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List of historians This is a list of historians only for those with a biographical entry in Wikipedia. Major chroniclers and annalists are included. Names are listed by the person's historical period. The entries continue with the specializations, not nationality. ...

By time period

Ancient history Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history to as far as late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the Sumerian cuneiform script. Ancient history cove ...

Sedat Alp Prof. Ord. Sedat Alp (January 1, 1913 in Veroia – October 9, 2006 in Ankara) was the first Turkish archaeologist, historian and academic with a specialization in Hittitology, and was among the foremost names in the field. He was the president ...

(1913, Veroia, The Ottoman Empire - 2006, Ankara, Türkiye) Hittitolog- Historian, Ancient Anatolian * Ekrem Akurgal (1911, Haifa, The Ottoman Empire- 2002, İzmir, Türkiye) Archaeologist- Historian, Ancient Anatolian * Leonie Archer (born 1955) – Graeco-Roman Palestine * Mary Beard (born 1955) * Anatoly Bokschanin (1903–1979) – Roman history *

Fernand Braudel Fernand Braudel (; 24 August 1902 – 27 November 1985) was a French historian and leader of the Annales School. His scholarship focused on three main projects: ''The Mediterranean'' (1923–49, then 1949–66), ''Civilization and Capitalism'' ...

(1902, Luméville-en-Ornois- 1985, Cluses- France ) Roman history *

Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton, FBA (; 17 February 1900 – 17 September 1993) was a Canadian classical scholar and leading Latin prosopographer of the twentieth century. He is especially noted for his definitive three-volume work, '' Magistr ...

(1900-1903) – Roman history and prosopography *

Halet Çambel Halet Çambel (27 August 1916 – 12 January 2014) was a Turkish archaeologist and Olympic fencer. She was the first woman with a Muslim background to compete in the Olympic Games. Private life Çambel was born in Berlin, German Empire on ...

(1916, Berlin, Germany- 2014, İstanbul, Türkiye) Archaeologist- Historian, Ancient Anatolian *

Michael Crawford Michael Patrick Smith, (born 19 January 1942), known professionally as Michael Crawford, is an English tenor, actor and comedian. Crawford is best known for playing both the hapless Frank Spencer in the sitcom '' Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em'' a ...

(born 1939) * Roland Étienne (born 1944, French) –

Ancient Greece Ancient Greece ( el, Ἑλλάς, Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of Classical Antiquity, classical antiquity ( AD 600), th ...

and

Hellenistic period In Classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in ...

Moses Finley Sir Moses Israel Finley, FBA (born Finkelstein; 20 May 1912 – 23 June 1986) was an American-born British academic and classical scholar. His prosecution by the United States Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security during the 1950s, resulted ...

(1912–1986) *

Edward Gibbon Edward Gibbon (; 8 May 173716 January 1794) was an English historian, writer, and member of parliament. His most important work, '' The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'', published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788, is ...

(1737–1794) – ''

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ''The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'' is a six-volume work by the English historian Edward Gibbon. It traces Western civilization (as well as the Islamic and Mongolian conquests) from the height of the Roman Empire to th ...

'' * Adrian Goldsworthy (born 1969, British) – Roman history * Peter Green (born 1924) – Ancient Greece and Macedon *

Herodotus Herodotus ( ; grc, , }; BC) was an ancient Greek historian and geographer A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society ...

Keith Hopkins Morris Keith Hopkins, FBA (20 June 1934 – 8 March 2004) was a British historian and sociologist. He was professor of ancient history at the University of Cambridge from 1985 to 2000. Hopkins had a relatively unconventional route to the Cam ...

(1934–2004) - Roman history * Muazzez İlmiye Çığ (born 1914, Bursa-Türkiye) Sumerologist, Sumerian history *

Josephus Flavius Josephus (; grc-gre, Ἰώσηπος, ; 37 – 100) was a first-century Romano-Jewish historian and military leader, best known for '' The Jewish War'', who was born in Jerusalem—then part of Roman Judea—to a father of priestly ...

Yuliya Kolosovskaya Yuliya Konstantinovna Kolosovskaya (7 August 1920 – 29 March 2002) was a Soviet and Russian historian of classical antiquity. Kolosovskaya researched the history of Roman provinces on the Danube, especially Dacia Dacia (, ; ) was the land i ...

(1920–2002) – Roman history and

Roman provinces The Roman provinces (Latin: ''provincia'', pl. ''provinciae'') were the administrative regions of Ancient Rome outside Roman Italy that were controlled by the Romans under the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire. Each province was ruled ...

of the

Danube The Danube ( ; ) is a river that was once a long-standing frontier of the Roman Empire and today connects 10 European countries, running through their territories or being a border. Originating in Germany, the Danube flows southeast for , p ...

* Sergey Kovalev (1886–1960) – Hellenistic and Roman period *

Mikhail Kublanov Mikhail Moiseyevich Kublanov (russian: Михаил Моисеевич Кубланов; 3 May 1914 – October 1998) was a Soviet scholar and historian of religion. Kublanov published about 100 scholarly works on the history of religion and archaeo ...

(1914–1998) *

Barbara Levick Barbara M. Levick (born 21 June 1931) is a British historian and epigrapher, focusing particularly on the Late Roman Republic and Early Empire. She is recognised within her field as one of the leading Roman historians of her generation. Educati ...

(born 1931) – Roman emperors *

Livy Titus Livius (; 59 BC – AD 17), known in English as Livy ( ), was a Roman historian. He wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, titled , covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome before the traditional founding in ...

Ramsay MacMullen Ramsay MacMullen (March 3, 1928 – November 28, 2022) was an American historian who was Emeritus Professor of History at Yale University, where he taught from 1967 to his retirement in 1993 as Dunham Professor of History and Classics. His scholar ...

(born 1928) – History of Rome * Nikolai Mashkin (1900–1950) – Roman history *

Fergus Millar Sir Fergus Graham Burtholme Millar, (; 5 July 1935 – 15 July 2019) was a British ancient historian and academic. He was Camden Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford between 1984 and 2002. He numbers among the most influ ...

(1935–2019) *

Theodor Mommsen Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (; 30 November 1817 – 1 November 1903) was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician and archaeologist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest classicists of the 19th centu ...

(1817–1903) ''

History of Rome The history of Rome includes the history of the city of Rome as well as the civilisation of ancient Rome. Roman history has been influential on the modern world, especially in the history of the Catholic Church, and Roman law has influenced m ...

'' *

Barthold Georg Niebuhr Barthold Georg Niebuhr (27 August 1776 – 2 January 1831) was a Danish–German statesman, banker, and historian who became Germany's leading historian of Ancient Rome and a founding father of modern scholarly historiography. By 1810 Niebuhr wa ...

(1776–1831) – Roman history * Orosius * Tahsin Özgüç (1916, Kardzhali, The Ottoman Empire- 2005, Ankara, Türkiye) Archaeologist- Historian, Ancient Anatolian * Edward Togo Salmon (1905–1988) - Roman history *

Howard Hayes Scullard Howard Hayes Scullard (9 February 1903 – 31 March 1983) was a British historian specialising in ancient history, notable for editing the ''Oxford Classical Dictionary'' and for his many published works. Scullard's father was Herbert Hayes S ...

(1903–1983) – Roman civilization * Mariya Sergeyenko (1891–1987) – Roman agriculture and daily life *

Ram Sharan Sharma Ram Sharan Sharma (26 November 1919 – 20 August 2011) was an Indian historian and Indologist who specialised in the history of Ancient and early Medieval India. He taught at Patna University and Delhi University (1973–85) and was visiting ...

(1919–2011) – Ancient India * Elena Shtaerman (1914–1991) – Roman history * Suetonius *

Ronald Syme Sir Ronald Syme, (11 March 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist. He was regarded as the greatest historian of ancient Rome since Theodor Mommsen and the most brilliant exponent of the history of the Roman ...

(1903–1989) – Classical period *

Tacitus Publius Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus ( , ; – ), was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historians by modern scholars. The surviving portions of his two major works—the ...

* Joseph Tainter (born 1949) *

Lily Ross Taylor Lily Ross Taylor (born August 12, 1886, in Auburn, Alabama - died November 18, 1969, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) was an American academic and author, who in 1917 became the first female Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. Biography Born in ...

(1886-1969) - Roman history *

Thucydides Thucydides (; grc, , }; BC) was an Athenian historian and general. His '' History of the Peloponnesian War'' recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of " scienti ...

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill Andrew Frederic Wallace-Hadrill, (born 29 July 1951) is a British ancient historian, classical archaeologist, and academic. He is Professor of Roman Studies and Director of Research in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge. He ...

(born 1951) * Max Weber (1864–1920) *

Xenophon Xenophon of Athens (; grc, Ξενοφῶν ; – probably 355 or 354 BC) was a Greek military leader, philosopher, and historian, born in Athens. At the age of 30, Xenophon was elected commander of one of the biggest Greek mercenary armies o ...

* Polybius

Medieval history In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the Post-classical, post-classical period of World history (field), global history. It began with t ...

* John Van Antwerp Fine Jr. (born 1939) - American medievalist specialized in the history of Central and Southeastern Europe, and Balkans *

(1919–2011) – early medieval History of India * Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman (born 1940) – historian of medieval medicine *

Placido Puccinelli Padre Placido Puccinelli (1609–1685) was a Cassinese monk, historian and scholar. He was born at Pescia and educated at the abbey of S. Maria in Florence. He began his monastic career on 15 January 1626. For a long time, he was itinerant, tr ...

(1609–1685, Italian) – Northern Italy in the 10th century and the Florentine church *

Marc Bloch Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch (; ; 6 July 1886 – 16 June 1944) was a French historian. He was a founding member of the Annales School of French social history. Bloch specialised in medieval history and published widely on Medieval France ov ...

(1886–1944, French) – Medieval France * John Boswell (1947–1994, American) –

Homosexuality Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality is "an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions" to pe ...

in the Middle Ages *

Norman Cantor Norman Frank Cantor (November 19, 1929 – September 18, 2004) was a Canadian-American historian who specialized in the medieval period. Known for his accessible writing and engaging narrative style, Cantor's books were among the most widely rea ...

(1930–2004) * Georges Duby (1924–1996, French) – Specialized in the history of France between the Capets and the Valois * François-Louis Ganshof (1895–1980), Belgian – wrote on early medieval institutional history and feudalism *

Geoffrey of Monmouth Geoffrey of Monmouth ( la, Galfridus Monemutensis, Galfridus Arturus, cy, Gruffudd ap Arthur, Sieffre o Fynwy; 1095 – 1155) was a British cleric from Monmouth, Wales and one of the major figures in the development of British historiography ...

Giraldus Cambrensis Gerald of Wales ( la, Giraldus Cambrensis; cy, Gerallt Gymro; french: Gerald de Barri; ) was a Cambro-Norman priest and historian. As a royal clerk to the king and two archbishops, he travelled widely and wrote extensively. He studied and taugh ...

Johan Huizinga Johan Huizinga (; 7 December 1872 – 1 February 1945) 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 y ...

(1872–1945, Dutch) – cultural history, wrote '' Waning of the Middle Ages'' * Jacques Le Goff (1924–2014, French) – Middle Ages, particularly the 12th and 13th centuries * Rev.

F. X. Martin Francis Xavier Martin, OSA (Irish: ''Proinsias Xavier Ó Máirtín''; 2 October 1922 – 13 February 2000) was an Irish cleric, historian and activist. Life Francis Xavier Martin was born 2 October 1922 in Ballylongford, County Kerry, Ireland. F ...

(1922–2000, Irish) – Mediævalist and campaigner *

Rosamond McKitterick Rosamond Deborah McKitterick (born 31 May 1949) is an English medieval historian. She is an authority on the Frankish kingdoms in the eighth and ninth centuries AD, who uses palaeographical and manuscript studies to illuminate aspects of the ...

(born 1949) –

Frankish Frankish may refer to: * Franks, a Germanic tribe and their culture ** Frankish language or its modern descendants, Franconian languages * Francia, a post-Roman state in France and Germany * East Francia, the successor state to Francia in Germany ...

and Carolingian history *

Henri Pirenne Henri Pirenne (; 23 December 1862 – 24 October 1935) was a Belgian historian. A medievalist of Walloon descent, he wrote a multivolume history of Belgium in French and became a prominent public intellectual. Pirenne made a lasting contributi ...

(1862–1935) – the "Pirenne Thesis" of early Medieval development *

Eileen Power Eileen Edna Le Poer Power (9 January 18898 August 1940) was a British economic historian and medievalist. Early life and education Eileen Power was the eldest daughter of a stockbroker and was born at Altrincham, Cheshire (now part of Great ...

(1889–1940) –

Middle Ages In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire ...

* Miri Rubin (born 1956) – social and religious history, 1100–1500 * Steven Runciman (1903–2000) – the

Crusades The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The best known of these Crusades are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291 that were ...

Richard Southern Sir Richard William Southern (8 February 1912 – 6 February 2001), who published under the name R. W. Southern, was a noted English medieval historian based at the University of Oxford. Biography Southern was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne o ...

(1912–2001) *

Sidney Painter Sidney Painter (September 23, 1902 – January 12, 1960) was an American medievalist and historian. He was a fellow of the Mediaeval Academy and professor of history and chairman of the department of history at Johns Hopkins University. Painte ...

(1902–1960) * John Julius Norwich (1929–2018) * John V. Tolan (born 1959) *

Chris Wickham Christopher John Wickham, (born 18 May 1950) is a British historian and academic. From 2005 to 2016, he was Chichele Professor of Medieval History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford: he is now emeritus professor ...

(born 1950) * Retha Warnicke (born 1939) * Aaron Gurevich (1924–2006) * Jerome Lee Shneidman (1929–2008) – psychohistory *

Michael Prestwich Michael Charles Prestwich OBE (born 30 January 1943) is an English historian, specialising on the history of medieval England, in particular the reign of Edward I. He is retired, having been Professor of History at Durham University and Head ...

(born 1943) *

Dick Harrison Dick Walther Harrison (born 10 April 1966) is a Swedish historian. He is currently a Professor of History at Lund University. His main areas of interest are the European Middle Ages, including the medical history of the period and the history o ...

(born 1966) *

Satish Chandra Satish Chandra is a given name of Hindu origin, and may refer to, * Satish Chandra (politician), Indian National Congress leader * Satish Chandra (historian), Indian academic * Satish Chandra Agarwal, Indian politician * Satish Chandra Basumatary, ...

