This is a list of historians categorized by their area of study. See also List of historians.

Ancient history

Ancient history

Ancient history is the study of the written past from the beginning of recorded human history to the Early Middle Ages. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, with Cuneiform script, the oldest discovered form of coherent writing, from the protoliterate period around the 30th century BC...

• Ram Sharan Sharma
  Ram Sharan Sharma
  Ram Sharan Sharma was an eminent historian of Ancient and early Medieval India. He had taught at Patna University, Delhi University and the University of Toronto and was a senior fellow at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; University Grants Commission National Fellow...
  
   Eminent Historian of Ancient India.
• Leonie Archer
  Leonie Archer
  Leonie Jane Archer is an English author and a former Research Fellow in Environmental Studies at the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies. Archer graduated from the University of Oxford in 1981, with ancient history honours, and became a Fellow in Jewish Studies of the Graeco-Roman Period, Oxford...
  
   - Graeco-Roman Palestine
• Michael Crawford (historian)
  Michael Crawford (historian)
  Michael Hewson Crawford is a British ancient historian and numismatist.-Biography:Michael Crawford was born in Twickenham on 7 December 1939.He was educated at St Paul's School and Oriel College, Oxford , and the British School at Rome....
  
  
• Edward Gibbon
  Edward Gibbon
  Edward Gibbon was an English historian and Member of Parliament...
  
   (1737–1794) - The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a non-fiction history book written by English historian Edward Gibbon and published in six volumes. Volume I was published in 1776, and went through six printings. Volumes II and III were published in 1781; volumes IV, V, VI in 1788–89...
  
  
• Adrian Goldsworthy
  Adrian Goldsworthy
  Adrian Keith Goldsworthy is a British historian and author who specialises in ancient Roman history.-Biography:Goldsworthy attended Westbourne School, Penarth...
  
   (born 1969, British) - Roman history
• Peter Green
  Peter Green (historian)
  Peter Green is a British classical scholar noted for his works on Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age of ancient history, generally regarded as spanning the era from the death of Alexander in 323 BC up to either the date of the Battle of Actium or the death of Augustus in 14 AD...
  
   - Ancient Greece and Macedon
• Josephus
  Josephus
  Titus Flavius Josephus , also called Joseph ben Matityahu , was a 1st-century Romano-Jewish historian and hagiographer of priestly and royal ancestry who recorded Jewish history, with special emphasis on the 1st century AD and the First Jewish–Roman War, which resulted in the Destruction of...
  
  
• Herodotus
  Herodotus
  Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Caria and lived in the 5th century BC . He has been called the "Father of History", and was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a...
  
  
• Barbara Levick
  Barbara Levick
  Barbara M. Levick is a British historian, specializing in ancient history. She was educated at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and, since 1959, has been a Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford...
  
   (born 1932tiitys, British) - Roman emperor
  Roman Emperor
  The Roman emperor was the ruler of the Roman State during the imperial period . The Romans had no single term for the office although at any given time, a given title was associated with the emperor...
  
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• Livy
  Livy
  Titus Livius — known as Livy in English — was a Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people. Ab Urbe Condita Libri, "Chapters from the Foundation of the City," covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome well before the traditional foundation in 753 BC...
  
  
• Ramsay MacMullen
  Ramsay MacMullen
  Ramsay MacMullen is an Emeritus Professor of history at Yale University, where he taught from 1967 to his retirement in 1993 as Dunham Professor of History and Classics...
  
   History of Rome
• Theodor Mommsen
  Theodor Mommsen
  Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist, and writer generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the 19th century. His work regarding Roman history is still of fundamental importance for contemporary research...
  
   (1817–1903) History of Rome (Mommsen)
  History of Rome (Mommsen)
  The History of Rome is a multi-volume history of ancient Rome written by Theodor Mommsen . Originally published by Reimer & Hirsel, Leipzig, as three volumes during 1854-1856, the work dealt with the Roman Republic. A subsequent book was issued which concerned the provinces of the Roman Empire...
  
  
• Barthold Georg Niebuhr
  Barthold Georg Niebuhr
  Barthold Georg Niebuhr was a Danish-German statesman and historian who became Germany's leading historian of Ancient Rome and a founding father of modern scholarly historiography. Classical Rome caught the admiration of German thinkers...
  
   (1776–1831) - Roman history
• Howard Hayes Scullard
  Howard Hayes Scullard
  Howard Hayes Scullard was a British historian specializing in ancient history, notable for editing the Oxford Classical Dictionary and for his many books....
  
   (1903–1983) - Roman civilization
• Ronald Syme
  Ronald Syme
  Sir Ronald Syme, OM, FBA was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist. Long associated with Oxford University, he is widely regarded as the 20th century's greatest historian of ancient Rome...
  
   (1903–1989) - Classical period
• Suetonius
  Lives of the Twelve Caesars
  De vita Caesarum commonly known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus.The work, written in AD 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, was the most popular work of Suetonius,...
  
  
• Tacitus
  Tacitus
  Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works—the Annals and the Histories—examine the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and those who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors...
  
  
• Joseph Tainter
  Joseph Tainter
  Joseph A. Tainter is a U.S. anthropologist and historian.Tainter studied anthropology at the University of California and Northwestern University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1975. He is currently a professor in the Department of Environment and Society at Utah State University...
  
  
• Thucydides
  Thucydides
  Thucydides was a Greek historian and author from Alimos. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BC...
  
  
• Xenophon
  Xenophon
  Xenophon , son of Gryllus, of the deme Erchia of Athens, also known as Xenophon of Athens, was a Greek historian, soldier, mercenary, philosopher and a contemporary and admirer of Socrates...
  
  
• Polybius
  Polybius
  Polybius , Greek ) was a Greek historian of the Hellenistic Period noted for his work, The Histories, which covered the period of 220–146 BC in detail. The work describes in part the rise of the Roman Republic and its gradual domination over Greece...
  
  

Medieval history

• Ram Sharan Sharma
  Ram Sharan Sharma
  Ram Sharan Sharma was an eminent historian of Ancient and early Medieval India. He had taught at Patna University, Delhi University and the University of Toronto and was a senior fellow at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; University Grants Commission National Fellow...
  
   (born 1919) - early medieval History of India
  History of India
  The history of India begins with evidence of human activity of Homo sapiens as long as 75,000 years ago, or with earlier hominids including Homo erectus from about 500,000 years ago. The Indus Valley Civilization, which spread and flourished in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent from...
  
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• Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman
  Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman
  Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman , is well known for his contribution to Unani medicine. He founded Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences in 2000...
  
   - historian of medieval medicine
• Placido Puccinelli
  Placido Puccinelli
  Padre Placido Puccinelli was a Cassinese monk, a historian and scholar.Educated at the abbey of S. Maria in Florence, he began his monastic career on 15 January 1626. He was interested in historical studies, but above all genealogy and prosopography, in which the abbey had a great tradition...
  
   (1609–1685, Italian) - Northern Italy
  Northern Italy
  Northern Italy is a wide cultural, historical and geographical definition, without any administrative usage, used to indicate the northern part of the Italian state, also referred as Settentrione or Alta Italia...
  
   in the 10th century and the Florentine church
• Marc Bloch
  Marc Bloch
  Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch was a French historian who cofounded the highly influential Annales School of French social history. Bloch was a quintessential modernist. An assimilated Alsatian Jew from an academic family in Paris, he was deeply affected in his youth by the Dreyfus Affair...
  
   (1886–1944, French) - Medieval France
• John Boswell
  John Boswell (historian)
  John Eastburn Boswell was a prominent historian and a professor at Yale University. Many of Boswell's studies focused on the issue of homosexuality and religion, specifically homosexuality and Christianity....
  
   (1947–1994, American) - Homosexuality
  Homosexuality
  Homosexuality is romantic or sexual attraction or behavior between members of the same sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality refers to "an enduring pattern of or disposition to experience sexual, affectional, or romantic attractions" primarily or exclusively to people of the same...
  
   in the Middle Ages
• Norman Cantor
  Norman Cantor
  Norman Frank Cantor was a historian who specialized in the medieval period. Known for his accessible writing and engaging narrative style, Cantor's books were among the most widely-read treatments of medieval history in English...
  
   (1930–2004)
• Georges Duby
  Georges Duby
  Georges Duby was a French historian specializing in the social and economic history of the Middle Ages...
  
   (1924–1996, French) - Specialized in the history of France between the Capets and the Valois
• François-Louis Ganshof
  François-Louis Ganshof
  François-Louis Ganshof was a Belgian medievalist. After studies at the Athénée Royal, he came to the University of Ghent, where he came under the influence of Henri Pirenne. After studies with Ferdinand Lot, he practiced law for a period, before returning to the University of Ghent...
  
   (1895–1980), Belgian - wrote on early medieval institutional history and feudalism
• Patrick Geary - early Middle Ages
• Geoffrey of Monmouth
  Geoffrey of Monmouth
  Geoffrey of Monmouth was a cleric and one of the major figures in the development of British historiography and the popularity of tales of King Arthur...
  
  
• Geraldis Cambrensis
• Johan Huizinga
  Johan Huizinga
  Johan Huizinga , was a Dutch historian and one of the founders of modern cultural history.-Life:Born in Groningen as the son of Dirk Huizinga, a professor of physiology, and Jacoba Tonkens, who died two years after his birth, he started out as a student of Indo-Germanic languages, earning his...
  
   (1872–1945, Dutch) - cultural history, Wrote 'Waning of the Middle Ages
  The Autumn of the Middle Ages
  The Autumn of the Middle Ages, or The Waning of the Middle Ages, is the best-known work by the Dutch historian Johan Huizinga....
  
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• Jacques Le Goff
  Jacques Le Goff
  Jacques Le Goff is a prolific French historian specializing in the Middle Ages, particularly the 12th and 13th centuries....
  
   (1924, French) - Middle Ages, particularly the 12th and 13th centuries
• Rev. F. X. Martin
  F. X. Martin
  F.X. Martin O.S.A. , was an Irish cleric, historian and activist.Born in County Kerry , Martin was raised in Dublin and later joined the Augustinian Order...
  
   (Irish) - Mediævalist and campaigner
• Rosamond McKitterick
  Rosamond McKitterick
  Rosamond Deborah McKitterick is one of Britain's foremost medieval historians, since 1999 Professor of Medieval History in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society...
  
   - Frankish
  Franks
  The Franks were a confederation of Germanic tribes first attested in the third century AD as living north and east of the Lower Rhine River. From the third to fifth centuries some Franks raided Roman territory while other Franks joined the Roman troops in Gaul. Only the Salian Franks formed a...
  
   and Carolingian
  Carolingian
  The Carolingian dynasty was a Frankish noble family with origins in the Arnulfing and Pippinid clans of the 7th century AD. The name "Carolingian", Medieval Latin karolingi, an altered form of an unattested Old High German *karling, kerling The Carolingian dynasty (known variously as the...
  
   history
• Henri Pirenne
  Henri Pirenne
  Henri Pirenne was a Belgian historian. A medievalist of Walloon descent, he wrote a multivolume history of Belgium in French and became a national hero....
  
   (1862–1935) - the "Pirenne Thesis" of early Medieval development
• Eileen Power
  Eileen Power
  Eileen Edna LePoer Power was an important British economic historian and medievalist. Eileen Power was the eldest daughter of a stockbroker and was born at Altrincham in 1889. She was a sister of Rhoda Power, the children's writer and broadcaster...
  
   - Middle Ages
  Middle Ages
  The Middle Ages is a periodization of European history from the 5th century to the 15th century. The Middle Ages follows the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and precedes the Early Modern Era. It is the middle period of a three-period division of Western history: Classic, Medieval and Modern...
  
  
• Miri Rubin
  Miri Rubin
  Miri Rubin is a medieval historian who is Professor of Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London. She was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Cambridge, where she gained her doctorate....
  
   - social and religious history, 1100-1500
• Steven Runciman
  Steven Runciman
  The Hon. Sir James Cochran Stevenson Runciman CH — known as Steven Runciman — was a British historian known for his work on the Middle Ages...
  
   (1903–2000) - the Crusades
  Crusades
  The Crusades were a series of religious wars, blessed by the Pope and the Catholic Church with the main goal of restoring Christian access to the holy places in and near Jerusalem...
  
  
• Richard Southern
  Richard Southern
  Sir Richard William Southern , who published under the name R. W. Southern, was a noted English medieval historian, based at the University of Oxford.-Biography:...
  
   (1912–2001)
• Sidney Painter
  Sidney Painter
  Sidney Painter was a twentieth-century American medievalist at Johns Hopkins University.Painter was born in New York City; after the Taft School he attended Yale University . He wrote many influential books...
  
  
• John Julius Norwich
  John Julius Norwich
  John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich CVO — known as John Julius Norwich — is an English historian, travel writer and television personality.-Early life:...
  
  
• John Tolan
  John Tolan
  John V. Tolan is a historian of religious and cultural relations between the Arab and Latin worlds in the Middle Ages.He was born in Milwaukee and received a BA in Classics from Yale , an MA and a PhD in History from the University of Chicago, and an Habilitation à diriger des recherches from the...
  
  
• Chris Wickham
• Retha Warnicke
  Retha Warnicke
  Retha Marvine Warnicke is an American historian and Professor of History at Arizona State University. Warnicke graduated with a B.A. from Indiana University, magna cum laude, in 1961. She then moved on to Harvard University, where she earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in 1963 and 1969, respectively...
  
  
• Pierre Bonnasie
• Aaron Gurevich
• Eric Christiansen
• Michael Prestwich
  Michael Prestwich
  Michael Charles Prestwich OBE is an English historian, specialising on the history of medieval England, in particular the reign of Edward I. He is retired, having been Professor of History at Durham University, and Head of the Department of History until 2007.-Early life:Prestwich is the son of...
  
  

History of Canada

History of Canada

The history of Canada covers the period from the arrival of Paleo-Indians thousands of years ago to the present day. Canada has been inhabited for millennia by distinctive groups of Aboriginal peoples, among whom evolved trade networks, spiritual beliefs, and social hierarchies...

• Donald Creighton
  Donald Creighton
  Donald Grant Creighton, was a noted Canadian historian.-Background:Born in Toronto, the son of Methodist minister, Creighton attended Victoria College, in the University of Toronto, where he received his BA in 1925...
  
   - Developed the Laurentian thesis
  Metropolitan Thesis in Canadian History
  The metropolitan thesis, also known as the Laurentian thesis, is one of the dominant schools in Canadian historical thought. The basic argument of the school states that the driving force in Canadian history has been the nation's metropolitan areas...
  
  
• William J. Eccles
  William J. Eccles
  William John Eccles , commonly known as W. J. Eccles, was a historian of Canada.Born in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, England, his family immigrated to to Canada in the 1920s. He attended college at McGill University and the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1953, he joined the faculty at the University of Manitoba...
  
   - History of New France
• Lionel Groulx
  Lionel Groulx
  Lionel-Adolphe Groulx was a Roman Catholic priest, historian and Quebec nationalist. -Early life and ordination:Groulx was born at Chenaux, Quebec, Canada, the son of a farmer and lumberjack, and died in Vaudreuil, Quebec. After his seminary training and studies in Europe, he taught at Valleyfield...
  
   (1878–1967) - The history of Quebec
  Quebec
  Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
  
   in particular and French North America in general
• Harold Innis
  Harold Innis
  Harold Adams Innis was a Canadian professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and the author of seminal works on media, communication theory and Canadian economic history. The affiliated Innis College at the University of Toronto is named for him...
  
