Nasaw (born 1945) – biography and U.S. cultural historyFrancis Parkman (1823–1893) – historian of the French and Indian WarWilliam B. Pickett (born 1940)David Pietrusza (born 1949) - 20th century presidential elections; biographyDominic Sandbrook (born 1974) – political history of the 1960s and 1970sArthur Schlesinger Sr. (1888–1965)Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (1917–2007)Cornelius Cole Smith, Jr. (1913–2004) – historian ofArizona ,California and theSouthwestern United States Jean Edward Smith (1932–2019) – biography, foreign policy, political economy, constitutional law, legal history, and politicsIrma Tam Soong (1912–2001) – history ofChinese immigration in Hawaii Frederick Jackson Turner (1861–1932) – developed theFrontier Thesis Frank Vandiver (1925–2005)Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) - pre-Colonial America to the early 20th centuryAlexander Scott Withers (1792–1865) – primary accounts of colonial western Virginia conflictsSean Wilentz (born 1951) - political, social, and cultural historyBetty Wood (1945–2021) – early American historyGordon S. Wood (born 1933) -American Revolution C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999) –Southern United States Howard Zinn (1922–2010) – political scientist and historian of the United States, known forA People's History of the United States Nathan Raab (born 1978) -Civil War and Presidential Documents, known forThe Hunt for History History of Latin America [ edit ] See alsoCategory:Historians of Latin America
History of Bosnia and Herzegovina [ edit ] Donald Adamson (born 1939) – BritishRobert C. Allen (born 1947) – British economicPerry Anderson (born 1938) – British; European historyLeonie Archer (born 1955) – BritishKaren Armstrong (born 1944) – religiousGerald Aylmer (1926–2000) – British; administrative historyBernard Bailyn (1922–2020) – Atlantic migrationOnyeka – Black BritonsThe Venerable Bede (672–735) – Britain from 55 BC to 731 ADBrian Bond (born 1936) – militaryAsa Briggs (1921–2016) – British social.[ 2] Herbert Butterfield (1900–1979) – historiographyAngus Calder (1942–2008) – Second World WarDavid Cannadine (born 1950) – Modern Britain, British business and philanthropyJ.C.D. Clark (born 1951) – 18th centuryLinda Colley (born 1949) – 18th centuryPatrick Collinson (1929–2011) – Elizabethan England & PuritanismMaurice Cowling (1926–2005) – 19th and 20th century politicsJohn Darwin (born 1948) – British EmpireJohn Davies (1938–2015) - WalesSusan Doran – ElizabethanJennifer Kewley Draskau – Manx history, Tudor historyEamon Duffy (born 1947) – religious history of the 15th–17th centuriesHarold James Dyos (1921–1978) – urbanGeoffrey Rudolph Elton (1921–1994) – Tudor periodCharles Harding Firth (1857–1936) – political history of the 17th centuryAntonia Fraser (born 1932) – 17th centuryWilliam Gibson (born 1959) – ecclesiastical historySamuel Rawson Gardiner (1829–1902) – political history of the 17th centuryRuth Goodman (born 1963) – early modernAndrew Gordon (born 1951) – navalGeoffrey of Monmouth (died c. 1154) – EnglandÉlie Halévy (1870–1937) - British 19th centuryMary Dormer Harris (1867–1936) - medievalist, local history ofCoventry Edward Hasted (1732–1812) – KentMax Hastings (born 1945) – military, Second World WarJ. H. Hexter (1910–1996) – England in the 17th centuryChristopher Hill (1912–2003) – England in the 17th centuryGertrude Himmelfarb (1922–2019) – social and cultural history of the Victorian periodEric Hobsbawn (1917–2012) – Marxist British historyDavid Hume (1711–1776) –Scottish Enlightenment philosopher and author of the six volumeHistory of England (originallyHistory of Britain )Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609–1674) – English Civil WarsJohn Edward Lloyd (1861–1947) – early Welsh historyThomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) – English writer and historian whose most famous work wasThe History of England from the Accession of James the Second John Morrill (born 1946) Seventeenth-century political and military historyLewis Bernstein Namier (1888–1960) – political history of the 18th centuryKenneth Morgan (born 1934) – modern WalesSteven Pincus – 17th and 18th century EnglandAndrew Roberts (born 1963) – Political biographies, 19th and 20th centuriesA. L. Rowse (1903–1997) –Cornish history and Elizabethan EnglandDominic Sandbrook (born 1974) – Britain in the 1960s and afterJohn Robert Seeley (1834–1895) – British political history of the