(1922–2017) *

Irfan Habib Irfan Habib (born August 10, 1931) is an Indian historian of ancient and medieval India, following the methodology of Marxist historiography in his contributions to economic history. He identifies as a Marxist and is well known for his strong ...

(born 1931) * Michel Kaplan (born 1946, French) –

Byzantinist Byzantine studies is an interdisciplinary branch of the humanities that addresses the history, culture, demography, dress, religion/theology, art, literature/epigraphy, music, science, economy, coinage and politics of the Eastern Roman ...

By nation or geographical area

North America

History of Canada The history of Canada covers the period from the arrival of the Paleo-Indians to North America thousands of years ago to the present day. Prior to History of colonialism, European colonization, the lands encompassing present-day Canada were inha ...

Donald Creighton Donald Grant Creighton (15 July 1902 – 19 December 1979) was a Canadian historian whose major works include ''The Commercial Empire of the St-Lawrence, 1760–1850'' (first published in 1937), a detailed study on the growth of the English merch ...

(1902–1979) – Developed the Laurentian thesis * William J. Eccles (1917–1998) – History of New France *

Lionel Groulx Lionel Groulx (; 13 January 1878 – 23 May 1967) was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, historian, and Quebec nationalist. Biography Early life and ordination Lionel Groulx, né Joseph Adolphe Lyonel Groulx, the son of a farmer and lumber ...

(1878–1967) – The history of

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...

in particular and French North America in general *

Harold Innis Harold Adams Innis (November 5, 1894 – November 9, 1952) was a Canadian professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and the author of seminal works on media, communication theory, and Canadian economic history. He helped deve ...

(1894–1952) – Economic historian of Canada *

Jack Granatstein Jack Lawrence Granatstein (May 21, 1939) is a Canadian historian who specializes in Canadian political and military history.SeJack Granatsteinfrom The Canadian Encyclopedia Education Born on May 21, 1939, in Toronto, Ontario, into a Jewish fam ...

(born 1939) – Political and Military historian of Canada * W.L. Morton (1908–1980) – Expert on western Canada See also '' List of Canadian historians''.

History of the Caribbean The history of the Caribbean reveals the significant role the region played in the colonial struggles of the European powers since the 15th century. In 1492, Christopher Columbus landed in the Caribbean and claimed the region for Spain. The ...

* Kamau Brathwaite (1930–2020) * Aviva Chomsky (born 1957) *

C. L. R. James Cyril Lionel Robert James (4 January 1901 – 31 May 1989),Fraser, C. Gerald, '' The New York Times'', 2 June 1989. who sometimes wrote under the pen-name J. R. Johnson, was a Trinidadian historian, journalist and Marxist. His works are i ...

(1901–1989) * Lucille M. Mair (1924–2009) *

Walter Rodney Walter Anthony Rodney (23 March 1942 – 13 June 1980) was a Guyanese historian, political activist and academic. His notable works include '' How Europe Underdeveloped Africa'', first published in 1972. Rodney was assassinated in Georgeto ...

(1942–1980) *

Eric Williams Eric Eustace Williams (25 September 1911 – 29 March 1981) was a Trinidad and Tobago politician who is regarded by some as the " Father of the Nation", having led the then British Colony of Trinidad and Tobago to majority rule on 28 October ...

(1911–1981) – Focused on slavery and the slave trade, condemned imperialism *

Betty Wood Betty C. Wood (23 February 1945 – 3 September 2021) was a British historian and academic, who specialised in early American history, Atlantic history, social history, and slavery in eighteenth and early nineteenth century. She was a Fellow of ...

(1945–2021)

History of the United States

See also :Historians of the United States * Henry Adams (1838–1918) – history of the United States in the presidential administrations of

Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was previously the natio ...

and

James Madison James Madison Jr. (March 16, 1751June 28, 1836) was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father. He served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. Madison is hailed as the "Father of the Constitution" for h ...

Stephen Ambrose Stephen Edward Ambrose (January 10, 1936 – October 13, 2002) was an American historian, most noted for his biographies of U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was a longtime professor of history at the University of New O ...

(1936–2002) – biographer of Presidents

Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; ; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, ...

and Richard M. Nixon * Edward L. Ayers (born 1953) – U.S. South, founder of the

Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) is a research unit of the University of Virginia, USA. Its goal is to explore and develop information technology as a tool for scholarly humanities research. To that end, IATH provide ...

(IATH) and Digital Scholarship Lab *

George Bancroft George Bancroft (October 3, 1800 – January 17, 1891) was an American historian, statesman and Democratic politician who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state of Massachusetts and at the national and internati ...

(1800–1891) – wrote first large-scale history of the US * Charles A. Beard (1874–1948) – revisionist history of Founding Fathers suggesting monetary motivations *

Samuel Flagg Bemis Samuel Flagg Bemis (October 20, 1891 – September 26, 1973) was an American historian and biographer. For many years he taught at Yale University. He was also president of the American Historical Association and a specialist in American dip ...

(1891–1973) – U.S. foreign policy; won two Pulitzer Prizes * Ira Berlin (1941–2018) - Slavery * William Brandon (1914–2002) – historian of the American West and Native Americans. * Alan Brinkley (1949–2019) – historian of the Great Depression * David H. Burton - U.S. historian and biographer of presidents

Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Jr. ( ; October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), often referred to as Teddy or by his initials, T. R., was an American politician, statesman, soldier, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26t ...

and

William Howard Taft William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857March 8, 1930) was the 27th president of the United States (1909–1913) and the tenth chief justice of the United States (1921–1930), the only person to have held both offices. Taft was elected pr ...

as well as Clara Barton and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. *

Bruce Catton Charles Bruce Catton (October 9, 1899 – August 28, 1978) was an American historian and journalist, known best for his books concerning the American Civil War. Known as a narrative historian, Catton specialized in popular history, featuring in ...

(1899–1978) –

American Civil War The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states ...

William Cronon William Cronon (born September 11, 1954 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an environmental historian and the Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madi ...

(born 1954) – American

environmental history Environmental history is the study of human interaction with the natural world over time, emphasising the active role nature plays in influencing human affairs and vice versa. Environmental history first emerged in the United States out of th ...

, the frontier in

New England New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It is bordered by the state of New York (state), New York to the west and by the Can ...

, and the American West * J. Frank Dobie (1888–1964) – historian of

Texas Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...

and the Southwestern United States *

David Herbert Donald David Herbert Donald (October 1, 1920 – May 17, 2009) was an American historian, best known for his 1995 biography of Abraham Lincoln. He twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography for earlier works; he published more than 30 books on United S ...

(1920–2009) * W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) – historian of the

Reconstruction Reconstruction may refer to: Politics, history, and sociology *Reconstruction (law), the transfer of a company's (or several companies') business to a new company *'' Perestroika'' (Russian for "reconstruction"), a late 20th century Soviet Unio ...

Drew Gilpin Faust Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust (born September 18, 1947) is an American historian and was the 28th president of Harvard University, the first woman to serve in that role. She was Harvard's first president since 1672 without an undergraduate or gradu ...

(born 1947) – Civil War, culture of death, and the Confederacy *

Robert H. Ferrell Robert Hugh Ferrell (May 8, 1921 – August 8, 2018) was an American historian and a prolific author or editor of more than 60 books on a wide range of topics, including the President of the United States, U.S. presidency, World War I, and ...

(1921–2018) – Harry S. Truman, the 20th-century U.S. presidency,

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

Eric Foner Eric Foner (; born February 7, 1943) is an American historian. He writes extensively on American political history, the history of freedom, the early history of the Republican Party, African-American biography, the American Civil War, Reconstruc ...

(born 1943) – Civil War and

Shelby Foote Shelby Dade Foote Jr. (November 17, 1916 – June 27, 2005) was an American writer, historian and journalist. Although he primarily viewed himself as a novelist, he is now best known for his authorship of '' The Civil War: A Narrative'', a three ...

(1916–2005) –

John Hope Franklin John Hope Franklin (January 2, 1915 – March 25, 2009) was an American historian of the United States and former president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Histo ...

(1915–2009) – historian of African Americans * John A. Garraty (1920–2007) – biography *

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese Elizabeth Ann Fox-Genovese (May 28, 1941 – January 2, 2007) was an American historian best known for her works on women and society in the Antebellum South. A Marxist early on in her career, she later converted to Roman Catholicism and became ...

(1941–2007) – Southern slavery,

women's history Women's history is the study of the role that women have played in history and the methods required to do so. It includes the study of the history of the growth of woman's rights throughout recorded history, personal achievement over a period of ...

Doris Kearns Goodwin Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist, and political commentator. She has written biographies of several U.S. presidents, including ''Lyndon Johnson and the American Drea ...

(born 1943) - U.S. presidents, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II *

Richard Hofstadter Richard Hofstadter (August 6, 1916October 24, 1970) was an American historian and public intellectual of the mid-20th century. Hofstadter was the DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. Rejecting his earlier historic ...

(1916–1970) – Progressivism and U.S. political history *

Daniel Walker Howe Daniel Walker Howe (born January 10, 1937) is an American historian who specializes in the early national period of U.S. history, with a particular interest in its intellectual and religious dimensions. He was Rhodes Professor of American Histor ...

- political and intellectual history of the early republic and

antebellum Antebellum, Latin for "before war", may refer to: United States history * Antebellum South, the pre-American Civil War period in the Southern United States ** Antebellum Georgia ** Antebellum South Carolina ** Antebellum Virginia * Antebellum ...

period * Peter Iverson – 20th century U.S. West/Native American history (emphasis in Navajo history) * Paul Johnson (born 1928) – author of A History of the American People and a biographer of

George Washington George Washington (February 22, 1732, 1799) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Continental Congress as commander of ...

* Winthrop Jordan (1931–2007) – African-American history *

David Lavender David Sievert Lavender (February 4, 1910 – April 26, 2003) was an American historian and writer who was one of the most prolific chroniclers of the American West. He published more than 40 books, including two novels, several children's books, ...

(1910–2003) –

Western U.S. The Western United States (also called the American West, the Far West, and the West) is the region comprising the westernmost states of the United States. As American settlement in the U.S. expanded westward, the meaning of the term ''the Wes ...

David McCullough David Gaub McCullough (; July 7, 1933 – August 7, 2022) was an American popular historian. He was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In 2006, he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States ...

(1933-2022) – general study, most notable work is recent biography of

John Adams John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of t ...

James M. McPherson James Munro McPherson (born October 11, 1936) 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 ...

(born 1936) –

* Pauline Maier (1938–2013) – late Colonial, Revolution, Constitution * D. W. Meinig (1924-2020) – geographic history of America * Philip D. Morgan (born 1949) – slavery * David Nasaw (born 1945) – biography and U.S. cultural history *

Francis Parkman Francis Parkman Jr. (September 16, 1823 – November 8, 1893) was an American historian, best known as author of '' The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life'' and his monumental seven-volume '' France and England in North Am ...

(1823–1893) – historian of the French and Indian War * William B. Pickett (born 1940) *

David Pietrusza David Pietrusza (born November 22, 1949 in Amsterdam, New York) is an American author and historian. Career David Pietrusza has produced a number of critically acclaimed works concerning 20th-century American history, including five volumes ( ...

(born 1949) - 20th century presidential elections; biography *

Dominic Sandbrook Dominic Christopher Sandbrook (born 2 October 1974) is a British historian, author, columnist and television presenter. Early life and career Born in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, he was educated at Malvern College and studied history and French at B ...

(born 1974) – political history of the 1960s and 1970s * Arthur Schlesinger Sr. (1888–1965) *

Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. (; born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger; October 15, 1917 – February 28, 2007) was an American historian, social critic, and public intellectual. The son of the influential historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. and a spe ...

(1917–2007) * Cornelius Cole Smith, Jr. (1913–2004) – historian of

Arizona Arizona ( ; nv, Hoozdo Hahoodzo ; ood, Alĭ ṣonak ) is a state in the Southwestern United States. It is the 6th largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona is part of the Fou ...

California California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the m ...

and the Southwestern United States *

Jean Edward Smith Jean Edward Smith (October 13, 1932 – September 1, 2019) was a biographer and the John Marshall Professor of Political Science at Marshall University. He was also professor emeritus at the University of Toronto after having served as professor ...

(1932–2019) – biography, foreign policy, political economy, constitutional law, legal history, and politics * Irma Tam Soong (1912–2001) – history of Chinese immigration in Hawaii *

Frederick Jackson Turner Frederick Jackson Turner (November 14, 1861 – March 14, 1932) was an American historian during the early 20th century, based at the University of Wisconsin until 1910, and then Harvard University. He was known primarily for his frontier thes ...

(1861–1932) – developed the Frontier Thesis *

Frank Vandiver Frank Everson Vandiver (December 9, 1925 in Austin, Texas – January 7, 2005 in College Station, Texas) was an American Civil War historian, and former president of Texas A&M University and the University of North Texas, as well as acting presid ...

(1925–2005) *

Alexander Scott Withers Alexander Scott Withers (12 October 1792, near Warrenton, Virginia – 23 January 1865, near Parkersburg, West Virginia) was a Virginia slave owner, lawyer, planter, magistrate, teacher and delegate to the First Wheeling Convention (1861) esta ...

(1792–1865) – primary accounts of colonial western Virginia conflicts *

Sean Wilentz Robert Sean Wilentz (; born February 20, 1951) is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1979. His primary research interests include U.S. social and political history in the ...

(born 1951) - political, social, and cultural history *

(1945–2021) – early American history *

Gordon S. Wood Gordon Stewart Wood (born November 27, 1933) is an American historian and professor at Brown University. He is a recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for '' The Radicalism of the American Revolution'' (1992). His book ''The Creation o ...

(born 1933) -

American Revolution The American Revolution was an ideological and political revolution that occurred in British America between 1765 and 1791. The Americans in the Thirteen Colonies formed independent states that defeated the British in the American Revoluti ...

* C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999) –

Southern United States The Southern United States (sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, or simply the South) is a geographic and cultural region of the United States of America. It is between the Atlantic Ocean ...

Howard Zinn Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922January 27, 2010) was an American historian, playwright, philosopher, socialist thinker and World War II veteran. He was chair of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, and a politica ...

(1922–2010) – political scientist and historian of the United States, often critical of common policies

Latin America

History of Latin America The term ''Latin America'' primarily refers to the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries in the New World. Before the arrival of Europeans in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, the region was home to many indigenous peoples, a number of ...

See also :Historians of Latin America * Jeremy Adelman (born 1960) * Marc Becker *

David Brading David Anthony Brading Litt.D, FRHistS, FBA (born 26 August 1936), is a British historian and Professor Emeritus of Mexican History at the University of Cambridge, where he is an Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall and an Honorary Fellow of Pembr ...

