Wikipedia

List of historians

"Historians" redirects here. For the profession, see Historian.

This is a list of historians only for those with a biographical entry in Wikipedia. Major chroniclers and annalists are included. Names are listed by the person's historical period. The entries continue with the specializations, not nationality.[1]

Antiquity

Greco-Roman world

Further information: List of Greek historiographers, Greek historiography, and Roman historiography

Classical period

Hellenistic period

Roman Empire

  • Julius Caesar (100 – c. 44 BC), Gallic and civil wars
  • Sallust (86–34 BC), Roman history
  • Dionysius of Halicarnassus (c. 60 – after 7 BC), Roman history
  • Livy (c. 59 BC – c. 17 AD), Roman history
  • Memnon of Heraclea (fl. 1st century AD), Greek and Roman history
  • Strabo (63 BC – 24 AD), geography, Greek history
  • Marcus Velleius Paterculus (c. 19 BC – c. 31 AD), Roman history
  • Claudius (10 BC – 54 AD), Roman, Etruscan and Carthaginian history
  • Pamphile of Epidaurus (female historian active under Nero, r. 54–68), Greek history
  • Marcus Cluvius Rufus, (fl. 41–69), Roman history
  • Quintus Curtius Rufus (c. 60–70), Greek history
  • Flavius Josephus (37–100), Jewish history
  • Dio Chrysostom (c. 40 – c. 115 AD), history of the Getae
  • Thallus (early 2nd century AD), Roman history
  • Gaius Cornelius Tacitus (c. 56–120), early Roman Empire
  • Plutarch (c. 46–120), Parallel Lives of important Greeks and Romans
  • Criton of Heraclea (fl. 100), history of the Getae and the Dacian Wars
  • Suetonius (c. 69 – after 122), Roman emperors up to the Flavian dynasty
  • Appian (c. 95 – c. 165), Roman history
  • Arrian (c. 92–175), Greek history
  • Granius Licinianus (2nd century), Roman history
  • Criton of Pieria (2nd century), Greek history
  • Lucius Ampelius (c. 2nd century AD), Roman history
  • Dio Cassius (c. 160 – after 229), Roman history
  • Marius Maximus (c. 160 – c. 230), biography of Roman emperors
  • Diogenes Laërtius (fl. c. 230), history of Greek philosophers
  • Sextus Julius Africanus (c. 160 – c. 240), early Christian
  • Herodian (c. 170 – c. 240), Roman history
  • Publius Anteius Antiochus (early 3rd century)
  • Gaius Asinius Quadratus (fl. 248), Roman history
  • Dexippus (c. 210 – 273), Roman history
  • Ephorus the Younger (late 3rd century), Roman history
  • Acholius (late 3rd century), Roman history
  • Callinicus (died 273), history of Alexandria
  • Eusebius of Caesarea (c. 275 – c. 339), early Christian
  • Praxagoras of Athens (fl. early 4th century), Greek and Roman history
  • Festus (fl. 370), Roman history
  • Aurelius Victor (c. 320 – c. 390), Roman history
  • Eutropius (died 390), Roman history
  • Ammianus Marcellinus (c. 325 – c. 391), Roman history
  • Virius Nicomachus Flavianus (334–394), Roman history
  • Sulpicius Alexander (fl. late 4th century), Roman history
  • Rufinus of Aquileia (c. 340–410), early Christian
  • Eunapius (346–414), biographies of philosophers and universal history
  • Orosius (c. 375 – after 418), early Christian
  • Philostorgius (368 – c. 439), early Christian
  • Socrates of Constantinople (c. 380 – unknown date), early Christian
  • Agathangelos (5th century), Armenian history
  • Priscus (5th century), Byzantine history
  • Sozomen (c. 400 – c. 450), early Christian
  • Theodoret (c. 393 – c. 457), early Christian
  • Movses Khorenatsi (13 January 410–488), Armenian history
  • Hydatius (c. 400 – c. 469), chronicler of Hispania
  • Salvian (c. 400/405 – c. 493), early Christian
  • Faustus of Byzantium (5th century), Armenian history
  • Ghazar Parpetsi (441/443–510/515), Armenian history
  • Zosimus (fl. 491–518), late Roman history
  • Jordanes (6th century), history of the Goths
  • John Malalas (c. 491–578), Early Christian

China

Further information: Historiography of China

Middle Ages

Byzantine sphere

Latin sphere

Further information: Historians of England in the Middle Ages

Early Middle Ages

High Middle Ages

Further information: Recueil des historiens des croisades
fl. 10th century
fl. 11th century
fl. 12th century
fl. 13th century

Late Middle Ages

Historians of the Italian Renaissance are listed under "Renaissance".

