"Historians" redirects here. For the profession, see Historian. This is a list of historians. The names are grouped by order of the historical period in which they were writing, which is not necessarily the same as the period in which they specialized. Chroniclers and annalists, though they are not historians in the true sense, are also listed here for convenience. See also: List of historians by area of study, List of historians of the French Revolution, English historians in the Middle Ages [edit] Historians of the Ancient Period - Herodotus, (484 – c. 420 BC), Halicarnassus, "Father of History"
- Thucydides, (460 – c. 400 BC), Peloponnesian War
- Berossus, (early 3rd century BC), Babylonian historian
- Xenophon, (431 – c. 360 BC), an Athenian knight and student of Socrates
- Ptolemy I Soter (367 BC — c. 283 BC), General of Alexander the Great, Founder of Ptolemaic Dynasty.
- Timaeus of Tauromenium, (c. 345 – c. 250 BC), Greek history
- Quintus Fabius Pictor, (c. 254 BC - ?), Roman history
- Gaius Acilius, (fl. 155 BC), Roman history
- Polybius, (203 – c. 120 BC), Early Roman history (written in Greek)
- Sima Qian, (c. 145 - c. 86 BC), Chinese history
- Julius Caesar, (100 – c. 44 BC), Gallic and civil wars
- Diodorus of Sicily, (1st century BC), Greek history
- Sallust, (86 – 34 BC)
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, (c. 60 - after 7 BC), Roman history
- Livy, (c. 59 BC – AD 17), Roman history
- Cremutius Cordus, (? - 25), Roman history
- Curtius Rufus, (c. 60-70), Greek history
- Ban Gu, (32 - 92), (Han Dynasty)
- Flavius Josephus, (37 – 100), Jewish history
- Ban Zhao, (45 - 116), (Han Dynasty)
- Thallus, (early 2nd century AD), Roman history
- Plutarch, (c. 46 – 120), would not have counted himself as an historian, but is a useful source because of his Parallel Lives of important Greeks and Romans.
- Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, (c. 56 – c. 120), early Roman Empire
- Suetonius, (75 – 160), Roman emperors up to Flavian dynasty
- Appian, (c. 95 - c. 165), Roman history
- Arrian, (c. 92-175), Greek history
- Lucius Ampelius, (3rd century AD?), Roman history
- Dio Cassius, (c. 160 - after 229), Roman history
- Herodian, (c. 170 - c. 240), Roman History
- Eusebius of Caesarea, (c. 275 - c. 339), Early Christian
- Ammianus Marcellinus, (c. 325 – c. 391)
- Rufinus of Aquileia, (c. 340 - 410), Early Christian
- Philostorgius, (368 - c. 439), Early Christian
- Socrates of Constantinople, (c. 380 - ?), Early Christian
- Fa-Hien, (c. 337 - c. 422), Chinese Buddhist monk and historian
- Priscus, (5th century AD), Byzantine history
- Sozomen (c. 400 - c. 450), Early Christian
- Theodoret, (c. 393 - c. 457), Early Christian
[edit] Medieval historians/chroniclers - Shen Yue, (441-513), History of the Liu Song Dynasty (420-479)
- Zosimus, (fl. 491 - 518), Late Roman history
- Procopius, (c. 500 - c. 565), Byzantines
- John Malalas, (c. 491 - 578), Early Christian
- Jordanes, (6th century), Goths
- Gregory of Tours, (538 – 594), Franks
- Adamnan, (625 - 704), Irish historian
- Bede, (c. 672 – 735), Anglo-Saxons
- Tírechán, (fl. c. 655), Irish biographer of Saint Patrick
- Cogitosus, (fl. c. 650), Irish historian,
- Muirchu moccu Machtheni, (7th century), Irish historian
- Paul the Deacon, (8th century), Langobards
- Nennius, (9th century?), Shadowy historian of Wales
- Martianus Hiberniensis, (819-875), Irish teacher and historian
- Einhard, (9th century) - Biography of Charlemagne
- Notker of St Gall, (9th century), Anecdotal Biography of Charlemagne
- Ibn Rustah, (10th century), Persian historian and traveler
- Asser, Bishop of Sherborne, (died 908/909), Welsh historian
- Regino of Prüm, (died 915)
- Muhammad al-Tabari, (838 – 923), Great Persian historian
- Liutprand of Cremona, (922 – 972), Byzantine affairs
- Li Fang, (925 – 996) Chinese editor of the Four Great Books of Song
- Heriger of Lobbes, 925-1007
- Al-Biruni, (973 – 1048), Persian historian
- Geoffrey of Monmouth, churchman/historian
- Thietmar of Merseburg, German, Polish, and Russian affairs
- Nestor the Chronicler, author of the Russian Primary Chronicle
- Gallus Anonymus, Polish historian
- Albert of Aix, historian of the First Crusade
- Michael Psellus, (1018 – c. 1078)
- Sima Guang, (1019 – 1086), historiographer and politician
- Marianus Scotus, (1028 – 1082/1083), Irish chronicler
- Guibert of Nogent, (1053 – 1124)
- Galbert of Bruges, 12th century, Flemish chronicler
- Florence of Worcester, (died 1118), English chronicler
- Eadmer, (c. 1066 – c. 1124), post-Conquest English history
- Kim Bu-sik, (1075 – 1151), Korean historian, author of the Samguk Sagi
- Symeon of Durham, (died after 1129), English chronicler
- William of Malmesbury, (c. 1080 – c. 1143)
- Anna Comnena, (1083 – after 1148)
- Usamah ibn Munqidh, (1095 – 1188)
- Adam of Bremen, historian of Scandinavia
- Kalhana, historian of Kashmir.