(born 1936) * Aviva Chomsky (born 1957) *

James Dunkerley Sir James Chadwick Dunkerley (born 15 August 1953) OBE is Professor of Politics at Queen Mary, University of London, and the former Director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas and the Institute of Latin American Studies of the Univers ...

(born 1953) * Mark Falcoff (born 1941) * Ann Farnsworth-Alvear *

Charles Gibson Charles deWolf Gibson (born March 9, 1943) is an American broadcast television anchor, journalist and podcaster. Gibson was a host of ''Good Morning America'' from 1987 to 1998 and again from 1999 to 2006, and the anchor of ''World News with Char ...

(born 1943) * Mike Gonzalez (born 1943) *

Clarence H. Haring Clarence Henry Haring (born 9 February 1885 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - died 4 September 1960 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an important historian of Latin America and a pioneer in initiating the study of Latin American colonial institution ...

(1885–1960) * Daniel James (born 1948) * Kenneth Maxwell (born 1941) *

William H. Prescott William Hickling Prescott (May 4, 1796 – January 28, 1859) was an American historian and Hispanist, who is widely recognized by historiographers to have been the first American scientific historian. Despite having serious visual impairm ...

(1796–1859) *

Peter Winn Peter Winn (born 1942) is a professor of history at Tufts University specializing in Latin America. He has written several books, including ''Americas'', which he developed while serving as academic director for the 1993 PBS series of the same na ...

* John Wirth (1936–2002) * John Womack (born 1937) *

Leslie Bethell Leslie Michael BethellBoris Fausto (born 1930) * Lilia Moritz Schwarcz (born 1957)

Chile

Alonso de Góngora Marmolejo Alonso de Góngora Marmolejo (1523–1575) was a Spanish conquistador and chronicler of the early conquest and settlement of the Captaincy General of Chile, and the start of the Arauco War. Biography Marmolejo was born in the town of Carmona, Anda ...

(1523–1575) *

Pedro Mariño de Lobera Pedro Mariño de Lobera (1528–1594) was a Galician soldier, conquistador and chronicler of the Arauco War in the Captaincy General of Chile. Biography A professional soldier who served in the war between Spain and France, he went to the Americ ...

(1528–1594) * Vicente Carvallo y Goyeneche (1742–1816)

Peru

Jorge Basadre Jorge Alfredo Basadre Grohmann (February 12, 1903 – June 29, 1980) was a Peruvian historian known for his extensive publications about the independent history of his country. He served during two different administrations as Minister of Educa ...

(1903–1980) * Raúl Porras Barrenechea (1897–1960) * María Rostworowski (1915–2016)

Europe

History of Europe The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500 to AD 1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). The first ea ...

Patricia Clavin Patricia M. Clavin, is a British historian and academic, who specialises in international relations, economic crises, and twentieth-century history. She is Professor of International History at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow (Oxbridge), ...

(born 1964) – international relations and transnational relations * Norman Davies (born 1939) – Europe as a whole *

Tony Judt Tony Robert Judt ( ; 2 January 1948 – 6 August 2010) was a British-American 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 ...

(1948–2010) – post 1945 * Elizabeth Eisenstein (1923–2016) – early printing and transitions in

media Media may refer to: Communication * Media (communication), tools used to deliver information or data ** Advertising media, various media, content, buying and placement for advertising ** Broadcast media, communications delivered over mass e ...

* Julia P. Gelardi – royal history of 19th and 20th centuries *

John Lukacs John Adalbert Lukacs (; Hungarian: ''Lukács János Albert''; 31 January 1924 – 6 May 2019) was a Hungarian-born American historian and author of more than thirty books. Lukacs was Roman Catholic. Lukacs described himself as a reactionary. L ...

(1924–2019) – Cold War *

Henri-Jean Martin Henri-Jean Martin (16 January 1924 – 13 January 2007) was a leading authority on the history of the book in Europe, and an expert on the history of writing and printing. He was a leader in efforts to promote libraries in France, and the history o ...

(1924–2007) – early

printing Printing is a process for mass reproducing text and images using a master form or template. The earliest non-paper products involving printing include cylinder seals and objects such as the Cyrus Cylinder and the Cylinders of Nabonidus. The ...

and

writing Writing is a medium of human communication which involves the representation of a language through a system of physically inscribed, mechanically transferred, or digitally represented symbols. Writing systems do not themselves constitute h ...

Effie Pedaliu Effie G. H. Pedaliu is an international historian, author and Visiting Fellow at LSE IDEAS. She has held posts at LSE, KCL and UWE. She is the author of Britain, Italy and the Origins of the Cold War, (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2003; pbk. edition 2 ...

– history of Italian war crimes and Cold war *

(1862–1935) – Belgium *

Walter Alison Phillips Walter Alison Phillips (21 October 1864 – 28 October 1950) was an English historian, a specialist in the history of Europe in the 19th century. From 1914 to 1939 he was the first holder of the Lecky chair of History in Trinity College, Dubl ...

(1864–1950) * Andrew Roberts (born 1963) – Second World War *

John Roberts John Glover Roberts Jr. (born January 27, 1955) is an American lawyer and jurist who has served as the 17th chief justice of the United States since 2005. Roberts has authored the majority opinion in several landmark cases, including '' Nat ...

(1928–2003) – Europe * J. Salwyn Schapiro (1879–1973) * Norman Stone (1941–2019) *

Charlotte Zeepvat Charlotte M. Zeepvat is an author and historian of European royal history. She has written five books published by Sutton Publishing, including biographies of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany and the Romanov Imperial Family. An avid collector of ori ...

– royal history of 19th and 20th centuries

History of Albania The history of Albania forms a part of the history of Europe. During classical antiquity, Albania was home to several Illyrian tribes such as the Ardiaei, Albanoi, Amantini, Enchele, Taulantii and many others, but also Thracian and Gree ...

* Stavro Skëndi (1905-1989)

History of Belgium

(1862–1935) –

* Sophie de Schaepdrijver (born 1961) – World War I * Herman Van der Wee (born 1928) – social and economic history

History of Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes referred to simply as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe on the Balkan Peninsula. It has had permanent settlement since the Neolithic Age. By the early historical period it was inhabited by Illyrians and Ce ...

İbrahim Peçevi İbrahim Peçevi or Peçuyli İbrahim Efendi or ''(in Bosnian)'' Ibrahim Alajbegović Pečevija (1572–1650) (Ottoman Turkish: پچویلی ابراهیم افندى ) was an Ottoman Bosnian historian-chronicler of the Ottoman Empire. Life He ...

(1572–1650) * Antun Knežević (1834–1889) * Bono Benić (1708–1785) *

Hamdija Kreševljaković Hamdija Kreševljaković (18 September 1888 – 9 May 1959) was a Bosnian and Yugoslav historian. Biography Kreševljaković was born in Vratnik, a neighborhood in Sarajevo's Old Town. His father Mehmed (died 1929) was the son of Ibrahim Kreševl ...

(1888–1959) * Smail Balić (1920–2002) * Enver Redžić (1915–2009) * Marko Vego (1907–1985) – medievalist & archaeologists * Mustafa Imamović (1941–2017) * Salmedin Mesihović (born 1975) – medievalist & archaeologists

History of England and
Britain Britain most often refers to: * The United Kingdom, a sovereign state in Europe comprising the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands * Great Britain, the largest island in the United King ...

Donald Adamson Donald Adamson (born 30 March 1939), is a British literary scholar, author and historian. Books which he has written include ''Blaise Pascal: Mathematician, Physicist, and Thinker about God'' and '' The Curriers' Company: A Modern History''. H ...

(born 1939) – British * Robert C. Allen (born 1947) – British economic *

Perry Anderson Francis Rory Peregrine "Perry" Anderson (born 11 September 1938) is a British intellectual, historian and essayist. His work ranges across historical sociology, intellectual history, and cultural analysis. What unites Anderson's work is a preoc ...

(born 1938) – British; European history * Leonie Archer (born 1955) – British *

Karen Armstrong Karen Armstrong (born 14 November 1944) is a British author and commentator of Irish Catholic descent known for her books on comparative religion. A former Roman Catholic religious sister, she went from a conservative to a more liberal and ...

(born 1944) – religious * Gerald Aylmer (1926–2000) – British; administrative history * Bernard Bailyn (1922–2020) – Atlantic migration * Onyeka – Black Britons * The Venerable Bede (672–735) – Britain from 55 BC to 731 AD *

Brian Bond Brian James Bond (born 17 April 1936) is a British military historian and professor emeritus of military history at King's College London. Early life and education The son of Edward Herbert Bond and his wife, Olive Bessie Sartin, Bond was born i ...

(born 1936) – military * Asa Briggs (1921–2016) – British social. *

Herbert Butterfield Sir Herbert Butterfield (7 October 1900 – 20 July 1979) was an English historian and philosopher of history, who was Regius Professor of Modern History and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He is remembered chiefly for a shor ...

(1900–1979) – historiography * Angus Calder (1942–2008) – Second World War * David Cannadine (born 1950) – Modern Britain, British business and philanthropy * J.C.D. Clark (born 1951) – 18th century * G.S.R. Kitson Clark (1900-1975) - Victorian period * Linda Colley (born 1949) – 18th century *

Patrick Collinson Patrick "Pat" Collinson, (10 August 1929 – 28 September 2011) was an English historian, known as a writer on the Elizabethan era, particularly Elizabethan Puritanism. He was emeritus Regius Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge ...

(1929–2011) – Elizabethan England & Puritanism * Maurice Cowling (1926-2005) – 19th and 20th century politics * John Darwin (born 1948) – British Empire * John Davies (1938–2015) - Wales * Susan Doran – Elizabethan *

Eamon Duffy Eamon Duffy (born 1947) is an Irish historian. He is a professor of the history of Christianity at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow and former president of Magdalene College. Early life Duffy was born on 9 February 1947, in Dundalk, I ...

(born 1947) – religious history of the 15th–17th centuries * Harold James Dyos (1921–1978) – urban *

Geoffrey Rudolph Elton Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton (born Gottfried Rudolf Otto Ehrenberg; 17 August 1921 – 4 December 1994) was a German-born British political and constitutional historian, specialising in the Tudor period. He taught at Clare College, Cambridge, and w ...

(1921–1994) – Tudor period *

Charles Harding Firth Sir Charles Harding Firth (16 March 1857 – 19 February 1936) was a British historian. He was one of the founders of the Historical Association in 1906. Career Born in Sheffield, Firth was educated at Clifton College and at Balliol College, ...

(1857–1936) – political history of the 17th century *

Antonia Fraser Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, (' Pakenham; born 27 August 1932) is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction. She is the widow of the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Harold Pinter (1930–2008), and p ...

(born 1932) – 17th century *

William Gibson William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as ''cyberpunk''. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, hi ...

(born 1959) – ecclesiastical history * Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1829–1902) – political history of the 17th century * Andrew Gordon (born 1951) – naval *

(died c. 1154) – England *

Élie Halévy Élie Halévy (6 September 1870 – 21 August 1937) was a French philosopher and historian who wrote studies of the British utilitarians, the book of essays '' Era of Tyrannies'', and a history of Britain from 1815 to 1914 that influenced Britis ...

(1870-1937) - British 19th century *

Edward Hasted Edward Hasted (20 December 1732 OS (31 December 1732 NS) – 14 January 1812) was an English antiquarian and pioneering historian of his ancestral home county of Kent. As such, he was the author of a major county history, ''The History and T ...

(1732–1812) – Kent *

Max Hastings Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings (; born 28 December 1945) is a British journalist and military historian, who has worked as a foreign correspondent for the BBC, editor-in-chief of ''The Daily Telegraph'', and editor of the ''Evening Standard'' ...

(born 1945) – military, Second World War * J. H. Hexter (1910–1996) – England in the 17th century * Christopher Hill (1912–2003) – England in the 17th century *

Gertrude Himmelfarb Gertrude Himmelfarb (August 8, 1922 – December 30, 2019), also known as Bea Kristol, was an American historian. She was a leader of conservative interpretations of history and historiography. She wrote extensively on intellectual history, ...

(1922–2019) – social and cultural history of the Victorian period * Eric Hobsbawn (1917–2012) – Marxist British history *

David Hume David Hume (; born David Home; 7 May 1711 NS (26 April 1711 OS) – 25 August 1776) Cranston, Maurice, and Thomas Edmund Jessop. 2020 999br>David Hume" ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. Retrieved 18 May 2020. was a Scottish Enlightenment phil ...

(1711–1776) – Scottish Enlightenment philosopher and author of the six volume ''History of England'' (originally ''History of Britain'') *

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (18 February 16099 December 1674), was an English statesman, lawyer, diplomat and historian who served as chief advisor to Charles I during the First English Civil War, and Lord Chancellor to Charles II fro ...

(1609–1674) – English Civil Wars * John Edward Lloyd (1861–1947) – early Welsh history *

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, (; 25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a British historian and Whig politician, who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster-General between 1846 and 1 ...

(1800–1859) – English writer and historian whose most famous work was

The History of England from the Accession of James the Second ''The History of England from the Accession of James the Second'' (1848) is the full title of the five-volume work by Lord Macaulay (1800–1859) more generally known as ''The History of England''. It covers the 17-year period from 1685 to 1702, en ...

* John Morrill (born 1946) Seventeenth-century political and military history *

Lewis Bernstein Namier Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier (; 27 June 1888 – 19 August 1960) was a British historian of Polish-Jewish background. His best-known works were '' The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III'' (1929), ''England in the Age of the Amer ...

(1888–1960) – political history of the 18th century * Kenneth Morgan (born 1934) – modern Wales * Steven Pincus – 17th and 18th century England * Andrew Roberts (born 1963) – Political biographies, 19th and 20th centuries * A. L. Rowse (1903–1997) – Cornish history and Elizabethan England *

(born 1974) – Britain in the 1960s and after * John Robert Seeley (1834–1895) – British political history of the modern period * Jack Simmons (1915–2000) – railways, topography * Paul Slack (born 1943) – Early Modern British Social history * David Spring (1918-2004) - British 19th century *

David Starkey David Robert Starkey (born 3 January 1945) is an English historian and radio and television presenter, with views that he describes as conservative. The only child of Quaker parents, he attended Kendal Grammar School before studying at Cambr ...

(born 1945) – Tudor historian and TV presenter *

Lawrence Stone Lawrence Stone (4 December 1919 – 16 June 1999) was an English historian of early modern Britain, after a start to his career as an art historian of English medieval art. He is noted for his work on the English Civil War and the history of marr ...

