List of historians
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This is a list of historians.

The names are grouped by order of the historical period in which they were writing, which is not necessarily the same as the period in which they specialize

Chroniclers and annalists, though they are not historians in the true sense, are also listed here for convenience.

See also: List of historians by area of study, List of historians of the French Revolution, English historians in the Middle Ages
English historians in the Middle Ages
Historians of England in the Middle Ages helped to lay the groundwork for modern historical historiography, providing vital accounts of the early history of England, Wales and Normandy, its cultures, and revelations about the historians themselves....


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Historians of the Ancient Period

  • Herodotus
    Herodotus
    Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Caria and lived in the 5th century BC . He has been called the "Father of History", and was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a...

    , (484 – c. 420 BC), Halicarnassus, "Father of History"
  • Thucydides
    Thucydides
    Thucydides was a Greek historian and author from Alimos. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BC...

    , (460 – c. 400 BC), Peloponnesian War
  • Berossus
    Berossus
    Berossus was a Hellenistic-era Babylonian writer, a priest of Bel Marduk and astronomer writing in Greek, who was active at the beginning of the 3rd century BC...

    , (early 3rd century BC), Babylonian historian
  • Xenophon
    Xenophon
    Xenophon , son of Gryllus, of the deme Erchia of Athens, also known as Xenophon of Athens, was a Greek historian, soldier, mercenary, philosopher and a contemporary and admirer of Socrates...

    , (431 – c. 360 BC), an Athenian knight and student of Socrates
  • Ptolemy I Soter
    Ptolemy I Soter
    Ptolemy I Soter I , also known as Ptolemy Lagides, c. 367 BC – c. 283 BC, was a Macedonian general under Alexander the Great, who became ruler of Egypt and founder of both the Ptolemaic Kingdom and the Ptolemaic Dynasty...

     (367 BC — c. 283 BC), General of Alexander the Great, Founder of Ptolemaic Dynasty.
  • Timaeus of Tauromenium
    Timaeus (historian)
    Timaeus , ancient Greek historian, was born at Tauromenium in Sicily. Driven out of Sicily by Agathocles, he migrated to Athens, where he studied rhetoric under a pupil of Isocrates and lived for fifty years...

    , (c. 345 – c. 250 BC), Greek history
  • Quintus Fabius Pictor
    Quintus Fabius Pictor
    Quintus Fabius Pictor was one of the earliest Roman historians and considered the first of the annalists. A member of the Fabii gens, he was the grandson of Gaius Fabius Pictor, a painter . He was a senator who fought against the Gauls in 225 BC, and against Carthage in the Second Punic War...

    , (c. 254 BC - ?), Roman history
  • Gaius Acilius
    Gaius Acilius
    Gaius Acilius was a senator and historian of ancient Rome.He knew Greek, and in 155 interpreted for Carneades, Diogenes, and Critolaus, who had come to the Roman Senate on an embassy from Athens....

    , (fl.
    Floruit
    Floruit , abbreviated fl. , is a Latin verb meaning "flourished", denoting the period of time during which something was active...

     155 BC), Roman history
  • Polybius
    Polybius
    Polybius , Greek ) was a Greek historian of the Hellenistic Period noted for his work, The Histories, which covered the period of 220–146 BC in detail. The work describes in part the rise of the Roman Republic and its gradual domination over Greece...

    , (203 – c. 120 BC), Early Roman history (written in Greek)
  • Sima Qian
    Sima Qian
    Sima Qian was a Prefect of the Grand Scribes of the Han Dynasty. He is regarded as the father of Chinese historiography for his highly praised work, Records of the Grand Historian , a "Jizhuanti"-style general history of China, covering more than two thousand years from the Yellow Emperor to...

    , (c. 145 - c. 86 BC), Chinese history
  • Julius Caesar
    Julius Caesar
    Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman and a distinguished writer of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the gradual transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....

    , (100 – c. 44 BC), Gallic and civil wars
  • Diodorus of Sicily
    Diodorus Siculus
    Diodorus Siculus was a Greek historian who flourished between 60 and 30 BC. According to Diodorus' own work, he was born at Agyrium in Sicily . With one exception, antiquity affords no further information about Diodorus' life and doings beyond what is to be found in his own work, Bibliotheca...

    , (1st century BC), Greek history
  • Sallust
    Sallust
    Gaius Sallustius Crispus, generally known simply as Sallust , a Roman historian, belonged to a well-known plebeian family, and was born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines...

    , (86 – 34 BC)
  • Dionysius of Halicarnassus
    Dionysius of Halicarnassus
    Dionysius of Halicarnassus was a Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, who flourished during the reign of Caesar Augustus. His literary style was Attistic — imitating Classical Attic Greek in its prime.-Life:...

    , (c. 60 - after 7 BC), Roman history
  • Livy
    Livy
    Titus Livius — known as Livy in English — was a Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people. Ab Urbe Condita Libri, "Chapters from the Foundation of the City," covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome well before the traditional foundation in 753 BC...

    , (c. 59 BC - c. 17 AD), Roman history
  • Marcus Velleius Paterculus
    Marcus Velleius Paterculus
    Marcus Velleius Paterculus was a Roman historian, also known simply as Velleius. Although his praenomen is given as Marcus by Priscian, some modern scholars identify him with Gaius Velleius Paterculus, whose name occurs in an inscription on a north African milestone .-Biography:Paterculus belonged...

    , (c. 19 BC – c. 31 AD), Roman history
  • Quintus Curtius Rufus
    Quintus Curtius Rufus
    Quintus Curtius Rufus was a Roman historian, writing probably during the reign of the Emperor Claudius or Vespasian. His only surviving work, Historiae Alexandri Magni, is a biography of Alexander the Great in Latin in ten books, of which the first two are lost, and the remaining eight are...

    , (c. 60-70), Greek history
  • Ban Gu
    Ban Gu
    Ban Gu , courtesy name Mengjian , was a 1st century Chinese historian and poet best known for his part in compiling the Book of Han. He also wrote in the main poetic genre of the Han era, a kind of poetry interspersed with prose called fu. Some are anthologized by Xiao Tong in his Selections of...

    , (32 - 92), (Han Dynasty
    Han Dynasty
    The Han Dynasty was the second imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Qin Dynasty and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms . It was founded by the rebel leader Liu Bang, known posthumously as Emperor Gaozu of Han. It was briefly interrupted by the Xin Dynasty of the former regent Wang Mang...

    )
  • Flavius Josephus
    Josephus
    Titus Flavius Josephus , also called Joseph ben Matityahu , was a 1st-century Romano-Jewish historian and hagiographer of priestly and royal ancestry who recorded Jewish history, with special emphasis on the 1st century AD and the First Jewish–Roman War, which resulted in the Destruction of...

    , (37 – 100), Jewish history
  • Ban Zhao
    Ban Zhao
    Bān Zhāo , courtesy name Huiban , was the first known female Chinese historian. She completed her brother Ban Gu's work as he was imprisoned and executed in the year 92 BCE. because of his association with the family of Empress Dowager Dou. It was said her works could have filled eight volumes...

    , (45 - 116), (Han Dynasty
    Han Dynasty
    The Han Dynasty was the second imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Qin Dynasty and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms . It was founded by the rebel leader Liu Bang, known posthumously as Emperor Gaozu of Han. It was briefly interrupted by the Xin Dynasty of the former regent Wang Mang...

    )
  • Thallus
    Thallus (historian)
    Thallus , sometimes spelled Thallos, was an early Samaritan historian who wrote in Koine Greek. Some scholars believe that his work can be interpreted as the earliest reference to the historical Jesus, written about 20 years after the Crucifixion. Around the year 55, he wrote a three-volume history...

    , (early 2nd century AD), Roman history
  • Plutarch
    Plutarch
    Plutarch then named, on his becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus , c. 46 – 120 AD, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia...

    , (c. 46 – 120), would not have counted himself as an historian, but is a useful source because of his Parallel Lives
    Parallel Lives
    Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings, written in the late 1st century...

    of important Greeks and Romans.
  • Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, (c. 56 – c. 120), early Roman Empire
  • Suetonius
    Lives of the Twelve Caesars
    De vita Caesarum commonly known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus.The work, written in AD 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, was the most popular work of Suetonius,...

    , (75 – 160), Roman emperors up to Flavian dynasty
  • Appian
    Appian
    Appian of Alexandria was a Roman historian of Greek ethnicity who flourished during the reigns of Trajan, Hadrian, and Antoninus Pius.He was born ca. 95 in Alexandria. He tells us that, after having filled the chief offices in the province of Egypt, he went to Rome ca. 120, where he practised as...

    , (c. 95 - c. 165), Roman history
  • Arrian
    Arrian
    Lucius Flavius Arrianus 'Xenophon , known in English as Arrian , and Arrian of Nicomedia, was a Roman historian, public servant, a military commander and a philosopher of the 2nd-century Roman period...

    , (c. 92-175), Greek history
  • Lucius Ampelius
    Liber Memorialis
    The Liber Memorialis is an ancient book in Latin featuring an extremely concise summary—a kind of index—of universal history from earliest times to the reign of Trajan. It was written by Lucius Ampelius, who was possibly a tutor or schoolmaster...

    , (3rd century AD?), Roman history
  • Dio Cassius
    Dio Cassius
    Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus , known in English as Cassius Dio, Dio Cassius, or Dio was a Roman consul and a noted historian writing in Greek...

    , (c. 160 - after 229), Roman history
  • Herodian
    Herodian
    Herodian or Herodianus of Syria was a minor Roman civil servant who wrote a colourful history in Greek titled History of the Empire from the Death of Marcus in eight books covering the years 180 to 238. His work is not entirely reliable although his relatively unbiased account of Elagabalus is...

    , (c. 170 - c. 240), Roman History
  • Eusebius of Caesarea
    Eusebius of Caesarea
    Eusebius of Caesarea also called Eusebius Pamphili, was a Roman historian, exegete and Christian polemicist. He became the Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine about the year 314. Together with Pamphilus, he was a scholar of the Biblical canon...

    , (c. 275 - c. 339), Early Christian
  • Ammianus Marcellinus
    Ammianus Marcellinus
    Ammianus Marcellinus was a fourth-century Roman historian. He wrote the penultimate major historical account surviving from Antiquity...

    , (c. 325 – c. 391), Roman history
  • Rufinus of Aquileia, (c. 340 - 410), Early Christian
  • Philostorgius
    Philostorgius
    Philostorgius was an Anomoean Church historian of the 4th and 5th centuries. Anomoeanism questioned the Trinitarian account of the relationship between God the Father and Christ and was considered a heresy by the Orthodox Church, which adopted the term "homoousia" in the Nicene Creed. Very little...

    , (368 - c. 439), Early Christian
  • Socrates of Constantinople, (c. 380 - ?), Early Christian
  • Fa-Hien, (c. 337 - c. 422), Chinese Buddhist monk and historian
  • Theodoret
    Theodoret
    Theodoret of Cyrus or Cyrrhus was an influential author, theologian, and Christian bishop of Cyrrhus, Syria . He played a pivotal role in many early Byzantine church controversies that led to various ecumenical acts and schisms...

    , (c. 393 - c. 457), Early Christian
  • Priscus
    Priscus
    Priscus of Panium was a late Roman diplomat, sophist and historian from Rumelifeneri living in the Roman Empire during the 5th century. He accompanied Maximinus, the ambassador of Theodosius II, to the court of Attila in 448...

    , (5th century), Byzantine history
  • Sozomen
    Sozomen
    Salminius Hermias Sozomenus was a historian of the Christian church.-Family and Home:He was born around 400 in Bethelia, a small town near Gaza, into a wealthy Christian family of Palestine....

     (c. 400 - c. 450), Early Christian
  • Salvian
    Salvian
    Salvian, was a Christian writer of the fifth century, born probably at Cologne, some time between 400 and 405.-Personal life:Salvian was educated at the school of Treves and seems to have been brought up as a Christian...

    , (c. 400/405 - c. 493), Early Christian

Medieval historians/chroniclers

  • Shen Yue
    Shen Yue
    Shen Yue , courtesy name Xiuwen , was a poet, statesman, and historian born in Huzhou, Zhejiang. He served emperors under the Liu Song Dynasty, the Southern Qi Dynasty, and the Liang Dynasty....

    , (441-513), History of the Liu Song Dynasty
    Liu Song Dynasty
    The Liu Song Dynasty , also known as Song Dynasty , Former Song , or Southern Song , was first of the four Southern Dynasties in China, succeeding the Eastern Jin Dynasty and followed by the Southern Qi Dynasty....

     (420-479)
  • Movses Khorenatsi(from Khoren),(Januar 13, 410-488), History of Armenians since 2492 BC
  • Agathangeghos, Armenian historian (IV-V centuries), History of the adoption of Christianity in Armenia as the first Christian state (301)
  • John Malalas
    John Malalas
    John Malalas or Ioannes Malalas was a Greek chronicler from Antioch. Malalas is probably a Syriac word for "rhetor", "orator"; it is first applied to him by John of Damascus .-Life:Malalas was educated in Antioch, and probably was a jurist there, but moved to...

    , (c. 491 - 578), Early Christian
  • Zosimus
    Zosimus
    Zosimus was a Byzantine historian, who lived in Constantinople during the reign of the Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I . According to Photius, he was a comes, and held the office of "advocate" of the imperial treasury.- Historia Nova :...

    , (fl. 491 - 518), Late Roman history
  • Procopius
    Procopius
    Procopius of Caesarea was a prominent Byzantine scholar from Palestine. Accompanying the general Belisarius in the wars of the Emperor Justinian I, he became the principal historian of the 6th century, writing the Wars of Justinian, the Buildings of Justinian and the celebrated Secret History...

    , (c. 500 - c. 565), Byzantines
  • Jordanes
    Jordanes
    Jordanes, also written Jordanis or Jornandes, was a 6th century Roman bureaucrat, who turned his hand to history later in life....

    , (6th century), Goths
  • Gregory of Tours
    Gregory of Tours
    Saint Gregory of Tours was a Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop of Tours, which made him a leading prelate of Gaul. He was born Georgius Florentius, later adding the name Gregorius in honour of his maternal great-grandfather...

    , (538 – 594), Franks
  • Adamnan, (625 - 704), Irish historian
  • Bede
    Bede
    Bede , also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede , was a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth, today part of Sunderland, England, and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow , both in the Kingdom of Northumbria...

    , (c. 672 – 735), Anglo-Saxons
  • Tírechán
    Tírechán
    Tírechán was a 7th century Irish bishop and biographer of Saint Patrick. Tírechán wrote his untitled memoir sometime after the death of his mentor, Ultan of Ardbraccan, in 657. The work survives in the manuscript The Book of Armagh.Tírechán's account, which J. B...

    , (fl. c. 655), Irish biographer of Saint Patrick
    Saint Patrick
    Saint Patrick was a Romano-Briton and Christian missionary, who is the most generally recognized patron saint of Ireland or the Apostle of Ireland, although Brigid of Kildare and Colmcille are also formally patron saints....

  • Cogitosus
    Cogitosus
    -Biography:Cogitosus was a monk of Kildare who wrote the oldest extant vita of Saint Brigit, Vita Sanctae Brigidae, around 650. There is a controversy as to whether he was related to Saint Brigit....

    , (fl. c. 650), Irish historian,
  • Muirchu moccu Machtheni
    Muirchu moccu Machtheni
    Muirchu moccu Machtheni , usually known simply as Muirchu, was a seventh-century Irish historian and Leinster monk.-Works:...

    , (7th century), Irish historian
  • Paul the Deacon
    Paul the Deacon
    Paul the Deacon , also known as Paulus Diaconus, Warnefred, Barnefridus and Cassinensis, , was a Benedictine monk and historian of the Lombards.-Life:...

    , (8th century), Langobards
  • Constantine of Preslav
    Constantine of Preslav
    Constantine of Preslav was a medieval Bulgarian scholar, writer and translator, one of the most important men of letters working at the Preslav Literary School at the end of the 9th and the beginning of the 10th century. Biographical evidence about his life is scarce but he is believed to have...

    , (Late 9th century - Early 10th century), Bulgarian
    First Bulgarian Empire
    The First Bulgarian Empire was a medieval Bulgarian state founded in the north-eastern Balkans in c. 680 by the Bulgars, uniting with seven South Slavic tribes...

     historian
  • Nennius
    Nennius
    Nennius was a Welsh monk of the 9th century.He has traditionally been attributed with the authorship of the Historia Brittonum, based on the prologue affixed to that work, This attribution is widely considered a secondary tradition....

    , (9th century?), Shadowy historian of Wales
  • Martianus Hiberniensis
    Martianus Hiberniensis
    Martin Hiberniensis , teacher, scribe, and master of the cathedral school at Laon, 819-875-Background:Martin has been called "one of the greatest of Irish Carolingian scholars."...

    , (819-875), Irish teacher and historian
  • Einhard
    Einhard
    Einhard was a Frankish scholar and courtier. Einhard was a dedicated servant of Charlemagne and his son Louis the Pious; his main work is a biography of Charlemagne, the Vita Karoli Magni, "one of the most precious literary bequests of the early Middle Ages."-Public life:Einhard was from the eastern...

    , (9th century) - Biography
    Biography
    A biography is a detailed description or account of someone's life. More than a list of basic facts , biography also portrays the subject's experience of those events...

     of Charlemagne
    Charlemagne
    Charlemagne was King of the Franks from 768 and Emperor of the Romans from 800 to his death in 814. He expanded the Frankish kingdom into an empire that incorporated much of Western and Central Europe. During his reign, he conquered Italy and was crowned by Pope Leo III on 25 December 800...

  • Notker of St Gall
    Notker of St Gall
    Notker the Stammerer , also called Notker the Poet or Notker of Saint Gall, was a musician, author, poet, and Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Saint Gall in modern Switzerland...

    , (9th century), Anecdotal Biography
    Biography
    A biography is a detailed description or account of someone's life. More than a list of basic facts , biography also portrays the subject's experience of those events...

     of Charlemagne
    Charlemagne
    Charlemagne was King of the Franks from 768 and Emperor of the Romans from 800 to his death in 814. He expanded the Frankish kingdom into an empire that incorporated much of Western and Central Europe. During his reign, he conquered Italy and was crowned by Pope Leo III on 25 December 800...

  • Ibn Rustah, (10th century), Persian historian and traveler
  • Asser
    Asser
    Asser was a Welsh monk from St David's, Dyfed, who became Bishop of Sherborne in the 890s. About 885 he was asked by Alfred the Great to leave St David's and join the circle of learned men whom Alfred was recruiting for his court...

    , Bishop of Sherborne
    Sherborne
    Sherborne is a market town in northwest Dorset, England. It is sited on the River Yeo, on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, east of Yeovil. The A30 road, which connects London to Penzance, runs through the town. The population of the town is 9,350 . 27.1% of the population is aged 65 or...

    , (died 908/909), Welsh historian
  • Regino of Prüm
    Regino of Prüm
    Reginon or Regino of Prüm was a Benedictine abbot and medieval chronicler.-Biography:According to the statements of a later era, Regino was the son of noble parents and was born at the stronghold of Altrip on the Rhine near Speyer at an unknown date...

    , (died 915)
  • Muhammad al-Tabari
    Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari
    Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari was a prominent and influential Sunni scholar and exegete of the Qur'an from Persia...

    , (838 – 923), Great Persian historian
  • Liutprand of Cremona
    Liutprand of Cremona
    Liutprand, also Liudprand, Liuprand, Lioutio, Liucius, Liuzo, and Lioutsios was a Lombard historian and author, and Bishop of Cremona....

    , (922 – 972), Byzantine affairs
  • Li Fang
    Li Fang
    Li Fang , courtesy name Mingyuan , was a Chinese scholar, compiler and prime minister from the Song Dynasty known for his leading in the compilation for the three of the Four Great Books of Song. He was born in what is now Hengshui, Hebei and once served the Later Han and Later Zhou....

    , (925 – 996) Chinese editor of the Four Great Books of Song
    Four Great Books of Song
    The Four Great Books of Song was compiled by Li Fang and others during the Song Dynasty . The term was coined after the last book was finished during the 11th century...

  • Heriger of Lobbes
    Heriger of Lobbes
    Heriger of Lobbes was an abbot of the abbey of Lobbes between 990-1007 and is remembered for his writings as theologian and historian.-Biography:...

    , 925-1007
  • Al-Biruni
    Al-Biruni
    Abū al-Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-BīrūnīArabic spelling. . The intermediate form Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī is often used in academic literature...

    , (973 – 1048), Persian historian
  • Geoffrey of Monmouth
    Geoffrey of Monmouth
    Geoffrey of Monmouth was a cleric and one of the major figures in the development of British historiography and the popularity of tales of King Arthur...

    , churchman/historian
  • Thietmar of Merseburg
    Thietmar of Merseburg
    Thietmar of Merseburg was a German chronicler who was also bishop of Merseburg.-Life:...

    , German, Polish, and Russian affairs
  • Nestor the Chronicler
    Nestor the Chronicler
    Saint Nestor the Chronicler was the reputed author of the Primary Chronicle, , Life of the Venerable Theodosius of the Kiev Caves, Life of the Holy Passion Bearers, Boris and Gleb, and of the so-called Reading.Nestor was a monk of the Monastery of the Caves in Kiev from 1073...

    , author of the Russian Primary Chronicle
  • Gallus Anonymus
    Gallus Anonymus
    Gallus Anonymus is the name traditionally given to the anonymous author of Gesta principum Polonorum , composed in Latin about 1115....

    , Polish historian
  • Albert of Aix
    Albert of Aix
    Albert of Aix-la-Chapelle or Albert of Aachen , historian of the First Crusade, was born during the later part of the 11th century, and afterwards became canon and custos of the church of Aachen....

    , historian of the First Crusade
  • Michael Psellus, (1018 – c. 1078)
  • Michael Attaleiates, (c. 1015 - c. 1080)
  • Sima Guang
    Sima Guang
    Sīmǎ Guāng was a Chinese historian, scholar, and high chancellor of the Song Dynasty, jinshi 1038.-Life, profession, and works:...

    , (1019–1086), historiographer and politician
  • Marianus Scotus
    Marianus Scotus
    Marianus Scotus , was an Irish monk and chronicler , was an Irishman by birth, and called Máel Brigte, or Devotee of St...

    , (1028–1082/1083), Irish chronicler
  • Guibert of Nogent
    Guibert of Nogent
    Guibert of Nogent was a Benedictine historian, theologian and author of autobiographical memoirs. Guibert was relatively unknown in his own time, going virtually unmentioned by his contemporaries...

    , (1053–1124)
  • Galbert of Bruges
    Galbert of Bruges
    Galbert of Bruges was a Flemish cleric and chronicler. Administrator and notary to Count Charles the Good, he is known for his Latin account De multro, traditione et occisione gloriosi Karoli comitis Flandriarum of the Count's murder in 1127...

    , 12th century, Flemish chronicler
  • Florence of Worcester
    Florence of Worcester
    Florence of Worcester , known in Latin as Florentius, was a monk of Worcester, who played some part in the production of the Chronicon ex chronicis, a Latin world chronicle which begins with the creation and ends in 1140....

    , (died 1118), English chronicler
  • Eadmer
    Eadmer
    Eadmer, or Edmer , was an English historian, theologian, and ecclesiastic. He is known for being a contemporary biographer of his contemporary archbishop and companion, Saint Anselm, in his Vita Anselmi, and for his Historia novorum in Anglia, which presents the public face of Anselm...

    , (c. 1066 – c. 1124), post-Conquest English history
  • Kim Bu-sik
    Kim Bu-sik
    Kim Busik was an official and a scholar during Korea's Goryeo period. He is best known for compiling the Samguk Sagi, the oldest extant record of Korean history....

    , (1075–1151), Korean historian, author of the Samguk Sagi
    Samguk Sagi
    Samguk Sagi is a historical record of the Three Kingdoms of Korea: Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla. The Samguk Sagi is written in Classical Chinese and its compilation was ordered by Goryeo's King Injong Samguk Sagi (History of the Three Kingdoms) is a historical record of the Three Kingdoms of...

  • Symeon of Durham
    Symeon of Durham
    Symeon of Durham was an English chronicler and a monk of Durham Priory. When William of Saint-Calais returned from his Norman exile in 1091, Symeon was probably in his company...

    , (died after 1129), English chronicler
  • William of Malmesbury
    William of Malmesbury
    William of Malmesbury was the foremost English historian of the 12th century. C. Warren Hollister so ranks him among the most talented generation of writers of history since Bede, "a gifted historical scholar and an omnivorous reader, impressively well versed in the literature of classical,...

    , (c. 1080 – c. 1143)
  • Anna Comnena, (1083 – after 1148)
  • Usamah ibn Munqidh
    Usamah ibn Munqidh
    Majd ad-Dīn Usāma ibn Murshid ibn ʿAlī ibn Munqidh al-Kināni was a medieval Muslim poet, author, faris , and diplomat from the Banu Munqidh dynasty of Shaizar in northern Syria...

    , (1095–1188)
  • Adam of Bremen
    Adam of Bremen
    Adam of Bremen was a German medieval chronicler. He lived and worked in the second half of the eleventh century. He is most famous for his chronicle Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum .-Background:Little is known of his life other than hints from his own chronicles...

    , historian of Scandinavia
  • Kalhana
    Kalhana
    Kalhana , a Kashmiri, was the author of Rajatarangini , an account of the history of Kashmir. He wrote the work in Sanskrit between 1148 and 1149. All information regarding his life has to be deduced from his own writing, a major scholar of which is Mark Aurel Stein...

    , historian of Kashmir.
  • Saxo Grammaticus
    Saxo Grammaticus
    Saxo Grammaticus also known as Saxo cognomine Longus was a Danish historian, thought to have been a secular clerk or secretary to Absalon, Archbishop of Lund, foremost advisor to Valdemar I of Denmark. He is the author of the first full history of Denmark.- Life :The Jutland Chronicle gives...

    , (12th century), Danish
  • Svend Aagesen
    Svend Aagesen
    Svend Aggesen is most famous, in Denmark at least, as the author of one of the first attempts to write a coherent history of Denmark covering the period 300AD-1185AD...

    , (12th century), Danish
  • Alured of Beverley
    Alured of Beverley
    Alredus, or Alfred of Beverley, , English chronicler, was sacristan of the church of Beverley in the first half of the twelfth century....

    , (12th century), English chronicler
  • John Zonaras, (12th century), Byzantine chronicler
  • Helmold of Bosau, (ca. 1120 – after 1177), German chronicler
  • William of Tyre
    William of Tyre
    William of Tyre was a medieval prelate and chronicler. As archbishop of Tyre, he is sometimes known as William II to distinguish him from a predecessor, William of Malines...

    , (c. 1128–1186)
  • William of Newburgh
    William of Newburgh
    William of Newburgh or Newbury , also known as William Parvus, was a 12th-century English historian and Augustinian canon from Bridlington, Yorkshire.-Biography:...

    , (1135–1198), English historian called "the father of historical criticism"
  • Mohammed al-Baydhaq
    Mohammed al-Baydhaq
    Mohammed abu Bakr ibn Ali al Sanhaji al Baydhaq was a companion of Ibn Tumart and chronicler of the Almohads. Al Baydhaq was his nickname, because he was small in stature. He was a Berber from the Senhaja....

    , (fl. 1150), Moroccan historian
  • John of Worcester
    John of Worcester
    John of Worcester was an English monk and chronicler. He is usually held to be the author of the Chronicon ex chronicis.-Chronicon ex chronicis:...

    , (fl. 1150s), English chronicler
  • Giraldus Cambrensis
    Giraldus Cambrensis
    Gerald of Wales , also known as Gerallt Gymro in Welsh or Giraldus Cambrensis in Latin, archdeacon of Brecon, was a medieval clergyman and chronicler of his times...

    , (c. 1146 – c. 1223)
  • Wincenty Kadlubek
    Wincenty Kadlubek
    Blessed Wincenty Kadłubek , also known as Vincent Kadlubek, Vincent Kadlubo, Vincent Kadlubko, Vincent of Kraków, Master Vincentius, was a thirteenth century Bishop of Cracow and historian of Poland.-Biography:...