- Saxo Grammaticus, (12th century), Danish
- Svend Aagesen, (12th century), Danish
- Alured of Beverley, (12th century), English chronicler
- Helmold of Bosau, (ca. 1120 – after 1177), German chronicler
- William of Tyre, (c. 1128 – 1186)
- William of Newburgh, (1135 – 1198), English historian called "the father of historical criticism"
- Mohammed al-Baydhaq, (fl. 1150), Moroccan historian
- John of Worcester, (fl. 1150s), English chronicler
- Giraldus Cambrensis, (c. 1146 – c. 1223)
- Wincenty Kadlubek, (1161 – 1223), Polish historian
- Ambroise, (fl. 1190s), Anglo-Norman poet, wrote verse narrative of the Third Crusade
- Geoffroi de Villehardouin, (c. 1160 – 1212)
- Nicetas Choniates, (died c. 1220)
- Snorri Sturluson, (c. 1178 – 23rd Sept.1241), Icelandic historian
- Abdelwahid al-Marrakushi (born 1185) Moroccan historian
- Ata al-Mulk Juvayni, (1226-83), Persian historian
- Ibn al-Khabbaza (-1239) Moroccan historian
- Matthew Paris, (died 1259)
- Il-yeon, (1206 – 1289), Korean historian, author of the Samguk Yusa
- Salimbene di Adam, (1221 – c. 1290), Italian
- Abdelaziz al-Malzuzi (-1298) Moroccan historian
- Templar of Tyre, (c. 1230 – 1314), end of the Crusades
- Jean de Joinville, (1224 – 1319)
- Rashid al-Din, (1247 – 1317), Persian historian
- ibn Khaldun, (1332 – 1406), North African historian "of the world"
- Piers Langtoft, (died c. 1307)
- Ibn Abi Zar (fl. 1315) Moroccan historian
- Abdullah Wassaf, 13th century, Persian historian
- Ibn Idhari (beginning 14th century) Moroccan historian
- John Clyn, fl. 1333-1349, Irish historian
- Jean Froissart, (c. 1337 – c. 1405), chronicler
- Dietrich of Nieheim, (c. 1345 – 1418), ecclesiastic history
- Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin, d. 1372
- Adhamh Ó Cianáin, d. 1373
- John of Fordun, Scottish chronicler (d. 1384 )
- Ruaidhri Ó Cianáin (died 1387)
- Álvar García de Santa María, (1370 – 1460)
- Ismail ibn al-Ahmar (1387-1406) Moroccan historian
- Giolla Íosa Mór Mac Fhirbhisigh, fl. 1390-1418
- Alphonsus A Sancta Maria, (1396 – 1456)
- Jan Długosz, Polish historian and chronicler
- Philippe de Commines, French historian
- Cathal Óg Mac Maghnusa, 1439-1498, compilor and annalist.
- Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi, d. 1454, Persian historian
- John Capgrave, (1393 – 1464)
- Christine de Pizan, (c. 1365 – c. 1430), historian, poet, philosopher
- Robert Fabyan, (died 1513)
- Albert Krantz, (1450 – 1517)
- Polydore Vergil, (c. 1470 – 1555), Tudor history
- Sigismund von Herberstein, (1486 – 1566), Muscovite affairs
- João de Barros, (1496 – 1570)
- Niccolò Machiavelli, (1469 – 1527), author of Florentine Histories
- Josias Simmler, (1530 – 1576)
- Paolo Paruta, (1540 – 1598), Venetian historian
- Raphael Holinshed, (died c. 1580)
- Hector Boece, Scottish philosopher and historian. Wrote "Historia Gentis Scotorum" (1465-1536)
- Caesar Baronius, (1538 – 1607)
- Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni, (1540 – 1615), Indo-Persian historian
- Abd al-Aziz al-Fishtali (1549-1621), Moroccan historian
- Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi (1553-1616) Moroccan historian
- John Hayward, (1564 – 1627)
- Pilip Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin (fl. 1579–1590)
- Bahrey (1593), an Ethiopian monk and historian. Wrote Zenahu le Galla (History of the Galla, now the Oromo)
- William Bradford, (1590 – 1657), Mayflower/Plymouth Colony of America
[edit] Early modern historians (1600 – 1799) - Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng, (1738 – 1801), Chinese historian, local histories and essays on historiography
- Erik Gustaf Geijer, Swedish nationalist historian
- Edward Gibbon, (1737 – 1794), Roman Empire and Byzantium, one of the all-time greats
- George Grote, (1794 – 1871), classical Greece
- François Guizot, (1787 – 1874), French historian of general French, English history
- George Peabody Gooch, (1873 – 1968), English historian of Modern Diplomacy
[edit] Mc and Mac - Jules Michelet, (1798 – 1874), French
- François Mignet, (1796 – 1884), French historian of the Revolution, Middle Ages
- Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim, (1694 – 1755), Lutheran historian
- Johannes von Müller, (1752 – 1809)
- Ludovico Antonio Muratori, (1672 – 1750), Italy.
- Leopold von Ranke, (1795 – 1886), European diplomacy; probably the greatest German historian
- Voltaire, (1694 – 1778), French Enlightenment philosopher and historian
[edit] Historians born in the 19th century - Henry Brooks Adams, (1838 – 1918), US 1800-1816
- Grace Aguilar, (1816 – 1847), Jewish history
- Charles McLean Andrews, (1863–1943), American; U.S. colonial history
- Mikhail Artamonov, (1898 – 1972), founder of Khazar studies
- Zurab Avalishvili, (1876 – 1944), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
- Charles Bean, (1879 – 1968), Australia in World War I
- Charles A. Beard, (1874 – 1948), American historian, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
- Mary Ritter Beard, (1876 – 1958), American Historian and wife of Charles A. Beard
- Bernard Bailyn, Historian of Early America
- George Bancroft, (1800 – 1891), United States
- Wilhelm Barthold, (1869 – 1930), Muslim studies, Turkology
- Hilaire Belloc, (1870 – 1953) French writer and historian later naturalised British.