   - Economic historian of Canada
• Jack Granatstein
  Jack Granatstein
  Jack Lawrence Granatstein, OC, FRSC is a Canadian historian who specializes in political and military history.-Education:Born in Toronto, Ontario, Granatstein received a graduation diploma from Le College militaire royal de Saint-Jean in 1959, his BA from the Royal Military College of Canada in...
  
   - Political and Military historian of Canada
• W.L. Morton
  W.L. Morton
  William Lewis Morton, OC was a noted Canadian historian who specialized in the development of the Canadian west. He was born in Gladstone, Manitoba. He won a Rhodes Scholarship and attended Oxford University where he studied history...
  
   - Expert on western Canada

See also List of Canadian historians.

History of the Caribbean

History of the Caribbean

The history of the Caribbean reveals the significant role the region played in the colonial struggles of the European powers since the 15th century. In the 20th century the Caribbean was again important during World War II, in decolonization wave in the post-war period, and in the tension between...

• Manuel Barcia
• Hilary Beckles
• Kamau Brathwaite
• Bridget Brererton
• Carl Campbell
• Selwyn H. H. Carrington
• Matt D. Childs
• Aviva Chomsky
  Aviva Chomsky
  Aviva Chomsky is an American historian, author, and activist. She teaches at Salem State College in Massachusetts, where she is also the coordinator of the Latin American studies program. She previously taught at Bates College in Maine, and was a research associate at Harvard University, where she...
  
  
• Edward L. Cox
• Michael Craton
• Maria del Carmen Barcia
• Richard Drayton
  Richard Drayton
  Richard Drayton FRHistS is a Guyana-born historian and Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at Kings College London. He went to school at Harrison College in Barbados, from which he left as a Barbados Scholar to Harvard University...
  
  
• Reinaldo Funes
• Gloria Garcia
• Lillian Guerra
• N.A.T Hall
• B.W. Higman
• Vincent K. Hubbard - writes about St. Kitts and Nevis
• C. L. R. James
  C. L. R. James
  Cyril Lionel Robert James , who sometimes wrote under the pen-name J.R. Johnson, was an Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist, socialist theorist and essayist. His works are influential in various theoretical, social, and historiographical contexts...
  
  
• Howard Johnson
• Franklin Knight
• Lucille Mathurin Mair
• Bernard Moitt
• Orlando Paterson
• Walter Rodney
  Walter Rodney
  Walter Rodney was a prominent Guyanese historian and political activist, who was assassinated in Guyana in 1980.-Career:...
  
  
• Verene Shepherd
• Alvin O. Thompson
• Eric Williams
  Eric Williams
  Eric Eustace Williams served as the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. He served from 1956 until his death in 1981. He was also a noted Caribbean historian, and is widely regarded as "The Father of The Nation."...
  
   (1911–1981) - Focused on slavery and the slave trade, condemned imperialism

History of the United States

History of the United States

The history of the United States traditionally starts with the Declaration of Independence in the year 1776, although its territory was inhabited by Native Americans since prehistoric times and then by European colonists who followed the voyages of Christopher Columbus starting in 1492. The...

See also :Category:Historians of the United States

• Stephen Ambrose
  Stephen Ambrose
  Stephen Edward Ambrose was an American historian and biographer of U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was a long time professor of history at the University of New Orleans and the author of many best selling volumes of American popular history...
  
   (1936–2002) - Biographer of Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower
  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...
  
   and Richard M. Nixon
• Edward L. Ayers
  Edward L. Ayers
  Edward Lynn Ayers is an American historian. He is the current president of the University of Richmond, having served in this capacity since July 1, 2007. Prior to his appointment, he had been on the faculty of the University of Virginia since 1980, most recently as the Buckner W. Clay Dean of the...
  
   - U.S. South
• George Bancroft
  George Bancroft
  George Bancroft was an American historian and statesman who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state and at the national level. During his tenure as U.S. Secretary of the Navy, he established the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1845...
  
   (1800–1891) - wrote first large-scale history of the US
• Charles A. Beard
  Charles A. Beard
  Charles Austin Beard was, with Frederick Jackson Turner, one of the most influential American historians of the first half of the 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive studies in both history and political science...
  
   (1874–1948) - revisionist history of Founding Fathers suggesting monetary motivations
• William Brandon
  William Brandon (author)
  William Brandon was an American writer and historian.Brandon was born in Kokomo, Indiana, but spent his childhood in various locales, including the Yucatán and New Mexico...
  
   (1914–2002), historian of the American West and Native Americans
  Native Americans in the United States
  Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...
  
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• Alan Brinkley
  Alan Brinkley
  Alan Brinkley is the Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University, where he was also Provost 2003–2009. He was denied tenure at Harvard University in 1986 despite being an award-winning teacher. He lives in New York City with his wife, Evangeline, daughter Elly, and dog Jessie...
  
   - Historian of the Great Depression
• Bruce Catton
  Bruce Catton
  Charles Bruce Catton was an American historian and journalist, best known for his books on the American Civil War. Known as a narrative historian, Catton specialized in popular histories that emphasized colorful characters and historical vignettes, in addition to the basic facts, dates, and analyses...
  
   - American Civil War
  American Civil War
  The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...
  
  
• Nancy Cott - Women, the family, and marriage
• William Cronon
  William Cronon
  William 'Bill' Cronon is the Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison...
  
   - American environmental history, the frontier in New England
  New England
  New England is a region in the northeastern corner of the United States consisting of the six states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut...
  
  , and the American West
• J. Frank Dobie
  J. Frank Dobie
  James Frank Dobie was an American folklorist, writer, and newspaper columnist best known for many books depicting the richness and traditions of life in rural Texas during the days of the open range...
  
   - historian of Texas
  Texas
  Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
  
   and the Southwestern United States
  Southwestern United States
  The Southwestern United States is a region defined in different ways by different sources. Broad definitions include nearly a quarter of the United States, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah...
  
  
• David Herbert Donald
  David Herbert Donald
  - Career :Majoring in history and sociology, Donald earned his bachelor degree from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. He earned his PhD in 1946 under the eminent, leading Lincoln scholar, James G. Randall at the University of Illinois...
  
  
• W. E. B. Du Bois - historian of the Reconstruction
• Drew Gilpin Faust
  Drew Gilpin Faust
  Catherine Drew Gilpin Faust is an American historian, college administrator, and the president of Harvard University. Faust is the first woman to serve as Harvard's president and the university's 28th president overall. Faust is the fifth woman to serve as president of an Ivy League university, and...
  
   - Civil War, culture of death, and the Confederacy
• Donald Fixico - Urban Indian
  Urban Indian
  Urban Indians are Native Americans in the United States who live in urban areas. Urban Indians represent a growing proportion of the Native population in the United States...
  
   identity
• Eric Foner
  Eric Foner
  Eric Foner is an American historian. On the faculty of the Department of History at Columbia University since 1982, he writes extensively on political history, the history of freedom, the early history of the Republican Party, African American biography, Reconstruction, and historiography...
  
   - Civil War and Reconstruction
• Shelby Foote
  Shelby Foote
  Shelby Dade Foote, Jr. was an American historian and novelist who wrote The Civil War: A Narrative, a massive, three-volume history of the war. With geographic and cultural roots in the Mississippi Delta, Foote's life and writing paralleled the radical shift from the agrarian planter system of the...
  
   - (1916–2005) - American Civil War
• John Hope Franklin
  John Hope Franklin
  John Hope Franklin was a United States historian and past president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association. Franklin is best known for his work From Slavery to Freedom, first published in 1947, and...
  
   - historian of African Americans
• John A. Garraty
  John A. Garraty
  John Arthur Garraty was an American historian and biographer. He specialized largely in American political and economic history....
  
  
• Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
  Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
  Elizabeth Ann Fox-Genovese was a feminist American historian particularly known for her writing about women in the Antebellum South...
  
   Southern slavery, women's history
• Richard Hofstadter
  Richard Hofstadter
  Richard Hofstadter was an American public intellectual of the 1950s, a historian and DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University...
  
   (1916–1970) - Progressivism and U.S. political history
• Peter Iverson
  Peter Iverson
  Peter Iverson is the Regents Professor of History at Arizona State University. Born in Whittier, California, Iverson received his B.A. in 1967 from Carleton College; his M.A. in 1969, and Ph.D., 1975, from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1999...
  
   - 20th century U.S. West/Native American history (emphasis in Navajo history)
• Paul Johnson - (born 1928) - author of A History of the American People
  A History of the American People
  A History of the American People is a history book written by Paul Johnson, collaborating with Blake Almond. First published in Britain in 1997 and nearly 1,000 pages in length, the book presents a sweep of 400 years of American history from the late sixteenth century to the end of the twentieth...
  
   and a biographer of George Washington
  George Washington
  George Washington was the dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775 to 1799. He led the American victory over Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army from 1775 to 1783, and presided over the writing of...
  
  
• Winthrop Jordan
  Winthrop Jordan
  Winthrop Donaldson Jordan was a professor of history and renowned writer on the history of slavery and the origins of racism in the United States....
  
  - African-American history
• David Lavender
  David Lavender
  David Sievert Lavender was an American historian and writer of the Western United States. He published more than 40 books, including two novels, several children's books, and a memoir. Unlike his two prominent contemporaries, Bernard DeVoto and Wallace Stegner, Lavender was not an academic...
  
   (1910–2003) - Western U.S.
• David McCullough
  David McCullough
  David Gaub McCullough is an American author, narrator, historian, and lecturer. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian award....
  
   (born 1933) - general study, most notable work is recent biography of John Adams
  John Adams
  John Adams was an American lawyer, statesman, diplomat and political theorist. A leading champion of independence in 1776, he was the second President of the United States...
  
  
• James M. McPherson
  James M. McPherson
  James M. McPherson is an American Civil War historian, and is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of United States History at Princeton University. He received the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom, his most famous book...
  
   - American Civil War
  American Civil War
  The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...
  
  
• Pauline Maier
  Pauline Maier
  Pauline Maier is a popular scholar of the American Revolution, the preceding era and post-revolutionary United States. She is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ....
  
   (b.1938) - Late Colonial, Revolution, Constitution
• D. W. Meinig
  D. W. Meinig
  Donald William Meinig is an American geographer. He is the Maxwell Research Professor Emeritus of Geography at Syracuse University....
  
   - geographic history of America
• Gary Moulton - edited Lewis and Clark journals (The Definitive Nebraska Edition)
• David Nasaw
  David Nasaw
  David Nasaw is an author and a professor of American History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he is also chairman of the Center for the Humanities. He received his PhD from Columbia University...
  
   - biography and U.S. cultural history
• Francis Parkman
  Francis Parkman
  Francis Parkman was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven-volume France and England in North America. These works are still valued as history and especially as literature, although the biases of his...
  
   - Historian of the French and Indian War
• Harry W. Pfanz - American Civil War
• Dominic Sandbrook
  Dominic Sandbrook
  Dominic Sandbrook http://dominicsandbrook.com/wordpress/about/ is a British historian. Born in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, he was educated at Malvern College...
  
   (born 1974) - political history of the 1960s and 1970s
• Arthur Schlesinger Sr.
• Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
• Cornelius Cole Smith, Jr.
  Cornelius Cole Smith, Jr.
  The year of his college graduation, Smith became a commissioned officer in the Marine Corps Reserve as a second lieutenant. He was present at the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, where he was serving as officer of the day at the Marine barracks in the Pearl Harbor Navy...
  
   (1913–2004) - historian of Arizona
  Arizona
  Arizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix...
  
  , California
  California
  California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
  
   and the Southwestern United States
  Southwestern United States
  The Southwestern United States is a region defined in different ways by different sources. Broad definitions include nearly a quarter of the United States, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah...
  
  
• Jean Edward Smith
  Jean Edward Smith
  Jean Edward Smith, Ph.D is professor at Marshall University and biographer. Currently he is the John Marshall Professor of Political Science at Marshall University and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto after having served as professor of political economy there for thirty-five years...
  
   (born 1932) - biography, foreign policy, political economy, constitutional law, legal history, and politics
• Frederick Jackson Turner
  Frederick Jackson Turner
  Frederick Jackson Turner was an American historian in the early 20th century. He is best known for his essay "The Significance of the Frontier in American History", whose ideas are referred to as the Frontier Thesis. He is also known for his theories of geographical sectionalism...
  
   (1861–1932) - Developed the Frontier Thesis
  Frontier Thesis
  The Frontier Thesis, also referred to as the Turner Thesis, is the argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that the origin of the distinctive egalitarian, democratic, aggressive, and innovative features of the American character has been the American frontier experience...
  
  
• Frank Vandiver
  Frank Vandiver
  Frank Everson Vandiver was an American Civil War historian and former president of Texas A&M University and the University of North Texas, as well as acting president of Rice University. Vandiver wrote, co-wrote, or edited 24 books, and wrote an additional 100 scholarly articles or reviews...
  
  
• Alexander Scott Withers
  Alexander Scott Withers
  Alexander Scott Withers was the author of Chronicles of Border Warfare , a history of the early white settlement of western Virginia and consequent conflicts with American Indians.-Biography:Withers was a son of Enoch K...
  
   - Primary accounts of colonial western Virginia conflicts
• C. Vann Woodward
  C. Vann Woodward
  Comer Vann Woodward was a preeminent American historian focusing primarily on the American South and race relations. He was considered, along with Richard Hofstadter and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., to be one of the most influential historians of the postwar era, 1940s-1970s, both by scholars and by...
  
   (1908–1999) - Southern United States
  Southern United States
  The Southern United States—commonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, or simply the South—constitutes a large distinctive area in the southeastern and south-central United States...
  
  
• Howard Zinn
  Howard Zinn
  Howard Zinn was an American historian, academic, author, playwright, and social activist. Before and during his tenure as a political science professor at Boston University from 1964-88 he wrote more than 20 books, which included his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United...
  
   (1922–2010) - Political scientist and historian of the United States, often critical of common policies.

History of Latin America

History of Latin America

Latin America refers to countries in the Americas where Romance languages are spoken. This definition, however, is not meant to include Canada, in spite of its large French-speaking population....

See also :Category:Historians of Latin America

• Marc Becker
  Marc Becker
  Marc Becker is an associate professor of Latin American Studies at Truman State University.Becker is a co-founder of NativeWeb, an internet resource that compiles information about indigenous peoples around the world....
  
  
• Mark Burkholder
• Aviva Chomsky
  Aviva Chomsky
  Aviva Chomsky is an American historian, author, and activist. She teaches at Salem State College in Massachusetts, where she is also the coordinator of the Latin American studies program. She previously taught at Bates College in Maine, and was a research associate at Harvard University, where she...
  
  
• James Dunkerley
  James Dunkerley
  James Chadwick Dunkerley OBE is Professor of Politics at Queen Mary, University of London, and the current Director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas...
  
  
• Mark Falcoff
  Mark Falcoff
  Mark Falcoff is an American scholar and policy consultant who has worked with a number of important think tanks, such as the American Enterprise Institute , the Hoover Institution, and the Council on Foreign Relations....
  
  
• Ann Farnsworth-Alvear
  Ann Farnsworth-Alvear
  Ann Farnsworth-Alvear is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, where she directs the Program in Latin American Studies. She authored the book Dulcinea in the Factory: Myths, Morals, Men, and Women in Colombia's Industrial Experiment that was published by Duke...
  
  
• Charles Gibson
  Charles Gibson
  Charles deWolf "Charlie" Gibson is a former American broadcast television anchor and journalist. He was a host of Good Morning America from 1987 to 1998 and 1999 to 2006 and anchor of World News with Charles Gibson from 2006 to 2009....
  
