Wednesday, March 3, 2010

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 and 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
Timothy Brook, (born 1951) Canadian Sinologist and historian
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

Elizabeth Eisenstein, French Revolution, early printing, transitions in media
Geoff Eley British historian of German history
John Elliott, (born 1941) Early Modern Spain
Joseph J. Ellis biographer of US Founding Fathers
Geoffrey Elton, (1921 – 1994) , Tudor England
Peter Englund, Swedish
Richard J. Evans, German social history
Alf Evers, (1905-2004) American historian

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 Professor 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)
Mohammed ibn Jaafar al-Kattani (-1927) Moroccan historian
Michael Ignatieff, (born 1947) author of Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond
Halil Inalcik, Turkish historian of the Ottoman Empire
Jonathan Israel (born 1946), British historian of the Netherlands, the Age of Enlightenment and European Jewry
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
W.C. Lubenow, British history
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
Lewis Bernstein Namier, 18th century British history and 20th century diplomatic history
Allan Nevins, US political and business history; Civil War
Leo Niehorster, military history
Ernst Nolte, fascism and communism

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
Sayed Wiqar Ali Shah Pakistani Historian on Khudai Khidmatgar Movement.
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
Digby Smith, Military
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
Katherine Storr British womens history late 19th & early 20th centuries, also Belgian refugees in WW1
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

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Historian of Early America
Mladen Urem, Croatian literary historian
Robert M. Utley, (born 1929), Historian of 19th Century American West

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
Robert J. Young, Canadian historian of the French Third Republic.
Robert M. Young, (born 1935), American historian, history of medicine, and human sciences.

Qasim Zaman,Indian Colonial Muslim History
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, Cuban-American historian of the German expulsions after World War Two.
Howard Zinn, (born 1922) American historian, popular U.S. history, the Left in the U.S.
Rainer Zitelmann, German historian.

Early modern historians (1600 – 1799)




Fray Íñigo Abbad y Lasierra (1745 – 1813) Spanish historian
Mohammed Akensus (1797-1877) Moroccan historian

Teimuraz Bagrationi, (1782 – 1846), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
Archibald Bower, (1686 – 1766), Rome
Mary Bonaventure Browne, Poor Clare and Irish historian, c.1610 - c.1670.
Josiah Burchett, (1666? – 1746), British naval historian and Admiralty official
Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng, (1738 – 1801), Chinese historian, local histories and essays on historiography

Ahmad Hasan Dani, (1920-2009), Pakistan, History of South Asia
Charles Dezobry, (1798–1871), French historian and historical novelist
Mohammed al-Duayf (1752-) Moroccan historian
John Colin Dunlop, (c. 1785 – 1842)

Laurence Echard, (c.1670 – 1730), England

Abd al-Rahman al-Fasi (1631-1685), Moroccan historian
George Finlay, (1799 – 1875), Greece
Abd al-Aziz al-Fishtali (1549-1621), Moroccan historian
Francisco Jose Freire (1719 – 1773), Portuguese historian and philologist
Francesco Maria Appendini (1768 – 1837), Italian historian-Republic of Ragusa
Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, (1610 – 1688), Medieval and Byzantine historian and philologist

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

Edward Hasted, (1732–1812), Kent
Sulayman al-Hawwat, (1747-1816) Moroccan historian
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, (1770 – 1831), German philosopher of history
Arild Huitfeldt, (1546 - 1609), Danish historian.
David Hume (1711 – 1776), Scottish Enlightenment Philosopher and author of six volume History of England (originally History of Britain)

Mohammed al-Ifrani (1670-1745) Moroccan historian

Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, (1766 – 1826), Russian historian - Russian Empire
Seathrún Céitinn/Geoffrey Keating, d.1643, Irish historian
Joachim Lelewel, (1786 – 1861), Polish historian
John Lingard, (1771 – 1851), England
Anton Tomaz Linhart, (1756 – 1795), well known for Slovenian history
Mc and Mac
Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh, fl.1643 – 1671, Irish historian, annalist, genealogist

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.
Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, (1637 – 1698), ecclesiastical historian
Barthold Georg Niebuhr, (1776 – 1831), German historian
Tadhg Og Ó Cianáin (died c.1614)
Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, Irish historian, c.1590 – 1643
Peregrine Ó Duibhgeannain, Irish historian, fl.1627-1636
Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh (died c. 1662/1664)
Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh, Irish historian, 1629 – 1716/1718
Olaus Magnus, (ca. 1490-1570)

William H. Prescott, (1796 – 1859), US historian of Spain, Mexico, Peru
Placido Puccinelli, (1609 – 1685), Italian historian

Mohammed al-Qadiri (1712-1773) Moroccan historian

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

Mikhail Shcherbatov, (1733 – 1790), Russian historian
Vasily Tatishchev, (1686 – 1750), first historian of modern Russia
Adolphe Thiers, (1797 – 1877), French historian of the Revolution, Empire
Voltaire, (1694 – 1778), French Enlightenment philosopher and historian

Sir James Ware, (1594-1666), Anglo-Irish historian and antiquarian


Yu Deuk-gong, (1749 – 1807), Korean historian

Abu al-Qasim al-Zayyani (1734-1833)

List of historians(...-1600)


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 – [[1h], (? - 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
Theodoret, (c. 393 - c. 457), Early Christian
Priscus, (5th century AD), Byzantine history
Sozomen (c. 400 - c. 450), Early Christian
Salvian, (c. 400/405 - c. 493), 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 Hamadani, (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