- Marc Bloch, (1886 – 1944), medieval France
- Geoffrey Bruun (1899 – 1988), European civilization
- Henry Thomas Buckle, (1821 – 1862), English, History of Civilization
- Jacob Burckhardt, (1818 – 1897), art history, European history, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
- Montagu Burrows, (1819 - 1905) first naval historian at a British university
- John Hill Burton, (1809 – 1881), Scottish Jacobin history
- Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, (1828 – 1897), Spanish historian
- E. H. Carr, (1892 – 1982) Soviet history, International Relations
- Henri Raymond Casgrain, (1831 – 1904), priest, author, historian
- Cesar de Bazancourt, (1810 – 1865), French historian; works on the Crimean War
- Boris Chicherin, (1828 – 1904), Russian historian - history of Russian laws
- Julian Corbett, (1854 - 1922), British naval historian
- Augustin Cochin, (1876 – 1916), history of French Revolution
- Edward Shepherd Creasy, (1812 – 1878), warfare
- Margaret Campbell Speke Cruwys (1894-1968), Devon historian
- Felix Dahn, (1834 - 1912), European history unfolding during the first millennium CE
- Angie Debo, (1890 - 1988), Native American and Oklahoma history
- Léopold Delisle, (1826 - 1910), French historian and librarian
- Johann Gustav Droysen, (1808 – 1884), German historian, professor at Kiel, Jena & Berlin
- François-Louis Ganshof, (1895–1980), medieval history
- Arthur Giry, (1848 – 1899), diplomatics
- Gustave Glotz, (1862-1935), Ancient Greece
- Timofey Granovsky, (1813 – 1855), medieval Germany
- Lionel Groulx, (1878 – 1967), priest, historian
- René Grousset, (1885 – 1952), Oriental History
- Louis Halphen, (1880 – 1950), Middle Ages
- Clarence H. Haring, (1885 - 1960), Latin American history
- Charles H. Haskins, (1870 - 1937), Americans first medieval historian
- Henri Hauser, (1866 – 1946), French historian, economist, geographer
- Julien Havet, (1853 - 1893), Middle Ages
- Paul Hazard, (1878 - 1944), Modern France
- Eli Heckscher, (1879-1954), Swedish economic historian
- Auguste Himly, (1823 – 1906), French historian and geographer
- Johan Huizinga,(1872 - 1945), Dutch historian, author of Waning of the Middle Ages
- Samuel Kamakau, (1815 – 1876), Hawaiian historian
- Konstantin Kavelin, (1818 – 1885), Russian historian - history of Russian laws
- Philip Moore Callow Kermode, (1855 – 1932), Manx crosses and runic inscriptions
- Alexander William Kinglake, (1809 – 1891), works on the Crimean War
- Vasily Klyuchevsky, (1841 – 1911), Russian history
- Dudley Wright Knox, (1877 – 1960), American naval historian
- Ludwig von Köchel, (1800 – 1877), writer, composer, botanist, music historian
- Nikodim Kondakov, (1844 – 1925), Byzantine art
- Nikolay Kostomarov, (1817 – 1885), Russian and Ukrainian history
- Godefroid Kurth, (1847 – 1916), Belgian historian
[edit] Mc and Mac - Frederic William Maitland, (1850 – 1906), legal history
- Alfred Thayer Mahan, (1840 – 1914), naval history
- Friedrich Meinecke, (1862-1954), 18th-19th century German intellectual and cultural history
- Paul Meyer, Middle Ages
- Christian Molbech, Danish history, founder of Historisk Tidsskrift (1839).
- Auguste Molinier, Middle Ages
- Theodor Mommsen, (1817 – 1903), Roman Empire
- Alfred Morel-Fatio, history of Spain
- Lewis Mumford, (1895 – 1988)
- Cesare Paoli (1840-1902), Italian History
- Gaston Paris, Middle Ages
- Samuel W. Pennypacker (1843 – 1916), Pennsylvania history
- Henri Pirenne, (1862 – 1935), Belgian and medieval European history
- Sergey Platonov, (1860 – 1933), Oprichnina and Time of Troubles
- Eileen Power, Middle Ages
- H. F. M. Prescott (1896-1972), biographer of Mary I of England and medieval History
- Datto Vaman Potdar, (1890 – 1979), Indian Historian
- Abram L. Sachar, (1899 – 1993)
- George Sarton, (1884 – 1956), history of science
- Sergey Solovyov, (1820 – 1879), Russian historian
- Govind Sakharam Sardesai, (1865 – 1959), Indina Historian and Author of 'The New History of Maratha Empire'
- Goldwin Smith, (1823 – 1910), historian
- Oswald Spengler, (1880-1936), The Decline of the West
- Shin Chaeho, (1880 – 1936), Korean historian
- Frank Bigelow Tarbell, (1853 – 1920), author of numerous books on ancient art history
- A. Wyatt Tilby, (1880 – 1948), British author of The English People Overseas (Vol. I – VI)
- Alexis de Tocqueville, (1805 – 1859) French historian, author of The Old Regime and the French Revolution, Democracy in America
- Leo Tolstoy, (1828 – 1910) War and Peace disputes historians' treatment of Napoleon's invasion of Russia
- Zacharias Topelius, (1818 – 1898)
- Arnold J. Toynbee, (1889 – 1975), A Study of History
- Heinrich von Treitschke, (1834 – 1896)
- George Macaulay Trevelyan, (1876 – 1962)
- Mikheil Tsereteli, (1878 – 1965), Georgian historian
- Curt Weibull, (1886-1991), Swedish historian
- Lauritz Weibull (1873-1960), Swedish historian
- Mary Wilhelmine Williams, (1878 – 1944), Latin America
- Spenser Wilkinson, British military historian
- James A. Williamson, English maritime historian and historian of exploration.
