List of historians
This is a list of historians.
Modern historians (after 1900)
A
- Irving Abella, Canadian historian & author
- Robert G. Albion, maritime history
- Gar Alperovitz, American historian, wrote Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima & Potsdam
- Stephen Ambrose, (1936–2002), American historian, U.S. history
- Charles McLean Andrews, (1863?1943), American historian, U.S. colonial history
- Joyce Appleby, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, France, and United States history
- Herbert Aptheker, (1915–2003), African American history and slave revolts
- Philippe Aries, French historian, medieval history in Europe
- Leonard J. Arrington, (1917–1999), Mormon historian
- Mikhail Artamonov, (1898–1972), founder of Khazar studies
- Jonathan Atkins, American historian, pre-civil war U.S. history
- Zurab Avalishvili, (1876–1944), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
B
- Yehuda Bauer, the Holocaust
- David E. Barclay, German history
- Jacques Barzun, (born 1907), cultural history
- Hanna Batatu, Palestinian historian and author of an authoritative study of modern Iraq
- Charles Bean, (1879–1968), Australia in World War I
- Charles A. Beard, (1874–1948), American historian, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
- Mary Ritter Beard, (1876–1958), American Historian and wife of Charles A. Beard
- Charles Bergquist, American historian, Latin American and labor history, author of Labor in Latin America: Comparative Essays on Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, and Colombia
- Isaiah Berlin, (1909–1997), history of ideas
- Michael Beschloss, (born 1955) American historian and celebrity intellectual, history of the U.S. presidency
- Nicholas Bethell, Soviet history
- David Blackbourn
- Geoffrey Blainey, Australian history
- Marc Bloch, (1886–1944), medieval France
- Daniel J. Boorstin, (1914–2004), intellectual history, American history
- John Boswell, (1947–1994), medievalist and gay history
- Paul Boyer, American historian, author of By the Bomb's Early Light
- Karl Dietrich Bracher, (1922-), modern German history
- William Brandon, (1914–2002), historian of the American West and Native Americans
- Fernand Braudel
- Robin Briggs
- Martin Broszat, (1926-1989) Nazi Germany
- Miland Brown, American historian who maintains the World History Blog
- Peter Brown
- Christopher Browning, the Holocaust
- Alan Bullock, (1914–2004)
- Peter Burke
- J. B. Bury, classical history
- John Hill Burton, (1809–1881), Scottish Jacobin history
- Jeffrey Burton Russell
- Herbert Butterfield, author of The Whig Version of History
C
- Angus Calder, British historian, British history
- Otto Maria Carpeaux, (1900–1978) foremost historian of literature
- E. H. Carr, (1892–1982) Soviet history, International Relations
- Lionel Casson
- Boris Celovsky, Czech-German relations
- M. Chahin, Armenian history
- Howard I. Chapelle, maritime history
- Maher Charif, Palestinian historian specialising in modern Arab intellectual history and political movements
- Iris Chang, (1968-2004) Chinese in American & Japanese war crimes
- Rev. Professor Alexander Campbell Cheyne, Scottish Ecclesiastical Historian
- Winston Churchill, (1874–1965) political, biographical, military history
- Robert Conquest, (born 1917) Russia, Soviet Union
- Gordon A. Craig, (1913-) German history & diplomatic history
- Dan Cruickshank, British and architectural history, TV presenter
D-E
- Robert Dallek, American historian, professor at UCLA, author of Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945 and Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960
- Vahakn N. Dadrian, Armenian genocide
- David B. Danbom
- Saul David, military history
- John Davies
- Norman Davies, Polish and British history
- Vernon E. Davis, American historian, author of The Long Road Home: U.S. Prisoner of War Policy and Planning in Southeast Asia
- Graeme Davison, Australian Social Historian
- Renzo De Felice, Italian historian of fascism
- Esther Delisle, (b. 1954), French-Canadian historian & author
- Isaac Deutscher, (1907–1967) British historian and political biographer, Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin
- Tom M. Devine, Scottish historian, author of The Scottish Nation: A History, 1700-2000
- Igor M. Diakonov, (1914), Ancient East
- Robert Divine, diplomatic history
- David Herbert Donald
- John W. Dower, American historian, author of War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
- Georges Duby, (1924–1996), Middle Ages
- Eamon Duffy, 15th-17th century religious history
- Trevor Dupuy
- Will Durant, author of the Story of Civilization series
- Geoff Eley
- John Elliott, (born 1941) Early Modern Spain
- Geoffrey Elton, Tudor England
- Peter Englund, (born 1957), Swedish historian
- Richard J. Evans, German social history
- Alf Evers, (1905-2004) American historian
