Antiquity
Greco-Roman world
Classical period
*Hellenistic period
*Roman Empire
*China
* Zuo Qiuming (左丘明, 556–451 BCE), attributed author of '' Zuo zhuan'', history ofMiddle Ages
Byzantine sphere
*Latin sphere
Early Middle Ages
*High Middle Ages
10th century
*11th century
* Thietmar of Merseburg (25 July 975 – 1 December 1018), German, Polish, and Russian affairs *12th century
In alphabetical order: * Albert of Aix (), historian of the13th century
*Late Middle Ages
''Historians of the Italian Renaissance listed under "Renaissance"'' * Piers Langtoft (died c. 1307) *Islamic world
*Far East
*Fang Xuanling (房玄齡, 579–648, Chinese Tang dynasty) compiled the ''Book of Jin''. *Yao Silian (姚思廉, died 637, Chinese Tang dynasty) compiled the ''Book of Liang'' and ''Book of Chen''. *Wei Zheng (魏徵, 580–643), Chinese historian and lead editor of the ''Book of Sui'' *Liu Zhiji (劉知幾, 661–721), Chinese history, author of ''Shitong'', the first Chinese work onSouth Asia
*Kalhana (c. 12th century), historian of Kashmir and Indian Subcontinent *Hemachandra (12th century), Jain polymath *Abdul Malik Isami (14th century), Indian historian and poet *Jonaraja (15th century) Kashmiris, Kashmiri historian and Sanskrit poet *Padmanābha (15th century), Indian poet and historian *Yahya bin Ahmad Sirhindi (15th century), Delhi SultanateRenaissance to early modern
Renaissance Europe
:''Western historians during the Italian Renaissance or Northern Renaissance; those born post-1600 listed under "early modern"'' *Baldassarre Bonaiuti (1336–1385), chronicler and historian of the 14th century *Leonardo Bruni (1370–1444), humanist historian *Flavio Biondo (1392–1463), humanist historian * Philippe de Commines (1447–1511), French historian *Robert Fabyan (died 1513), London alderman and chronicler *Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527), author of ''Florentine Histories'' *Hector Boece (1465–1536), Scottish philosopher and historian, author of ''Historia Gentis Scotorum'' *Albert Krantz (1450–1517), German historian *Polydore Vergil (c. 1470–1555), Tudor history *Stephanus Brodericus (1480–1539), Croatian Hungarian bishop. Stephani Broderici narratio de praelio quo ad Mohatzium anno 1526 Ludovicus Hungariae rex periit(''De conflictu Hungarorum cum Turcis ad Mohacz verissima historia)'' *Francesco Guicciardini (1483–1540), historian of the Italian Wars, "Storia d'Italia" *Paolo Giovio (1486–1552), historian of the Italian Wars and the Renaissance Papacy, ''Historiae'' *Paolo Sarpi (1552–1623), historian of the Council of Trent *Olaus Magnus (c. 1490–1570), Swedish ecclesiastic *Gáspár Heltai, Kaspar Helth (1490–1574), Transylvanian Saxon historian and Protestant preacher. *Nicolaus Olahus (1493–1568), Hungarian/Wallachian chroniclerEarly modern period
''Western historians of the Early modern and Enlightenment period, c. 1600–1815'' *John Hayward (historian), John Hayward (1564–1627) *James Ussher (1581–1656), chronology of the history of the world *Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581–1647), Dutch Republic *William Bradford (Plymouth governor), William Bradford (1590–1657), Mayflower/Plymouth Colony of America *Mícheál Ó Cléirigh (c. 1590–1643), Irish historian *Thomas Fuller (1608–1661), English historian and churchman *Tadhg Óg Ó Cianáin (died c. 1614), Irish historian *Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh (Peregrine O'Clery) (died c. 1662/1664), Irish historian *Sir James Ware (1594–1666), Anglo-Irish historian and antiquarian *Arthur Wilson (writer), Arthur Wilson (1595–1652), 16th-century Britain *Placido Puccinelli (1609–1685), Italian historian *Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange (1610–1688), Medieval and Byzantine historian and philologist *Mary Bonaventure Browne (c. 1610 – c. 1670), Poor Clare and Ireland, Irish historian *Peregrine Ó Duibhgeannain (), Irish historian *Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh (1629–1716/1718), Irish historian *Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont (1637–1698), ecclesiastical historian *Christoph Cellarius (1638–1707), German universal historian *John Strype (1643–1737), English historian *Thomas Rymer (c. 1643–1713), English historian and antiquary *Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh (fl. 1643–1671), Irish historian, annalist, genealogist *Geoffrey Keating/Seathrún Céitinn (died 1643), Irish historian *Đorđe Branković (count), Đorđe Branković (1645–1711), Serbian history *Josiah Burchett (1666–1746), British naval historian and CEmiralty official *Laurence Echard (c. 1670–1730), England *Ludovico Antonio Muratori (1672–1750), Italy *Manuel Teles da Silva, 3rd Marquis of Alegrete (1682–1736), Portuguese historian *Matthias Bel (1684–1749), Lutheranism, Lutheran pastor and polymath from Kingdom of Hungary (1538–1867), Kingdom of Hungary *Moses Williams (antiquarian), Moses Williams (1685–1742), Welsh scholar and antiquarian *Archibald Bower (1686–1766), historian of Rome *Vasily Tatishchev (1686–1750), first historian of modern Russia *Giambattista Vico (1688–1744), Italian historian, first modern philosopher of history *Voltaire (1694–1778), writer on Europe and France *Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim (1694–1755), Lutheran historian *Charlotta Frölich (1698–1770), Swedish historian *Francis Blomefield (1705–1752), historian of Norfolk, England *David Hume (1711–1776), ''History of England'' *Thomas Hutchinson (governor), Thomas Hutchinson (1711–1780), colonial Massachusetts *Francisco Jose Freire (1719–1773), Portuguese historian and philologist *William Robertson (historian), William Robertson (1721–1793), Scottish historian *György Pray (1723–1801), Hungarian abbot and historian *Zaharije Orfelin (1726–1785), Austrian Serb historian *Johann Christoph Gatterer (1727–1799), German historian *Edward Hasted (1732–1812), Kent, England *Mikhail Shcherbatov (1733–1790), Russian historian *August Ludwig von Schlözer (1735–1809), German historian *John Barrow (historian), John Barrow (fl. 1735–1774), English naval historian and geographer *Edward Gibbon (1737–1794), Roman Empire and Byzantium *Alexander Hewat (or Hewatt) (1739–1824), colonial Carolina and Georgia *Benjamin Incledon (1730–1796), English antiquary and school historian *Philip Yorke (antiquary), Philip Yorke (1743–1804), Welsh historian and politician *Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803), philosophy of the history of mankind *Fray Íñigo Abbad y Lasierra (1745–1813), Spanish historian *David Ramsay (congressman), David Ramsay (1749–1815), American Revolution; South Carolina *Johannes von Müller (1752–1809), Switzerland *Pauline de Lézardière (1754–1835), French law historian *Anton Tomaz Linhart (1756–1795), known for Slovenian history *Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), German historian *Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin (1766–1826), Russian historian, Russian Empire *György Fejér (1766–1851) Hungarian author *Francesco Maria Appendini (1768–1837), Italian historian, Republic of Ragusa *Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860), German historianMiddle East and Islamic Empires
*Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni (1540–1615), Indo-Persian historian *Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi (1553–1616), Moroccan historian *Abd al-Aziz al-Fishtali (1549–1621), Moroccan historian *Bahrey (born 1593), Ethiopian monk and historian; wrote ''Zenahu le Galla'' (History of the Galla, now the Oromo people, Oromo) *Abd al-Rahman al-Fasi (1631–1685), Moroccan historian *Mohammed al-Ifrani (1670–1745), Moroccan historian *Mohammed al-Qadiri (1712–1773), Moroccan historian *Abu al-Qasim al-Zayyani (1734–1833), Moroccan historian and poet *Sulayman al-Hawwat (1747–1816), Moroccan historian *Mohammed al-Duayf (born 1752), Moroccan historian *Abbasgulu Bakikhanov (1794–1847), history of Azerbaijan and the Middle East *George Grote (1794–1871), classical Greece *Teimuraz Bagrationi (1782–1846), history of Georgia and the Caucasus *Mohammed Akensus (1797–1877), Moroccan historianFar East
*Qian Qianyi (銭謙益, 1582–1664, late Chinese Ming dynasty) *Zhang Tingyu (張廷玉, 1672–1755, Chinese Qing dynasty) compiled the ''History of Ming''. *Qian Daxin (錢大昕, 1728–1804, Chinese Qing dynasty) *Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng (章學誠, 1738–1801), Chinese historian, local histories and essays on historiography *Yu Deuk-gong (유득공, 1749–1807), Korean historianModern historians
Historians flourishing post-1815, born post-1770
In alphabetical order: *Lucy Aikin (1781–1864), English historical writer and biographer *Sir Archibald Alison, 1st Baronet, Archibald Alison (1792–1867), English historian *Thomas Arnold (1795–1842), English historian and educator *Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), French Revolution, Germany *Simonas Daukantas (1793–1864), Lithuanian *Charles Dezobry (1798–1871), French historian and historical novelist *John Colin Dunlop (c. 1785–1842), Scottish historian *George Finlay (1799–1875), Greece *Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783–1847), Swedish nationalist historian *François Guizot (1787–1874), French historian of general French, English history *Henry Hallam (1777–1859), Medieval European history *Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), German philosopher of history *Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835), German historian and polymath *Joachim Lelewel (1786–1861), Polish historian *Heinrich Leo (1799–1878), Prussian historian *John Lingard (1771–1851), England *Louis Gabriel Michaud (1773–1858), French *Jules Michelet (1798–1874), French *François Mignet (1796–1884), French historian of the Revolution, Middle Ages *Christian Molbech (1783–1857), Danish history, founder of ''Historisk Tidsskrift (Denmark), Historisk Tidsskrift'' (1839) *John Neal (writer), John Neal (1793–1876), US Revolutionary War and US literature *Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776–1831), German historian *František Palacký (1798–1876), Czech *William H. Prescott (1796–1859), US historian of Spain, Mexico, Peru *Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886), European diplomacy; influential German historian *Adolphe Thiers (1797–1877), French historian of the Revolution, Empire *George Tucker (politician), George Tucker (1775–1861), US historyHistorians born in the 19th century
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*John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, Lord Acton (1834–1902), Europe *Henry Brooks Adams, Henry Adams (1838–1918), US 1800–1816 *Lucia H. Faxon Additon (1847-1919), Oregon *Grace Aguilar (1816–1847), Jewish history *Robert G. Albion (1896–1983), maritime *Charles McLean Andrews (1863–1943), US; US colonial history *Marie Célestine Amélie d'Armaillé (1830-1918), France *Alfred von Arneth (1819–1897), history of the Austrian Empire *Mikhail Illarionovich Artamonov, Mikhail Artamonov (1898–1972), founder of Khazar studies *William Ashley (economic historian), William Ashley (1860–1927), British economic history *Octave Aubry (1881–1946) *François Victor Alphonse Aulard (1849–1928), French Revolution and Napoleon I *Zurab Avalishvili (1876–1944), history of Georgia (country), Georgia and the CaucasusB
*Jacques Bainville (1879–1936), France *George Bancroft (1800–1891), US to 1789 *Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832–1918), Native Americans and the Western United States *R. Mildred Barker (1897–1990), Shakers, religion *Harry Elmer Barnes (1889–1968), World War I; ideas *Vasily Bartold, Wilhelm Barthold (1869–1930), Muslim and Turkic studies *Charles Bean (1879–1968), Australia in World War I *Charles A. Beard (1874–1948), US, economic interpretation, historiography *Mary Ritter Beard (1876–1958), US, women's history *Carl L. Becker (1873–1945), Enlightenment *Winthrop Pickard Bell (1884–1965), Nova Scotia *Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953), Europe *Ella A. Bigelow (1849–1917), Massachusetts, U.S. *Marc Bloch (1886–1944), medieval France; Annales School *Herbert Eugene Bolton (1870–1953), Spanish-US borderlands *Erich Brandenburg (1868–1946), Modern Germany *George Williams Brown (1894–1963), Canada *Otto Brunner (1898–1982), medieval and early modern Austria *Geoffrey Bruun (1899–1988), Europe *Arthur Bryant (1888–1985), Pepys; English warfare * James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, James Bryce, (1838-1922), Europe, America, Middle East *Henry Thomas Buckle (1821–1862), England, ''History of Civilization'' *Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897), art history, Europe, Renaissance *John Hill Burton (1809–1881), Scottish Jacobin history *J. B. Bury (1861–1927), classical, EuropeC