- Justin Winsor, (1831 – 1897), editor of the Narrative and Critical History of America, (8 vols., 1884-89)
- Ernest Llewellyn Woodward, (1890-1971), British historian, British history and international relations
- Gordon Wright, Modern French History
[edit] Modern historians (after 1900) - Raouf Abbas, (1939 - 2008) Egyptian historian; modern history of Egypt & Japan, Comparative history, Social history and economic history.
- Irving Abella, Canadian historian & author
- Robert G. Albion, (1896 – 1983), maritime history
- Dean C. Allard, American naval history
- Michael Allen, American historian, trans-Mississippi West
- Robert C. Allen, British economic historian
- Gar Alperovitz, American historian, Hiroshima
- Ida Altman, American historian, colonial Spain & Latin America
- Stephen Ambrose, (1936 – 2002), American; WW2, U.S. political, wrote Band of Brothers
- Joyce Appleby, American; US early national
- Herbert Aptheker, (1915 – 2003), American; African American history
- Leonie Archer, British historian & author
- Philippe Aries, French; medieval; childhood
- Karen Armstrong, British; religious history
- Leonard J. Arrington, (1917 – 1999), American; Mormons
- Paul Avrich, Russian history, the Anarchist movement (chiefly in the United States)
- Ali Azaykou (1942-2004), Moroccan historian
- David E. Barclay, German history
- Harry Elmer Barnes, American historian.
- Linda Diane Barnes, American history
- G.W.S. Barrow, Scottish history
- H. Arnold Barton, Scandinavian, especially Swedish, history in the 18th century.
- Jacques Barzun, (born 1907), cultural history
- Hanna Batatu, Palestinian historian and author of an authoritative study of modern Iraq
- K. Jack Bauer, (1926 – 1987), U.S. naval, military, and maritime historian
- Yehuda Bauer, the Holocaust
- James Belich (born 1956), New Zealand history
- Abdelmajid Benjelloun (1944-) Morocco
- Isaiah Berlin, (1909 – 1997), history of ideas
- Michael Beschloss, (born 1955) American historian and celebrity intellectual, history of the U.S. presidency
- Nicholas Bethell, Soviet history
- David Blackbourn
- Geoffrey Blainey (born 1930), Australian history
- Hanne Blank (born 1969), historian of virginity
- Gisela Bock, German feminist historian.
- Brian Bond, British military historian
- Daniel J. Boorstin, (1914 – 2004), intellectual history, American history
- John Boswell, (1947 – 1994), medievalist and gay history
- Gérard Bouchard, Canadian historian
- Joanna Bourke, military history
- Mark Bowden, wrote Black Hawk Down regarding the Battle of Mogadishu
- Paul S. Boyer, American historian
- Karl Dietrich Bracher, (1922-), modern German history
- James C. Bradford, (1944- ), American naval history
- William Brandon, (1914 – 2002), historian of the American West and Native Americans
- Fernand Braudel, (1902-1985) World history
- Ahron Bregman, Arab-Israeli conflict
- Martin Broszat, (1926-1989) Nazi Germany
- Peter Brown
- Christopher Browning, the Holocaust
- Otto Brunner, medieval and early modern Austria
- Alan Bullock, (1914 – 2004)
- Peter Burke
- Michael Burns - actor and historian
- J. B. Bury, classical history
- Briton C. Busch, ((1936 – 2004)), British diplomatic and American maritime history
- Richard Bushman, (1931 -), American colonial society, American colonial politics, American colonial religion
- Herbert Butterfield, author of The Whig Interpretation of History
- Angus Calder, (1942 – 2008), British historian, British history
- Helen Cam (1885–1968) English medieval historian
- Otto Maria Carpeaux, (1900 – 1978) foremost historian of literature
- Sir Raymond Carr (born 1919) Spanish and Latin American history
- Paul Cartledge, Classical Historian (5th Century Athens and Sparta, and Alexander the Great)
- Lionel Casson
- Boris Celovsky, Czech-German relations
- Howard I. Chapelle, maritime history
- Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri, history of Leftism, Indian history
- Maher Charif, Palestinian historian specialising in modern Arab intellectual history and political movements
- Iris Chang, (1968-2004) Chinese in American & Japanese war crimes
- Alexander Campbell Cheyne, Scottish Ecclesiastical Historian
- Winston Churchill, (1874 – 1965) political, biographical, military history.
- Alan Clark, (1928-1999), history of the World Wars, Operation Barbarossa, British politician
- J. C. D. Clark, British historian of ideas.