  
• Mike Gonzalez
  Mike Gonzalez (historian)
  Mike Gonzalez is a British historian and literary critic, who was Professor of Latin American Studies in the Hispanics Department of the University of Glasgow.He has written widely on Latin America...
  
  
• Clarence H. Haring
  Clarence H. Haring
  Clarence Henry Haring was an important historian of Latin America and the pioneer who initiated the study of South American colonial institutions among scholars in the United States.-Early life and education:The son of a businessman, Henry Getman Haring, and Amelia Stoneback, Clarence...
  
  
• Daniel James (historian)
  Daniel James (historian)
  Daniel James is a British historian educated at Oxford University and the London School of Economics, where he received his doctorate in 1979. He is an expert in Peronism and the working class in Argentina. Dr. James is renowned in Argentina as a result of his expertise, interpretation and...
  
  
• Kenneth Maxwell
  Kenneth Maxwell
  Kenneth Robert Maxwell is a British historian who specializes in Iberia and Latin America. A longtime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, for fifteen years he headed its Latin America Studies Program...
  
  
• William H. Prescott
  William H. Prescott
  William Hickling Prescott was an American historian and Hispanist, who is widely recognized by historiographers to have been the first American scientific historian...
  
  
• Peter Winn
  Peter Winn
  Peter Winn is a professor of history at Tufts University specialising in Latin America. He has written several books, including Americas, which he developed while serving as academic director for the 1993 PBS series of the same name....
  
  
• John Wirth
  John Wirth
  John Davis Wirth was the Gildred Professor of Latin American Studies at Stanford University. Wirth earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1958 and a doctorate in Latin American history in 1967 from Stanford. His dissertation was entitled Brazilian economic nationalism: trade and...
  
  
• John Womack
  John Womack
  John Womack Jr. is an historian of Latin America, particularly of Mexico, the Mexican Revolution and Emiliano Zapata. In June 2009 he retired from his post as the Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics at Harvard University.Womack was born in Norman, Oklahoma, in...
  
  

Chile

• Alonso de Góngora Marmolejo
  Alonso de Góngora Marmolejo
  Alonso de Góngora Marmolejo was a Spanish conquistador and chronicler of the early conquest and settlement of the Kingdom of Chile, and the start of the Arauco War.-Biography:...
  
  
• Pedro Mariño de Lobera
  Pedro Mariño de Lobera
  Pedro Mariño de Lobera was a Spanish conquistador and chronicler of the Arauco War in the Kingdom of Chile.-Biography:A professional soldier who served in the war between Spain and France, he went to the Americas in 1545. Mariño joined the forces of Pedro de La Gasca in Havana, Cuba, when he...
  
  
• Vicente Carvallo y Goyeneche
  Vicente Carvallo y Goyeneche
  Vicente Carvallo y Goyeneche was a Chilean soldier, author and historian of Basque descent, born in Valdivia. Author of the Descripcion Histórico Geografía del Reino de Chile, covering the history and geography of the Kingdom of Chile from the beginning of the Spanish conquest to 1789...
  
  
• Melchor Jufré del Águila

History of Europe

History of Europe

History of Europe describes the history of humans inhabiting the European continent since it was first populated in prehistoric times to present, with the first human settlement between 45,000 and 25,000 BC.-Overview:...

• Norman Davies
  Norman Davies
  Professor Ivor Norman Richard Davies FBA, FRHistS is a leading English historian of Welsh descent, noted for his publications on the history of Europe, Poland, and the United Kingdom.- Academic career :...
  
  
• Elizabeth Eisenstein
  Elizabeth Eisenstein
  Elizabeth Lewisohn Eisenstein is an American historian of the French Revolution and early 19th century France. She is well-known for her work on the history of early printing, writing on the transition in media between the era of 'manuscript culture' and that of 'print culture', as well as the role...
  
  , early printing
  Printing
  Printing is a process for reproducing text and image, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing....
  
   and transitions in media
  Mass media
  Mass media refers collectively to all media technologies which are intended to reach a large audience via mass communication. Broadcast media transmit their information electronically and comprise of television, film and radio, movies, CDs, DVDs and some other gadgets like cameras or video consoles...
  
  
• Julia P. Gelardi
  Julia P. Gelardi
  Julia P. Gelardi is an author of European royal history. She is an independent historian.-Writing career:After Gelardi received her Master of Arts degree from Simon Fraser University, she began her writing career by focusing on European royalty...
  
  , royal history of 19th and 20th centuries
• John Lukacs
  John Lukacs
  John Adalbert Lukacs is a Hungarian-born American historian who has written more than thirty books, including Five Days in London, May 1940 and A New Republic...
  
  
• Henri-Jean Martin
  Henri-Jean Martin
  Henri-Jean Martin was a leading authority on the history of the book in Europe, and an expert on the history of writing and printing...
  
  , early printing
  Printing
  Printing is a process for reproducing text and image, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing....
  
   and writing
  Writing
  Writing is the representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols . It is distinguished from illustration, such as cave drawing and painting, and non-symbolic preservation of language via non-textual media, such as magnetic tape audio.Writing most likely...
  
  
• Henri Pirenne
  Henri Pirenne
  Henri Pirenne was a Belgian historian. A medievalist of Walloon descent, he wrote a multivolume history of Belgium in French and became a national hero....
  
  
• Walter Alison Phillips
  Walter Alison Phillips
  Walter Alison Phillips was an English historian, a specialist in the history of Europe in the 19th century. From 1914 to 1939 he was the first holder of the Lecky chair of History in Trinity College, Dublin. Most of his writing is in the name of W...
  
  
• Robert Roswell Palmer
  Robert Roswell Palmer
  Robert Roswell Palmer , commonly known as R. R. Palmer, was a distinguished American historian at Princeton and Yale universities, who specialized in eighteenth-century France...
  
  
• J. Salwyn Schapiro
  J. Salwyn Schapiro
  Jacob Salwyn Schapiro was a Professor Emeritus of History at the City College of New York.-Work:In his book, Liberalism and the Challenge of Fascism, Schapiro set out to discuss the changes in both England and France. Prof...
  
  
• Norman Stone
  Norman Stone
  Norman Stone is a British academic, historian, author and is currently a Professor in the Department of International Relations at Bilkent University, Ankara...
  
  
• Gordon Wright
• John Roberts (historian)
  John Roberts (historian)
  John Morris Roberts CBE was a British historian, with significant published works, well known also as the author and presenter of the BBC TV series The Triumph of the West .-Biography:...
  
  

History of Belgium

History of Belgium

The history of Belgium, from pre-history to the present day, is intertwined with the histories of its European neighbours, in particular those of the Netherlands and Luxembourg...

• Henri Pirenne
  Henri Pirenne
  Henri Pirenne was a Belgian historian. A medievalist of Walloon descent, he wrote a multivolume history of Belgium in French and became a national hero....
  
   - Middle ages
  Middle Ages
  The Middle Ages is a periodization of European history from the 5th century to the 15th century. The Middle Ages follows the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and precedes the Early Modern Era. It is the middle period of a three-period division of Western history: Classic, Medieval and Modern...
  
  
• Sophie de Schaepdrijver
  Sophie de Schaepdrijver
  Sophie de Schaepdrijver is a Belgian historian.-Education:She graduated in history at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and obtained a PhD with a dissertation on Elites for the Capital? Foreign Migration to mid-nineteenth-century Brussels at the Universiteit van Amsterdam .-Career:From 1986 until...
  
   - World War I

History of England

History of England

The history of England concerns the study of the human past in one of Europe's oldest and most influential national territories. What is now England, a country within the United Kingdom, was inhabited by Neanderthals 230,000 years ago. Continuous human habitation dates to around 12,000 years ago,...

 and Britain

• The Venerable Bede
  Bede
  Bede , also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede , was a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth, today part of Sunderland, England, and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow , both in the Kingdom of Northumbria...
  
   (672 – 735) - Britain from 55 BC to 731 AD
• Angus Calder
  Angus Calder
  Angus Lindsay Ritchie Calder was a Scottish academic, writer, historian, educator and literary editor with a background in English literature, politics and cultural studies.-Education:...
  
   - Great Britain
• Linda Colley
  Linda Colley
  Linda Colley, CBE, FBA, FRSL, FRHistS is a historian of Britain, empire and nationalism. She is Shelby M. C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University in the United States.-Early life and education:...
  
   (born 1949) - British history
• Maurice Cowling
  Maurice Cowling
  Maurice John Cowling was a British historian and a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge.-Life:Cowling was born in Norwood, South London, to a lower middle-class family. His family then moved to Streatham, where Cowling attended an LCC elementary school, and from 1937 the Battersea Grammar School...
  
   - High political history
• Richard Drayton
  Richard Drayton
  Richard Drayton FRHistS is a Guyana-born historian and Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at Kings College London. He went to school at Harrison College in Barbados, from which he left as a Barbados Scholar to Harvard University...
  
   - British history
• Eamon Duffy
  Eamon Duffy
  Eamon Duffy is an Irish Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge, and former President of Magdalene College....
  
   - Religious history of the 15th-17th centuries (not "the Reformation")
• Geoffrey Rudolph Elton
  Geoffrey Rudolph Elton
  Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton was a German-born British historian, who specialized in the Tudor period.- Upbringing :...
  
   - England in the Tudor period
  Tudor period
  The Tudor period usually refers to the period between 1485 and 1603, specifically in relation to the history of England. This coincides with the rule of the Tudor dynasty in England whose first monarch was Henry VII...
  
  
• Charles Harding Firth
  Charles Harding Firth
  Sir Charles Harding Firth was a British historian.Born in Sheffield, he was educated at Clifton College and at Balliol College, Oxford...
  
   (1857–1936) - Political history of the 17th century
• Antonia Fraser
  Antonia Fraser
  Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, DBE , née Pakenham, is an Anglo-Irish author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction, best known as Antonia Fraser...
  
   - England
• Mary Anne Everett Green
  Mary Anne Everett Green
  Mary Anne Everett Green, née Wood, was an English historian. After establishing a reputation for scholarship with two multi-volume books on royal ladies and noblewomen, she was invited to assist in preparing guides, or "calendars", to a collection of hitherto disorganised historical state papers...
  
   - Calendars of state papers and biographies
• William Gibson
  William Gibson (historian)
  William Thomas Gibson is a historian, academic, and professor who specialises in the history of religion in Britain in the early modern period.-Education:...
  
   Ecclesiastical history
• Samuel Rawson Gardiner
  Samuel Rawson Gardiner
  Samuel Rawson Gardiner was an English historian.The son of Rawson Boddam Gardiner, he was born near Alresford, Hampshire. He was educated at Winchester College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he obtained a first class in literae humaniores. He was subsequently elected to fellowships at All Souls ...
  
   (1829–1902) - Political history of the 17th century
• Geoffrey of Monmouth
  Geoffrey of Monmouth
  Geoffrey of Monmouth was a cleric and one of the major figures in the development of British historiography and the popularity of tales of King Arthur...
  
   (died circa 1154) - British history
• Edward Hasted
  Edward Hasted
  Edward Hasted was the author of a major county history, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent .-Life:...
  
   - Kent
• J. H. Hexter
  J. H. Hexter
  Jack H. Hexter was an American historian, a specialist in Tudor and seventeenth century British history, and well known for his comments on historiography.-Early career:...
  
   - England in the 17th century
• Christopher Hill (1912–2003) - England in the 17th century
• Gertrude Himmelfarb
  Gertrude Himmelfarb
  Gertrude Himmelfarb , also known as Bea Kristol, is an American historian. She has written extensively on intellectual history, with a focus on Britain and the Victorian era, as well as on contemporary society and culture....
  
   - Social and cultural history of the Victorian period
• Eric Hobsbawn (born 1917) - Marxist British history
• David Hume
  David Hume
  David Hume was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism. He was one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment...
  
   (1711–1776), Scottish Enlightenment
  Scottish Enlightenment
  The Scottish Enlightenment was the period in 18th century Scotland characterised by an outpouring of intellectual and scientific accomplishments. By 1750, Scots were among the most literate citizens of Europe, with an estimated 75% level of literacy...
  
   philosopher and author of the six volume History of England (originally History of Britain)
• Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
  Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
  Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon was an English historian and statesman, and grandfather of two English monarchs, Mary II and Queen Anne.-Early life:...
  
   (1609–1674) - English Civil Wars
• John Edward Lloyd
  John Edward Lloyd
  Sir John Edward Lloyd , was a Welsh historian, the author of the first serious history of the country's formative years, A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest, 2 vols...
  
   (1861–1947) - Early Welsh history
• Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
  Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
  Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay PC was a British poet, historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer, and on British history...
  
   (1800–1859) English writer and historian whose most famous work was The History of England from the Accession of James the Second
  The History of England from the Accession of James the Second
  The History of England from the Accession of James the Second is the full title of the multi-volume work by Lord Macaulay more generally known as The History of England...
  
  
• Lewis Bernstein Namier
  Lewis Bernstein Namier
  Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier was an English historian. He was born Ludwik Niemirowski in Wola Okrzejska in what was then part of the Russian Empire and is today in Poland.-Life:...
  
   - Political history of the 18th century
• Andrew Roberts - modern British history.
• A. L. Rowse
  A. L. Rowse
  Alfred Leslie Rowse, CH, FBA , known professionally as A. L. Rowse and to friends and family as Leslie, was a British historian from Cornwall. He is perhaps best known for his work on Elizabethan England and his poetry about Cornwall. He was also a Shakespearean scholar and biographer...
  
   (1903–1997) - Cornish history
  Cornwall
  Cornwall is a unitary authority and ceremonial county of England, within the United Kingdom. It is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall has a population of , and covers an area of...
  
   and Elizabethan England
• Dominic Sandbrook
  Dominic Sandbrook
  Dominic Sandbrook http://dominicsandbrook.com/wordpress/about/ is a British historian. Born in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, he was educated at Malvern College...
  
   (born 1974) - Britain in the 1960s and after
• John Robert Seeley
  John Robert Seeley
  Sir John Robert Seeley, KCMG was an English essayist and historian.-Life:He was born in London, the son of R.B. Seeley, a publisher. Seeley developed a taste for religious and historical subjects...
  
   (1834–1895) - British political history of the modern period
• David Starkey
  David Starkey
  David Starkey, CBE, FSA is a British constitutional historian, and a radio and television presenter.He was born the only child of Quaker parents, and attended Kendal Grammar School before entering Cambridge through a scholarship. There he specialised in Tudor history, writing a thesis on King...
  
   (born 1945) - Tudor
  Tudor dynasty
  The Tudor dynasty or House of Tudor was a European royal house of Welsh origin that ruled the Kingdom of England and its realms, including the Lordship of Ireland, later the Kingdom of Ireland, from 1485 until 1603. Its first monarch was Henry Tudor, a descendant through his mother of a legitimised...
  
   historian and TV presenter
• Lawrence Stone
  Lawrence Stone
  Lawrence Stone was an English historian of early modern Britain. He is noted for his work on the English Civil War and marriage.-Biography:...
  
   - English society and the history of the family
• E. P. Thompson
  E. P. Thompson
  Edward Palmer Thompson was a British historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner. He is probably best known today for his historical work on the British radical movements in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in particular The Making of the English Working Class...
  