*Helen Cam (1885–1968), English medieval *Pierre Caron (historian), Pierre Caron (1875–1952), French revolution *E. H. Carr (1892–1982), Soviet history, methodology *Henri Raymond Casgrain (1831–1904), French Canada *Antonio Cánovas del Castillo (1828–1897), Spanish historian *Américo Castro (1885–1972), Spanish identity *Bruce Catton (1899–1978), American Civil War *Baron de César Bazancourt, Cesar de Bazancourt (1810–1865), Crimean War *Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897–1999), India *Boris Chicherin (1828–1904), Russian historian, history of Russian law *Hiram M. Chittenden (1858–1917), US West, fur trade *Winston Churchill (1874–1965), world wars, British Empire *Augustin Cochin (historian), Augustin Cochin (1876–1916), French Revolution *Stephen F. Cohen (1938–2020), Russia *R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943), philosophy of history *Julian Corbett (1854–1922), British naval *Vladimir Ćorović (1885–1941), Serbia *Avery Craven (1885–1980), US South *Edward Shepherd Creasy (1812–1878), warfare *Benedetto Croce (1866–1952), historiography *Margaret Campbell Speke Cruwys (1894–1968), Devon *John Shelton Curtiss (1899–1983), Soviet UnionD
*Felix Dahn (1834–1912), medieval *Angie Debo (1890–1988), Native American and Oklahoma history *Léopold Victor Delisle, Léopold Delisle (1826–1910), French historian and librarian *Bernard DeVoto (1897–1955), US West *Margarita Diez-Colunje y Pombo (1838–1919), Colombia *William Dodd (ambassador), William Dodd (1869–1940), US South *David C. Douglas (1898–1982), Norman England *Johann Gustav Droysen (1808–1884), German history *Sir George Duff-Sutherland-Dunbar, 6th Baronet, Sir George Dunbar (1878–1962), India *Ariel Durant (1898–1981), Europe *Will Durant (1885–1981), EuropeE
*Norbert Elias (1897–1990), process of civilization *Ephraim Emerton (1851–1935), medieval Europe *Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), historical materialismF
*Cyril Falls (1888–1971), military, world wars *Lucien Febvre (1878–1956), France *Keith Feiling (1884–1977), England, conservatism *Herbert Feis (1893–1972), World War II diplomacy, international finance *Charles Harding Firth (1857–1936), 17th-century England *H. A. L. Fisher, Herbert A. L. Fisher (1865–1940) *Walter Lynwood Fleming (1874–1932), US reconstruction *Vilmos Fraknói (27 February 1843 – 20 November 1924), a Hungarian historian and expert in Hungarian ecclesiastical history e. g. Popes and Hungarian kings diplomatic relations *Edward Augustus Freeman (1823–1892), English politics *Egon Friedell (1878–1938), cultural history of the modern age *James Anthony Froude (1818–1894), Tudor England *J. F. C. Fuller (1878–1966), military *Frantz Funck-Brentano (1862–1947), France *John Sydenham Furnivall (1878–1960), Burma, Southeast Asia *Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830–1889), antiquity, FranceG
*François-Louis Ganshof (1895–1980), medieval history *Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1829–1902), 17th-century England *Alice Gardner (1854–1927), ancient history *Luise Gerbing (1855–1927), history of Thuringia *Pieter Geyl (1887–1966), Dutch *Lawrence Henry Gipson (1882–1970), British Empire before 1775 *Arthur Giry (1848–1899), diplomacy *Gustave Glotz (1862–1935), Ancient Greece *George Peabody Gooch (1873–1968), modern diplomacy *Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937), political history *Timofey Granovsky (1813–1855), medieval Germany *Elizabeth Caroline Gray (1800–1887), Etruscan civilization, Etruscan history *John Richard Green (1837–1883), English *Mary Anne Everett Green (1818–1895), English *Arthur Griffiths (author), Arthur Griffiths (1838–1908), military history *Lionel Groulx (1878–1967), Quebec *René Grousset (1885–1952), Oriental historyH
*Élie Halévy (1870–1937), modern Britain *Louis Halphen (1880–1950), Middle Ages *Clarence H. Haring (1885–1960), Latin American history *B. H. Liddell Hart (1895–1970), military *Charles H. Haskins (1870–1937), medieval *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 * Otto Hintze (1861–1940), Germany *Mihály Horváth (1809–1878), Hungary *Henry Hoyle Howorth (1842–1923), British historian and geologist *Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866–1934), Ukrainian historian *Johan Huizinga (1872–1945), Dutch historian, author of ''Waning of the Middle Ages''I
*Ibn Zaydan (1873–1946), Moroccan historian *Dmitry Ilovaisky (1832–1920), Russian history *Marilla Baker Ingalls (US, 1828–1902), Burmese missionary and historian *Harold Innis (1894–1952), Canadian economic historyJ
*Mohammed ibn Jaafar al-Kattani (1858–1927), Moroccan *Muhammad Jaber (1875–1945), history of the Levant and the Middle-East *William James (naval historian), William James (1780–1827), historian of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars *Ivane Javakhishvili (1876–1940), Georgia (country), Georgian historian *Arthur Johnson (historian), Arthur Johnson (1845–1927), historian at Oxford University *Ellen Jørgensen (historian), Ellen Jørgensen (1877–1948), Danish historian and historiographerK
*Samuel Kamakau (1815–1876), Hawaiian historian *Konstantin Kavelin (1818–1885), Russian historian, history of Russian laws *François Christophe Edmond de Kellermann (1802–1868), French political historian *Hans Kelsen (1881–1973), legal *P. M. C. Kermode, Philip Moore Callow Kermode (1855–1932), Isle of Man, Manx crosses and runic inscriptions *Alexander William Kinglake (1809–1891), works on the Crimean War *William Kingsford (1819–1898), Canadian *Vasily Klyuchevsky (1841–1911), Russian history *David Knowles (scholar), David Knowles (1896–1974), English medieval *Lilian Knowles (1870–1926), English economic historian *Dudley Wright Knox (1877–1960), US naval historian *Ludwig von Köchel (1800–1877), writer, botanist and music historian *Mihail Kogălniceanu (1817–1891), Romanian *Hans Kohn (1891–1971), European nationalism *Nikodim Kondakov (1844–1925), Byzantine art *Mehmet Fuat Köprülü, Mehmet Fuad Köprülü (1890–1966), Turkish historian *Nikolay Kostomarov (1817–1885), Russian and Ukrainian history *Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), economics, sociology and political history *Godefroid Kurth (1847–1916), Belgian historianL
*Leonard Woods Labaree (1897–1980), editor of the Benjamin Franklin papers *Harold Lamb (1892–1962), US *Karl Lamprecht (1856–1915), German art and economic history *William L. Langer (1896–1977), US historian, world and diplomatic history *John Knox Laughton (1830–1915), British naval historian *Ernest Lavisse (1842–1922), French history *William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1838–1903), England and Ireland *Georges Lefebvre (1874–1959), French Revolution *Elisabeth Lemke (1849–1925) German history *Anna Lewis (1885–1961), South-western US *Liang Qichao (梁啓超, 1873–1929), Chinese and Western history and historiography *John Edward Lloyd (1861–1947), Welshness *Ferdinand Lot (1866–1952), Middle Ages *Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873–1962), intellectual history *Arthur R. M. Lower (1889–1988), Canadian *György Lukács (1885–1971), history of literature, art history and philosophy of historyM
