List of historians
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 specialized.
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
Historians of the Ancient Period
- Appian, Roman history
- Dio Cassius, Roman history
- Herodian, Roman History
- Zosimus, Late Roman history
- Fa-Hien, Chinese Buddhist monk and historian, author of A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms: Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Hein of his Travels in India and Ceylon (399–414), In Search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline
- Gaius Acilius, Roman history
- Lucius Ampelius, Roman history
- Herodotus, (484–c. 420 BC), Halicarnassian (Persia), "Father of History"
- Thucydides, (460–c. 400 BC), Peloponnesian War
- Xenophon, (431–c. 360 BC), an Athenian knight and student of Socrates
- Berossus, (4th century BC), Babylonian historian
- Timaeus of Tauromenium, (c. 345–c. 250 BC), Greek history
- Polybius, (203–c. 120 BC), Early Roman history (written in Greek)
- Julius Caesar, (100–c. 44 BC), Gallic and civil wars
- Flavius Josephus, (37–100), Jewish history
- Sima Qian, (c. 140 BC), Chinese history
- Livy, (c. 59 BC–AD 17), Roman history
- Cremutius Cordus
- Sallust, (86–34 BC)
- Plutarch, (c. 46–120), would not have counted himself as an historian, but is a useful source because of his Parallel Lives of important Greeks and Romans.
- Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, (c. 56–c. 120), early Roman Empire
- Suetonius, (75–160), Roman emperors up to Flavian dynasty
- Thallus, Roman history
- Priscus, Byzantine history, 5th century
- Eusebius of Caesarea, (c. 275–339) Christian history
- Ammianus Marcellinus, (c. 325–c. 391)
- Curtius Rufus, (c. 60-70), Greek history
- Arrian, (c. 92-175), Greek history
- Quintus Fabius Pictor, Roman history
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman history
- Ban Gu, (Han Dynasty)
Medieval historians/chroniclers
- Shen Yue, (441-513), History of the (Liu) Song Dynasty (420-479)
- Jordanes, (6th century), Goths
- Procopius, (died c. 565), Byzantines
- Gregory of Tours, (538–594), Franks
- Bede, (c. 672–735), Anglo-Saxons
- Adamnan, Irish historian, 625-704
- Nennius, shadowy historian of Wales
- Paul the Deacon, (8th century), Langobards
- Tabari, 838–923, great Persian historian
- Ibn Rustah, d. 903, Persian historian and traveler
- Asser, Bishop of Sherborne, (died 908/909) - Welsh monk, Life of Alfred
- Einhard, (9th century) - Biography of Charlemagne
- Notker of St Gall, (9th century) - anecdotal Biography of Charlemagne
- Regino of Prüm, (died 915)
- Liutprand of Cremona, (922–972), Byzantine affairs
- Heriger of Lobbes, 925-1007
- Al-Biruni, (973–1048), Persian historian
- Geoffrey of Monmouth, churchman/historian
- Thietmar of Merseburg, German, Polish, and Russian affairs
- Nestor the Chronicler, author of the Russian Primary Chronicle
- Gallus Anonymus, Polish historian
- Albert of Aix, historian of the First Crusade
- Michael Psellus, (1018–c. 1078)
- Sima Guang, (1019–1086), historiographer and politician
- Marianus Scotus, (1028–1082/1083), Irish chronicler
- Guibert of Nogent, (1053–1124)
- Florence of Worcester, (died 1118), English chronicler
- Eadmer, (c. 1066–c. 1124), post-Conquest English history
- Symeon of Durham, (died after 1129), English chronicler
- William of Malmesbury, (c. 1080–c. 1143)
- Anna Comnena, (1083–after 1148)
- Usamah ibn Munqidh, (1095–1188)
- Adam of Bremen, historian of Scandinavia
- Kalhana, historian of Kashmir.
