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This is a list of historians categorized by their area of study. See also [[History]] for overview of historiography | This is a list of historians categorized by their area of study. See also [[History]] for overview of historiography | ||
==[[Ancient history]]== | |||
*[[Michael Crawford]] | *[[Michael Crawford]] | ||
*[[Edward Gibbon]] (1737-1794) - Roman Empire | *[[Edward Gibbon]] (1737-1794) - Roman Empire | ||
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*[[Xenophon]] | *[[Xenophon]] | ||
==[[Medieval history]]== | |||
*[[Placido Puccinelli]] (1609-1685, Italian) - Northern Italy in the tenth century and the Florentine church | *[[Placido Puccinelli]] (1609-1685, Italian) - Northern Italy in the tenth century and the Florentine church | ||
*[[Marc Bloch]] (1886-1944, French) France, methodology | *[[Marc Bloch]] (1886-1944, French) France, methodology | ||
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*[[Geraldis Cambrensis]] | *[[Geraldis Cambrensis]] | ||
*[[Johan Huizinga]] Dutch | *[[Johan Huizinga]] Dutch | ||
*[[George Sarton]], science | |||
*[[Jacques Le Goff]], French | *[[Jacques Le Goff]], French | ||
*Rev. [[F. X. Martin]] (Irish) - Mediævalist and campaigner | *Rev. [[F. X. Martin]] (Irish) - Mediævalist and campaigner | ||
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*[[John Julius Norwich]] | *[[John Julius Norwich]] | ||
===[[Canada, history]]=== | |||
*[[Francis Parkman]] - French and Indian War; Canada | *[[Francis Parkman]] - French and Indian War; Canada | ||
*[[Donald Creighton]] - Developed the [[Laurentian thesis]] | *[[Donald Creighton]] - Developed the [[Laurentian thesis]] | ||
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*[[W.L. Morton]] - Manitoba | *[[W.L. Morton]] - Manitoba | ||
===[[Caribbean]]=== | |||
*[[Eric Williams]] (1911-1981) - slavery | *[[Eric Williams]] (1911-1981) - slavery | ||
===[[U.S., History ]]=== | |||
*[[Stephen Ambrose]] (1936-2002) - Biographer of Eisenhower, Nixon; military history | *[[Stephen Ambrose]] (1936-2002) - Biographer of Eisenhower, Nixon; military history | ||
*[[Thomas A. Bailey]], diplomatic | *[[Thomas A. Bailey]], diplomatic | ||
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*[[C. Vann Woodward]] (1908-1999) - The South | *[[C. Vann Woodward]] (1908-1999) - The South | ||
*[[Howard Zinn]] (1922- ) - Leftist historian | *[[Howard Zinn]] (1922- ) - Leftist historian | ||
===[[Neoabolitionist]]=== | |||
====Early 20th century==== | |||
*[[George Washington Williams]] | |||
*[[W.E.B. Du Bois]] | |||
*[[Herbert Aptheker]] | |||
*[[Philip Foner]] | |||
*[[Dwight Dumond]] | |||
====Post 1950==== | |||
*[[David W, Blight]] | |||
*[[Martin Duberman]] | |||
*[[Paul Finkelman]] | |||
*[[Eric Foner]] | |||
*[[John Hope Franklin]] | |||
*[[Lawrence Levine]] | |||
*[[Leon Litwack]] | |||
*[[William S. McFeely]] | |||
*[[James M. McPherson]] | |||
*[[Gary Nash]] | |||
*[[Leonard Richards]] | |||
*[[Kenneth Stampp]] | |||
*[[Howard Zinn]] | |||
===[[Dunning School]]=== | |||
*[[E. Merton Coulter]] | |||
*[[William Archibald Dunning]] | |||
*[[Walter Lynwood Fleming]] | |||
*[[Charles W. Ramsdell]] | |||
===Latin America=== | ===Latin America=== | ||
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*[[John B. Wolf]] (1907-???) 18th century | *[[John B. Wolf]] (1907-???) 18th century | ||
*[[Gordon Wright]] (1912-2000) - 20th century | *[[Gordon Wright]] (1912-2000) - 20th century | ||
===[[Annales School]]=== | |||
* [[Marc Bloch]] | |||
* [[Fernand Braudel]] | |||
* [[Georges Duby]] | |||