(1919–1999) – English society and the history of the family * Keith Thomas (born 1933) – Early Modern English Society * E. P. Thompson (1924–1993) – British working class *

George Macaulay Trevelyan George Macaulay Trevelyan (16 February 1876 – 21 July 1962) was a British historian and academic. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1898 to 1903. He then spent more than twenty years as a full-time author. He returned to the ...

(1876–1962) – English history (many different periods) *

Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton (15 January 1914 – 26 January 2003) was an English historian. He was Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford. Trevor-Roper was a polemicist and essayist on a range of ...

(1914-2003) – Britain in the 17th century * Retha Warnicke (born 1939) – Tudor history and gender issues * Andy Wood (born 1967) – British social historian, 1500 to present *

Daniel Woolf Daniel Robert Woolf (born 5 December 1958) is a British-Canadian historian and former university administrator. He served as the 20th Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, a position to which he was ...

(born 1958) – Early Modern England and History of Historical Writing * Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910–1997) – British * G. M. Young (1882-1959) - Victorian England *

Perez Zagorin Perez Zagorin (May 20, 1920 – April 26, 2009) was an American historian who specialized in 16th- and 17th-century English and British history and political thought, early modern European history, and related areas in literature and philosophy. ...

(1920–2009) – 16th and 17th centuries

History of the British Empire

* Antoinette Burton *

Robert Bickers Robert A. Bickers (born 1964) is a British historian of modern China and colonialism. He is currently a professor of history at the University of Bristol. Bickers is the author of six books and editor or co-editor of three more. Biography Born ...

(born 1964) *

Richard Drayton Richard Drayton FRHistS (born 1964) is a Guyana-born historian and Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London. Biography Richard Drayton was born in Guyana in 1964, to parents Kathleen (nee McCracken; 1930–2009) and Harold D ...

(born 1964) * Gerald S. Graham (1903–1988) *

Vincent T. Harlow Vincent Todd Harlow (1898–1961) was a prominent English historian of the British Empire. From 1938 to 1949, he was the second Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London. In 1950, he succeeded Reginald Coupland as the Beit P ...

(1898–1961) * Wm. Roger Louis (born 1936) * P. J. Marshall (born 1933) * David Quinn (1909–2002) * D. M. Schurman (1924–2013) * Archibald Paton Thornton (1921–2004) *

Glyndwr Williams Glyndwr Williams (1932–24 January 2022) was a professor of history at Queen Mary, University of London since 1974, specialising in the history of exploration and the history of Europe overseas. He was appointed a professor emeritus of the Un ...

(born 1932)

History of Croatia

Johannes Lucius Johannes Lucius ( hr, Ivan Lučić; it, Giovanni Lucio; September 1604 – 11 January 1679) was a Dalmatian historian, whose greatest work is ''De regno Dalmatiae et Croatiae'' ("On the Kingdom of Dalmatia and Croatia"), which includes valua ...

(1604–1679) *

Pavao Ritter Vitezović Pavao Ritter Vitezović (; 7 January 1652 – 20 January 1713) was a Habsburg-Croatian polymath, variously described as a historian, linguist, publisher, poet, political theorist, diplomat, printmaker, draughtsman, cartographer, writer and print ...

(1652–1713) *

Franjo Rački Franjo Rački (25 November 1828 – 13 February 1894) was a Croatian historian, politician and writer. He compiled important collections of old Croatian diplomatic and historical documents, wrote some pioneering historical works, and was a key f ...

(1828–1894) * Tadija Smičiklas (1843–1914) * Vjekoslav Klaić (1849–1928) *

Ferdo Šišić Ferdo Šišić (9 March 1869 – 21 January 1940) was a Croatian historian, the founding figure of the Croatian historiography of the 20th century. He made his most important contributions in the area of the Croatian early Middle Ages. Life Ši� ...

(1869–1940) * Nada Klaić (1920–1988) * Mirjana Gross (1922–2012) *

Trpimir Macan Trpimir Macan (born August 20, 1935) is a Croatian historian and lexicographer. He was born in Dubrovnik. He studied history in Zagreb and Sarajevo, where he graduated in 1959. In 1971 he received his Ph.D. in Zagreb with a thesis ''Life and work ...

(born 1935) *

Ivo Banac Ivo Banac (; 1 March 1947 – 30 June 2020) was a Croatian-American historian, a professor of European history at Yale University and a politician of the former Liberal Party in Croatia, known as the Great Bard of Croatian historiography. , Banac ...

(1947–2020) * Radoslav Katičić (1930–2019)

History of Finland

* Kesar Ordin (1835–1892) * Mikhail Borodkin (1852–1919)

History of France The first written records for the history of France appeared in the Iron Age. What is now France made up the bulk of the region known to the Romans as Gaul. The first writings on indigenous populations mainly start in the first century BC. Gree ...

(1886–1944) – medieval France * Jean-Jacques Becker (born 1928) - French historian of contemporary history *

Vincent Cronin Vincent Archibald Patrick Cronin FRSL (24 May 1924 – 25 January 2011) 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, ...

(1924–2011) – Louis XIV, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Napoleon, and Paris * Natalie Zemon Davis (born 1928) – early modern France * Georges Duby (1924–1996) – medieval France *

Lucien Febvre Lucien Paul Victor Febvre (, ; 22 July 1878 – 11 September 1956) was a French historian best known for the role he played in establishing the Annales School of history. He was the initial editor of the '' Encyclopédie française'' together wi ...

(1878–1956) – French historian * Alistair Horne (1925–2017) – modern French military history *

Julian T. Jackson Julian Timothy Jackson (born 10 April 1954) is a British historian who is a fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society. He is a professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London, he is one of the leading authorities ...

(born 1954) – French historian * Douglas Johnson (1925–2005) – historian of modern France *

Simon Kitson Simon Kitson (born 1967) 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 Roderick Kedward. His doctoral thesi ...

(born c. 1967) – historian of Vichy France *

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie Emmanuel Bernard Le Roy Ladurie (, born 19 July 1929) is a French historian whose work is mainly focused upon Languedoc in the ''Ancien Régime'', particularly the history of the peasantry. One of the leading historians of France, Le Roy Ladurie h ...

(born 1929) – history of the French peasantry * Michael Marrus (born 1941) – Vichy France * John M. Merriman (born 1946) - French Historian * Jules Michelet (1798–1874) – French historian * Roland Mousnier (1907–1993) – early modern France *

Robert Roswell Palmer Robert Roswell Palmer (January 11, 1909 – June 11, 2002) was an American historian at Princeton and Yale universities, who specialized in eighteenth-century France. His most influential work of scholarship, ''The Age of the Democratic Revolutio ...

(1909–2002) – French revolution *

Robert Paxton Robert Owen Paxton (born June 15, 1932) is an American political scientist and historian specializing in Vichy France, fascism, and Europe during the World War II era. He is Mellon Professor Emeritus of Social Science in the Department of History ...

(born 1932) – Vichy France *

Pierre Renouvin Pierre Renouvin (January 9, 1893 – December 7, 1974) was a French historian of international relations. He was born in Paris and attended Lycée Louis-le-Grand, where he was awarded his aggrégation in 1912. Renouvin spent 1912-1914 traveling in ...

(1893–1974) – French diplomatic history * Andrew Roberts (born 1963) – Napoleon * John C. Rule (1929–2013) – 17th and 18th century France *

Zeev Sternhell Zeev Sternhell ( he, זאב שטרנהל; 10 April 1935 – 21 June 2020) was a Polish-born Israeli historian, political scientist, commentator on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and writer. He was one of the world's leading theorists of the ...

(1935–2020) – French fascism *

Eugen Weber Eugen Joseph Weber (April 24, 1925 – May 17, 2007) was a Romanian-born American historian with a special focus on Western world, Western civilization. Weber became a historian because of his interest in politics, an interest dating back to a ...

(1925–2007) – modern French history * John B. Wolf (1907–1996) – French history * Isser Woloch (born 1937) – 18th century France * Gordon Wright (1912–2000) * Robert J. Young (born 1942) – the Third Republic :''See also

List of historians of the French Revolution The historiography of the French Revolution stretches back over two hundred years, as commentators and historians have used a vast array of primary sources to explain the origins of the Revolution, and its meaning and its impact. By the year 2000, ...

''.

History of Germany

* Celia Applegate – music history and nationalism *

David Blackbourn David Gordon Blackbourn (born 1949 in Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England) is Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Chair of History at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches modern German and European history. Prior to arriving at Vanderbilt, Blackbour ...

(born 1949) *

Gisela Bock Gisela Bock (born 1942 in Karlsruhe, Germany) is a German historian. She studied in Freiburg, Berlin, Paris and Rome. She took her doctorate at the Free University Berlin in 1971 (on early modern intellectual history in Italy) and her Habilitatio ...

(born 1942) * Horst Boog (1928–2016) – military history *

Karl Dietrich Bracher Karl Dietrich Bracher (13 March 1922 – 19 September 2016) was 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 1 ...

(1922–2016) *

Martin Broszat Martin Broszat (14 August 1926 – 14 October 1989) was a German historian specializing in modern German social history. As director of the Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Institute for Contemporary History) in Munich from 1972 until his deat ...

(1926–1989) *

Alan Bullock Alan Louis Charles Bullock, Baron Bullock, (13 December 1914 – 2 February 2004) was a British historian. He is best known for his book '' Hitler: A Study in Tyranny'' (1952), the first comprehensive biography of Adolf Hitler, which influence ...

(1914–2004) * Robert Citino (born 1958) – military history * Gordon A. Craig (1913–2005) * Richard J. Evans (born 1947) *

Joachim Fest Joachim Clemens Fest (8 December 1926 – 11 September 2006) was a German historian, journalist, critic and editor who was best known for his writings and public commentary on Nazi Germany, including a biography of Adolf Hitler and books about ...

(1926–2006) *

Fritz Fischer Fritz Fischer (5 March 1908 – 1 December 1999) was a German historian best known for his analysis of the causes of World War I. In the early 1960s Fischer advanced the controversial thesis at the time that responsibility for the outbreak of the ...

(1908–1999) * Luise Gerbing (1855–1927), history of

Thuringia Thuringia (; german: Thüringen ), officially the Free State of Thuringia ( ), is a state of central Germany, covering , the sixth smallest of the sixteen German states. It has a population of about 2.1 million. Erfurt is the capital and lar ...

* Deborah Hertz (born 1949) *

Klaus Hildebrand Klaus Hildebrand (born 18 November 1941, Bielefeld, Germany) is a German liberal-conservative historian whose area of expertise is 19th–20th-century German political and military history. Biography Hildebrand is an intentionalist on the ori ...

(born 1941) *

Andreas Hillgruber Andreas Fritz Hillgruber (18 January 1925 – 8 May 1989) was a conservative German historian who was influential as a military and diplomatic historian who played a leading role in the ''Historikerstreit'' of the 1980s. In his controversial book ...

(1925–1989) *

Jonathan House Jonathan M. House (born June 22, 1950) is an American military historian and author. He is a professor emeritus of military history at the United States Army Command and General Staff College. House is a leading authority on Soviet military his ...

(born 1950) * Christian Hartmann (born 1959) – military history *

Gerhard Hirschfeld Gerhard Hirschfeld (born 19 September 1946 in Plettenberg, Germany) is a German historian and author. He was director (between 1989-2011) of the Stuttgart-based Library of Contemporary History, Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte / Library of Contemp ...

(born 1946) – 20th century German social, World War I & II *

Eberhard Jäckel Eberhard Jäckel (; 29 June 1929 – 15 August 2017) was a German historian. In the 1980s he was a principal protagonist in the Historians' Dispute (''Historikerstreit'') over how to incorporate Nazi Germany and the Holocaust into German hist ...

(1929–2017) *

Ian Kershaw Sir Ian Kershaw (born 29 April 1943) is an English historian whose work has chiefly focused on the social history of 20th-century Germany. He is regarded by many as one of the world's leading experts on Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, and is pa ...

(born 1943) * Klemens von Klemperer (1916–2012) * Ernst Klink (1923–1993) – military history *

Claudia Koonz Claudia Ann Koonz is an American historian of Nazi Germany. Koonz's critique of the role of women during the Nazi era, from a feminist perspective, has become a subject of much debate and research in itself. She is a recipient of the PEN New Engl ...

(born 1940) * Dieter Langewiesche (born 1943) *

Timothy Mason Timothy Wright Mason (2 March 1940 – 5 March 1990) was an English Marxist historian of Nazi Germany. He was one of the founders of the ''History Workshop Journal'' and specialised in the social history of the Third Reich. He argued for the " ...

(1940–1990) * Frank McDonough (born 1957) *

Wendy Lower Wendy Lower (born 1965) is an American historian and a widely published author on the Holocaust and World War II. Since 2012, she holds the John K. Roth Chair at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California, and in 2014 was named the dire ...

(born 1965) – history of National Socialism * Geoffrey P. Megargee (born 1959) – military history *

Friedrich Meinecke Friedrich Meinecke (October 20, 1862 – February 6, 1954) was a German historian, with national liberal and anti-Semitic views, who supported the Nazi invasion of Poland. After World War II, as a representative of an older tradition, he criti ...

(1862–1954) *

Hans Mommsen Hans Mommsen (5 November 1930 – 5 November 2015) was a German historian, known for his studies in German social history, and for his functionalist interpretation of the Third Reich, especially for arguing that Adolf Hitler was a weak dictator. ...

(1930–2015) *

Wolfgang Mommsen Wolfgang Justin Mommsen (; 5 November 1930 – 11 August 2004) was a German historian. He was the twin brother of historian Hans Mommsen. Biography Wolfgang Mommsen was born in Marburg, the son of the historian Wilhelm Mommsen and great-grands ...

(1930–2004) * George Mosse (1918–1999) * Elliot Neaman (born 1957) *

Ernst Nolte Ernst Nolte (11 January 1923 – 18 August 2016) was a German historian and philosopher. Nolte's major interest was the comparative studies of fascism and communism (cf. Comparison of Nazism and Stalinism). Originally trained in philosophy, he was ...

(1923–2016) *

Steven Ozment Steven Edgar Ozment (February 21, 1939 – December 12, 2019) was an American historian of early modern and modern Germany, the European family, and the Protestant Reformation. From 1990 to 2015, he was the McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern Hi ...

(1939–2019) *

Detlev Peukert Detlev Peukert (September 20, 1950 in Gütersloh – May 17, 1990 in Hamburg) 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 ...