- Ata al-Mulk Juvayni, (1226-83), Persian historian
- Saxo Grammaticus, (12th century), Danish
- Svend Aagesen, (12th century), Danish
- Alured of Beverley, (12th century), English chronicler
- William of Tyre, (c. 1128–1186)
- William of Newburgh, (1135–1198), English historian called "the father of historical criticism"
- John of Worcester, (fl. 1150s), English chronicler
- Giraldus Cambrensis, (c. 1146–c. 1223)
- Wincenty Kadlubek, (1161–1223), Polish historian
- Ambroise, (fl. 1190s), Anglo-Norman poet, wrote verse narrative of the Third Crusade
- Geoffroi de Villehardouin, (c. 1160–1212)
- Nicetas Choniates, (died c. 1220)
- Snorri Sturluson, (c. 1178– 23th Sept.1241), Icelandic historian
- Matthew Paris, (died 1259)
- Salimbene di Adam, (1221–c. 1290), Italian
- Jean de Joinville, (1224–1319)
- Rashid al-Din, (1247–1317), Persian historian
- ibn Khaldun, (1332–1406), North African historian "of the world"
- Piers Langtoft, (died c. 1307)
- Abdullah Wassaf, 13th century, Persian historian
- Jean Froissart, (c. 1337–c. 1405), chronicler
- Dietrich of Nieheim, (c. 1345–1418), ecclesiastic history
- John of Fordun, scottish chronicler (d. 1384 )
- Álvar García de Santa María, (1370–1460)
- Alphonsus A Sancta Maria, (1396–1456)
- Jan Długosz, Polish historian and chronicler
- Philippe de Commines, French historian
- Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi, d. 1454, Persian historian
- John Capgrave, (1393–1464)
- Christine de Pizan, (c. 1365–c. 1430), historian, poet, philosopher
- Robert Fabyan, (died 1513)
- Albert Krantz, (1450–1517)
- Polydore Vergil, (c. 1470–1555), Tudor history
- Sigismund von Herberstein, (1486–1566), Muscovite affairs
- João de Barros, (1496–1570)
- Josias Simmler, (1530–1576)
- Paolo Paruta, (1540–1598), Venetian historian
- Raphael Holinshed, (died c. 1580)
- Hector Boece, Scottish philosopher and historian. Wrote "Historia Gentis Scotorum" (1465-1536)
- Caesar Baronius, (1538–1607)
- Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni, (1540–1615), Indo-Persian historian
- John Hayward, (1564–1627)
- Bahrey (1593), an Ethiopian monk and historian. Wrote Zenahu le Galla (History of the Galla, now Oromo)
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- Teimuraz Bagrationi, (1782–1846), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
- Archibald Bower, (1686–1766), Rome
- Josiah Burchett, British naval historian and Admiralty official
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- Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng, (1738–1801), Chinese historian, local histories and essays on historiography
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- Edward Gibbon, (1737–1794), Roman Empire and Byzantium, one of the all-time greats
- George Grote, (1794–1871), classical Greece
- François Guizot, (1787–1874), French historian of general French, English history
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- Edward Hasted, Kent
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, (1770–1831), German philosopher of history
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- Jules Michelet, (1798–1874), French
- François Mignet, (1796–1884), French historian of the Revolution, Middle Ages
- Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim, (1694–1755), Lutheran historian
- Johannes von Müller, (1752–1809)
- Ludovico Antonio Muratori, (1672–1750), Italy
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- Leopold von Ranke, (1795–1886), European diplomacy; probably the greatest German historian
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- Vasily Tatishchev, (1686–1750), first historian of modern Russia
- Adolphe Thiers, (1797–1877), French historian of the Revolution, Empire
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- Henry Adams, (1838–1918), US 1800-1816
- Grace Aguilar, (1816–1847), Jewish history
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- George Bancroft, (1800–1891), United States
- Wilhelm Barthold, (1869–1930), Muslim studies, Turkology
- Jacob Burckhardt, (1818–1897), art history, European history, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
- Montagu Burrows, first naval historian at a British university
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- Konstantin Kavelin, (1818–1885), history of Russian laws
- Alexander William Kinglake, (1809–1891), works on the Crimean War
- Vasily Klyuchevsky, (1841–1911), Russian history
- Ludwig von Köchel, (1800–1877), writer, composer, botanist, music historian
- Nikodim Kondakov, (1844–1925), Byzantine art
- Nikolay Kostomarov, (1817–1885), Russian and Ukrainian history
- Godefroid Kurth, (1847–1916), Belgian historian
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- Mary Wilhelmine Williams, (1878–1944), Latin America
- Spenser Wilkinson, British military historian
- Justin Winsor, (1831–1897), editor of the Narrative and Critical History of America, (8 vols., 1884-89)
Modern historians (after 1900)
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- Irving Abella, Canadian historian & author
- Robert G. Albion, maritime history
- Gar Alperovitz, American historian, Hiroshima
- Ida Altman, American historian, colonial Spain & Latin America
- Stephen Ambrose, (1936–2002), American; WW2, U.S. political, wrote Band of Brothers
- Charles McLean Andrews, (1863–1943), American; U.S. colonial history
- Joyce Appleby, American; US early national
- Herbert Aptheker, (1915–2003), American; African American history
- Philippe Aries, French; medieval; childhood
- Leonard J. Arrington, (1917–1999), American; Mormons
- Mikhail Artamonov, (1898–1972), founder of Khazar studies
- Zurab Avalishvili, (1876–1944), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
- Paul Avrich, Russian history, the Anarchist movement (chiefly in the United States)
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- Ahron Bregman, Arab-Israeli conflict
- Matthew Bailey, Kentucky history, "Home Elsewhere" two volume biography
- Yehuda Bauer, the Holocaust
- David E. Barclay, German history
- Harry Elmer Barnes, American historian.
