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.