    , (1161–1223), Polish historian
  • Ambroise
    Ambroise
    Ambroise was a Norman poet and chronicler of the Third Crusade, author of a work called L'Estoire de la guerre sainte, which describes in rhyming Old French verse the adventures of Richard Coeur de Lion as a crusader...

    , (fl. 1190s), Anglo-Norman poet, wrote verse narrative of the Third Crusade
    Third Crusade
    The Third Crusade , also known as the Kings' Crusade, was an attempt by European leaders to reconquer the Holy Land from Saladin...

  • Geoffroi de Villehardouin, (c. 1160–1212)
  • Nicetas Choniates
    Nicetas Choniates
    Nicetas or Niketas Choniates , sometimes called Acominatos, was a Greek historian – like his brother Michael Acominatus, whom he accompanied from their birthplace Chonae to Constantinople...

    , (died c. 1220)
  • Snorri Sturluson
    Snorri Sturluson
    Snorri Sturluson was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician. He was twice elected lawspeaker at the Icelandic parliament, the Althing...

    , (c. 1178 – 23rd Sept.1241), Icelandic historian
  • Abdelwahid al-Marrakushi (born 1185) Moroccan historian
  • Ata al-Mulk Juvayni
    Ata al-Mulk Juvayni
    Atâ-Malek Jovayni was a Persian historian who wrote an account of the Mongol Empire entitled Ta' rīkh-i jahān-gushā .He was born in Juvain, a city in Khorasan in northeastern Iran...

    , (1226–83), Persian historian
  • Ibn al-Khabbaza
    Ibn al-Khabbaza
    Abu l-Hassan ibn al-Khabbaza was a kadi, historian and poet active during the reign of the Almohad Sultan Abu al-Ala Idris al-Mamun in Seville, al-Andalus and Marrakesh, Morocco. When the last sultan of this dynasty left Iberia in 1228, Al-Khabazza joined him...

      (died 1239) Moroccan historian
  • Matthew Paris
    Matthew Paris
    Matthew Paris was a Benedictine monk, English chronicler, artist in illuminated manuscripts and cartographer, based at St Albans Abbey in Hertfordshire...

    , (died 1259)
  • Il-yeon
    Il-yeon
    Il-yeon was a Buddhist monk and All-Enlightened National Preceptor during the Goryeo Dynasty of Korea. His birth name was Kim Gyeong-myeong , and his courtesy name was Hoe-yeon ....

    , (1206–1289), Korean historian, author of the Samguk Yusa
    Samguk Yusa
    Samguk Yusa, or Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms, is a collection of legends, folktales, and historical accounts relating to the Three Kingdoms of Korea , as well as to other periods and states before, during, and after the Three Kingdoms period.The text was written in Classical Chinese, which was...

  • Salimbene di Adam
    Salimbene di Adam
    Salimbene di Adam was an Italian Franciscan friar and chronicler who is a source for Italian history of the 13th century.-Life:...

    , (1221 – c. 1290), Italian
  • Abdelaziz al-Malzuzi
    Abdelaziz al-Malzuzi
    Abu Faris Abdelaziz ibn Abdarrahman al-Malzuzi al-Miknasi is considered to be the greatest poet of the Marinid period. He is also well-known as an historian. There is little known about his life, besides that he was the court poet of Abu Yahya ibn Abd al-Haqq. Among his many poetical works is a...

     (died 1298) Moroccan historian
  • Templar of Tyre
    Templar of Tyre
    The Templar of Tyre is the name of a medieval historian and also of the document he wrote in the 14th century, the third and largest section of the Gestes des Chiprois...

    , (c. 1230–1314), end of the Crusades
  • Adam of Eynsham
    Adam of Eynsham
    Adam of Eynsham was a medieval English chronicler and writer. He was also abbot of Eynsham Abbey.Adam was born around 1155 in Oxford to a middle-class family. His father, a doctor in Oxford, was named Edmund. Edmund's other children included William and Edmund.Adam entered Eynsham Abbey, where he...

     d. c. 1233 - English hagiographer and writer, abbot of Eynsham Abbey
    Eynsham Abbey
    Eynsham Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in Eynsham, Oxfordshire, in England between 1005 and 1538. King Æthelred allowed Æthelmær the Stout to found the abbey in 1005. There is some evidence that the abbey was built on the site of an earlier minster, probably founded in the 7th or 8th...

  • Jean de Joinville
    Jean de Joinville
    Jean de Joinville was one of the great chroniclers of medieval France.Son of Simon de Joinville and Beatrice d'Auxonne, he belonged to a noble family from Champagne. He received an education befitting a young noble at the court of Theobald IV, count of Champagne: reading, writing, and the...

    , (1224–1319)
  • Rashid-al-Din Hamadani, (1247–1317), Persian historian
  • ibn Khaldun
    Ibn Khaldun
    Ibn Khaldūn or Ibn Khaldoun was an Arab Tunisian historiographer and historian who is often viewed as one of the forerunners of modern historiography, sociology and economics...

    , (1332–1406), North African historian "of the world"
  • Piers Langtoft
    Piers Langtoft
    Peter Langtoft, also known as Peter of Langtoft was an English historian and chronicler who took his name from the small village of Langtoft in the East Riding of Yorkshire....

    , (died c. 1307)
  • Ibn Abi Zar
    Ibn Abi Zar
    Abū al-Hassan ‘Alī ibn Abī Zar‘ al-Fāsī is the commonly presumed original author of the popular and influential medieval history of Morocco known as Rawd al-Qirtas, said to have been written at the instigation of Marinid Sultan Abu Sa'id Uthman II...

     (fl. 1315) Moroccan historian
  • Abdullah Wassaf
    Wassaf
    Wassaf or Vassaf or Toghril Beg Abdallah ibn Faḍlallah Sharaf al-Din Shīrāzī was a 14th-century Persian historian of the Ilkhanate...

    , 13th century, Persian historian
  • Ibn Idhari
    Ibn Idhari
    Abū al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Idhāri al-Marrākushi who lived in the late 13th and the early 14th century, was the author of an important medieval text on the history of the Maghreb and Iberia written in 1312.Little is known about the life of this author, who was born in Al-Andalus and...

     (beginning 14th century) Moroccan historian
  • John Clyn
    John Clyn
    John Clyn of the Friars Minor, Kilkenny, was a 14th century Irish monk and chronicler who lived at the time of the Black Death.-Background:...

    , fl. 1333-1349, Irish historian
  • Jean Froissart
    Jean Froissart
    Jean Froissart , often referred to in English as John Froissart, was one of the most important chroniclers of medieval France. For centuries, Froissart's Chronicles have been recognized as the chief expression of the chivalric revival of the 14th century Kingdom of England and France...

    , (c. 1337 – c. 1405), chronicler
  • Dietrich of Nieheim
    Dietrich of Nieheim
    Dietrich of Nieheim , medieval historian, was born at Nieheim, a small town subject to the see of Paderborn.-Life:...

    , (c. 1345–1418), ecclesiastic history
  • Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin
    Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin
    Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin was an Irish Gaelic poet.-Background:Ó Dubhagáinn was among the first notable members of the bardic family Baile Uí Dhubhagáin , near Loughrea, County Galway...

    , d. 1372
  • Adhamh Ó Cianáin
    Adhamh Ó Cianáin
    Adhamh Ó Cianáin was an Irish historian and genealogist.Described in his obituary as "a learned historian" and "a canon" of Lisgoole, "having secured victory of deamon and world"....

    , d. 1373
  • John of Fordun
    John of Fordun
    John of Fordun was a Scottish chronicler. It is generally stated that he was born at Fordoun, Mearns. It is certain that he was a secular priest, and that he composed his history in the latter part of the 14th century; and it is probable that he was a chaplain in the St Machar's Cathedral of...

    , Scottish chronicler (d. 1384 )
  • Ruaidhri Ó Cianáin
    Ruaidhri Ó Cianáin
    Ruaidhri Ó Cianáin was an Irish historian.Described upon his death as "a learned historian without fault", "professor of Oirghialla in history", "chiefe Chronicler of the territory of Uriell"...

     (died 1387)
  • Álvar García de Santa María
    Álvar García de Santa María
    Álvar García de Santa María was a Spanish historian and Jewish convert to Roman Catholicism during the late Middle Ages. He was born in 1370 into a prominent Castilian Jewish family, but converted in 1390 at the time of evangelization of the Jewish community by St. Vincent Ferrer...

    , (1370–1460)
  • Ismail ibn al-Ahmar
    Ismail ibn al-Ahmar
    Abu l-Walid Ismail Ibn al-Ahmar was a Moroccan historian of the fourteenth century, the time of the Marinid dynasty. He was a contemporary of Ibn Khaldoun.-Works:Books by Ibn al-Ahmar:...

     (1387–1406) Moroccan historian
  • Giolla Íosa Mór Mac Fhirbhisigh, fl. 1390-1418
  • Alphonsus A Sancta Maria
    Alphonsus a Sancta Maria
    Alphonsus a Sancta Maria, or Alphonso de Cartagena , Spanish historian, was born at Cartagena, and succeeded his father, Paulus, as bishop of Burgos. In 1431 he was deputed by John II, king of Castile, to attend the council of Basel, in which he made himself conspicuous by his learning...

    , (1396–1456)
  • Jan Długosz, Polish historian and chronicler
  • Philippe de Commines
    Philippe de Commines
    Philippe de Commines was a writer and diplomat in the courts of Burgundy and France. He has been called "the first truly modern writer" and "the first critical and philosophical historian since classical times"...

    , French historian
  • Cathal Óg Mac Maghnusa
    Cathal Óg Mac Maghnusa
    Cathal Óg Mac Maghnusa was the principal compiler of the Annals of Ulster.-References:*Cathal Óg Mac Maghnusa and the Annals of Ulster, by Aubrey Gwynn, in Clougher Record, 2/2 pp.230-43 and 2/3 , pp. 370-84. Ed...

    , 1439–1498, compilor and annalist.
  • Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi
    Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi
    Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi was a 15th-century Persian historian.Little about his early life is known. As a young man he was a teacher in his native Yazd and a close companion of the Timurid ruler Shah Rukh and his son Mirza Ibrahim Sultan...

    , d. 1454, Persian historian
  • John Capgrave
    John Capgrave
    John Capgrave was an English historian, hagiographer and scholastic theologian-Schooling:Capgrave was born in Bishop's Lynn, now King's Lynn, Norfolk – "My cuntre is Northfolke, of the town of Lynne"...

    , (1393–1464)
  • Christine de Pizan
    Christine de Pizan
    Christine de Pizan was a Venetian-born late medieval author who challenged misogyny and stereotypes prevalent in the male-dominated medieval culture. As a poet, she was well known and highly regarded in her own day; she completed 41 works during her 30 year career , and can be regarded as...

    , (c. 1365 – c. 1430), historian, poet, philosopher
  • Robert Fabyan
    Robert Fabyan
    Robert Fabyan , chronicler, was born in London, of which hebecame an Alderman and Sheriff. He kept a diary of notable events, whichhe expanded into a chronicle, which he entitled, The Concordance of Histories. It covers the period from the arrival of Brutus in England tothe death of King Henry VII...

    , (died 1513)
  • Albert Krantz
    Albert Krantz
    Albert Krantz , German historian, was a native of Hamburg. He studied law, theology and history at Rostock and Cologne, and after travelling through western and southern Europe was appointed professor, first of philosophy and subsequently of theology, in the University of Rostock, of which he was...

    , (1450–1517)
  • Polydore Vergil
    Polydore Vergil
    Polydore Vergil was an Italian historian, otherwise known as PV Castellensis. He is better known as the contemporary historian during the early Tudor dynasty. He was hired by King Henry VIII of England, who wanted to distance himself from his father Henry VII as much as possible, to document...

    , (c. 1470–1555), Tudor history
  • Sigismund von Herberstein
    Sigismund von Herberstein
    Siegmund Freiherr von Herberstein, , was an Carniolan diplomat, writer, historian and member of the Holy Roman Empire Imperial Council...

    , (1486–1566), Muscovite affairs
  • João de Barros
    João de Barros
    João de Barros , called the Portuguese Livy, is one of the first great Portuguese historians, most famous for his Décadas da Ásia , a history of the Portuguese in India and Asia.-Early years:...

    , (1496–1570)
  • Niccolò Machiavelli
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was an Italian historian, philosopher, humanist, and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance. He is one of the main founders of modern political science. He was a diplomat, political philosopher, playwright, and a civil servant of the Florentine Republic...

    , (1469–1527), author of Florentine Histories
    Florentine Histories
    Florentine Histories is a historical account by Italian Renaissance political scientist and writer Niccolò Machiavelli, first published posthumously in 1532.-Background:...

  • Francesco Guicciardini
    Francesco Guicciardini
    Francesco Guicciardini was an Italian historian and statesman. A friend and critic of Niccolò Machiavelli, he is considered one of the major political writers of the Italian Renaissance...

    , (1483–1540), historian of the Italian Wars
    Italian Wars
    The Italian Wars, often referred to as the Great Italian Wars or the Great Wars of Italy and sometimes as the Habsburg–Valois Wars, were a series of conflicts from 1494 to 1559 that involved, at various times, most of the city-states of Italy, the Papal States, most of the major states of Western...

    , "Storia d'Italia"
  • Josias Simmler
    Josias Simmler
    Josias Simmler , was a Swiss theologian and classicist, author of the first book relating solely to the Alps.-Life:...

    , (1530–1576)
  • Paolo Paruta
    Paolo Paruta
    -Biography:He was born at Venice of a Luccan family. After studying at Padua he served the Republic of Venice in various political capacities, including that of secretary to one of the Venetian delegates at the Council of Ten...

    , (1540–1598), Venetian historian
  • Raphael Holinshed
    Raphael Holinshed
    Raphael Holinshed was an English chronicler, whose work, commonly known as Holinshed's Chronicles, was one of the major sources used by William Shakespeare for a number of his plays....

    , (died c. 1580)
  • Hector Boece
    Hector Boece
    Hector Boece , known in Latin as Hector Boecius or Boethius, was a Scottish philosopher and first Principal of King's College in Aberdeen, a predecessor of the University of Aberdeen.-Biography:He was born in Dundee where he attended school...

    , Scottish philosopher and historian. Wrote "Historia Gentis Scotorum" (1465–1536)
  • Caesar Baronius
    Caesar Baronius
    Cesare Baronio was an Italian Cardinal and ecclesiastical historian...

    , (1538–1607)
  • Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni, (1540–1615), Indo-Persian historian
  • Abd al-Aziz al-Fishtali
    Abd al-Aziz al-Fishtali
    Abu Faris Abd al-Aziz al-Fishtali was the secretary of state for correspondence and leading poet from Ahmad al-Mansur's court. He wrote 69 poems, numbering 1016 verses.The one surviving work from the pen of al-Fishtali, as the chief scribe of al-Mansur's state is: Manahil al-safa fi ma'athir...

     (1549–1621), Moroccan historian
  • Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi
    Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi
    For the Egyptian encyclopedist see Shihab al-Din abu 'l-Abbas Ahmad ben Ali ben Ahmad Abd Allah al-QalqashandiAbu l-Abbas Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn al-Qadi al-Miknasi was the leading writer from Ahmad al-Mansur's court next to Abd al-Aziz al-Fishtali. He was also a renowned judge and mathematician.A...

     (1553–1616) Moroccan historian
  • John Hayward
    John Hayward
    Sir John Hayward , English historian, was born at or near Felixstowe, Suffolk, where he was educated, and afterwards proceeded to Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he took the degrees of B.A., M.A. and LL.D....

    , (1564–1627)
  • Pilip Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin
    Pilip Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin
    Pilip Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin was an Irish historian.A member of the Clan Ó Duibhgeannáin and a hereditary historian, Pilip was a resident of Cloonybrien, County Roscommon...

     (fl. 1579–1590)
  • Bahrey
    Bahrey
    Abba Bahrey was a late 16th century Ethiopian monk, historian, and ethnographer. He is best known for his 1593 work on the history of the Oromo and their migrations in the 16th century, the "History of the Galla"...

     (1593), an Ethiopian monk and historian. Wrote Zenahu le Galla (History of the Galla, now the Oromo
    Oromo people
    The Oromo are an ethnic group found in Ethiopia, northern Kenya, .and parts of Somalia. With 30 million members, they constitute the single largest ethnic group in Ethiopia and approximately 34.49% of the population according to the 2007 census...

    )
  • William Bradford, (1590–1657), Mayflower/Plymouth Colony of America
  • James Ussher
    James Ussher
    James Ussher was Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland between 1625–56...

    , (4 January 1581 – 21 March 1656), Chronology of the History of the World
  • Baldassarre Bonaiuti, a chronicler (historian) of the 14th century

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  • Fray Íñigo Abbad y Lasierra
    Fray Iñigo Abbad y Lasierra
    Fray Íñigo Abbad y Lasierra , born in Estadilla, Spain, was a Benedictine monk and the first historian to extensively document Puerto Rico's history, nationality and culture....

     (1745–1813) Spanish historian
  • Mohammed Akensus
    Mohammed Akensus
    Mohammed Akensus or Abu Abdallah Mohammed ben Ahmad Akensus al-Marrakushi was a well known, Moroccan historian and a minister under moulay Sulaiman and moulay Abderrahmane. He wrote on the reign of moulay Mohammed ben Abdallah and is the author of Al-Djaish al-aramram , lith...

     (1797–1877) Moroccan historian

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  • Abbasgulu Bakikhanov
    Abbasgulu Bakikhanov
    Abbasgulu Bakikhanov , also known as Gudsi , was an Azerbaijani writer, historian, journalist, linguist, poet and philosopher; descendant of the ruling dynasty of the Baku Khanate, nephew of the last khan of Baku...

    , (1794–1847), history of Azerbaijan
    Azerbaijan
    Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan is the largest country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to...

     and the Middle East
    Middle East
    The Middle East is a region that encompasses Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is often used as a synonym for Near East, in opposition to Far East...

  • Teimuraz Bagrationi
    Teimuraz Bagrationi
    Teimuraz Bagrationi otherwise known as tsarevich Teimuraz Georgievich was a Georgian prince and scholar primarily known as an author of the first critical history in Georgian as well as for his work to popularize interest in the history and culture of Georgia and preserve its treasures.Prince...

    , (1782–1846), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
  • Archibald Bower, (1686–1766), Rome
  • Mary Bonaventure Browne
    Mary Bonaventure Browne
    Mother Mary Bonaventure Browne, Poor Clare and Irish historian, born after 1610, died after 1670.-Background:A daughter of Andrew Browne fitz Oliver, a wealthy merchant and a member of The Tribes of Galway. She was a niece of Martin Browne, whose townhouse doorway, the Browne doorway, now stands in...

    , Poor Clare and Irish
    Ireland
    Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

     historian, c.1610 - c.1670.
  • Josiah Burchett
    Josiah Burchett
    Josiah Burchett was Secretary of the Admiralty in England, a position he held for almost fifty years . He was first a clerk to Samuel Pepys, the English civil servant famous for his diary...

    , (1666? – 1746), British naval historian and Admiralty official

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  • Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng
    Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng
    Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng was a Chinese scholar and historian of China's coastal province of Chekiang. His father and his grandfather had been government officials, but, although Chang achieved the highest civil service examination degree in 1778, he never held high office.Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng’s ideas...

    , (1738–1801), Chinese historian, local histories and essays on historiography
  • Thomas Carlyle
    Thomas Carlyle
    Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher during the Victorian era.He called economics "the dismal science", wrote articles for the Edinburgh Encyclopedia, and became a controversial social commentator.Coming from a strict Calvinist family, Carlyle was...

    , (1795–1881), satirical writer, essayist, and historian

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  • Charles Dezobry
    Charles Dezobry
    Louis Charles Dezobry was a French historian and historical novelist, born at St-Denis.-Works:* Rome au siècle d'Auguste, ou Voyage d'un Gaulois à Rome à l'époque du règne d'Auguste et pendant une partie du règne de Tibère...

    , (1798–1871), French historian and historical novelist
  • Mohammed al-Duayf
    Mohammed al-Duayf
    Mohammed al-Duayf or Abu abd Allah Mohammad Al-murabit ben Abd as-Salam ben Ahmed ben Muhamad al-Duayyif al-Ribati was a Moroccan writer. He was born in Rabat in 1752 and is the author of Tarikh al Du'ayyif, an extremely important source on the life of Sultan Mohammed ben Abdallah...

     (born 1752) Moroccan historian
  • John Colin Dunlop
    John Colin Dunlop
    John Colin Dunlop , historian, son of a Lord Provost of Glasgow, Scotland, where and at Edinburgh he was educated, was elected to the Faculty of Advocates in 1807, and became Sheriff of Renfrewshire. He wrote a History of Fiction , a History of Roman Literature to the Augustan Age , and Memoirs of...

    , (c. 1785–1842)

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  • Abd al-Rahman al-Fasi
    Abd al-Rahman al-Fasi
    Abu Zaid Abd al-Rahman Abu Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Fasi was a Moroccan writer in the field of law, history, astronomy and music. He wrote some 170 books and has been called the Suyuti of his time...

     (1631–1685), Moroccan historian
  • George Finlay
    George Finlay
    George Finlay was a Scottish historian. He was the brother of Kirkman Finlay.Finlay was born at Faversham, Kent, where his Scottish father, Captain John Finlay FRS, an officer in the Royal Engineers, was inspector of government powder mills. His father died in 1802, and his Scottish mother and...

    , (1799–1875), Greece
  • Abd al-Aziz al-Fishtali
    Abd al-Aziz al-Fishtali
    Abu Faris Abd al-Aziz al-Fishtali was the secretary of state for correspondence and leading poet from Ahmad al-Mansur's court. He wrote 69 poems, numbering 1016 verses.The one surviving work from the pen of al-Fishtali, as the chief scribe of al-Mansur's state is: Manahil al-safa fi ma'athir...

     (1549–1621), Moroccan historian
  • Francisco Jose Freire (1719–1773), Portuguese historian and philologist
  • Francesco Maria Appendini
    Francesco Maria Appendini
    Francesco Maria Appendini was an Italian, born at Poirino, near Turin, in 1768. Poirino was then part of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia. He received his early education in his native country after which he went to Rome, where he entered the order of the Scolopj or Scholarum...

     (1768–1837), Italian historian-Republic of Ragusa
  • Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange
    Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange
    Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange or Ducange was a distinguished philologist and historian of the Middle Ages and Byzantium....

    , (1610–1688), Medieval and Byzantine historian and philologist

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  • Garcilaso de la Vega
    Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
    Garcilaso de la Vega , born Gómez Suárez de Figueroa, was a historian and writer from the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru. The son of a Spanish conquistador and an Inca noblewoman, he is recognized primarily for his contributions to Inca history, culture, and society...

    , (1539–1616), Spanish historian. Inca history, culture, and society.
  • Erik Gustaf Geijer
    Erik Gustaf Geijer
    Erik Gustaf Geijer was a Swedish writer, historian, poet, philosopher, and composer. His writings served to promote Swedish National Romanticism. He also was an influential advocate of Liberalism.-Biography:...

    , Swedish nationalist historian
  • Edward Gibbon
    Edward Gibbon
    Edward Gibbon was an English historian and Member of Parliament...

    , (1737–1794), Roman Empire and Byzantium
  • George Grote
    George Grote
    George Grote was an English classical historian, best known in the field for a major work, the voluminous History of Greece, still read.-Early life:He was born at Clay Hill near Beckenham in Kent...

    , (1794–1871), classical Greece
  • François Guizot
    François Guizot
    François Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848, a conservative liberal who opposed the attempt by King Charles X to usurp legislative power, and worked to sustain a constitutional...

    , (1787–1874), French historian of general French, English history

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  • Edward Hasted
    Edward Hasted
    Edward Hasted was the author of a major county history, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent .-Life:...

    , (1732–1812), Kent
  • Sulayman al-Hawwat
    Sulayman al-Hawwat
    Abu al-Rabi Sulayman ibn 'Abd Allah al-Hawwat Shafshawani was a Moroccan historian, biographer and poet.-Bibliography:Works by Sulayman al-Hawwat:...

    , (1747–1816) Moroccan historian
  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher, one of the creators of German Idealism. His historicist and idealist account of reality as a whole revolutionized European philosophy and was an important precursor to Continental philosophy and Marxism.Hegel developed a comprehensive...

    , (1770–1831), German philosopher of history
  • Alexander Hewat (or Hewatt)
    Alexander Hewat
    Dr. Alexander Hewat was the first historian of South Carolina and Georgia, best known for his two volume work “An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia”...

    , (1739–1824), First historian of pre-revolutionary Carolina and Georgia
  • Arild Huitfeldt
    Arild Huitfeldt
    Arild Huitfeldt was a Danish historian and state official, known for his vernacular Chronicle of Denmark.-Life:...

    , (1546–1609), Danish historian.
  • David Hume
    David Hume
    David Hume was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism. He was one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment...

     (1711–1776), Scottish Enlightenment
    Scottish Enlightenment
    The Scottish Enlightenment was the period in 18th century Scotland characterised by an outpouring of intellectual and scientific accomplishments. By 1750, Scots were among the most literate citizens of Europe, with an estimated 75% level of literacy...

     Philosopher and author of six volume History of England (originally History of Britain)

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  • Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin
    Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin
    Nikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin was a Russian writer, poet, historian, and critic. He is best remembered for his History of the Russian State, a 12-volume national history.- Early life :...

    , (1766–1826), Russian historian - Russian Empire
  • Geoffrey Keating
    Geoffrey Keating
    Seathrún Céitinn, known in English as Geoffrey Keating, was a 17th century Irish Roman Catholic priest, poet and historian. He was born in County Tipperary c. 1569, and died c. 1644...

    /Seathrún Céitinn, d.1643, Irish historian

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  • Joachim Lelewel
    Joachim Lelewel
    Joachim Lelewel was a Polish historian and politician, from a Polonized branch of a Prussian family.His grandparents were Heinrich Löllhöffel von Löwensprung and Constance Jauch , who later polonized her name to Lelewel.-Life:Born in Warsaw, Lelewel was educated at the Imperial University of...

    , (1786–1861), Polish historian
  • John Lingard
    John Lingard
    Dr. John Lingard was an English Catholic priest, born in St Thomas Street in Central Winchester to recusant parents and the author of The History Of England, From the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of Henry VIII, an 8-volume work published in 1819...

    , (1771–1851), England
  • Anton Tomaz Linhart
    Anton Tomaž Linhart
    Anton Tomaž Linhart was a Slovene playwright and historian, best known as the author of the first comedy in Slovene, Županova Micka...

    , (1756–1795), well known for Slovenian history

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  • Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh, fl.1643–1671, Irish historian, annalist, genealogist
  • Jules Michelet
    Jules Michelet
    Jules Michelet was a French historian. He was born in Paris to a family with Huguenot traditions.-Early life:His father was a master printer, not very prosperous, and Jules assisted him in the actual work of the press...

    , (1798–1874), French
  • François Mignet
    François Mignet
    François Auguste Marie Mignet was a French journalist and historian.-Biography:He was born in Aix-en-Provence , France. His father was a locksmith from the Vendée, who enthusiastically accepted the principles of the French Revolution and encouraged liberal ideas in his son...

    , (1796–1884), French historian of the Revolution, Middle Ages
  • Christian Molbech
    Christian Molbech
    Christian Molbech was a Danish historian, literary critic, writer and editor of historical sources.Christian Molbech was raised in Sorø and in 1802 he graduated from Sorø Academy. 1804 he was employed at Royal Danish Library and was thus never formally trained as an historian...

    , (1783–1857), Danish history, founder of Historisk Tidsskrift (1839).
  • Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim
    Johann Lorenz von Mosheim
    Johann Lorenz von Mosheim or Johann Lorenz Mosheim , German Lutheran church historian, was born at Lübeck on 9 October 1693 or 1694.- Biography :...