modern periodJack Simmons (1915–2000) – railways, topographyPaul Slack (born 1943) – Early Modern British Social historyDavid Spring (1918–2004) - British 19th centuryDavid Starkey (born 1945) –Tudor historian and TV presenterLawrence Stone (1919–1999) – English society and the history of the familyKeith Thomas (born 1933) – Early Modern English SocietyE. P. Thompson (1924–1993) – British working classGeorge Macaulay Trevelyan (1876–1962) – English history (many different periods)Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton (1914–2003) – Britain in the 17th centuryRetha Warnicke (born 1939) – Tudor history and gender issuesAndy Wood (born 1967) – British social historian, 1500 to presentDaniel Woolf (born 1958) – Early Modern England and History of Historical WritingCicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910–1997) – BritishG. M. Young (1882–1959) - Victorian EnglandPerez Zagorin (1920–2009) – 16th and 17th centuriesHistory of the British Empire [ edit ] See alsoList of historians of the French Revolution .History of the Habsburg monarchy [ edit ] Lorenzo Arnone Sipari (born 1973) – social and environmental Italian historyR.J.B. Bosworth (born 1943) – Fascism, MussoliniBenedetto Croce (1866–1952) – philosophy of history, modern Italian historyVincent Cronin (1924–2011) – Renaissance art and SicilyRenzo De Felice (1929–1996) – Fascism, biographer of MussoliniJohn Foot (born 1964) – modern Italy history, The CityEmilio Gentile (born 1946) – FascismCarlo Ginzburg (born 1939) – witchcraft and agrarian cults, microhistoryAlessandra Kersevan (born 1950) –Italian concentration camps Claudio Pavone (1920–2016) – Italian fascism, World War II, anti-fascismEffie Pedaliu –Italian war crimes John Pollard (born 1944) – The church and FascismPaul Ginsborg (born 1945) – The Risorgimento, Italian modern and contemporary historyLucy Riall (born 1962) – The Risorgimento, Garibaldi, SicilyGaetano Salvemini (1873–1957) – Fascism, French RevolutionDenis Mack Smith (1920–2017) – Italian modern historyArrigo Petacco (1929–2018) – Fascism[ edit ] History of the Netherlands [ edit ] History of Portugal [ edit ] History of Scotland [ edit ] Historiographer Royal of Scotland [ edit ] James Fall , 1682William Robertson (1721–1793), 1763–1793John Gillies (1747–1836), 1793–1836George Brodie (1786–1967), 1836–1867John Hill Burton (1809–1881), 1867–1881William Forbes Skene (1809–1892), 1881–1893David Masson (1822–1907), 1893–1908Peter Hume Brown (1849–1918), 1908–1919Robert Rait (1874–1936), 1919–1930Robert Kerr Hannay (1867–1940),FRSE , 1930–1940J. D. Mackie (1887–1978),OBE , 1958–1978Gordon Donaldson (1913–1993),CBE , 1979–1993Christopher Smout (born 1933),CBE , since 1993History of Slovakia [ edit ] History of Slovenia [ edit ] History of Yugoslavia [ edit ] History of The Republic of Turkey and Turkish Empires [ edit ] Halil İnalcık (1916–2016), İstanbul, Türkiye), history of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkeyİlber Ortaylı (born 1947, Bregen, Österreich), history of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of TurkeyHeath W. Lowry (born 1942, America), history of the Ottoman Empire and modern TurkeyMehmet Fuat Köprülü (1890–1966, İstanbul, Türkiye), Turcologist and historian, history of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of TurkeyYusuf Halaçoğlu (born 1949, Adana, Türkiye), history of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of TurkeyReşat Ekrem Koçu (1905–1975, İstanbul, Türkiye), writer and historian, history of the Ottoman EmpireAhmed Cevad Pasha (Kabaağaçlızade Ahmet Cevat Paşa) (1851–1900, İstanbul, Türkiye), Ottoman statesman (Grand Vizier), history of the Ottoman EmpireAşıkpaşazade (Âşıkpasazâde Derviş Ahmet Âşıkî) (yak. 1400, Amasya–yak. 1484), Ottoman Empire/ Türkiye) history of the Ottoman EmpireIbn Kemal (Kemal Paşazade (ibn-i Kemâl)) (1468–1534, The Ottoman Empire/Türkiye), Ottoman statesman, history of the Ottoman EmpireKoçi Bey (Mustafa Koçi Bey) (?