(1950–1990) *

Koppel Pinson Koppel Shub Pinson (1904–1961) was a historian who specialized in the origins of German nationalism. Early life Born in Postawy, Russian Empire (now in Belarus), on February 11, 1904, Pinson immigrated to the United States with his family in ...

(1904–1961) *

Gerhard Ritter Gerhard Georg Bernhard Ritter (6 April 1888, in Bad Sooden-Allendorf – 1 July 1967, in Freiburg) was a nationalist-conservative German historian, who served as a professor of history at the University of Freiburg from 1925 to 1956. He studied u ...

(1888–1967) * Hans Rothfels (1891–1976) * David Schoenbaum (born 1935) *

(1932–2019) * Ronald Smelser (born 1942) * Louis Leo Snyder (1907–1993) *

Fritz Stern Fritz Richard Stern (February 2, 1926 – May 18, 2016) was a German-born American historian of German history, Jewish history and historiography. He was a University Professor and a provost at New York's Columbia University. His work focused ...

(1926–2016) *

David Stahel David Stahel (born 1975 in Wellington, New Zealand) is a historian, author and senior lecturer in history at the University of New South Wales. He specialises in German military history of World War II. Stahel has authored several books on the mil ...

(born 1975) *

Michael Stürmer Michael Stürmer (born September 29, 1938) is a conservative 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 Russia ...

(born 1938) *

Heinrich von Treitschke Heinrich Gotthard Freiherr von Treitschke (; 15 September 1834 – 28 April 1896) was a German historian, political writer and National Liberal member of the Reichstag during the time of the German Empire. He was an extreme nationalist, who favo ...

(1834–1896) *

A.J.P. Taylor Alan John Percivale Taylor (25 March 1906 – 7 September 1990) was a British historian who specialised in 19th- and 20th-century European diplomacy. Both a journalist and a broadcaster, he became well known to millions through his televi ...

(1906–1990) *

Hugh Trevor-Roper Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton (15 January 1914 – 26 January 2003) was an English historian. He was Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford. Trevor-Roper was a polemicist and essayist on a range of ...

(1914–2003) – British historian and peer who specialized on

Nazi Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in ...

leadership and incorrectly verified the authenticity of ''The

Hitler Diaries The Hitler Diaries (german: Hitler-Tagebücher) were a series of sixty volumes of journals purportedly written by Adolf Hitler, but forged by Konrad Kujau between 1981 and 1983. The diaries were purchased in 1983 for 9.3 million Deutsche ...

'' *

Henry Ashby Turner Henry Ashby Turner, Jr. (April 4, 1932 – December 17, 2008) was an American historian of Germany who was a professor at Yale University for over forty years. He is best known for his book ''German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler'' (1985) ...

(1932–2008) * Gerd R. Ueberschär (born 1943) – military history *

Bernd Wegner Bernd Wegner (born 1949) is a German historian who specialises in military history and the history of Nazism. Since 1997 he has been professor of modern history at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, Germany. Wegner is a contributor to t ...

(born 1949) – military history and history of National Socialism *

Hans-Ulrich Wehler Hans-Ulrich Wehler (September 11, 1931 – July 5, 2014) was a German left-liberal historian known for his role in promoting social history through the " Bielefeld School", and for his critical studies of 19th-century Germany. Life Wehler was bo ...

(1931–2014) *

Wolfram Wette Wolfram Wette (born 11 November 1940) is a German military historian and peace researcher. He is an author or editor of over 40 books on the history of Nazi Germany, including the seminal '' Germany and the Second World War'' series from the ...

(born 1940) – military history and history of National Socialism *

John Wheeler-Bennett Sir John Wheeler Wheeler-Bennett (13 October 1902 – 9 December 1975) was a conservative English historian of German and diplomatic history, and the official biographer of King George VI. He was well known in his lifetime, and his inter ...

(1902–1975) *

Jay Winter Jay Murray Winter (born May 28, 1945) is an American historian. He is the Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University, where he focuses his research on World War I and its impact on the 20th century. His other interests include r ...

(born 1945) * Michael Wolffsohn (born 1947) * Gordon Wright (1912–2000) – Germany – 19th and 20th centuries * David T. Zabecki (born 1947) – military history * Alfred-Maurice de Zayas (born 1947) *

Rainer Zitelmann Rainer Zitelmann (born 14 June 1957 in Frankfurt) is a German libertarian historian, author, management consultant and real estate expert. Life Zitelmann studied history and political science at the Technical University of Darmstadt. He compl ...

(born 1957)

History of the Habsburg monarchy

* John Komlos (born 1944) – economic

History of Ireland The first evidence of human presence in Ireland dates to around 33,000 years ago, with further findings dating the presence of homo sapiens to around 10,500 to 7,000 BC. The receding of the ice after the Younger Dryas cold phase of the Quaterna ...

* Mary Bonaventure Browne (after 1610–after 1670),

Poor Clare The Poor Clares, officially the Order of Saint Clare ( la, Ordo sanctae Clarae) – originally referred to as the Order of Poor Ladies, and later the Clarisses, the Minoresses, the Franciscan Clarist Order, and the Second Order of Saint Francis ...

and historian * Ann Buckley *

Francis John Byrne Francis John Byrne (1934 – 30 December 2017) was an Irish historian. Born in Shanghai where his father, a Dundalk man, captained a ship on the Yellow River, Byrne was evacuated with his mother to Australia on the outbreak of World War II. ...

(1934–2017) * John Clyn (fl. 1333–1349) * James Donnelly (born 1943) – Irish social history * Brian Farrell (1929–2014) * Roy Foster (born 1949) * Kathleen Hughes (1926–1977) *

Geoffrey Keating Geoffrey Keating ( ga, Seathrún Céitinn; c. 1569 – c. 1644) was a 17th-century historian. He was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, and is buried in Tubrid Graveyard in the parish of Ballylooby-Duhill. He became an Irish Catholic priest and a ...

* J.J. Lee (born 1942) – 20th century Ireland * James Francis Lydon (1928–2013) * F.S.L. Lyons (1923–1983) – modern Ireland * Oliver MacDonagh (1924–2002) – modern Ireland *

Dermot MacDermot Sir Dermot MacDermot (1906–1989), styled Prince of Coolavin, Chief of the Name, head of the MacDermot clan, and a descendant of the Kings of Moylurg. MacDermot attended Stonyhurst College, and went on to Trinity College Dublin, where he was ...

(1906–1989) *

Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh (), also known as Dubhaltach Óg mac Giolla Íosa Mór mac Dubhaltach Mór Mac Fhirbhisigh, Duald Mac Firbis, Dudly Ferbisie, and Dualdus Firbissius (fl. 1643 – January 1671) was an Irish scribe, translator, histori ...

(fl. 1643–1671) * Gilla Isa Mor mac Donnchadh MacFhirbhisigh (fl. 1390–1418) * Muirchu moccu Machtheni (fl. late 7th century) *

Flann Mainistrech Flann Mainistrech (died 25 November 1056) was an Irish poet and historian. Flann was the son of Echthigern mac Óengusso, who had been lector at the monastery of Monasterboice (modern County Louth), in Irish ''Mainistir Buite'', whence Flann's by ...

(died 1056) * F.X. Martin (1922–2000) *

Kenneth Nicholls Kenneth W. Nicholls, Irish academic and historian, is a widely respected Irish historian. Nicholls came to national and international prominence as the author of ''Gaelic and Gaelicised Ireland in the Middle Ages'', first published in 1972, ...

* Adhamh Ó Cianáin (died 1373) *

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 Per ...

(c. 1590–1643) *

Dáibhí Ó Cróinín Dáibhí Iarla Ó Cróinín (born 29 August 1954) is an Irish historian and authority on Hiberno-Latin texts, noted for his significant mid-1980s discovery in a manuscript in Padua of the "lost" Irish 84-year Easter table. Ó Cróinín was Prof ...

(born 1954) * Eugene O'Curry (1794–1862) * John O'Donovan (1806–1861) * Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin (died 1372) * Pilip Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin (fl. 1579–1590) *

Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh Roderick O'Flaherty ( ga, Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh; 1629–1718 or 1716) was an Irish historian. Biography He was born in County Galway and inherited Moycullen Castle and estate. O'Flaherty was the last ''de jure'' Lord of Iar Connacht, ...

(1629–1718) *

Nollaig Ó Muraíle Nollaig Ó Muraíle is an Irish scholar. He published an acclaimed edition of Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh's ''Leabhar na nGenealach'' in 2004. He was admitted to the Royal Irish Academy in 2009. Life and career A native of Knock, County Mayo, Ó ...

* Tírechán (fl. late 7th century) * Father Paul Walsh (1885–1941) *

Sir James Ware Sir James Ware (26 November 1594 – 1 December 1666) was an Irish historian. Personal details Born at Castle Street, Dublin on 26 November 1594, James Ware was the eldest son of Sir James Ware (1568–1632) and Mary Bryden, daughter of Ambrose ...

(1594–1666)

History of Italy

* Lorenzo Arnone Sipari (born 1973) – social and environmental Italian history * R.J.B. Bosworth (born 1943) – Fascism, Mussolini * Benedetto Croce (1866–1952) – philosophy of history, modern Italian history *

(1924–2011) – Renaissance art and Sicily * Renzo De Felice (1929–1996) – Fascism, biographer of Mussolini * John Foot (born 1964) – modern Italy history, The City *

Emilio Gentile Emilio Gentile (born 1946, in Bojano) is an Italian historian and professor, specializing in the history, ideology, and culture of Italian fascism. Gentile is considered one of Italy's foremost cultural historians of the Italian Fascist regim ...

(born 1946) – Fascism *

Carlo Ginzburg Carlo Ginzburg (; born April 15, 1939) is an Italian historian and proponent of the field of microhistory. He is best known for ''Il formaggio e i vermi'' (1976, English title: '' The Cheese and the Worms''), which examined the beliefs of an Ita ...

(born 1939) – witchcraft and agrarian cults, microhistory *

Alessandra Kersevan Alessandra Kersevan (born 18 December 1950) is a historian, author and editor living and working in Udine. She researches Italian modern history, including the Italian resistance movement and Italian war crimes. She is the editor of a group cal ...

(born 1950) – Italian concentration camps *

Claudio Pavone Claudio Pavone (30 November 1920 – 29 November 2016) was an Italian historian and archivist. Pavone was the president of the Historic Institute of the Liberation movement in Italy, the president of the Italian Society of Contemporary History an ...

(1920–2016) – Italian fascism, World War II, anti-fascism *

– Italian war crimes * John Pollard (born 1944) – The church and Fascism *

Paul Ginsborg Paul Anthony Ginsborg (18 July 1945 – 11 May 2022) was a British historian. In the 1980s, he was Professor at the University of Siena; from 1992, he was Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Florence. Education Ginsb ...

(born 1945) – The Risorgimento, Italian modern and contemporary history * Lucy Riall (born 1962) – The Risorgimento, Garibaldi, Sicily *

Gaetano Salvemini Gaetano Salvemini (; 8 September 1873 – 6 September 1957) was an Italian Socialist and antifascist politician, historian and writer. Born in a family of modest means, he became an acclaimed historian both in Italy and abroad, particularly in ...

(1873–1957) – Fascism, French Revolution *

Denis Mack Smith Denis Mack Smith CBE FBA FRSL (3 March 1920 – 11 July 2017) was an English historian who specialized in the history of Italy from the Risorgimento onwards. He is best known for his biographies of Garibaldi, Cavour and Mussolini, and for hi ...

(1920–2017) – Italian modern history * Arrigo Petacco (1929–2018) – Fascism

History of Moldova/Bessarabia

Nicolae Iorga Nicolae Iorga (; sometimes Neculai Iorga, Nicolas Jorga, Nicolai Jorga or Nicola Jorga, born Nicu N. Iorga;Iova, p. xxvii. 17 January 1871 – 27 November 1940) was a Romanian historian, politician, literary critic, memoirist, Albanologist, poet ...

(1871–1940) *

Ion Nistor Ion I. Nistor (August 16, 1876 – November 11, 1962) was a Romanian historian and politician. He was a titular member of the Romanian Academy from 1915 and a professor at the universities of Cernăuți and Bucharest, while also serving as Mini ...

(1876–1962) * Petre Cazacu (1873–1956) * Charles King (born 1967) * Igor Casu (born 1973) * Gh. Cojocaru (born 1963)

History of the Netherlands The history of the Netherlands is a history of seafaring people thriving in the lowland river delta on the North Sea in northwestern Europe. Records begin with the four centuries during which the region formed a militarized border zone of the Ro ...

Jaap R. Bruijn Jacobus Ruurd "Jaap" Bruijn (born 13 March 1938 in The Hague - 2 November 2022 Oegstgeest), was one of the best known and respected Dutch maritime historians. He was professor of maritime history at the University of Leiden from 1979 until his reti ...

(born 1938) *

Femme Gaastra Femme Simon Gaastra (born 23 July 1945 in Leeuwarden, Netherlands) was a Dutch 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 Gaastra attende ...

(born 1945) * Pieter Geyl (1887–1966) *

John Lothrop Motley John Lothrop Motley (April 15, 1814 – May 29, 1877) was an American author and diplomat. As a popular historian, he is best known for his works on the Netherlands, the three volume work ''The Rise of the Dutch Republic'' and four volume ''His ...

(1814–1877) *

Jonathan Israel Jonathan Irvine Israel (born 26 January 1946) is a British writer and academic specialising in Dutch history, the Age of Enlightenment and European Jews. Israel was appointed as Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the School of Historical Studies a ...

(born 1946) * G. J. Renier (1892–1962) * Herbert H. Rowen (1916–1999) *

Simon Schama Sir Simon Michael Schama (; born 13 February 1945) is an English historian specialising in art history, Dutch history, Jewish history, and French history. He is a University Professor of History and Art History at Columbia University. He fi ...

(born 1945)

History of Norway

History of Poland The history of Poland spans over a thousand years, from medieval tribes, Christianization and monarchy; through Poland's Golden Age, expansionism and becoming one of the largest European powers; to its collapse and partitions, two world wars ...

* Norman Davies (born 1939) – modern Polish history *

Robert I. Frost Robert I. Frost (born 1958) is a British historian and academic.Pawel Jasienica (1909–1970) – Polish amateur historian * Wickham Steed (1871–1956)

History of Portugal The history of Portugal can be traced from circa 400,000 years ago, when the region of present-day Portugal was inhabited by Homo heidelbergensis. The Roman invasion in the 3rd century BC lasted several centuries, and developed the Roman provin ...