F
- Ronan Fanning, Irish historian
- Brian Farrell, (born 1929)
- Lucien Febvre, (1878–1956), French historian
- Niall Ferguson, British historian, author of The Pity of War: Explaining World War I
- Marc Ferro, French historian
- Joachim Fest, (born 1926), Nazi Germany
- Orlando Figes, (born 1957)), Russia
- David Hackett Fischer, American economic historian, author of The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
- Fritz Fischer, German historian
- Frances Fitzgerald, American journalist and historian, author of Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and Americans in Vietnam
- Robert Fogel, American economic history
- Eric Foner, Reconstruction
- Shelby Foote, (1916–2005), American Civil War
- Michel Foucault, (1926–1984), French historian of ideas / philosopher
- Elizabeth Fox-Genosvse, cultural & social history, women's history and Southern history
- Walter Frank, (1905–1945), Nazi historian and anti-Semitic writer
- H. Bruce Franklin, American historian of the Vietnam War, author of M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America
- Antonia Fraser, England
- Saul Friedländer, history of the Holocaust
- Karl Friday, Heian Period Japan, early premodern Japanese warfare
- Sheppard Frere
- David Fromkin
- Bruno Fuligni
- Francis Fukuyama, (born 1955)
- François Furet, French historian
G
- John Lewis Gaddis, diplomatic history
- François-Louis Ganshof, medieval history
- Lloyd Gardner, diplomatic history
- Franklin Garrett, history of Atlanta
- Peter Gay, psyochistory
- Eugene Genovese, (1930-) Southern history
- Pieter Geyl, Dutch historian
- Martin Gilbert
- Carlo Ginzburg, pioneer of microhistory
- Carol Gluck, American historian, author of Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period
- Andrew Gordon
- Bogo Grafenauer, (1916–1995), Slovene medievalist
- A. Kirk Grayson, Ancient Middle East
- Peter Green, ancient history
- Lionel Groulx, (1878–1967), priest, historian
- Rene Grousset, wrote histories of Central Asia and the Near East
- Ranajit Guha, history of India and critical historiography
- Lev Gumilyov, (1912–1992), Soviet historian
- John Guy, leading Tudor specialist
H-I
- Irfan Habib
- Nicholas G. L. Hammond, Macedonia and Greece
- Victor Davis Hanson, ancient warfare
- Charles H. Haskins, Americans first medieval historian
- Denys Hay, (1915–1994), medieval and Renaissance Europe
- Jeffrey Herf, German and European history
- Arthur Herman, American and British history
- Raul Hilberg, history of the Holocaust
- Klaus Hildebrand, 19th-20th German history
- Christopher Hill, (1912–2003), 17th century England
- Andreas Hillgruber, 20th German history
- Gertrude Himmelfarb, (born 1924) 19th century British intellectual, social and cultural history
- Eric Hobsbawm, (born 1917) British historian, labour history
- Richard Hofstadter, (1916–1970), American political historian, intellectual historian, author of The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made It, The Age of Reform, and Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
- Richard Holmes
- Albert Hourani, Middle Eastern history
- Daniel Horowitz, United States intellectual history; history of consumer culture
- Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, history of women, sexuality, and higher education
- Alistair Horne, modern French history
- Michael Howard
- Johan Huizinga, Dutch historian, author of Waning of the Middle Ages
- Tristram Hunt, (born 1974)
- Michael Ignatieff, (born 1947) author of Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond
- Eiko Ikegami, Japanese historian, author of The Taming of the Samurai
- David John Cawdell Irving, British historian, (born 1938)
- Jonathan Israel, British historian
- Herbert Adams Gibbons
J-K
- Eberhard Jäckel, Nazi Germany
- Nikoloz Janashia, (1931–1982), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
- Simon Janashia, (1900–1947), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
- Pawel Jasienica, (1909–1970), Polish historian, Polish history
- Marius Jensen, American historian, author of China in the Tokugawa World
- Amy Johnson (I), American historian, modern Egpytian history
- Paul Johnson, (born 1928), British Historian, Western civilization
- Gwyn Jones, medieval history
- Loe de Jong, Dutch historian, author of The Kingdom of the Netherlands during the Second World War
- Gregory J. Kasza, American historian, author of The State and the Mass Media in Japan, 1918-1945
- Donald Kagan, ancient Greek history
- John Keegan, (born 1934) English historian, popular military history
- George F. Kennan, (a.k.a. 'X') American diplomat and historian, history of US-Soviet relations
- Paul Kennedy, British historian, author of influential The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
- Ian Kershaw, German history
- Daniel J. Kevles, history of science, In the Name of Eugenics, and The Physicists