* [[Lucien Febvre]] | |||
* [[Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie]] | |||
* [[Jacques Le Goff]] | |||
===[[Germany, history]]=== | |||
*[[Gisela Bock]] | *[[Gisela Bock]] | ||
*[[Alan Bullock]] | *[[Alan Bullock]] | ||
*[[Karl Dietrich Bracher]] | *[[Karl Dietrich Bracher]] | ||
*[[Martin Broszat]] | *[[Martin Broszat]] | ||
*[[Thomas Carlyle]] (1795–1881 - Friedrich der Grosse (the Great) | |||
*[[Gordon A. Craig]] | *[[Gordon A. Craig]] | ||
*[[Richard J. Evans]] | *[[Richard J. Evans]] | ||
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====[[History of Spain]]==== | ====[[History of Spain]]==== | ||
*[[Ida Altman]] - | *[[Ida Altman]] - Early modern | ||
*[[Maria Luisa Ávila]]- | *[[Maria Luisa Ávila]]-Muslim Spain, Women | ||
*[[Robert I. Burns]]- | *[[Robert I. Burns]] -Medieval | ||
*[[Brian A Catlos]]- | *[[Brian A Catlos]] -Muslim Spain | ||
*[[Roger Collins]] | *[[Roger Collins]] Muslim Spain | ||
*[[Olivia Remie Constable,]]- | *[[Olivia Remie Constable,]]- Medieval History | ||
*[[Hipólito Escolar]]- | *[[Hipólito Escolar]] - printing | ||
*[[Pierre Guichard]]- | *[[Pierre Guichard]] - Muslim Spain]] | ||
*[[S.I Imamuddin]] | *[[S.I Imamuddin]] Muslim Spain]] | ||
*[[Manuela Marin]]- | *[[Manuela Marin]]- Women | ||
*[[Julian Ribera y Tarragó | *[[Julian Ribera y Tarragó]] | ||
*[[Samuel Miklos Stern]] | *[[Samuel Miklos Stern]] | ||
===Russia=== | |||
*[[Roi Medvedev]] - Stalin biographer | |||
====[[History of Yugoslavia]]==== | ====[[History of Yugoslavia]]==== | ||
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===The [[Middle East]]=== | ===The [[Middle East]]=== | ||
*[[ | *[[Ibn Khaldun]] | ||
*[[ | *[[Ibn al-Tiqtaqa]] (b. circa 1262) [[Shi'i]] historian wrote [[Al-Fakhīr]] | ||
*[[ | *[[‘Ala’ al-Din ‘Ata Malik Juvayni]] (1226-1283) [[Ta’rīkh-I-Jahān Gushā (‘A History of the World-Conqueror Chingis Khān)]] | ||
*[[Rashid al-Din]] (circa 1247-1318) [[Jāmi‛-al-Tawārīkh]] [[(‘A Comprehensive Collection of Histories')]], [[Ta’rīkh–i-Ghāzānī]] - a history of the Mongols and Turks | |||
*[[George Antonius]] (1891-1941) - Arab nationalism | |||
*[[Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb]] (1895-1971) | |||
*[[Bernard Lewis]] - the Middle East | |||
*[[Albert Hourani]] | *[[Albert Hourani]] | ||
*[[Walid Khalidi]] Palestinian historian | *[[Walid Khalidi]] Palestinian historian | ||
*[[Michael Oren]] | *[[Michael Oren]] | ||
*[[David Pryce-Jones]] | *[[David Pryce-Jones]] | ||
*[[D. S. Margoliouth]] | *[[D. S. Margoliouth]] | ||
*[[Caroline Finkel]] | *[[Caroline Finkel]] | ||
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*[[Bipin Chandra]] | *[[Bipin Chandra]] | ||
====[[Japan]]==== | ====[[Japan, history]]==== | ||
====[[Australia, history]]==== | |||
====[[ | |||
*[[Manning Clark]] | *[[Manning Clark]] | ||
*[[Geoffrey Blainey]] | *[[Geoffrey Blainey]] | ||
===[[Christianity]]=== | ===[[Christianity]]=== | ||
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* E. P. Thompson, British | * E. P. Thompson, British | ||
==[[Art history]]== | |||
*[[Nicholas Pevsner]] (1903–1983) History of art and English architecture | *[[Nicholas Pevsner]] (1903–1983) History of art and English architecture | ||
*[[Josef Strzygowski]] (born 1862) - Architectural history | *[[Josef Strzygowski]] (born 1862) - Architectural history | ||
===[[Economic history]]=== | ===[[Economic history]]=== | ||
*[[Niall Ferguson]], | *[[Niall Ferguson]], 19th-20th century | ||
*[[Robert Fogel]] | *[[Robert Fogel]] US slavery; health | ||
*[[David S. Landes, | *[[David S. Landes]], Europe | ||
*[[W. W. Rostow]], | *[[W. W. Rostow]], industrialization | ||