    , (1694–1755), Lutheran historian
  • Johannes von Müller
    Johannes von Müller
    Johannes von Müller was a Swiss historian.-Biography:He was born at Schaffhausen, where his father was a clergyman and rector of the gymnasium. In his youth, his maternal grandfather, Johannes Schoop , roused in him an interest in the history of his country...

    , (1752–1809)
  • Ludovico Antonio Muratori
    Ludovico Antonio Muratori
    Ludovico Antonio Muratori was an Italian historian, notable as a leading scholar of his age, and for his discovery of the Muratorian fragment, the earliest known list of New Testament books....

    , (1672–1750), Italy.

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  • Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont
    Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont
    Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont was a French ecclesiastical historian.He was born in Paris into a wealthy Jansenist family, and was educated at the Petites écoles of Port-Royal, where his historical interests were formed and encouraged...

    , (1637–1698), ecclesiastical historian
  • Barthold Georg Niebuhr
    Barthold Georg Niebuhr
    Barthold Georg Niebuhr was a Danish-German statesman and historian who became Germany's leading historian of Ancient Rome and a founding father of modern scholarly historiography. Classical Rome caught the admiration of German thinkers...

    , (1776–1831), German historian

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  • Tadhg Og Ó Cianáin (died c.1614)
  • Mícheál Ó Cléirigh
    Mícheál Ó Cléirigh
    Mícheál Ó Cléirigh , sometimes known as Michael O'Clery, was an Irish chronicler, scribe and antiquary and chief author of the Annals of the Four Masters, assisted by Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh, Fearfeasa Ó Maol Chonaire, and Peregrinus Ó Duibhgeannain.-Background and early life:Grandson of Tuathal...

    , Irish historian, c.1590–1643
  • Peregrine Ó Duibhgeannain, Irish historian, fl.1627-1636
  • Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh
    Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh
    Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh was an Irish historian and genealogist, known in English as Peregrine O'Clery.-Life and work:Ó Cléirigh was a son of Diarmaid Ó Cléirigh, and thus a third-cousin once removed to Brother Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, whom he assisted in compiling the Annals of the Four...

     (died c. 1662/1664)
  • Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh
    Ruaidhri Ó Flaithbheartaigh
    Ruaidhri Ó Flaithbheartaigh, King of Iar Connacht and Chief of the Name, fl. 1244-1273.-Biography:Ruaidhri was a brother of the preceding chief, Morogh...

    , Irish historian, 1629–1716/1718
  • Olaus Magnus
    Olaus Magnus
    Olaus Magnus was a Swedish ecclesiastic and writer, who did pioneering work for the interest of Nordic people. He was reported as born in October 1490 in Östergötland, and died on August 1, 1557. Magnus, Latin for the Swedish Stor “great”, is a Latin family name taken personally, and not a...

    , (ca. 1490-1570)

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  • William H. Prescott
    William H. Prescott
    William Hickling Prescott was an American historian and Hispanist, who is widely recognized by historiographers to have been the first American scientific historian...

    , (1796–1859), US historian of Spain, Mexico, Peru
  • Placido Puccinelli
    Placido Puccinelli
    Padre Placido Puccinelli was a Cassinese monk, a historian and scholar.Educated at the abbey of S. Maria in Florence, he began his monastic career on 15 January 1626. He was interested in historical studies, but above all genealogy and prosopography, in which the abbey had a great tradition...

    , (1609–1685), Italian historian

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  • Leopold von Ranke
    Leopold von Ranke
    Leopold von Ranke was a German historian, considered one of the founders of modern source-based history. Ranke set the standards for much of later historical writing, introducing such ideas as reliance on primary sources , an emphasis on narrative history and especially international politics .-...

    , (1795–1886), European diplomacy; probably the greatest German historian

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  • Mikhail Shcherbatov
    Mikhail Shcherbatov
    Prince Mikhailo Mikhailovich Shcherbatov was a leading ideologue and exponent of the Russian Enlightenment, on the par with Mikhail Lomonosov and Nikolay Novikov. His view of human nature and social progress is kindred to Swift's pessimism. He was known as a statesman, historian, writer and...

    , (1733–1790), Russian historian
  • John Strype
    John Strype
    John Strype was an English historian and biographer. He was a cousin of Robert Knox, a famous sailor.Born in Houndsditch, London, he was the son of John Strype, or van Stryp, a member of a Huguenot family whom, in order to escape religious persecution within Brabant, had settled in East London...

    , (1643–1737), English historian

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  • Vasily Tatishchev
    Vasily Tatishchev
    Vasily Nikitich Tatishchev was a prominent Russian statesman, and ethnographer, best remembered as the author of the first full-scale Russian history...

    , (1686–1750), first historian of modern Russia
  • Adolphe Thiers
    Adolphe Thiers
    Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers was a French politician and historian. was a prime minister under King Louis-Philippe of France. Following the overthrow of the Second Empire he again came to prominence as the French leader who suppressed the revolutionary Paris Commune of 1871...

    , (1797–1877), French historian of the Revolution, Empire

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  • Henry Brooks Adams, (1838–1918), US 1800-1816
  • Grace Aguilar
    Grace Aguilar
    Grace Aguilar was an English novelist and writer on Jewish history and religion. She was delicate from childhood, and early showed great interest in history, especially Jewish history...

    , (1816–1847), Jewish history
  • Charles McLean Andrews
    Charles McLean Andrews
    Charles McLean Andrews was one of the most distinguished American historians of his time and widely recognized as a leading authority on American colonial history...

    , (1863–1943), American; U.S. colonial history
  • Alfred von Arneth, (1819–1897), history of the Austrian Empire
    Austrian Empire
    The Austrian Empire was a modern era successor empire, which was centered on what is today's Austria and which officially lasted from 1804 to 1867. It was followed by the Empire of Austria-Hungary, whose proclamation was a diplomatic move that elevated Hungary's status within the Austrian Empire...

  • Mikhail Artamonov
    Mikhail Artamonov
    Mikhail Illarionovich Artamonov Artamonov's scientific career was centered on the Leningrad University, where he was a professor since 1935 and the head of the chair of archeology since 1949. He researched Bronze Age and Iron Age settlements by the Don River, in the North Caucasus and in the Ukraine...

    , (1898–1972), founder of Khazar studies
  • François Victor Alphonse Aulard
    François Victor Alphonse Aulard
    François Victor Alphonse Aulard was the first professional French historian of the French Revolution and of Napoleon.He was born at Montbron in Charente...

    , (1849–1928), French Revolution
    French Revolution
    The French Revolution , sometimes distinguished as the 'Great French Revolution' , was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France and Europe. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years...

     and Napoleon I
    Napoleon I
    Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader during the latter stages of the French Revolution.As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815...

  • Zurab Avalishvili
    Zurab Avalishvili
    Zurab Avalishvili was a Georgian historian, jurist and diplomat in the service of the Democratic Republic of Georgia . He was also known as Zurab Davidovich Avalov in a Russian manner....

    , (1876–1944), history of Georgia
    Georgia (country)
    Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

     and the Caucasus
    Caucasus
    The Caucasus, also Caucas or Caucasia , is a geopolitical region at the border of Europe and Asia, and situated between the Black and the Caspian sea...


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  • Charles Bean
    Charles Bean
    Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean , usually identified as C.E.W. Bean, was an Australian schoolmaster, judge's associate, barrister journalist, war correspondent and historian....

    , (1879–1968), Australia in World War I
  • Charles A. Beard
    Charles A. Beard
    Charles Austin Beard was, with Frederick Jackson Turner, one of the most influential American historians of the first half of the 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive studies in both history and political science...

    , (1874–1948), American historian, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
  • Mary Ritter Beard
    Mary Ritter Beard
    Mary Ritter Beard was an American historian and archivist, who played an important role in the women's suffrage movement and was a lifelong advocate of social justice through educational and activist roles in both the labor and woman's rights movements...

    , (1876–1958), American Historian and wife of Charles A. Beard
  • George Bancroft
    George Bancroft
    George Bancroft was an American historian and statesman who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state and at the national level. During his tenure as U.S. Secretary of the Navy, he established the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1845...

    , (1800–1891), United States
  • Wilhelm Barthold
    Vasily Bartold
    Vasily Vladimirovich Bartold was a Russian and Soviet historian and turcologist.-Biography:Bartold was born in Saint Petersburg.Bartold's lectures at the University of Saint Petersburg were annually interrupted by extended field trips to Muslim countries...

    , (1869–1930), Muslim studies, Turkology
  • Hilaire Belloc
    Hilaire Belloc
    Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc was an Anglo-French writer and historian who became a naturalised British subject in 1902. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. He was known as a writer, orator, poet, satirist, man of letters and political activist...

    , (1870–1953) French writer and historian later naturalised British.
  • Marc Bloch
    Marc Bloch
    Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch was a French historian who cofounded the highly influential Annales School of French social history. Bloch was a quintessential modernist. An assimilated Alsatian Jew from an academic family in Paris, he was deeply affected in his youth by the Dreyfus Affair...

    , (1886–1944), medieval France
  • George Williams Brown
    George Williams Brown
    George Williams Brown PhD, LLD, FRSC , was a Canadian historian and editor. Born on April 3, 1894 in Glencoe, Middlesex County, Ontario and died on October 19, 1963 in Ottawa, Ontario.- Early life and education :...

    , (1894–1963), Canada
  • Geoffrey Bruun
    Geoffrey Bruun
    Geoffrey Bruun was a historian and biographer who taught at New York University from 1927 until 1941. He was born in Montreal and received a bachelor's degree from the University of British Columbia, and master's and doctoral degrees from Cornell University. After retiring as a professor of...

     (1899–1988), European civilization
  • Henry Thomas Buckle
    Henry Thomas Buckle
    Henry Thomas Buckle was an English historian, author of an unfinished History of Civilization.- Biography :...

    , (1821–1862), English, History of Civilization
  • Jacob Burckhardt
    Jacob Burckhardt
    Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt was a historian of art and culture, and an influential figure in the historiography of each field. He is known as one of the major progenitors of cultural history, albeit in a form very different from how cultural history is conceived and studied in academia today...

    , (1818–1897), art history, European history, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
  • Montagu Burrows
    Montagu Burrows
    Montagu Burrows was an officer in the Royal Navy and subsequently the first Chichele Professor of Modern History at Oxford University...

    , (1819–1905) first naval historian at a British university
  • John Hill Burton
    John Hill Burton
    John Hill Burton FRSE was a Scottish advocate, historian and economist. The author of "Life and Correspondence of David Hume", he was secretary of the Scottish Prison Board , and Historiographer Royal ....

    , (1809–1881), Scottish Jacobin history
  • J. B. Bury
    J. B. Bury
    John Bagnell Bury , known as J. B. Bury, was an Irish historian, classical scholar, Byzantinist and philologist.-Biography:...

    , (1861–1927), classical, Europe

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  • Pierre Caron
    Pierre Caron (historian)
    Pierre Caron was a French historian and archivist, specialising in the French Revolution.-Life:Entering the Archives nationales in 1898 and setting up the Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine soon afterwards, he published several bibliographic works...

    , (1875–1952), French revolution
  • E. H. Carr, (1892–1982) Soviet history, International Relations
    International relations
    International relations is the study of relationships between countries, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations , international nongovernmental organizations , non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations...

  • Antonio Cánovas del Castillo
    Antonio Cánovas del Castillo
    Antonio Cánovas del Castillo was a Spanish politician and historian known principally for his role in supporting the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy to the Spanish throne and for his death at the hands of an anarchist assassin, Michele Angiolillo.-Early career:Born in Málaga as the son of...

    , (1828–1897), Spanish historian
  • Henri Raymond Casgrain, (1831–1904), priest, author, historian
  • Cesar de Bazancourt
    Baron de César Bazancourt
    César Lecat baron de Bazancourt was a French military historian, director of the library of Compiègne under Louis Philippe.-Biography:...

    , (1810–1865), French historian; works on the Crimean War
    Crimean War
    The Crimean War was a conflict fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining...

  • Boris Chicherin
    Boris Chicherin
    Boris Nikolayevich Chicherin was a Russian jurist and political philosopher, who worked out a theory that Russia needed a strong, authoritative government to persevere with liberal reforms...

    , (1828–1904), Russian historian - history of Russian laws
  • Julian Corbett
    Julian Corbett
    Sir Julian Stafford Corbett was a prominent British naval historian and geostrategist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, whose works helped shape the Royal Navy's reforms of that era...

    , (1854–1922), British naval historian
  • Augustin Cochin
    Augustin Cochin (historian)
    Augustin Cochin was a French historian of the French Revolution. Much of his work was posthumously published in an incomplete state after he was killed in action in World War I....

    , (1876–1916), history of French Revolution
  • Edward Shepherd Creasy
    Edward Shepherd Creasy
    Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy was an English historian. He was born in Bexley, England. He was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge and called to the Bar in 1837. In 1840, he began teaching history at the University of London. He was knighted in 1860 and assumed the position of...

    , (1812–1878), warfare
  • Margaret Campbell Speke Cruwys (1894–1968), Devon historian

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  • Felix Dahn
    Felix Dahn
    Felix Ludwig Julius Dahn was a German lawyer, author and historian.-Biography:Julius Sophus Felix Dahn was born in Hamburg as the oldest son of Friedrich and Constanze Dahn who were notable actors at the city's theatre. The family had both German and French roots...

    , (1834–1912), European history unfolding during the first millennium CE
  • Angie Debo
    Angie Debo
    Angie Elbertha Debo was an American historian who wrote 13 books and hundreds of articles about Native American and Oklahoma history...

    , (1890–1988), Native American and Oklahoma history
  • Léopold Delisle
    Léopold Victor Delisle
    Léopold Victor Delisle , French bibliophile and historian, was born at Valognes .-Early life:He was taken on as a young man by the antiquarian and historian of architecture, Charles-Alexis-Adrien Duhérissier de Gerville, who engaged him to copy manuscripts in his collection, and taught him enough...

    , (1826–1910), French historian and librarian
  • Johann Gustav Droysen
    Johann Gustav Droysen
    Johann Gustav Droysen was a German historian. His history of Alexander the Great was the first work representing a new school of German historical thought that idealized power held by so-called "great" men...

    , (1808–1884), German historian, professor at Kiel, Jena & Berlin

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  • Mary Anne Everett Green
    Mary Anne Everett Green
    Mary Anne Everett Green, née Wood, was an English historian. After establishing a reputation for scholarship with two multi-volume books on royal ladies and noblewomen, she was invited to assist in preparing guides, or "calendars", to a collection of hitherto disorganised historical state papers...

    , (1818–1895), English
  • Ephraim Emerton
    Ephraim Emerton
    Ephraim Emerton, Ph. D. was an American educator, author, translator, and historian prominent in his field of European medieval history.-Life and career:...

    , (1851–1935), medieval Europe

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  • Lucien Febvre
    Lucien Febvre
    Lucien Febvre was a French historian best known for the role he played in establishing the Annales School of history. He has designed the Encyclopédie française together with Anatole de Monzie.-Biography:...

    , (1878–1956), French historian
  • Walter Lynwood Fleming
    Walter Lynwood Fleming
    Walter Lynwood Fleming was an American historian of the South and Reconstruction. He was a leader of the Dunning School of scholars which rewrote Reconstruction history using modern historiographical techniques in the early 20th century, but was later criticized by neoabolitionist historians for...

    , (1874–1932) U.S. Reconstruction
  • James Anthony Froude
    James Anthony Froude
    James Anthony Froude , 23 April 1818–20 October 1894, was an English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine. From his upbringing amidst the Anglo-Catholic Oxford Movement, Froude intended to become a clergyman, but doubts about the doctrines of the Anglican church,...

    , (1818–1894), Tudor England
  • Frantz Funck-Brentano
    Frantz Funck-Brentano
    Frantz Funck-Brentano was a French historian and librarian. He was born in the castle of Munsbach and died at Montfermeil...

    , (1862–1947), French historian and librarian
  • Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
    Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
    Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges was a French historian.Born in Paris, of Breton descent, after studying at the École Normale Supérieure he was sent to the French School at Athens in 1853, he directed some excavations in Chios, and wrote an historical account of the island.After his return he filled...

    , (1830–1889), antiquity, France

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  • François-Louis Ganshof
    François-Louis Ganshof
    François-Louis Ganshof was a Belgian medievalist. After studies at the Athénée Royal, he came to the University of Ghent, where he came under the influence of Henri Pirenne. After studies with Ferdinand Lot, he practiced law for a period, before returning to the University of Ghent...

    , (1895–1980), medieval history
  • Lawrence Henry Gipson, (1882–1970) British Empire before 1775
  • Arthur Giry
    Arthur Giry
    Jean-Marie-Joseph-Arthur Giry was a French historian, noted for his studies of France in the Middle Ages....

    , (1848–1899), diplomatics
  • Gustave Glotz
    Gustave Glotz
    Gustave Glotz was a French historian of ancient Greece. He was a supporter of the theory that history never follows a simple, logical course....

    , (1862–1935), Ancient Greece
  • George Peabody Gooch
    George Peabody Gooch
    George Peabody Gooch OM, CH was a British journalist, historian and Liberal Party politician. A follower of Lord Acton, he never held an academic position, but knew the work of historians of continental Europe.-Early life:...

    , (1873–1968), Modern Diplomacy
  • Timofey Granovsky
    Timofey Granovsky
    Timofey Nikolayevich Granovsky was a founder of mediaeval studies in the Russian Empire.Granovsky was born in Oryol, Russia. He studied at the universities of Moscow and Berlin, where he was profoundly influenced by Hegelian ideas of Leopold von Ranke and Friedrich Karl von Savigny...

    , (1813–1855), medieval Germany
  • Lionel Groulx
    Lionel Groulx
    Lionel-Adolphe Groulx was a Roman Catholic priest, historian and Quebec nationalist. -Early life and ordination:Groulx was born at Chenaux, Quebec, Canada, the son of a farmer and lumberjack, and died in Vaudreuil, Quebec. After his seminary training and studies in Europe, he taught at Valleyfield...

    , (1878–1967), Quebec
  • René Grousset
    René Grousset
    René Grousset was a French historian, curator of both the Cernuschi and Guimet Museums in Paris, and a member of the prestigious Académie française...

    , (1885–1952), Oriental History

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  • Louis Halphen
    Louis Halphen
    Louis Sigismond Isaac Halphen was a French medieval specialist and the author of many important books over a long career...

    , (1880–1950), Middle Ages
  • Clarence H. Haring
    Clarence H. Haring
    Clarence Henry Haring was an important historian of Latin America and the pioneer who initiated the study of South American colonial institutions among scholars in the United States.-Early life and education:The son of a businessman, Henry Getman Haring, and Amelia Stoneback, Clarence...

    , (1885–1960), Latin American history
  • Charles H. Haskins
    Charles H. Haskins
    Charles Homer Haskins was an American historian of the Middle Ages, and advisor to US President Woodrow Wilson. He is considered to be America's first medieval historian.-Biography:...

    , (1870–1937), Americans first medieval historian
  • Henri Hauser
    Henri Hauser
    Henri Hauser [ozer] , Algerian-born French economist, historian, geographer.He was a professor of ancient and medieval history at the University of Clermont-Ferrand , and modern history and geography at Dijon University , history at Sorbonne University , economic history at the University of Paris...

    , (1866–1946), French historian, economist, geographer
  • Julien Havet
    Julien Havet
    Julien Havet , French historian, was born at Vitry-sur-Seine, the second son of Ernest Havet.He early showed a remarkable aptitude for learning, but had a pronounced aversion for pure rhetoric...

    , (1853–1893), Middle Ages
  • Paul Hazard
    Paul Hazard
    Paul Gustave Marie Camille Hazard , was a French scholar, professor and historian of ideas.-Biography:...

    , (1878–1944), Modern France
  • Eli Heckscher
    Eli Heckscher
    Eli Filip Heckscher was a Swedish political economist and economic historian.-Biography:...

    , (1879–1954), Swedish economic historian
  • Auguste Himly
    Auguste Himly
    Auguste Louis Himly was a French historian and geographer.After studying in his native town and taking the university course in Berlin , Himly went to Paris and passed first in the examination for fellowship of the lycées , first in the examinations on leaving the École des...

    , (1823–1906), French historian and geographer
  • Johan Huizinga
    Johan Huizinga
    Johan Huizinga , was a Dutch historian and one of the founders of modern cultural history.-Life:Born in Groningen as the son of Dirk Huizinga, a professor of physiology, and Jacoba Tonkens, who died two years after his birth, he started out as a student of Indo-Germanic languages, earning his...

    ,(1872–1945), Dutch historian, author of Waning of the Middle Ages

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  • Ibn Zaydan
    Ibn Zaydan
    Abd al-Rahman ibn Zaydan was a Moroccan historian and literary author. He was a great-grandson of sultan Moulay Ismael and is considered one of the best sources on the history of his native city Meknes, but also on the Alaouite dynasty...

      (1873–1946) Moroccan historian
  • Dmitry Ilovaisky
    Dmitry Ilovaisky
    Dmitry Ivanovich Ilovaysky was an anti-Normanist Russian historian who penned a number of standard history textbooks.Ilovaysky graduated from the Moscow University in 1854 and first attracted critical attention with his thesis on the Principality of Ryazan in 1858...

    , (1832–1920), Russian historian - Russian history

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  • Muhammad Jaber, (1875–1945), history of the Levant
    Levant
    The Levant or ) is the geographic region and culture zone of the "eastern Mediterranean littoral between Anatolia and Egypt" . The Levant includes most of modern Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, the Palestinian territories, and sometimes parts of Turkey and Iraq, and corresponds roughly to the...

     and the Middle-East
  • William James (naval historian)
    William James (naval historian)
    William M. James was a British lawyer turned naval historian who wrote important naval histories of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1793-1815.-Career:...

    , historian of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars
  • Ivane Javakhishvili
    Ivane Javakhishvili
    Ivane Javakhishvili was a Georgian historian whose voluminous works heavily influenced the modern scholarship of the history and culture of Georgia...

    , (1876–1940), Georgian
    Georgia (country)
    Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

     historian

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  • Samuel Kamakau
    Samuel Kamakau
    Samuel Manaiākalani Kamakau was a Hawaiian historian and scholar. His work appeared in local newspapers and was later compiled into books, becoming an invaluable resource on the Hawaiian people, Hawaiian culture, and Hawaiian language during a time when they were disappearing.Along with David Malo...

    , (1815–1876), Hawaiian historian
  • Konstantin Kavelin
    Konstantin Kavelin
    Konstantin Dmitrievich Kavelin was a Russian historian, jurist, and sociologist, sometimes called the chief architect of early Russian liberalism.Born in Saint Petersburg into an old noble family, Kavelin graduated from the legal department of the Moscow University...

    , (1818–1885), Russian historian - history of Russian laws
  • Philip Moore Callow Kermode
    P. M. C. Kermode
    Philip Moore Callow Kermode, born 21 March 1855 in Ramsey, Isle of Man, died 1932, was a Manx antiquarian and historian. He was the brother of Josephine Kermode, a Manx poetess who wrote under the nom de plume "Cushag". He was noted for his seriousness and work on inscriptions on Manx crosses. He...

    , (1855–1932), Manx
    Isle of Man
    The Isle of Man , otherwise known simply as Mann , is a self-governing British Crown Dependency, located in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, within the British Isles. The head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, who holds the title of Lord of Mann. The Lord of Mann is...

     crosses and runic inscriptions
  • Alexander William Kinglake
    Alexander William Kinglake
    Alexander William Kinglake was an English travel writer and historian.He was born near Taunton, Somerset and educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge...

    , (1809–1891), works on the Crimean War
    Crimean War
    The Crimean War was a conflict fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining...

  • Vasily Klyuchevsky
    Vasily Klyuchevsky
    Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky dominated Russian historiography at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. He is still regarded as one of three most reputable Russian historians, alongside Nikolay Karamzin and Sergey Solovyov.-Early life:...

    , (1841–1911), Russian history
  • Dudley Wright Knox
    Dudley Wright Knox
    Commodore Dudley Wright Knox was an officer in the United States Navy during the Spanish-American War and World War I...

    , (1877–1960), American naval historian
  • Ludwig von Köchel, (1800–1877), writer, composer, botanist, music historian
  • Nikodim Kondakov
    Nikodim Kondakov
    Nikodim Pavlovich Kondakov , 1844, village of Khalan, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire–February 17, 1925, Prague, Czechoslovakia), was a Russian historian, specialist in history of Byzantine art. Attended Moscow University under Fedor Buslaev in 1861–1865. Taught in the Moscow Art School...

    , (1844–1925), Byzantine art
  • Nikolay Kostomarov
    Nikolay Kostomarov
    Nikolay Ivanovich Kostomarov , of mixed Russian and Ukrainian origin, is one of the most distinguished Russian and Ukrainian historians, a Professor of History at the Kiev University and later at the St...

    , (1817–1885), Russian and Ukrainian history
  • Godefroid Kurth
    Godefroid Kurth
    Godefroid Kurth was a celebrated Belgian historian. He is known for his histories of the city of Liège in the Middle Ages and of Belgium, of his Catholic account in Les Origines de la civilisation moderne of the formation of modern Europe, and for his defence of the medieval guild system.Kurth was...

    , (1847–1916), Belgian historian

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  • William L. Langer
    William L. Langer
    William Leonard Langer was the chair of the history department at Harvard University and the World War II volunteer head of the Research and Analysis branch of the Office of Strategic Services...

    , (1896–1977), US historian, World and diplomatic history
  • John Knox Laughton
    John Knox Laughton
    Sir John Knox Laughton Kt was a British naval historian and arguably the first to argue for the importance of the subject as an independent field of study...

    , British naval historian
  • Georges Lefebvre
    Georges Lefebvre
    Georges Lefebvre was a French historian, best known for his work on the French Revolution and peasant life. He coined the term "history from below", which was later popularised by the British Marxist Historians...

    , (1874–1959), French revolution
  • Ferdinand Lot
    Ferdinand Lot
    Ferdinand Victor Henri Lot was a French historian and medievalist....

    , Middle Ages

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  • Frederic William Maitland
    Frederic William Maitland
    Frederic William Maitland was an English jurist and historian, generally regarded as the modern father of English legal history.-Biography:...

    , (1850–1906), English legal
  • Alfred Thayer Mahan
    Alfred Thayer Mahan
    Alfred Thayer Mahan was a United States Navy flag officer, geostrategist, and historian, who has been called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century." His concept of "sea power" was based on the idea that countries with greater naval power will have greater worldwide...

    , (1840–1914), naval
  • Ramesh Chandra Majumdar, (1888–1980), Indian history
  • Albert Mathiez
    Albert Mathiez
    Albert Mathiez was a French historian, known for his work on the French Revolution.He was a student of Alphonse Aulard. His La Révolution française appeared in three volumes . He wrote it as a socialist , pro-Robespierre interpretation, where Aulard had been pro-Danton...

    , (1874–1932), French Revolution
  • Friedrich Meinecke
    Friedrich Meinecke
    Friedrich Meinecke was a liberal German historian, probably the most famous German historian of his generation. As a representative of an older tradition still writing after World War II, he was an important figure to the end of his life.-Life:Meinecke was born in Salzwedel in the Province of Saxony...

    , (1862–1954), German intellectual and cultural
  • Krste Misirkov
    Krste Misirkov
    Krste Petkov Misirkov was a philologist, slavist, historian, ethnographer, publicist author of the first book and scientific magazine in Macedonian, where he for the first time outlined the principles of the literary Macedonian language...

    , (1874–1926), Macedonian historian and author
  • Auguste Molinier
    Auguste Molinier
    August Molinier was a French historian.He was born at Toulouse. He was a pupil at the École des Chartes, which he left in 1873, and also at the École des Hautes Études; and he obtained appointments in the public libraries at the Mazarine , at Fontainebleau , and at Sainte-Geneviève, of which he...

    , (1851–1904), Middle Ages
  • Theodor Mommsen
    Theodor Mommsen
    Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist, and writer generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the 19th century. His work regarding Roman history is still of fundamental importance for contemporary research...

