List of historians by area of study

By time period

Ancient history

• Barbara Levick (born 1932, British) - Roman emperors
• Peter Green - Ancient Greece and Macedon
• Howard Hayes Scullard (1903-1983) - Roman civilization
• Ronald Syme (1903 - 1989) - Classical period

Medieval history

• Marc Bloch (1886-1944, French) - Medieval France
• John Boswell (1947-1994, American) - Homosexuality in the Middle Ages
• Georges Duby (1924-1996, French) - Specialized in the history of France between the Capets and the Valois
• Johan Huizinga (Dutch) - Wrote 'Waning of the Middle Ages'
• Rev. F.X. Martin (Irish) - Mediævalist and campaigner
• Eileen Power - Middle Ages

By nation or geographical area

North America

History of Canada

• Donald Creighton - Developed the Laurentian thesis
• Lionel Groulx (1878-1967) - The history of Quebec in particular and French North America in general
• Harold Innis - Economic historian of Canada
• J.L. Granatstein - Military historian of Canada
• W.L. Morton - Expert on western Canada

See also List of Canadian historians.

History of the Caribbean

• Eric Williams (1911-1981) - Focused on slavery and the slave trade, condemned imperialism

History of the United States

• Stephen Ambrose (1936-2002) - Biographer of Eisenhower
• David Lavender (1910-2003) - United States West
• David McCullough (1933- ) - general study, most notable work is recent biography of John Adams
• Harry W. Pfanz - American Civil War
• Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932) - Developed the Frontier Thesis
• C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999) - Southern United States
• Howard Zinn (1922- ) - Leftist historian of the United States

Europe

History of England and Great Britain

• Angus Calder - Great Britain
• Antonia Fraser - England
• Christopher Hill (1912-2003) - 17th century England
• John Edward Lloyd (1861-1947) - Early English history
• George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876–1962) - Prolific author on many periods of English history
• Alfred Leslie Rowse (1903-1997) - The history of Cornwall and Elizabethan England
• David Starkey (born 1945) - Tudor historian and TV presenter
• E. P. Thompson, (1924-1993), historian of the British working class
• Retha M Warnicke (born 1939) - Tudor history and gender issues
• Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910-1997) - British historian

History of France

• Marc Bloch (1886-1944) - Medieval France
• Lucien Febvre (1878-1956) - French historian
• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie - history of the French peasantry
• John B. Wolf (1907-???) - French history

See also List of historians of the French Revolution.

History of Ireland

• Brian Farrell (born 1929) - Irish political history, historian and emeritus Associated Professor of Politics, UCD

History of Poland

• Pawel Jasienica (1909-1970) - Polish amateur historian

History of Russia

• Robert Conquest - The Soviet Union
• Richard Pipes - The Soviet Union
• William Taubman - Nikita Khrushchev

History of Germany

• Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914-2003) = British historian and peer who specialized on Nazi leadership and incorrectly verified the authenticity of 'The Hitler Diaries'.

The Middle East

• George Antonius (1891-1941) - Historian of Arab nationalism
• Bernard Lewis - History of Islam and the Middle East
• Albert Hourani

Asia

• Li Ao (born 1935) - Historian, author, and politician and broadcaster in the Republic of China on Taiwan

History of Korea

• Dae-sook Suh - Korean War and North Korea

History of India

• A. L. Basham
• John Keay
• Percival Spear
• Romila Thapar

By historical viewpoint

Abolitionist

• George Washington Williams - Early African-American historian

Marxist

• Eric Hobsbawm - Marxist historian

Nazi

• Walter Frank (1905-1945) - Nazi historian and anti-Semitic writer

Socialist

• Howard Zinn (born 1922) - Socialist historian

By general category

Military history

• Saul David -
• Richard Holmes (military historian)
• John Keegan (born 1934, English) - Specializes in 20th-century wars
• Leo Niehorster (born 1947) - World War II
• Peter Paret - Military history
• Cornelius Ryan (1920-1974) - World War II

Naval history

• Robert G. Albion - Maritime history
• Howard I. Chapelle - Maritime history
• Tyrone G. Martin - Historian of the USS Constitution and of the history of ironclads
• Samuel Eliot Morison (1887-1976) - Wrote History of United States Naval Operations in World War II and numerous works about the naval exploration of America
• Henry Newbolt (1862-1938) - Wrote The Naval History of the Great War

Gender and sexuality studies

• John Boswell (1947-1994, American) - Homosexuality in medieval times
• Retha M Warnicke (born 1939) - Gender issues

History of ideas, literature, and philosophy

• Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) - History of ideas
• Michel Foucault (1926 - 1984) - History of ideas
• Lewis Mumford (1895-1988) - History of technology
• Ivan Prijatelj (1875-1937) - Literary history
• France Kidric (1880-1950) - Literary history

History of business

• Alfred Chandler

History of international relations

• John Lewis Gaddis, historian of the Cold War
• A J P Taylor (1906-1990) - Historian of European International Relations

World history

• Ferdinand Braudel (1902-1985) - Social and economic history
• Francis Fukuyama (born 1955) - "End of history" thesis
• Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882-1944) - World history and geography for younger readers
• Jackson J. Spielvogel - Pennsylvania State University, author of several major world history textbooks
• Arnold J. Toynbee (1889-1975) - Wrote landmark text A Study of History

Genealogy

• C. J. Everon (born 1971) - Family chronicle

Biography

• Alan Bullock (1914-2004) - Historian best known for his influential biography of Hitler

By medium

Broadcasters

• Tristram Hunt (born 1974) - Historian and Broadcaster (BBC2) best known for his four-part series on the English Civil War
• Michael Wood - Prolific historian and broadcaster who has authored more than sixty TV movies on various areas of history

Unsorted

• Robin Briggs
• Peter Brown
• Jeffrey Burton Russell
• Lionel Casson
• David B. Danbom
• John Davies
• Norman Davies
• Trevor Dupuy
• Ronan Fanning, Irish historian
• Orlando Figes, Russia
• Sheppard Frere
• Pieter Geyl, Dutch historian
• Michael Howard
• Jonathan Israel, British historian
• Michael Laffan - Irish historian
• Sr. Margaret MacCurtain, Irish mediævalist
• Charles B. MacDonald - World War II
• Rosamond McKitterick
• Ramsay MacMullen
• Kenneth O Morgan
• Ludwig Quidde, (1858-1941), historian and pacifist
• William L. Rodgers
• Sheila Rowbotham
• Steven Runciman - Crusades
• Simon Schama
• Goldwin Smith, (1823 - 1910), historian
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, (born 1918), Russian historian and novelist
• Frank Stenton, Anglo-Saxon historian
• John Whyte - focused on Northern Ireland and on divided societies
• Glanmor Williams
• Mary Wilhelmine Williams

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