*[[R. H. Tawney]], | *[[R. H. Tawney]], [[Industrial Revolution]] | ||
===[[Espionage]]=== | ===[[Espionage]]=== | ||
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*[[Harold Temperley]], (1879-1939), British editor of "British Documents on the Originis of the War, 1898-1914" | *[[Harold Temperley]], (1879-1939), British editor of "British Documents on the Originis of the War, 1898-1914" | ||
*[[Odd Arne Westad]] - Professor at the [[London School of Economics]] | *[[Odd Arne Westad]] - Professor at the [[London School of Economics]] | ||
*Ernest [[Llewellyn Woodward]], (1890-1971) | *Ernest [[Llewellyn Woodward]], (1890-1971) | ||
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*[[Peter Galison]], physics, philosophy, objectivity | *[[Peter Galison]], physics, philosophy, objectivity | ||
*[[John L. Heilbron]], physics, quantification, astronomy, religion and science | *[[John L. Heilbron]], physics, quantification, astronomy, religion and science | ||
*[[Richard L. Hills]], technology | *[[Richard L. Hills]], technology | ||
*[[Thomas P. Hughes]], technology | *[[Thomas P. Hughes]], technology | ||
*[[Evelyn Fox Keller]], science and gender, biology | *[[Evelyn Fox Keller]], science and gender, biology | ||
*[[Melvin Kranzberg]], technology | *[[Melvin Kranzberg]], technology | ||
*[[ | *[[Daniel J. Kevles]], science and politics, physics, biology, eugenics | ||
*[[Thomas Kuhn]], | *[[Thomas Kuhn]], astronomy, historiography | ||
*[[David F. Noble]], | *[[David F. Noble]], industrial development | ||
*[[Abraham Pais]], physics | *[[Abraham Pais]], physics; Einstein | ||
*[[A. I. Sabra]], optics, Islamic science | *[[A. I. Sabra]], optics, Islamic science | ||
*[[George Sarton]], | *[[George Sarton]], medieval | ||
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*[[Immanuel Wallerstein]] | *[[Immanuel Wallerstein]] | ||
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*[[ | |||
*[[ | ==[[Christianity]]== | ||
*[[ | * Ahlstron, Sydney, American religion | ||
*[[Eusebius of Caesarea]] (~[[275]]–[[339]]) - "Father of Church history" | |||
*[[Alexander Campbell Cheyne]], Scottish Ecclesiastical Historian | |||
* Latourette, Kenneth Scott | |||
*[[John Gilmary Shea]] ([[1824]]-[[1892]]) Father of American [[Catholic]] History | |||
*[[Barbara Thiering]] ([[1930]]- ) Rediscovered the "Pesher technique" | |||
===[[Lutheranism]]=== | |||
*[[Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim]] ([[1694]]-[[1755]]) - [[Lutheran]] historian of Christianity from its inception through the [[18th century]] | |||
===[[Mormonism]]=== | |||
*Leonard J. Arrington - 1975-1982 | |||
*[[B.H. Roberts]] | |||
*[[Fawn M. Brodie]] | |||
* Shipps, Jan | |||
===[[The Papacy]]=== | |||
*[[Ludwig von Pastor]], wrote 40 volume history of the popes | |||
==Historicist== | |||
* [[Wilhelm Dilthey]] | |||
* [[Hans Georg Gadamer]] | |||
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This is a list of historians categorized by their area of study. See also History for overview of historiography
Ancient history
- Michael Crawford
- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) - Roman Empire
- Peter Green - Ancient Greece and Macedon
- Herodotus
- Josephus
- Barbara Levick (born 1932, British) - Roman emperors
- Livy
- Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776–1831) - Roman
- Howard Hayes Scullard (1903-1983) - Roman civilization
- Ronald Syme (1903 - 1989) Rome
- Suetonius
- Tacitus
- Joseph Tainter
- Thucydides
- Xenophon
Medieval history
- Placido Puccinelli (1609-1685, Italian) - Northern Italy in the tenth century and the Florentine church