*Thomas Macaulay (1800–1859), British *R. B. McCallum (1898–1973) British *J. D. Mackie (1887–1978), Scottish *William Archibald Mackintosh (1895–1970), Canadian economic *Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840–1914), naval *Frederic William Maitland (1850–1906), English legal, medieval *Ramesh Chandra Majumdar (1888–1980), Indian history *John Marriott (British politician), J. A. R. Marriott (1859–1945), modern Britain and Europe *Karl Marx (1818–1883), European society and economy *Albert Mathiez (1874–1932), French Revolution *Franz Mehring (1846–1919), political history, history of philosophy *Friedrich Meinecke (1862–1954), German intellectual and cultural *Krste Misirkov (1874–1926), Macedonian historian and author *Auguste Molinier (1851–1904), Middle Ages *Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903), Roman Empire *Alfred Morel-Fatio (1850–1924), Spain *Samuel Eliot Morison (1887–1976), naval, American colonial *John Lothrop Motley (1814–1877), the Netherlands *Lewis Mumford (1895–1988), citiesN
*Lewis Bernstein Namier (1888–1960), 18th-century British and 20th-century diplomatic history *Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri (1835–1897), Moroccan *J. E. Neale (1890–1975), Elizabethan England *Allan Nevins (1890–1971), US political and business; Civil War; biography *A. P. Newton (1873–1942), British Empire *Stojan Novaković (1842–1915), SerbianO
*Charles Oman (1860–1946), 19th-century military *Herbert L. Osgood (1855–1918), American colonialP
*K. M. Panikkar (1895–1963), Indian historian *Cesare Paoli (1840–1902), Italian history *Gaston Paris (1839–1903), Middle Ages *Jane Marsh Parker (1836-1913), US history *Francis Parkman (1823–1893), colonial North America *Herbert Paul (1853–1935), 19th-century UK *Henry Francis Pelham (1846–1907), Roman *Samuel W. Pennypacker (1843–1916), Pennsylvania history *Dexter Perkins (1889–1984), US history *Ivy Pinchbeck (1898–1982), English women and children *Henri Pirenne (1862–1935), Belgian and medieval European history *Sergey Platonov (1860–1933), Russian *Mikhail Pokrovsky (1868–1932), economics and Soviet history *Albert Pollard (1869–1948), Tudor England *Delia Lyman Porter (1858-1933), US history *Datto Vaman Potdar (1890–1979), Indian historian *Eileen Power (1889–1940), Middle Ages *F. M. Powicke (1879–1963, English medieval *H. F. M. Prescott (1896–1972), biographer of Mary I of England and medieval HistoryQ
*Jules Etienne Joseph Quicherat, Jules Quicherat (1814–1882), Middle AgesR
*William Pember Reeves (1857–1932), New Zealand *Pierre Renouvin (1893–1974), diplomatic historian *Herbert Richmond (1871–1946), British naval *James Riker (1822–1889), New York *B. H. Roberts (1857–1933), Mormon *James Harvey Robinson (1863–1936), European *Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), US west and naval history *John Holland Rose (1855–1942), modern Europe, Britain and France *Michael Rostovtzeff (1870–1952), ancient history *Hans Rothfels (1891–1976), modern German *Simon Rutar (1851–1903), Slovenian *Ilarion Ruvarac (1832–1905), SerbianS
*Abram L. Sachar (1899–1993), modern European history *Govind Sakharam Sardesai (1865–1959), Indian *Salamon Ferenc (1825–1892), Ottoman Hungary *Richard G. Salomon (1884–1966), medieval and church *Jadunath Sarkar (1870–1958), history of India *George Sarton (1884–1956), history of science *Gustave Schlumberger (1844–1929), French *Otto Seeck (1850–1921), German *John Robert Seeley (1834–1895), British Empire *J. Salwyn Schapiro (1879–1973), fascism *Arthur Schlesinger, Sr. (1888–1965) US social history *W. C. Sellar (1898–1951), co-author of ''1066 and All That'' *Shin Chaeho (신채호, 1880–1936), Korean *Adam Shortt (1859–1931), Canadian *Charlotte Fell Smith (1851–1937), English early modern *Goldwin Smith (1823–1910), British and Canadian *Justin Harvey Smith (1857–1930), Mexican–American War *Sergey Solovyov (historian), Sergey Solovyov (1820–1879), Russian historian *Oswald Spengler (1880–1936), world; ''The Decline of the West'' *Stanoje Stanojević (1874–1937), Serbia *Wickham Steed (1871–1956), Eastern Europe *Frank Stenton (1880–1967), English medieval *Doris Mary Stenton (1894–1971), English medieval *Floyd Benjamin Streeter (1888–1956), Kansas, American West *William Stubbs (1825–1902), English law *László Szalay (1813–1864) Hungarian historianT
*Hippolyte Taine (1828–1893), French Revolution *Frank Bigelow Tarbell (1853–1920), ancient art history *Yevgeny Tarle (1874–1955), Russian historian *A. Wyatt Tilby (1880–1948), Britain, ''The English People Overseas'' *Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859), France *Zeki Velidi Togan (1890–1970), Turkic history *Zacharias Topelius (1818–1898) *Thomas Frederick Tout (1855–1929), England *Arnold J. Toynbee (1889–1975), world history, ''A Study of History'' *Heinrich Gotthard von Treitschke (1834–1896), German historian and nationalist *George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876–1962), British *Mikheil Tsereteli (1878–1965), Georgia (country), Georgian historian *Frederick Jackson Turner (1861–1932), US frontierU
*Frank Underhill (1889–1971), CanadianV
*Alfred Vagts, (1892–1986), Germany, military *Paul Vinogradoff (1854–1925), medieval EnglandW
*Annie Russell Wall (1835-1920), English historian *Spencer Walpole (1839–1907), English historian *Charles Webster (historian), Charles Webster (1886–1961), British diplomatic history *Curt Weibull (1886–1991), Swedish historian *Lauritz Weibull (1873–1960), Swedish historian *Spenser Wilkinson (1853–1937), Britain, military historian *Mary Wilhelmine Williams (1878–1944), Latin America *James Williamson (historian), James A. Williamson (1886–1964), Britain, maritime historian and historian of exploration *Esmé Cecil Wingfield-Stratford (1882–1971), England *Justin Winsor (1831–1897), America, ''Narrative and Critical History of America'' *Carl Frederick Wittke (1892–1971), US ethnics *Ernest Llewellyn Woodward (1890–1971), British history and international relations *Muriel Hazel Wright (1889–1975), Oklahoma, Native Americans *George MacKinnon Wrong (1860–1948), CanadianY
*Yi Byeongdo (이병도, 1896–1989), KoreaZ