- France Kidrič, (1880–1950), literary history
- Vilen Khlgatyan, History of the ancient Near East
- Gabriel Kolko
- Thomas Kuhn, (1922–1996), history of science, author of The Copernican Revolution, Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, and the influential The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
L
- Leopold Labedz, Soviet history
- Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, French historian, pioneer in the fields of history from below and microhistory
- Michael Laffan, Irish historian
- David Lavender, (1910–2003), history of the American West
- Walter LaFeber, diplomatic history
- Melvyn Leffler, modern international relations
- William Leuchtenburg, American political and legal history
- Barbara Levick, English historian; Roman emperors
- Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
- Li Ao, (born 1935), Chinese historian
- Leon F. Litwack, American history, African-American history, author of Been in the Storm so Long: The Aftermath of Slavery, and Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow
- Mario Liverani Ancient Middle East
- James W. Loewen
- John Edward Lloyd
M
- Sr. Margaret MacCurtain, Irish medievalist
- Charles B. MacDonald, World War II
- K. B. McFarlane, English medievalist
- Robert Machray
- Rosamond McKitterick
- Ramsay MacMullen
- Magnus Magnusson, Norse history
- Leonard Maltin, famous Disney historian
- Charles Maier
- Golo Mann, (1909–1994)
- Robert Mann, American historian of the Vietnam War, wrote A Grand Delusion: America's Descent into Vietnam
- Inga Markovits, author of Imperfect Justice: An East-West German Diary
- Timothy Mason, history of Nazi Germany
- Tyrone G. Martin, USS Constitution
- Rev. F.X. Martin, Irish medievalist and campaigner
- Michael Marrus, French and Jewish history
- William McNeill
- Laurence Marvin, American historian, French medievalist
- Yoshihisa Tak Matsutaka, wrote The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904-1932
- Garrett Mattingly, early modern Europe
- Arno J. Mayer
- Richard Maybury, United States, especially WWI, WWII, and the Middle East
- Friedrich Meinecke, German historian
- Russell Menard, Colonial American
- Barbara Metcalf, Indian subcontinent, Muslims of India and Pakistan
- Perry Miller, intellectual historian
- Hans Mommsen
- Wolfgang Mommsen
- Kenneth O Morgan
- Samuel Eliot Morison, naval history
- Benny Morris, Middle-Eastern history
- George Mosse, German, Jewish, fascist and sexual history
- Gary Moulton, Lewis and Clark
- Roland Mousnier, early modern France
- Lewis Mumford, (1895–1988)
N-Q
- Lewis Bernstein Namier, 18th century British history and 20th century diplomatic history
- Leo Niehorster, military history
- Henry Newbolt, (1862–1938)
- Frank Ninkovich
- Ernst Nolte, controversial German historian of fascism and communism
- Robert Novick
- David Oates, Ancient Middle East
- Heiko Oberman, Reformation history
- Charles Oman, 19th century military history
- Gerard Oram, author of Military Executions during World War I
- Richard Overy, modern history
- Steve Ozment
- Michael Parenti, 20th-21st century political analyst and modern/classical historian. Assasination of Julius Caesar was nominated for Pulitzer.
- Simo Parpola, Ancient Middle East
- Thomas Paterson
- Peter Paret, military history
- Geoffrey Parker (historian), early modern military history
- Henry Francis Pelham, Roman history
- Amos Perlmutter
- Detlev Peukert, historian of Alltagsgeschichte (history of everyday life) in the Weimar & Nazi eras.
- Liza Picard, English historian, history of London
- Harry W. Pfanz, U.S. Civil War
- Boris B. Piotrovsky, (1908–1990), Urartu and Scythia
- Richard Pipes, conservative American historian, Russian and Soviet history
- J. H. Plumb, (1911–2001), British historian of the 18th century
- Roy Porter, (1946–2002), British historian, history of medicine
- Eileen Power, Middle Ages
- Ivan Prijatelj, (1875–1937), literary history
- Ludwig Quidde, (1858–1941), historian and pacifist
R
- Henry A. Reynolds, history of Aboriginal - white relations in Australia
- Jonathan Riley-Smith, Crusades
- Condoleezza Rice, Russian and Soviet history
- Gerhard Ritter, German history
- B. H. Roberts, (1857–1933), Mormon historian and leader
- William L. Rodgers
- Sue Rabbitt Roff, American science historian, author of Hotspots: The Legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Alex Roland, history of technology
- José Luis Romero, Argentina
- Ron Rosenbaum, author of Explaining Hitler
- Theodore Roosevelt, imperialist American president and historian, War of 1812, frontier
- Michael Rostovtzeff, ancient history
- Hans Rothfels, modern German history
- Sheila Rowbotham, (born 1943) Feminist and Socialist historian, author of Women, Resistance and Revolution (1972)
- A. L. Rowse, (1903–1997)
- Miri Rubin, social history of Europe between 1100-1600.