- Marc Bloch (1886-1944, French) France, methodology
- John Boswell (1947-1994, American) - Homosexuality
- Norman Cantor (1930-2004), England, historiography
- Georges Duby (1924-1996), France
- François-Louis Ganshof (1895-1980), Dutch
- Patrick Geary
- Geoffrey of Monmouth
- Geraldis Cambrensis
- Johan Huizinga Dutch
- George Sarton, science
- Jacques Le Goff, French
- Rev. F. X. Martin (Irish) - Mediævalist and campaigner
- Rosamond McKitterick - Frankish and Carolingian history
- Henri Pirenne (1862-1935) - the "Pirenne Thesis" of early Medieval development
- Eileen Power - Middle Ages
- Miri Rubin - social and religious history, 1100-1500
- Stephen Runciman (1903–2000) - the Crusades
- Richard Southern (1912-2001), religion
- Sidney Painter
- John Julius Norwich
Canada, history
- Francis Parkman - French and Indian War; Canada
- Donald Creighton - Developed the Laurentian thesis
- Lionel Groulx (1878-1967) - history of Quebec
- Harold Innis - Economic history
- Jack Granatstein - Political and military
- W.L. Morton - Manitoba
Caribbean
- Eric Williams (1911-1981) - slavery
U.S., History
- Stephen Ambrose (1936-2002) - Biographer of Eisenhower, Nixon; military history
- Thomas A. Bailey, diplomatic
- Bernard Bailyn, Revolution
- George Bancroft (1800-1891) - colonial and Revolution
- Charles A. Beard (1874-1948) economic interpretation
- Alan Brinkley - 1930s
- Bruce Catton - American Civil War
- William Cronon - environmental history
- David Herbert Donald, Civil War, Reconstruction
- W.E.B. Du Bois - Reconstruction
- Eric Foner - Reconstruction
- Shelby Foote - (1916-2005) - American Civil War
- John Hope Franklin - African Americans
- Milton Friedman, monetary history
- John A. Garraty, biography, political
- Richard Hildreth, 18th century
- Richard Hofstadter (1916-1970) - Progessivism and U.S. political history
- Russell Kirk, conservative ideas
- Arthur S. Link, Woodrow Wilson
- Seymour Martin Lipset, political sociology of movements
- David McCullough (1933- ) - popular biographies of Harry Truman, Teddy Roosevelt, John Adams
- Forrest McDonald, political history
- James M. McPherson - American Civil War
- Edmund Morgan, colonial and Revolution
- David Nasaw - biography
- Frank Lawrence Owsley, antebellum South
- Francis Parkman - French and Indian War; Canada
- Vernon L. Parringon, history of ideas
- Ulrich B. Phillips, slavery
- David M. Potter, coming of Civil War
- Theodore Roosevelt, West, War of 1812
- Arthur Schlesinger Sr., social history
- Arthur Schlesinger Jr., political history, biography
- Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932) - Developed the Frontier Thesis and sectionalism thesis
- Frank Vandiver, military
- C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999) - The South
- Howard Zinn (1922- ) - Leftist historian
Neoabolitionist
Early 20th century
Post 1950
- David W, Blight
- Martin Duberman
- Paul Finkelman
- Eric Foner
- John Hope Franklin
- Lawrence Levine
- Leon Litwack
- William S. McFeely
- James M. McPherson
- Gary Nash
- Leonard Richards
- Kenneth Stampp
- Howard Zinn
Dunning School
Latin America
Brazil
- Sergio Buarque de Holanda
- Gilberto Freyre
- Caio Prado
- Fernando Novais - the crisis of colonial system
Europe
- Norman Davies
- Elizabeth Eisenstein, printing
- John Lukacs, Cold War
- Henri-Jean Martin, early printing and writing
- Robert Roswell Palmer, French Revolution
- J. Salwyn Schapiro
- Norman Stone, World War I
- Gordon Wright, World War II
Britain
- Venerable Bede (672 – 735)
- Geoffrey of Monmouth (died circa 1154)
- Angus Calder - World War II.