  , (1924–1993) - The British working class
• George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876–1962) - English history (many different periods)
• Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton
  Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton
  Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper was an English historian of early modern Britain and Nazi Germany. He was made a life peer by Margaret Thatcher in 1979, choosing the title Baron Dacre of Glanton.-Early life and education:...
  
   - Britain in the 17th century
• Retha Warnicke
  Retha Warnicke
  Retha Marvine Warnicke is an American historian and Professor of History at Arizona State University. Warnicke graduated with a B.A. from Indiana University, magna cum laude, in 1961. She then moved on to Harvard University, where she earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in 1963 and 1969, respectively...
  
   (born 1939) - Tudor history and gender issues
• Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910–1997) - British historian
  Historian
  A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
  
  
• Perez Zagorin
  Perez Zagorin
  Perez Zagorin was an American historian who specialized in 16th and 17th century English and British history and political thought, early modern European history, and related areas in literature and philosophy. From 1965 to 1990, he taught at the University of Rochester, New York, retiring as the...
  
   - (born 1920) British/English history of the 16th and 17th centuries

History of the British Empire

• Richard Drayton
  Richard Drayton
  Richard Drayton FRHistS is a Guyana-born historian and Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at Kings College London. He went to school at Harrison College in Barbados, from which he left as a Barbados Scholar to Harvard University...
  
  
• Gerald S. Graham
  Gerald S. Graham
  Gerald Sandford Graham was Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London from 1949 until his retirement in 1970...
  
  
• Vincent T. Harlow
  Vincent T. Harlow
  Vincent T. Harlow was a prominent historian of the British Empire who held the Beit Professorship of Commonwealth History at the University of Oxford between 1950 and 1963. He is best known for his book, The Founding of the Second British Empire, 1763-1793, the first volume of which was published...
  
  
• William Roger Louis
  William Roger Louis
  William Roger Louis, CBE FBA , also known as Wm. Roger Louis, or Roger Louis, informally, is a distinguished historian at the University of Texas at Austin...
  
  
• P. J. Marshall
  P. J. Marshall
  Peter James Marshall CBE, FBA is a British historian known for his work on the British empire, particularly the activities of British East India Company servants in 18th-century Bengal, and also the history of British involvement in North America during the same period.-Early life and education:He...
  
  
• David Quinn
  David Beers Quinn
  David Beers Quinn was an Irish historian who wrote extensively on the voyages of discovery and colonisation of America. Many of his publications appeared as volumes of the Hakluyt Society...
  
  
• D. M. Schurman
  D. M. Schurman
  Donald Mackenzie Schurman was a professor of history at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, and also served at the Royal Military College of Canada. In the Festschrift published in his honour in 1997, the editors hailed D. M...
  
  
• Archibald Paton Thornton (1921–2004)
• Glyndwr Williams
  Glyndwr Williams
  Glyndwr Williams has been Professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London since 1974 and has specialized in this history of exploration and the history of Europe overseas. He was appointed a professor emeritus of the University of London in 1997.-Academic career:Williams earned his...
  
  

History of France

History of France

The history of France goes back to the arrival of the earliest human being in what is now France. Members of the genus Homo entered the area hundreds of thousands years ago, while the first modern Homo sapiens, the Cro-Magnons, arrived around 40,000 years ago...

• Julian T. Jackson
  Julian T. Jackson
  Julian T. Jackson is a prominent British historian. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society. Professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London Julian Jackson is one of the leading authorities on twentieth-century France.He was educated at the University of...
  
   (born 1954) - French Historian
• Marc Bloch
  Marc Bloch
  Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch was a French historian who cofounded the highly influential Annales School of French social history. Bloch was a quintessential modernist. An assimilated Alsatian Jew from an academic family in Paris, he was deeply affected in his youth by the Dreyfus Affair...
  
   (1886–1944) - Medieval France
• Vincent Cronin
  Vincent Cronin
  Vincent Archibald Patrick Cronin, FRSL was a British historical, cultural, and biographical writer, best-known for his biographies of Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, and Napoleon, as well as for his books on the Renaissance.Cronin was born in Tredegar, Monmouthshire...
  
   - Louis XIV, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Napoleon, and Paris
• Georges Duby
  Georges Duby
  Georges Duby was a French historian specializing in the social and economic history of the Middle Ages...
  
   (1924–1996) - Medieval France
• Lucien Febvre
  Lucien Febvre
  Lucien Febvre was a French historian best known for the role he played in establishing the Annales School of history. He has designed the Encyclopédie française together with Anatole de Monzie.-Biography:...
  
   (1878–1956) - French historian.
• Alistair Horne
  Alistair Horne
  Sir Alistair Allan Horne is a British historian of modern France. He is the son of Sir James Horne and Lady Auriol Horne ....
  
   - modern French military history.
• Douglas Johnson
  Douglas Johnson
  Douglas Johnson , a British historian, was born in Edinburgh in 1925. He attended the Royal Grammar School, Lancaster, and then Worcester College, Oxford, on a history scholarship...
  
  , historian of Modern France
• Simon Kitson
  Simon Kitson
  Simon Kitson is a British historian.Kitson did his undergraduate studies at the University of Ulster and his post-graduate studies at the University of Sussex, under the supervision of Professor Roderick Kedward...
  
  , historian of Vichy France
• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
  Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
  Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie is a French historian whose work is mainly focused upon Languedoc in the ancien regime, particularly the history of the peasantry.-Early life and career:...
  
   - history of the French peasantry.
• Antoine Lilte - 18th century France
• Michael Marrus
  Michael Marrus
  Michael Robert Marrus is a Canadian historian of France, the Holocaust and Jewish history. He was born in Toronto and received his BA at the University of Toronto in 1963 and his MA and PhD at the University of California, Berkeley in 1964 and 1968...
  
   - Vichy France
• Jules Michelet
  Jules Michelet
  Jules Michelet was a French historian. He was born in Paris to a family with Huguenot traditions.-Early life:His father was a master printer, not very prosperous, and Jules assisted him in the actual work of the press...
  
   (1798–1874) - French historian
• Roland Mousnier
  Roland Mousnier
  Roland Émile Mousnier was a French historian of the early modern period in France and of the comparative studies of different civilizations.-Life:...
  
   - early modern France.
• Robert Paxton
  Robert Paxton
  Robert O. Paxton is an American political scientist and historian specializing in Vichy France, fascism and Europe during the World War II era...
  
   - Vichy France
• Pierre Renouvin
  Pierre Renouvin
  Pierre Renouvin was a French diplomatic historian. Renouvin was born in Paris and attended the Lycée-Louis-le-Grand, where he was rewarded his aggrégation in 1912. Renouvin spent the years 1912-1914 travelling in Germany and Russia...
  
  -French diplomatic history.
• Zeev Sternhell
  Zeev Sternhell
  Zeev Sternhell is an Israeli historian and one of the world's leading experts on Fascism. Sternhell headed the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and writes for Haaretz newspaper.-Biography:...
  
   - French fascism.
• Eugen Weber
  Eugen Weber
  Eugen Joseph Weber was a Romanian-born American historian with a special focus on Western Civilization and the Western Tradition....
  
   - modern French history.
• John B. Wolf
  John Baptist Wolf
  John Baptiste Wolf was a historian, specializing in modern European history.-Life:Born in Ouray, Colorado, on July 16, 1907, Wolf was the son of a German immigrant....
  
   (born 1907) - French history
• Natalie Zemon Davis
  Natalie Zemon Davis
  Natalie Zemon Davis is a Canadian and American historian of the early modern period. She is currently a professor of history at the University of Toronto in Canada. Her work originally focused on France, but has since broadened to include other parts of Europe, North America, and the Caribbean...
  
   - early modern France.
• Isser Woloch - 18th century France
• Robert J. Young
  Robert J. Young
  Robert J. Young was a professor of History at the University of Winnipeg from 1967 until 2008. He specializes in 20th century European international politics. A graduate of the University of Saskatchewan and the London School of Economics, Young's doctoral dissertation was written under the...
  
  , the Third Republic.
• Gordon Wright (1912–2000)

See also List of historians of the French Revolution.

History of Germany

History of Germany

The concept of Germany as a distinct region in central Europe can be traced to Roman commander Julius Caesar, who referred to the unconquered area east of the Rhine as Germania, thus distinguishing it from Gaul , which he had conquered. The victory of the Germanic tribes in the Battle of the...

• Gisela Bock
  Gisela Bock
  Gisela Bock is a German feminist historian. She studied in Freiburg, Berlin, Paris and Rome. She took her doctorate at the Free University Berlin in 1971 and her Habilitation at the Technical University Berlin in 1984...
  
  
• Alan Bullock
  Alan Bullock
  Alan Louis Charles Bullock, Baron Bullock , was a British historian, who wrote an influential biography of Adolf Hitler and many other works.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Karl Dietrich Bracher
  Karl Dietrich Bracher
  Karl Dietrich Bracher is a German political scientist and historian of the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. Born in Stuttgart, Bracher was awarded a Ph.D. in the Classics by the University of Tübingen in 1948 and subsequently studied at Harvard University from 1949 to 1950...
  
  
• Martin Broszat
  Martin Broszat
  Martin Broszat was a German historian specializing in modern German social history whose work has been described by The Encyclopedia of Historians as indispensable for any serious study of the Third Reich. Broszat was born in Leipzig, Germany and studied history at the University of Leipzig and...
  
  
• Gordon A. Craig
  Gordon A. Craig
  Gordon Alexander Craig was a Scottish-American historian of German history and of diplomatic history.-Early life:...
  
  
• Richard J. Evans
  Richard J. Evans
  Richard John Evans is a British academic and historian, prominently known for his history of Germany.-Life:Evans was born in London, of Welsh parentage, and is now Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and President of Wolfson College...
  
  
• Joachim Fest
  Joachim Fest
  Joachim Clemens Fest was a German historian, journalist, critic and editor, best known for his writings and public commentary on Nazi Germany, including an important biography of Adolf Hitler and books about Albert Speer and the German Resistance...
  
  
• Fritz Fischer
  Fritz Fischer
  Fritz Fischer was a German historian best known for his analysis of the causes of World War I. Fischer has been described by The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing as the most important German historian of the 20th century.-Biography:Fischer was born in Ludwigsstadt in Bavaria. His...
  
  
• Deborah Hertz
  Deborah Hertz
  Deborah Hertz, , is the Herman Wouk Chair in Modern Jewish Studies and Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego....
  
  
• Klaus Hildebrand
  Klaus Hildebrand
  Klaus Hildebrand is a German conservative historian whose area of expertise is 19th-20th century German political and military history.- Biography :...
  
  
• Andreas Hillgruber
  Andreas Hillgruber
  Andreas Fritz Hillgruber was a conservative German historian. Hillgruber was influential as a military and diplomatic historian.At his death in 1989, the American historian Francis L...
  
  
• Heinz Zollin Hohne
• Eberhard Jäckel
  Eberhard Jäckel
  Eberhard Jäckel is a Social Democratic German historian, noted for his studies of Adolf Hitler's role in German history. Jäckel sees Hitler as being the historical equivalent to the Chernobyl disaster.-Career:...
  
  
• Ian Kershaw
  Ian Kershaw
  Sir Ian Kershaw is a British historian of 20th-century Germany whose work has chiefly focused on the period of the Third Reich...
  
  
• Klemens von Klemperer
• Claudia Koonz
  Claudia Koonz
  Claudia Ann Koonz is an American feminist historian of Nazi Germany. Her principal area of interest is the experience of women during the Nazi era.-Career overview:...
  
  
• Timothy Mason
  Timothy Mason
  Timothy Wright Mason was a British Marxist historian of Nazi Germany.-Life and work:He was born in Birkenhead, the child of school-teachers and was educated at Birkenhead School and Oxford University. He taught at Oxford from 1971–1984 and was twice married. He helped to found the...
  
  
• Frank McDonough
  Frank McDonough
  Professor Frank McDonough is a British historian of 20th century Germany and International History- Life :Frank McDonough was born in Liverpool, England. He worked as a shipping clerk and an insurance clerk in two of Liverpool's most famous buildings in the 1970s: The Liver Building and the Cunard...
  
  
• Friedrich Meinecke
  Friedrich Meinecke
  Friedrich Meinecke was a liberal German historian, probably the most famous German historian of his generation. As a representative of an older tradition still writing after World War II, he was an important figure to the end of his life.-Life:Meinecke was born in Salzwedel in the Province of Saxony...
  
  
• Hans Mommsen
  Hans Mommsen
  Hans Mommsen is a left-wing German historian. He is the twin brother of the late Wolfgang Mommsen.-Biography:He was born in Marburg, the son of the historian Wilhelm Mommsen and great-grandson of the Roman historian Theodor Mommsen. He studied German, history and philosophy at the University of...
  
  
• Wolfgang Mommsen
  Wolfgang Mommsen
  Wolfgang Justin Mommsen was a German historian. He was the twin brother of Hans Mommsen.-Biography:He was born in Marburg, the son of the historian Wilhelm Mommsen. He was educated at the University of Marburg, University of Cologne and University of Leeds between 1951–1959...
  
  
• George Mosse
  George Mosse
  George Lachmann Mosse was a German-born American social and cultural historian. Mosse authored 25 books on a variety of fields, from English constitutional law, Lutheran theology, to the history of fascism, Jewish history, and the history of masculinity...
  
  
• Ernst Nolte
  Ernst Nolte
  Ernst Nolte is a German historian and philosopher. Nolte’s major interest is the comparative studies of Fascism and Communism. He is Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the Free University of Berlin, where he taught from 1973 to 1991. He was previously a Professor at the University of Marburg...
  
  '
• Steven Ozment
  Steven Ozment
  Steven E. Ozment is an American historian of early modern and modern Germany, the European family, and the Protestant Reformation....
  
  
• Detlev Peukert
  Detlev Peukert
  Detlev Peukert was a German historian, noted for his studies of the relationship between what he called the "spirit of science" and the Holocaust and in social history and the Weimar Republic. Peukert taught modern history at the University of Essen and served as director of the Research Institute...
  
  
• Gerhard Ritter
  Gerhard Ritter
  Gerhard Georg Bernhard Ritter was a conservative German historian.-Before the Third Reich:...
  
  
• Hans Rothfels
  Hans Rothfels
  Hans Rothfels was a nationalist conservative German historian. He supported an idea of authoritarian German state, dominance of Germany over Europe and was hostile to Germany's eastern neighbours...
  
  
• David Schoenbaum
  David Schoenbaum
  David Schoenbaum is an American social scientist and historian.He was teaching as a professor of History at the University of Iowa until 2008. Schoenbaum received his BA at the University of Wisconsin–Madison...
  
  
• Jean Edward Smith
  Jean Edward Smith
  Jean Edward Smith, Ph.D is professor at Marshall University and biographer. Currently he is the John Marshall Professor of Political Science at Marshall University and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto after having served as professor of political economy there for thirty-five years...
  
  
• Louis Leo Snyder
  Louis Leo Snyder
  Louis Leo Snyder was an American-born German scholar who witnessed the Nazi mass meetings and wrote about them in Hitlerism: The Iron Fist in Germany. He predicted Adolf Hitler's rise to power, alliance with Benito Mussolini, and war upon the French and the Jews.His 1932 book Hitler and Nazism ...
  
  
• Fritz Stern
  Fritz Stern
  Fritz Richard Stern is a German-born American historian of German history, Jewish history, and historiography. He is a University Professor Emeritus and a former provost at New York's Columbia University...
  
  
• Michael Sturmer
  Michael Stürmer
  Michael Stürmer is a right-wing German historian best known for his role in the Historikerstreit of the 1980s, for his geographical interpretation of German history and for an admiring 2008 biography of the Russian leader Vladimir Putin .Born in Kassel, Germany, Stürmer received his education in...
  