*Nicolas Zafra (1892–1979), Philippines *Johann Kaspar Zeuss (1806–1856), Celts *Faddei Zielinski (1859–1944), ancient GreeceHistorians born in the 20th century
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*Raouf Abbas (1939–2008), Egyptian *Irving Abella (born 1940), Canadian *Aberjhani (born 1957), African American, Harlem Renaissance, Literary *David Abulafia (born 1949), Mediterranean *Ezequiel Adamovsky (born 1971), Argentina *Donald Adamson (born 1939), Britain *Teodoro Agoncillo (1912–1985), Philippines *Donald Akenson (born 1941), Irish *Dean C. Allard (1933–2018), US naval *Robert C. Allen (born 1947), British economy *Gar Alperovitz (born 1936), America, Hiroshima *Ida Altman (born 1950), America, colonial Spain and Latin America *Mor Altshuler (born 1957), Hasidism, Kabbalism, and Jewish messianism *Abbas Amanat (born 1947) Iran, America *Stephen Ambrose (1936–2002), World War II, U.S. political *Henri Amouroux (1920–2007), French, Nazi occupation of France *Perry Anderson (born 1938), British and European *Joyce Appleby (1929–2016), U.S. early national *Herbert Aptheker (1915–2003), African-American *Leonie Archer (born 1955), England *Philippe Ariès (1914–1984), French medieval, childhood *Karen Armstrong (born 1944), British religious *Andrea Aromatico (born 1966), Italian esotericism and Hermetic iconography *Leonard J. Arrington (1917–1999), America, Mormons *Thomas Asbridge (born 1969), Crusades *Maurice Ashley (historian), Maurice Ashley (1907–1994), 17th-century England *Paul Avrich (1931–2006), Russian, the Anarchist movement *Gerald Aylmer (1926–2000), 17th-century England *Ali Azaykou (1942–2004), Moroccan *Eiichiro Azuma (born 1966), US, JapanB
*Nigel Bagnall (1927–2002), Ancient Rome, Greece *Bernard Bailyn (1922–2020), early America; Atlantic *David E. Barclay (born 1948), German *Juliet Barker (born 1958), late Middle Ages, literary biography *Frank Barlow (historian), Frank Barlow (1911–2009), medieval biography *Linda Diane Barnes (living), US *Geoffrey Barraclough (1908–1984), Germany, world *G.W.S. Barrow (1924–2013), Scotland *H. Arnold Barton (1929–2016), Scandinavia *Paul R. Bartrop (born 1955), Holocaust, genocide *Jacques Barzun (1907–2012), cultural *Jorge Basadre (1903–1980), Peru *Hanna Batatu (1926–2000), Palestinian, modern Iraq *K. Jack Bauer (1926–1987), U.S. naval, military, and maritime *Yehuda Bauer (born 1926), Holocaust *Stephen B. Baxter (living), late 17th – early 18th-century English *David Bebbington (born 1949), Evangelicalism *Antony Beevor (born 1946), World War II *David Bell (historian), David Bell (living), Early Modern France, cultural history *James Belich (historian), James Belich (born 1956), New Zealand *Abdelmajid Benjelloun (historian), Abdelmajid Benjelloun (born 1944), Morocco *Laurence Bergreen (born 1950), biography *Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997), ideas *Michael Beschloss (born 1955), Cold War *Juliette Bessis, (1925–2017), Tunisia *Nicholas Bethell (1938–2007), Soviet *Robert Bickers (born 1964), modern China and colonialism *Anthony Birley (1937–2020), Ancient Rome *David Blackbourn (born 1949), German *Geoffrey Blainey (born 1930), Australian *Lesley Blanch (1904–2007), English *Gisela Bock (born 1942), German feminist *Brian Bond (born 1936), British military *Chrystelle Trump Bond (1938–2020), US dance historian *Daniel J. Boorstin (1914–2004), US *Georges Bordonove (1920–2007), France *John Boswell (1947–1994), medievalist *Robert Bothwell (born 1944), Canada *Gérard Bouchard (born 1943), Canada *Joanna Bourke (born 1963), military *Paul S. Boyer (1935–2012), US morality *Karl Dietrich Bracher (1922–2016), modern German *Jim Bradbury (born 1937), Middle Ages *James C. Bradford (born 1944), US naval *David Brading (born 1936), Mexican history *William Brandon (author), William Brandon (1914–2002), American West *Fernand Braudel (1902–1985), world, Mediterranean *Ahron Bregman (born 1958), Arab-Israeli conflict *Carl Bridenbaugh (1903–1992), American colonial *Asa Briggs (1921–2016), British social history *Alan Brinkley (1949–2019), American 1930s *David Brody (historian), David Brody (born 1930), American labor *Timothy Brook (historian), Timothy Brook (born 1951), China *Martin Broszat (1926–1989), Nazi Germany *Gregory S. Brown (living), Early Modern French History, Cultural History *Peter Brown (historian), Peter Brown (born 1935), medieval *Christopher Browning (born 1944), Holocaust *Sérgio Buarque de Holanda (1902–1982), Brazil *Alan Bullock (1914–2004), 1940s, Hitler studies *Peter Burke (historian), Peter Burke (born 1937), modern period, cultural history *Michael Burlingame (historian), Michael Burlingame (born 1941), Abraham Lincoln *Briton C. Busch (1936–2004), British diplomatic and US maritime *Richard Bushman (born 1931), US colonial and Mormon *Jon Butler (born 1940), US religion *Herbert Butterfield (1900–1979), historiographyC
*Angus Calder (1942–2008), Second World War *Philip L. Cantelon (born 1940), United States *Julio Caro Baroja (1914–1995), anthropologist *Sir Raymond Carr (1919–2015), Spain and Latin America *Richard Carrier (born 1969), ancient Rome; history of philosophy, science and religion *Paul Cartledge (born 1947), classicist *Lionel Casson (1914–2009), classicist *Borivoj Celovsky, Boris Celovsky (1923–2008), Czech-German relations *David G. Chandler (1934–2004), British historian specializing in Napoleonic history *Bipan Chandra (1928–2014), modern India *Iris Chang (이병도, 1968–2004), China *Howard I. Chapelle (1901–1975), maritime *Maher Charif (living), Arabic intellectual history and political movements *Louis Chevalier (historian), Louis Chevalier (1911–2001), France *Alexander Campbell Cheyne (1924–2006), Scotland *Thomas Childers (born 1976), war and society, both world wars *Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri (1935–2016), India *I. R. Christie (1919–1998), Britain *Robert M. Citino (born 1958), US military historian of Europe *Alan Clark (1928–1999), both world wars *Chris Clark (historian), Christopher Clark (born 1960), Prussia *J.C.D. Clark (born 1951), British *Manning Clark (1915–1991), Australia *Oliver Edmund Clubb (1901–1989), China *Yolande Cohen (born 1950), youth, women, Moroccan Jews *Patrick Collinson (1929–2011), Elizabethan England and Puritanism *Robert Conquest (1917–2015), Russia *Margaret Conrad (born 1946), Canada *John M. Cooper (historian), John Milton Cooper (born 1940), Woodrow Wilson *Peter Cottrell (born 1964), Anglo-Irish *Gordon A. Craig (1913–2005), German and diplomatic *Donald Creighton (1902–1979), Canadian *Vincent Cronin (1924–2011), European and art history *William Cronon (born 1954), US environmental *Pamela Kyle Crossley (born 1955), China *Roger Crowley (born 1951), Mediterranean Sea; Portuguese empire *Dan Cruickshank (born 1949), Britain, architecture *Robert M. Crunden (1940–1999), US cultural *Gemma Cruz Araneta, Gemma Cruz (born 1943), José Rizal, Rizaliana, Philippines *Barry Cunliffe (born 1939), archaeologyD