- G.W.S. Barrow, Scottish history
- Jacques Barzun, (born 1907), cultural history
- Hanna Batatu, Palestinian historian and author of an authoritative study of modern Iraq
- Charles Bean, (1879–1968), Australia in World War I
- Charles A. Beard, (1874–1948), American historian, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
- Mary Ritter Beard, (1876–1958), American Historian and wife of Charles A. Beard
- Charles Bergquist, American historian, Latin American and labor history, author of Labor in Latin America: Comparative Essays on Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, and Colombia
- Isaiah Berlin, (1909–1997), history of ideas
- Michael Beschloss, (born 1955) American historian and celebrity intellectual, history of the U.S. presidency
- Nicholas Bethell, Soviet history
- David Blackbourn
- Geoffrey Blainey, Australian history
- Hanne Blank (born 1969), historian of virginity
- Marc Bloch, (1886–1944), medieval France.
- Gisela Bock, German feminist historian.
- Daniel J. Boorstin, (1914–2004), intellectual history, American history
- John Boswell, (1947–1994), medievalist and gay history
- Joanna Bourke, military history
- Mark Bowden, wrote Black Hawk Down regarding the Battle of Mogadishu
- Paul Boyer, American historian, author of By the Bomb's Early Light
- Karl Dietrich Bracher, (1922-), modern German history
- William Brandon, (1914–2002), historian of the American West and Native Americans
- Fernand Braudel
- Martin Broszat, (1926-1989) Nazi Germany
- Miland Brown, American historian who maintains the World History Blog
- Peter Brown
- Christopher Browning, the Holocaust
- Otto Brunner, medieval and early modern Austria
- Geoffrey Bruun (1899–1988), European civilization
- Alan Bullock, (1914–2004)
- Peter Burke
- Michael Burns - actor and historian
- J. B. Bury, classical history
- John Hill Burton, (1809–1881), Scottish Jacobin history
- Herbert Butterfield, author of The Whig Interpretation of History
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- Angus Calder, British historian, British history
- Helen Cam (1885–1968) English medieval historian
- Otto Maria Carpeaux, (1900–1978) foremost historian of literature
- E. H. Carr, (1892–1982) Soviet history, International Relations
- Paul Cartledge, Classical Historian (5th Century Athens and Sparta, and Alexander the Great)
- Carolyn Joyce Carty [1957- )Faith
- Lionel Casson
- Boris Celovsky, Czech-German relations
- M. Chahin, Armenian history
- Howard I. Chapelle, maritime history
- Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri, history of Leftism, Indian history
- Maher Charif, Palestinian historian specialising in modern Arab intellectual history and political movements
- Iris Chang, (1968-2004) Chinese in American & Japanese war crimes
- Guy Chet, Colonial America Warfare
- Alexander Campbell Cheyne, Scottish Ecclesiastical Historian
- Winston Churchill, (1874–1965) political, biographical, military history.
- J. C. D. Clark, British historian of ideas.
- Manning Clark, (1915–1991) pre-eminent in Australian history
- Robert Conquest, (born 1917) Russia, Soviet Union
- Nancy Cott, U.S. women's history
- Gordon A. Craig, (1913-) German history & diplomatic history
- Pamela Kyle Crossley, Chinese, Manchu and Central Asian history
- Dan Cruickshank, British and architectural history, TV presenter
- Margaret Campbell Speke Cruwys (1894-1968), Devon historian
- Vladimir Ćorović, Serbian historian
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- Robert Dallek, biographer of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson and John F. Kennedy
- Vahakn N. Dadrian, Armenian genocide
- David B. Danbom rural America
- Robert Darnton
- Lucy Dawidowicz, Jewish history and the Holocaust.