* José Hermano Saraiva (1919–2012) * A. H. de Oliveira Marques (1933–2007) – early modern period * José Mattoso (born 1933) – medieval history * Fernando Rosas (born 1946) – contemporary history

History of Romania

Lucian Boia Lucian Boia (born 1 February 1944 in Bucharest) is a Romanian historian. He is mostly known for his debunking of historical myths about Romania, for purging mainstream Romanian history from the deformations due to ideological propaganda. I.e. as ...

(born 1944) *

Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu ( 26 February 1838 – ) was a Romanian writer and philologist, who pioneered many branches of Romanian philology and history. Life He was born Tadeu Hâjdeu in Cristineștii Hotinului (now Kerstentsi in Chernivtsi ...

(1838–1907) *

(1871–1940) * Mihail Kogalniceanu (1817–1891) *

Irina Livezeanu Irina Livezeanu (born 1952) is a Romanian-American historian. Her research interests include Eastern Europe, Eastern European Jewry, the Holocaust in Eastern Europe, and modern nationalism. Several of her publications deal with the history of Roma ...

(born 1952) * David Mitrany (1888–1975) * Vladimir Tismaneanu (born 1951) *

Alexandru D. Xenopol Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol (; March 23, 1847, Iaşi – February 27, 1920, Bucharest) was a Romanian historian, philosopher, professor, economist, sociologist, and author. Among his many major accomplishments, he is the Romanian historian credite ...

(1847–1920) * Alexandru Zub (born 1934)

History of Russia The history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs. The traditional start-date of specifically Russian history is the establishment of the Rus' people, Rus' state in the north in 862, ruled by Varangians. Staraya Ladoga and Veli ...

* Nicholas Bethell (1938–2007) *

Robert Conquest George Robert Acworth Conquest (15 July 1917 – 3 August 2015) was a British historian and poet. A long-time research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, Conquest was most notable for his work on the Soviet Union. His books ...

(1917–2015) – Soviet Union *

(1924–2011) – Catherine the Great *

Orlando Figes Orlando Guy Figes () is a British historian and writer. Until his retirement, he was Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. Figes is known for his works on Russian history, such as '' A People's Tragedy'' (1996), ''Nata ...

(born 1959) * Patricia Kennedy Grimsted (born 1935) – post-Soviet archives * Geoffrey Hosking (born 1942) * Lindsey Hughes (1949–2007) - C17th and C18th * Leopold Labedz (1920–1993) * Roy Medvedev (born 1925) * Robin Milner-Gulland (born 1936) - cultural history * Richard Pipes (1923–2018) – Soviet Union * William Taubman (born 1941) – Nikita Khrushchev * Peter Kenez (born 1937) – Soviet Union and Soviet cinema * Robert Service (historian), Robert Service (born 1947) * Adam Ulam (1922–2000) * Anne Applebaum (born 1964) – Gulag history * Sheila Fitzpatrick (born 1941) – everyday life under Stalinism * Nicolas Werth (born 1950) – political repressions * Nikita Petrov (born 1957) – political repressions * Viktor Danilov (1927–2016) – history of collectivization * Oleg Khlevniuk (born 1959) – Stalin and Politburo * Moshe Lewin (1921–2010) – collectivization * David Shearer (born 1957) – Stalinist repressions

History of Serbia

*Vladimir Ćorović (1885–1941) *Sima Ćirković (1929–2009) *Rade Mihaljčić (1937–2020) *Stojan Novaković (1842–1915) *Stanoje Stanojević (1874–1937) *Jovan I. Deretić (1939–2021)

History of Scotland

* G. W. S. Barrow (1924–2013) * Steve Boardman (historian), Steve Boardman * Hector Boece (1465–1536) * George Buchanan (1506–1582) * Gilbert Burnet (1643–1715) * Tom Devine * John of Fordun * Christopher Harvie (born 1944) * Colin Kidd (born 1964) * Michael Lynch (historian), Michael Lynch (born 1946) * Norman Macdougall * Rosalind Mitchison (1919–2002) * Richard Oram * T.C. Smout (born 1933) - Scottish social history * Nigel Tranter (1909–2000) * Christopher Whatley * Jenny Wormald (1942–2015)

= Historiographer Royal (Scotland), Historiographer Royal of Scotland

= * James Fall (academic administrator), James Fall, 1682 * William Robertson (historian), William Robertson (1721–1793), 1763–1793 * John Gillies (historian), John Gillies (1747–1836), 1793–1836 * George Brodie (historian), George Brodie (1786–1967), 1836–1867 * John Hill Burton (1809–1881), 1867–1881 * William Forbes Skene (1809–1892), 1881–1893 * David Masson (1822–1907), 1893–1908 * Peter Hume Brown (1849–1918), 1908–1919 * Robert Rait (1874–1936), 1919–1930 * Robert Kerr Hannay(1867–1940), FRSE, 1930–1940 * J. D. Mackie (1887–1978), Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, OBE, 1958–1978 * Gordon Donaldson (1913–1993), Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, CBE, 1979–1993 * Christopher Smout (born 1933), Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, CBE, since 1993

History of Slovakia

* Vojtech Čelko (born 1946) – political and cultural history of Central Europe in the 20th century; history of Czechoslovak exile after 1948 * Ladislav Deák (1931–2011) – foreign policy of Central European states and Yugoslavia in the interwar period; history of Hungarian-Slovak foreign relationships * Gabriela Dudeková (born 1968) – social policy of Austria-Hungary; situation of Prisoner of war, POWs and civilians in

; history of feminism and gender studies * Ivan Kamenec (born 1938) – Holocaust in Slovakia; diplomacy in Central Europe in the interwar period and during World War II * Adam František Kollár (1718–1783) – influential jurist, historian and ethnologist, who coined the term ethnology * Peter Kopecký – history of diplomacy and foreign policy of Slovakia * Juraj Marusiak (born 1970) – history of Slovak-Polish relationships; modern history of Central and Eastern Europe * Thomas Spira (1923–2005) – study of nationalism and ethnicity ''(born and raised in Slovakia)'' * Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795–1861) – philologist, poet, Slavistics, Slavist, literary historian and ethnographer * Štefan Šutaj (born 1954) – history of Hungarians in Czechoslovakia, Hungarian minority in Czechoslovakia; Slovak civic (non-communist) political parties after 1945 * Zora Mintalová – Zubercová (born 1950) – food history and material culture of Central Europe

History of Slovenia

* Bogo Grafenauer (1916–1995) *

(born 1950) – Italian concentration camps * Vasilij Melik (1921–2009) – Slovene Lands in the 19th century. * Jože Pirjevec (born 1940) – Foibe massacres * Milica Kacin Wohinz (born 1930) – Italianization of Slovene people, Slovenes between 1918 and 1943 * Marta Verginella (born 1960) – history of the Slovene minority in Italy (1920–1947)

History of Spain

* Ida Altman (born 1950) – early modern Europe, Early modern History of Spain, Spain, History of Latin America#Colonialism, colonial History of Latin America, Latin America * Roger Collins (born 1949) – medieval history, history of Spain, Spain, Visigothic Spain, history of Muslim Spain * Rafael Núñez Florencio (born 1956) * Julian Ribera y Tarragó (1858–1934) – history of Spain, Spain, history of the Book, medieval history, history of Muslim Spain * Julia Pavón (born 1968) – medieval history of Navarra * Joseph Pérez (1931-2020) - history of the Spanish Empire.

History of Sweden

* Peter Englund (born 1957) * Anders Fryxell (1795–1881) * Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783–1847) * Jan Glete (1947–2009) * Carl Grimberg (1875–1941) *

(born 1966) * Ragnhild Hatton (1913–1995) – biographer of King Charles XII * Sten Lindroth (1914–1980) * Erik Lönnroth (1910–2002) * Olaus Magnus (1490–1557) * Samuel von Pufendorf (1632–1694) * Erik Ringmar (born 1960) * Michael Roberts (historian), Michael Roberts (1908–1996) * John Robinson (bishop of London), John Robinson (1650–1723) * Curt Weibull (1886–1991) * Lauritz Weibull (1873–1960)

History of Yugoslavia

(1947–2020) * Misha Glenny (born 1958) * Barbara Jelavich (1923–1995) – wrote extensively on Balkan history, along with her husband Charles Jelavich * John R. Lampe – author of Yugoslavia As History: Twice There Was a Country * Stevan K. Pavlowitch (born 1933) * Catherine Samary – author of Yugoslavia Dismembered * Stephen Schwartz (journalist), Stephen Schwartz (born 1948) * Jozo Tomasevich (1908–1994)

Europe and Asia

History of The Republic of Turkey and Turkish Empires

* Halil İnalcık (1916–2016), İstanbul, Türkiye), history of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey * İlber Ortaylı (born 1947, Bregen, Österreich), history of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey * Heath W. Lowry (born 1942, America), history of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey * Mehmet Fuat Köprülü (1890–1966, İstanbul, Türkiye), Turcologist and historian, history of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey * Yusuf Halaçoğlu (born 1949, Adana, Türkiye), history of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey * Reşat Ekrem Koçu (1905–1975, İstanbul, Türkiye), writer and historian, history of the Ottoman Empire * Ahmed Cevad Pasha (Kabaağaçlızade Ahmet Cevat Paşa) (1851–1900, İstanbul, Türkiye), Ottoman statesman (Grand Vizier), history of the Ottoman Empire * Aşıkpaşazade (Âşıkpasazâde Derviş Ahmet Âşıkî) (yak. 1400, Amasya–yak. 1484), Ottoman Empire/ Türkiye) history of the Ottoman Empire * Ibn Kemal (Kemal Paşazade (ibn-i Kemâl)) (1468–1534, The Ottoman Empire/Türkiye), Ottoman statesman, history of the Ottoman Empire * Koçi Bey (Mustafa Koçi Bey) (?–1650, The Ottoman Empire/Türkiye), Ottoman statesman, history of the Ottoman Empire * Katip Çelebi (Haci Halife Kalfa) (1609–1657, İstanbul, The Ottoman Empire/Türkiye), history of the Ottoman Empire

Asia

Middle East

* George Antonius (1891–1941) – historian of Arab nationalism *

(1924–2011) – study of the Faiqani tribe of South Persia * Neilson Debevoise (1903–1992) – history of the Parthian Empire * Caroline Finkel * Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb (1895–1971) – Editor, The ''Encyclopaedia of Islam'' * Bernard Lewis (1916–2018) – history of Islam and the Middle East * Albert Hourani (1915–1993) * ‘Ala’ al-Din ‘Ata Malik Juvayni (1226–1283) – Ta’rīkh-I-Jahān Gushā (A History of the World-Conqueror Chingis Khān) * Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) * Walid Khalidi (born 1925) – Palestinian historian * D. S. Margoliouth (1858–1940) * Michael Oren (born 1955) * Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (circa 1247–1318) – Jāmi‛ al-Tawārīkh (Compendium of Chronicles), Ta’rīkh–i-Ghāzānī (a history of the Mongols and Turks) * Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg (1944–2000) – Achaemenid history * Ibn al-Tiqtaqa (born c. 1262) – Shi'i historian, wrote Al-Fakhīr

Central Asia

* Denis Sinor (1916–2011), Hungarian-American historian of Central Asia * Edward A. Allworth (1920–2016), American historian specializing in Central Asia * Étienne de la Vaissière (born 1969), French specialist of Sogdian culture and early medieval Central Asia * Geoffrey Wheeler (historian), Geoffrey Wheeler (1897–1990), British soldier and historian of Central Asia * Lola Dodkhudoeva (born 1951), Tajikistani historian specialising in medieval Central Asian affairs * Svetlana Gorshenina (born 1969), Uzbek specialist on History of Central Asia#Prehistory, Pre-Islamic Central Asia

South Asia

= History of the Indian Subcontinent

= * Muzaffar Alam (born 1947) * A. L. Basham (1914–1986) * Chris Bayly (1945–2015) * Dipesh Chakrabarty (born 1948) * Bernard Cohn (anthropologist), Bernard Cohn (1928–2003) * Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1870–1958) * R. C. Majumdar (1884–1980) * Niharranjan Ray (1903–1981) * Datto Vaman Potdar (1890–1979) * Tryambak Shankar Shejwalkar (1895–1963) *

(1919–2011) * Nicholas Dirks * Ranajit Guha (born 1923) * Ayesha Jalal (born 1956) * John Keay (born 1941) * Sumit Sarkar (born 1939) * Romila Thapar (born 1931) * Thomas R. Metcalf, Thomas Metcalf (born 1934) * Barbara Metcalf (born 1941) * Percival Spear (1901–1982) * Bipan Chandra (1928–2014) * Gyan Prakash (born 1952) * Tanika Sarkar * Barbara Ramusack (born 1937) * Thomas Trautmann (born 1940) * Khursheed Kamal Aziz, K. K. Aziz (1927–2009) * Mubarak Ali (born 1941) * Mohammad Ishaq Khan (1946–2013) * NS Rajaram (1943–2019) *Sukumar Sen (linguist) *Suniti Kumar Chatterji

= History of India

= * Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman (born 1940) – Unani historian

= History of Pakistan

= * Khursheed Kamal Aziz, K. K. Aziz (1927–2009) * Imran Khan (born 1952)

Far East

= History of Japan

= * William George Aston (1841–1911) * Gail Lee Bernstein (born 1939) * Harold Bolitho (1939–2010) * Hugh Borton (1903–1995) * Albert M. Craig (born 1927) * Sheldon Garon (born 1951) * Carol Gluck (born 1941) * Andrew Gordon (historian), Andrew Gordon (born 1952) * William Elliot Griffis (1843–1928) * John Whitney Hall (1916–1997) * Susan Hanley (born 1939) * Marius Jansen (1922–2000) * Donald Keene (1922–2019) * Joyce Lebra (1925-2021) * Jeffrey Mass (1940–2001) * Richard Ponsonby-Fane (1878–1937) * Tetsuo Najita (1936–2021) * Ian Nish (1926–2022) * Edwin O. Reischauer (1910–1990) * Donald Richie (1924–2013) * George Bailey Sansom (1883–1965) * Ernest Mason Satow (1843–1929) * Amy Stanley (born 1978) * Conrad Totman (born 1934) * Stephen Turnbull (historian), Stephen Turnbull (born 1948) * Barak Kushner (born 1968)