Islamic world

Further information: Historiography of early Islam
  • Ibn Rustah (10th century), Persian historian and traveler
  • Muhammad al-Tabari (838–923), Great Persian historian
  • Al-Biruni (973–1048), Persian historian
  • Mohammed al-Baydhaq (fl. 1150), Moroccan historian
  • Usamah ibn Munqidh (1095–1188)
  • Ali ibn al-Athir (1160-1233)
  • Abdelwahid al-Marrakushi (born 1185), Moroccan historian
  • Ibn al-Khabbaza (died 1239), Moroccan historian
  • Ata al-Mulk Juvayni (1226–1283), Persian historian
  • Abdelaziz al-Malzuzi (died 1298), Moroccan historian
  • Ibn Abi Zar (fl. 1315), Moroccan historian
  • Ibn Idhari (late 13th and the early 14th century), Moroccan historian
  • Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (1247–1317), Persian historian
  • Abdullah Wassaf (1299–1323), Persian historian
  • Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406), North African historian "of the world"
  • Ismail ibn al-Ahmar (1387–1406), Moroccan historian
  • Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi (died 1454), Persian historian

Far East

South 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) Kashmiri historian and Sanskrit poet
  • Padmanābha (15th century), Indian poet and historian
  • Yahya bin Ahmad Sirhindi (15th century), Delhi Sultanate

Renaissance to early modern

Renaissance Europe

Western historians during the Italian Renaissance or Northern Renaissance
Individuals born after 1600 are listed under "early modern".

Early modern period

Western historians of the Early modern and Enlightenment period, c. 1600–1815
  • John Hayward (1564–1627)
  • James Ussher (1581–1656), chronology of the history of the world
  • Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581–1647), Dutch Republic
  • 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 (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 Irish historian
  • Peregrine Ó Duibhgeannain (fl. 1627–1636), 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 (1645–1711), Serbian history
  • Josiah Burchett (1666–1746), British naval historian and Admiralty 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
  • 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 (1711–1780), colonial Massachusetts
  • Francisco Jose Freire (1719–1773), Portuguese historian and philologist
  • William Robertson (1721–1793), Scottish 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 (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 (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 (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
  • Francesco Maria Appendini (1768–1837), Italian historian, Republic of Ragusa
  • Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860), German historian

Middle East and Islamic Empires

Further information: Safavid Empire, Mughal Empire, and Ottoman Empire
  • 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)
  • 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 historian

Far 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 historian

Modern historians

Historians flourishing after 1815, born after 1770

Further information: Historiography of the French Revolution § Contemporary and 19th-century historians

In alphabetical order:

Historians born during the 19th century

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  • Felix Dahn (1834–1912), medieval
  • Angie Debo (1890–1988), Native American and Oklahoma history
  • Léopold Delisle (1826–1910), French historian and librarian
  • Bernard DeVoto (1897–1955), American West
  • William Dodd (1869–1940), American South
  • David C. Douglas (1898–1982), Norman England
  • Johann Gustav Droysen (1808–1884), German history
  • Sir George Dunbar (1878–1962), India
  • Ariel Durant (1898–1981), Europe
  • Will Durant (1885–1981), Europe
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  • Norbert Elias (1897–1990), process of civilization
  • Ephraim Emerton (1851–1935), medieval Europe
  • Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), historical materialism
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  • Élie Halévy (1870–1937), French historian of 19th-century 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 Conservative politician, barrister, historian and geologist
  • Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866–1934), Ukrainian historian
  • Johan Huizinga (1872–1945), Dutch historian, author of Waning of the Middle Ages
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  • Ibn Zaydan (1873–1946), Moroccan historian
  • Dmitry Ilovaisky (1832–1920), Russian history
  • Harold Innis (1894–1952), Canadian economic history
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  • Mohammed ibn Jaafar al-Kattani (1858–1927), Moroccan
  • Muhammad Jaber (1875–1945), history of the Levant and the Middle-East
  • William James (1780–1827), historian of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars
  • Ivane Javakhishvili (1876–1940), Georgian historian
  • Arthur Johnson (1845–1927), historian at Oxford University
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  • 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), U.S. political and business; Civil War; biography
  • A. P. Newton (1873–1942), British Empire
  • Stojan Novaković (1842–1915), Serbian
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  • Abram L. Sachar (1899–1993), modern European history
  • Govind Sakharam Sardesai (1865–1959), Indian
  • 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) American social history
  • 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 (1820–1879), Russian historian
  • Oswald Spengler (1880–1936), world; The Decline of the West
  • Stanoje Stanojević (1874–1937), Serbia
  • Frank Stenton (1880–1967), English medieval
  • Doris Mary Stenton (1894–1971), English medieval
  • William Stubbs (1825–1902), English law
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  • Alfred Vagts, (1892–1986), Germany, military
  • Paul Vinogradoff (1854–1925), medieval England
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  • Spencer Walpole (1839–1907), English 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 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), American ethnics
  • Ernest Llewellyn Woodward (1890–1971), British history and international relations
  • Muriel Hazel Wright (1889–1975), Oklahoma, Native Americans
  • George MacKinnon Wrong (1860–1948), Canadian
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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 history
  • Ezequiel Adamovsky (born 1971), Argentina
  • Donald Adamson (born 1939), Britain
  • Teodoro Agoncillo (1912–1985), Philippines (Philippine) history
  • Dean C. Allard (1933–2018), American 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 history
  • Joyce Appleby (1929–2016), U.S. early national
  • Herbert Aptheker (1915–2003), African American history
  • 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 (living), Crusades
  • Maurice Ashley (1907–1994), 17th-century England
  • Paul Avrich (1931–2006), Russian, the Anarchist movement
  • Ali Azaykou (1942–2004), Moroccan
  • Eiichiro Azuma (born 1966), American
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  • 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
  • Boris Celovsky (1923–2008), Czech-German relations
  • 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 (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
  • Alan Clark (1928–1999), World Wars
  • Christopher Clark (born 1960), Prussia
  • J.C.D. Clark (born 1951), British
  • Manning Clark (1915–1991), Australia
  • Oliver Edmund Clubb (1901–1989), China
  • Patrick Collinson (1929–2011), Elizabethan England and Puritanism
  • Robert Conquest (1917–2015), Russia
  • Margaret Conrad (born 1946), Canada
  • 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), American environmental
  • Pamela Kyle Crossley (born 1955), China
  • Roger Crowley (born 1951), Mediterranean Sea; Portuguese empire
  • Dan Cruickshank (born 1949), Britain, architecture
  • Gemma Cruz (born 1943), Rizaliana, Philippines
  • Barry Cunliffe (born 1939), archaeology
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  • Elizabeth Eisenstein (1923–2016), French Revolution, printing
  • Geoff Eley (born 1949), German
  • John Elliott (born 1930), Spanish
  • Joseph J. Ellis (born 1943), American early Republic
  • 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), America
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  • Esther Farbstein (born 1946), Israeli, Holocaust
  • Grahame Farr (1912–1983), maritime, south-west of England
  • 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), American history, the U.S. presidency, World War I, U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy, Harry S. Truman
  • Marc Ferro (born 1924), 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 (1908–1999), Germany
  • Frances FitzGerald (born 1940), Vietnam, history textbooks
  • Judith Flanders (born 1959), Victorian British social
  • Robert Fogel (1926–2013), American economic, cliometrics
  • Eric Foner (born 1943), Reconstruction
  • Shelby Foote (1916–2005), American Civil War
  • 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 (born 1938), U.S. in World War II
  • Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (1941–2007), American 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 Maghreb
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  • Femme Gaastra (born 1945), Dutch
  • John Lewis Gaddis (born 1941), Cold War
  • Lloyd Gardner (born 1934), U.S. diplomatic
  • Edwin Gaustad (1923–2011), religion in America
  • Peter Gay (1923–2015), psycho-history, Enlightenment and 19th-century social
  • Eugene Genovese (1930–2012), U.S. 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 (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 American
  • James Goldrick (born 1958), Australian
  • Adrian Goldsworthy (born 1969), ancient history
  • David Hamilton Golland (born 1971), 20th-century U.S. civil rights, public policy, labor
  • Guillermo Gómez (born 1936), Philippine history
  • Brison D. Gooch (1925–2014), 19th century Europe
  • Doris Kearns Goodwin (born 1943), American presidential
  • Andrew Gordon (born 1951), British naval history
  • Svetlana Gorshenina (born 1969), Central Asian history
  • Gerald S. Graham (1903–1988), British imperial
  • Jack Granatstein (born 1939), Canada
  • Michael Grant (1914–2004), ancient
  • Peter Green (born 1924), ancient
  • Vivian H.H. Green (1915–2005), Christianity
  • John Robert Greene (born 1955), American presidency
  • Roger D. Griffin (born 1948), fascism, political and religious fanaticism
  • Ramchandra Guha (born 1958), India, environment
  • Ranajit Guha (born 1923), Indian
  • Lev Gumilyov (1912–1992), Soviet
  • Oliver Gurney (1911–2001), Assyria, Hittites
  • John Guy (born 1949), Tudor England
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  • Halil Inalcik (1916–2016), Ottoman Empire
  • Jonathan Israel (born 1946), Netherlands, Enlightenment, Jewry
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  • Donald Kagan (born 1932), ancient Greek
  • Michel Kaplan (born 1946), French 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), American maritime
  • Paul Murray Kendall (1911–1973), late Middle Ages
  • Elizabeth Topham Kennan (born 1938), medieval
  • George F. Kennan (1904–2005), U.S.-Soviet relations
  • 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
  • Kim Jung-bae (born 1940), Korea
  • 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
  • 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), American
  • 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 historian
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N