- Saul David, military history
- John Davies
- Norman Davies, Polish and British history
- Natalie Zemon Davis, feminist cultural historian, early modern France, film and history
- Kenneth S. Davis, biographer of Franklin D. Roosevelt
- R. H. C. Davis, British historian of European Middle Ages
- Vernon E. Davis, Vietnam war
- Graeme Davison, Australian Social Historian
- David Day, Australian historian
- Renzo De Felice, Italian fascism
- Carl N. Degler
- Esther Delisle, (b. 1954), French-Canadian historian & author
- John Demos, early America
- Isaac Deutscher, (1907–1967) biographer of Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin
- Tom M. Devine, Scottish historian
- Bernard DeVoto
- Igor M. Diakonov, (1914–1999), Ancient Near East
- Robert Divine, 20c diplomatic history
- David Herbert Donald Lincoln and Civil War
- Gordon Donaldson Scottish historian
- John W. Dower, Japan in 1940s
- Georges Duby, (1924–1996), Middle Ages
- Eamon Duffy, 15th-17th century religious history
- A. Hunter Dupree, American science and technology
- Trevor Dupuy
- Will Durant, philosopher and author of the Story of Civilization series
- Elizabeth Eisenstein, French Revolution, early printing, transitions in media
- Geoff Eley
- John Elliott, (born 1941) Early Modern Spain
- Joseph J. Ellis biographer of US Founding Fathers
- Geoffrey Elton, Tudor England
- Peter Englund, Swedish
- Richard J. Evans, German social history
- Alf Evers, (1905-2004) American historian
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- Cyril Falls, British military historian
- Ronan Fanning, Irish historian
- Brian Farrell, (born 1929)
- Lucien Febvre, (1878–1956), French historian
- Niall Ferguson, British historian, author of The Pity of War: Explaining World War I
- Marc Ferro, French historian
- Joachim Fest, (born 1926), Nazi Germany
- Heinrich Fichtenau (1912-2000), Austrian historian; medievalism, diplomatics
- Gerald Figal, (born 1962), 19th-20th Century Japan, Postwar Okinawa
- Orlando Figes, (born 1957), Russia
- Samuel Finer (1915–1993), political scientist and writer on world history
- Moses Finley, Historian of the Ancient World, especially Economic History
- David Hackett Fischer, American economic historian, author of The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
- Fritz Fischer, German historian
- Frances Fitzgerald, American journalist and historian, author of Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and Americans in Vietnam
- Robert Fogel, American economic history
- Eric Foner, Reconstruction
- Shelby Foote, (1916–2005), American Civil War
- Michel Foucault, (1926–1984), French historian of ideas / philosopher
- Robin Lane Fox, Oxford historian who has written on Alexander the Great and the Ancient World
- Elizabeth Fox-Genosvse, cultural & social history, women's history and Southern history
- Walter Frank, (1905–1945), Nazi historian and anti-Semitic writer
- H. Bruce Franklin, American historian of the Vietnam War, author of M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America
- Antonia Fraser, England
- Henry Friedlander, Holocaust historian.
- Saul Friedländer , history of the Holocaust
- Karl Friday, Heian Period Japan, early premodern Japanese warfare
- Sheppard Frere
- David Fromkin
- Bruno Fuligni
- Francis Fukuyama, (born 1955)
- François Furet, French historian
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- John Lewis Gaddis, diplomatic history
- François-Louis Ganshof, medieval history
- Lloyd Gardner, diplomatic history
- Franklin Garrett, history of Atlanta
- Peter Gay, psychohistory, European Enlightenment & 19th century social history
- Eugene Genovese, (1930-) Southern history
- Pieter Geyl, Dutch historian
- N.H. Gibbs, history of war
- William Gibson, ecclesiastical historian
- Martin Gilbert
- Carlo Ginzburg, pioneer of microhistory
- Carol Gluck, American historian, author of Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period
- George Peabody Gooch, (1873–1968), British historian, "British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914" (ed.)
- Andrew Gordon
- Bogo Grafenauer, (1916–1995), Slovene medievalist
- Gerald S. Graham, British imperial history
- A. Kirk Grayson, Ancient Middle East
- Peter Green, ancient history
- Vivian H. H. Green, (1915–2005), author of A New History of Christianity
- Lionel Groulx, (1878–1967), priest, historian
- Rene Grousset, wrote histories of Central Asia and the Near East
- Ranajit Guha, history of India and critical historiography
- Lev Gumilyov, (1912–1992), Soviet historian
- John Guy, leading Tudor specialist
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- Irfan Habib
- Harland Hagler, Early American, Old South
- Bruce Barrymore Halpenny, Airfields, WW2, Bomber & Fighter Command, Military Aircraft
- Dick Harrison, Swedish & Medieval history
- Nicholas G. L. Hammond, Macedonia and Greece
- Victor Davis Hanson, ancient warfare
- Clarence H. Haring, Latin American history
- Charles H. Haskins, Americans first medieval historian
- John Hattendorf, maritime historian
- Denys Hay, (1915–1994), medieval and Renaissance Europe
- Sir Thomas Little Heath, historian of ancient Greek mathematics
- Jeffrey Herf, German and European history
- Arthur Herman, American and British history
- John Donald Hicks, American history
- Raul Hilberg, history of the Holocaust
- Klaus Hildebrand, 19th-20th German history
- Christopher Hill (historian), (1912–2003), 17th century England
- Andreas Hillgruber, 20th German history
- Richard L. Hills (born 1936), history of technology
- Gertrude Himmelfarb, (born 1924) 19th century British intellectual, social and cultural history
- Harry Hinsley, (1918–1998), English historian and cryptanalyst (Bletchley Park)
- Eric Hobsbawm, (born 1917) British historian, labour history
- Marshall Hodgson, History of Islamic Civilization
- Richard Hofstadter, (1916–1970), American political historian, intellectual historian, author of The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made It, The Age of Reform, and Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
- David Hoggan, neo-Nazi historian.