= History of Korea

= * Bruce Cumings (born 1943) – modern Korea * Carter J. Eckert * James Palais (1934–2006) * Il-yeon (1206–1289) * Kim Bu-sik (1075–1151) – early annalist * Kim Dae-mun * Lee Ki-baek (1924–2004) * James Hoare (born 1943) * Shin Chaeho (1880–1936) – ancient Korean history * Andre Schmid (academic), Andre Schmid (born 1963) * Yu Deuk-gong (1749–1807) – Balhae * Odd Arne Westad (born 1960) – professor at the London School of Economics

= History of China

= *

(born 1964) - modern China * Immanuel C.Y. Hsu (1923-2005) - modern China * John Herman (1889–1950) * Ann Paludan (1928–2014) – ancient China * Sima Qian – compiled Records of the Grand Historian * Chen Shou (233–297) – author of the Sanguo Zhi, Records of Three Kingdoms. * Jonathan Spence (born 1936) * Denis Twitchett (1925–2006) – Cambridge scholar, and editor of ''The Cambridge History of China'' * Hans van de Ven (born 1958) * Frederic Wakeman, Jr. (1937–2006) * Odd Arne Westad (born 1960) – professor at the London School of Economics and author of many books on China

History of Hong Kong

* John Mark Carroll (born 1961) * Joseph Ting Sun Pao (born 1951) *Steve Tsang (born 1959) *James Lau Chi-pang (born 1960) *Elizabeth Sinn Yuk Yee (born 1961 *WONG, Man Kong Timothy

Africa

* David William Cohen, David Cohen (born 1943) * A. G. Hopkins (born 1938) – European colonialism and globalisation * William Miller Macmillan (1885–1974) * Jocelyne Dakhlia (born 1959) – political and cultural history of Islam in the Maghreb * Jan Vansina (1929–2017)

Timeline of Serer history, History of the Serers

* Alioune Sarr (1908–2001), Senegalese specialist on Serer history (medieval era to present), Serer medieval history * Henry Gravrand (1921–2003), France, French specialist on Serer ancient history, Serer medieval history and Serer religion * Issa Laye Thiaw (1943–2017), Senegalese specialist on :Serer history, Serer general history and Serer religion * Alhaji Alieu Ebrima Cham Joof (1924–2011), Gambian specialist on Serer general history and history of Senegambia (History of Senegal, Senegal and History of the Gambia, Gambia) * Marguerite Dupire (1920–2015), French people, French scholar of Serer religion and history * Louis Diène Faye (born 1936), Senegalese scholar of Serer religion and history

Oceania

History of Australia

* Manning Clark (1915–1991) * Keith Windschuttle (born 1942) * Geoffrey Blainey (born 1930) * Stuart Macintyre (1947–2021) * Henry Reynolds (historian), Henry Reynolds (born 1938) * Frank Welsh (writer), Frank Welsh (born 1931) *Andrew Moore (historian), Andrew Moore

History of Fiji

* Brij Lal (historian), Brij Lal

History of New Zealand

* James Belich (historian), James Belich (born 1956) * Michael King (historian), Michael King (1945–2004) * W. H. Oliver (1925–2015) * William Pember Reeves (1857–1932) * J. G. A. Pocock (born 1924) * Keith Sinclair (1922–1993)

History of Tonga

* Sione Lātūkefu

History of Papua New Guinea

* John Waiko (born 1945)

By historical viewpoint

Abolitionism in the United States, Abolitionist

* George Washington Williams (1849–1891) – Early African-American historian

Counterfactual history, Counterfactual

* Niall Ferguson (born 1964) – ''Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals'' (1997)

Marxist

(born 1943) – Marxist historian of the

and

* Eugene D. Genovese (1930–2012) – Marxist historian of southern US history and slavery * Ranajit Guha (born 1923) – Indian Marxist historian * Christopher Hill (1912–2003) – 17th century England * Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012) – Marxist historian of the modern world * Gerald Horne (born 1949) – African American Marxist historian * Timothy Wright Mason (1940–1990) – Marxist historian who worked on the history of Nazism, National Socialism and the German working-class * Maxime Rodinson (1915–2004) – French Marxist historian on the history of Islam * Sumit Sarkar (born 1939) – Indian Marxist historian * Edward Palmer Thompson (1924–1993) – British Marxist historian, author of ''The Making of the English Working Class'' *

(1942–1980) – Marxist historian of Africa

Nazi Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in ...

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

:Historians of anarchism, Anarchist

* Paul Avrich (1931–2006) – USA, oral history of the U.S. and Russia * Murray Bookchin (1921–2006) – USA, writer; founder of "Social ecology (theory), social ecology" * Sam Dolgoff (1902–1990) – USA, writer, activist, co-founder of ''Anarcho-Syndicalist Review'' * Sébastien Faure (1858–1942) – France, ''Encyclopedie Anarchiste'', 4 volumes (1932–1934) * David Goodway – UK, writer, editor * Daniel Guérin (1904–1988) – France, writer, editor Libertarian Communist * Robert Graham (historian), Robert Graham (born 1958) – USA, writer, editor * Andrej Grubacic – Bulgarian history and anarchism, lecturer at University of San Francisco * Peter Marshall (author), Peter Marshall (born 1946) – England, historian, philosopher, writer (of ''Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism'', 1992) * Chuck W. Morse (born 1969) – USA, writer, founder of "Institute for Anarchist Studies/IAS * Max Nettlau (1865–1944) – Austria, writer of ''Geschichte der Anarchie'', seven volumes * Abel Paz (1921–2009) – Spain, Civil war, Durruti, CNT/FAI * José Peirats (1908–1989) – Spain, historian of the CNT/FAI * Alexandre Skirda (born 1942) * Antonio Tellez (1921–2005) * Dana Ward – founder of "Anarchist Archives", Online Research on the History and Theory of Anarchism, (USA) * George Woodcock (1912–1995) *

(1922–2010)

pacifism, Pacifist

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

By general category

Architectural history

* Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (c. 80/70 BC?–c. 25 BC) – Roman architect and engineer, author of De architectura * Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) – Italian polymath, active in many fields, author of De Re Aedificatoria among others * Josef Strzygowski (1862–1941) * Joseph Rykwert (born 1926) * Manfredo Tafuri (1935–1994) * David Watkin (historian) (1941–2018) * Alberto Pérez-Gómez (born 1949) * Doğan Kuban (1926–2021) – architect, history of architecture and art history

Art history

* Nurhan Atasoy (born 1934, Tokat, Türkiye) – Turkish and Islamic Art History *

(1924–2011) – French and Italian art and architectural history * Oleg Grabar (1929–2011) – Islamic Art History * Catherine Mason – British computer and digital art history * Nicholas Pevsner (1903–1983) – History of art and English architecture * Alena Potůčková (1953–2018) – Czech art history *

(born 1945) – Art history * Ichimatsu Tanaka (1895–1983) – Japanese art history * Yukio Yashiro (1890–1975) – Japanese art history; Botticelli and the Florentine Renaissance

Christianity

* Eusebius of Caesarea (c. 275–339) – "Father of Church history" * Alexander Campbell Cheyne (1924–2006) – Scottish ecclesiastical historian * John Gilmary Shea (1824–1892) – father of American Catholic Church, Catholic History * Bengt Hägglund (1920–2015) – historian of Christian theology * Barbara Thiering (1930–2015) – rediscovered the "Pesher technique"

Classical Antiquity

* Werner Eck (born 1939) * Robert Malcolm Errington (born 1939) * Erich S. Gruen (born 1935) *

(1903–1989)

Economic history

* Robert C. Allen (born 1947) * Leah Boustan * Eli Heckscher (1879–1952) * Barry Eichengreen (born 1952) * Niall Ferguson (born 1964) * Robert Fogel (1926–2013) * Alexander Gerschenkron (1904–1978) * Claudia Goldin (born 1946) * Susan Howson (economist), Susan Howson (born 1945) * Harold James (historian), Harold James (born 1956) * John Komlos (born 1944) * Naomi Lamoreaux (born 1950) * David Landes, David S. Landes (1924–2013) * Joel Mokyr (born 1946) * Thomas Piketty (born 1971) * Walt Whitman Rostow, W. W. Rostow (1916–2003) * Tirthankar Roy (born 1960) *

(1919–2011) – economic history of ancient India * Robert Skidelsky (born 1939) * R. H. Tawney (1880–1962)

List of Egyptologists, Egyptology

* Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert (born 1954) * Ludwig David Morenz (born 1965) * Richard B. Parkinson (born 1963) * William Kelly Simpson (1928–2017) * John W. Tait (born 1945) * Edward F. Wente (born 1930) * Penelope Wilson

Environmental history

* Christopher Smout (born 1933) *

(born 1954) – Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison

Espionage

* Christopher Andrew (historian), Christopher Andrew (born 1941) * John Barron (journalist), John Barron (1930–2005) * John Earl Haynes (born 1944) * David Kahn (writer), David Kahn (born 1930) * Victor Suvorov (born 1947) * Nigel West (born 1951)

Food history

* Sidney Mintz (1922–2015) * Massimo Montanari (born 1949) * Zora Mintalová – Zubercová (born 1950)

Gender history

* John Boswell (1947–1994, American) – homosexuality in medieval times * Francisca de Haan (fl. 1998-) – Central, Eastern and South Eastern European Women's and Gender History * George Mosse (1918–1999) * Marysa Navarro (born 1934) - feminism * Retha Warnicke (born 1939) – gender issues

Historiography

(1919–2011) * Alphonse Balleydier (1810–1859) *

(1886–1944) *

(1902–1985) *

(1900–1979) * E. H. Carr (1892–1982) * R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943) * Geoffrey Rudolph Elton, Geoffrey Elton (1921–1994) * Richard J. Evans (born 1947) * Pieter Geyl (1887–1966) * J. H. Hexter (1910–1996) *

(born 1929) * Peter Novick (1934–2012) * Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886) * Hayden White (1928–2018) * Frank Ankersmit (born 1945)

Academic protagonists in Australia's "history wars"

* Geoffrey Blainey (born 1930) * Stuart Macintyre (1947–2021) * Robert Manne (born 1947) * Henry Reynolds (historian), Henry Reynolds (born 1938) * Lyndall Ryan (born 1943) * Keith Windschuttle (born 1942)

History of business

* Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1918–2007) * Jan Glete (1947–2009) – Swedish business history * Allan Nevins (1890–1971)

History of ideas, culture, literature, and philosophy

(1919–2011) – material culture in History of India, Ancient India * Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) – history of ideas * J.C.D. Clark (born 1951) – British historian of 18th century ideas * Jovan Deretić (1934–2002), Serbian literary history * Michel Foucault (1926–1984) – history of ideas * Peter Gay (1923–2015) – history of ideas * A.O. Lovejoy (1873-1962) - history of ideas * Lewis Mumford (1895–1988) – history of technology * Hüseyin Nihâl Atsız (1905–1975, İstanbul, Türkiye) – Turkology, Turkish Literature * Pertev Naili Boratav (Mustafa Pertev) (1907–1998) – Turkish folklorist, Ottoman and Turkish culture *

(1913–2006) – Hittitolo, historian, ancient Anatolian languages

History of international relations

* Harry Elmer Barnes (1889–1968) *

(1900–1979) * E.H. Carr (1892–1982) * Gordon A. Craig (1913–2005) * John Lewis Gaddis (born 1941) – historian of the Cold War * Ragnhild Hatton (1913–1995) – historian of 17th- and 18th-century international relations *

(born 1941) *

(1925–1989) * Paul Kennedy (born 1945) – British historian, author of influential ''The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers'' * William L. Langer (1896–1977) * Arno J. Mayer (born 1926) *

(1888–1960) * Paul W. Schroeder (born 1927) – U.S. historian, 19th-century European international relations *

(1932–2019) *

(1906–1990) – historian of European international relations * Harold Temperley, (1879–1939) – British historian, Cambridge, 19th- and early 20th-century diplomatic history, ''British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914'' (ed.) * Ernest Llewellyn Woodward, (1890–1971) *Karl W Schweizer,1946---)Diplomatic historian

History of science and technology

* Michael Adas (born 1943) – colonialism and imperialism, global history * Jim Bennett (historian), Jim Bennett (born 1947) – mathematics, scientific instruments and astronomy * Stephen G. Brush (born 1935) *

(1924–2011) * Allen G. Debus (1926–2009) – chemistry and medicine * A. Hunter Dupree (1921–2019) – botany; U.S. government policy on science and technology * Peter Galison (born 1955) – physics, philosophy, objectivity * John L. Heilbron (born 1934) – physics, quantification, astronomy, religion and science * Richard L. Hills (1936–2019) – technology, steam power * Thomas P. Hughes (1923–2014) – technology * Evelyn Fox Keller (born 1936) – science and gender, biology * Melvin Kranzberg (1917–1995) – technology * Daniel Kevles, Daniel J. Kevles (born 1939) – science and politics, physics, biology, eugenics * Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996) – physics, "paradigm shifts" * James Mosley (born 1935) – printing * David F. Noble (1945–2010) – science and technology-based industrial development * Abraham Pais (1918–2000) – physics * Giuliano Pancaldi (born 1946) – Italian science * Theodore M. Porter (born 1953) * A. I. Sabra (1924–2013) – optics, Islamic science * George Sarton (1884–1956) * Jack Simmons (1915–2000) – railway history * Nathan Sivin (born 1931) – history of science in China * Kim H. Veltman (1948–2020) – science and art * M. Norton Wise (born 1940)

History of the papacy

* Ludwig von Pastor (1854–1928) – wrote 40 volume history of the popes making extensive use of the Vatican Secret Archives

Holocaust

* Götz Aly (born 1947) * Jean Ancel (1940–2008) * Yitzhak Arad (1926–2021) * David Bankier (1947–2010) * Omer Bartov (born 1954) * Paul R. Bartrop (born 1955) * Yehuda Bauer (born 1926) * Georges Bensoussan (born 1952) * Wolfgang Benz (born 1941) * Michael Berenbaum (born 1945) * Ruth Bettina Birn (born 1952) * Donald Bloxham * Randolph L. Braham (1922–2018) * Richard Breitman (born 1947) *