    , (1817–1903), Roman Empire
  • Alfred Morel-Fatio
    Alfred Morel-Fatio
    Alfred Paul Victor Morel-Fatio was the leading French Hispanist of his time, educated at École des chartes, Paris....

    , (1850–1924), Spain
  • Lewis Mumford
    Lewis Mumford
    Lewis Mumford was an American historian, philosopher of technology, and influential literary critic. Particularly noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, he had a broad career as a writer...

    , (1895–1988), urban

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  • Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri
    Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri
    Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri al-Salawi, was born in Salé and is considered to be the greatest Moroccan historian of the 19th century. He was a prominent scholar and a member of the family that founded the Nasiriyya Sufi order in the 17th century. He wrote an important multivolume...

     (1835–1897), Moroccan historian
  • J. E. Neale
    J. E. Neale
    Sir John Ernest Neale, FBA was a British historian who specialised in Elizabethan and Parliamentary history.-Academic career:...

     (1890–1975), Elizabethan England

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  • Cesare Paoli
    Cesare Paoli
    Cesare Paoli , Italian historian and paleographer, was the son of senator Baldassare Paoli. He was born and educated in Florence where at 21 he was given an appointment in the record office. From 1865 to 1871 he was attached to the archives of Siena, but eventually returned to Florence...

     (1840–1902), Italian History
  • Gaston Paris
    Gaston Paris
    Bruno Paulin Gaston Paris , known as Gaston Paris, was a French writer and scholar.He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901, 1902 and 1903.-Biography:Paris was born at Avenay...

    , Middle Ages
  • Samuel W. Pennypacker
    Samuel W. Pennypacker
    Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker was the 23rd Governor of Pennsylvania from 1903 to 1907.-Biography:Gov. Pennypacker was born in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, April 9, 1843; son of Dr. Isaac A. Pennypacker and Anna Maria Whitaker; grandson of Matthias and Sarah Anderson , and of Joseph and Grace Whitaker...

     (1843–1916), Pennsylvania history
  • Henri Pirenne
    Henri Pirenne
    Henri Pirenne was a Belgian historian. A medievalist of Walloon descent, he wrote a multivolume history of Belgium in French and became a national hero....

    , (1862–1935), Belgian and medieval European history
  • Sergey Platonov
    Sergey Platonov
    Sergey Fyodorovich Platonov was a Russian historian who led the official St Petersburg school of imperial historiography before and after the Russian Revolution.Platonov was born in Chernigov and attended a private gymnasium in St...

    , (1860–1933), Oprichnina
    Oprichnina
    The oprichnina is the period of Russian history between Tsar Ivan the Terrible's 1565 initiation and his 1572 disbanding of a domestic policy of secret police, mass repressions, public executions, and confiscation of land from Russian aristocrats...

     and Time of Troubles
    Time of Troubles
    The Time of Troubles was a period of Russian history comprising the years of interregnum between the death of the last Russian Tsar of the Rurik Dynasty, Feodor Ivanovich, in 1598, and the establishment of the Romanov Dynasty in 1613. In 1601-1603, Russia suffered a famine that killed one-third...

  • Eileen Power
    Eileen Power
    Eileen Edna LePoer Power was an important British economic historian and medievalist. Eileen Power was the eldest daughter of a stockbroker and was born at Altrincham in 1889. She was a sister of Rhoda Power, the children's writer and broadcaster...

    , Middle Ages
  • H. F. M. Prescott
    H. F. M. Prescott
    Hilda Frances Margaret Prescott, more usually known as H. F. M. Prescott , was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, author, academic, and historian.-Biography:...

     (1896–1972), biographer of Mary I of England
    Mary I of England
    Mary I was queen regnant of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death.She was the only surviving child born of the ill-fated marriage of Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon. Her younger half-brother, Edward VI, succeeded Henry in 1547...

     and medieval History
  • Datto Vaman Potdar
    Datto Vaman Potdar
    Dattatray Vaman Potdar , better known as Datto Vaman Potdar, was an eminent Indian historian, writer, and orator. He was the Vice-Chancellor of University of Pune during 1961 - 1964....

    , (1890–1979), Indian Historian

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  • William Pember Reeves
    William Pember Reeves
    The Hon. William Pember Reeves was a New Zealand statesman, historian and poet, who promoted social reform.-Biography:...

     (1857–1932), New Zealand
  • Pierre Renouvin
    Pierre Renouvin
    Pierre Renouvin was a French diplomatic historian. Renouvin was born in Paris and attended the Lycée-Louis-le-Grand, where he was rewarded his aggrégation in 1912. Renouvin spent the years 1912-1914 travelling in Germany and Russia...

    , (1893–1974),diplomatic historian.
  • B. H. Roberts, (1857–1933), Mormon
  • Theodore Roosevelt
    Theodore Roosevelt
    Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...

    , (1858–1919), American west, naval
  • Simon Rutar
    Simon Rutar
    Simon Rutar , was a Slovene historian and geographer. He wrote primarily on the history and geography of the areas that are now part of the Slovenian Littoral, the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia and the Croatian counties of Istria and Primorsko-Goranska.- Biography :Rutar was born in a...

    , (1851–1903), Slovenian

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  • Abram L. Sachar
    Abram L. Sachar
    Abram Leon Sachar was an American historian and founding president of Brandeis University.-Early life and education:...

    , (1899–1993)
  • George Sarton
    George Sarton
    George Sarton was a Belgian chemist and historian who is considered the founder of the discipline of history of science. He left Belgium because of the First World War and settled in the United States where he spent the rest of his life researching and writing about the history of science...

    , (1884–1956), history of science
  • Sergey Solovyov
    Sergey Solovyov
    Sergey Mikhaylovich Solovyov was one of the greatest Russian historians whose influence on the next generation of Russian historians was paramount. His son Vladimir Solovyov was one of the most influential Russian philosophers...

    , (1820–1879), Russian historian
  • Govind Sakharam Sardesai
    Govind Sakharam Sardesai
    Govind Sakharam Sardesai , popularly known as Riyasatkar Sardesai , was an eminent historian from Maharashtra, India....

    , (1865–1959), Indian Historian and Author of 'The New History of Maratha Empire
    Maratha Empire
    The Maratha Empire or the Maratha Confederacy was an Indian imperial power that existed from 1674 to 1818. At its peak, the empire covered much of South Asia, encompassing a territory of over 2.8 million km²....

    '
  • Goldwin Smith
    Goldwin Smith
    Goldwin Smith was a British-Canadian historian and journalist.- Early years :He was born at Reading, Berkshire. He was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford, and after a brilliant undergraduate career he was elected to a fellowship at University College, Oxford...

    , (1823–1910), historian
  • Oswald Spengler
    Oswald Spengler
    Oswald Manuel Arnold Gottfried Spengler was a German historian and philosopher whose interests also included mathematics, science, and art. He is best known for his book The Decline of the West , published in 1918, which puts forth a cyclical theory of the rise and decline of civilizations...

    , (1880–1936), The Decline of the West
    The Decline of the West
    The Decline of the West , or The Downfall of the Occident, is a two-volume work by Oswald Spengler, the first volume of which was published in the summer of 1918...

  • Shin Chaeho, (1880–1936), Korean historian
  • Doris Mary Stenton
    Doris Mary Stenton
    -Life:Born Doris Mary Parsons, she was the daughter of John Parsons and his wife Amelia Wadhams. She was their only child and was born in Reading, Berkshire on 27 August 1894. Her father was a cabinet-maker. She attended the Abbey School in Reading before entering the University College at Reading...

    , (1894–1971), English medievalist

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  • Hippolyte Taine
    Hippolyte Taine
    Hippolyte Adolphe Taine was a French critic and historian. He was the chief theoretical influence of French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism, and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism. Literary historicism as a critical movement has been said to originate...

    , (1828–1893), French Revolution
  • Frank Bigelow Tarbell
    Frank Bigelow Tarbell
    Frank Bigelow Tarbell PhD was a professor of Classic Studies at the University of Chicago from 1893 until 1918. He was also an associate professor of Greek at that institution...

    , (1853–1920), ancient art history
  • Yevgeny Tarle
    Yevgeny Tarle
    Yevgeny Viktorovich Tarle was a Soviet historian and academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is known for his books about Napoleon's invasion of Russia and on the Crimean War, and many other works...

    , (1874–1955), Russian historian
  • A. Wyatt Tilby
    A. Wyatt Tilby
    A. Wyatt Tilby was an author, journalist and traveller. He was born in Addiscombe, Surrey.After his mother died in 1885, Tilby was looked after by his uncle, Thomas Martin Tilby and his wife Ellen in Islington, London...

    , (1880–1948), British author of The English People Overseas (Vol. I – VI)
  • Alexis de Tocqueville
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville was a French political thinker and historian best known for his Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution . In both of these works, he explored the effects of the rising equality of social conditions on the individual and the state in...

    , (1805–1859) French historian, author of The Old Regime and the French Revolution, Democracy in America
  • Leo Tolstoy
    Leo Tolstoy
    Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist...

    , (1828–1910) War and Peace
    War and Peace
    War and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1869. The work is epic in scale and is regarded as one of the most important works of world literature...

    novel on Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia
  • Zacharias Topelius
    Zacharias Topelius
    Zachris Topelius was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, journalist, historian, and rector of the University of Helsinki who wrote novels related to Finnish history in Swedish.-Life and career:...

    , (1818–1898)
  • Arnold J. Toynbee
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    Arnold Joseph Toynbee CH was a British historian whose twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations, A Study of History, 1934–1961, was a synthesis of world history, a metahistory based on universal rhythms of rise, flowering and decline, which examined history from a global...

    , (1889–1975), A Study of History
    A Study of History
    A Study of History is the 12-volume magnum opus of British historian Arnold J. Toynbee, finished in 1961, in which the author traces the development and decay of all of the major world civilizations in the historical record...

    , world history
  • Heinrich Gotthard von Treitschke (1834–1896), German historian and nationalist
  • George Macaulay Trevelyan, (1876–1962), British
  • Mikheil Tsereteli
    Mikheil Tsereteli
    Prince Mikheil G. Tsereteli was a Georgian historian, philologist, sociologist and public benefactor, Dr.Sci., Professor....

    , (1878–1965), Georgian
    Georgia (country)
    Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

     historian

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  • Curt Weibull
    Curt Weibull
    Curt Weibull was a Swedish historian, educator and author.-Biography:Curt Hugo Johannes Weibull was born in Lund, Sweden. He was a member of the noted Swedish Weibull family. He was the son of history professor Martin Weibull and the brother of Lauritz Weibull, Alexander Weibull, Julius Oscar...

    , (1886–1991), Swedish historian
  • Lauritz Weibull
    Lauritz Weibull
    Lauritz Ulrik Absalon Weibull was a Swedish historian.He was born in Lund, son of history professor Martin Weibull and the brother of Curt Weibull and Carl Gustaf Weibull, enrolled at the University of Lund in 1892, completed his B.A. 1892, his licentiate degree in 1899 and defended his...

     (1873–1960), Swedish historian
  • Mary Wilhelmine Williams
    Mary Wilhelmine Williams
    Mary Wilhelmine Williams specialized in Latin American history. She was on the board of editors of the Hispanic American Historical Review from 1927 to 1933 and was secretary of the Conference on Latin American History in 1928 and 1934.Williams is credited for starting the first collegiate course...

    , (1878–1944), Latin America
  • Spenser Wilkinson
    Spenser Wilkinson
    Henry Spenser Wilkinson was the first Chichele Professor of Military History at Oxford University. While he was an English writer known primarily for his work on military subjects, he had wide interests...

    , British military historian
  • James A. Williamson
    James Williamson (historian)
    James Alexander Williamson was a prominent English writer on maritime history and expert on the John Cabot voyages. He also wrote many other books on explorers, exploration and discovery...

    , English maritime historian and historian of exploration.
  • Justin Winsor
    Justin Winsor
    Justin Winsor was a prominent American writer, librarian, and historian.-Background and education:Winsor was born in Boston, Massachusetts, son of Nathaniel Winsor III and Ann Thomas Howland Winsor...

    , (1831–1897), editor of the Narrative and Critical History of America, (8 vols., 1884–89)
  • Ernest Llewellyn Woodward
    Llewellyn Woodward
    Sir Llewellyn Woodward was a British historian. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford and after the First World War became a Lecturer in Modern History and fellow of All Souls College from 1919-1944 and a Fellow at New College from 1922-1939...

    , (1890–1971), British historian, British history and international relations
  • Gordon Wright, Modern French History

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  • Raouf Abbas
    Raouf Abbas
    Professor Raouf Abbas was a leading Egyptian historian and a professor of modern history at Cairo University and president of the Egyptian Society of Historical Studies.-Academic career:...

    , (1939–2008) Egyptian
  • Irving Abella
    Irving Abella
    Irving Martin Abella, is a Canadian writer, historian and academic. He specializes in the History of the Jews in Canada and the Canadian labour movement...

    , Canadian
  • David Abulafia
    David Abulafia
    David Samuel Harvard Abulafia is an influential English historian with a particular interest in Italy, Spain and the rest of the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. He has been Professor of Mediterranean History at the University of Cambridge since 2000 and a Fellow of Gonville...

    , Mediterranean history
  • Donald Adamson
    Donald Adamson
    Donald Adamson is a historian, biographer, philosophical writer, textual scholar, literary critic, and translator of French literature...

    , British
  • Teodoro Agoncillo
    Teodoro Agoncillo
    Teodoro Andal Agoncillo was a 20th-century Filipino historian. He and his contemporary Renato Constantino were among the first Filipino historians renowned for promoting a distinctly nationalist point of view of Filipino history...

    , (1912–1985), Filipino, Philippine history
  • Robert G. Albion
    Robert G. Albion
    Robert G. Albion was Harvard's first professor of Oceanic History and inspired two generations of maritime historians in the United States...

    , (1896–1983), maritime
  • Dean C. Allard
    Dean C. Allard
    Dr. Dean Conrad Allard, Jr. , is a naval historian and archivist, who served as Director of Naval History and Director of the United States Navy's Naval Historical Center from 1989 to 1995....

    , American naval
  • Michael Allen
    Michael Allen (historian)
    Michael Allen is an American historian. He is a professor of history and American studies at the University of Washington Tacoma, book-review editor for Pacific Northwest Quarterly and president of the Ellensburg Rodeo Hall of Fame. He served in the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War...

    , American, trans-Mississippi West
  • Robert C. Allen
    Robert C. Allen
    Robert C. Allen is Professor of Economic History at Oxford University and a fellow of Nuffield College.He obtained his BA at Carleton College in 1969 and his PhD at Harvard University in 1975...

    , British economic
  • Gar Alperovitz
    Gar Alperovitz
    Gar Alperovitz is Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, College Park Department of Government and Politics. He is a former Fellow of King's College, Cambridge; a founding Fellow of Harvard’s Institute of Politics; a Fellow at the Institute for Policy...

    , American, Hiroshima
  • Ida Altman
    Ida Altman
    Ida Louise Altman is an American historian of colonial Spain and Latin America. Her book Emigrants and Society received the 1990 Herbert E. Bolton Prize of the Conference on Latin American History. Dr. Altman is professor of history at the University of Florida.Dr...

    , American, colonial Spain & Latin America
  • Henri Amouroux
    Henri Amouroux
    Henri Amouroux was a French historian and journalist.-Life and career:Henri Amouroux was born in the French city of Périgueux on 1 July 1920. After studying at the ECJ, he began his career as a journalist during World War II and joined a French Resistance group based in Bordeaux...

    , (1920–2007), French; the Nazi occupation of France
  • Stephen Ambrose
    Stephen Ambrose
    Stephen Edward Ambrose was an American historian and biographer of U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was a long time professor of history at the University of New Orleans and the author of many best selling volumes of American popular history...

    , (1936–2002), American; WW2, U.S. political
  • Joyce Appleby
    Joyce Appleby
    Joyce Oldham Appleby is an American historian. She is Professor Emerita of History at University of California, Los Angeles Joyce Oldham Appleby (born April 9, 1929) is an American historian. She is Professor Emerita of History at University of California, Los Angeles Joyce Oldham Appleby (born...

    , American; US early national
  • Herbert Aptheker
    Herbert Aptheker
    Herbert Aptheker was an American Marxist historian and political activist. He authored over 50 volumes, mostly in the fields of African American history and general U.S. history, most notably, American Negro Slave Revolts , a classic in the field, and the 7-volume Documentary History of the Negro...

    , (1915–2003), American; African American
  • Leonie Archer
    Leonie Archer
    Leonie Jane Archer is an English author and a former Research Fellow in Environmental Studies at the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies. Archer graduated from the University of Oxford in 1981, with ancient history honours, and became a Fellow in Jewish Studies of the Graeco-Roman Period, Oxford...

    , British
  • Philippe Aries
    Philippe Ariès
    Philippe Ariès was an important French medievalist and historian of the family and childhood, in the style of Georges Duby. Ariès has written many books on the common daily life. His most prominent works regarded the change in the western attitudes towards death.Ariès regarded himself as a...

    , French; medieval; childhood
  • Karen Armstrong
    Karen Armstrong
    Karen Armstrong FRSL , is a British author and commentator who is the author of twelve books on comparative religion. A former Roman Catholic nun, she went from a conservative to a more liberal and mystical faith...

    , British; religious
  • Leonard J. Arrington
    Leonard J. Arrington
    Leonard James Arrington was an author, academic and the founder of the Mormon History Association. He is known as the "Dean of Mormon History" and "the Father of Mormon History" because of his many influential contributions to the field.-Biographical background:Arrington was born in Twin Falls,...

    , (1917–1999), American; Mormons
  • Paul Avrich
    Paul Avrich
    Paul Avrich was a professor and historian. He taught at Queens College, City University of New York, for most of his life and was vital in preserving the history of the anarchist movement in Russia and the United States....

    , Russian, the Anarchist movement
  • Ali Azaykou
    Ali Azaykou
    Ali Sidqi Azaykou , also called Dda Ali, was a Moroccan Berber poet, historian, philosopher and critic.He was an active partisan for the rights of the Berbers in Morocco.»...

     (1942–2004), Moroccan

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  • David E. Barclay
    David E. Barclay
    Dr. David E. Barclay is an American historian and the author of several books on German history. He received his Ph.D. in history from Stanford University in 1975, where he studied under Gordon A. Craig. Since 1974, he has taught at Kalamazoo College, and presently is the Executive Director of...

    , German
  • Bernard Bailyn
    Bernard Bailyn
    Bernard Bailyn is an American historian, author, and professor specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History. He has been a professor at Harvard University since 1953. Bailyn has won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice . In 1998 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected...

    , (b. 1922) Early American
  • Harry Elmer Barnes
    Harry Elmer Barnes
    Harry Elmer Barnes was a prominent American historian in the 20th century. A "progressive who had some classical liberal impulses," he was associated for virtually his entire career with Columbia University.-Early career:...

    , American
  • Linda Diane Barnes
    Linda Diane Barnes
    L. Diane Barnes obtained her Ph.D. in History at West Virginia University and is currently an Associate Professor at Youngstown State University. She is the Editor in Chief of the academic journal Ohio History and the author of Artisan Workers in the Upper South: Petersburg, Virginia, 1820-1865...

    , American
  • G.W.S. Barrow, Scottish
  • H. Arnold Barton, Scandinavian
  • Jacques Barzun
    Jacques Barzun
    Jacques Martin Barzun is a French-born American historian of ideas and culture. He has written on a wide range of topics, but is perhaps best known as a philosopher of education, his Teacher in America being a strong influence on post-WWII training of schoolteachers in the United...

    , (born 1907), cultural
  • Hanna Batatu
    Hanna Batatu
    Hanna Batatu was a Palestinian American Marxist historian specialising in the history of Iraq and the modern Arab east. His work on Iraq is widely considered the pre-eminent study of modern Iraqi history.Born in Jerusalem in 1926, Hanna Batatu emigrated to the United States in 1948, the year of...

    , Palestinian of an authoritative study of modern Iraq
  • K. Jack Bauer
    K. Jack Bauer
    Karl Jack Bauer , was one of the founders of the North American Society for Oceanic History and a well-known naval historian. NASOH’s K...

    , (1926–1987), U.S. naval, military, and maritime
  • Yehuda Bauer
    Yehuda Bauer
    Yehuda Bauer is a historian and scholar of the Holocaust. He is a Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.-Biography:...

    , the Holocaust
  • David Bebbington
    David Bebbington
    David W. Bebbington , is professor of history at the University of Stirling in Scotland and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. An undergraduate at Jesus College, Cambridge , Bebbington began his doctoral studies there before becoming a research fellow of Fitzwilliam College...

    , (born 1949), The History of Evangelicalism
  • James Belich
    James Belich (historian)
    James Christopher Belich, ONZM is a New Zealand revisionist historian, known for his work on the New Zealand Wars.Of Croatian descent, he was born in Wellington in 1956, the son of Sir James Belich, who later became Mayor of Wellington. He attended Onslow College.He gained an M.A...

     (born 1956), New Zealand
  • Winthrop Pickard Bell
    Winthrop Pickard Bell
    Winthrop Pickard Bell was a Canadian academic who taught philosophy at the University of Toronto and Harvard. He is however perhaps best known for his work as a historian of Nova Scotia....

    , Nova Scotia
  • Abdelmajid Benjelloun
    Abdelmajid Benjelloun (historian)
    For the author of 'On Childhood', born in Casablanca in 1919 see Abdelmajid BenjellounAbdelmajid Benjelloun is a Moroccan author, historian and poet. He is a specialist in the history of North Morocco. He taught Public Law at the Casablanca University since 1983...

     (born 1944) Morocco
  • Isaiah Berlin
    Isaiah Berlin
    Sir Isaiah Berlin OM, FBA was a British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas of Russian-Jewish origin, regarded as one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century and a dominant liberal scholar of his generation...

    , (1909–1997), of ideas
  • Michael Beschloss
    Michael Beschloss
    Michael Richard Beschloss is an American historian. A specialist in the United States presidency, he is the author of nine books.- Early life :...

    , (born 1955) Cold War
  • Nicholas Bethell
    Nicholas Bethell
    Nicholas William Bethell, 4th Baron Bethell was a British politician. He was an historian of Central and Eastern Europe. He was also a translator and human rights activist. He sat in the House of Lords as a Conservative from 1967 to 1999...

    , Soviet
  • David Blackbourn
    David Blackbourn
    David Gordon Blackbourn is the Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University and director of the university's Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies. Blackbourn teaches and researches primarily in the fields of German and modern European history...

    , German
  • Geoffrey Blainey
    Geoffrey Blainey
    Geoffrey Norman Blainey AC , is a prominent Australian historian.Blainey was born in Melbourne and raised in a series of Victorian country towns before attending Wesley College and the University of Melbourne. While at university he was editor of Farrago, the newspaper of the University of...

     (born 1930), Australian
  • Gisela Bock
    Gisela Bock
    Gisela Bock is a German feminist historian. She studied in Freiburg, Berlin, Paris and Rome. She took her doctorate at the Free University Berlin in 1971 and her Habilitation at the Technical University Berlin in 1984...

    , German feminist
  • Brian Bond
    Brian Bond
    Brian James Bond is a British military historian and professor emeritus of military history at King's College London.-Early life and education:...

    , British military
  • Daniel J. Boorstin
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    Daniel Joseph Boorstin was an American historian, professor, attorney, and writer. He was appointed twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress from 1975 until 1987.- Biography:...

    , (1914–2004), American
  • John Boswell, (1947–1994), Medievalist
  • Robert Bothwell
    Robert Bothwell
    Robert Bothwell is a professor of Canadian history, and the foremost scholar on Canadian Cold War participation, as well as a frequently published author.-Career:...

    , (born 1944), Canadian history
  • Gérard Bouchard
    Gérard Bouchard
    Gérard Bouchard is a historian, sociologist and writer from Quebec, Canada, affiliated with the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Born in Jonquière, Quebec, he obtained his master's degree in sociology from Université Laval in 1968 and later obtained his PhD degree in history from the University...

    , Canadian
  • Joanna Bourke
    Joanna Bourke
    Joanna Bourke is an historian and professor of history at Birkbeck, University of London.-Biography:Born to Christian missionary parents, Bourke was brought up in Zambia, Solomon Islands and Haiti. After home education with her siblings she attended Auckland University, gaining a BA and masters in...

    , military
  • Paul S. Boyer
    Paul S. Boyer
    Paul Samuel Boyer is a U.S. cultural and intellectual historian and is Merle Curti Professor of History Emeritus and former director of the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison...

    , American
  • Karl Dietrich Bracher
    Karl Dietrich Bracher
    Karl Dietrich Bracher is a German political scientist and historian of the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. Born in Stuttgart, Bracher was awarded a Ph.D. in the Classics by the University of Tübingen in 1948 and subsequently studied at Harvard University from 1949 to 1950...

    , (born 1922), modern German
  • James C. Bradford
    James C. Bradford
    James Chapin Bradford is a professor of history at Texas A&M University and a respected specialist in American maritime, naval, and military history in the early national period of American History.-Early life and education:...

    , (born 1944), American naval
  • William Brandon
    William Brandon (author)
    William Brandon was an American writer and historian.Brandon was born in Kokomo, Indiana, but spent his childhood in various locales, including the Yucatán and New Mexico...

    , (1914–2002), American West
  • Fernand Braudel
    Fernand Braudel
    Fernand Braudel was a French historian and a leader of the Annales School. His scholarship focused on three main projects, each representing several decades of intense study: The Mediterranean , Civilization and Capitalism , and the unfinished Identity of France...

    , (1902–1985) World, Mediterranean
  • Ahron Bregman
    Ahron Bregman
    Ahron Bregman is a British-Israeli political scientist, as well as a writer and journalist, specialising on the Arab-Israeli conflict.-Biography:...

    , Arab-Israeli conflict
  • Timothy Brook
    Timothy Brook (historian)
    Timothy James Brook , who writes as Timothy Brook and who has had many academic works published, is a distinguished historian specializing in the study of China...

    , (born 1951) China
  • Martin Broszat
    Martin Broszat
    Martin Broszat was a German historian specializing in modern German social history whose work has been described by The Encyclopedia of Historians as indispensable for any serious study of the Third Reich. Broszat was born in Leipzig, Germany and studied history at the University of Leipzig and...

    , (1926–1989) Nazi Germany
  • Peter Brown
    Peter Brown (historian)
    Peter Robert Lamont Brown is Rollins Professor of History at Princeton University. His principal contributions to the discipline have been in the field of late antiquity and, in particular, the religious culture of the later Roman Empire and early medieval Europe.-Life:Peter Brown was born in...

    , Medieval
  • Christopher Browning
    Christopher Browning
    Christopher Robert Browning is an American historian of the Holocaust.-Education:Browning received his bachelor's degree from Oberlin College in 1968 and his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1975. He taught at Pacific Lutheran University from 1974 to 1999, eventually becoming...

    , the Holocaust
  • Otto Brunner
    Otto Brunner
    Otto Brunner was an Austrian historian. He is best known for his work on later medieval and early modern European social history....

    , medieval and early modern Austria
  • Alan Bullock
    Alan Bullock
    Alan Louis Charles Bullock, Baron Bullock , was a British historian, who wrote an influential biography of Adolf Hitler and many other works.-Early life and career:...

    , (1914–2004), 1940s
  • Peter Burke
    Peter Burke
    Peter Burke is a British historian and professor.He was born to a Roman Catholic father and Jewish mother . He was educated by the Jesuits and at St John's College, Oxford, and was a doctoral candidate at St Antony's College...

  • Briton C. Busch
    Briton C. Busch
    Briton Cooper Busch, , was a specialist in nineteenth century British diplomatic history, military history, and American maritime history at Colgate University....

    , ((1936–2004)), British diplomatic and American maritime
  • Richard Bushman
    Richard Bushman
    Richard Lyman Bushman is an American historian and Gouverneur Morris Professor of History emeritus at Columbia University. He is currently the Howard W. Hunter Visiting Professor in Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University...

