History/Catalogs/Historians by area of study

This is a list of historians categorized by their area of study. See also List of historians.

By time period

Ancient history

• Michael Crawford (historian)
• Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) - The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• Peter Green - Ancient Greece and Macedon
• Herodotus
• Josephus
• Barbara Levick (born 1932, British) - Roman emperors
• Livy
• Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776–1831) - Roman history
• Howard Hayes Scullard (1903-1983) - Roman civilization
• Ronald Syme (1903 - 1989) - Classical period
• 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) - Medieval France
• John Boswell (1947-1994, American) - Homosexuality in the Middle Ages
• Norman Cantor (1930-2004)
• Georges Duby (1924-1996, French) - Specialized in the history of France between the Capets and the Valois
• François-Louis Ganshof (1895-1980), Dutch - wrote on early medieval institutional history and feudalism
• Patrick Geary - early Middle Ages
• Geoffrey of Monmouth
• Geraldis Cambrensis
• Johan Huizinga (Dutch) - Wrote 'Waning of the Middle Ages'
• Jacques Le Goff
• 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)
• Sidney Painter
• John Julius Norwich

By nation or geographical area

North America

History of Canada

• Donald Creighton - Developed the Laurentian thesis
• Lionel Groulx (1878-1967) - The history of Quebec in particular and French North America in general
• Harold Innis - Economic historian of Canada
• Jack Granatstein - Political and Military historian of Canada
• W.L. Morton - Expert on western Canada

See also List of Canadian historians.

History of the Caribbean

• Eric Williams (1911-1981) - Focused on slavery and the slave trade, condemned imperialism

History of the United States

See also Category:Historians of the United States

• Stephen Ambrose (1936-2002) - Biographer of Eisenhower
• George Bancroft (1800-1891) - wrote first large-scale history of the US
• Charles A. Beard (1874-1948)
• William Brandon (1914–2002), historian of the American West and Native Americans.
• Alan Brinkley - Historian of the Great Depression
• Bruce Catton - American Civil War
• William Cronon - American environmental history and the American West
• David Herbert Donald
• W.E.B. Du Bois - historian of the Reconstruction
• Eric Foner - Civil War and Reconstruction
• Shelby Foote - (1916-2005) - American Civil War
• John Hope Franklin - historian of African Americans
• John A. Garraty
• Richard Hofstadter (1916-1970) - Progessivism and U.S. political history
• David Lavender (1910-2003) - Western U.S.
• David McCullough (1933- ) - general study, most notable work is recent biography of John Adams
• James M. McPherson - American Civil War
• Gary Moulton - prominent Lewis and Clark historian
• David Nasaw - biography and U.S. cultural history
• Francis Parkman - Historian of the French and Indian War
• Harry W. Pfanz - American Civil War
• Dominic Sandbrook (1974-) - political history of the 1960s and 1970s
• Arthur Schlesinger Sr.
• Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
• Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932) - Developed the Frontier Thesis
• Frank Vandiver
• C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999) - Southern United States
• Howard Zinn (1922- ) - Leftist historian of the United States

Europe

History of Europe

• Norman Davies
• Elizabeth Eisenstein, early printing and transitions in media
• John Lukacs
• Henri-Jean Martin, early printing and writing
• Robert Roswell Palmer
• J. Salwyn Schapiro
• Norman Stone
• Gordon Wright

History of England and Britain

• Venerable Bede (672 – 735)
• Angus Calder - Great Britain.
• Maurice Cowling - High political history.
• Eamon Duffy - 15th-17th century religious history (not "the Reformation")
• Geoffrey Rudolph Elton - Tudor period England.
• Edward Hasted - Kent
• Antonia Fraser - England.
• J. H. Hexter - 17th century England.
• Gertrude Himmelfarb - Victorian social and cultural history.
• Christopher Hill (1912-2003) - 17th century England
• John Edward Lloyd (1861-1947) - Early Welsh history
• Geoffrey of Monmouth (died circa 1154)
• Lewis Bernstein Namier - 18th century politics
• Andrew Roberts, modern British history.
• A. L. Rowse (1903-1997) - The history of Cornwall and Elizabethan England
• Dominic Sandbrook (born 1974) - The 1960s and after
• John Robert Seeley (1834-1895)
• David Starkey (born 1945) - Tudor historian and TV presenter
• E. P. Thompson, (1924-1993), historian of the British working class
• Lawrence Stone, The history of society and the family in England
• George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876–1962) - Prolific author on many periods of English history
• Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton - 17th century Britain.
• Retha Warnicke (born 1939) - Tudor history and gender issues
• Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910-1997) - British historian

History of France

• Marc Bloch (1886-1944) - Medieval France
• Georges Duby (1924-1996) - Medieval France
• Lucien Febvre (1878-1956) - French historian.
• Alistair Horne - modern French military history.
• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie - history of the French peasantry.
• Michael Marrus - Vichy France
• Roland Mousnier - early modern France.
• Zeev Sternhell - French fascism.
• Eugen Weber - modern French history.
• John B. Wolf (1907-???) - French history
• Natalie Zemon Davis - early modern France.
• Gordon Wright (1912-2000)

See also List of historians of the French Revolution.