- Manning Clark, (1915 – 1991) pre-eminent in Australian history
- Robert Conquest, (born 1917) Russia, Soviet Union
- Gordon A. Craig, (1913-) German history & diplomatic history
- Vincent Cronin, (1924-) European and art history
- Pamela Kyle Crossley, Chinese, Manchu and Central Asian history
- Dan Cruickshank, British and architectural history, TV presenter
- John S. Curtiss, inter alia, debunker of the The Protocols of Zion
- Vladimir Ćorović, Serbian historian
- Robert Dallek, biographer of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson and John F. Kennedy
- Vahakn N. Dadrian, Armenian genocide
- David B. Danbom rural America
- Ahmad Hasan Dani, South Asian history and archaeology
- Robert Darnton eighteenth-century France
- Lucy Dawidowicz, Jewish history and the Holocaust
- Saul David, military history
- John Davies Welsh historian
- Norman Davies, Polish and British history
- Natalie Zemon Davis, feminist cultural historian, early modern France, film and history
- Kenneth S. Davis, biographer of Franklin D. Roosevelt
- R. H. C. Davis, British historian of European Middle Ages
- David Day, Australian historian
- Renzo De Felice, Italian fascism
- Len Deighton British military historian
- Carl N. Degler, American historian
- Esther Delisle, (born 1954), French-Canadian historian & author
- Jean Delumeau French historian specializing in the Catholic church history
- Marcel Detienne, ancient Greece
- Alexandre Deulofeu, (1903-1978), Catalan historian & author
- Isaac Deutscher, (1907 – 1967) biographer of Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin
- Tom M. Devine, Scottish historian
- Bernard DeVoto, (1897 - 1955), American historian specializing in the history of the American West
- Wu Di, (1951 – ), film critic and historian of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
- Igor M. Diakonov, (1914 – 1999), Russian historian of Ancient Near East
- David Herbert Donald Lincoln and Civil War
- Gordon Donaldson Scottish historian
- John W. Dower, Japan in 1940s
- Georges Duby, (1924 – 1996), Middle Ages
- William S. Dudley, ((1936–), American naval history
- Eamon Duffy, 15th-17th century religious history
- A. Hunter Dupree, American science and technology
- Trevor Dupuy, (1916 - 1995) military historian
- Will Durant, philosopher and author of the Story of Civilization series
- Cyril Falls, (1888 - 1971), British military historian
- Brian Farrell, (born 1929)
- Niall Ferguson, British historian, author of The Pity of War: Explaining World War I
- Marc Ferro, French historian
- Joachim Fest, (born 1926), Nazi Germany
- David Feuerwerker (1912-1980), French historian of the Emancipation of Jews.
- Heinrich Fichtenau (1912-2000), Austrian historian; medievalism, diplomatics
- Orlando Figes, (born 1957), Russia
- Samuel Finer (1915 – 1993), political scientist and writer on world history
- Robert O. Fink, (1905-1988), American classical scholar and papyrologist
- Moses Finley, Historian of the Ancient World, especially Economic History
- David Hackett Fischer, American economic historian, author of The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
- Fritz Fischer, German historian
- Frances FitzGerald, American journalist and historian, author of Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
- Robert Fogel, American economic history
- Eric Foner, Reconstruction
- Shelby Foote, (1916 – 2005), American Civil War
- Michel Foucault, (1926 – 1984), French historian of ideas / philosopher
- Robin Lane Fox, Oxford historian who has written on Alexander the Great and the Ancient World
- Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, cultural & social history, women's history and Southern history
- Walter Frank, (1905 – 1945), Nazi historian and anti-Semitic writer
- H. Bruce Franklin, American historian of the Vietnam War, author of M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America
- Antonia Fraser, England
- Henry Friedlander, Holocaust historian.
- Saul Friedländer, history of the Holocaust
- Sheppard Frere
- David Fromkin
- Bruno Fuligni
- Francis Fukuyama, (born 1955)
- J.F.C. Fuller , military historian, author of A Military History of the Western World, 3 vols.
- François Furet, French historian
- Femme Gaastra, Dutch East India Company
- John Lewis Gaddis, diplomatic history
- Lloyd Gardner, diplomatic history
- Franklin Garrett, history of Atlanta
- Peter Gay, psychohistory, European Enlightenment & 19th century social history
- Eugene Genovese, (1930-) Southern history
- Christian Gerlach, Holocaust and genocide history
- Pieter Geyl, Dutch historian
- N. H. Gibbs, history of war
- William Gibson, ecclesiastical historian
- Martin Gilbert, Holocaust
- Carlo Ginzburg, pioneer of microhistory
- Jan Glete (1947-2009), Swedish historian
- James Goldrick, Australian naval officer and naval historian
- Justo Gonzalez, historian and theologian
- George Peabody Gooch, (1873 – 1968), British historian, "British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914" (ed.)
- Andrew Gordon, British naval historian
- Gerald S. Graham, British imperial history
- Peter Green, ancient history
- Vivian H. H. Green, (1915 – 2005), author of A New History of Christianity
- Leonid Grinin, Philosophy of History
- Ranajit Guha, history of India and critical historiography
- Lev Gumilyov, (1912 – 1992), Soviet historian
- John Guy, leading Tudor specialist
- Irfan Habib, History of India
- Bruce Barrymore Halpenny, Airfields, WW2, Bomber & Fighter Command, Military Aircraft
- Nicholas G. L. Hammond, (1907 - 2001) Macedonia and Greece
- Victor Davis Hanson, ancient warfare
- Dick Harrison, Swedish & Medieval history
- Peter Harrison, Early modern intellectual history
- Max Hastings, military historian and journalist
- John Hattendorf, maritime historian
- Ragnhild Hatton, 17th and 18th century European international history
- Denys Hay, (1915 - 1994), medieval and Renaissance Europe
- John Daniel Hayes, (1902 - 1991), American naval historian
- Jeffrey Herf, German and European history
- Arthur Herman, American and British history
- Raul Hilberg, (1926 - 2007), Political Scientist and historian of the Holocaust
- Klaus Hildebrand, 19th-20th German history
- Christopher Hill (historian), (1912 - 2003), 17th century England
- Andreas Hillgruber, 20th German history
- Richard L. Hills (born 1936), history of technology
- Gertrude Himmelfarb, (born 1924) 19th century British intellectual, social and cultural history
- Harry Hinsley, (1918 - 1998), English historian and cryptanalyst (Bletchley Park)
- Eric Hobsbawm, (born 1917) British historian, labour history
- Marshall Hodgson, History of Islamic Civilization
- Richard Hofstadter, (1916 - 1970), American political historian.