    , (born 1931), American colonial
  • Herbert Butterfield
    Herbert Butterfield
    Sir Herbert Butterfield was a British historian and philosopher of history who is remembered chiefly for two books—a short volume early in his career entitled The Whig Interpretation of History and his Origins of Modern Science...

    , historiography

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  • Angus Calder
    Angus Calder
    Angus Lindsay Ritchie Calder was a Scottish academic, writer, historian, educator and literary editor with a background in English literature, politics and cultural studies.-Education:...

    , (1942–2008), British
  • Helen Cam
    Helen Cam
    Helen Maud Cam was an English historian of the Middle Ages, born at Abingdon, Berkshire ....

     (1885–1968) English medieval
  • Sir Raymond Carr
    Raymond Carr
    Sir Albert Raymond Maillard Carr FBA FRHS FRSL , known as Raymond Carr, is an English historian specializing in the history of Spain, Latin America, and Sweden who was Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford, from 1968 to 1987....

     (born 1919) Spanish and Latin American
  • Paul Cartledge
    Paul Cartledge
    Paul Anthony Cartledge is the first A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge University, having previously held a personal chair in Greek History at Cambridge....

    , Classical
  • Lionel Casson
    Lionel Casson
    Lionel Casson was a classicist, professor emeritus at New York University, and a specialist in maritime history. Casson earned his B.A. in 1934 at New York University, and in 1936 became an assistant professor. He went on to earn his Ph.D. there in 1939...

  • Boris Celovsky
    Borivoj Celovský
    Bořivoj Čelovský was a Czech-Canadian historian, member of the post-1948 Czechoslovak political exile and former political adviser...

    , Czech-German relations
  • Howard I. Chapelle
    Howard I. Chapelle
    Howard Irving Chapelle was an American naval architect, and curator of maritime history at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.. In addition, he authored many books and articles books on maritime history and marine architecture.-Biography:...

    , maritime
  • Maher Charif
    Maher Charif
    Maher Charif is a Palestinian Marxist historian specialising in modern Arab intellectual history and the history of Arab political movements...

    , Arab
  • Iris Chang
    Iris Chang
    Iris Shun-Ru Chang was an American historian and journalist. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking. She committed suicide on November 9, 2004...

    , (1968–2004) China
  • Louis Chevalier
    Louis Chevalier
    Louis Chevalier was an eminent French historian with interests in geography, demography and sociology. Much of his work was devoted to the history of French culture and Paris.-Early life and education:...

    , (1911–2001) France
  • Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri
    Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri
    Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri, FRAS is a Political Scientist, Political Historian and International Relations expert.He is presently a Senior Research Fellow in International Relations at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, U.K., and an Emeritus Professor of Political Science...

    , India
  • Alexander Campbell Cheyne
    Alexander Campbell Cheyne
    The Rev. Professor Alexander Campbell Cheyne , commonly known as A. C. Cheyne, was one of the foremost Scottish scholars of Church History, teaching at New College, Edinburgh from 1958 until his retirement in 1986....

    , Scotland
  • Winston Churchill
    Winston Churchill
    Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a predominantly Conservative British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice...

    , (1874–1965) world wars; English
  • Alan Clark
    Alan Clark
    Alan Kenneth Mackenzie Clark was a British Conservative MP and diarist. He served as a junior minister in Margaret Thatcher's governments at the Departments of Employment, Trade, and Defence, and became a privy counsellor in 1991...

    , (1928–1999), World Wars
  • J. C. D. Clark
    J. C. D. Clark
    Jonathan Charles Douglas Clark is a British historian of both British and American history. He received his undergraduate degreee at Downing College, Cambridge. Having previously held posts at Peterhouse, Cambridge and All Souls College, Oxford into 1996, he has since held the Joyce C...

    , British
  • Manning Clark
    Manning Clark
    Charles Manning Hope Clark, AC , an Australian historian, was the author of the best-known general history of Australia, his six-volume A History of Australia, published between 1962 and 1987...

    , (1915–1991) Australia
  • Patrick Collinson
    Patrick Collinson
    Patrick Collinson CBE was an English historian, known as an authority on the Elizabethan era. His most influential work has been about Elizabethan Puritanism. He was Emeritus Regius Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge, having occupied the chair from 1988 to 1996...

    , (born 1929), Elizabethan England & Puritanism
  • Robert Conquest
    Robert Conquest
    George Robert Ackworth Conquest CMG is a British historian who became a well-known writer and researcher on the Soviet Union with the publication in 1968 of The Great Terror, an account of Stalin's purges of the 1930s...

    , (born 1917) Russia
  • Vladimir Ćorović
    Vladimir Corovic
    Vladimir Ćorović was a 20th-century Serbian historian, member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts . He is best known for his many acclaimed works on the history of Serbs and Yugoslavia.-Early:...

    , Serbia
  • Peter Cottrell
    Peter Cottrell
    Major Peter James Cottrell . Anglo-Welsh soldier, sailor, writer, educator and revisionist military historian of the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War.-Biography:...

    , (born 1964) Anglo-Irish
  • Gordon A. Craig
    Gordon A. Craig
    Gordon Alexander Craig was a Scottish-American historian of German history and of diplomatic history.-Early life:...

    , (born 1913) German & diplomatic
  • Vincent Cronin
    Vincent Cronin
    Vincent Archibald Patrick Cronin, FRSL was a British historical, cultural, and biographical writer, best-known for his biographies of Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, and Napoleon, as well as for his books on the Renaissance.Cronin was born in Tredegar, Monmouthshire...

    , (born 1924) European and art history
  • William Cronon
    William Cronon
    William 'Bill' Cronon is the Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison...

    , (born 1954), American environmental
  • Pamela Kyle Crossley
    Pamela Kyle Crossley
    Pamela Kyle Crossley is an historian of modern China, northern Asia, and global history. She is author of The Wobbling Pivot: China since 1800: An Interpretive History , as well as influential studies of the Qing dynasty and leading textbooks in global history...

    , China
  • Dan Cruickshank
    Dan Cruickshank
    Dan Cruickshank is an art historian and BBC television presenter.-Early life:As a young child he lived for some years in Poland...

    , British and architectural history

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  • Robert Dallek
    Robert Dallek
    Robert Dallek is an American historian specializing in American presidents. He is a recently retired Professor of History at Boston University and has previously taught at Columbia University, UCLA, and Oxford...

    , American politics, diplomacy
  • Vahakn N. Dadrian, Armenia
  • David B. Danbom
    David B. Danbom
    David B. Danbom is a historian, author, columnist, and retired professor of agricultural history at North Dakota State University. Danbom spent nine years on the Fargo Historic Preservation Commission...

    , American rural
  • Ahmad Hasan Dani
    Ahmad Hasan Dani
    Professor Ahmad Hasan Dani FRAS, SI, HI , was a Pakistani intellectual, archaeologist, historian, and linguist. He was among the foremost authorities on Central Asian and South Asian archaeology and history. He introduced archaeology as a discipline in higher education in Pakistan and Bangladesh...

    , South Asia
  • Robert Darnton
    Robert Darnton
    Robert Darnton is an American cultural historian, recognized as a leading expert on 18th-century France.-Life:He graduated from Harvard University in 1960, attended Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship, and earned a Ph.D. in history from Oxford in 1964, where he studied with Richard Cobb,...

     18th-century France
  • Lucy Dawidowicz
    Lucy Dawidowicz
    Lucy Schildkret Dawidowicz was an American historian and an author of books on modern Jewish history, in particular books on the Holocaust.-Life:...

    , Holocaust
  • Saul David
    Saul David
    Julian Saul David, known popularly as Saul David, was born in 1966 in Monmouth, Wales and is an academic military historian and broadcaster. He is best known for his work on the Indian Mutiny and the Anglo-Zulu War, as well as for presenting and appearing in documentaries on British television...

    , military
  • John Davies
    John Davies (historian)
    John Davies is a Welsh historian, and a television and radio broadcaster.Davies was born in the Rhondda, Wales, and studied at both University College, Cardiff, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He is married with four children...

     Wales
  • Norman Davies
    Norman Davies
    Professor Ivor Norman Richard Davies FBA, FRHistS is a leading English historian of Welsh descent, noted for his publications on the history of Europe, Poland, and the United Kingdom.- Academic career :...

    , Polish and British
  • Natalie Zemon Davis
    Natalie Zemon Davis
    Natalie Zemon Davis is a Canadian and American historian of the early modern period. She is currently a professor of history at the University of Toronto in Canada. Her work originally focused on France, but has since broadened to include other parts of Europe, North America, and the Caribbean...

    , early modern France, film
  • Kenneth S. Davis
    Kenneth S. Davis
    Kenneth Sydney Davis was a historian and university professor, most renowned for his series of biographies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Davis also wrote biographies of Charles Lindbergh, Adlai Stevenson, and authored the first biography of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, entitled Dwight D...

    , Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • R. H. C. Davis
    Ralph Henry Carless Davis
    Ralph Henry Carless Davis , always known publicly as R. H. C. Davis, was a British historian specialising in the European Middle Ages...

    , Middle Ages
  • David Day
    David Day (historian)
    David Day is an Australian historian.David Day graduated with first-class Honours in History and Political Science from the University of Melbourne and was awarded a PhD from the University of Cambridge...

    , Australia
  • Renzo De Felice
    Renzo De Felice
    Renzo De Felice was an Italian historian, who specialized in the Fascist era.-Biography:He was born in Rieti and studied under Federico Chabod and Delio Cantimori at the University of Naples. During his time as student, De Felice was a member of the Italian Communist Party...

    , Italian fascism
  • Len Deighton
    Len Deighton
    Leonard Cyril Deighton is a British military historian, cookery writer, and novelist. He is perhaps most famous for his spy novel The IPCRESS File, which was made into a film starring Michael Caine....

     British military
  • Carl N. Degler
    Carl N. Degler
    Carl Neumann Degler is an American historian. Degler is a past president of the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association and the Southern Historical Association...

    , American
  • Esther Delisle
    Esther Delisle
    Esther Delisle Ph.D. is a French Canadian historian and author of historical works from Quebec.Born and raised in Quebec City, she completed her BA and MA in political science at Université Laval in Sainte-Foy, Quebec, and taught political theory at a Quebec CEGEP and worked as a researcher for...

    , (born 1954), French-Canadian
  • Jean Delumeau
    Jean Delumeau
    Jean Delumeau is a French historian specializing in the Catholic church history and author of several books regarding the subject...

     Catholic Church
  • Marcel Detienne
    Marcel Detienne
    Marcel Detienne is a Belgian historian and specialist in the study of ancient Greece. He is Professor Emeritus at The Johns Hopkins University, where he held the Basil L...

    , ancient Greece
  • Alexandre Deulofeu
    Alexandre Deulofeu
    Alexandre Deulofeu Torres was a Catalan politician and philosopher of history...

    , (1903–1978), Catalan
  • Isaac Deutscher
    Isaac Deutscher
    Isaac Deutscher was a Polish-born Jewish Marxist writer, journalist and political activist who moved to the United Kingdom at the outbreak of World War II. He is best known as a biographer of Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin and as a commentator on Soviet affairs...

    , (1907–1967) Soviet +
  • Tom M. Devine, Scottish
  • Bernard DeVoto
    Bernard DeVoto
    Bernard Augustine DeVoto was an American historian and author who specialized in the history of the American West.- Life and work :He was born in Ogden, Utah...

    , (1897–1955), American West
  • Wu Di
    Wu Di (film critic and historian)
    Wu Di is a film critic and historian based in Beijing. He is the author of the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution in the Chinese autonomous region of Inner Mongolia, as well as editor of a major collection of archival material documenting the development of the film medium in Mao...

    , (born 1951), China +
  • Igor M. Diakonov, (1914–1999), Ancient Near East
  • David Herbert Donald
    David Herbert Donald
    - Career :Majoring in history and sociology, Donald earned his bachelor degree from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. He earned his PhD in 1946 under the eminent, leading Lincoln scholar, James G. Randall at the University of Illinois...

     American Civil War
  • Gordon Donaldson
    Gordon Donaldson
    Gordon Donaldson CBE, FRHistS, FBA was a Scottish historian.Born in Edinburgh of Shetlander descent, Donaldson attended the Royal High School of Edinburgh, before being awarded a scholarship to study at the University of Edinburgh. He also supplemented his income by undertaking some tutoring...

     Scottish
  • Susan Doran
    Susan Doran
    Dr Susan Doran is a British historian whose primary studies surround the reign of Elizabeth I, in particular the theme of marriage and succession...

    , Elizabethan England
  • William Doyle
    William Doyle (historian)
    William Doyle is an English historian, specialising in 18th-century France, who is most notable for his one-volume Oxford History of the French Revolution .He is one of the leading revisionist historians of the French Revolution....

    , (born 1932), French Revolution +
  • Georges Duby
    Georges Duby
    Georges Duby was a French historian specializing in the social and economic history of the Middle Ages...

    , (1924–1996), Middle Ages
  • William S. Dudley
    William S. Dudley
    William Sheldon Dudley is a naval historian of the United States Navy, who served as Director of Naval History and Director, Naval Historical Center, Washington, D.C...

    , (1936–), American naval +
  • Eamon Duffy
    Eamon Duffy
    Eamon Duffy is an Irish Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge, and former President of Magdalene College....

    , 15th-17th century religious
  • A. Hunter Dupree
    A. Hunter Dupree
    Anderson Hunter Dupree is a distinguished American historian and one of the pioneer historians of the history of science and technology in the United States.-Early Education and Education:...

    , American science and technology
  • Trevor Dupuy, (1916–1995) military
  • Will Durant
    Will Durant
    William James Durant was a prolific American writer, historian, and philosopher. He is best known for The Story of Civilization, 11 volumes written in collaboration with his wife Ariel Durant and published between 1935 and 1975...

     (1885–1981), Europe

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  • Elizabeth Eisenstein
    Elizabeth Eisenstein
    Elizabeth Lewisohn Eisenstein is an American historian of the French Revolution and early 19th century France. She is well-known for her work on the history of early printing, writing on the transition in media between the era of 'manuscript culture' and that of 'print culture', as well as the role...

    , French Revolution
    French Revolution
    The French Revolution , sometimes distinguished as the 'Great French Revolution' , was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France and Europe. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years...

    , books
  • Geoff Eley
    Geoff Eley
    Geoff Eley is a British-born historian of Germany. He received his D.Phil from the University of Sussex in 1974, and has taught at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor since 1979...

     German
  • John Elliott, (born 1941) Spanish
  • Joseph J. Ellis American early Republic
  • Geoffrey Elton, (1921–1994), Tudor England
  • Peter Englund
    Peter Englund
    Peter Englund is a Swedish author and historian, and the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy since 1 June 2009.-Biography:...

    , Swedish
  • Richard J. Evans
    Richard J. Evans
    Richard John Evans is a British academic and historian, prominently known for his history of Germany.-Life:Evans was born in London, of Welsh parentage, and is now Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and President of Wolfson College...

    , German social
  • Alf Evers
    Alf Evers
    Alf Evers , was an American historian who lived in Ulster County, New York for much of his life and wrote lengthy, definitive histories of the Catskills and Woodstock, serving the latter as town historian...

    , (1905–2004) American history

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  • Cyril Falls
    Cyril Falls
    Cyril Bentham Falls CBE was a military historian noted for his work on the First World War. He was born in Dublin and died in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey....

    , (1888–1971), military
  • Brian Farrell
    Brian Farrell
    Brian Farrell is an Irish author, journalist, academic & broadcaster.-Early life:Although born in Manchester, England, Farrell moved to Dublin, Ireland during the Second World War. He was educated in Ireland at , Dublin, University College Dublin and Harvard University in the United States...

    , (born 1929)
  • Niall Ferguson
    Niall Ferguson
    Niall Campbell Douglas Ferguson is a British historian. His specialty is financial and economic history, particularly hyperinflation and the bond markets, as well as the history of colonialism.....

    , military, business, economic, imperial
  • Marc Ferro
    Marc Ferro
    Marc Ferro is a French historian. He has worked on early twentieth-century European history, specialising in the history of Russia and the USSR, as well as the history of cinema....

    , World War I
  • Joachim Fest
    Joachim Fest
    Joachim Clemens Fest was a German historian, journalist, critic and editor, best known for his writings and public commentary on Nazi Germany, including an important biography of Adolf Hitler and books about Albert Speer and the German Resistance...

    , (1926–2006), Nazi Germany
  • David Feuerwerker
    David Feuerwerker
    - Born in Geneva :He was born on October 2, 1912, at 11 Rue du Mont-Blanc, in Geneva, Switzerland. He was the seventh of eleven children. His father Jacob Feuerwerker was born in Sighet, now Sighetu Marmatiei, Maramureş, then Hungary, now Rumania...

     (1912–1980), Jewish
  • Heinrich Fichtenau
    Heinrich Fichtenau
    Heinrich von Fichtenau was an Austrian medievalist best known for his studies of medieval diplomatics, social and intellectual history. He spent his academic career at the University of Vienna and from 1962 to 1983 served as director of the Institut für österreichische Geschichtsforschung...

     (1912–2000), medievalism, diplomatics
  • Orlando Figes
    Orlando Figes
    Orlando Figes is a British historian of Russia, and Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London.-Overview:Figes is the son of the feminist writer Eva Figes. His sister is the author and editor Kate Figes. He attended William Ellis School in north London from 1971-78...

    , (born 1957), Russian
  • Robert O. Fink
    Robert O. Fink
    Robert Orwill Fink was a papyrologist with a special interest in Roman military papyri.-Early life and education:...

    , (1905–1988), classical
  • Moses Finley, ancient, especially economic
  • David Hackett Fischer
    David Hackett Fischer
    David Hackett Fischer is University Professor and Earl Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University. Fischer's major works have tackled everything from large macroeconomic and cultural trends to narrative histories of significant events to explorations of...

    , American Revolution, cycles
  • Fritz Fischer, German
  • Frances FitzGerald, Vietnam; history textbooks
  • Judith Flanders
    Judith Flanders
    Judith Flanders is a British history author and journalist. She spent her childhoood in Montreal, Canada, apart from a year in Israel in 1972, and then worked as a publisher's reader....

    , (born 1959), Victorian British social
  • Robert Fogel
    Robert Fogel
    Robert William Fogel is an American economic historian and scientist, and winner of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He is now the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions and director of the Center for Population Economics at the...

    , American economic, cliometrics
  • Eric Foner
    Eric Foner
    Eric Foner is an American historian. On the faculty of the Department of History at Columbia University since 1982, he writes extensively on political history, the history of freedom, the early history of the Republican Party, African American biography, Reconstruction, and historiography...

    , Reconstruction
  • Shelby Foote
    Shelby Foote
    Shelby Dade Foote, Jr. was an American historian and novelist who wrote The Civil War: A Narrative, a massive, three-volume history of the war. With geographic and cultural roots in the Mississippi Delta, Foote's life and writing paralleled the radical shift from the agrarian planter system of the...

    , (1916–2005), American Civil War
  • Michel Foucault
    Michel Foucault
    Michel Foucault , born Paul-Michel Foucault , was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas...

    , (1926–1984), ideas
  • Jo Fox
    Jo Fox
    Professor Jo Fox is an academic historian specialising in the history of film and propaganda in twentieth-century Europe. She is currently a professor at Durham University....

    , twentieth-century film and propaganda
  • Robin Lane Fox
    Robin Lane Fox
    Robin Lane Fox is an English historian, currently a Fellow of New College, Oxford and University of Oxford Reader in Ancient History.-Life:Lane Fox was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford....

    , Ancient
  • Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
    Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
    Elizabeth Ann Fox-Genovese was a feminist American historian particularly known for her writing about women in the Antebellum South...

    , American South; cultural & social, women
  • Walter Frank
    Walter Frank
    Walter Frank was a Nazi historian, notable for his leading role in anti-Semitic research.-Life:Frank was born in Fürth, Kingdom of Bavaria. In his youth, he attended Julius Streicher rallies; his politics were heavily influenced by the Bavarian Soviet Republic and the Beer Hall Putsch...

    , (1905–1945), Nazi historian
  • H. Bruce Franklin
    H. Bruce Franklin
    Howard Bruce Franklin is an American cultural historian who has authored or edited nineteen books on a range of subjects. As of 2011, he is the John Cotton Dana Professor of English and American Studies at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. He first attained prominence as a Melville scholar...

    , American historian of the Vietnam War
  • Antonia Fraser
    Antonia Fraser
    Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, DBE , née Pakenham, is an Anglo-Irish author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction, best known as Antonia Fraser...

     (born 1932), English
  • Frank Freidel
    Frank Freidel
    Frank Freidel was the first major biographer of former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and one of the first scholars to work in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Papers at Hyde Park, New York...

    , American; Franklin Roosevelt
  • Henry Friedlander
    Henry Friedlander
    Henry Friedlander is a Jewish historian of the Holocaust noted for his arguments in favor of broadening the scope of casualties of the Holocaust....

    , Holocaust
  • Saul Friedländer
    Saul Friedländer
    Saul Friedländer is an award-winning Israeli historian and currently a professor of history at UCLA.-Biography:...

    , Holocaust
  • Sheppard Frere
    Sheppard Frere
    Professor Sheppard Sunderland Frere, CBE, FSA, FBA is a former British historian and archaeologist who studied the Roman Empire.-Biography:...

  • David Fromkin
    David Fromkin
    David Fromkin is a noted author, lawyer, and historian, best known for his historical account on the Middle East, A Peace to End All Peace , in which he recounts the role European powers played between 1914 and 1922 in creating the modern Middle East. The book was a finalist for both the National...

  • Bruno Fuligni
    Bruno Fuligni
    -References:...

  • Francis Fukuyama
    Francis Fukuyama
    Yoshihiro Francis Fukuyama is an American political scientist, political economist, and author. He is a Senior Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford. Before that he served as a professor and director of the International Development program at the School of...

    , (born 1955) world
  • J.F.C. Fuller
    J.F.C. Fuller
    Major-General John Frederick Charles Fuller, CB, CBE, DSO was a British Army officer, military historian and strategist, notable as an early theorist of modern armoured warfare, including categorising principles of warfare...

    , military
  • François Furet
    François Furet
    -Biography:Born in Paris on 27 March 1927, into a wealthy family, François Furet was a brilliant student who graduated from the Sorbonne with the highest honors and soon decided on a life of research, teaching and writing. He received his education at the Lycée Janson de Sailly and at the faculty...

    , French Revolution

G

  • Femme Gaastra
    Femme Gaastra
    Femme Simon Gaastra was Professor of maritime history at the University of Leiden and a leading expert on the history of the Dutch East India Company.-Early life and education:...

    , Dutch
  • John Lewis Gaddis
    John Lewis Gaddis
    John Lewis Gaddis is a noted historian of the Cold War and grand strategy, who has been hailed as the "Dean of Cold War Historians" by The New York Times. He is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. He is also the official biographer of the seminal 20th...

    , Cold War
  • Lloyd Gardner
    Lloyd Gardner
    Lloyd C. Gardner is a diplomatic historian. He is the Charles and Mary Beard Professor of History at Rutgers University, where he has taught since 1963. A specialist in 20th century foreign policy, Gardner has held several national fellowships, including two Fulbright Professorships in England and...

    , diplomatic
  • Peter Gay
    Peter Gay
    Peter Gay is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and former director of the New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers . Gay received the American Historical Association's Award for Scholarly Distinction in 2004...

    , psychohistory, Enlightenment & 19th century social
  • Eugene Genovese, (born 1930) US South
  • François Géré
    François Géré
    François Géré, a French historian specializing in geostrategy, is notably the founding president of the French strategic analysis institute, the Institut français d’analyse stratégique...

    , (born 1950) military
  • Christian Gerlach
    Christian Gerlach
    Hans Christian Gerlach is professor of Modern History at the University of Bern. Gerlach is also Associate Editor of the Journal of Genocide Research and author of multiple books dealing with the Hunger Plan, Holocaust and genocide...

    , Holocaust
  • Pieter Geyl
    Pieter Geyl
    Pieter Catharinus Arie Geyl was a Dutch historian, well-known for his studies in early modern Dutch history and in historiography.-Background:...

    , Dutch
  • N. H. Gibbs
    N. H. Gibbs
    Norman Henry Gibbs was Chichele Professor of the History of War at Oxford University for 24 years from 1953 to 1977, the longest tenure of all who have held the chair since its establishment in 1909.-Education and early career:Gibbs was an Open Exhibitioner at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1928,...

    , military
  • William Gibson
    William Gibson (historian)
    William Thomas Gibson is a historian, academic, and professor who specialises in the history of religion in Britain in the early modern period.-Education:...

    , ecclesiastical
  • Martin Gilbert
    Martin Gilbert
    Sir Martin John Gilbert, CBE, PC is a British historian and Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford. He is the author of over eighty books, including works on the Holocaust and Jewish history...

    , Holocaust
  • Carlo Ginzburg
    Carlo Ginzburg
    Carlo Ginzburg is a noted historian and proponent of the field of microhistory. He is best known for his Il formaggio e I vermi which examined the beliefs of an Italian heretic, Menocchio, from Montereale Valcellina.- Biography :The son of Natalia Ginzburg and Leone Ginzburg, he was born...

    , social
  • Jan Glete
    Jan Glete
    Jan Glete was a Swedish historian. He was professor of history at the Stockholm University, specializing in 20th century Swedish industry and banking as well as the connection between state formation and naval history in early modern Europe.-Academic career:Glete spent his entire academic career...

     (1947–2009), Swedish
  • James Goldrick
    James Goldrick
    Rear Admiral James Vincent Purcell Goldrick AM, CSC is a senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy, author, and a naval historian. He currently holds the position of Commander Joint Education, Training and Warfare-Early life and education:...

    , Australian
  • Adrian Goldsworthy
    Adrian Goldsworthy
    Adrian Keith Goldsworthy is a British historian and author who specialises in ancient Roman history.-Biography:Goldsworthy attended Westbourne School, Penarth...

    , ancient
  • Brison D. Gooch
    Brison D. Gooch
    Brison Dowling Gooch is a professor emeritus of 19th-century European history at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. He is an authority on the Revolutions of 1848, Napoleon III, Belgium, and the Crimean War....

    , Europe, Belgium
  • Doris Kearns Goodwin
    Doris Kearns Goodwin
    Doris Kearns Goodwin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American biographer and historian, and an oft-seen political commentator. She is the author of biographies of several U.S...

    , American presidential
  • Andrew Gordon
    Andrew Gordon (naval historian)
    Andrew Gordon is a British naval historian.Dr. Gordon has a BSc in Economics from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and a PhD in War Studies from King's College London, University of London. Gordon is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and worked as consultant during the drafting of...

    , British naval
  • Gerald S. Graham
    Gerald S. Graham
    Gerald Sandford Graham was Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London from 1949 until his retirement in 1970...

    , British imperial
  • Peter Green
    Peter Green (historian)
    Peter Green is a British classical scholar noted for his works on Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age of ancient history, generally regarded as spanning the era from the death of Alexander in 323 BC up to either the date of the Battle of Actium or the death of Augustus in 14 AD...

    , ancient
  • Vivian H. H. Green, (1915–2005), Christianity
  • Ranajit Guha
    Ranajit Guha
    Ranajit Guha is a historian of South Asia who was greatly influential in the Subaltern Studies group, and was the editor of several of the group's early anthologies. He migrated from India to the UK in the 1960s, and currently lives in Vienna, Austria.His Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency...

    , Indian
  • Lev Gumilyov, (1912–1992), Soviet
  • John Guy
    John Guy (historian)
    John Guy is a British historian and biographer.Born in Australia, he moved to Britain with his parents in 1952. He was educated at King Edward VII School in Lytham, and Clare College, Cambridge, where he read history, taking a First. At Cambridge, Guy studied under the Tudor specialist Geoffrey...

    , Tudor England

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  • Irfan Habib
    Irfan Habib
    Irfan Habib is an Indian Marxist historian, a former Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research and a Padma Bhushan awardee. He is a Professor Emeritus at Aligarh Muslim University. He has served in the Indian History Congress for many years. Irfan Habib and R.S...