- Maurice Cowling - political history.
- Eamon Duffy - 15th-17th century religious history
- Geoffrey Rudolph Elton - Tudor period
- Antonia Fraser - 17th century
- J. H. Hexter - Revolution; methodology
- Gertrude Himmelfarb - Victorian social and cultural history.
- Christopher Hill (1912-2003) - 17th century England and Revolution
- John Edward Lloyd (1861-1947) - Early Welsh history
- Lewis Bernstein Namier - 18th century politics
- Andrew Roberts, modern British history.
- A. L. Rowse (1903-1997) Elizabethan England
- Dominic Sandbrook (born 1974) - The 1960s and after
- John Robert Seeley (1834-1895)
- David Starkey (born 1945) - Tudor
- E. P. Thompson, (1924-1993), working class
- Lawrence Stone, The history of society and the family in England
- George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876–1962) 17th-18th centuries;
- Hugh Trevor-Roper - 17th century; Nazi Germany
- Retha Warnicke (born 1939) - Tudor history and gender issues
- C, V. Veronica Wedgwood (1910-1997) - Glorious Revolution
France, history
- Keith M. Baker - Revolution
- Marc Bloch (1886-1944) - Medieval
- David Chandler - Napoleon
- Alfred Cobban - Revolution
- Natalie Zemon Davis - early modern
- William Doyle - Revolution
- Georges Duby (1924-1996) - Medieval
- Lucien Febvre (1878-1956) - geography
- François Furet - Revolution
- Pierre Goubert - 18th century
- Alistair Horne - modern military
- Georges Lefebvre - Revolution
- Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie - peasantry
- Roland Mousnier - early modern
- Robert R. Palmer - Revolution
- Robert O. Paxton - Vichy
- Jacques Revel
- Eugen Weber - modern
- John B. Wolf (1907-???) 18th century
- Gordon Wright (1912-2000) - 20th century
Annales School
Germany, history
- Gisela Bock
- Alan Bullock
- Karl Dietrich Bracher
- Martin Broszat
- Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881 - Friedrich der Grosse (the Great)
- Gordon A. Craig
- Richard J. Evans
- Joachim Fest
- Fritz Fischer
- Klaus Hildebrand
- Andreas Hillgruber
- Heinz Zollin Hohne
- Eberhard Jäckel
- Ian Kershaw
- Klemens von Klemperer
- Claudia Koonz
- Timothy Mason
- Friedrich Meinecke
- Hans Mommsen
- Wolfgang Mommsen
- George Mosse
- Ernst Nolte'
- Steven Ozment
- Detlev Peukert
- Gerhard Ritter
- Hans Rothfels
- Louis Leo Snyder
- Fritz Stern
- Michael Sturmer
- Hans-Ulrich Wehler
- Heinrich von Treitschke
- A.J.P. Taylor
- Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914-2003) - British historian and peer who specialized on Nazi leadership and incorrectly verified the authenticity of The Hitler Diaries
- Henry Ashby Turner
- Robert Waite
- John Wheeler-Bennett
- Michael Wolffsohn
- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
- Rainer Zitelmann
Ireland, history
- Brian Farrell (born 1929) - political
Italy, history
Poland
- Norman Davies (1939-) - modern Polish history.