- Peter Hoffmann, History of the German Resistance to National Socialism
- David Hoggan, neo-Nazi historian.
- Hajo Holborn, (1902 - 1969), modern Germany
- George Holmes (professor), (1927-209), Chichele Profesor of Medieval History, University of Oxford.
- Richard Holmes, Military History.
- Ed Hooper, Southern Appalachia, Tennessee, Old South
- A. G. Hopkins, British historian
- Keith Hopkins, Ancient Historian and Sociologist.
- William Hoskins, Landscape History
- Albert Hourani, Middle Eastern history
- Daniel Horowitz, United States intellectual history; history of consumer culture
- Joseph Kinsey Howard, (1906 - 1951), history of Montana and prairie Canada
- Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, history of women, sexuality, and higher education
- Michiel Horn, Canadian history and Canadian academic history
- Alistair Horne, modern French history
- Michael Howard Military History
- Tristram Hunt, (born 1974)
- Eberhard Jäckel, Nazi Germany
- Julian T. Jackson, French Historian
- Harold James, modern Germany, modern European economic history
- Nikoloz Janashia, (1931 – 1982), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
- Simon Janashia, (1900 – 1947), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
- Pawel Jasienica, (1909 – 1970), Polish historian, Polish history
- Merrill Jensen (1905 – 1980), American Revolution, U.S. Articles of Confederation
- Paul Johnson, (born 1928), British historian, Western civilization
- Robert Erwin Johnson (1923-2008), American naval and coast guard historian
- Mauno Jokipii, Finnish historian, World War II
- Gwyn Jones, medieval history
- Loe de Jong, Dutch historian, author of The Kingdom of the Netherlands during the Second World War
- Tony Judt, British historian, specializing in contemporary European studies
- Donald Kagan, ancient Greek history
- John Keegan, (born 1934) English historian, popular military history
- Hans Kelsen, legal history
- John H. Kemble, (1912 – 1990), American maritime historian
- Elizabeth Topham Kennan - medievalist and former president, Mount Holyoke College
- George F. Kennan, (a.k.a. 'X') American diplomat and historian, history of US-Soviet relations
- James Kennedy, American historian, history of the Netherlands
- Paul Kennedy, British historian
- W. Hudson Kensel, western American historian
- Ian Kershaw, German history
- Daniel J. Kevles, history of science, In the Name of Eugenics, and The Physicists
- Michael King (1945-2004), New Zealand history
- Simon Kitson, Historian of Vichy France
- Matti Klinge, Finnish historian
- R.J.B. Knight, British naval historian
- Eberhard Kolb, German historian
- Gabriel Kolko, American political history
- Claudia Koonz, women's history under Nazi Germany.
- Kim Jung-bae, (born 1940), Korean historian
- Andrey Korotayev, (born 1961), Russian historian - Cliometrics, Cliodynamics
- Thomas Kuhn, (1922 - 1996), history of science
- Benjamin Woods Labaree, American colonial and maritime history
- Brij Lal, history of Fiji
- Abdallah Laroui, (1933-), Moroccan historian
- Sione Lātūkefu, Tongan history
- Leonard Woods Labaree, editor of the Benjamin Franklin Papers
- Leopold Labedz, (1920 – 1993), Soviet history
- Andrew Lambert, British naval history
- David Lavender, (1910 – 2003), history of the American West
- Walter LaFeber, diplomatic history
- Jacques Le Goff, medieval French historian
- Robert Leckie, (1920 - 2001), American Military History, author of memoir Helmet for My Pillow
- William Leuchtenburg, American political and legal history
- Barbara Levick, English historian; Roman emperors
- Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, French historian
- Lee Ki-baek, (1924 – 2004), Korean historian
- Li Ao, (born 1935), Chinese historian
- Basil Liddell Hart, British military historian.
- Leon F. Litwack, American history & African-American history
- Xinru Liu, Ancient Indian and Chinese history
- Mario Liverani, ancient Middle East
- John Edward Lloyd, historian of Welshness
- James W. Loewen, American history, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me
- Erik Lönnroth, (1910-2002) Swedish historian
- Walter Lord, American history, author of A Night to Remember
- John Lukacs, Hungarian-American historian of modern Europe.
- Charles B. MacDonald, World War II
- Stuart Macintyre (born 1947), Australian history
- Forrest McDonald early national US, presidency
- K. B. McFarlane, English medievalist
- Rosamond McKitterick, medieval history
- Margaret MacMillan 20th century international relations, author of Paris 1919, among others.
- Ramsay MacMullen, Roman history
- Magnus Magnusson, Norse history
- Piers Mackesy, British military history
- J. D. Mackie Scottish historian
- Leonard Maltin, famous Disney historian
- Charles S. Maier, 20th century Europe
- William Manchester, Author of "The Last Lion", among others. A definitive Churchill biographer.