- Michael F. Hollander, automotive historian and journalist.
- Richard Holmes, Military History.
- Sanford Holst, ancient history, Phoenicians, world history.
- Ed Hooper, Southern Appalachia, Tennessee, Old South
- Keith Hopkins, Ancient Historian and Sociologist.
- William Hoskins, Landscape History
- Albert Hourani, Middle Eastern history
- Daniel Horowitz, United States intellectual history; history of consumer culture
- Joseph Kinsey Howard, (1906-1951), history of Montana and prairie Canada
- Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, history of women, sexuality, and higher education
- Michiel Horn, Canadian history and Canadian academic history
- Heng Kang Wei, History of China and German states
- Alistair Horne, modern French history
- Michael Howard
- Johan Huizinga, Dutch historian, author of Waning of the Middle Ages
- Tristram Hunt, (born 1974)
- Michael Ignatieff, (born 1947) author of Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond
- Eiko Ikegami, Japanese historian, author of The Taming of the Samurai
- Jonathan Israel (born 1946), British historian of the Netherlands, the Age of Enlightenment and European Jewry
- Herbert Adams Gibbons
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- Muhammad Jaber, (1875–1945), history of the Levant and the Middle-East
- Eberhard Jäckel, Nazi Germany
- Harold James, modern Germany, modern European economic history
- Nikoloz Janashia, (1931–1982), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
- Simon Janashia, (1900–1947), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
- Pawel Jasienica, (1909–1970), Polish historian, Polish history
- Francis Jennings, history of native American peoples
- Marius Jensen, American historian, author of China in the Tokugawa World
- Paul Johansen, Estonian historian, medieval Estonian history
- Amy Johnson (I), American historian, modern Egyptian history
- Paul Johnson, (born 1928), British historian, Western civilization
- Mauno Jokipii, Finnish historian, World War II
- Gwyn Jones, medieval history
- Loe de Jong, Dutch historian, author of The Kingdom of the Netherlands during the Second World War
- Gregory J. Kasza, American historian, author of The State and the Mass Media in Japan, 1918-1945
- Tony Judt, British historian, specializing in contemporary European studies
- Donald Kagan, ancient Greek history
- John Keegan, (born 1934) English historian, popular military history
- Hans Kelsen, legal history
- John H. Kemble, American maritime historian
- Elizabeth Topham Kennan - medievalist and former president, Mount Holyoke College
- George F. Kennan, (a.k.a. 'X') American diplomat and historian, history of US-Soviet relations
- Paul Kennedy, British historian, author of influential The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
- Linda Kerber, women in Revolutionary America
- Ian Kershaw, German history
- Daniel J. Kevles, history of science, In the Name of Eugenics, and The Physicists
- France Kidrič, (1880–1950), literary history
- Vilen Khlgatyan, History of the ancient Near East
- Matti Klinge, Finnish historian
- R.J.B. Knight, British naval historian
- Bruce A. Knox, British Imperial History; Monarchialism and Republicanism in Australia
- Dudley Wright Knox, (1877 – 1960), American naval historian
- Gabriel Kolko
- Claudia Koonz, women's history under Nazi Germany.
- Halvdan Koth, Norwegian historian and politician
- Rotem Kowner, Japanese modern history
- Thomas Kuhn, (1922–1996), history of science, author of The Copernican Revolution, Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, and the influential The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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- Benjamin Woods Labaree, American colonial and maritime history
- Leonard Woods Labaree, editor of the Benjamin Franklin Papers
- Leopold Labedz(1920–1993), Soviet history
- Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, French historian, pioneer in the fields of history from below and microhistory
- Michael Laffan, Irish historian
- Andrew Lambert, British naval history
- William L. Langer, (1896–1977), US historian, World and diplomatic history
- David Lavender, (1910–2003), history of the American West
- Walter LaFeber, diplomatic history
- Melvyn Leffler, modern international relations
- Jacques LeGoff, medieval French historian
- William Leuchtenburg, American political and legal history
- Barbara Levick, English historian; Roman emperors
- Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, French historian
- Li Ao, (born 1935), Chinese historian
- Basil Liddell Hart, British military historian.
- Leon F. Litwack, American history, African-American history, author of Been in the Storm so Long: The Aftermath of Slavery, and Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow
- Mario Liverani Ancient Middle East
- James W. Loewen
- John Edward Lloyd, historian of Welshness
- David J. Logan, Australian history, The Role of The Crown in Australia
- William Roger Louis, history of the British Empire
- John Lukacs, Hungarian-American historian of modern Europe.