(1926–1989) * Christopher Browning (born 1944) * Michael Burleigh (born 1955) * David Cesarani (1956–2015) * Catherine Chatterley * Richard I. Cohen (born 1946) * John S. Conway (historian), John S. Conway (1929–2017) * David M. Crowe * Danuta Czech (1922–2004) * Szymon Datner (1902–1989) * Lucy Dawidowicz (1915–1990) * Martin C. dean (born 1962) * Terrence Des Pres (1939–1987) * Deborah Dwork * Leo Eitinger (1912–1996) * David Engel (historian), David Engel (born 1951) * Barbara Engelking (born 1962) * Richard J. Evans (born 1947) * Andrew Ezergailis (born 1930) * Esther Farbstein (born 1946) * Norman Finkelstein (born 1953) * Jack Fischel (born 1937) * Michael Fleming (historian), Michael Fleming * Joseph Friedenson (1922–2013) * Henry Friedlander (1930–2012) * Saul Friedländer (born 1932) * Tuvia Friling (born 1953) * Christian Gerlach (born 1963) * Martin Gilbert (1936–2015) * Daniel Goldhagen (born 1959) * Jan Grabowski (historian), Jan Grabowski (born 1962) * Gideon Greif (born 1951) * Jan T. Gross (born 1947) * Israel Gutman (1923–2013) * Peter Hayes (historian), Peter Hayes * Susanne Heim (born 1955) * Raul Hilberg (1926–2007) *

(born 1941) *

(1929–2017) * Miroslav Kárný (1919–2001) * Steven T. Katz (born 1944) *

(born 1943) * Ernst Klee (1942–2013) * David Kranzler (1930–2007) * Shmuel Krakowski (1926–2018) * Erich Kulka (1911–1995) * Otto Dov Kulka (1933–2021) * Konrad Kwiet (born 1941) * Lawrence L. Langer, Lawrence Langer (born 1929) * Jacek Leociak (born 1957) * Dariusz Libionka (born 1963) * Deborah Lipstadt (born 1947) * Peter Longerich (born 1955) * Richard C. Lukas (born 1937) * Eugen Kogon (1903–1987) * Michael Marrus (born 1941) * Jürgen Matthäus (born 1959) *

(1930–2015) * Kurt Pätzold (1930–2016) * Franciszek Piper (born 1941) *

(1950–1990) * Léon Poliakov (1910–1997) * Antony Polonsky (born 1940) * Dina Porat (born 1943) * Laurence Rees (born 1957) * Alvin Hirsch Rosenfeld, Alvin H. Rosenfeld (born 1938) * Mark Roseman (born 1958) * John K. Roth * Livia Rothkirchen (1922–2013) * R. J. Rummel (1932–2014) * Tom Segev (born 1945) * Timothy D. Snyder (born 1969) * Nicholas Stargardt (born 1962) * Sybille Steinbacher (born 1966) * Alan E. Steinweis (born 1957) * Dan Stone (historian), Dan Stone (born 1971) * Robert Jan van Pelt (born 1955) * Nikolaus Wachsmann (born 1971) * Kenneth Waltzer (born 1942) * Rebecca Wittmann (born 1970) * David Wyman (1929–2018) * Hanna Yablonka (born 1950) * Leni Yahil (1912–2007)

Lutheranism

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

Maritime history

* Robert G. Albion (1896–1983) * William A. Baker (1911–1981) *

(born 1938) * Howard I. Chapelle (1901–1975) * Grahame Farr (1912–1983) *

(born 1945) * John Hattendorf (born 1941) * John de Courcy Ireland (1911–2006) * Benjamin Woods Labaree (1927–2021) * Samuel Eliot Morison (1887–1976) * J. H. Parry (1914–1982) *

(born 1932)

Media history

History of newspapers and magazines, History of radio, History of television, and History of the Internet * Asa Briggs (1921–2016)

Military history

* C.T. Atkinson (1874-1964), historian of the British Army and Marlborough's Army * Correlli Barnett (born 1927) – British military historian * Antony Beevor (born 1946) – British military historian *

(born 1936) – First World War * Caleb Carr (born 1955) – American military historian * Michael Carver, Baron Carver, Michael Carver (1915–2001) – British soldier and historian * Alan Clark (1928–1999) – British M.P. and historian * Martin van Creveld (born 1946) – Israeli military historian * Saul David (born 1966) – Military history * N.H. Gibbs (1910–1990) – Interwar period * Adrian Goldsworthy (born 1969) – British military historian *

(born 1939) – Canadian military historian * Bruce Barrymore Halpenny (born 1937) – writer and military historian * Victor Davis Hanson (born 1953) – American classicist and military historian *

(1925–1989) – German military historian * Richard Holmes (military historian), Richard Holmes (1946–2011) – British military history * Alistair Horne (1925–2017) – British historian of French military history * Michael Howard (historian), Michael Howard (1922–2019) – modern military history * John Keegan (1934–2012, English) – specialised in 20th-century wars * Anthony Kemp (historian), Anthony Kemp (1939–2018) – English historian of history of World War II * Frederic Kidder (1804–1885) - American historian of New England including military operations * B. H. Liddell Hart (1895–1970) – military history * Edward Luttwak (born 1942) – military strategy * Piers Mackesy (1924–2014) – 18th century * S. L. A. Marshall (1900–1977) – American military historian * Jürgen Möller (born 1959) – German military historian * Peter Paret (1924–2020) – military history * Gordon Prange (1910–1980) * Alistair Horne (1923–2004) – military history *

(1888–1967) – German military historian * Cornelius Ryan (1920–1974) – World War II * Digby Smith (born 1935) Napoleonic Wars *

(1932–2019) – U.S. and German military historian * Hew Strachan (born 1949) – British military historian * Gerhard Weinberg (born 1928) – U.S. military historian * Spenser Wilkinson (1853–1937)

Mormonism

* Leonard J. Arrington (1917–1999) – The church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, LDS Church historian 1975–1982 * B.H. Roberts (1857–1933) * Fawn M. Brodie (1915–1981) * Richard Bushman (born 1931)

Naval history

* Robert G. Albion (1896–1983) – maritime history * Daniel A. Baugh (born 1931) * Ulane Bonnel (1918–2006) * Josiah Burchett (1666–1746) * Montagu Burrows (1819–1905) * Geoffrey Callender (1875–1946) * Howard I. Chapelle (1901–1975) – maritime history * William Bell Clark (1889–1968) * Julian Corbett (1854–1922) * William S. Dudley (born 1936) * Michael Duffy (historian), Michael Duffy * Jan Glete (1947–2009) * James Goldrick (born 1958) * Andrew Gordon (born 1951) – Battle of Jutland * Barry M. Gough (born 1938) * Kenneth J. Hagan (born 1936) * Paul G. Halpern (born 1937) * John Hattendorf (born 1941) * John Daniel Hayes (1902–1991) * J. Richard Hill (1929–2017) * William James (naval historian), William James (1780–1827) * Paul Kennedy (born 1945) * R.J.B. Knight (born 1944) * Dudley W. Knox (1877–1960) * Andrew Lambert (born 1956) * Harold D. Langley (1925–2020) * John Knox Laughton (1830–1915) * Michael Lewis (naval historian), Michael Lewis (1890–1970) * Christopher Lloyd (naval historian), Christopher Lloyd (1906–1986) * Alfred Mahan (1840–1914) * Arthur Marder (1910–1980) * Tyrone G. Martin (born 1930) – historian of the ''USS Constitution'' and of the history of ironclads * William J. Morgan (historian), William J. Morgan (1917–2003) * Samuel Eliot Morison (1887–1976) – wrote ''History of United States Naval Operations in World War II'' and numerous works about the maritime exploration of the Americas * Henry John Newbolt, Henry Newbolt (1862–1938) – wrote ''The Naval History of the Great War'' * Michael Oppenheim (1853–1927) * Charles O. Paullin (1869–1944) * Werner Rahn (born 1939) * Bryan Ranft (1917–2001) * Clark G. Reynolds (1939–2005) * Herbert Richmond (1871–1946) * N.A.M. Rodger (born 1949) * Stephen Roskill (1903–1982) * John Darrell Sherwood (born 1966) * D.M. Schurman (1924–2013) * William N. Still, Jr. (born 1932) * Craig Symonds (born 1946) * David Syrett (1939–2004) * Geoffrey Till (born 1945) * Johan Carel Marinus Warnsinck (1882–1943) * Colin White (historian), Colin White (1951–2008)

Presbyterianism

* D.G. Hart (born 1956)

Social history

* David Rothman (medical historian), David Rothman (1937-2020) — Father of American social history and the role of institutions in shaping history and society. *

(1919–2011) – social history of ancient India * Lloyd deMause (born 1931) – psychohistory * Gabriela Dudeková (born 1968)

World history

* Felipe Fernández-Armesto (born 1950) * Christopher Bayly (1945–2015) – British Empire and India * Ferdinand Braudel (1902–1985) – social and economic history * Will Durant (1885–1981) – author of ''The Story of Civilization'' * Francis Fukuyama (born 1955) – "End of history" thesis * Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882–1944) – world history and geography for younger readers * William Hardy McNeill, William McNeill (1917–2016) – author of ''The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community'' * Jürgen Osterhammel (born 1952) *

(1928–2003) – author of ''History of the World'' *

(1919–2011)) – author of ''Vishwa Itihaas ki Bhumika'' in Hindi. * Jackson J. Spielvogel (born 1939) – Pennsylvania State University, author of several major world history textbooks * Arnold J. Toynbee (1889–1975) – wrote landmark text ''A Study of History'' * Immanuel Wallerstein (1930–2019)

Biography

* Peter Ackroyd (born 1949) - Dickens, Blake, Thomas More, Eliot, Newton * James Boswell (1740–1795) - Samuel Johnson *

(1914–2004) – historian best known for his influential biography of Hitler * Robert Caro (born 1935) – biographer of Lyndon Johnson * Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) – Friedrich der Grosse (the Great) *

(1924–2011) – Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, and Napoleon * Leon Edel (1907–1997) - Henry James * Richard Ellmann (1918–1987) – James Joyce * Erik Erikson (1902–1994) - psychoanalytic biographies of Luther and Gandhi * Roy Foster (born 1949) - W.B. Yeats * Joseph Frank (writer), Joseph Frank (1918–2013) - Fyodor Dostoevsky * Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) - Charlotte Brontë * Stephen Greenblatt (born 1943) - Shakespeare * Ragnhild Hatton (1913–1995) – biographer of King Charles XII of Sweden and King George I of Great Britain * Walter Isaacson (born 1952) - Einstein *

(born 1943) – historian well known for his influential study of Hitler * Ralph G. Martin (1920–2013) – biographer of Hubert H. Humphrey, Harry S. Truman, Edward VIII, Golda Meir and John F. Kennedy * Roi Medvedev (born 1925) – Stalin biographer * Susan Quinn (born 1940) - Marie Curie * Ron Rosenbaum (born 1946) – author of ''Explaining Hitler'' * Norman Sherry (1925–2016) - Graham Greene *

(1932–2019) – author of biographies on Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, John Marshall, and Lucius D. Clay * Suetonius - lives of the Caesars * Lytton Strachey (1880–1932) - Eminent Victorians * A.N. Wilson (born 1950) - Tolstoy

References

{{Reflist Historiography Lists of historians, Historians by area Historians by field of study, * Historians of Europe, *

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Ancient history Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history to as far as late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the Sumerian cuneiform script. Ancient history cove ...

Medieval history In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the Post-classical, post-classical period of World history (field), global history. It began with t ...

By nation or geographical area

North America

History of Canada The history of Canada covers the period from the arrival of the Paleo-Indians to North America thousands of years ago to the present day. Prior to History of colonialism, European colonization, the lands encompassing present-day Canada were inha ...

History of the Caribbean The history of the Caribbean reveals the significant role the region played in the colonial struggles of the European powers since the 15th century. In 1492, Christopher Columbus landed in the Caribbean and claimed the region for Spain. The ...

History of the United States

Latin America

History of Latin America The term ''Latin America'' primarily refers to the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries in the New World. Before the arrival of Europeans in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, the region was home to many indigenous peoples, a number of ...

Chile

Peru

Europe

History of Europe The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500 to AD 1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). The first ea ...

History of Albania The history of Albania forms a part of the history of Europe. During classical antiquity, Albania was home to several Illyrian tribes such as the Ardiaei, Albanoi, Amantini, Enchele, Taulantii and many others, but also Thracian and Gree ...

History of Belgium

History of Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes referred to simply as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe on the Balkan Peninsula. It has had permanent settlement since the Neolithic Age. By the early historical period it was inhabited by Illyrians and Ce ...

History of England and Britain Britain most often refers to: * The United Kingdom, a sovereign state in Europe comprising the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands * Great Britain, the largest island in the United King ...

History of the British Empire

History of Croatia

History of Finland

History of France The first written records for the history of France appeared in the Iron Age. What is now France made up the bulk of the region known to the Romans as Gaul. The first writings on indigenous populations mainly start in the first century BC. Gree ...

History of Germany

History of the Habsburg monarchy

History of Ireland The first evidence of human presence in Ireland dates to around 33,000 years ago, with further findings dating the presence of homo sapiens to around 10,500 to 7,000 BC. The receding of the ice after the Younger Dryas cold phase of the Quaterna ...

History of Italy

History of Moldova/Bessarabia

History of the Netherlands The history of the Netherlands is a history of seafaring people thriving in the lowland river delta on the North Sea in northwestern Europe. Records begin with the four centuries during which the region formed a militarized border zone of the Ro ...

History of Norway

History of Poland The history of Poland spans over a thousand years, from medieval tribes, Christianization and monarchy; through Poland's Golden Age, expansionism and becoming one of the largest European powers; to its collapse and partitions, two world wars ...

History of Portugal The history of Portugal can be traced from circa 400,000 years ago, when the region of present-day Portugal was inhabited by Homo heidelbergensis. The Roman invasion in the 3rd century BC lasted several centuries, and developed the Roman provin ...

History of Romania

History of Russia The history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs. The traditional start-date of specifically Russian history is the establishment of the Rus' people, Rus' state in the north in 862, ruled by Varangians. Staraya Ladoga and Veli ...

History of Serbia

History of Scotland

= Historiographer Royal (Scotland), Historiographer Royal of Scotland

History of Slovakia

History of Slovenia

History of Spain

History of Sweden

History of Yugoslavia

Europe and Asia

History of The Republic of Turkey and Turkish Empires

Asia

Middle East

Central Asia

South Asia

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= History of India

= History of Pakistan

Far East

= History of Japan

= History of Korea

= History of China

History of Hong Kong

Africa

Timeline of Serer history, History of the Serers

Oceania

History of Australia

History of Fiji

History of New Zealand

History of Tonga

History of Papua New Guinea

By historical viewpoint

Abolitionism in the United States, Abolitionist

Counterfactual history, Counterfactual

Marxist

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:Historians of anarchism, Anarchist

pacifism, Pacifist

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Architectural history

Art history

Christianity

Classical Antiquity

Economic history

List of Egyptologists, Egyptology

Environmental history

Espionage

Food history

History of England and
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