  • Joseph Needham (1900–1995), Chinese science and technology
  • 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 communism
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O

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P

  • Thomas Pakenham (born 1933), Africa
  • Madhavan K. Palat (born 1947), Russia and Europe
  • Ilan Pappé (born 1954), Israel
  • Peter Paret (born 1924), military
  • Geoffrey Parker (born 1943), early modern military
  • Simo Parpola (born 1943), ancient Middle East
  • J. H. Parry (1914–1982), maritime
  • T. T. Paterson (1909–1994), archaeologist and sociologist
  • Fred Patten (1940–2018), science fiction
  • Stanley G. Payne (born 1934), Spain, fascism
  • Abel Paz (1921–2009), Spanish anarchist movement
  • William Armstrong Percy (born 1933), Medieval Europe and ancient Greek and Roman, homosexuality
  • Bradford Perkins (1925–2008), U.S. diplomatic
  • Detlev Peukert (1950–1990), everyday life in Weimar and Nazi eras
  • Liza Picard (born 1927), London
  • William B. Pickett (born 1940), American history, Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • David Pietrusza (born 1949), American
  • Boris B. Piotrovsky (1908–1990), Urartu, Scythia
  • Richard Pipes (1923–2018), Russian and Soviet
  • J.H. Plumb (1911–2001), 18th-century Britain
  • J. G. A. Pocock (born 1924), early modern intellectual
  • Kwok Kin Poon (born 1949), Chinese Southern and Northern Dynasties
  • Barbara Corrado Pope (born 1941), America, Belle Époque, women's studies
  • Roy Porter (1946–2002), medicine, British social and cultural
  • Norman Pounds (1912–2006), geography and England
  • Caio Prado Júnior (1907–1990), Brazil
  • Gordon W. Prange (1910–1980), World War II Pacific
  • Joshua Prawer (1917–1990), Crusades
  • Michael Prestwich (born 1943), medieval England
  • Clement Alexander Price (1945–2014), America
  • Francis Paul Prucha (1921–2015), American Indians
  • Janko Prunk (born 1942), Slovenia
  • Alenka Puhar (born 1945), Slovenia
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Q

  • Carroll Quigley (1910–1977), classical, western history, theorist of civilizations
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R