  
• Hans-Ulrich Wehler
  Hans-Ulrich Wehler
  Hans-Ulrich Wehler is a German historian known for his role in promoting social history through the "Bielefeld School", and for his critical studies of 19th century Germany.-Career:...
  
  
• Heinrich von Treitschke
  Heinrich von Treitschke
  Heinrich Gotthard von Treitschke was a nationalist German historian and political writer during the time of the German Empire.-Early life and teaching career:...
  
  
• A.J.P. Taylor
• Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914–2003) - British historian and peer
  Peerage
  The Peerage is a legal system of largely hereditary titles in the United Kingdom, which constitute the ranks of British nobility and is part of the British honours system...
  
   who specialized on Nazi
  Nazism
  Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...
  
   leadership and incorrectly verified the authenticity of The Hitler Diaries
  Hitler Diaries
  In April 1983, the West German news magazine Stern published excerpts from what purported to be the diaries of Adolf Hitler, known as the Hitler Diaries , which were subsequently revealed to be forgeries...
  
  
• Henry Ashby Turner
  Henry Ashby Turner
  Henry Ashby Turner, Jr. was an American historian of Germany who was a professor at Yale University for over forty years...
  
  
• Robert Waite
• John Wheeler-Bennett
  John Wheeler-Bennett
  Sir John Wheeler Wheeler-Bennett , GCVO, CMG, OBE, FBA, FRSL was a conservative English historian of German and diplomatic history, and the official biographer of King George VI.-Early career:...
  
  
• Michael Wolffsohn
  Michael Wolffsohn
  Michael Wolffsohn is an Israeli-born German historian. Wolffsohn was born in Tel Aviv, in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine and today is Israel. His parents were German Jews who fled in 1939....
  
  
• Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas is an American lawyer, writer, historian, a leading expert in the field of human rights, as well as a former high-ranking United Nations official...
  
  
• Rainer Zitelmann
  Rainer Zitelmann
  Rainer Zitelmann is a German historian, journalist and management consultant.- Life :Zitelmann studied history and political sciences at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences and completed his doctorate in 1986 under Prof. Dr...
  
  

History of Ireland

History of Ireland

The first known settlement in Ireland began around 8000 BC, when hunter-gatherers arrived from continental Europe, probably via a land bridge. Few archaeological traces remain of this group, but their descendants and later Neolithic arrivals, particularly from the Iberian Peninsula, were...

• Tírechán
  Tírechán
  Tírechán was a 7th century Irish bishop and biographer of Saint Patrick. Tírechán wrote his untitled memoir sometime after the death of his mentor, Ultan of Ardbraccan, in 657. The work survives in the manuscript The Book of Armagh.Tírechán's account, which J. B...
  
  , fl. late 7th century
• Muirchu moccu Machtheni
  Muirchu moccu Machtheni
  Muirchu moccu Machtheni , usually known simply as Muirchu, was a seventh-century Irish historian and Leinster monk.-Works:...
  
  , fl. late 7th century
• Flann Mainistrech
  Flann Mainistrech
  Flann Mainistrech was an Irish poet and historian.Flann was the son Echthigern mac Óengusso, who had been lector at the monastery of Monasterboice , in Irish Mainistir Buite, whence Flann's byname, meaning "of Monasterboice"...
  
  , died 25 November 1056
• John Clyn
  John Clyn
  John Clyn of the Friars Minor, Kilkenny, was a 14th century Irish monk and chronicler who lived at the time of the Black Death.-Background:...
  
  , fl. 1333 - 1349
• Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin
  Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin
  Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin was an Irish Gaelic poet.-Background:Ó Dubhagáinn was among the first notable members of the bardic family Baile Uí Dhubhagáin , near Loughrea, County Galway...
  
  , d.1372
• Adhamh Ó Cianáin
  Adhamh Ó Cianáin
  Adhamh Ó Cianáin was an Irish historian and genealogist.Described in his obituary as "a learned historian" and "a canon" of Lisgoole, "having secured victory of deamon and world"....
  
  
• Gilla Isa Mor mac Donnchadh MacFhirbhisigh
  Gilla Isa Mor mac Donnchadh MacFhirbhisigh
  Gilla Íosa Mor mac Donnchadh MacFhirbhisigh was a historian, scribe and poet of the learned Clan MacFhirbhisigh based at Lackan in County Sligo...
  
  , fl. 1390–1418
• Pilip Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin
  Pilip Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin
  Pilip Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin was an Irish historian.A member of the Clan Ó Duibhgeannáin and a hereditary historian, Pilip was a resident of Cloonybrien, County Roscommon...
  
  , fl. 1579–1590
• Geoffrey Keating
  Geoffrey Keating
  Seathrún Céitinn, known in English as Geoffrey Keating, was a 17th century Irish Roman Catholic priest, poet and historian. He was born in County Tipperary c. 1569, and died c. 1644...
  
  
• Mícheál Ó Cléirigh
  Mícheál Ó Cléirigh
  Mícheál Ó Cléirigh , sometimes known as Michael O'Clery, was an Irish chronicler, scribe and antiquary and chief author of the Annals of the Four Masters, assisted by Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh, Fearfeasa Ó Maol Chonaire, and Peregrinus Ó Duibhgeannain.-Background and early life:Grandson of Tuathal...
  
  , c. 1590–1643
• Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh, fl. 1643 - 1671
• Sir James Ware
  Sir James Ware
  Sir James Ware was an Irish historian.-Early life:Born at Castle Street, Dublin, Ware was the eldest son of James Ware, who arrived in Ireland in 1588 as a secretary to Lord Deputy FitzWilliam. His father was knighted by King James I, was elected M.P...
  
  , 1594–1666
• Mary Bonaventure Browne
  Mary Bonaventure Browne
  Mother Mary Bonaventure Browne, Poor Clare and Irish historian, born after 1610, died after 1670.-Background:A daughter of Andrew Browne fitz Oliver, a wealthy merchant and a member of The Tribes of Galway. She was a niece of Martin Browne, whose townhouse doorway, the Browne doorway, now stands in...
  
  , Poor Clare and historian, b. after 1610, d. after 1670
• Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh
  Ruaidhri Ó Flaithbheartaigh
  Ruaidhri Ó Flaithbheartaigh, King of Iar Connacht and Chief of the Name, fl. 1244-1273.-Biography:Ruaidhri was a brother of the preceding chief, Morogh...
  
  , 1629–1718
• Eugene O'Curry
  Eugene O'Curry
  -Life:He was born at Doonaha, near Carrigaholt, County Clare, the son of Eoghan Ó Comhraí, a farmer, and his wife Cáit. Eoghan had spent some time as a travelling pedlar and had developed an interest in Irish folklore and music. Unusually for someone of his background, he appears to have been...
  
  , 20 November 1794 – 30 July 1862
• John O'Donovan
  John O'Donovan (scholar)
  John O'Donovan , from Atateemore, in the parish of Kilcolumb, County Kilkenny, and educated at Hunt's Academy, Waterford, was an Irish language scholar from Ireland.-Life:...
  
  , 25 July 1806 – 10 December 1861
• Father Paul Walsh, 19 June 1885 – 18 June 1941
• Dermot MacDermot
  Dermot MacDermot
  Sir Dermot MacDermot , Prince of Coolavin, Chief of the Name, head of the MacDermot clan, and a descendant of the Kings of Moylurg....
  
  , 1906–1989
• Kathleen Hughes
  Kathleen Hughes (historian)
  Kathleen Winifred Hughes, born 8 September 1926 in Middlesbrough, died 20 April 1977, was an English historian, her specialisation was Irish ecclesiastical history, particularly the early Christian Church in Ireland....
  
  , d. 20 April 1977
• F.X. Martin, 1922 – 13 February 2000
• Brian Farrell
  Brian Farrell
  Brian Farrell is an Irish author, journalist, academic & broadcaster.-Early life:Although born in Manchester, England, Farrell moved to Dublin, Ireland during the Second World War. He was educated in Ireland at , Dublin, University College Dublin and Harvard University in the United States...
  
   b. 1929
• Francis John Byrne
  Francis John Byrne
  Francis John Byrne is an Irish historian.Born in Shanghai where his father, a Dundalk man, captained a ship on the Yellow River, Byrne was evacuated with his mother to Australia on the outbreak of World War II...
  
   b. 1934
• Kenneth Nicholls
  Kenneth Nicholls
  Kenneth W. Nicholls Irish academic and historian is one of the most widely respected Irish historians of the twentieth century. He came to national and international prominence as the author of the seminal Gaelic and Gaelicised Ireland in the Middle Ages, first published in 1972, and reprinted 2003...
  
  
• Dáibhí Ó Cróinín
  Dáibhí Ó Cróinín
  Dáibhí Ó Cróinín is an academic Irish historian, the current Professor of History at the National University of Ireland, Galway . M.Phil., Ph.D. , and Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He is a grandson of Elizabeth Cronin , an Irish traditional singer...
  
  
• Ann Buckley
  Ann Buckley
  Ann Buckley is an Irish historian and musicologist.Buckley holds a B.Mus., M.A. , Doctoraal and a Ph.D. . Research Associate at the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Trinity College, Dublin...
  
  
• Nollaig Ó Muraíle
  Nollaig Ó Muraíle
  Nollaig Ó Muraíle is an Irish scholar. He published an acclaimed edition of Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh's Leabhar na nGenealach in 2004. He was conferred with the honour of admittance to the Royal Irish Academy in 2009.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Catherine Swift
  Catherine Swift
  Catherine Susan Swift is the President and CEO of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, which she joined in 1987. She has previously served as CEO from 1997 and President from 1995....
  
  
• Ailbhe MacShamhráin

History of Italy

History of Italy

Italy, united in 1861, has significantly contributed to the political, cultural and social development of the entire Mediterranean region. Many cultures and civilizations have existed there since prehistoric times....

• Roger Absalom Sheffield Hallam University : Resistance, Fascism, Modern Italian History
• Lorenzo Arnone Sipari
  Lorenzo Arnone Sipari
  Lorenzo Arnone Sipari is an Italian nature writer and historian, author of many studies on the social and environmental history, especially on the origins and foundation of Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo-Biography:He was born in Rome...
  
  , Social and Environmental Italian History
• Piero Bevilacqua Università di Roma "Sapienza : The Italian South
• R.J.B. Bosworth
  R.J.B. Bosworth
  Richard J.B. Bosworth is an Australian historian and author. He teaches at the University of Western Australia and is a leading expert on Fascist Italy.-Notes:...
  
   University of Western Australia, Reading University UK : Fascism, Mussolini,Historiography of Fascism
• Giorgio Candeloro Modern Italian History
• Martin Clark University of Edinburgh: Modern Italian History
• Simona Colarizi Università di Roma "Sapienza : Modern Italian History
• Enzo Collotti Università di Firenze: Fascism
• Paul Corner Fascism
• Benedetto Croce
  Benedetto Croce
  Benedetto Croce was an Italian idealist philosopher, and occasionally also politician. He wrote on numerous topics, including philosophy, history, methodology of history writing and aesthetics, and was a prominent liberal, although he opposed laissez-faire free trade...
  
   Philosophy of History, Modern Italian History
• Vincent Cronin
  Vincent Cronin
  Vincent Archibald Patrick Cronin, FRSL was a British historical, cultural, and biographical writer, best-known for his biographies of Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, and Napoleon, as well as for his books on the Renaissance.Cronin was born in Tredegar, Monmouthshire...
  
   Renaissance Art and Sicily
• Costantino De Felice Abruzzo, Molise
• Renzo De Felice
  Renzo De Felice
  Renzo De Felice was an Italian historian, who specialized in the Fascist era.-Biography:He was born in Rieti and studied under Federico Chabod and Delio Cantimori at the University of Naples. During his time as student, De Felice was a member of the Italian Communist Party...
  
   Fascism, biographer of Mussolini
• Alexander De Grand Fascism
• Victoria De Grazia Fascism, Women under Fascism
• Giovanni De Luna Action Party
• John Dickie Italian South, Italian nationalism
  Italian nationalism
  Italian nationalism refers to the nationalism of Italians or of Italian culture. It claims that Italians are the ethnic, cultural, and linguistic descendants of the ancient Romans who inhabited the Italian Peninsula for centuries. The origins of Italian nationalism have been traced to the...
  
   and national identities, cultural history of liberal Italy, cultural and critical theory, organized crime, Italian food.
• Jonathan Dunnage Modern Italian Social History
• Christopher Duggan Modern Italian History
• John Foot Modern Italy History, The City
• Emilio Gentile
  Emilio Gentile
  Emilio Gentile is an Italian historian specializing in the ideology and culture of fascism. Gentile is considered one of Italy's foremost cultural historians of fascist ideology. He is a student of Renzo De Felice....
  
   Fascism
• Antonio Gibelli First World War
• Paul Ginsborg Università di Firenze: Postwar Italian History, Venetian revolution 1848
• Carlo Ginzburg
  Carlo Ginzburg
  Carlo Ginzburg is a noted historian and proponent of the field of microhistory. He is best known for his Il formaggio e I vermi which examined the beliefs of an Italian heretic, Menocchio, from Montereale Valcellina.- Biography :The son of Natalia Ginzburg and Leone Ginzburg, he was born...
  
   Witchcraft and Agrarian cults, Microhistory
• M Isnenghi First World War, Fascism
• Adrian Lyttelton Fascism, Modern Italian History
• Robert Lumley The Italian South
• Salvatore Lupo Fascism,The Mafia
• Philip Morgan
  Philip Morgan
  Philip Morgan may refer to:*Philip D. Morgan, American historian*Philip H. Morgan, American jurist*Philip Morgan , Bishop of Worcester and Bishop of Ely as well as an unsuccessful candidate for Archbishop of York...
  
  Fascism
• Luisa Passerini Oral History, Fascism
• Claudio Pavone
  Claudio Pavone
  Claudio Pavone is an Italian historian.Currently, Pavone is the president of the Historic Institute of the Liberation movement in Italy, the vice-president of the Italian Society of Contemporary History and the director of the review of historic-politic studies Parolechiave .-The partisan...
  
   Italian fascism, World War II and of antifascism.
• John Pollard
  John F. Pollard
  Dr John F. Pollard a British historian, a fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Emeritus Professor of Modern European History at Anglia Polytechnic University...
  
   The Church and Fascism
• Giuliano Procacci Modern Italian History
• Lucy Riall
  Lucy Riall
  Lucy Riall is Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London.Riall studied at the London School of Economics and the University of Cambridge. She was a lecturer in Modern European history at the University of Essex before moving to Birkbeck...
  
   The Risorgimento, Garibaldi, Sicily
• Gaetano Salvemini
  Gaetano Salvemini
  Gaetano Salvemini was an Italian anti-fascist politician, historian and writer.- Biography :Salvemini was born in Molfetta, Apulia....
  
   Fascism, The French Revolution
• Christopher Seton-Watson Modern Italian History
• Denis Mack Smith
  Denis Mack Smith
  Denis Mack Smith CBE is an English historian, specialising in the history of Italy from the Risorgimento onwards. He is best known for studies of Garibaldi and Cavour and of Mussolini, and for his single-volume Modern Italy: A Political History...
  