*Vahakn N. Dadrian (1926–2019), Armenia *Robert Dallek (born 1934), 20th-century US presidents *William Dalrymple (historian), William Dalrymple (born 1965), Scottish *David B. Danbom (born 1947), US rural *Ahmad Hasan Dani (1920–2009), South Asia *Robert Darnton (born 1939), 18th-century France *Saul David (born 1966), military *John Davies (historian), John Davies (1938–2015), Wales *Norman Davies (born 1939), Poland, Britain *Kenneth S. Davis (1912–1999), Franklin D. Roosevelt *Natalie Zemon Davis (born 1928), early modern France, film *Ralph Henry Carless Davis, R. H. C. Davis (1918–1991), Middle Ages *Lucy Dawidowicz (1915–1990), Holocaust *David Day (historian), David Day (born 1949), Australia *Renzo De Felice (1929–1996), Italian fascism *Carl N. Degler (1921–2014), US *Len Deighton (born 1929), British military *Esther Delisle (born 1954), French-Canadian *Jean Delumeau (1923–2020), Catholic Church *Marcel Detienne (1935–2019), ancient Greece *Alexandre Deulofeu (1903–1978), Catalan *Isaac Deutscher (1907–1967), Soviet *Wu Di (film critic and historian), Wu Di (吴迪, born 1951), China *Igor M. Diakonov (1914–1999), Ancient Near East *David Herbert Donald (1920–2009), American Civil War *Gordon Donaldson (1913–1993), Scotland *Susan Doran (living), Elizabethan England *William Doyle (historian), William Doyle (born 1932), French Revolution *Georges Duby (1924–1996), Middle Ages *William S. Dudley (born 1936), US naval *Robert Dudley Edwards (1909–1988), Ireland *Eamon Duffy (born 1947), 15th–17th-century religious *Hermann von der Dunk, Hermann Walther von der Dunk (1928–2018), 20th-century Dutch and German *Mary Maples Dunn (1931–2017), early American, women's history *Richard Slator Dunn (1928–2022), early American, slavery *A. Hunter Dupree (1921–2019), US science and technology *Trevor Dupuy (1916–1995), military *Jean-Baptiste Duroselle (1917–1994), French diplomacy *Harold James Dyos (1921–1978), British urbanE
*Elizabeth Eisenstein (1923–2016), French Revolution, printing *Geoff Eley (born 1949), German *John Elliott (historian), John Elliott (1930–2022), Spanish *Joseph J. Ellis (born 1943), early US *Geoffrey Elton (1921–1994), Tudor England *Peter Englund (born 1957), Sweden *Robert Malcolm Errington (born 1939), Britain *Richard J. Evans (born 1947), German social *Alf Evers (1905–2004), AmericaF
*Esther Farbstein (born 1946), Israeli, Holocaust *Grahame Farr (1912–1983), maritime, south-west England *Brian Farrell (broadcaster), Brian Farrell (1929–2014), Ireland *Boris Fausto (born 1930), Brazil *John Lister Illingworth Fennell (1918–1992), medieval Russia *Niall Ferguson (born 1964), military, business, imperial *Božidar Ferjančić (1929–1998), medieval *Robert H. Ferrell (1921–2018), US history, US presidency, World War I, US foreign policy and diplomacy, Harry S. Truman *Marc Ferro (1924–2021), World War I *Joachim Fest (1926–2006), Nazi Germany *David Feuerwerker (1912–1980), Jewish *Heinrich Fichtenau (1912–2000), medieval, diplomacy *David Kenneth Fieldhouse (1925–2018), British Empire *Orlando Figes (born 1957), Russian *Robert O. Fink (1905–1988), classical *Moses Finley (1912–1986), ancient, especially economic *David Hackett Fischer (born 1935), American Revolution, cycles *Fritz Fischer (historian), Fritz Fischer (1908–1999), Germany *Frances FitzGerald (journalist), Frances FitzGerald (born 1940), Vietnam, history textbooks *Judith Flanders (born 1959), Victorian British social *Robin Fleming (born 1950s), medieval Britain *Robert Fogel (1926–2013), US economic, cliometrics *Eric Foner (born 1943), Reconstruction *Shelby Foote (1916–2005), American Civil War *Amanda Foreman (historian), Amanda Foreman (born 1968), Georgian England, American Civil War, women's history *Michel Foucault (1926–1984), ideas *Jo Fox (living), 20th-century film and propaganda *Robin Lane Fox (born 1946), ancient *Stephen Fox (author/educator), Stephen Fox (born 1938), US in World War II *Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (1941–2007), US South, cultural and social, women *Walter Frank (1905–1945), Nazi historian *H. Bruce Franklin (born 1934), Vietnam War *Antonia Fraser (born 1932), England *Frank Freidel (1916–1993), Franklin Roosevelt *Joseph Friedenson (1922–2013), Holocaust *Henry Friedlander (1930–2012), Holocaust *Saul Friedländer (born 1932), Holocaust *Sheppard Frere (1916–2015), anthropologist, Roman Empire *David Fromkin (1932–2017), Middle East *Francis Fukuyama (born 1955), world *Bruno Fuligni (born 1968), French history *François Furet (1927–1997), French Revolution *Halima Ferhat (born 1941), Middle Ages of the MaghrebG
*Femme Gaastra (born 1945), Dutch *John Lewis Gaddis (born 1941), Cold War *Lloyd Gardner (born 1934), US diplomatic *Delphine Gardey (born 1967, gender and science *Edwin Gaustad (1923–2011), religion in America *Peter Gay (1923–2015), psycho-history, Enlightenment and 19th-century social *Eugene Genovese (1930–2012), US South, slavery *Imanuel Geiss (1931–2012), 19th/20th-century Germany *François Géré (born 1950), military *Christian Gerlach (born 1963), Holocaust *N.H. Gibbs (1910–1990), military *William Gibson (historian), William Gibson (born 1959), ecclesiastical history *Martin Gilbert (1936–2015), Holocaust *Carlo Ginzburg (born 1939), social history *Jan Glete (1947–2009), Swedish *Eric F. Goldman (1916–1989), 20th-century US *James Goldrick (born 1958), Australian *Adrian Goldsworthy (born 1969), ancient history *David Hamilton Golland (born 1971), 20th-century US civil rights, public policy, labor *Guillermo Gómez Rivera, Guillermo Gómez (born 1936), Philippine history *Brison D. Gooch (1925–2014), 19th century Europe *Doris Kearns Goodwin (born 1943), US presidential *Andrew Gordon (naval historian), Andrew Gordon (born 1951), British naval history *Svetlana Gorshenina (born 1969), Central Asian history * Lewis L. Gould (born 1939), US presidents and First Ladies *Gerald S. Graham (1903–1988), British imperial *Jack Granatstein (born 1939), Canada *Michael Grant (classicist), Michael Grant (1914–2004), ancient *Abigail Green British historian of modern Europe *Peter Green (historian), Peter Green (born 1924), ancient *Rev. Vivian Green, Vivian H.H. Green (1915–2005), Christianity *John Robert Greene (born 1955), US presidency *Roger D. Griffin (born 1948), fascism, political and religious fanaticism *Ramchandra Guha, Ramachandra Guha (born 1958), India, environment *Ranajit Guha (born 1923), Indian *Lev Gumilyov (1912–1992), Soviet *Oliver Gurney (1911–2001), Assyria, Hittites *John Guy (historian), John Guy (born 1949), Tudor EnglandH
