History/Catalogs/Historians by area of study

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This is a list of historians categorized by their area of study. See also History for overview of historiography

By time period

Ancient history

• Michael Crawford
• Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) - 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
• 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) - Medieval France, methodology
• John Boswell (1947-1994, American) - Homosexuality in the Middle Ages
• Norman Cantor (1930-2004), England, historiography
• Georges Duby (1924-1996, French) - 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), religion
• Sidney Painter
• John Julius Norwich

By historical viewpoint

Abolitionist

• George Washington Williams - Early African-American historian

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

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

Annales School

• Marc Bloch
• Fernand Braudel
• Georges Duby
• Lucien Febvre
• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
• Jacques Le Goff

By general category

Art history

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

Economic history

• Niall Ferguson, Harvard U.
• Robert Fogel Nobe l Prize winner in economic history; author of The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism (book by Robert William Fogel)
• [[David S. Landes, American
• W. W. Rostow, American historian of industrialization
• R. H. Tawney, English historian of 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

History of Phillosophy

• Arthur Lovejoy(1873-1962)

Litterary History

• Ivan Prijatelj (1875-1937)
• France Kidric (1880-1950)
• Erich Auerbach (1892-1957)
• Hans Robert Jauss (1921-1997)
• Hans-Ulrich Gumbrecht (1948-)

History of Concepts

• Joachim Ritter
• Otto Brunner
• Reinhardt Koselleck

Other

• 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

History of business

• Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.

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, 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, Harvard;

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

Biography

• Alan Bullock (1914-2004) - on Hitler
• Roi Medvedev - Stalin biographer
• Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881 - Friedrich der Grosse (the Great)