- Golo Mann, (1909 – 1994)
- Robert Mann, American historian of the Vietnam War, wrote A Grand Delusion: America's Descent into Vietnam
- Arthur Marder, British naval history
- Timothy Mason, history of Nazi Germany
- Henri-Jean Martin, history of the book, early printing, writing, libraries in France
- Tyrone G. Martin, USS Constitution
- Rev. F.X. Martin, Irish medievalist and campaigner
- Michael Marrus, French and Jewish history
- David McCullough, American. Two-time winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
- William S. McFeely - 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Grant: A Biography
- James M. McPherson, very noteworthy US Civil War historian; wrote Battle Cry of Freedom
- William McNeill, world history
- Laurence Marvin, American historian, French medievalist
- Garrett Mattingly, early modern Europe
- Arno J. Mayer, World War I and Europe
- Richard Maybury, United States, especially WWI, WWII, and the Middle East
- Friedrich Meinecke, German historian
- Evaldo Cabral de Mello, Dutch Brazil
- D. W. Meinig, geographic history of America
- Russell Menard, Colonial American
- Thomas C. Mendenhall (historian)
- Josef W. Meri, Islamic world, Jews of Islamic Lands, Interfaith Relations
- Barbara Metcalf, Indian subcontinent, Muslims of India and Pakistan
- Perry Miller, intellectual historian
- Hans Mommsen
- Wolfgang Mommsen
- Edmund Morgan American colonial and Revolution
- Kenneth O. Morgan
- William J. Morgan (historian), U.S. naval historian
- Samuel Eliot Morison, naval history
- Benny Morris, Middle-Eastern history
- George Mosse, German, Jewish, fascist and sexual history
- Roland Mousnier, early modern France
- Mubarak Ali (b. 1941) Pakistani Historian on Mughals era and feminism
- Robin O'Neil, Holocaust researcher
- Josiah Ober, American historian of ancient Greece
- Heiko Oberman, Reformation
- W. H. Oliver (born 1925), New Zealand history
- Charles Oman, 19th century military history
- Michael Oren, Modern middle east
- Ilber Ortayli, Turkish historian of the Ottoman Empire
- Mark Ovenden, Graphic design & architecture in public transport
- Richard Overy, WW2
- Steven Ozment, Germany
- Michael Parenti, 20th-21st century political analyst and modern/classical historian.
- Simo Parpola, Ancient Middle East
- J. H. Parry,(1914 - 1982) maritime historian
- Thomas Paterson Cold War
- Peter Paret, military history
- Geoffrey Parker, early modern military history
- Abel Paz Spanish anarchist movement
- Henry Francis Pelham, Roman history
- William Armstrong Percy, Medieval Europe and ancient Greek and Roman history. History of Homosexuality.
- Hrvoje Petric, early modern history, environmental history, economic history
- Detlev Peukert, historian of Alltagsgeschichte (history of everyday life) in the Weimar & Nazi eras.
- Liza Picard, London
- Boris B. Piotrovsky, (1908 – 1990), Urartu and Scythia
- Richard Pipes, Russian and Soviet
- Henri Pirenne, Belgium; medieval
- J.H. Plumb, (1911 – 2001), British historian of the 18th century
- J. G. A. Pocock (born 1924), early modern period and Enlightenment
- Roy Porter, (1946 – 2002), history of medicine & Britain
- Gordon W. Prange, American Historian, World War II Pacific, notably Pearl Harbor and Midway
- Joshua Prawer, Israeli historian of the Crusader states
- Janko Prunk, (1942 -) Slovenian historian for modern history
- Werner Rahn, German naval history
- Jack N. Rakove, US Constitution and early politics
- Šerbo Rastoder, Montenegrin history from the 20th century to today
- René Rémond, French political history
- Henry A. Reynolds (born 1938), Aboriginal - white relations in Australia
- Susan Reynolds, critic of feudal concepts in medieval history
- Richard Rhodes, The Manhattan Project, the Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, and the SS-Einsatzgruppen
- Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond, British naval historian
- Jonathan Riley-Smith, Crusades
- Charles Ritcheson, Anglo-American relations 1775-1815
- Gerhard Ritter, German history.
- Andrew Roberts, British history.
- J. M. Roberts, European history
- N.A.M. Rodger, British naval history
- William Ledyard Rodgers, ancient naval history
- Theodore Ropp, military historian
- W.J. Rorabaugh, 19th and 20th century U.S.
- Ron Rosenbaum, Hitler
- Charles E. Rosenberg, medicine and science
- Stephen Roskill, British naval history
- Theodore Roosevelt, War of 1812, frontier
- Michael Rostovtzeff, ancient history
- Hans Rothfels, modern German history
- Sheila Rowbotham, (born 1943) Feminism Socialism
- Herbert H. Rowen, Dutch history
- A. L. Rowse, (1903 – 1997)
- Miri Rubin, social history of Europe between 1100-1600.
- R. J. Rummel, genocide
- Steven Runciman, Crusades
- Leila J.Rupp , feminist historian
- Conrad Russell, 17th century Britain
- Cornelius Ryan, (1920 – 1974), World War II
- Boris Rybakov, (1908 – 2001), leader of Soviet anti-Normanists
- Ram Sharan Sharma Eminent Historian of Ancient India
- Edgar V. Saks, (1910–1984), Estonian Middle Ages
- Richard G. Salomon, (1884-1966), German-American medievalist and Church historian
- J. Salwyn Schapiro, fascism
- Dominic Sandbrook, (born 1974), modern Britain and the United States
- Usha Sanyal, Asian history, Islam and Sufism, especially Barelwi movement
- Simon Schama, (born 1945), British historian and TV presenter, European and art history
- Arthur Schlesinger, Sr.
- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Andrew Jackson, New Deal, John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy; Pulitzer prize winner
- Jean-Claude Schmitt, Middle Ages
- David Schoenbaum, modern German history & American-Israeli relations.
- Carl Schorske, Vienna, Modernism, intellectual history.