History of Germany

• Gisela Bock
• Alan Bullock
• Karl Dietrich Bracher
• Martin Broszat
• 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

History of Ireland

• Brian Farrell (born 1929) - Irish political history, historian and emeritus Associated Professor of Politics, UCD

History of Italy

• Renzo De Felice

History of Poland

• Norman Davies (1939-) - modern Polish history.
• Pawel Jasienica (1909-1970) - Polish amateur historian.
• Wickham Steed

History of Russia

• Nicholas Bethell
• Robert Conquest - The Soviet Union
• Leopold Labedz
• Roy Medvedev
• Richard Pipes - The Soviet Union
• Condoleezza Rice - Soviet Union
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (born 1918) - Russian historian responsible for forcing knowledge of Soviet atrocities on the world
• William Taubman - Nikita Khrushchev

History of Slovenia

• Bogo Grafenauer (1916--1995)

History of Spain

• Ida Altman - Early modern Spain, colonial Latin America
• Maria Luisa Ávila-Medieval History, Spain, History of Muslim Spain, Women's History
• Robert I. Burns-Spain, Medieval History, History of Muslim Spain, Visigothic Spain
• Brian A Catlos-Spain, Medieval History, History of Muslim Spain
• Roger Collins-Medieval History, Spain, Visigothic Spain,History of Muslim Spain
• Olivia Remie Constable,-Spain, Medieval History, Commercial History
• Hipólito Escolar-Spain, History of the Book
• Pierre Guichard-Spain, Medieval History, Visigothic Spain, History of Muslim Spain
• S.I Imamuddin-Spain, Medieval History, History of Muslim Spain
• Manuela Marin-Women's History, Social History, Spain, History of Muslim Spain
• Julian Ribera y Tarragó-Spain, History of the Book, Medieval History, History of Muslim Spain
• Samuel Miklos Stern-Spain, History of the Book, Medieval History, History of Muslim Spain, Literary History

History of Yugoslavia

• Stephen Schwartz

The Middle East

• George Antonius (1891-1941) - Historian of Arab nationalism
• Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb (1895-1971) - Editor, The Encyclopaedia of Islam
• Bernard Lewis - History of Islam and the Middle East
• Albert Hourani
• Ibn Khaldun
• Walid Khalidi Palestinian historian
• Michael Oren
• David Pryce-Jones
• 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
• D. S. Margoliouth
• Caroline Finkel
• Rex Sean O'Fahey
• Knut Vikør
• Anders Bjørkelo

Asia

History of China

• Li Ao (born 1935) - Historian, author, and politician and broadcaster in the Republic of China on Taiwan
• Iris Chang - the Rape of Nanking.
• Rafe de Crespigny - Han dynasty
• Sima Qian - Compiled Records of the Grand Historian
• Odd Arne Westad - Professor at the London School of Economics and author of many books on China

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
• Odd Arne Westad - Professor at the London School of Economics

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

History of Japan

• Karl Friday

Australasia

History of Australia

• Manning Clark
• Geoffrey Blainey

By historical viewpoint

Abolitionist

• George Washington Williams - Early African-American historian

Christianity

• Eusebius of Caesarea (~275–339) - "Father of Church history"
• Alexander Campbell Cheyne, Scottish Ecclesiastical Historian
• 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 - LDS Church historian 1975-1982
• B.H. Roberts
• Fawn M. Brodie

The Papacy

• Ludwig von Pastor, wrote 40 volume history of the popes making extensive use of the Vatican Secret Archives

Salvation Army

• Rob Brettle (1963- ) Co-founder Christian Mission Historical Society
• Harry Hayes - founder Salvation Army Philatelic Society
• Glenn Horridge - Co-founder Christian Mission Historical Society

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

• Eric Foner - Marxist historian of the American Civil War and Reconstruction
• 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 French marxist historian on the history of islam
• Sumit Sarkar Indian marxist historian
• Edward Palmer Thompson British marxist historian, author of "The Making of the English Working Class"

Nazi

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

Anarchist

• Paul Avrich
• David Berry
• Murray Bookchin
• Sam Dolgoff
• Sharif Gemie
• David Goodway
• Daniel Guerin
• Robert Graham
• Max Nettlau
• Barry Pateman
• Alex Prichard
• Abel Paz
• José Peirats
• Alexandre Skirda
• Peter Staudenmaier
• Antonio Tellez
• Dana Ward
• George Woodcock
• Howard Zinn