- Franciszek Bujak (1875-1953)
- Jan Rutkowski (1886-1949),
Russia, history
- Nicholas Bethell
- Robert Conquest 20c
- Leopold Labedz
- Roy Medvedev Stalin
- Richard Pipes - 20c
- William Taubman - Nikita Khrushchev
History of Slovenia
- Bogo Grafenauer (1916--1995)
History of Spain
- Ida Altman - Early modern
- Maria Luisa Ávila-Muslim Spain, Women
- Robert I. Burns -Medieval
- Brian A Catlos -Muslim Spain
- Roger Collins Muslim Spain
- Olivia Remie Constable,- Medieval History
- Hipólito Escolar - printing
- Pierre Guichard - Muslim Spain]]
- S.I Imamuddin Muslim Spain]]
- Manuela Marin- Women
- Julian Ribera y Tarragó
- Samuel Miklos Stern
Russia
- Roi Medvedev - Stalin biographer
History of Yugoslavia
The Middle East
- Ibn Khaldun
- Ibn al-Tiqtaqa (b. circa 1262) Shi'i historian wrote Al-Fakhīr
- ‘Ala’ al-Din ‘Ata Malik Juvayni (1226-1283) Ta’rīkh-I-Jahān Gushā (‘A History of the World-Conqueror Chingis Khān)
- Rashid al-Din (circa 1247-1318) Jāmi‛-al-Tawārīkh (‘A Comprehensive Collection of Histories'), Ta’rīkh–i-Ghāzānī - a history of the Mongols and Turks
- George Antonius (1891-1941) - Arab nationalism
- Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb (1895-1971)
- Bernard Lewis - the Middle East
- Albert Hourani
- Walid Khalidi Palestinian historian
- Michael Oren
- David Pryce-Jones
- D. S. Margoliouth
- Caroline Finkel
- Rex Sean O'Fahey
- Knut Vikør
- Anders Bjørkelo
Asia
China, history
- Sima Qian - Compiled Records of the Grand Historian
- Fairbank, John King
- Goldman, Merle
- Gernet, Jacques,
- Hsü, Immanuel Chung-yueh
- Huang, Ray
- MacFarquhar, Roderick
- Michael, Franz
- Mote, Frederick W.
- Needham, Joseph
- Schwartz, Benjamin
- Spence, Jonathan D.
- Studies of Modern Chinese History: Reviews and Historiographical Essays
History of Korea
- Bruce Cumings - modern Korea
- Il-yeon
- Kim Bu-sik - early annalist
- Kim Dae-Mun
- Lee Ki-baek - (1924-2004)
- Suh Dae-sook - Korean War and North Korea
- Yu Deuk-gong - Balhae
History of India
- A. L. Basham
- Urvashi Butalia
- Nicholas Dirks
- Ranajit Guha
- Ayesha Jalal
- John Keay
- Christian Lassen
- Sumit Sarkar
- Tanika Sarkar
- Percival Spear
- Romila Thapar
- Bipin Chandra
Japan, history
Australia, history
Christianity
- Ahlstron, Sydney, American religion
- Eusebius of Caesarea (275–339) - "Father of Church history"
- Alexander Campbell Cheyne, Scottish Ecclesiastical Historian
- Latourette, Kenneth Scott
- John Gilmary Shea (1824-1892) Father of American Catholic History
Lutheranism
- Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim (1694-1755)
Mormonism
- Leonard J. Arrington - 1975-1982
- Fawn M. Brodie]]
- Shipps, Jan
The Papacy
- Ludwig von Pastor, wrote 40 volume history of the popes
Holocaust
- Yehuda Bauer
- Martin Broszat
- Christopher Browning
- Lucy Dawidowicz
- Norman Finkelstein
- Henry Friedlander
- Saul Friedländer
- Daniel Goldhagen
- Raul Hilberg
- Michael Marrus
- Hans Mommsen
- R. J. Rummel
Marxist
- Eugene D. Genovese - Marxist historian of southern US history and slavery
- Ranajit Guha - Indian marxist historian
- Christopher Hill - 17th century England.
- Eric Hobsbawm - Marxist historian of the modern world.
- Timothy Wright Mason - Marxist historian who worked on the history of National Socialism and the German working-class.