   Italian Modern History
• F M Snowden Modern Italian History, Fascism
• Nicola Tranfaglia Modern Italian History, Fascism, Anti-fascism Historiography
• Perry Willson University of Dundee: Fascism, Women under fascism

History of the Netherlands

History of the Netherlands

The history of the Netherlands is the history of a maritime people thriving on a watery lowland river delta at the edge of northwestern Europe. When the Romans and written history arrived in 57 BC, the country was sparsely populated by various tribal groups at the periphery of the empire...

• Jaap R. Bruijn
  Jaap R. Bruijn
  Jacobus Ruurd "Jaap" Bruijn , is one of the best known and respected Dutch maritime historians. He was professor of maritime history at the University of Leiden from 1979 until his retirement in 2003...
  
  
• Femme Gaastra
  Femme Gaastra
  Femme Simon Gaastra was Professor of maritime history at the University of Leiden and a leading expert on the history of the Dutch East India Company.-Early life and education:...
  
  
• Pieter Geyl
  Pieter Geyl
  Pieter Catharinus Arie Geyl was a Dutch historian, well-known for his studies in early modern Dutch history and in historiography.-Background:...
  
  
• John Lothrop Motley
  John Lothrop Motley
  John Lothrop Motley was an American historian and diplomat.-Biography:...
  
  
• Jonathan Israel
  Jonathan Israel
  Professor Jonathan Irvine Israel is a British writer on Dutch history, the Age of Enlightenment and European Jewry. Israel was appointed the Modern European History Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Township, New Jersey, U.S...
  
  
• G. J. Renier
• Herbert H. Rowen
  Herbert H. Rowen
  Herbert Harvey Rowen, , was a noted American historian of Early Modern Europe and "arguably the most important English-speaking historian of the Dutch Republic since John Lothrop Motley."-Early life and education:The son of Joseph M...
  
  
• Simon Schama
  Simon Schama
  Simon Michael Schama, CBE is a British historian and art historian. He is a University Professor of History and Art History at Columbia University. He is best known for writing and hosting the 15-part BBC documentary series A History of Britain...
  
  

History of Poland

History of Poland

The History of Poland is rooted in the arrival of the Slavs, who gave rise to permanent settlement and historic development on Polish lands. During the Piast dynasty Christianity was adopted in 966 and medieval monarchy established...

• Norman Davies
  Norman Davies
  Professor Ivor Norman Richard Davies FBA, FRHistS is a leading English historian of Welsh descent, noted for his publications on the history of Europe, Poland, and the United Kingdom.- Academic career :...
  
   (born 1939) - modern Polish history.
• Pawel Jasienica
  Pawel Jasienica
  Paweł Jasienica was the pen name of Leon Lech Beynar , a Polish historian, journalist and soldier.During World War II, Jasienica fought in the Polish Army, and later, the Armia Krajowa resistance...
  
   (1909–1970) - Polish amateur historian.
• Wickham Steed
  Wickham Steed
  Henry Wickham Steed was a British journalist and historian. He was editor of The Times from 1919 until 1922.-Life:...
  
  

History of Portugal

History of Portugal

The history of Portugal, a European and an Atlantic nation, dates back to the Early Middle Ages. In the 15th and 16th centuries, it ascended to the status of a world power during Europe's "Age of Discovery" as it built up a vast empire including possessions in South America, Africa, Asia and...

• José Hermano Saraiva
  José Hermano Saraiva
  José Hermano Baptista Saraiva , is a Portuguese historian and jurist. He is most known as a television personality in Portugal, having been the author and presenter of several documentary series of historical divulgation in the last decades.-Biography:Hermano Saraiva was a professor of law and...
  
  
• A. H. de Oliveira Marques
  A. H. de Oliveira Marques
  António Henrique Rodrigo de Oliveira Marques was a Portuguese historian.- Life :Oliveira Marques was born in the 'freguesia' of S...
  
   - Early Modern Period
• José Mattoso
  José Mattoso
  Jose João da Conceição Gonçalves Mattoso is a Portuguese medievalist historian, and university teacher.Doctorated in medieval history at the Catholic University of Leuven, in Belgium, in 1966 , while he was Benedictine monk at the abbey of Singeverga...
  
   - Medieval History
• João Paulo oliveira e Costa - Maritime
• Rui Ramos - Contemporary History
• Espinha da Silveira - 19th Century
• Fernanda Rollo - Contemporary History
• Fernando Rosas
  Fernando Rosas
  Fernando José Mendes Rosas is a Portuguese historian and politician.- Early life and education :Rosas was born on the April 18, 1946. He studied at the Pedro Nunes high school, and in 1961, he joined the school's Portuguese Communist Party organization, a party for which he was later a militant.He...
  
   - Contemporary History

History of Russia

History of Russia

The history of Russia begins with that of the Eastern Slavs and the Finno-Ugric peoples. The state of Garðaríki , which was centered in Novgorod and included the entire areas inhabited by Ilmen Slavs, Veps and Votes, was established by the Varangian chieftain Rurik in 862...

• Nicholas Bethell
  Nicholas Bethell
  Nicholas William Bethell, 4th Baron Bethell was a British politician. He was an historian of Central and Eastern Europe. He was also a translator and human rights activist. He sat in the House of Lords as a Conservative from 1967 to 1999...
  
  
• Robert Conquest
  Robert Conquest
  George Robert Ackworth Conquest CMG is a British historian who became a well-known writer and researcher on the Soviet Union with the publication in 1968 of The Great Terror, an account of Stalin's purges of the 1930s...
  
   - The Soviet Union
• Vincent Cronin
  Vincent Cronin
  Vincent Archibald Patrick Cronin, FRSL was a British historical, cultural, and biographical writer, best-known for his biographies of Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, and Napoleon, as well as for his books on the Renaissance.Cronin was born in Tredegar, Monmouthshire...
  
   - Catherine the Great
• Orlando Figes
  Orlando Figes
  Orlando Figes is a British historian of Russia, and Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London.-Overview:Figes is the son of the feminist writer Eva Figes. His sister is the author and editor Kate Figes. He attended William Ellis School in north London from 1971-78...
  
  
• Leopold Labedz
  Leopold Labedz
  Leopold Labedz was an anti-communist Anglo-Polish commentator on the Soviet Union.Labedz was born to a Polish Jewish doctor in Russia. The family soon returned to Warsaw and the young Labedz decided to follow his father into the medical profession. He studied medicine in Paris...
  
  
• Roy Medvedev
  Roy Medvedev
  Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev |Georgia]]) is a Russian historian renowned as the author of the dissident history of Stalinism, Let History Judge , first published in English in 1972...
  
  
• Richard Pipes
  Richard Pipes
  Richard Edgar Pipes is an American academic who specializes in Russian history, particularly with respect to the Soviet Union...
  
   - The Soviet Union
• William Taubman
  William Taubman
  William Chase Taubman is an American political scientist. His biography of Nikita Khrushchev won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2004 and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in 2003....
  
   - Nikita Khrushchev
  Nikita Khrushchev
  Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964...
  
  
• Peter Kenez
  Peter Kenez
  Peter Kenez is a historian specializing in Russian history and Eastern Europe. He also teaches courses on Soviet cinema and an interdisciplinary course on the Holocaust with literature professor Murray Baumgarten...
  
   -The Soviet Union and Soviet cinema
• Robert Service
  Robert Service (historian)
  Robert John Service is a British historian, academic, and author who has written extensively on the history of Soviet Russia, particularly the era from the October Revolution to Stalin's death...
  
  
• Adam Ulam
  Adam Ulam
  Adam Bruno Ulam was a Polish and American historian and political scientist at Harvard University. Ulam was one of the world's foremost authorities on Russia and the Soviet Union, and author of twenty books and many articles.-Biography:...
  
  

History of Scotland

History of Scotland

The history of Scotland begins around 10,000 years ago, when humans first began to inhabit what is now Scotland after the end of the Devensian glaciation, the last ice age...

• G. W. S. Barrow
  G. W. S. Barrow
  Geoffrey Wallis Steuart Barrow DLitt FBA FRSE is a British historian and academic. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh, and arguably the most prominent Scottish medievalist of the last century....
  
  
• Steve Boardman
  Steve Boardman
  Stephen I. Boardman, MA, PhD, FRHistS, is a leading Scottish medieval historian. A graduate of the University of St Andrews, he held the Glenfiddich Research Fellowship and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship of the British Academy at St Andrews before, in 1995, he being appointed Lecturer of Scottish...
  
  
• Hector Boece
  Hector Boece
  Hector Boece , known in Latin as Hector Boecius or Boethius, was a Scottish philosopher and first Principal of King's College in Aberdeen, a predecessor of the University of Aberdeen.-Biography:He was born in Dundee where he attended school...
  
  
• George Buchanan
  George Buchanan
  George Buchanan may refer to:*George Buchanan , Scottish humanist*Sir George Buchanan , Scottish soldier during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms*Sir George Buchanan , Chief Medical Officer...
  
  
• Gilbert Burnet
  Gilbert Burnet
  Gilbert Burnet was a Scottish theologian and historian, and Bishop of Salisbury. He was fluent in Dutch, French, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Burnet was respected as a cleric, a preacher, and an academic, as well as a writer and historian...
  
  
• Tom Devine
  Tom Devine
  Thomas Martin "Tom" Devine OBE FRSE FRHistS FBA is a Scottish historian. His main research interest is the history of the Scottish nation since c.1600 and its global connections and impact....
  
  
• John of Fordun
  John of Fordun
  John of Fordun was a Scottish chronicler. It is generally stated that he was born at Fordoun, Mearns. It is certain that he was a secular priest, and that he composed his history in the latter part of the 14th century; and it is probable that he was a chaplain in the St Machar's Cathedral of...
  
  
• Colin Kidd
  Colin Kidd
  Professor Colin Craig Kidd MA, D.Phil, F.R.Hist.S, F.S.A.Scot, FRSE, is a historian specialising in American and Scottish history. He is currently Professor of Intellectual History and the History of Political Thought at Queen's University Belfast, where he has worked since leaving the University...
  
  
• Michael Lynch
• Norman Macdougall
  Norman Macdougall
  Norman Macdougall is a Scottish historian who is known for writing about Scottish crown politics. He was a senior lecturer in Scottish history at the University of St Andrews....
  
  
• Rosalind Mitchison
  Rosalind Mitchison
  Rosalind Mary Mitchison was a historian of Scotland who specialised in social history.Rosalind Mary Wrong was born in Manchester. Her father, Edwin Wrong, and his father, George Wrong, were both historians...
  
  
• Richard Oram
  Richard Oram
  Professor Richard D. Oram F.S.A. is a Scottish historian. He is a Professor of Medieval and Environmental History at the University of Stirling and an Honorary Lecturer in History at the University of Aberdeen. He is also the director of the Centre for Environmental History and Policy at the...
  
  
• Nigel Tranter
  Nigel Tranter
  Nigel Tranter OBE was a Scottish historian and author.-Early life:Nigel Tranter was born in Glasgow and educated at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh. He trained as an accountant and worked in Scottish National Insurance Company, founded by his uncle. In 1933 he married May Jean Campbell Grieve...
  
  
• Christopher Whatley
  Christopher Whatley
  Christopher Allan Whatley FRHistS, FRSE is a well-known and widely published Scottish historian. He has been Professor of Scottish History at the University of Dundee since 1997....
  
  
• Jenny Wormald
  Jenny Wormald
  Jenny Wormald FRHist S, FSA Scot, FRSA, is a Scottish historian who studies late medieval and early modern Scotland. She taught at the University of Glasgow between 1966 and 1985, and then St Hilda's College, University of Oxford, between 1985 and 2005. She held a variety of other posts in this time...
  
  

Historiographer Royal of Scotland

Historiographer Royal

The Historiographer Royal is a member of the Royal household in Scotland. The office was created in 1681, and was in abeyance from 1709 until 1763 when it was revived for Principal William Robertson of Edinburgh University. The post, which now has no formal responsibilities or salary, is held by...

• James Crawford
  James Crawford
  James Crawford may refer to:*James Crawford , American basketball player, played in the National Basketball League of Australia*James Crawford , Canadian businessman and MP for Brockville, 1867–1872...
  
  , 1681–1682
• William Turner
  William Turner
  William Turner MA was an English divine and reformer, a physician and a natural historian. He studied medicine in Italy, and was a friend of the great Swiss naturalist, Conrad Gessner...
  
  , 1682
• James Fall
  James Fall
  Captain James Fall , MP for Haddington Burghs , in Scotland. One of four brothers who built a mercantile empire centred on Dunbar, he was apprenticed to an Edinburgh merchant becoming Burgess and Guild brother there in 1675. As MP he would probably be equally as well described as representing the...
  
  , 1682
• Christopher Irving, 1686–1693
• William Dunlop, 1693–1700
• Daniel Campbell
  Daniel Campbell
  Daniel Campbell or Dan Campbell may refer to:* Daniel Campbell , Scottish merchant and politician* Daniel Campbell , politician in Electoral district of Richmond , Australia...
  
  , 1700–1704
• David Crawford
  David Crawford
  David Crawford may refer to:*Dave Crawford, former head coach at the Hawaii college football program* David Crawford , Australian rules footballer*David Crawford , Australian non-executive director...
  
  , 1704–1708
• David Sympsone, 1708–1709
• William Robertson
  William Robertson (historian)
  William Robertson FRSE FSA was a Scottish historian, minister of religion, and Principal of the University of Edinburgh...
  
  , 1763–1793
• John Gillies
  John Gillies
  John Gillies was a Scottish historian and classical scholar.-Life:He was born at Brechin, in Forfarshire and was educated at the University of Glasgow, where, at the age of twenty, he acted for a short time as substitute for the professor of Greek. He lived for a while in Germany and returned in...
  
  , 1793–1836
• George Brodie
  George Brodie (historian)
  George Brodie , historian, was born about 1786 in East Lothian, where his father was a farmer on a large scale, and a contributor to the improvement of Scottish husbandry....
  
  , 1836–1867
• John Hill Burton
  John Hill Burton
  John Hill Burton FRSE was a Scottish advocate, historian and economist. The author of "Life and Correspondence of David Hume", he was secretary of the Scottish Prison Board , and Historiographer Royal ....
  
  , 1867–1881
• William Forbes Skene
  William Forbes Skene
  William Forbes Skene , Scottish historian and antiquary, was the second son of Sir Walter Scott's friend, James Skene , of Rubislaw, near Aberdeen....
  
  , 1881–1893
• David Masson
  David Masson
  David Masson , was a Scottish writer.He was born in Aberdeen, and educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and at Marischal College, University of Aberdeen. Intending to enter the Church, he proceeded to Edinburgh University, where he studied theology under Dr Thomas Chalmers, with whom he remained...
  
  , 1893–1908
• Peter Hume Brown
  Peter Hume Brown
  Peter Hume Brown was a Scottish historian and professor who played an important part in establishing Scottish history as a significant academic discipline...
  
  , 1908–1919
• Robert Rait
  Robert Rait
  Sir Robert Sangster Rait Kt. CBE DL was a Scottish historian, Historiographer Royal and Principal of the University of Glasgow.-Early life:...
  
  , 1919–1930
• Robert Kerr Hannay
  Robert Kerr Hannay
  Robert Kerr Hannay FRSE was a Scottish historian. He served as Historiographer Royal of Scotland and Chair of Scottish History and Palaeography at the University of Edinburgh....
  
  , FRSE, 1930–1940
• Henry William Meikle, 1940–1958
• J. D. Mackie
  J. D. Mackie
  John Duncan Mackie CBE MC Hon. LLD was a distinguished Scottish historian who wrote a one-volume history of Scotland as well as several works on early modern Scotland....
  