    , India
  • Claude Hall
    Claude Hall
    Claude Hampton Hall, Sr. , was an historian of primarily American diplomacy who spent his entire academic career at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas...

     (1922–2001), American diplomacy
  • John Whitney Hall
    John Whitney Hall
    John Whitney Hall , the Tokyo-born son of missionaries in Japan, grew up to become a pioneer in the field of Japanese studies and one of the most respected historians of Japan of his generation. His life work was recognized by the Japanese government...

     (1916–1997), Japan
  • Bruce Barrymore Halpenny
    Bruce Barrymore Halpenny
    Bruce Barrymore Halpenny is a widely respected English military historian and author, specialising in airfields and aircraft, as well as ghost stories and mysteries. He is also a broadcaster and games inventor.-Parents:...

    , WW2 air war
  • Nicholas G. L. Hammond, (1907–2001) Macedonia and Greece
  • Victor Davis Hanson
    Victor Davis Hanson
    Victor Davis Hanson is an American military historian, columnist, political essayist and former classics professor, notable as a scholar of ancient warfare. He has been a commentator on modern warfare and contemporary politics for National Review and other media outlets...

    , ancient warfare
  • Dick Harrison
    Dick Harrison
    Dick Walther Harrison, is a Swedish historian who was born in Huddinge, Stockholm County, Sweden and spent much of his youth in Staffanstorp in Skåne. On June 12, 2010 he married Katarina Lindbergh in Kalmar Cathedral...

    , Swedish & Medieval
  • Peter Harrison
    Peter Harrison (historian)
    Peter Harrison is the Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion, Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre, and a Fellow of Harris Manchester College at Oxford University.-Career:...

    , Early modern intellectual
  • Max Hastings
    Max Hastings
    Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings, FRSL is a British journalist, editor, historian and author. He is the son of Macdonald Hastings, the noted British journalist and war correspondent and Anne Scott-James, sometime editor of Harper's Bazaar.-Life and career:Hastings was educated at Charterhouse...

    , military, WW2
  • John Hattendorf
    John Hattendorf
    John Brewster Hattendorf is an American naval historian. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of more than forty books on British and American maritime history and naval warfare. In 2005, the U.S...

    , maritime
  • Ragnhild Hatton
    Ragnhild Hatton
    Ragnhild Marie Hatton, Ragnhild Marie Hatton, Ragnhild Marie Hatton, (born in Bergen, Norway on 10 January 1913 - died in London on 16 May 1995, was professor of International History at the London School of Economics...

    , 17th and 18th century European international
  • Denys Hay
    Denys Hay
    Denys Hay was a historian specializing in medieval and Renaissance Europe, and notable for demonstrating the influence of Italy on events in the rest of the continent....

    , (1915–1994), medieval and Renaissance Europe
  • John Daniel Hayes
    John Daniel Hayes
    John Daniel Hayes, was a rear admiral in the United States Navy and a naval historian.-Naval career:...

    , (1902–1991), American naval
  • Jeffrey Herf
    Jeffrey Herf
    Jeffrey Herf is a professor of history at the University of Maryland. His specialty is in 20th century European intellectual history, especially in Germany....

    , German and European
  • Arthur Herman
    Arthur Herman
    Arthur L. Herman is an American Ph.D., author and lecturer. His father had been a professor and had once spent a semester at Edinburgh University...

    , American and British
  • Raul Hilberg
    Raul Hilberg
    Raul Hilberg was an Austrian-born American political scientist and historian. He was widely considered to be the world's preeminent scholar of the Holocaust, and his three-volume, 1,273-page magnum opus, The Destruction of the European Jews, is regarded as a seminal study of the Nazi Final...

    , (1926–2007), Holocaust
  • Klaus Hildebrand
    Klaus Hildebrand
    Klaus Hildebrand is a German conservative historian whose area of expertise is 19th-20th century German political and military history.- Biography :...

    , 19th-20th German
  • Christopher Hill (historian)
    Christopher Hill (historian)
    John Edward Christopher Hill , usually known simply as Christopher Hill, was an English Marxist historian and author of textbooks....

    , (1912–2003), 17th century England
  • Andreas Hillgruber
    Andreas Hillgruber
    Andreas Fritz Hillgruber was a conservative German historian. Hillgruber was influential as a military and diplomatic historian.At his death in 1989, the American historian Francis L...

    , 20th German
  • Richard L. Hills
    Richard L. Hills
    Richard Leslie Hills is an English historian who has written extensively on the history of technology, particularly steam power. He founded Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry....

     (born 1936), technology
  • Gertrude Himmelfarb
    Gertrude Himmelfarb
    Gertrude Himmelfarb , also known as Bea Kristol, is an American historian. She has written extensively on intellectual history, with a focus on Britain and the Victorian era, as well as on contemporary society and culture....

    , (born 1924) British
  • Harry Hinsley
    Harry Hinsley
    Sir Francis Harry Hinsley OBE was an English historian and cryptanalyst. He worked at Bletchley Park during the Second World War and wrote widely on the history of international relations and British Intelligence during the Second World War...

    , (1918–1998), British intelligence, WW2
  • Eric Hobsbawm
    Eric Hobsbawm
    Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm , CH, FBA, is a British Marxist historian, public intellectual, and author...

    , (born 1917) labour; Marxism
  • Marshall Hodgson
    Marshall Hodgson
    Marshall Goodwin Simms Hodgson , was an Islamic Studies academic and a world historian at the University of Chicago. He was chairman of the interdisciplinary Committee on Social Thought in Chicago...

    , Islamic
  • Richard Hofstadter
    Richard Hofstadter
    Richard Hofstadter was an American public intellectual of the 1950s, a historian and DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University...

    , (1916–1970), American political
  • Peter Hoffmann
    Peter Hoffmann
    Peter Hoffmann may refer to:*Peter Hofmann, German operatic tenor*Peter Hoffmann, German music producer *Peter Hoffmann *Pete Hoffman, cartoonist*Peter Hoffmann...

    , National Socialism
  • David Hoggan
    David Hoggan
    David Leslie Hoggan was an American historical writer, author of The Forced War: When Peaceful Revision Failed and other works in the German and English languages.-Early life:...

    , neo-Nazi
  • Hajo Holborn
    Hajo Holborn
    Hajo Holborn was a German-American historian and specialist in modern German history.- Life :...

    , (1902–1969), Germany
  • George Holmes (professor)
    George Holmes (professor)
    George Arthur Holmes FBA was Chichele Professor of Medieval History at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, 1989-94.-Family, early life, and education:...

    , (1927-209), Medieval
  • Richard Holmes, Military
  • Ed Hooper
    Ed Hooper
    William Edward Hooper is an author, news broadcaster and columnist from Knoxville, Tennessee. He is most widely known for his work in military affairs reporting and his coverage of historic preservation and U.S. veterans issues....

    , Southern Appalachia, Tennessee, Old South
  • A. G. Hopkins
    A. G. Hopkins
    Antony "Tony" G. Hopkins, FBA is a distinguished British historian at the University of Texas, where he holds the Walter Prescott Webb Professorship of History and Ideas. Hopkins was formerly the Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at the University of Cambridge and is currently an Emeritus...

    , British
  • Keith Hopkins
    Keith Hopkins
    Morris Keith Hopkins was a British historian and sociologist. He was professor of ancient history at the University of Cambridge from 1985 to 2000....

    , Ancient
  • Albert Hourani
    Albert Hourani
    -Life and career:Hourani was born in Manchester, England, the son of Soumaya Rassi and Fadlo Issa Hourani, immigrants from Marjeyoun in what is now South Lebanon. His brothers were George Hourani and Cecil Hourani. His family had converted from Greek Orthodoxy...

    , Middle Eastern
  • Youssef Hourany
    Youssef Hourany
    Youssef Hourany is a Lebanese Writer, Archeologist and Historian. Hourany received his Diploma in Philosophy, from the Lebanese University, and his Ph. D...

    , (born 1931), Lebanese, Ancient
  • Daniel Horowitz
    Daniel Horowitz
    Daniel Horowitz is an American defense attorney who has represented several high-profile clients including talk show host Michael Savage and is a frequent commentator in the media on criminal cases in the news.-Background:...

    , American cultural
  • Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
    Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
    Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz is the Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor of American Studies and History, emerita, at Smith College. She received her B.A. from Wellesley College and her Ph.D. from Harvard University...

    , women
  • Michiel Horn
    Michiel Horn
    Michiel Steven Daniel Horn is a Canadian professor and historian.His family migrated to Canada in 1952, settling in Victoria, British Columbia.He holds a BA from the University of British Columbia, and an MA and PhD from the University of Toronto...

    , Canadian
  • Alistair Horne
    Alistair Horne
    Sir Alistair Allan Horne is a British historian of modern France. He is the son of Sir James Horne and Lady Auriol Horne ....

    , modern French
  • Michael Howard
    Michael Howard (historian)
    Sir Michael Eliot Howard, OM, CH, CBE, MC, FBA is a British military historian, formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War and Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, and Robert A...

     Military
  • Andrew Hunt
    Andrew Hunt (historian)
    Andrew Emerson Hunt is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Waterloo in Canada. He is also the Director of the Tri-University Graduate Program in History.-Life:...

    , Cold War America
  • Tristram Hunt
    Tristram Hunt
    Tristram Julian William Hunt, FRHistS MP is a British politician, historian, broadcaster and newspaper columnist, who is currently the Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent Central. He also teaches and lectures on Modern British History at Queen Mary, University of London in Mile End, East London...

    , (born 1974)
  • Mark C. Hunter
    Mark C. Hunter
    Mark C. Hunter, BA Hons, MA, PhD is a Canadian naval historian and currently an employee of the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador.- Early Life and Education :Mark C. Hunter was born in Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada...

    , Naval

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  • Mohammed ibn Jaafar al-Kattani (died 1927) Moroccan
  • Halil Inalcik
    Halil Inalcik
    -Biography:He was born in Istanbul to a Crimean Tatar family, which left Crimea for Constantinople in 1905. His birthday is unknown but İnalcık chose 26 May 1916 for his birthday. He attended Balıkesir Teacher Training School and then Ankara University, Faculty of Language, History and Geography,...

    , Ottoman Empire
  • Jonathan Israel
    Jonathan Israel
    Professor Jonathan Irvine Israel is a British writer on Dutch history, the Age of Enlightenment and European Jewry. Israel was appointed the Modern European History Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Township, New Jersey, U.S...

     (born 1946), Netherlands, Enlightenment, Jewry

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  • Eberhard Jäckel
    Eberhard Jäckel
    Eberhard Jäckel is a Social Democratic German historian, noted for his studies of Adolf Hitler's role in German history. Jäckel sees Hitler as being the historical equivalent to the Chernobyl disaster.-Career:...

    , Nazi Germany
  • Julian T. Jackson
    Julian T. Jackson
    Julian T. Jackson is a prominent British historian. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society. Professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London Julian Jackson is one of the leading authorities on twentieth-century France.He was educated at the University of...

    , French
  • Harold James
    Harold James (historian)
    Harold James is a renowned historian, specializing in the history of Germany and European economic history. James is a prolific author, having published dozens of books and articles in his field...

    , modern Germany,
  • Nikoloz Janashia
    Nikoloz Janashia
    Nikoloz Janashia was a famous Georgian historian and public benefactor.He born in Tbilisi...

    , (1931–1982), Georgia
    Georgia (country)
    Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

     and the Caucasus
  • Simon Janashia
    Simon Janashia
    Simon Janashia was an outstanding Georgian historian and public benefactor, one of the founders and Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences , Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor....

    , (1900–1947), of Georgia
    Georgia (country)
    Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

     and the Caucasus
  • Pawel Jasienica
    Pawel Jasienica
    Paweł Jasienica was the pen name of Leon Lech Beynar , a Polish historian, journalist and soldier.During World War II, Jasienica fought in the Polish Army, and later, the Armia Krajowa resistance...

    , (1909–1970), Polish
  • Merrill Jensen (1905–1980), American Revolution
  • Paul Johnson, (born 1928), British, Western civilization
  • Robert Erwin Johnson
    Robert Erwin Johnson
    Robert Erwin Johnson was a University of Alabama professor of history and considered "one of the finest scholars of the nineteenth century U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard".-Early life and education:...

     (1923–2008), American naval
  • Mauno Jokipii
    Mauno Jokipii
    Mauno Jokipii was a Finnish professor at the University of Jyväskylä in history specializing in World War II. He was a thorough investigator and a prolific author. Among his works were studies of the local history of Jyväskylä and the university.Jokipii was born in Helsinki...

    , Finnish, World War II
  • A.H.M. Jones
    Arnold Hugh Martin Jones
    Arnold Hugh Martin Jones — known as A.H.M. Jones — was a prominent 20th century British historian of classical antiquity, particularly of the later Roman Empire.-Biography:...

     (1904–1970), later Roman Empire
  • Gwyn Jones
    Gwyn Jones (author)
    Gwyn Jones was a Welsh novelist and story writer, and a scholar and translator of Nordic literature and history.Jones was a native of New Tredegar, Monmouthshire...

    , medieval
  • Loe de Jong
    Loe de Jong
    Louis de Jong was a Dutch journalist and historian specialising in the history of the Netherlands in World War II and the Dutch resistance....

    , Dutch
  • Tony Judt
    Tony Judt
    Tony Robert Judt FBA was a British historian, essayist, and university professor who specialized in European history. Judt moved to New York and served as the Erich Maria Remarque Professor in European Studies at New York University, and Director of NYU's Erich Maria Remarque Institute...

    , (1948–2010), 20c European

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  • David S. Katz
    David S. Katz
    David S. Katz FRHistS is professor of early modern European history at Tel Aviv University in Israel, where he has taught since 1978. He holds the Abraham Horodisch Chair for the History of Books and is director of the Lessing Institute for European History and Civilization. Katz received his...

    , early modern English religious
  • Donald Kagan
    Donald Kagan
    Donald Kagan is an American historian at Yale University specializing in ancient Greece, notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War. 1987-1988 Acting Director of Athletics, Yale University. He was Dean of Yale College from 1989–1992. He formerly taught in the Department of...

    , ancient Greek
  • John Keegan
    John Keegan
    Sir John Keegan OBE FRSL is a British military historian, lecturer, writer and journalist. He has published many works on the nature of combat between the 14th and 21st centuries concerning land, air, maritime, and intelligence warfare, as well as the psychology of battle.-Life and career:John...

    , (born 1934) military
  • Hans Kelsen, legal
  • John H. Kemble
    John H. Kemble
    John Haskell Kemble was a professor of History at Pomona College and an influential American maritime historian.-Early life and education:...

    , (1912–1990), American maritime
  • Elizabeth Topham Kennan - medievalist and former president, Mount Holyoke College
    Mount Holyoke College
    Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts college for women in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It was the first member of the Seven Sisters colleges, and served as a model for some of the others...

  • George F. Kennan
    George F. Kennan
    George Frost Kennan was an American adviser, diplomat, political scientist and historian, best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War...

    , (a.k.a. 'X') US-Soviet relations
  • James Kennedy
    James Kennedy (historian)
    James Carleton Kennedy is an American historian. He is the son of E.W. and Nella Kennedy. The elder Dr. Kennedy was for years an eminent professor of religion at Northwestern College .- Biography :...

    , Netherlands
  • Paul Kennedy
    Paul Kennedy
    Paul Michael Kennedy CBE, FBA , is a British historian at Yale University specialising in the history of international relations, economic power and grand strategy. He has published prominent books on the history of British foreign policy and Great Power struggles...

    , world, military
  • W. Hudson Kensel
    W. Hudson Kensel
    W. Hudson Kensel is a western American historian and author.W. Hudson Kensel is professor emeritus from California State University, Fresno, where he was a former chairman of the Department of History. His early childhood was spent at Pahaska Tepee and Cody, Wyoming. He moved to the state of...

    , western American
  • Ian Kershaw
    Ian Kershaw
    Sir Ian Kershaw is a British historian of 20th-century Germany whose work has chiefly focused on the period of the Third Reich...

    , Nazi Germany
  • Daniel J. Kevles, science
  • Michael King
    Michael King
    Michael King, OBE was a New Zealand popular historian, author and biographer. He wrote or edited over 30 books on New Zealand topics, including The Penguin History of New Zealand, which was the most popular New Zealand book of 2004.-Life:King was born in Wellington to Eleanor and Commander Lewis...

     (1945–2004), New Zealand
  • Martin Kitchen
    Martin Kitchen
    Martin Kitchen is a British-Canadian historian, specialized in modern European history, with an emphasis on Germany. Professor Emeritus of history at Simon Fraser University, he started teaching in 1966...

    , modern European history
  • Simon Kitson
    Simon Kitson
    Simon Kitson is a British historian.Kitson did his undergraduate studies at the University of Ulster and his post-graduate studies at the University of Sussex, under the supervision of Professor Roderick Kedward...

    , Vichy France
  • Matti Klinge
    Matti Klinge
    Matti Klinge is a Finnish historian.He studied at the University of Helsinki and gained his Ph.D. in 1969. Later, he was Visiting Professor at the University of Paris 1970–1972, and held the Swedish Professorship of History at the University of Helsinki between 1975 and 2001. Klinge is one...

    , Finnish
  • R.J.B. Knight, British naval
  • Yuri Knorozov, (1922–1999), Russian, particularly renowned for the pivotal role his research played in the decipherment of the Maya script
    Maya script
    The Maya script, also known as Maya glyphs or Maya hieroglyphs, is the writing system of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica, presently the only Mesoamerican writing system that has been substantially deciphered...

  • Eberhard Kolb
    Eberhard Kolb
    Professor Eberhard Kolb is one of Germany's foremost authorities on German history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.- Biography :...

    , German
  • Gabriel Kolko
    Gabriel Kolko
    Gabriel Kolko is an American historian and author.Kolko was born in Paterson, New Jersey, attended Kent State University and the University of Wisconsin , married Joyce Manning in 1955, and received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1962. Following graduation he taught at the University of Pennsylvania...

    , American political
  • Claudia Koonz
    Claudia Koonz
    Claudia Ann Koonz is an American feminist historian of Nazi Germany. Her principal area of interest is the experience of women during the Nazi era.-Career overview:...

    , Nazi Germany
  • Kim Jung-bae
    Kim Jung-bae
    Kim Jung-bae is an ancient historian and archaeologist, university professor emeritus, and former President of Korea University in Seoul, South Korea. Kim currently serves as the Chairman of the Goguryeo Research Society....

    , (born 1940), Korean
  • Andrey Korotayev
    Andrey Korotayev
    Andrey Korotayev is an anthropologist, economic historian, and sociologist, with major contributions to world-systems theory, cross-cultural studies, Near Eastern history, and mathematical modeling of social and economic macrodynamics.Education and career=Born in Moscow, Andrey Korotayev attended...

    , (born 1961), Russian
  • Thomas Kuhn
    Thomas Kuhn
    Thomas Samuel Kuhn was an American historian and philosopher of science whose controversial 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was deeply influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term "paradigm shift," which has since become an English-language staple.Kuhn...

    , (1922–1996), science
  • Myoma Myint Kywe
    Myoma Myint Kywe
    Myoma Myint Kywe is a writer, historian and journalist from Burma.He was awarded the National Manuscript First Prize for 2003 in Myanmar In 2007 he won first prize in the Sarpay Beikman Manuscript Award in Burma culture and fine arts literature genre.-References:...

    , (born 1960)Burmese writer and historian

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  • Benjamin Woods Labaree
    Benjamin Woods Labaree
    Benjamin Woods Labaree is a leading historian of American colonial history and American maritime history. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut.-Early life and education:...

    , American colonial and maritime
  • Brij Lal
    Brij Lal
    Brij V. Lal is a Indo-Fijian historian . He was born in Labasa, on the northern island of Vanua Levu. He was educated at the University of South Pacific, the University of British Columbia and the Australian National University.- Academic career :...

    , Fiji
  • Abdallah Laroui
    Abdallah Laroui
    Abdallah Laroui is a Moroccan historian and novelist writing in Arabic and French. He is considered one of Morocco's leading intellectuals....

    , (born 1933)
  • Leonard Woods Labaree
    Leonard Woods Labaree
    Leonard W. Labaree was a distinguished documentary editor, a professor of history at Yale University for more than forty years, an historian of Colonial America, and the founding editor of the multivolume publication of the papers of Benjamin Franklin.-Early life and education:Leonard W...

    , editor of the Benjamin Franklin Papers
  • Leopold Labedz
    Leopold Labedz
    Leopold Labedz was an anti-communist Anglo-Polish commentator on the Soviet Union.Labedz was born to a Polish Jewish doctor in Russia. The family soon returned to Warsaw and the young Labedz decided to follow his father into the medical profession. He studied medicine in Paris...

    , (1920–1993), Soviet
  • Andrew Lambert
    Andrew Lambert
    Andrew Lambert BA , MA, PhD, FRHistS is a British naval historian, who is currently Laughton Professor of Naval History in the Department of War Studies at King's College London.-Early life and education:...

    , British naval
  • Ricardo Lancaster-Jones y Verea
    Ricardo Lancaster-Jones y Verea
    Ricardo Lancaster-Jones y Verea, MA BE KHS was a Mexican historian, diplomat, scholar, professor, art collector and sugarcane entrepreneur who made significant contributions toward the study of the haciendas of the State of Jalisco in the twentieth century.He was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, the...

    , (1905–1983), haciendas in Western Mexico
  • David Lavender
    David Lavender
    David Sievert Lavender was an American historian and writer of the Western United States. He published more than 40 books, including two novels, several children's books, and a memoir. Unlike his two prominent contemporaries, Bernard DeVoto and Wallace Stegner, Lavender was not an academic...

    , (1910–2003), American West
  • Walter LaFeber
    Walter LaFeber
    Walter LaFeber was a Marie Underhill Noll Professor of History and a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow in the Department of History at Cornell University...

    , diplomatic
  • Jacques Le Goff
    Jacques Le Goff
    Jacques Le Goff is a prolific French historian specializing in the Middle Ages, particularly the 12th and 13th centuries....

    , medieval
  • Robert Leckie
    Robert Leckie (author)
    Robert Leckie was an American author of popular books on the military history of the United States. As a young man, he served in the Marine Corps with the 1st Marine Division during World War II...

    , (1920–2001), American military
  • William Leuchtenburg
    William Leuchtenburg
    William E. Leuchtenburg is William Rand Kenan Jr. professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at Chapel Hill and a leading scholar of the life and career of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He is the author of more than a dozen books on 20th century history ,...

    , American political and legal
  • Barbara Levick
    Barbara Levick
    Barbara M. Levick is a British historian, specializing in ancient history. She was educated at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and, since 1959, has been a Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford...

    , Roman emperors
  • Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
    Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
    Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie is a French historian whose work is mainly focused upon Languedoc in the ancien regime, particularly the history of the peasantry.-Early life and career:...

    , French
  • Lee Ki-baek, (1924–2004), Korean
  • Li Ao
    Li Ao
    Li Ao , is a writer, social commentator, historian, and independent politician in the Republic of China .He is considered by many to be one of the most important modern Chinese essayists today, although critics have termed him an intellectual narcissist...

    , (born 1935), Chinese
  • B. H. Liddell Hart, British military
  • Leon F. Litwack
    Leon F. Litwack
    Leon F. Litwack is an American historian and Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of California Berkeley, where he received the Golden Apple Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2007...

    , American and African-American
  • Xinru Liu
    Xinru Liu
    Xinru Liu is currently employed at The College of New Jersey as an assistant professor of early Indian history and world history, and has held since 1993 a full professorship at the Institute of World History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences....

    , Ancient Indian and Chinese
  • Mario Liverani
    Mario Liverani
    Mario Liverani was born in Rome in 1939. He is Professor of Ancient Near East History at the University of Rome La Sapienza. He is a member of many institutions, such as the American Oriental Society, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, and doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Copenhagen and...

    , ancient Middle East
  • John Edward Lloyd
    John Edward Lloyd
    Sir John Edward Lloyd , was a Welsh historian, the author of the first serious history of the country's formative years, A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest, 2 vols...

    , Welshness
  • David Loades
    David Loades
    David Michael Loades, FSA is a British historian and an expert on the Tudor era. He is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Wales, where he taught from 1980 until 1996, and was Honorary Research Professor at the University of Sheffield from 1996 until 2008. In the 1960s an1970s he...

    , (born 1934), Tudor England
  • James W. Loewen, American
  • Erik Lönnroth
    Erik Lönnroth
    Erik Lönnroth was one of the most notable Swedish historians of the 20th century. He was a life member of the Swedish Academy from 1962 and member of various faculties.-Background:...

     (1910–2002)
  • Walter Lord
    Walter Lord
    John Walter Lord, Jr. , was an American author, best known for his documentary-style non-fiction account A Night to Remember, about the sinking of the RMS Titanic.-Early life:...

    , American
  • John Lukacs
    John Lukacs
    John Adalbert Lukacs is a Hungarian-born American historian who has written more than thirty books, including Five Days in London, May 1940 and A New Republic...

    , modern Europe

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  • Charles B. MacDonald
    Charles B. MacDonald
    This article refers to Charles B. MacDonald, military historian. For the U.S. golfer, refer to Charles B. Macdonald.Charles B. MacDonald was a former Deputy Chief Historian for the United States Army...

    , World War II
  • Stuart Macintyre
    Stuart Macintyre
    Stuart Forbes Macintyre , Australian historian, academic and public intellectual, is a former Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. He has been voted one of Australia's most influential public intellectuals...

     (born 1947), Australian
  • Forrest McDonald
    Forrest McDonald
    Forrest McDonald , is an American historian who has written extensively on the early national period, on republicanism, and on the presidency. He is widely considered one of the foremost historians of the Constitution and of the early national period.- Life :McDonald was born in Orange, Texas. He...

     early national US, presidency, business
  • K. B. McFarlane
    K. B. McFarlane
    Kenneth Bruce McFarlane was one of the 20th century's most influential historians of late medieval England. He was born on 18 October 1903 and was the only child of A. McFarlane, OBE. His father was a civil servant in the Admiralty and the young McFarlane's childhood was an unhappy one. This may...

    , English medievalist
  • Rosamond McKitterick
    Rosamond McKitterick
    Rosamond Deborah McKitterick is one of Britain's foremost medieval historians, since 1999 Professor of Medieval History in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society...

    , Medieval
  • Margaret MacMillan
    Margaret MacMillan
    Margaret Olwen MacMillan, OC is a historian and professor at the University of Oxford, where she is Warden of St. Antony's College. She is former provost of Trinity College and professor of history at the University of Toronto and previously, at Ryerson University...

     20th century international relations
  • Ramsay MacMullen
    Ramsay MacMullen
    Ramsay MacMullen is an Emeritus Professor of history at Yale University, where he taught from 1967 to his retirement in 1993 as Dunham Professor of History and Classics...

    , Roman
  • Magnus Magnusson
    Magnus Magnusson
    Magnus Magnusson KBE was a television presenter, journalist, translator and writer. He was born in Iceland but lived in Scotland for almost all of his life, although he never took British citizenship...

    , Norse
  • Piers Mackesy
    Piers Mackesy
    Piers Gerald Mackesy is a British military historian who taught at the University of Oxford.-Early life and education:...

    , British military
  • J. D. Mackie
    J. D. Mackie
    John Duncan Mackie CBE MC Hon. LLD was a distinguished Scottish historian who wrote a one-volume history of Scotland as well as several works on early modern Scotland....

     Scottish
  • Leonard Maltin
    Leonard Maltin
    Leonard Maltin is an American film and animated film critic and historian, author of several mainstream books on cinema, focusing on nostalgic, celebratory narratives.-Personal life:...

    , Film
  • Charles S. Maier
    Charles S. Maier
    Charles S. Maier is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University. He teaches European and international history at Harvard. Maier has also served as the director of the Center for European Studies at Harvard.Maier has written several books...