*Irfan Habib (born 1931), India *Sheldon Hackney (1933–2013), US South *Kenneth J. Hagan (born 1936), US naval *John Whitney Hall (1916–1997), Japan *Bruce Barrymore Halpenny (1937–2015), World War II air war *N. G. L. Hammond (1907–2001), ancient Greek history *Victor Davis Hanson (born 1953), ancient warfare *Syed Nomanul Haq (born 1948), history and philosophy of science *Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976), Israeli, military, Medieval, prehistorical *Antoinette Harrell (born 1960), post-slavery peonage of African-American sharecroppers *Dick Harrison (born 1966), Swedish and Medieval *Peter Harrison (historian), Peter Harrison (born 1955), early modern intellectual *Max Hastings (born 1945), military, WWII *John Hattendorf (born 1941), maritime *Ragnhild Hatton (1913–1995), 17th–18th-century European international *Denys Hay (1915–1994), medieval and Renaissance Europe *John Daniel Hayes (1902–1991), US naval *Peter Hayes (historian), Peter Hayes (born c. 1947), Holocaust *Joel Hayward (born 1964), Islamic, maritime, military *Ingo Heidbrink (born 1968), maritime history, history of technology *Klaus Hentschel (born 1961), historian of science and of visual cultures *Ulrich Herbert (born 1951), modern Germany *Jeffrey Herf (born 1947), Germany, Europe *Arthur L. Herman (born 1956), America, Britain *Michael Hicks (historian), Michael Hicks (born 1948), late medieval England *Raul Hilberg (1926–2007), Holocaust *Klaus Hildebrand (born 1941), 19th/20th-century Germany *Christopher Hill (historian), Christopher Hill (1912–2003), 17th-century England *Andreas Hillgruber (1925–1989), 20th-century Germany *Richard L. Hills (1936–2019), technology *Rodney Hilton (1916–2002), late medieval period *Gertrude Himmelfarb (1922–2019), Britain *Harry Hinsley (1918–1998), British intelligence, World War II *Gerhard Hirschfeld (born 1946), 20th-century Germany, World War I, World War II *Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012), labour; Marxism *Marshall Hodgson (1922–1968), Islamic *Peter Hoffmann (historian), Peter Hoffmann (born 1930), National Socialism *Richard Hofstadter (1916–1970), US political *David Hoggan (1923–1988), neo-Nazi *Hajo Holborn (1902–1969), Germany *Tom Holland (author), Tom Holland (born 1968), Ancient Greece, Rome, Middle Ages *C. Warren Hollister (1930–1997), Middle Ages *George Holmes (professor), George Holmes (1927–2009), medieval *Richard Holmes (historian), Richard Holmes (1946–2011), military *Ed Hooper (born 1964), Southern Appalachia, Tennessee, Old South *A. G. Hopkins (born 1938), Britain *Keith Hopkins (1934–2004), ancient *Michiel Horn (born 1939), Canada *Alistair Horne (1925–2017), modern French *Daniel Horowitz (born 1954), US cultural *Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz (born 1942), women *Albert Hourani (1915–1993), Middle Eastern *Youssef Hourany (1931–2019), Lebanon, ancient *Michael Howard (historian), Michael Howard (1922–2019), military *Robert Hughes (critic), Robert Hughes (1938–2012), Australia, cities *Marnie Hughes-Warrington (born 1970), historiography, philosophy of history *Andrew Hunt (historian), Andrew Hunt (born 1968), Cold War America *Tristram Hunt (born 1974) *Mark C. Hunter (born 1974), navalI
*Georg Iggers (1926-2017), Germany, Historiography *Halil Inalcik (1916–2016), Ottoman Empire *Jonathan Israel (born 1946), Netherlands, Enlightenment, JewryJ
*Eberhard Jäckel (1929–2017), Nazi Germany *J. Arch Getty, John Archibald Getty (born 1950) *Julian T. Jackson (born 1954), French *C. L. R. James (1862–1935), Trinidad/England *Harold James (historian), Harold James (born 1956), modern Germany *Nikoloz Janashia (1931–1982), Georgia (country), Georgia and Caucasus *Simon Janashia (1900–1947), Georgia and Caucasus *Marius Jansen (1922–2000), Japan *Pawel Jasienica (1909–1970), Poland * Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones (born 1942), US intelligence *Merrill Jensen (historian), Merrill Jensen (1905–1980), American Revolution *Richard J. Jensen (born 1941), America *Khasnor Johan (living), Malaysian historian *Paul Johnson (writer), Paul Johnson (born 1928), Britain, Western civilization *Robert Erwin Johnson (1923–2008), US naval *Mauno Jokipii (1924–2007), Finnish, World War II *Arnold Hugh Martin Jones, A. H. M. Jones (1904–1970), later Roman Empire *George Hilton Jones, III (historian), George Hilton Jones III (1924–2008), England *Gwyn Jones (author), Gwyn Jones (1907–1999), medieval *Loe de Jong (1914–2005), Netherlands *Tony Judt (1948–2010), 20th-century European, postwarK
*Donald Kagan (1932–2021), ancient Greek *Michel Kaplan (born 1946), French Byzantine studies, Byzantinist *David S. Katz (born 1953), early modern English religious *Elie Kedourie (1926–1992), Middle East *Rod Kedward (born 1937), 20th-century France *John Keegan (1934–2012), military *John H. Kemble (1912–1990), US maritime *Paul Murray Kendall (1911–1973), late Middle Ages *Elizabeth Topham Kennan (born 1938), medieval *George F. Kennan (1904–2005), US–Soviet relations *James Kennedy (historian), James Kennedy (born 1963), Netherlands *Paul Kennedy (born 1945), world, military *W. Hudson Kensel (1928–2014), western America *Ian Kershaw (born 1943), Nazi Germany, Hitler *Daniel J. Kevles (born 1939), science *Khan Roshan Khan (1914–1988), Pakistan *Khoo Kay Kim (1937–2019), Malaysia *Kim Jung-bae (born 1940), Korea *Michael King (historian), Michael King (1945–2004), New Zealand *Patrick Kinross (1904–1976), Ottoman Empire *Henry Kissinger (born 1923), 19th-century Europe; late 20th-century *Martin Kitchen (born 1936), modern Europe *Simon Kitson (born c. 1967), Vichy France *Klemens von Klemperer (1916–2012), Germany *Matti Klinge (born 1936), Finnish *Felix Klos (born 1992), American/Dutch, Modern European *R.J.B. Knight (born 1944), British naval *Yuri Knorozov (1922–1999), historical linguist *Eberhard Kolb (born 1933), German *Gabriel Kolko (1932–2014), US *Claudia Koonz (born 1940), Nazi Germany *Andrey Korotayev (born 1961), economic, Near East, Islamic and pre-Islamic *Ernst Kossmann (1922–2003), Low Countries *Philip A. Kuhn (1933–2016), China *Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996), science *Myoma Myint Kywe (born 1960), Burmese writer and historianL