  , OBE, 1958–1978
• Gordon Donaldson
  Gordon Donaldson
  Gordon Donaldson CBE, FRHistS, FBA was a Scottish historian.Born in Edinburgh of Shetlander descent, Donaldson attended the Royal High School of Edinburgh, before being awarded a scholarship to study at the University of Edinburgh. He also supplemented his income by undertaking some tutoring...
  
  , CBE
  CBE
  CBE and C.B.E. are abbreviations for "Commander of the Order of the British Empire", a grade in the Order of the British Empire.Other uses include:* Chemical and Biochemical Engineering...
  
  , 1979–1993
• Christopher Smout
  Christopher Smout
  Thomas Christopher Smout CBE, FBA, FRSE, is a Scottish academic, historian, author and Historiographer Royal in Scotland.-Career:Smout taught at the University of Edinburgh, from 1959 until 1980...
  
  , CBE
  CBE
  CBE and C.B.E. are abbreviations for "Commander of the Order of the British Empire", a grade in the Order of the British Empire.Other uses include:* Chemical and Biochemical Engineering...
  
  , 1993–present

History of Spain

History of Spain

The history of Spain involves all the other peoples and nations within the Iberian peninsula formerly known as Hispania, and includes still today the nations of Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain...

• Ida Altman
  Ida Altman
  Ida Louise Altman is an American historian of colonial Spain and Latin America. Her book Emigrants and Society received the 1990 Herbert E. Bolton Prize of the Conference on Latin American History. Dr. Altman is professor of history at the University of Florida.Dr...
  
   - Early modern
  Early modern Europe
  Early modern Europe is the term used by historians to refer to a period in the history of Europe which spanned the centuries between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, roughly the late 15th century to the late 18th century...
  
   Spain
  History of Spain
  The history of Spain involves all the other peoples and nations within the Iberian peninsula formerly known as Hispania, and includes still today the nations of Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain...
  
  , colonial Latin America
  History of Latin America
  Latin America refers to countries in the Americas where Romance languages are spoken. This definition, however, is not meant to include Canada, in spite of its large French-speaking population....
  
  
• Maria Luisa Ávila–Medieval History, Spain
  History of Spain
  The history of Spain involves all the other peoples and nations within the Iberian peninsula formerly known as Hispania, and includes still today the nations of Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain...
  
  , History of Muslim Spain, Women's History
  Women's history
  Women's history is the study of the role that women have played in history, together with the methods needed to study women. It includes the study of the history of the growth of woman's rights throughout recorded history, the examination of individual women of historical significance, and the...
  
  
• Robert I. Burns–Spain
  History of Spain
  The history of Spain involves all the other peoples and nations within the Iberian peninsula formerly known as Hispania, and includes still today the nations of Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain...
  
  , Medieval History, History of Muslim Spain, Visigothic Spain
• Brian A Catlos–Spain
  History of Spain
  The history of Spain involves all the other peoples and nations within the Iberian peninsula formerly known as Hispania, and includes still today the nations of Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain...
  
  , Medieval History, History of Muslim Spain
• Roger Collins
  Roger Collins
  Roger J. H. Collins is an English medievalist, currently an honorary fellow in history at the University of Edinburgh.Collins studied at the University of Oxford under Peter Brown and John Michael Wallace-Hadrill. He then taught ancient and medieval history at the universities of Liverpool and...
  
  –Medieval History, Spain
  History of Spain
  The history of Spain involves all the other peoples and nations within the Iberian peninsula formerly known as Hispania, and includes still today the nations of Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain...
  
  , Visigothic Spain, History of Muslim Spain
• Olivia Remie Constable–Spain
  History of Spain
  The history of Spain involves all the other peoples and nations within the Iberian peninsula formerly known as Hispania, and includes still today the nations of Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain...
  
  , Medieval History, Commercial History
• Hipólito Escolar–Spain
  History of Spain
  The history of Spain involves all the other peoples and nations within the Iberian peninsula formerly known as Hispania, and includes still today the nations of Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain...
  
  , History of the Book
  History of the book
  The history of books follows a suite of technological innovations for books. These improved the quality of text conservation, the access to information, portability, and the cost of production...
  
  
• Pierre Guichard–Spain
  History of Spain
  The history of Spain involves all the other peoples and nations within the Iberian peninsula formerly known as Hispania, and includes still today the nations of Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain...
  
  , Medieval History, Visigothic Spain, History of Muslim Spain
• S.I Imamuddin–Spain
  History of Spain
  The history of Spain involves all the other peoples and nations within the Iberian peninsula formerly known as Hispania, and includes still today the nations of Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain...
  
  , Medieval History, History of Muslim Spain
• Manuela Marin–Women's History
  Women's history
  Women's history is the study of the role that women have played in history, together with the methods needed to study women. It includes the study of the history of the growth of woman's rights throughout recorded history, the examination of individual women of historical significance, and the...
  
  , Social History
  Social history
  Social history, often called the new social history, is a branch of History that includes history of ordinary people and their strategies of coping with life. In its "golden age" it was a major growth field in the 1960s and 1970s among scholars, and still is well represented in history departments...
  
  , Spain
  History of Spain
  The history of Spain involves all the other peoples and nations within the Iberian peninsula formerly known as Hispania, and includes still today the nations of Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain...
  
  , History of Muslim Spain
• Julian Ribera y Tarragó–Spain
  History of Spain
  The history of Spain involves all the other peoples and nations within the Iberian peninsula formerly known as Hispania, and includes still today the nations of Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain...
  
  , History of the Book
  History of the book
  The history of books follows a suite of technological innovations for books. These improved the quality of text conservation, the access to information, portability, and the cost of production...
  
  , Medieval History, History of Muslim Spain
• Samuel Miklos Stern–Spain
  History of Spain
  The history of Spain involves all the other peoples and nations within the Iberian peninsula formerly known as Hispania, and includes still today the nations of Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain...
  
  , History of the Book
  History of the book
  The history of books follows a suite of technological innovations for books. These improved the quality of text conservation, the access to information, portability, and the cost of production...
  
  , Medieval History, History of Muslim Spain, Literary History

History of Sweden

History of Sweden

Modern Sweden started out of the Kalmar Union formed in 1397 and by the unification of the country by King Gustav Vasa in the 16th century. In the 17th century Sweden expanded its territories to form the Swedish empire. Most of these conquered territories had to be given up during the 18th century...

• Peter Englund
  Peter Englund
  Peter Englund is a Swedish author and historian, and the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy since 1 June 2009.-Biography:...
  
  
• Anders Fryxell
  Anders Fryxell
  Anders Fryxell was a Swedish historian.Fryxell was born at Edsleskog, Dalsland, on the 7th of February 1795...
  
  
• Erik Gustaf Geijer
  Erik Gustaf Geijer
  Erik Gustaf Geijer was a Swedish writer, historian, poet, philosopher, and composer. His writings served to promote Swedish National Romanticism. He also was an influential advocate of Liberalism.-Biography:...
  
  
• Jan Glete
  Jan Glete
  Jan Glete was a Swedish historian. He was professor of history at the Stockholm University, specializing in 20th century Swedish industry and banking as well as the connection between state formation and naval history in early modern Europe.-Academic career:Glete spent his entire academic career...
  
  
• Carl Grimberg
  Carl Grimberg
  Carl Gustaf Grimberg was a Swedish historian. Grimberg's most famous work is his history of Sweden, Svenska folkets underbara öden . In 1926 Grimberg began to publish his history of the world, Världshistoria, but he did not finish it before his death.-External links:*...
  
  
• Ragnhild Hatton
  Ragnhild Hatton
  Ragnhild Marie Hatton, Ragnhild Marie Hatton, Ragnhild Marie Hatton, (born in Bergen, Norway on 10 January 1913 - died in London on 16 May 1995, was professor of International History at the London School of Economics...
  
  , biographer of King Charles XII
• Sten Lindroth
  Sten Lindroth
  Sten Hjalmar Lindroth was a Swedish historian of learning and science.Lindroth was born in the university town of Lund in Southern Sweden, but grew up and went to school in Gothenburg after his father Hjalmar Lindroth had been appointed to the Chair of Nordic languages at Gothenburg University...
  
  
• Erik Lönnroth
  Erik Lönnroth
  Erik Lönnroth was one of the most notable Swedish historians of the 20th century. He was a life member of the Swedish Academy from 1962 and member of various faculties.-Background:...
  
  
• Olaus Magnus
  Olaus Magnus
  Olaus Magnus was a Swedish ecclesiastic and writer, who did pioneering work for the interest of Nordic people. He was reported as born in October 1490 in Östergötland, and died on August 1, 1557. Magnus, Latin for the Swedish Stor “great”, is a Latin family name taken personally, and not a...
  
  
• Samuel von Pufendorf
  Samuel von Pufendorf
  Baron Samuel von Pufendorf was a German jurist, political philosopher, economist, statesman, and historian. His name was just Samuel Pufendorf until he was ennobled in 1684; he was made a Freiherr a few months before his death in 1694...
  
  
• Michael Roberts
  Michael Roberts (historian)
  Michael Roberts was an English historian specializing in the early modern period and particularly known for his studies of Swedish history.Roberts was born in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire and educated at Brighton College...
  
  
• John Robinson (1650–1723)
• Curt Weibull
  Curt Weibull
  Curt Weibull was a Swedish historian, educator and author.-Biography:Curt Hugo Johannes Weibull was born in Lund, Sweden. He was a member of the noted Swedish Weibull family. He was the son of history professor Martin Weibull and the brother of Lauritz Weibull, Alexander Weibull, Julius Oscar...
  
  
• Lauritz Weibull
  Lauritz Weibull
  Lauritz Ulrik Absalon Weibull was a Swedish historian.He was born in Lund, son of history professor Martin Weibull and the brother of Curt Weibull and Carl Gustaf Weibull, enrolled at the University of Lund in 1892, completed his B.A. 1892, his licentiate degree in 1899 and defended his...
  
  

History of Yugoslavia

• Stephen Schwartz
  Stephen Schwartz (journalist)
  Stephen Suleyman Schwartz is an American Muslimjournalist, columnist, and author. He has been published in a variety of media, including The Wall Street Journal. He is the executive director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism...
  
  
• Misha Glenny
  Misha Glenny
  Misha Glenny is a British journalist who specializes in southeastern Europe and global organized crime.-Biography:Glenny is the son of the late Russian studies academic Michael Glenny...
  
  
• John R. Lampe
  John R. Lampe
  John R. Lampe is a professor of history at the University of Maryland. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1971. He is a senior scholar at the Wilson Center...
  
   author of Yugoslavia As History: Twice There Was a Country
• Barbara Jelavich
  Barbara Jelavich
  Barbara Jelavich was an American professor of history at Indiana University.She was born as Barbara Brightfield and earned multiple degrees in history from the University of California at Berkeley. She received here A.B. honors degree in 1943, her M.A. in 1944, and her Ph.D in 1948...
  
   wrote extensively on Balkan history, along with her husband Charles Jelavich
• Ivo Banac
  Ivo Banac
  -External links:*...
  
   -nationalism
  Nationalism
  Nationalism is a political ideology that involves a strong identification of a group of individuals with a political entity defined in national terms, i.e. a nation. In the 'modernist' image of the nation, it is nationalism that creates national identity. There are various definitions for what...
  
  
• Catherine Samary
  Catherine Samary
  Catherine Samary is a lecturer at the Dauphine University, Paris and previously a central leader of the reunified Fourth International. She is a co-founder of its largest section, the Revolutionary Communist League....
  
   author of Yugoslavia Dismembered

The Middle East

• George Antonius
  George Antonius
  George Habib Antonius, CBE was a Lebanese-Egyptian author and diplomat, settled in Palestine, one of the first historians of Arab nationalism. Born in Deir al Qamar in a Lebanese Orthodox Christian family, he served in the British Mandate of Palestine. His 1938 book The Arab Awakening was...
  
   (1891–1941) - Historian of Arab nationalism
  Arab nationalism
  Arab nationalism is a nationalist ideology celebrating the glories of Arab civilization, the language and literature of the Arabs, calling for rejuvenation and political union in the Arab world...
  
  
• Anders Bjørkelo
• Vincent Cronin
  Vincent Cronin
  Vincent Archibald Patrick Cronin, FRSL was a British historical, cultural, and biographical writer, best-known for his biographies of Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, and Napoleon, as well as for his books on the Renaissance.Cronin was born in Tredegar, Monmouthshire...
  
   - study of the Faiqani tribe of South Persia
• Heleen Sancisi Weerdenburg
  Heleen Sancisi Weerdenburg
  Heleen W.A.M. Sancisi-Weerdenburg , was a Dutch ancient historian, specializing in classical Greek and Achaemenid history....
  
   (1944–2000) - Achaemenid history
• Caroline Finkel
  Caroline Finkel
  Caroline Finkel is a British historian and writer based in Turkey, with a doctorate from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London....
  
  
• Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb
  Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb
  Sir Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb , also commonly referred to as "H. A. R. Gibb", was a Scottish historian on Orientalism.-Early life and education:...
  
   (1895–1971) - Editor, The Encyclopaedia of Islam
  Encyclopaedia of Islam
  The Encyclopaedia of Islam is an encyclopaedia of the academic discipline of Islamic studies. It embraces articles on distinguished Muslims of every age and land, on tribes and dynasties, on the crafts and sciences, on political and religious institutions, on the geography, ethnography, flora and...
  
  
• Bernard Lewis
  Bernard Lewis
  Bernard Lewis, FBA is a British-American historian, scholar in Oriental studies, and political commentator. He is the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University...
  
   - History of Islam and the Middle East
• Albert Hourani
  Albert Hourani
  -Life and career:Hourani was born in Manchester, England, the son of Soumaya Rassi and Fadlo Issa Hourani, immigrants from Marjeyoun in what is now South Lebanon. His brothers were George Hourani and Cecil Hourani. His family had converted from Greek Orthodoxy...
  
  
• Ibn Khaldun
  Ibn Khaldun
  Ibn Khaldūn or Ibn Khaldoun was an Arab Tunisian historiographer and historian who is often viewed as one of the forerunners of modern historiography, sociology and economics...
  
  
• Walid Khalidi
  Walid Khalidi
  Walid Khalidi is an Oxford University-educated Palestinian historian who has written extensively on the Palestinian exodus. He is General Secretary and co-founder of the Institute for Palestine Studies, established in Beirut in December 1963 as an independent research and publishing center...
  
   Palestinian historian
• D. S. Margoliouth
• Michael Oren
  Michael Oren
  Michael B. Oren is an American-born Israeli historian and author and the Israeli ambassador to the United States...
  
  
• Ibn al-Tiqtaqa
  Ibn al-Tiqtaqa
  ‘Ibn al-Tiqtaqā’, or the son of a chatterbox, was an onomatopoeic nickname for the Iraqi historian Jalāl-ad-Dīn Abu Ja’far Muhammad ibn Tāji’d-Dīn Abi’l-Hasan ’Ali, the spokesman of the Shi'a community in the Shi’ī holy cities—Hillah, Najaf, and Karbala; in an Iraq that was to remain the stronghold...
  
   (b. circa 1262) Shi'i historian, wrote Al-Fakhīr
• ‘Ala’ al-Din ‘Ata Malik Juvayni (1226–1283) Ta’rīkh-I-Jahān Gushā (A History of the World-Conqueror Chingis Khān)
• Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (circa 1247-1318) Jāmi‛ al-Tawārīkh (Compendium of Chronicles), Ta’rīkh–i-Ghāzānī (a history of the Mongols and Turks)

History of the Indian Subcontinent

• Nasim Yousaf
  Nasim Yousaf
  Nasim Yousaf is a scholar, historian and intellectual. He comes from a famous family of the Indian sub-continent and is a grandson of the pre-eminent Allama Mashriqi . He is also a nephew of globally recognized social scientist Dr. Akhtar Hameed Khan Nasim Yousaf is a scholar, historian and...
  