    , 20th century Europe
  • Paul L. Maier, Ancient history
  • Pauline Maier
    Pauline Maier
    Pauline Maier is a popular scholar of the American Revolution, the preceding era and post-revolutionary United States. She is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ....

    , Early American
  • Adel Manna
    Adel Manna
    Dr. Adel Manna is a historian specializing in Palestine in the Ottoman period. He is the director of the Academic Institute for Arab Teacher Training at Beit Berl College, and the former head of the Department for Arab Society in Israel at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.-Works:*The Notables of...

    , Palestine in the Ottoman period
  • William Manchester
    William Manchester
    William Raymond Manchester was an American author, biographer, and historian from Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, notable as the bestselling author of 18 books that have been translated into over 20 languages...

    , Churchill
  • Golo Mann
    Golo Mann
    Golo Mann , born Angelus Gottfried Thomas Mann, was a popular German historian, essayist and writer. He was the third child of the novelist Thomas Mann and his wife Katia Mann.-Life:...

    , (1909–1994)
  • Robert Mann
    Robert Mann
    Robert Mann is a musician, composer, and conductor.He was a founding member and first violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet for 52 years, and mentor to younger generations of string musicians....

    , Vietnam War
  • Arthur Marder
    Arthur Marder
    Arthur Jacob Marder was a highly regarded American historian specializing in British naval history in the period 1880 - 1945.-Early life and education:...

    , British naval
  • Timothy Mason
    Timothy Mason
    Timothy Wright Mason was a British Marxist historian of Nazi Germany.-Life and work:He was born in Birkenhead, the child of school-teachers and was educated at Birkenhead School and Oxford University. He taught at Oxford from 1971–1984 and was twice married. He helped to found the...

    , Nazi Germany
  • Henri-Jean Martin
    Henri-Jean Martin
    Henri-Jean Martin was a leading authority on the history of the book in Europe, and an expert on the history of writing and printing...

    , the book
  • Rev. F.X. Martin, Irish medievalist and campaigner
  • Michael Marrus
    Michael Marrus
    Michael Robert Marrus is a Canadian historian of France, the Holocaust and Jewish history. He was born in Toronto and received his BA at the University of Toronto in 1963 and his MA and PhD at the University of California, Berkeley in 1964 and 1968...

    , French and Jewish
  • David McCullough
    David McCullough
    David Gaub McCullough is an American author, narrator, historian, and lecturer. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian award....

    , American
  • William S. McFeely
    William S. McFeely
    William S. McFeely was a professor of history before his retirement in 1997.He received his B.A. from Amherst College in 1952, and Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 1966. He studied there with, among others, C. Vann Woodward, whose book "The Strange Career of Jim Crow" was a staple...

     American Civil War
  • James M. McPherson
    James M. McPherson
    James M. McPherson is an American Civil War historian, and is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of United States History at Princeton University. He received the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom, his most famous book...

    , American Civil War
  • William McNeill, World
  • Laurence Marvin
    Laurence Marvin
    Laurence W. Marvin is Assistant Professor of History in the Evans School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Berry College whose primary scholarly focus is the Albigensian Crusade...

    , American, French medievalist
  • Garrett Mattingly
    Garrett Mattingly
    Garrett Mattingly was a professor of European history at Columbia University who specialized in early modern diplomatic history and won a Pulitzer Prize for a bestseller about the Spanish Armada....

    , Early modern Europe
  • Arno J. Mayer
    Arno J. Mayer
    Arno Joseph Mayer is a United States Marxist historian originally from Luxembourg, who specializes in modern Europe, diplomatic history, and the Holocaust, and is currently Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Emeritus, at Princeton University.-Early life and academic career:Mayer was born into a...

    , World War I and Europe
  • Richard Maybury
    Richard J. Maybury
    Richard J. Maybury is the publisher of U.S. & World Early Warning Report for Investors. He has written several entry level, common sense, books on United States economics, law, and history from a libertarian perspective. He has written these things in epistolatory form, usually as an uncle writing...

    , United States, especially WWI, WWII, and the Middle East
  • Friedrich Meinecke
    Friedrich Meinecke
    Friedrich Meinecke was a liberal German historian, probably the most famous German historian of his generation. As a representative of an older tradition still writing after World War II, he was an important figure to the end of his life.-Life:Meinecke was born in Salzwedel in the Province of Saxony...

    , German
  • Evaldo Cabral de Mello
    Evaldo Cabral de Mello
    Evaldo Cabral de Mello is a Brazilian historian, history writer and former diplomat, considered to be one of the most important Brazilian historians of the twentieth century.He studied the philosophy of history in Madrid and London...

    , Dutch Brazil
  • D. W. Meinig
    D. W. Meinig
    Donald William Meinig is an American geographer. He is the Maxwell Research Professor Emeritus of Geography at Syracuse University....

    , American geography
  • Russell Menard
    Russell Menard
    Professor Russell Menard of the University of Minnesota specializes in the economic and social history of the British colonies in North America. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Iowa in 1975...

    , Colonial American
  • Thomas C. Mendenhall (historian)
    Thomas C. Mendenhall (historian)
    Thomas Corwin Mendenhall II was a professor of history at Yale University, the sixth President of Smith College, and the leading authority on the history of collegiate rowing in the United States.-Early life and education:The grandson and namesake of Thomas Corwin Mendenhall ,...

  • Josef W. Meri
    Josef W. Meri
    Josef Waleed Meri is a leading specialist in Islam in the pre-modern period, Islamic culture, social history, and interfaith relations. He is Ariane de Rothschild Academic Director in Muslim-Jewish Relations at The Centre for the Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations , The Woolf Institute of Abrahamic...

    , Islamic world, Jews
  • Barbara Metcalf, India
  • Perry Miller
    Perry Miller
    Perry G. Miller was an American intellectual historian and Harvard University professor. He was an authority on American Puritanism, and a founder of the field of American Studies. Alfred Kazin referred to him as "the master of American intellectual history"...

    , Intellectual
  • Hans Mommsen
    Hans Mommsen
    Hans Mommsen is a left-wing German historian. He is the twin brother of the late Wolfgang Mommsen.-Biography:He was born in Marburg, the son of the historian Wilhelm Mommsen and great-grandson of the Roman historian Theodor Mommsen. He studied German, history and philosophy at the University of...

    , German
  • Wolfgang Mommsen
    Wolfgang Mommsen
    Wolfgang Justin Mommsen was a German historian. He was the twin brother of Hans Mommsen.-Biography:He was born in Marburg, the son of the historian Wilhelm Mommsen. He was educated at the University of Marburg, University of Cologne and University of Leeds between 1951–1959...

    , British and German
  • Edmund Morgan
    Edmund Morgan
    Edmund Sears Morgan , an eminent authority on early American history, is Emeritus Professor of History at Yale University, where he taught from 1955 to 1986.-Life:...

     American colonial and revolution
  • Kenneth O. Morgan British political
  • William J. Morgan (historian)
    William J. Morgan (historian)
    William James Morgan was Senior Historian at the U.S...

    , U.S. naval
  • Samuel Eliot Morison
    Samuel Eliot Morison
    Samuel Eliot Morison, Rear Admiral, United States Naval Reserve was an American historian noted for his works of maritime history that were both authoritative and highly readable. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1912, and taught history at the university for 40 years...

    , Naval, American colonial
  • Benny Morris
    Benny Morris
    Benny Morris is professor of History in the Middle East Studies department of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in the city of Be'er Sheva, Israel...

    , Middle-Eastern
  • George Mosse
    George Mosse
    George Lachmann Mosse was a German-born American social and cultural historian. Mosse authored 25 books on a variety of fields, from English constitutional law, Lutheran theology, to the history of fascism, Jewish history, and the history of masculinity...

    , German, Jewish, fascist and sexual
  • Roland Mousnier
    Roland Mousnier
    Roland Émile Mousnier was a French historian of the early modern period in France and of the comparative studies of different civilizations.-Life:...

    , Early modern France
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

  • Mubarak Ali
    Mubarak Ali
    Dr. Mubarak Ali is an eminent historian, activist and scholar of Pakistan.Ali was born in Tonk, British India in April 1941. He wrote in one of his books that he made up his birthdate because his parents did not know it accurately.- Career :Ali obtained an M.A. in History from Sindh University,...

     (b. 1941) Pakistani

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  • Lewis Bernstein Namier
    Lewis Bernstein Namier
    Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier was an English historian. He was born Ludwik Niemirowski in Wola Okrzejska in what was then part of the Russian Empire and is today in Poland.-Life:...

    , 18th century British and 20th century diplomatic
  • Allan Nevins
    Allan Nevins
    Allan Nevins was an American historian and journalist, renowned for his extensive work on the history of the Civil War and his biographies of such figures as President Grover Cleveland, Hamilton Fish, Henry Ford, and John D. Rockefeller.-Life:Born in Camp Point, Illinois, Nevins was educated at...

    , US political and business; Civil War; biography
  • Leo Niehorster
    Leo Niehorster
    Leo Niehorster is the webmaster of World War II Armed Forces Orders of Battle and Organizations and the author of several books on World War II. Niehorster has a Ph.D., from Columbia Pacific University, in History. He has his masters and bachelor's degrees in business administration. He retired in...

    , military
  • Thomas Nipperdey
    Thomas Nipperdey
    Thomas Nipperdey was a German historian best known for his monumental and exhaustive studies of Germany from 1800 to 1918. As a close albeit critical follower of Leopold von Ranke's famous ideal of writing "history exactly as it happened," Nipperdey sought comprehensive coverage of every major...

     (1927–1992) German history from 1800 to 1918
  • Ernst Nolte
    Ernst Nolte
    Ernst Nolte is a German historian and philosopher. Nolte’s major interest is the comparative studies of Fascism and Communism. He is Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the Free University of Berlin, where he taught from 1973 to 1991. He was previously a Professor at the University of Marburg...

    , German; fascism and communism

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  • Robin O'Neil
    Robin O'Neil
    Doctor Robin O'Neil is a former police major crimes investigator who worked at the sharp end of major criminal investigations in the United Kingdom and Central Europe. Formerly of Scotland Yard, the Metropolitan and Home Counties Police service, he then took up the challenge of Academia...

    , Holocaust
  • Josiah Ober
    Josiah Ober
    Josiah Ober is an American historian and classical political theorist. He is currently the Constantine Mitsotakis Chair of Classics and Political Science at Stanford University...

    , ancient Greece
  • Heiko Oberman
    Heiko Oberman
    Heiko Augustinus Oberman was a historian and theologian who specialized in the study of the Reformation.-Life:...

    , Reformation
  • W. H. Oliver
    W. H. Oliver
    W.H. Oliver is a New Zealand historian and poet, born in Feilding, on 14 May 1925, the son of Cornish immigrants. He studied at Victoria University of Wellington and completed a PhD at Oxford University in 1953. He returned to New Zealand and lectured at University of Canterbury and Victoria,...

     (born 1925), New Zealand
  • Charles Oman
    Charles Oman
    Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman was a British military historian of the early 20th century. His reconstructions of medieval battles from the fragmentary and distorted accounts left by chroniclers were pioneering...

    , 19th century military
  • Michael Oren
    Michael Oren
    Michael B. Oren is an American-born Israeli historian and author and the Israeli ambassador to the United States...

    , Modern middle east
  • Ilber Ortayli
    Ilber Ortayli
    İlber Ortaylı , is a leading Turkish historian, professor of history at the Galatasaray University in Istanbul and at Bilkent University in Ankara...

    , Turkish of the Ottoman Empire
  • Richard Overy
    Richard Overy
    Richard Overy is a British historian who has published extensively on the history of World War II and the Third Reich. In 2007 as The Times editor of Complete History of the World he chose the 50 key dates of world history....

    , WW2
  • Steven Ozment
    Steven Ozment
    Steven E. Ozment is an American historian of early modern and modern Germany, the European family, and the Protestant Reformation....

    , Germany

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  • Hasan Bülent Paksoy, Central Asia
  • Ilan Pappé
    Ilan Pappé
    Ilan Pappé is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the UK, director of the university's European Centre for Palestine Studies, co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies, and political activist...

    , Israel
  • Simo Parpola
    Simo Parpola
    Simo Parpola is a Finnish archaeologist, currently professor of Assyriology at the University of Helsinki. He specialized in epigraphy of the Akkadian language, and has been working on the Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project since 1987...

    , Ancient Middle East
  • J. H. Parry
    J. H. Parry
    John Horace Parry CMG, MBE was a distinguished maritime historian, who served as Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard University.-Early life and education:John Parry was the son of a teacher, Walter Austin Parry and his wife Ethel Piddock...

    ,(1914–1982) maritime
  • Thomas Paterson
    Thomas Paterson
    Thomas Paterson was an Australian farmer and politician.Paterson was born in Aston, near Birmingham, England and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and Ayr Grammar School. He became a shoe salesman in 1897 and later a branch manager, but resigned in 1908 to study farming...

     Cold War
  • Peter Paret
    Peter Paret
    Peter Paret is American military, cultural & art historian with a particular interest in German history. Paret was born in Berlin, Germany, the son of Dr. Hans Paret and Suzanne Aimée Cassirer, who divorced in 1932...

    , military
  • Geoffrey Parker
    Geoffrey Parker (historian)
    Noel Geoffrey Parker is a leading hispanist and expert on military history. His best known book is Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800, first published by Cambridge University Press in 1988. A fellow of the British Academy, he holds his BA, MA, Ph.D. and...

    , early modern military
  • Abel Paz
    Abel Paz
    Abel Paz was a Spanish anarchist, former combatant and historian.Abel Paz was the pen name of Diego Camacho. He was born in Almería in 1921, and moved with his family to Barcelona in 1929...

     Spanish anarchist movement
  • Henry Francis Pelham
    Henry Francis Pelham
    Henry Francis Pelham was an English scholar and historian. He was the son of John Thomas Pelham , bishop of Norwich, third son of Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester....

    , Roman
  • Morgan D. Peoples
    Morgan D. Peoples
    Morgan Dewey Peoples was a historian who coauthored with Michael L. Kurtz the definitive biography of the late Louisiana Governor Earl Kemp Long. Peoples was a member of the Louisiana Tech University at Ruston history department faculty from 1965 until his retirement in 1985...

    , Louisiana
  • William Armstrong Percy, Medieval Europe and ancient Greek and Roman, homosexuality
  • Detlev Peukert
    Detlev Peukert
    Detlev Peukert was a German historian, noted for his studies of the relationship between what he called the "spirit of science" and the Holocaust and in social history and the Weimar Republic. Peukert taught modern history at the University of Essen and served as director of the Research Institute...

    , of Alltagsgeschichte
    Alltagsgeschichte
    Alltagsgeschichte is a form of microhistory that was particularly prevalent amongst German historians during the 1980s. It was founded by historians Alf Luedtke and Hans Medick....

     (of everyday life) in the Weimar & Nazi eras.
  • Liza Picard
    Liza Picard
    Liza Picard is an English historian specialising in the history of London.After reading law at the London School of Economics she was called to the bar by Gray's Inn when she was 21. She did not practice as a barrister, although she did write a book called Questions and Answers on Private...

    , London
  • Boris B. Piotrovsky, (1908–1990), Urartu
    Urartu
    Urartu , corresponding to Ararat or Kingdom of Van was an Iron Age kingdom centered around Lake Van in the Armenian Highland....

     and Scythia
    Scythia
    In antiquity, Scythian or Scyths were terms used by the Greeks to refer to certain Iranian groups of horse-riding nomadic pastoralists who dwelt on the Pontic-Caspian steppe...

  • Richard Pipes
    Richard Pipes
    Richard Edgar Pipes is an American academic who specializes in Russian history, particularly with respect to the Soviet Union...

    , Russian and Soviet
  • Henri Pirenne
    Henri Pirenne
    Henri Pirenne was a Belgian historian. A medievalist of Walloon descent, he wrote a multivolume history of Belgium in French and became a national hero....

    , Belgium; medieval
  • J.H. Plumb, (1911–2001), British of the 18th century
  • J. G. A. Pocock (born 1924), early modern period
    Early modern period
    In history, the early modern period of modern history follows the late Middle Ages. Although the chronological limits of the period are open to debate, the timeframe spans the period after the late portion of the Middle Ages through the beginning of the Age of Revolutions...

     and Enlightenment
    Age of Enlightenment
    The Age of Enlightenment was an elite cultural movement of intellectuals in 18th century Europe that sought to mobilize the power of reason in order to reform society and advance knowledge. It promoted intellectual interchange and opposed intolerance and abuses in church and state...

  • Roy Porter
    Roy Porter
    Roy Sydney Porter was a British historian noted for his prolific work on the history of medicine.-Life:...

    , (1946–2002), of medicine & Britain
  • Gordon W. Prange, American, World War II Pacific, notably Pearl Harbor and Midway
  • Joshua Prawer
    Joshua Prawer
    Joshua Prawer was a notable Israeli historian and a scholar of the Crusades and Kingdom of Jerusalem.His work often attempted to portray Crusader society as a forerunner to later European colonialist expansion...

    , Crusades
  • Janko Prunk
    Janko Prunk
    Janko Prunk is a Slovenian historian of modern history. He has published articles and monographs on analytical politology, modern history, the genesis of modern political formations, and the history of social and political philosophy in Slovenia...

    , (born 1942) Slovenian

R

  • Werner Rahn
    Werner Rahn
    Werner Rahn , is a naval historian and former German naval officer.-Professional career:Werner Rahn entered the Naval Academy Mürwik and served at sea and ashore in a variety of appointments, reaching the rank of captain. He studied history at the University of Hamburg under Professor Dr...

    , German naval
  • Jack N. Rakove
    Jack N. Rakove
    Jack Norman Rakove is an American historian, author, professor at Stanford University, and Pulitzer Prize winner.-Biography:...

    , US Constitution and early politics
  • Šerbo Rastoder
    Šerbo Rastoder
    Prof. Šerbo Rastoder, PhD is a Montenegrin Bosniak historian. He is also an author, writing about the history of Montenegro and about a few specific parts in Montenegro's history...

    , Montenegrin
  • René Rémond
    René Rémond
    -Biography:Born in Lons-le-Saunier, Rémond was the Secretary General of Jeunesses étudiantes Catholiques and a member of the International YCS Center of Documentation and Information in Paris, presently the International Secretariat of International Young Catholic Students The author of books on...

    , French political
  • Henry A. Reynolds (born 1938), Australian
  • Susan Reynolds
    Susan Reynolds
    Susan Reynolds is a British medieval historian whose 1994 book Fiefs and Vassals: the Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted was part of the attack on the concept of feudalism as classically portrayed by previous historians such as François-Louis Ganshof and Marc Bloch.She believes that the technical...

    , medieval
  • Richard Rhodes
    Richard Rhodes
    Richard Lee Rhodes is an American journalist, historian, and author of both fiction and non-fiction , including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb , and most recently, The Twilight of the Bombs...

    , World War II, Hydrogen Bomb
  • Nicholas V. Riasanovsky
    Nicholas V. Riasanovsky
    Nicholas Valentine Riasanovsky was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and the author of numerous books on Russian history. He was born in Harbin, China to lawyer Valentin A. Riasanovskii and Antonia Riasanovskii, a novelist...

    , Russian
  • Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond
    Herbert Richmond
    Admiral Sir Herbert William Richmond KCB was a prominent naval officer, who also served as Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at Cambridge University and Master of Downing College, Cambridge...

    , British naval
  • Jonathan Riley-Smith
    Jonathan Riley-Smith
    Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-Smith, K.St.J., Ph.D. MA, Litt.D., FRHistS is an historian of the Crusades, and a former Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History...

    , Crusades
  • Blaze Ristovski
    Blaže Ristovski
    Blaže Ristovski is Macedonian literary historian, linguist, folklorist and historian....

    , Macedonian
  • Charles Ritcheson
    Charles Ritcheson
    Charles Ray Ritcheson is an American historian, diplomat, and |university administrator].-Early life and education:...

    , Anglo-American relations 1775-1815
  • Gerhard Ritter
    Gerhard Ritter
    Gerhard Georg Bernhard Ritter was a conservative German historian.-Before the Third Reich:...

    , German
  • Andrew Roberts, British
  • J. M. Roberts, European
  • N.A.M. Rodger, British naval
  • William Ledyard Rodgers
    William Ledyard Rodgers
    William Ledyard Rodgers was a Vice Admiral of the United States Navy. His career included service in the Spanish-American War and World War I, and a tour as President of the Naval War College...

    , ancient naval
  • Theodore Ropp
    Theodore Ropp
    Theodore Ropp was a professor at Duke University and recognized as the leading military historian in the United States.-Early life and education:...

    , military
  • W.J. Rorabaugh, 19th and 20th century U.S.
  • Ron Rosenbaum
    Ron Rosenbaum
    -Life and career:Rosenbaum was born into a Jewish family in New York City, New York and grew up in Bay Shore, New York. He graduated from Yale University in 1968 and won a Carnegie Fellowship to attend Yale's graduate program in English Literature, though he dropped out after taking one course...

    , Hitler
  • Charles E. Rosenberg
    Charles E. Rosenberg
    Charles E. Rosenberg is an American Professor of the History of Science and the Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences at Harvard University.-Biography:...

    , medicine and science
  • Stephen Roskill
    Stephen Roskill
    Captain Stephen Wentworth Roskill, CBE, DSC, FBA, DLitt was a career officer in the Royal Navy, serving during the Second World War and, after his enforced medical retirement, served as the official historian of the Royal Navy from 1949 to 1960...

    , British naval
  • Theodore Roosevelt
    Theodore Roosevelt
    Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...

    , War of 1812, frontier
  • Michael Rostovtzeff
    Michael Rostovtzeff
    Mikhail Ivanovich Rostovtzeff, or Rostovtsev was one of the 20th century's foremost authorities on ancient Greek, Iranian, and Roman history....

    , ancient
  • Hans Rothfels
    Hans Rothfels
    Hans Rothfels was a nationalist conservative German historian. He supported an idea of authoritarian German state, dominance of Germany over Europe and was hostile to Germany's eastern neighbours...

    , modern German
  • Sheila Rowbotham
    Sheila Rowbotham
    Sheila Rowbotham is a British socialist feminist theorist and writer.-Early life:Rowbotham was born in Leeds, the daughter of a salesman for an engineering company and an office clerk From an early age, she was deeply interested in history...

    , (born 1943) Feminism Socialism
  • Herbert H. Rowen
    Herbert H. Rowen
    Herbert Harvey Rowen, , was a noted American historian of Early Modern Europe and "arguably the most important English-speaking historian of the Dutch Republic since John Lothrop Motley."-Early life and education:The son of Joseph M...

    , Dutch
  • A. L. Rowse
    A. L. Rowse
    Alfred Leslie Rowse, CH, FBA , known professionally as A. L. Rowse and to friends and family as Leslie, was a British historian from Cornwall. He is perhaps best known for his work on Elizabethan England and his poetry about Cornwall. He was also a Shakespearean scholar and biographer...

    , (1903–1997), English
  • Miri Rubin
    Miri Rubin
    Miri Rubin is a medieval historian who is Professor of Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London. She was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Cambridge, where she gained her doctorate....

    , social, Europe 1100-1600
  • George Rudé
    George Rudé
    George Rudé was a British Marxist historian, specializing in the French Revolution and "history from below," especially the importance of crowds in history.-Summary:...

    , (1910–1993), French revolution
  • R. J. Rummel
    R. J. Rummel
    Rudolph Joseph Rummel is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaii. He has spent his career assembling data on collective violence and war with a view toward helping their resolution or elimination...

    , genocide
  • Steven Runciman
    Steven Runciman
    The Hon. Sir James Cochran Stevenson Runciman CH — known as Steven Runciman — was a British historian known for his work on the Middle Ages...

    , Crusades
  • Leila J.Rupp, feminist
  • Conrad Russell, 17th century Britain
  • Cornelius Ryan
    Cornelius Ryan
    Cornelius Ryan, was an Irish journalist and author mainly known for his writings on popular military history, especially his World War II books: The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 D-Day , The Last Battle , and A Bridge Too Far .-Early life:Ryan was born in Dublin and educated at Synge Street CBS,...

    , (1920–1974), World War II, popular
  • Boris Rybakov
    Boris Rybakov
    Boris Alexandrovich Rybakov was a Soviet and Russian historian who personified the anti-Normanist vision of Russian history....

    , (1908–2001), leader of Soviet anti-Normanists

S

  • Ram Sharan Sharma
    Ram Sharan Sharma
    Ram Sharan Sharma was an eminent historian of Ancient and early Medieval India. He had taught at Patna University, Delhi University and the University of Toronto and was a senior fellow at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; University Grants Commission National Fellow...

     Ancient India
  • Edgar V. Saks
    Edgar V. Saks
    Edgar Valter Saks was an Estonian statesman, amateur historian and author. He was Estonian Minister of Public Education in exile from May 8, 1971 until his death...

    , (1910–1984), Estonian
  • Richard G. Salomon
    Richard G. Salomon
    Richard Georg Salomon was an historian of eastern European medieval history and historian of the Episcopal Church in the United States, who taught at the University of Hamburg in Germany and at Kenyon College and its Episcopal Church seminary Bexley Hall in Ohio USA.-Early life and education:The...

    , (1884–1966), medieval and Church
  • J. Salwyn Schapiro
    J. Salwyn Schapiro
    Jacob Salwyn Schapiro was a Professor Emeritus of History at the City College of New York.-Work:In his book, Liberalism and the Challenge of Fascism, Schapiro set out to discuss the changes in both England and France. Prof...

    , fascism
  • Dominic Sandbrook
    Dominic Sandbrook
    Dominic Sandbrook http://dominicsandbrook.com/wordpress/about/ is a British historian. Born in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, he was educated at Malvern College...

    , (born 1974), modern Britain and the United States
  • Usha Sanyal
    Usha Sanyal
    Dr. Usha Sanyal, Ph.D.History Columbia University, is a scholar and historian specializing in Asia. Her dissertation concerned the Islamic legal scholar Ahmed Rida Khan, founder of the Barelwi movement. Later published in book form, it is often cited by historians writing about India and Islam...

    , Asian, Islam and Sufism
  • Simon Schama
    Simon Schama
    Simon Michael Schama, CBE is a British historian and art historian. He is a University Professor of History and Art History at Columbia University. He is best known for writing and hosting the 15-part BBC documentary series A History of Britain...

    , (born 1945), British, Dutch, American, French
  • Arthur Schlesinger, Sr. American social
  • Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
    Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
    Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. was an American historian and social critic whose work explored the American liberalism of political leaders including Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy. A Pulitzer Prize winner, Schlesinger served as special assistant and "court historian"...

    , Andrew Jackson, New Deal, politics
  • Jean-Claude Schmitt
    Jean-Claude Schmitt
    Jean-Claude Schmitt is a prominent French medievalist, the former student of Jacques Le Goff. He studies the socio-cultural aspects of medieval history in Western Europe and has made important contributions in his use of anthropological and art historical methods to interpret history...

    , Middle Ages
  • David Schoenbaum
    David Schoenbaum
    David Schoenbaum is an American social scientist and historian.He was teaching as a professor of History at the University of Iowa until 2008. Schoenbaum received his BA at the University of Wisconsin–Madison...

    , modern German & American-Israeli relations.
  • Carl Schorske, Vienna, Modernism, intellectual
  • Paul W. Schroeder
    Paul W. Schroeder
    Paul W. Schroeder is an American historian and professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois, specializing in the late sixteenth- to twentieth-century European international politics, Central Europe, and the theory of history...

    , European diplomacy
  • D. M. Schurman
    D. M. Schurman
    Donald Mackenzie Schurman was a professor of history at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, and also served at the Royal Military College of Canada. In the Festschrift published in his honour in 1997, the editors hailed D. M...

    , British imperial and naval
  • William Henry Scott
    William Henry Scott (historian)
    William Henry Scott was a historian of the Gran Cordillera Central and Prehispanic Philippines. He personally rejected the description anthropologist as applying to himself.-Early life:...

    , (1921–1993), Philippine Cordillera, Pre-colonial Philippines
  • Joan Scott Feminism
  • Howard Hayes Scullard
    Howard Hayes Scullard
    Howard Hayes Scullard was a British historian specializing in ancient history, notable for editing the Oxford Classical Dictionary and for his many books....