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- Sr. Margaret MacCurtain, Irish medievalist
- Charles B. MacDonald, World War II
- Forrest McDonald early national US, presidency
- K. B. McFarlane, English medievalist
- Kenneth "Kenny" McGuigan, Marxist Theory/History:“John Maclean - A Working Class Hero”2005
- Robert Machray
- Rosamond McKitterick
- Ramsay MacMullen, Roman history
- Magnus Magnusson, Norse history
- Piers Mackesy, British military history
- J. D. Mackie Scottish historian
- Leonard Maltin, famous Disney historian
- Charles Maier, 20th century Europe
- William Manchester, Author of "The Last Lion", among others. A definitive Chuchill biographer.
- Golo Mann, (1909–1994)
- Robert Mann, American historian of the Vietnam War, wrote A Grand Delusion: America's Descent into Vietnam
- Arthur Marder, British naval history
- Alexander Marion, religious historian specializing in Christian Secret Societies and a specialist on medieval religion and Freemasonry in the Early United States.
- Felix Markham, Napoleon Bonaparte
- Inga Markovits, author of Imperfect Justice: An East-West German Diary
- Timothy Mason, history of Nazi Germany
- Henri-Jean Martin, history of the book, early printing, writing, libraries in France
- Tyrone G. Martin, USS Constitution
- Rev. F.X. Martin, Irish medievalist and campaigner
- Michael Marrus, French and Jewish history
- William S. McFeely - 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Grant: A Biography
- James M. McPherson, very noteworthy US Civil War historian; wrote Battle Cry of Freedom
- William McNeill, world history
- Laurence Marvin, American historian, French medievalist
- Yoshihisa Tak Matsutaka, wrote The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904-1932
- Garrett Mattingly, early modern Europe
- Arno J. Mayer, World War I and Europe
- Richard Maybury, United States, especially WWI, WWII, and the Middle East
- Friedrich Meinecke, German historian
- D.W. Meinig, geographic history of America
- Russell Menard, Colonial American
- Thomas C. Mendenhall (historian)
- Josef W. Meri, Islamic world, Jews of Islamic Lands, Interfaith Relations
- Barbara Metcalf, Indian subcontinent, Muslims of India and Pakistan
- Perry Miller, intellectual historian
- Hans Mommsen
- Wolfgang Mommsen
- Edmund Morgan American colonial and Revolution
- Kenneth O. Morgan
- William J. Morgan (historian), U.S. naval historian
- Samuel Eliot Morison, naval history
- Benny Morris, Middle-Eastern history
- George Mosse, German, Jewish, fascist and sexual history
- Gary Moulton, Lewis and Clark
- Roland Mousnier, early modern France
- Mubarak Ali (b. 1941) Pakistani Historian on Mughals era and feminism
- Lewis Mumford, (1895–1988)
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- Lewis Bernstein Namier, 18th century British history and 20th century diplomatic history
- Allan Nevins, US political and business history; Civil War
- Leo Niehorster, military history
- Henry Newbolt, (1862–1938)
- Frank Ninkovich 20c
- Ernst Nolte, fascism and communism
- Robert Novick, historiography
- David Oates, Ancient Middle East
- Heiko Oberman, Reformation
- Charles Oman, 19th century military history
- Michael Oren, Modern middle east
- Mark Ovenden, Graphic design & architecture in public transport
- Richard Overy, WW2
- Steven Ozment, Germany
- Michael Parenti, 20th-21st century political analyst and modern/classical historian.
- Simo Parpola, Ancient Middle East
- J.H. Parry, maritime historian
- Thomas Paterson Cold War
- Peter Paret, military history
- Geoffrey Parker, early modern military history
- Abel Paz Spanish anarchist movement
- Henry Francis Pelham, Roman history
- William Armstrong Percy, Medieval Europe and ancient Greek and Roman history. History of Homosexuality.
- Amos Perlmutter
- Hrvoje Petric, early modern history, environmental history, economic history
- Detlev Peukert, historian of Alltagsgeschichte (history of everyday life) in the Weimar & Nazi eras.
- Liza Picard, London
- Henri Pirenne, Belgian historian.
- Harry W. Pfanz, U.S. Civil War
- Boris B. Piotrovsky, (1908–1990), Urartu and Scythia
- Richard Pipes, Russian and Soviet
- J.H. Plumb, (1911–2001), British historian of the 18th century
- Jeremy D. Popkin The French Revolution
- Roy Porter, (1946–2002), history of medicine & Britain
- Eileen Power, Middle Ages
- Gordon W. Prange, American Historian, World War II Pacific, notably Pearl Harbor and Midway
- Joshua Prawer, Israeli historian of the Crusader states
- H. F. M. Prescott (1896-1972), leading biographer of Mary I of England; Tudor England; medieval pilgrimages to Jerusalem and to the Holy Land; dissolution of the monasteries and Pilgrimage of Grace
- Michael C. Prestwich, leading historian of later Plantagenet England
- Ivan Prijatelj, (1875–1937), literary history
- Janko Prunk, (1942 - ) Slovenian historian for modern history
- Ludwig Quidde, (1858–1941), editor, pacifist
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- Werner Rahn, German naval history
- Karen Ralls Medieval religion and music. Author of books on Knights Templar
- Jack N. Rakove, US Constitution and early politics
- Šerbo Rastoder, Montenegrin history from the 20th century to today
- Henry A. Reynolds, Aboriginal - white relations in Australia
- René Rémond, French political history
- Susan Reynolds, critic of feudal concepts in medieval history
- Richard Rhodes, The Manhattan Project, the Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, and the SS-Einsatzgruppen
- Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond, British naval historian
- Jonathan Riley-Smith, Crusades
- Gerhard Ritter, German history.