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S

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T

  • Ronald Takaki (1939–2009), America, ethnic studies
  • J. L. Talmon (1916–1980), Modern, The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy
  • Alasdair and Hettie Tayler (1870–1937/1869–1951), Scotland
  • A. J. P. Taylor (1906–1990), Britain, modern Europe
  • Abdelhadi Tazi (1921–2015), Moroccan
  • Antonio Tellez (1921–2005), Spanish Anarchism, anti-fascist resistance
  • Harold Temperley (1879–1939), 19th and early 20th-century diplomacy
  • Romila Thapar (born 1931), ancient India
  • Stephan Thernstrom (born 1934), American ethnic
  • Barbara Thiering (1930–2015), Biblical
  • Joan Thirsk (1922–2013), agriculture
  • Hugh Thomas (1931–2017), Spanish Civil War, Atlantic slave trade
  • E. P. Thompson (1924–1993), British labor history
  • Mark Thompson (born 1959), Balkans, WW 1 Italy
  • John Toland (1912–2004), World War I and World War II
  • K. Ross Toole (1920–1981), Montana
  • Ahmed Toufiq (born 1943), Moroccan
  • Marc Trachtenberg (born 1946), Cold War
  • Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914–2003), Nazi; British
  • Gil Troy (born 1961), modern American, the Presidency
  • Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989), 20th-century military
  • Robert C. Tucker (1918–2010), Stalin
  • Peter Turchin (born 1957), Russian historian of historical dynamics
  • Henry Ashby Turner, Jr. (1932–2008), 20th-century German
  • Denis Twitchett (1925–2006), China
  • David Tyack (1930–2016), American education
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  • Hans van de Ven (born 1958), Britain, modern China
  • Frank Vandiver (1925–2005), U.S. Civil War
  • Jan Vansina (1929–2017), Belgian; African history
  • Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914–2007), French, ancient Greece
  • Paul Veyne (born 1930), French, ancient Greece and Rome
  • César Vidal Manzanares (born 1958), Spanish
  • Pierre Vidal-Naquet (1930–2006), French, ancient Greece, civil rights activist
  • Richard Vinen (living), British
  • Klemens von Klemperer (1916–2012) German-born, Nazi Germany
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See also

General
Lists of historians

References

  1. ^ For a longer list and detailed biographies see "Chronological list of historians": Kelly Boyd, ed (1999). Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing. Taylor and Francis. pp. xxvii–xxxii.

Bibliography

  • The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature, ed. by Mary Beth Norton and Pamela Gerardi (3rd ed. 2 vol, Oxford U.P. 1995), 2064 pages; annotated guide to 27,000 of the most important English language history books in all fields and topics vol 1 online, vol 2 online
    • Allison, William Henry et al. eds. A guide to historical literature (1931), comprehensive bibliography for scholarship to 1930 as selected by scholars from the American Historical Association online edition;
  • Barnes, Harry Elmer. A history of historical writing (1962)
  • Barnes, Harry Elmer. History, its rise and development: a survey of the progress of historical writing from its origins to the present day (1922), online
  • Barraclough, Geoffrey. History: Main Trends of Research in the Social and Human Sciences, (1978)
  • Bentley, Michael. ed., Companion to Historiography, Routledge, 1997, ISBN 9780415285575; 39 chapters by experts
  • Boyd, Kelly, ed. (1999). Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing. Taylor and Francis 2 vol. ISBN 9781884964336.; detailed coverage of historians and major themes.
  • Breisach, Ernst. Historiography: Ancient, Medieval and Modern, 3rd edition, 2007, ISBN 0-226-07278-9
  • Elton, G. R. Modern Historians on British History 1485–1945: A Critical Bibliography 1945–1969 (1969), annotated guide to 1000 history books on every major topic, plus book reviews and major scholarly articles. online
  • Gilderhus, Mark T. History and Historians: A Historiographical Introduction, 2002, ISBN 0-13-044824-9
  • Gooch, G. P. History and historians in the nineteenth century (1913), online
  • Iggers, Georg G. Historiography in the 20th Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge (2005)
  • Kramer, Lloyd, and Sarah Maza, eds. A Companion to Western Historical Thought Blackwell 2006. 520pp; ISBN 978-1-4051-4961-7.
  • Momigliano, Arnaldo. The Classical Foundation of Modern Historiography, 1990, ISBN 978-0-226-07283-8
  • Rahman, M. M. ed. Encyclopaedia of Historiography (2006), Excerpt and text search
  • E. Sreedharan, A Textbook of Historiography, 500 B.C. to A.D. 2000 (2004)
  • Thompson, James, and Bernard J. Holm. A History of Historical Writing: Volume I: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Seventeenth Century (2nd ed. 1967), 678 pp.; A History of Historical Writing: Volume II: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (2nd ed. 1967), 676pp vol 1 of 1942 first edition; vol 2 of 1942 first edition; highly detailed coverage of European writers to 1900
  • Woolf D. R. A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) (2 vols. 1998), excerpt and text search
  • Woolf, Daniel, et al. The Oxford History of Historical Writing (5 vol 2011–12), covers all major historians since ancient times to present; see vol 1

External links

  • "Making History", covering British historians and institutions from Institute of Historical Research
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