    , (1903–1983), ancient
  • Tom Segev
    Tom Segev
    Tom Segev is an Israeli historian, author and journalist. He is associated with Israel's so-called New Historians, a group challenging many of the country's traditional narratives.-Early life:Segev was born in Jerusalem in 1945...

    , Israeli
  • Robert Service
    Robert Service (historian)
    Robert John Service is a British historian, academic, and author who has written extensively on the history of Soviet Russia, particularly the era from the October Revolution to Stalin's death...

     Soviet and Russian
  • James J. Sheehan
    James J. Sheehan
    James J. Sheehan is an American historian of modern Germany and the former president of the American Historical Association .Born in San Francisco in 1937, Sheehan earned a B.A. from Stanford University in 1958 and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964...

     modern German
  • William L. Shirer
    William L. Shirer
    William Lawrence Shirer was an American journalist, war correspondent, and historian, who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, a history of Nazi Germany read and cited in scholarly works for more than 50 years...

    , American journalist, expert on the Third Reich,
  • Dasharatha Sharma
    Dasharatha Sharma
    Professor Dasharatha Sharma was an Indologist and a noted expert in the history of the Rajasthan region in India. He was born in the Rajasthani city of Churu and studied at Churu, the city of Bikaner in Rajasthan and at the University of Delhi. Prof. Sharma had degrees of Master of Arts in...

    , Rajasthan
  • He Shu
    He Shu
    He Shu is a magazine editor and historian of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Barred from entering high school in 1964 because of his father’s ”rightism”, he ended up becoming a temporary contract laborer. In 1972, permanently employed as a worker in the Chongqing Steel Plant...

    , (born 1948), Chinese Cultural Revolution
  • Keith Sinclair
    Keith Sinclair
    Sir Keith Sinclair, CBE was a poet and noted historian of New Zealand.Born and raised in Auckland, Sinclair was a student at Auckland University College, which was then part of the University of New Zealand. He was awarded a Ph.D...

     (1922–1993), New Zealand
  • Helene J. Sinnreich
    Helene J. Sinnreich
    Helene Julia Sinnreich is Director of the Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies at Youngstown State University. She is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Jewish Identities. She is Executive Director of the Ohio Council for Holocaust Education and served as a Charles H...

    , Holocaust
  • Nathan Sivin
    Nathan Sivin
    Nathan Sivin , also known as Xiwen is an American author, scholar, sinologist, historian, essayist, and currently professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania...

    , China
  • Quentin Skinner
    Quentin Skinner
    Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner is the Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London.-Biography:...

    , early modern Britain
  • Alexandre Skirda
    Alexandre Skirda
    Alexandre Skirda was born in 1942. His mother was Ukrainian and his father was Russian. He is a historian and a translator, specializing in the Russian anarchist revolutionary movement. His writing is in French.-Books in French:...

    , Russian
  • Theda Skocpol
    Theda Skocpol
    Theda Skocpol is an American sociologist and political scientist at Harvard University. She served from 2005 to 2007 as Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She is influential in sociology as an advocate of the historical-institutional and comparative approaches, and well-known in...

    , Institutions and comparative method; sociological
  • Richard Slotkin
    Richard Slotkin
    Richard Slotkin is a cultural critic and historian. He is the Olin Professor of English and American Studies at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, and in 2010 was elected a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1995 he received the Mary C...

    , American environment & West
  • Cornelius Cole Smith, Jr.
    Cornelius Cole Smith, Jr.
    The year of his college graduation, Smith became a commissioned officer in the Marine Corps Reserve as a second lieutenant. He was present at the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, where he was serving as officer of the day at the Marine barracks in the Pearl Harbor Navy...

     (1913–2004), military history
    Military history
    Military history is a humanities discipline within the scope of general historical recording of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, their cultures, economies and changing intra and international relationships....

    , expert on the American Old West
    American Old West
    The American Old West, or the Wild West, comprises the history, geography, people, lore, and cultural expression of life in the Western United States, most often referring to the latter half of the 19th century, between the American Civil War and the end of the century...

  • Digby Smith
    Digby Smith
    Digby Smith is a British military historian. The son of a British career soldier, he was born in Hampshire, England, but spent several years in India and Pakistan as a child and youth. As a "boy soldier," he entered training in the British Army at the age of 16...

    , Military
  • Henry Nash Smith
    Henry Nash Smith
    Henry Nash Smith was an American culture and literature researcher. He was co-founder of the academic discipline "American studies"...

     US cultural
  • Jean Edward Smith
    Jean Edward Smith
    Jean Edward Smith, Ph.D is professor at Marshall University and biographer. Currently he is the John Marshall Professor of Political Science at Marshall University and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto after having served as professor of political economy there for thirty-five years...

     US Foreign Policy, Constitutional Law, Biography,
  • Justin Harvey Smith
    Justin Harvey Smith
    Justin Harvey Smith was an American historian, specialist on the Mexican-American War....

    , Mexican-American war
  • Richard Norton Smith
    Richard Norton Smith
    Richard Norton Smith is an American historian and author specializing in US presidents.-Life:Born in Leominster, Massachusetts, in 1953, Smith graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1975 with a degree in government...

    , U.S. presidential
  • T. C. Smout
    Christopher Smout
    Thomas Christopher Smout CBE, FBA, FRSE, is a Scottish academic, historian, author and Historiographer Royal in Scotland.-Career:Smout taught at the University of Edinburgh, from 1959 until 1980...

     Scottish environmental and social
  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was aRussian and Soviet novelist, dramatist, and historian. Through his often-suppressed writings, he helped to raise global awareness of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system – particularly in The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of...

    , (born 1918), Russian Gulag
  • Louis Leo Snyder
    Louis Leo Snyder
    Louis Leo Snyder was an American-born German scholar who witnessed the Nazi mass meetings and wrote about them in Hitlerism: The Iron Fist in Germany. He predicted Adolf Hitler's rise to power, alliance with Benito Mussolini, and war upon the French and the Jews.His 1932 book Hitler and Nazism ...

    , German nationalism
  • Timothy D. Snyder, United States
  • Albert Soboul
    Albert Soboul
    Albert Marius Soboul was a French historian of the French Revolution and of Napoleon. A professor at the Sorbonne, he was Chair of the History of the French Revolution and author of numerous influential works of history and historical interpretation.-Early life and education:Albert Marius Soboul...

    , (1913–1982), French revolution
  • Richard Southern
    Richard Southern
    Sir Richard William Southern , who published under the name R. W. Southern, was a noted English medieval historian, based at the University of Oxford.-Biography:...

    , medieval
  • Dr. E. Lee Spence, (born 1947), shipwrecks
  • Jonathan Spence
    Jonathan Spence
    Jonathan D. Spence is a British-born historian and public intellectual specializing in Chinese history. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University from 1993 to 2008. His most famous book is The Search for Modern China, which has become one of the standard texts on the last several...

    , Chinese
  • Jackson J. Spielvogel
    Jackson J. Spielvogel
    Jackson Joseph Spielvogel is an associate professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University. His textbooks are commonly used in high school and college Western Civilization classes. Spielvogel holds a Ph.D., from Ohio State University, and specialized in Reformation history under the supervision...

    , world
  • Kenneth Stampp, South, slavery
  • David Starkey
    David Starkey
    David Starkey, CBE, FSA is a British constitutional historian, and a radio and television presenter.He was born the only child of Quaker parents, and attended Kendal Grammar School before entering Cambridge through a scholarship. There he specialised in Tudor history, writing a thesis on King...

    , (born 1945), Tudor
  • James M. Stayer
    James M. Stayer
    James M. Stayer is a historian specializing in the German Reformation, particularly the anabaptist movement. He is also a Professor Emeritus at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada....

    , German Reformation
  • Wickham Steed
    Wickham Steed
    Henry Wickham Steed was a British journalist and historian. He was editor of The Times from 1919 until 1922.-Life:...

    , Eastern Europe.
  • Valerie Steele
    Valerie Steele
    Valerie Fahnestock Steele is a fashion historian, curator, and director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York...

    , fashion
  • Gerald J. Steinacher, Nazi-Germany
  • Jean Stengers
    Jean Stengers
    Jean Stengers was a Belgian historian.A precocious and brilliant student, Stengers entered the Free University of Brussels in 1939, at the age of 17. He published his first scholarly article two years later in the Belgian Review of Philology and History...

    , Belgian
  • Frank Stenton
    Frank Stenton
    Sir Frank Merry Stenton was a 20th century historian of Anglo-Saxon England, and president of the Royal Historical Society . He was the author of Anglo-Saxon England, a volume of the Oxford History of England, first published in 1943 and widely considered a classic history of the period...

    , Anglo-Saxon
  • Fritz Stern
    Fritz Stern
    Fritz Richard Stern is a German-born American historian of German history, Jewish history, and historiography. He is a University Professor Emeritus and a former provost at New York's Columbia University...

    , Germany & Jewish
  • Zeev Sternhell
    Zeev Sternhell
    Zeev Sternhell is an Israeli historian and one of the world's leading experts on Fascism. Sternhell headed the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and writes for Haaretz newspaper.-Biography:...

    , fascism.
  • William N. Still, Jr.
    William N. Still, Jr.
    William Norwood Still, Jr. , is an American maritime historian, who was the first director of the program in maritime history at East Carolina University and a noted author of works on Civil War history and U.S...

    , U.S. naval and Confederate naval
  • Lawrence Stone
    Lawrence Stone
    Lawrence Stone was an English historian of early modern Britain. He is noted for his work on the English Civil War and marriage.-Biography:...

    , early modern British social, economic and family
  • Norman Stone
    Norman Stone
    Norman Stone is a British academic, historian, author and is currently a Professor in the Department of International Relations at Bilkent University, Ankara...

    , military
  • Hew Strachan
    Hew Strachan
    Brigadier Professor Hew Francis Anthony Strachan, DL, FRSE, FRHS is a Scottish military historian, well known for his work on the administration of the British Army and the history of the First World War...

    , military
  • Floyd Benjamin Streeter
    Floyd Benjamin Streeter
    Floyd Benjamin Streeter was an American historian and writer best known for his biography of Ben Thompson.Floyd Benjamin Streeter was a historian and librarian of Hays City Kansas State College . Streeter wrote a number of books on topics related to the Old West...

    , Kansas, Old American West
  • Michael Stürmer
    Michael Stürmer
    Michael Stürmer is a right-wing German historian best known for his role in the Historikerstreit of the 1980s, for his geographical interpretation of German history and for an admiring 2008 biography of the Russian leader Vladimir Putin .Born in Kassel, Germany, Stürmer received his education in...

    , modern German
  • Viktor Suvorov
    Viktor Suvorov
    Viktor Suvorov is the pen name for Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun , a former Soviet and now British writer of Russian and Ukrainian descent who writes primarily in Russian, as well as a former Soviet military intelligence spy who defected to the UK...

    , Soviet
  • David Syrett
    David Syrett
    David Syrett was Distinguished Professor of History at Queens College, City University of New York in Flushing, New York and a widely respected researcher and documentary editor on eighteenth-century British naval history and the Battle of the Atlantic during World War Two.-Early life and...

    , British naval
  • Ronald Syme
    Ronald Syme
    Sir Ronald Syme, OM, FBA was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist. Long associated with Oxford University, he is widely regarded as the 20th century's greatest historian of ancient Rome...

    , (1903–1989), ancient

T

  • J. L. Talmon,(1916–1980), Modern, "The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy
    Totalitarian democracy
    Totalitarian democracy is a term made famous by Israeli historian J. L. Talmon to refer to a system of government in which lawfully elected representatives maintain the integrity of a nation state whose citizens, while granted the right to vote, have little or no participation in the...

    "
  • A.J.P. Taylor, (1906–1990), Britain, modern European
  • Alasdair and Hettie Tayler, Scottish
  • Ronald Takaki
    Ronald Takaki
    Ronald Toshiyuki Takaki was an academic, historian, ethnographer and author. Born in Oahu, Hawai'i, his work addresses stereotypes of Asian Americans, such as the model minority concept.-Early life:...

    , (1939–2009), American, ethnic studies
  • Abdelhadi Tazi
    Abdelhadi Tazi
    Abdelhadi Tazi is a scholar, writer, historian and former Moroccan ambassador in various countries.Tazi was born in Fes, Morocco, and attended primary and secondary studies in his hometown...

    , (born 1921), Moroccan
  • Antonio Tellez
    Antonio Téllez
    Antonio Téllez Solá was a Spanish anarchist, journalist and historian.He fought on the Republican side against Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War. At the war's end in 1939, he went into exile in France...

    , (1921–2005), Spanish Anarchism and anti-fascist resistance
  • Harold Temperley
    Harold Temperley
    Harold William Vazeille Temperley was a British historian, Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge from 1931, and Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge.- Overview :...

    , (1879–1939), 19c and early 20c century diplomatic
  • Romila Thapar
    Romila Thapar
    Romila Thapar is an Indian historian whose principal area of study is ancient India.-Work:After graduating from Panjab University, Thapar earned her doctorate under A. L. Basham at the School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of London in 1958...

    , (born 1931), Ancient India
  • Barbara Thiering
    Barbara Thiering
    Barbara Thiering is an Australian nonfiction writer, historian, and Biblical exegete specialising in the origins of the early Christian Church. In books and journal articles, she challenges Christian orthodoxy, drawing on claimed new evidence that gives alternative answers to its supernatural...

    , (born 1930), Biblical
  • Joan Thirsk
    Joan Thirsk
    Irene Joan Watkins Thirsk, MA , PhD, FBA, FRHistS is a British economic and social historian, specialized in the History of agriculture. She is one of the leading economic and social historians of the 20th century, having greatly influenced the methodology and direction of research...

     ( born 1922), agriculture
  • Hugh Thomas, Spanish Civil War, Cuba, Atlantic Slave Trade
  • E. P. Thompson
    E. P. Thompson
    Edward Palmer Thompson was a British historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner. He is probably best known today for his historical work on the British radical movements in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in particular The Making of the English Working Class...

    , (1924–1993), British labour
  • John Toland
    John Toland (author)
    John Willard Toland was an American author and historian. He is best known for his bestselling biography of Adolf Hitler and for his Pulitzer Prize-winning World War II history of Japan, The Rising Sun.Toland was a graduate of Williams College, and he also attended the Yale School of Drama for a...

    , (1912–2004), WW1 and WW2 Histories
  • K. Ross Toole
    K. Ross Toole
    Kenneth Ross Toole was an American historian, author, and educator who specialized in the history of Montana...

    , (1920–1981), Montana
  • Ahmed Toufiq
    Ahmed Toufiq
    Ahmed Toufiq is a well-known writer and scholar from Morocco. He was born in 1943 in the High Atlas near the city of Marrakech.He presented his PhD in 1979 on the subject of social history in the Moroccan rural areas in the 19th century and worked as a professor of history in the Faculty of Letters...

    , (born 1943), Moroccan
  • Marc Trachtenberg
    Marc Trachtenberg
    Dr. Marc Trachtenberg is a professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D in History from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974 and taught for many years for the history department at the University of Pennsylvania before coming to UCLA...

    , Cold War
  • Hugh Trevor-Roper, (1914–2003), Nazi; British
  • Gil Troy
    Gil Troy
    Gil Troy is an American academic. Troy is Professor of History at McGill University in Montreal and a Visiting Scholar affiliated with the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington....

    , Modern American, the Presidency
  • Barbara Tuchman
    Barbara Tuchman
    Barbara Wertheim Tuchman was an American historian and author. She became known for her best-selling book The Guns of August, a history of the prelude to and first month of World War I, which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1963....

    , (1912–1989) 20c military
  • Robert C. Tucker
    Robert C. Tucker
    Robert Charles Tucker was an American political scientist.Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he was a Sovietologist at Princeton University. He served as an attaché at the American Embassy in Moscow from 1944–1953. He received his PhD degree from Harvard University in 1958; his doctoral dissertation...

    , Stalin
  • Peter Turchin
    Peter Turchin
    Peter Turchin is a Russian-American scientist, specializing in population biology and "cliodynamics" — mathematical modeling and statistical analysis of the dynamics of historical societies.- Biography :...

    , (born 1958), Cliodynamics
    Cliodynamics
    thumb|Clio—detail from [[The Art of Painting|The Allegory of Painting]] by [[Johannes Vermeer]]Cliodynamics is a new multidisciplinary area of research focused at mathematical modeling of historical dynamics.-Origins:The term was originally coined by Peter...

  • Henry Ashby Turner, Jr., 20c German
  • Frederick Jackson Turner
    Frederick Jackson Turner
    Frederick Jackson Turner was an American historian in the early 20th century. He is best known for his essay "The Significance of the Frontier in American History", whose ideas are referred to as the Frontier Thesis. He is also known for his theories of geographical sectionalism...

    , (1861–1932), American Frontier
  • Denis Twitchett, (1925–2006), China

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  • Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
    Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
    Laurel Thatcher Ulrich , is a historian of early America and the history of women and a university professor at Harvard University...

    , Early America
  • Mladen Urem
    Mladen Urem
    Mladen Urem is a literary critic, author and editor.Urem was born in Rijeka, Croatia, where he received his B. Sc. in radiology from the Medical School in Rijeka and also a B. A...

    , Croatian literary
  • Robert M. Utley
    Robert M. Utley
    Robert Marshall Utley is an author and historian who has written sixteen books on the history of the American West. He was a former chief historian of the National Park Service. Fellow historians commend Utley as the finest historian of the American frontier in the 19th century.The Western History...

    , (born 1929), 19th Century American West

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  • Jean-Pierre Vernant
    Jean-Pierre Vernant
    Jean-Pierre Vernant was a French historian and anthropologist, specialist in ancient Greece. Influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Vernant developed a structuralist approach to Greek myth, tragedy, and society which would itself be influential among classical scholars...

    ,(1914–2007), French, ancient Greece
  • Paul Veyne
    Paul Veyne
    Paul Veyne, born 13 June 1930 in Aix-en-Provence, is a French archaeologist and historian, and a specialist on Ancient Rome. A former student of the École normale supérieure and member of the École française de Rome, he is now honorary professor at the Collège de France.-Biography:From an ordinary...

    , French, ancient Greece and Rome
  • Pierre Vidal-Naquet
    Pierre Vidal-Naquet
    Pierre Emmanuel Vidal-Naquet was a French historian who began teaching at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in 1969....

    , (1930–2006), French, ancient Greece, Civil Rights activist
  • Hans van de Ven
    Hans van de Ven
    Johan 'Hans' van de Ven is an authority on the history of 19th and 20th century China. He holds several positions at the University of Cambridge, where he is Professor of Modern Chinese History, Chairman of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Management Committee member of the East...

    , Dutch-born British, modern China

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  • John Waiko
    John Waiko
    John Dademo Waiko, born in the village of Tabara in the Northern Province of Papua New Guinea in 1944, is a Papua New Guinean historian, anthropologist, playwright and politician....

     (born 1944), Papua New Guinean
  • J. Samuel Walker
    J. Samuel Walker
    J. Samuel Walker is an American historian and book author based in Maryland. Although not the subject of any widely known biography, he is notable for his widely recognized contribution to the enduring historical record in his specific field of study. His particular focus is on the nuclear age,...

     US NRC historian, nuclear energy and weapons
  • Retha Warnicke
    Retha Warnicke
    Retha Marvine Warnicke is an American historian and Professor of History at Arizona State University. Warnicke graduated with a B.A. from Indiana University, magna cum laude, in 1961. She then moved on to Harvard University, where she earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in 1963 and 1969, respectively...

    , (born 1939), Tudor & gender issues
  • Eugen Weber
    Eugen Weber
    Eugen Joseph Weber was a Romanian-born American historian with a special focus on Western Civilization and the Western Tradition....

    , modern French
  • Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, (1910–1997) British
  • Hans-Ulrich Wehler
    Hans-Ulrich Wehler
    Hans-Ulrich Wehler is a German historian known for his role in promoting social history through the "Bielefeld School", and for his critical studies of 19th century Germany.-Career:...

    , 19c German social
  • Russell Weigley
    Russell Weigley
    Russell Frank Weigley , PhD, was the Distinguished University Professor of History at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and a noted military historian. His research and teaching interests centered on American and world military history, World War II, and the American Civil War.Weigley...

    , military
  • Gerhard Weinberg
    Gerhard Weinberg
    Gerhard Ludwig Weinberg is a German-born American diplomatic and military historian noted for his studies in the history of World War II. Weinberg currently is the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been a member of the...

    , World War II
  • Roberto Weiss
    Roberto Weiss
    Roberto Weiss was an Italian-British scholar and historian, specialist in Italian-English cultural contacts during the period of Renaissance period and Renaissance humanism.-Early life:...

     Renaissance
  • Frank Welsh (born 1931), British imperial
  • Christopher Whatley
    Christopher Whatley
    Christopher Allan Whatley FRHistS, FRSE is a well-known and widely published Scottish historian. He has been Professor of Scottish History at the University of Dundee since 1997....

    , Scottish
  • John Wheeler-Bennett
    John Wheeler-Bennett
    Sir John Wheeler Wheeler-Bennett , GCVO, CMG, OBE, FBA, FRSL was a conservative English historian of German and diplomatic history, and the official biographer of King George VI.-Early career:...

    , German
  • John Whyte
    John Henry Whyte
    John Henry Whyte was an Irish historian, political scientist and author of books on Northern Ireland, divided societies and on church-state affairs in Ireland.-Early life:...

    , Northern Ireland and on divided societies
  • Christopher Wickham
    Christopher Wickham
    Christopher John Wickham, FBA is Chichele Professor of Medieval History in the University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College.-Biography:...

    , medieval
  • Alexander Wilkinson
    Alexander Wilkinson
    Colonel William Alexander Camac Wilkinson DSO, MC and Bar, GM was a highly decorated British Army officer and English cricketer. Australian born, he served with the British Army in both the First and Second World Wars...

    ,(born 1975)Early Modern European; books
  • Eric Williams
    Eric Williams
    Eric Eustace Williams served as the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. He served from 1956 until his death in 1981. He was also a noted Caribbean historian, and is widely regarded as "The Father of The Nation."...

    , (1911–1981), Guianese, Caribbean
    Caribbean
    The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...

  • Glanmor Williams
    Glanmor Williams
    Sir Glanmor Williams was one of Wales's most eminent historians.Sir Glanmor was born in Dowlais, into a working-class family, and was educated at Cyfarthfa Castle School. He studied at Aberystwyth alongside Alun Lewis and Emyr Humphreys, becoming a specialist in the early modern period of Welsh...

  • Glyndwr Williams
    Glyndwr Williams
    Glyndwr Williams has been Professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London since 1974 and has specialized in this history of exploration and the history of Europe overseas. He was appointed a professor emeritus of the University of London in 1997.-Academic career:Williams earned his...

    , exploration
  • William Appleman Williams
    William Appleman Williams
    William Appleman Williams was one of the 20th century's most prominent revisionist historians of American diplomacy, and has been called "the favorite historian of the Middle American New Left." He achieved the height of his influence while on the faculty of the Department of History at the...

     US diplomatic
  • Clyde N. Wilson
    Clyde N. Wilson
    Clyde N. Wilson is a professor of history at the University of South Carolina, U.S., a paleoconservative political commentator, a long-time contributing editor for Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture and Southern Partisan magazine, and an occasional contributor to National Review...

    , 19c US South
  • Ian Wilson, (born 1941) religious
  • Heinrich August Winkler
    Heinrich August Winkler
    Heinrich August Winkler is a German historian.After attending a Gymnasium in Ulm, he studied history, political science, philosophy and public law at Münster, Heidelberg and Tübingen. In 1970 he became professor at the Free University of Berlin. From 1972 to 1991 he was professor at the University...

    , (born 1938) German
  • Keith Windschuttle
    Keith Windschuttle
    Keith Windschuttle is an Australian writer, historian, and ABC board member, who has authored several books from the 1970s onwards. These include Unemployment, , which analysed the economic causes and social consequences of unemployment in Australia and advocated a socialist response; The Media: a...

    , (born 1942) Australian & historiography
  • Gordon Wright, Modern French
  • Robert S. Wistrich
    Robert S. Wistrich
    ‎Robert Solomon Wistrich is the Neuburger Professor of European and Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the head of the University's Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism. Wistrich is "a leading scholar of the history of antisemitism."-Early...

    , Anti-Semitism, Holocaust, Jews
  • John B. Wolf
    John Baptist Wolf
    John Baptiste Wolf was a historian, specializing in modern European history.-Life:Born in Ouray, Colorado, on July 16, 1907, Wolf was the son of a German immigrant....

    , French
  • Michael Wolffsohn
    Michael Wolffsohn
    Michael Wolffsohn is an Israeli-born German historian. Wolffsohn was born in Tel Aviv, in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine and today is Israel. His parents were German Jews who fled in 1939....

    , German Jewish
  • Gordon S. Wood
    Gordon S. Wood
    Gordon S. Wood is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University and the recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Radicalism of the American Revolution. His book The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 won a 1970 Bancroft Prize...

    , American Revolution
  • Michael Wood
  • C. Vann Woodward
    C. Vann Woodward
    Comer Vann Woodward was a preeminent American historian focusing primarily on the American South and race relations. He was considered, along with Richard Hofstadter and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., to be one of the most influential historians of the postwar era, 1940s-1970s, both by scholars and by...

    , (1908–1999), American South
  • Lucy Worsley
    Lucy Worsley
    Dr Lucy Worsley is a British historian and curator.Worsley was born and grew up in Reading. Her father is a geologist and Emeritus Professor at Reading University. Before going to University she attended St Bartholomew's School, Newbury...

    , British
  • Lawrence C. Wroth
    Lawrence C. Wroth
    Lawrence Counselman Wroth was an American historian and the author of The Colonial Printer, the definitive book on the American printing trade during the period of 1639 through 1800...

    , American printing trade

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  • Robert J. Young
    Robert J. Young
    Robert J. Young was a professor of History at the University of Winnipeg from 1967 until 2008. He specializes in 20th century European international politics. A graduate of the University of Saskatchewan and the London School of Economics, Young's doctoral dissertation was written under the...

    , French Third Republic.
  • Robert M. Young
    Robert M. Young (academic)
    For other people with this name, see Robert Young ----Robert Maxwell Young, usually known as Robert M. Young or Bob Young , is a historian of science specialising in the 19th century and particularly Darwinian thought, a philosopher of the biological and human sciences, and a Kleinian...

    , (born 1935), medicine

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  • Nicolas Zafra
    Nicolas Zafra
    Nicolas Zafra was Filipino historian and educator. He was professor emeritus of history at the University of the Philippines. He died on January 7, 1979...

    , (1892–1979), Filipino
  • Gregorio F. Zaide
    Gregorio F. Zaide
    Gregorio F. Zaide was a Filipino historian and author. A multiawarded author, Zaide wrote 67 books and 500 articles on history...

    , (1907–1986), Filipino
  • Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
    Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
    Alfred-Maurice de Zayas is an American lawyer, writer, historian, a leading expert in the field of human rights, as well as a former high-ranking United Nations official...

    , German
  • Howard Zinn
    Howard Zinn
    Howard Zinn was an American historian, academic, author, playwright, and social activist. Before and during his tenure as a political science professor at Boston University from 1964-88 he wrote more than 20 books, which included his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United...

    , (1922–2010) American
  • Rainer Zitelmann
    Rainer Zitelmann
    Rainer Zitelmann is a German historian, journalist and management consultant.- Life :Zitelmann studied history and political sciences at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences and completed his doctorate in 1986 under Prof. Dr...

    , German

See also

  • Historiography
    Historiography
    Historiography refers either to the study of the history and methodology of history as a discipline, or to a body of historical work on a specialized topic...

  • History
    History
    History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...

  • List of Canadian historians
  • List of Irish historians
  • List of Jewish historians
  • List of Russian historians
  • Lists of authors
  • Historian
    Historian
    A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...

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