- Andrew Roberts, British history.
- B. H. Roberts, (1857–1933), Mormon historian and leader
- J. M. Roberts, European history
- N.A.M. Rodger, British naval history
- William Ledyard Rodgers, ancient naval history
- Sue Rabbitt Roff, American science
- Alex Roland, history of technology, military
- José Luis Romero, Argentina
- Theodore Ropp, military historian
- Ron Rosenbaum, Hitler
- Charles E. Rosenberg, medicine and science
- Stephen Roskill, British naval history
- Theodore Roosevelt, War of 1812, frontier
- Michael Rostovtzeff, ancient history
- Hans Rothfels, modern German history
- Sheila Rowbotham, (born 1943) Feminism Socialism
- Elizabeth Ashman Rowe, Historiography of Scandanavian/Icelandic Annals; Med.Lit.
- A. L. Rowse, (1903–1997)
- Miri Rubin, social history of Europe between 1100-1600.
- R. J. Rummel, genocide
- Steven Runciman, Crusades
- Leila J.Rupp , feminist historian
- Conrad Russell, 17th century Britain
- Cornelius Ryan, (1920–1974), World War II
- Boris Rybakov, (1908–2001), leader of Soviet anti-Normanists
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- Abram L. Sachar, (1899–1993)
- Edgar V. Saks, (1910–1984), Estonian Middle Ages
- J. Salwyn Schapiro, fascism
- Dominic Sandbrook, (born 1974), modern Britain and the United States
- Usha Sanyal, Asian history, Islam and Sufism, especially Barelwi movement
- George Sarton, (1884–1956), history of science
- Norman Saul
- Michael Schaller
- Simon Schama, (born 1945), British historian and TV presenter, European and art history
- Arthur Schlesinger, Sr.
- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Andrew Jackson, New Deal, John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy; Pulitzer prize winner
- Carl Schorske, Vienna, Modernism, intellectual history
- Helena Schrader, Ancient Sparta, Knights Templar, Middle Ages, WWII German Resistance, WWII Women Aviators
- Paul W. Schroeder, late sixteenth- to twentieth-century European international politics, Central Europe, theory of history
- D. M. Schurman, British imperial and naval history
- Stephen Schwartz
- Joan Scott US Feminism
- Howard Hayes Scullard, (1903–1983), ancient history
- Tom Segev, Israeli history
- Charles G. Sellers Jacksonian era
- Robert Service Soviet and Russian history
- Kenneth Setton, Crusades
- James J. Sheehan modern Germany
- Michael Sherry US airpower
- William L. Shirer, American journalist, expert on the Third Reich, wrote The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
- Dasharatha Sharma, History of Rajasthan
- Quentin Skinner, early modern Britain
- Theda Skocpol, Institutions and comparative method
- Richard Slotkin, Environment
- Goldwin Smith, (1823–1910), historian
- Henry Nash Smith US cultural historian
- Jean Edward Smith US Foreign Policy, Constitutional Law, Legal History, Political Economy, Biography, Modern Germany
- Justin Harvey Smith, Mexican-American war; Pulitzer Prize winner
- Merritt Roe Smith, US historian of technology
- Richard Norton Smith, U.S. presidential historian.
- Thomas C. Smith, (1917–2004), Japanese historian, author The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan
- T. C. Smout Scottish environmental and social historian
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, (born 1918), Russian historian and novelist
- Christy Jo Snider, American History
- Louis Leo Snyder, German nationalism
- Albert Soboul, (1913–1982), French revolution
- Richard Southern, medieval historian
- Dr. E. Lee Spence, 16th-21st century shipwrecks all areas, but mainly Civil War shipwrecks
- Jonathan Spence, Chinese history
- Jackson J. Spielvogel, Pennsylvania State University
- Kenneth Stampp, American history, author The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South
- David Starkey, (born 1945), Tudor historian and TV presenter
- James M. Stayer, German Reformation historian.
- Wickham Steed, British historian of Eastern Europe.
- Valerie Steele, fashion historian
- Rowlee Steiner, American Ohio Railroad Historian
- Jean Stengers, Belgian historian
- Frank Stenton, Anglo-Saxon historian.