- R. J. Rummel, genocide
- Steven Runciman, Crusades
- Conrad Russell, historian of 17th century Britain
- Cornelius Ryan, (1920–1974), American historian, World War II
- Boris Rybakov, (1908–2001), leader of Soviet anti-Normanists
S
- Abram L. Sachar, (1899–1993)
- J. Salwyn Schapiro, fascism
- Dominic Sandbrook, (born 1974), modern Britain and the United States
- Usha Sanyal, Asian history, Islam and Sufism, especially Barelwi movement
- George Sarton, (1884–1956), history of science, The Study of the History of Science
- Norman Saul
- Michael Schaller
- Simon Schama, (born 1945), British historian and TV presenter, European and art history
- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
- Stephen Schwartz
- Howard Hayes Scullard, (1903–1983), ancient history
- Robert Service Soviet and Russian history
- Kenneth Setton, Crusades
- James J. Sheehan
- Michael Sherry
- William L. Shirer, American journalist and historian, author of Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
- Quentin Skinner
- Goldwin Smith, (1823–1910), historian
- Thomas C. Smith, (1917–2004), Japanese historian, author The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, (born 1918), Russian historian and novelist
- Christy Jo Snider, American historian
- Louis Leo Snyder, German nationalism
- Albert Soboul, (1913–1982), French revolution
- Richard Southern, medieval historian
- Jonathan Spence, popular Chinese history
- Jackson J. Spielvogel, Pennsylvania State University
- Kenneth Stampp, American history, author The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South
- David Starkey, (born 1945), Tudor historian and TV presenter
- James M. Stayer, German Reformation historian
- Frank Stenton, Anglo-Saxon historian
- Zeev Sternhell
- Lawrence Stone, early modern British social, economic and family history
- Norman Stone, military history
- Hew Strachan, military historian
- Viktor Suvorov, Soviet historian
- Ronald Syme, (1903–1989), ancient history
T
- J. L. Talmon,(1916–1980), Modern History, "The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy"
- A. J. P. Taylor, (1906–1990), Historian of European International relations
- Antonio Tellez, (1921–2005), Spanish Anarchism and anti-fascist resistance
- Romila Thapar, (born 1931), Ancient India
- Barbara Thiering, (born 1930), Rediscovered the "Pesher technique" of early Christian history
- Hugh Thomas, Spanish Civil War, Cuba, Atlantic Slave Trade
- E. P. Thompson, (1924–1993), British Labour historian and peace activist, author of The Making of the English Working Class
- Elise Tipton, American and Australian hisotrian, author of Japanese Police State: Tokko in Interwar Japan
- John Toland, (1912-2004), won 1971 Pulitzer for The Rising Sun
- Conrad Totman, American historian, wrote A History of Japan
- Arnold J. Toynbee, (1889–1975), A Study of History
- Marc Trachtenberg, Cold War history
- George Macaulay Trevelyan, (1876–1962)
- Hugh Trevor-Roper, (1914–2003), British historian and peer, specialist on the Nazi leadership
- Barbara Tuchman, (1912–1989) American historian, wrote Joe Stillwell and the American Experience in China
- Robert C. Tucker, Stalin
- Henry Ashby Turner, Weimar and Nazi Germany
- Frederick Jackson Turner, (1861–1932), American historian who developed the Frontier Thesis
W
- Retha M Warnicke, (born 1939), Tudor history & gender issues
- Eugen Weber, French history
- Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, (1910–1997)
- Hans-Ulrich Wehler, German history
- Russell Weigley, military history
- Lieselotte Welskopf-Henrich
- John Wheeler-Bennett, German history
- John Whyte, focused on Northern Ireland and on divided societies
- Robert Wiebe, (1930–2000)
- Peter Booth Wiley, American historian, author of Yankees in the Land of the Gods: Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan
- Eric Williams, (1911–1981), Guianese historian, Caribbean history, anti-imperialist themes
- Glanmor Williams
- William Appleman Williams
- Clyde N. Wilson, Nineteenth century American history, John C. Calhoun, U.S. Constitutional history, Southern history, U.S. political history
- Ian Wilson
- Heinrich August Winkler, (born 1938) German history
- Keith Windschuttle, (born 1942) Australian history & historiography
- John B. Wolf, French history
- Michael Wood
- C. Vann Woodward, (1908–1999), southern United States
X-Y-Z
- Robert M. Young, (born 1935), American historian, history of medicine, and human sciences
- Natalie Zemon Davis, feminist cultural historian, early modern France, film and history
- Howard Zinn, (born 1922) American historian, popular U.S. history, the Left in the U.S.
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| ► | Modern historians (after 1900) |
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