*Benjamin Woods Labaree (1927–2021), US colonial and maritime *Leopold Labedz (1920–1993), Soviet *Walter LaFeber (1933–2021), diplomatic, Cold War *Brij Lal (historian), Brij Lal (living), Fiji *K. S. Lal (1920–2002), Medieval India *Andrew Lambert (born 1956), British naval *Peter Lampe (born 1954), Hellenistic and late antiquity *Ricardo Lancaster-Jones y Verea (1905–1983), haciendas in Western Mexico *Dieter Langewiesche (born 1943), 19th–20th century, nationalism and liberalism *Abdallah Laroui (born 1933), Maghreb *David Lavender (1910–2003), American West *Jacques Le Goff (1924–2014), medieval *Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (born 1929), French *Daniel Leab (1936–2016), 20th century *Robert Leckie (author), Robert Leckie (1920–2001), US military *Ulrich L. Lehner (born 1976), intellectual and cultural history *Lee Ki-baek (1924–2004), Korean *William Leuchtenburg (born 1922), US political and legal *Barbara Levick (born 1931), Roman emperors *Bernard Lewis (1916–2018), Oriental studies *David Levering Lewis (born 1936), African American, Harlem Renaissance *Li Ao (1935–2018), Chinese *Leon F. Litwack (1929–2021), America, African-American *Xinru Liu (born 1951), Ancient Indian and Chinese *Mario Liverani (born 1939), ancient Middle East *David Loades (1934–2016), Tudor England *Roger Lockyer (1927–2017), Stuart England *James W. Loewen (1942–2021), America *Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford, Elizabeth Longford (1906–2002), Victorian England *Erik Lönnroth (1910–2002), Scandinavia *Walter Lord (1917–2002), America *John Lukacs (1924–2019), modern EuropeM
*Joseph A. McCartin (born 1959), American labor *Charles B. MacDonald (1922–1990), World War II *Stuart Macintyre (1947–2021), Australia *Piers Mackesy (1924–2014), British military *Margaret MacMillan (born 1943), 20th-century international relations *William Miller Macmillan (1885–1974), liberal South African historiography *Ramsay MacMullen (born 1928), Roman *Heidrun E. Mader (born 1977), 2nd cent BCE - 2nd cent CE *Magnus Magnusson (1929–2007), Norse *Charles S. Maier (born 1939), 20th-century Europe *Paul L. Maier (born 1930), ancient history *Pauline Maier (1938–2013), early America *Leonard Maltin (born 1950), film *William Manchester (1922–2004), Churchill *Golo Mann (1909–1994), general *Susan Mann (Canadian historian), Susan Mann (born 1941), Canadian *Susan L. Mann (born 1943), history of China and women *Adel Manna (born 1947), Palestine in Ottoman period *María Emma Mannarelli (born 1954), social *Philip Mansel (born 1951), France, Ottoman Empire *Arthur Marder (1910–1980), British naval *Michael Marrus (born 1941), French and Jewish *Rev. F.X. Martin (1922–2000), Irish medievalist and campaigner *Henri-Jean Martin (1924–2007), the Book *Luis Martínez-Fernández (born 1960), Cuba, the Caribbean *Laurence Marvin (living), US, French medievalist *Ezequiel González Mas (1919–2007), Spanish literature *Timothy Mason (1940–1990), Nazi Germany *Garrett Mattingly (1900–1962), early modern Europe *Ernest R. May (1928–2009), 20th-century warfare and international relations *Richard J. Maybury (born 1946), America, World War I, World War II, Middle East *Arno J. Mayer (born 1926), World War I and Europe *Mark Mazower (born 1958), Balkans, Greece *David McCullough (born 1933), US *Forrest McDonald (1927–2016), early national America, presidency, business *K. B. McFarlane (1903–1966), English medievalist *William S. McFeely (1930–2019), American Civil War *Maurie McInnis (born 1966), Antebellum art and politics *W. David McIntyre (born 1932), Commonwealth, New Zealand *Neil McKendrick (born 1935), modern economic and social history *Ross McKibbin (born 1942), 20th-century Britain *Rosamond McKitterick (born 1949), medieval *William Hardy McNeill, William McNeill (1917–2016), world *James M. McPherson (born 1936), American Civil War *Jon Meacham (born 1969), US presidency *D. W. Meinig (1924–2020), US geography *Evaldo Cabral de Mello (born 1936), Dutch Brazil *Russell Menard (living), colonial American *Thomas C. Mendenhall (historian), Thomas C. Mendenhall (1910–1998), history of sport *Josef W. Meri (born 1969), Islamic world, Jews *John M. Merriman(1946–2022), France *Barbara Metcalf (born 1941), India *Rade Mihaljčić (1937–2020), medieval Serbia *Perry Miller (1905–1963), US intellectual *Giles Milton (born 1966), exploration *Zora Mintalová – Zubercová (born 1950), food history and material culture of Central Europe * Steven Mintz (born 1953), US family *Yagutil Mishiev (born 1927), Derbent, Dagestan, Russia *Hans Mommsen (1930–2015), Germany *Wolfgang Mommsen (1930–2004), Britain, Germany *Indro Montanelli (1909–2001) general *Simon Sebag Montefiore (born 1965), Russia, Middle East *Theodore William Moody (1907–1984), Ireland *Edmund Morgan (historian), Edmund Morgan (1916–2013), American colonial and Revolution *Kenneth O. Morgan (born 1934), British politics, Wales *William J. Morgan (historian), William J. Morgan (1917–2003), US naval *Samuel Eliot Morison (1887–1976), US colonial and naval *Benny Morris (born 1948), Middle East *Ian Mortimer (historian), Ian Mortimer (born 1967), Middle Ages *W.L. Morton (1908–1980), Canada *George Mosse (1918–1999), German, Jewish, fascist, sexual *Roland Mousnier (1907–1993), early modern France *Mubarak Ali (born 1941), PakistanN
*Joseph Needham (1900–1995), Chinese science and technology *Mark E. Neely Jr. (born 1944), American Civil War *Malcolm Neesam (1946–2022), history of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England *Cynthia Neville (living), late medieval, Scotland and England, Gaelic culture *Thomas Nipperdey (1927–1992), 19th c. German history *Ernst Nolte (1923–2016), German, fascism and communismO
*Josiah Ober (living), ancient Greece *Heiko Oberman (1930–2001), Reformation *Ambeth Ocampo (born 1961), Philippines *W. H. Oliver (1925–2015), New Zealand *Robin O'Neil (living), Holocaust *Vincent Orange (historian), Vincent Orange (1935–2012), military, World War II, aviation *Michael Oren (born 1955), modern Middle East *Margaret Ormsby (1909–1996), Canada *İlber Ortaylı (born 1947), Turkey *Fernand Ouellet (1926–2021), French Canada *Richard Overy (born 1947), World War II *Steven Ozment (1939–2019), GermanyP
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