Pacifist

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

By general category

Art history

• Nicholas Pevsner (1903–1983) History of art and English architecture
• Simon Schama (born 1945) - Art history
• Josef Strzygowski (born 1862) - Architectural history

Economic history

• Niall Ferguson
• Robert Fogel
• David S. Landes
• W. W. Rostow
• R. H. Tawney

Espionage

• John Barron
• John Earl Haynes
• David Kahn
• Victor Suvorov
• Nigel West

Maritime history

• Robert G. Albion
• Howard I. Chapelle
• John Hattendorf
• Samuel Eliot Morison

Military history

• Correlli Barnett - British military historian.
• Antony Beevor - British military historian.
• Caleb Carr - American military historian.
• Michael Carver - British soldier & historian.
• Alan Clark - British M.P & historian.
• Terry Copp - Canadian military historian
• Martin van Creveld - Israeli military historian.
• Saul David - Military history
• Adrian Goldsworthy - British military historian.
• Jack Granatstein - Canadian military historian.
• Victor Davis Hanson - American classicist & military historian.
• Andreas Hillgruber - German military historian.
• Richard Holmes - British military history
• Alistair Horne - British historian of French military history.
• Michael Howard - modern military history.
• John Keegan (born 1934, English) - Specializes in 20th-century wars
• Richard Landwehr - military histoiran.
• Basil Liddell Hart (1895–1970) Military History
• Edward Luttwak (born 1942) Military strategy
• S. L. A. Marshall - American military historian.
• Leo Niehorster (born 1947) - World War II
• Aryeh Nusbacher - American military historian.
• Peter Paret - Military history
• Gordon Prange
• Gerhard Ritter - German military historian.
• Cornelius Ryan (1920-1974) - World War II
• Hew Strachan - British military historian.
• Gerhard Weinberg - U.S. military historian.

Naval history

• Robert G. Albion - Maritime history
• Howard I. Chapelle - Maritime history
• Andrew Gordon - Battle of Jutland
• John Hattendorf
• R.J.B. Knight
• Andrew Lambert
• Alfred Mahan
• Tyrone G. Martin - Historian of the USS Constitution and of the history of ironclads
• Samuel Eliot Morison (1887-1976) - Wrote History of United States Naval Operations in World War II and numerous works about the maritime exploration of the Americas
• Henry Newbolt (1862-1938) - Wrote The Naval History of the Great War.
• Werner Rahn
• N.A.M. Rodger

Historiography

• Marc Bloch
• Fernand Braudel
• Herbert Butterfield
• E. H. Carr
• R. G. Collingwood
• Geoffrey Elton
• Richard J. Evans
• Pieter Geyl
• J. H. Hexter
• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
• Leopold von Ranke
• Hayden White

Gender and sexuality studies

• John Boswell (1947-1994, American) - Homosexuality in medieval times
• George Mosse
• Retha Warnicke (born 1939) - Gender issues

History of ideas, literature, and philosophy

• Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) - History of ideas
• J. C. D. Clark, British historian of 18th century ideas.
• Michel Foucault (1926 - 1984) - History of ideas
• Peter Gay (1923-) - History of ideas.
• Lewis Mumford (1895-1988) - History of technology
• Ivan Prijatelj (1875-1937) - Literary history
• France Kidric (1880-1950) - Literary history

History of business

• Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.

History of international relations

• Harry Elmer Barnes
• Herbert Butterfield
• Gordon A. Craig
• John Lewis Gaddis, historian of the Cold War.
• Klaus Hildebrand
• Andreas Hillgruber
• Paul Kennedy, British historian, 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, US historian, 19c European International Relations
• A.J.P. Taylor (1906-1990) - Historian of European International Relations
• Harold Temperley, (1879-1939), British historian, Cambridge, 19c and early 20c century diplomatic history, "British Documents on the Originis of the War, 1898-1914" (ed.)
• 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, steam power
• 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, physics, "paradigm shifts"
• David F. Noble, science & technology-based industrial development
• Abraham Pais, physics
• A. I. Sabra, optics, Islamic science
• George Sarton

World history

• Ferdinand Braudel (1902-1985) - Social and economic history
• Francis Fukuyama (born 1955) - "End of history" thesis
• Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882-1944) - World history and geography for younger readers
• William McNeill (born 1917) - Author of The Rise of the West
• Jackson J. Spielvogel - Pennsylvania State University, author of several major world history textbooks
• Arnold J. Toynbee (1889-1975) - Wrote landmark text A Study of History
• Immanuel Wallerstein

Biography

• Alan Bullock (1914-2004) - Historian best known for his influential biography of Hitler
• Roi Medvedev - Stalin biographer
• Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881 - Friedrich der Grosse (the Great)
• Ron Rosenbaum - author of Explaining Hitler.