- Helena Schrader, Ancient Sparta, Knights Templar, Middle Ages, WWII German Resistance, WWII Women Aviators
- Paul W. Schroeder, late sixteenth- to twentieth-century European international politics, Central Europe, theory of history
- D. M. Schurman, British imperial and naval history
- Joan Scott US Feminism
- Howard Hayes Scullard, (1903 – 1983), ancient history
- Tom Segev, Israeli history
- Robert Service Soviet and Russian history
- James J. Sheehan modern Germany
- William L. Shirer, American journalist, expert on the Third Reich, wrote The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
- Dasharatha Sharma, History of Rajasthan
- He Shu, (1948 – ), historian of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
- Keith Sinclair (1922-1993), New Zealand history
- Helene J. Sinnreich, Holocaust history
- Nathan Sivin, History of Chinese Themes
- Quentin Skinner, early modern Britain
- Alexandre Skirda, specialist of the Russian revolutionary movement
- Theda Skocpol, Institutions and comparative method
- Richard Slotkin, Environment
- Henry Nash Smith US cultural historian
- Jean Edward Smith US Foreign Policy, Constitutional Law, Legal History, Political Economy, Biography, Modern Germany
- Justin Harvey Smith, Mexican-American war; Pulitzer Prize winner
- Richard Norton Smith, U.S. presidential historian.
- T. C. Smout Scottish environmental and social historian
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, (born 1918), Russian historian and novelist
- Louis Leo Snyder, German nationalism
- Albert Soboul, (1913 – 1982), French revolution
- Richard Southern, medieval historian
- Dr. E. Lee Spence, (born 1947), shipwreck historian (16th-21st century shipwrecks, worldwide)
- Jonathan Spence, Chinese history
- Jackson J. Spielvogel, Pennsylvania State University
- Kenneth Stampp, American history, author The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South
- David Starkey, (born 1945), Tudor historian and TV presenter
- James M. Stayer, German Reformation historian.
- Wickham Steed, British historian of Eastern Europe.
- Valerie Steele, fashion historian
- Gerald J. Steinacher, Austrian Historian on Nazi-Germany
- Jean Stengers, Belgian historian
- Frank Stenton, Anglo-Saxon historian.
- Fritz Stern, American historian of Germany & Jewish history.
- Zeev Sternhell, history of fascism.
- William N. Still, Jr., U.S. naval history and Confederate naval history
- Lawrence Stone, early modern British social, economic and family history
- Norman Stone, military history
- Hew Strachan, military historian
- Floyd Benjamin Streeter, Kansas, Old American West
- Michael Stürmer, modern German history.
- Viktor Suvorov, Soviet historian
- David Syrett, British naval history
- Ronald Syme, (1903 – 1989), ancient history
- J. L. Talmon,(1916 – 1980), Modern History, "The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy"
- A.J.P. Taylor, (1906 – 1990), Historian of European International relations
- Alexander Smith Taylor (1817 – 1876), considered first bibliographer of California.
- Alasdair and Hettie Tayler, Scottish historians
- Ronald Takaki, (1939 – 2009), American, ethnic studies historian
- Abdelhadi Tazi, (1921-), Moroccan historian
- Antonio Tellez, (1921 – 2005), Spanish Anarchism and anti-fascist resistance
- Harold Temperley, (1879 – 1939), British historian on 19c and early 20c century diplomatic history
- Romila Thapar, (born 1931), Ancient India
- Barbara Thiering, (born 1930), Rediscovered the "Pesher technique" of early Christian history
- Joan Thirsk ( born 1922), History of agriculture
- Hugh Thomas, Spanish Civil War, Cuba, Atlantic Slave Trade
- E. P. Thompson, (1924 – 1993), British Labour historian and peace activist
- John Toland, (1912-2004), WW1 and WW2 Histories
- K. Ross Toole, (1920-1981), history of Montana
- Ahmed Toufiq, (1943-), Moroccan historian
- Marc Trachtenberg, Cold War history
- Hugh Trevor-Roper, (1914 – 2003), British historian and peer, specialist on the Nazi leadership
- Gil Troy, Modern American History, the Presidency
- Barbara Tuchman, (1912 – 1989) 20c military
- Robert C. Tucker, Stalin
- Peter Turchin, (born 1958), Russian-American historian, Cliodynamics
- Henry Ashby Turner, Jr., Weimar and Nazi Germany
- Frederick Jackson Turner, (1861 – 1932), American historian who developed the Frontier Thesis
- Denis Twitchett, (1925-2006), Cambridge scholar who greatly exapanded interest in the History of China
- Jean-Pierre Vernant,(1914 – 2007), French historian, ancient Greece
- Paul Veyne, French historian, ancient Greece and Rome
- Pierre Vidal-Naquet, (1930 – 2006), French historian, ancient Greece, Civil Rights activist
- Hans van de Ven, Dutch-born British historian, modern China
- John Waiko (born 1944), Papua New Guinean history
- Retha Warnicke, (born 1939), Tudor history & gender issues
- Eugen Weber, modern French history
- Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, (1910 – 1997) British
- Hans-Ulrich Wehler, 19c German social history
- Russell Weigley, military history
- Gerhard Weinberg, World War Two.
- Roberto Weiss Renaissance historian
- Frank Welsh (born 1931), British imperial history
- Christopher Whatley, Scottish historian
- John Wheeler-Bennett, German history
- John Whyte, focused on Northern Ireland and on divided societies
- Christopher Wickham, medieval history
- Alexander Wilkinson,(born 1975)Early Modern European History, The History of the Book in France, Spain & Portugal
- Eric Williams, (1911 – ), Guianese historian, Caribbean history, anti-imperialist themes
- Glanmor Williams
- Glyndwr Williams, history of exploration
- William Appleman Williams US diplomatic
- Clyde N. Wilson, 19c American; John C. Calhoun
- Ian Wilson, (born 1941) religious historian
- Heinrich August Winkler, (born 1938) German history
- Keith Windschuttle, (born 1942) Australian history & historiography
- Gordon Wright, Modern French History
- Robert S. Wistrich, Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and Jews in the 20th Century.
- John B. Wolf, French history
- Michael Wolffsohn, German Jewish history.
- Gordon S. Wood, American Revolution
- Michael Wood
- C. Vann Woodward, (1908 – 1999), American South
- Lawrence C. Wroth, American printing trade
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