–1650, The Ottoman Empire/Türkiye), Ottoman statesman, history of the Ottoman EmpireKatip Çelebi (Haci Halife Kalfa) (1609–1657, İstanbul, The Ottoman Empire/Türkiye), history of the Ottoman EmpireHistory of the Indian Subcontinent [ edit ] History of Pakistan [ edit ] History of Hong Kong [ edit ] History of the Serers [ edit ] History of Australia [ edit ] History of New Zealand [ edit ] History of Papua New Guinea [ edit ] By historical viewpoint [ edit ] Niall Ferguson (born 1964) –Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals (1997)Paul Avrich (1931–2006) – USA, oral history of the U.S. and RussiaMurray Bookchin (1921–2006) – USA, writer; founder of "social ecology "Sam Dolgoff (1902–1990) – USA, writer, activist, co-founder ofAnarcho-Syndicalist Review Sébastien Faure (1858–1942) – France,Encyclopedie Anarchiste , 4 volumes (1932–1934)David Goodway (born 1942) – UK, writer, editorDaniel Guérin (1904–1988) – France, writer, editorLibertarian Communist Robert Graham (born 1958) – USA, writer, editorAndrej Grubacic – Bulgarian history and anarchism, lecturer atUniversity of San Francisco Peter Marshall (born 1946) – England, historian, philosopher, writer (ofDemanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism Chuck W. Morse (born 1969) – USA, writer, founder ofInstitute for Anarchist Studies (IAS)Max Nettlau (1865–1944) – Austria, writer ofGeschichte der Anarchie , seven volumesAbel Paz (1921–2009) – Spain, Civil war, Durruti, CNT/FAIJosé Peirats (1908–1989) – Spain, historian of the CNT/FAIAlexandre Skirda (1942–2020)Antonio Tellez (1921–2005)Dana Ward – founder of "Anarchist Archives", Online Research on the History and Theory of Anarchism, (USA)George Woodcock (1912–1995)Howard Zinn (1922–2010)By general category [ edit ] Architectural history [ edit ] Classical Antiquity [ edit ] Environmental history [ edit ] History of business [ edit ] [ edit ] History of international relations [ edit ] History of science and technology [ edit ] Michael Adas (born 1943) – colonialism and imperialism, global historyJim Bennett (1947–2023) – mathematics, scientific instruments and astronomyStephen G. Brush (born 1935)Vincent Cronin (1924–2011)Allen G. Debus (1926–2009) – chemistry and medicineA. Hunter Dupree (1921–2019) – botany; U.S. government policy on science and technologyPeter Galison (born 1955) – physics, philosophy, objectivityJohn L. Heilbron (1934–2023) – physics, quantification, astronomy, religion and scienceRichard L. Hills (1936–2019) – technology,steam power Thomas P. Hughes (1923–2014) – technologyEvelyn Fox Keller (1936–2023) – science and gender, biologyMelvin Kranzberg (1917–1995) – technologyDaniel J. Kevles (born 1939) – science and politics, physics, biology,eugenics Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996) – physics, "paradigm shifts "James Mosley (born 1935) – printingDavid F. Noble (1945–2010) – science and technology-based industrial developmentAbraham Pais (1918–2000) – physicsGiuliano Pancaldi (born 1946) – Italian scienceTheodore M. Porter (born 1953)A. I. Sabra (1924–2013) – optics, Islamic scienceGeorge Sarton (1884–1956)Jack Simmons (1915–2000) – railway historyNathan Sivin (born 1931) – history of science in ChinaKim H. Veltman (1948–2020) – science and artM. Norton Wise (born 1940)History of the papacy [ edit ] History of newspapers and magazines ,History of radio ,History of television , andHistory of the Internet
Intellectual history [ edit ] Peter Ackroyd (born 1949) – Dickens, Blake, Thomas More, Eliot, NewtonJames Boswell (1740–1795) – Samuel JohnsonAlan Bullock (1914–2004) – historian best known for his influential biography ofHitler Robert Caro (born 1935) – Lyndon JohnsonThomas Carlyle (1795–1881) – Friedrich der Grosse (the Great)Vincent Cronin (1924–2011) – Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, and NapoleonLeon Edel (1907–1997) – Henry JamesRichard Ellmann (1918–1987) – James JoyceErik Erikson (1902–1994) – psychoanalytic biographies of Luther and GandhiRoy Foster (born 1949) – W.B. YeatsJoseph Frank (1918–2013) – Fyodor DostoevskyElizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) – Charlotte BrontëStephen Greenblatt (born 1943) – ShakespeareRagnhild Hatton (1913–1995) – King Charles XII of Sweden and King George I of Great BritainWalter Isaacson (born 1952) – geniusesIan Kershaw (born 1943) – historian well known for his influential study ofHitler Ralph G. Martin (1920–2013) –Hubert H. Humphrey ,Harry S. Truman ,Edward VIII ,Golda Meir , andJohn F. Kennedy Roi Medvedev (born 1925) – StalinSusan Quinn (born 1940) – Marie CurieRon Rosenbaum (born 1946) – author ofExplaining Hitler Norman Sherry (1925–2016) – Graham GreeneJean Edward Smith (1932–2019) –Franklin D. Roosevelt ,Ulysses S. Grant ,John Marshall , andLucius D. Clay Suetonius – lives of the CaesarsLytton Strachey (1880–1932) – Eminent VictoriansA.N. Wilson (born 1950) – Tolstoy
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