- Fritz Stern, American historian of Germany & Jewish history.
- Zeev Sternhell, history of fascism.
- Lawrence Stone, early modern British social, economic and family history
- Norman Stone, military history
- Hew Strachan, military historian
- Floyd Benjamin Streeter, Kansas, Old American West
- Michael Stürmer, modern German history.
- Viktor Suvorov, Soviet historian
- David Syrett, British naval history
- Ronald Syme, (1903–1989), ancient history
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- J. L. Talmon,(1916–1980), Modern History, "The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy"
- A.J.P. Taylor, (1906–1990), Historian of European International relations
- Alexander Smith Taylor (1817–1876), considered first bibliographer of California, best known for his Indianology of California.
- Alistair and Henrietta Taylor, Scottish historians
- Antonio Tellez, (1921–2005), Spanish Anarchism and anti-fascist resistance
- Harold Temperley, (1879–1939), British historian, Cambridge, 19c and early 20c century diplomatic history, "British Documents on the Originis of the War, 1898-1914" (ed.)
- Romila Thapar, (born 1931), Ancient India
- Barbara Thiering, (born 1930), Rediscovered the "Pesher technique" of early Christian history
- Hugh Thomas, Spanish Civil War, Cuba, Atlantic Slave Trade
- E. P. Thompson, (1924–[[1993), British Labour historian and peace activist, author of The Making of the English Working Class
- Elise Tipton, American and Australian historian, author of Japanese Police State: Tokko in Interwar Japan
- John Toland, (1912-2004), won 1971 Pulitzer Prize for The Rising Sun and Pearl Harbor conspiracy theorist who wrote 'Infamy.'
- K. Ross Toole, (1920-1981), history of Montana
- Conrad Totman, American historian, wrote A History of Japan
- Arnold J. Toynbee, (1889–1975), A Study of History
- Marc Trachtenberg, Cold War history
- George Macaulay Trevelyan, (1876–1962)
- Hugh Trevor-Roper, (1914–2003), British historian and peer, specialist on the Nazi leadership
- Barbara Tuchman, (1912–1989) 20c military
- Robert C. Tucker, Stalin
- Henry Ashby Turner, Jr., Weimar and Nazi Germany
- Frederick Jackson Turner, (1861–1932), American historian who developed the Frontier Thesis
- Denis Twitchett, (1925-2006), Cambridge scholar who greatly exapanded interest in the History of China
- Michael J. Varhola, (born 1966), American author of Fire & Ice: The Korean War, 1950-1953, D-Day: The Invasion of Normandy (with Randy Holderfield), and Everyday Life During the Civil War.
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- Retha Warnicke, (born 1939), Tudor history & gender issues
- Eugen Weber, modern French history
- Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, (1910–1997) British
- Hans-Ulrich Wehler, 19c German social history
- Russell Weigley, military history
- Gerhard Weinberg, World War Two.
- Albert Weisbord
- Roberto Weiss Renaissance historian
- Lieselotte Welskopf-Henrich
- Godfrey Wettinger, Maltese Medieval Historian
- Christopher Whatley, Scottish historian
- John Wheeler-Bennett, German history
- John Whyte, focused on Northern Ireland and on divided societies
- Christopher Wickham, medieval history
- Robert Wiebe, (1930–2000) US Progressive Era
- Peter Booth Wiley, American; Opening of Japan
- Alexander Wilkinson,(born 1975)Early Modern European History, The History of the Book in France, Spain & Portugal, Mary Queen of Scots
- Eric Williams, (1911–), Guianese historian, Caribbean history, anti-imperialist themes
- Glanmor Williams
- Glyndwr Williams, history of exploration
- William Appleman Williams US diplomatic
- Clyde N. Wilson, 19c American; John C. Calhoun
- Ian Wilson, (b. 1941) religious historian
- Heinrich August Winkler, (born 1938) German history
- Keith Windschuttle, (born 1942) Australian history & historiography
- Robert S. Wistrich, Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and Jews in the 20th Century, wrote Hitler and the Holocaust
- John B. Wolf, French history
- Michael Wolffsohn, German Jewish history.
- Gordon S. Wood, American Revolution
- Michael Wood
- C. Vann Woodward, (1908–1999), American South
- Ernest Llewellyn Woodward, (1890-1971), British historian, British history and international relations
- Dan Wright (born 1981), British historian
X-Y-Z
- Larry Yarak, (born 1949), historian of Africa, specializes in the village of Elmina in the West African nation of Ghana
- Robert M. Young, (born 1935), American historian, history of medicine, and human sciences.
- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, Cuban-American historian of the German expulsions after World War Two.
- Howard Zinn, (born 1922) American historian, popular U.S. history, the Left in the U.S.
- Rainer Zitelmann, German historian.
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