- Maxime Rodinson Islam
- Sumit Sarkar Indian marxist historian
- E. P. Thompson, British
Art history
- Nicholas Pevsner (1903–1983) History of art and English architecture
- Josef Strzygowski (born 1862) - Architectural history
Economic history
- Niall Ferguson, 19th-20th century
- Robert Fogel US slavery; health
- David S. Landes, Europe
- W. W. Rostow, industrialization
- R. H. Tawney, Industrial Revolution
Espionage
- John Earl Haynes, American historian of Communist espionage
- David Kahn, historian of codes
- Victor Suvorov
- Nigel West
Maritime history
- Robert G. Albion
- Howard I. Chapelle
- John Hattendorf
- Samuel Eliot Morison, Pulitzer prize winner
Military History
- Correlli Barnett - British
- Terry Copp - Canadian
- Martin van Creveld - Israeli
- Jack Granatstein - Canadian
- Victor Davis Hanson - American classicist
- Richard Holmes - British
- Alistair Horne - British historian of French military history.
- Michael Howard -
- John Keegan (born 1934, English)
- Basil Liddell Hart (1895–1970)
- Edward Luttwak (born 1942)
- Alfred Thayer Mahan, American theorist of sea power
- S. L. A. Marshall - American military historian.
- Samuel Eliot Morison (1887-1976) - World War II, Columbus, Jones
- Peter Paret
- Gordon Prange - World War II
- Gerhard Ritter - German
- Hew Strachan - World War I.
- Gerhard Weinberg - World War II
Historiography
- Marc Bloch
- Fernand Braudel
- Herbert Butterfield
- Edward H. Carr
- R. G. Collingwood
- Geoffrey Elton
- Richard J. Evans
- Pieter Geyl
- J. H. Hexter
- Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
- Leopold von Ranke
- Hayden White
- Reinhardt Koselleck
Gender
- John Boswell (1947-1994, American) - Homosexuality in medieval times
- George Mosse
- Retha Warnicke (born 1939) - Gender issues
History of ideas
- Arthur Lovejoy(1873-1962)
- Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997
- J. C. D. Clark, 18th century Britain
- Michel Foucault (1926 - 1984)
- Peter Gay (1923- ) Enlightenment; 20th century
History of business
History of international relations
- Harry Elmer Barnes, World wars; revisionist (denied German Guilt in 1914)
- Herbert Butterfield
- Gordon A. Craig, Germany
- John Lewis Gaddis, Cold War.
- Klaus Hildebrand
- Andreas Hillgruber
- Paul Kennedy, British historian now at Yale, author of influential "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers"
- William L. Langer, (1896]]-1977)
- Eduard Mark
- Arno J. Mayer
- W.N. Medlicott
- Lewis Bernstein Namier
- Paul W. Schroeder, 19c Europe
- A.J.P. Taylor (1906-1990) - Europe and England
- Harold Temperley, (1879-1939), British editor of "British Documents on the Originis of the War, 1898-1914"
- Odd Arne Westad - Professor at the London School of Economics
- Ernest Llewellyn Woodward, (1890-1971)
History of science and technology
- Peter Galison, physics, philosophy, objectivity
- John L. Heilbron, physics, quantification, astronomy, religion and science
- Richard L. Hills, technology
- Thomas P. Hughes, technology
- Evelyn Fox Keller, science and gender, biology
- Melvin Kranzberg, technology
- Daniel J. Kevles, science and politics, physics, biology, eugenics
- Thomas Kuhn, astronomy, historiography
- David F. Noble, industrial development
- Abraham Pais, physics; Einstein
- A. I. Sabra, optics, Islamic science
- George Sarton, medieval
World history
- William McNeill (born 1917) American;
- Jackson J. Spielvogel - Pennsylvania State University, author of several major world history textbooks
- Arnold J. Toynbee (1889-1975) A Study of History
- Immanuel Wallerstein
Christianity
- Ahlstron, Sydney, American religion
- Eusebius of Caesarea (~275–339) - "Father of Church history"
- Alexander Campbell Cheyne, Scottish Ecclesiastical Historian
- Latourette, Kenneth Scott
- John Gilmary Shea (1824-1892) Father of American Catholic History
- Barbara Thiering (1930- ) Rediscovered the "Pesher technique"
Lutheranism
- Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim (1694-1755) - Lutheran historian of Christianity from its inception through the 18th century
Mormonism
- Leonard J. Arrington - 1975-1982
- B.H. Roberts
- Fawn M. Brodie
- Shipps, Jan
The Papacy
- Ludwig von Pastor, wrote 40 volume history of the popes