  
• Muzaffar Alam
  Muzaffar Alam
  Muzaffar Alam is the George V. Bobrinskoy Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilization at the University of Chicago.-Biography:...
  
  
• Shahid Amin
• Gautam Bhadra
• A. L. Basham
• Neeladri Bhattacharya
• Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
• Chris Bayly
• Dipesh Chakrabarty
  Dipesh Chakrabarty
  Dipesh Chakrabarty is a Bengali historian who has also made contributions to postcolonial theory and subaltern studies.He attended Presidency College of the University of Calcutta, where he received his undergraduate degree in physics. He also received a diploma in business management from the...
  
  
• B. D. Chattopadhyay
• Bernard Cohn
  Bernard Cohn
  This article refers to Bernard Cohn the businessman and politician. For information on Bernard Cohn the historian and anthropologist, please see Bernard Cohn .Bernard Cohn was an American businessman and politician...
  
  
• Sir Jadunath Sarkar
• R. C. Majumdar
  R. C. Majumdar
  Ramesh Chandra Majumdar was an Indian historian of great repute. He is sometimes called "the dean of Indian historians" for his colossal contribution to the study of Indian history.-Early life and education:...
  
  
• Niharranjan Ray
  Niharranjan Ray
  Niharranjan Ray was an Indian historian, well-known for his works on history of art and Buddhism. he was born at Kayetgram village of Mymensingh District in Bengal province of British India . He completed his initial studies from the Mrityunjaya School and Anandamohan College in Mymensingh. In...
  
  
• Datto Vaman Potdar
  Datto Vaman Potdar
  Dattatray Vaman Potdar , better known as Datto Vaman Potdar, was an eminent Indian historian, writer, and orator. He was the Vice-Chancellor of University of Pune during 1961 - 1964....
  
  
• Tryambak Shankar Shejwalkar
  Tryambak Shankar Shejwalkar
  Tryambak Shankar Shejwalkar was an award-winning historian and essayist.-Biography:...
  
  
• Ram Sharan Sharma
  Ram Sharan Sharma
  Ram Sharan Sharma was an eminent historian of Ancient and early Medieval India. He had taught at Patna University, Delhi University and the University of Toronto and was a senior fellow at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; University Grants Commission National Fellow...
  
  
• Ranjan Chakrabarti
• A. L. Basham
• Nicholas Dirks
  Nicholas Dirks
  Nicholas Dirks is the Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Professor of History at Columbia University, where he is also Vice President of Arts and Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
  
  
• Ranajit Guha
  Ranajit Guha
  Ranajit Guha is a historian of South Asia who was greatly influential in the Subaltern Studies group, and was the editor of several of the group's early anthologies. He migrated from India to the UK in the 1960s, and currently lives in Vienna, Austria.His Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency...
  
  
• Ayesha Jalal
  Ayesha Jalal
  Ayesha Jalal is a Pakistani-American sociologist and historian. She is a professor of history at Tufts University and a 1998 MacArthur Fellow. The bulk of her work deals with the creation of Muslim identities in modern South Asia....
  
  
• Sushobhan Sarkar
• Sumit Sarkar
  Sumit Sarkar
  -Background:He belongs to one of Bengal's most enlightened and progressive Brahmo families. His father was Professor Susobhan Chandra Sarkar, a Head of Department of History at Presidency College, Calcutta and the founder Head of Department of the Department of History, []...
  
  
• Romila Thapar
  Romila Thapar
  Romila Thapar is an Indian historian whose principal area of study is ancient India.-Work:After graduating from Panjab University, Thapar earned her doctorate under A. L. Basham at the School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of London in 1958...
  
  
• Thomas Metcalf
  Thomas R. Metcalf
  Thomas R. Metcalf is a historian of South Asia, especially colonial India, and of British imperialism. Metcalf is the Emeritus Sarah Kailath Professor of India Studies and Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley...
  
  
• Barbara Metcalf
• Partha Mitter
• David Ludden
• Percival Spear
  Percival Spear
  Thomas George Percival Spear was an English historian who spent much of his life living and teaching in India. An accomplished historian of modern Indian social history, he taught at both Cambridge University and St. Stephen's College with great distinction.In 1943 he became deputy secretary to...
  
  
• Romila Thapar
  Romila Thapar
  Romila Thapar is an Indian historian whose principal area of study is ancient India.-Work:After graduating from Panjab University, Thapar earned her doctorate under A. L. Basham at the School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of London in 1958...
  
  
• Bipin Chandra
  Bipin Chandra
  Bipan Chandra is an Indian historian, specialising in economic and political history of modern India.Chandra has been associated with the "Marxist school" of Indian historiography. Presently, he is the Chairman of the National Book Trust, New Delhi He was a member of the University Grants...
  
  
• Crispin Bates
• Gyan Prakash
  Gyan Prakash
  Gyan Prakash is a historian of modern India and the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University. Prakash is a member of the Subaltern Studies collective. Prakash received his BA in history from the University of Delhi in 1973, his MA in history from Jawaharlal Nehru University in...
  
  
• Gyan Pandey
• Rosalind O Hanlon
• David Washbrook
• Richard Maxwell Eaton
• Tanika Sarkar
  Tanika Sarkar
  Tanika Sarkar is a historian of modern India. Professor Sarkar's work focuses on the intersections of religion, gender, and politics in both colonial and postcolonial South Asia, in particular on women and the Hindu Right...
  
  
• Mrinalini Sinha
• Barbara Ramusack
  Barbara Ramusack
  Barbara N. Ramusack is a historian and Charles Phelps Taft Professor of History Emerita at the University of Cincinnati.Her focus was on Indian and Chinese History...
  
  
• Thomas Trautmann
  Thomas Trautmann
  Thomas R. Trautmann is an American historian and Professor in the Department of History at the University of Michigan. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of London...
  
  
• K. K. Aziz
  Khursheed kamal aziz
  Khursheed Kamal Aziz better known as K. K. Aziz, was a Pakistani historian, admired for his books written in the English Language...
  
  
• Mubarak Ali
  Mubarak Ali
  Dr. Mubarak Ali is an eminent historian, activist and scholar of Pakistan.Ali was born in Tonk, British India in April 1941. He wrote in one of his books that he made up his birthdate because his parents did not know it accurately.- Career :Ali obtained an M.A. in History from Sindh University,...
  
  

History of Pakhtunkhwa and Afghanistan

• Fazal-ur-Rahim Marwat, Dr.
• Razia Sultana, Dr.
• Syed Minhaj-ul-Hassan, Dr.
• Sayed Wiqar Ali Shah, Dr.

History of Japan

History of Japan

The history of Japan encompasses the history of the islands of Japan and the Japanese people, spanning the ancient history of the region to the modern history of Japan as a nation state. Following the last ice age, around 12,000 BC, the rich ecosystem of the Japanese Archipelago fostered human...

• William George Aston
  William George Aston
  William George Aston was a British diplomat, author and scholar-expert in the language and history of Japan and Korea.-Early life:...
  
  
• Harold Bolitho
  Harold Bolitho
  Harold Bolitho was an Australian academic, historian, author and professor emeritus in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University The name Bolitho is of Cornish origin.-Career:...
  
  
• Basil Hall Chamberlain
  Basil Hall Chamberlain
  Basil Hall Chamberlain was a professor of Tokyo Imperial University and one of the foremost British Japanologists active in Japan during the late 19th century. He also wrote some of the earliest translations of haiku into English...
  
  
• Albert M. Craig
  Albert M. Craig
  Albert Morton Craig is an American academic, historian, author and professor emeritus in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.-Early life:...
  
  
• William Elliot Griffis
  William Elliot Griffis
  William Elliot Griffis was an American orientalist, Congregational minister, lecturer, and prolific author....
  
  
• John Whitney Hall
  John Whitney Hall
  John Whitney Hall , the Tokyo-born son of missionaries in Japan, grew up to become a pioneer in the field of Japanese studies and one of the most respected historians of Japan of his generation. His life work was recognized by the Japanese government...
  
  
• Donald Keene
  Donald Keene
  Donald Lawrence Keene is a Japanologist, scholar, teacher, writer, translator and interpreter of Japanese literature and culture. Keene was University Professor Emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature at Columbia University, where he taught for over fifty years...
  
  
• Richard Ponsonby-Fane
  Richard Ponsonby-Fane
  Richard Arthur Brabazon Ponsonby-Fane was a British academic, author, and Japanologist.-Early years:Richard Arthur Brabazon Ponsonby was born at Gravesend on the south bank of the Thames in Kent, England...
  
  
• Ian Nish
  Ian Nish
  Ian Hill Nish CBE is a British academic, a specialist in Japanese studies, and Emeritus Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science ....
  
  
• Jirō Osaragi
  Jiro Osaragi
  was the pen-name of a popular Japanese writer in Shōwa period Japan, known primarily for his historical fiction novels, which appeared serialized in newspapers and magazines. His real name was .-Early life:Osaragi Jirō was born in Yokohama...
  
  
• Edwin O. Reischauer
  Edwin O. Reischauer
  Edwin Oldfather Reischauer was the leading U.S. educator and noted scholar of the history and culture of Japan, and of East Asia. From 1961–1966, he was the U.S. ambassador to Japan.-Education and academic life:...
  
  
• Donald Richie
  Donald Richie
  Donald Richie is an American-born author who has written about the Japanese people and Japanese cinema. Although he considers himself only a writer, Richie has directed many experimental films, the first when he was 17...
  
  
• George Bailey Sansom
  George Bailey Sansom
  Sir George Bailey Sansom was a historian of pre-modern Japan particularly noted for his historical surveys and attention to Japanese society....
  
  
• Ernest Mason Satow
  Ernest Mason Satow
  Sir Ernest Mason Satow PC, GCMG, , known in Japan as "" , known in China as "薩道義" or "萨道义", was a British scholar, diplomat and Japanologist....
  
  
• Isaac Titsingh
  Isaac Titsingh
  Isaac Titsingh FRS was a Dutch surgeon, scholar, merchant-trader and ambassador.During a long career in East Asia, Titsingh was a senior official of the Dutch East India Company . He represented the European trading company in exclusive official contact with Tokugawa Japan...
  
  
• Stephen Turnbull
  Stephen Turnbull (historian)
  Stephen Richard Turnbull is a historian specializing in eastern military history, especially the samurai of Japan. The books he wrote are mainly on Japanese and Mongolian subjects.He attended Cambridge University where he gained his first degree...
  
  
• Eiji Yoshikawa
  Eiji Yoshikawa
  was a Japanese historical novelist, probably one of the best and most famous authors in the genre. Among his most well-known novels, most are revisions of past works. He was mainly influenced by classics such as The Tale of the Heike, Tale of Genji, Outlaws of the Marsh, and Romance of the Three...
  
  

History of Korea

History of Korea

The Korean Peninsula was inhabited from the Lower Paleolithic about 400,000-500,000 years ago. Archeological evidence indicates that the presence of modern humans in northeast Asia dates to 39,000 years ago. The earliest known Korean pottery dates to around 8000 BC, and the Neolithic period began...

• Bruce Cumings
  Bruce Cumings
  Bruce Cumings is the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in History at the University of Chicago and the chairperson of the history department...
  
   - modern Korea
• Carter J. Eckert
• James Palais
  James Palais
  James B. Palais was an American academic, author and scholar of Korean history. He was Professor of Korean History at the University of Washington; and he was a key figure in establishing Korean Studies in the United States....
  
  
• Il-yeon
  Il-yeon
  Il-yeon was a Buddhist monk and All-Enlightened National Preceptor during the Goryeo Dynasty of Korea. His birth name was Kim Gyeong-myeong , and his courtesy name was Hoe-yeon ....
  
  
• Kim Bu-sik
  Kim Bu-sik
  Kim Busik was an official and a scholar during Korea's Goryeo period. He is best known for compiling the Samguk Sagi, the oldest extant record of Korean history....
  
   - early annalist
• Kim Dae-mun
  Kim Dae-Mun
  Kim Dae-mun was a Silla historian. He was the governor of Hansan in 704. According to book 46, biography section of Samguk Sagi, he wrote several books.* Tales from Gyerim...
  
  
• Lee Ki-baek - (1924–2004)
• James Hoare
  James Hoare
  James Edward Hoare is a British academic and historian specializing in Chinese and Korean studies, and a career diplomat in the British Foreign Office.-Academia:Dr. Hoare is a graduate of London's School of Oriental and African Studies...
  
  
• Shin Chaeho - The ancient Korean history
• Andre Schmid
  Andre Schmid
  Andre Schmid is a former American soccer player.Schmid attended Christian Brothers High School in California where he was an ADIDAS high school All American. He then attended St. John’s University in New York where he played soccer from 2001 to 2005...
  
  
• Suh Dae-sook - Korean War
  Korean War
  The Korean War was a conventional war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China , with military material aid from the Soviet Union...
  
   and North Korea
  North Korea
  The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea , , is a country in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Pyongyang. The Korean Demilitarized Zone serves as the buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea...
  
  
• Yu Deuk-gong
  Yu Deuk-gong
  Yu Deuk-gong was a Korean scholar during the Joseon Dynasty. He is remembered today for his work in recovering the history of Balhae, which had not generally been considered part of Korean history before his time.-See also:*History of Korea...
  
   - Balhae
  Balhae
  Balhae was a Manchurian kingdom established after the fall of Goguryeo. After Goguryeo's capital and southern territories fell to Unified Silla, Dae Jo-yeong, a Mohe general, whose father was Dae Jung-sang, established Jin , later called Balhae.Balhae occupied southern parts of Manchuria and...
  
  
• Odd Arne Westad
  Odd Arne Westad
  Odd Arne Westad FBA is a Norwegian historian specialising in the Cold War and contemporary East Asian history....
  
   - Professor at the London School of Economics
  London School of Economics
  The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...
  
  

History of China

History of China

Chinese civilization originated in various regional centers along both the Yellow River and the Yangtze River valleys in the Neolithic era, but the Yellow River is said to be the Cradle of Chinese Civilization. With thousands of years of continuous history, China is one of the world's oldest...

• Ann Paludan
  Ann Paludan
  Ann Paludan is a British author of several books on Chinese history, sculpture, and architecture.-Biography:Ann Paludan is the daughter of Basil Murray...
  
   – (born 1928) – ancient China
• Chen Shou
  Chen Shou
  Chen Shou was a historian during the Jin Dynasty period of Chinese history. He is best known as the author of Records of Three Kingdoms, a historical account of the late Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms period.-Biography:...
  
   - The author of the Records of Three Kingdoms.
• Sima Qian
  Sima Qian
  Sima Qian was a Prefect of the Grand Scribes of the Han Dynasty. He is regarded as the father of Chinese historiography for his highly praised work, Records of the Grand Historian , a "Jizhuanti"-style general history of China, covering more than two thousand years from the Yellow Emperor to...
  
   - Compiled Records of the Grand Historian
  Records of the Grand Historian
  The Records of the Grand Historian, also known in English by the Chinese name Shiji , written from 109 BC to 91 BC, was the Magnum opus of Sima Qian, in which he recounted Chinese history from the time of the Yellow Emperor until his own time...
  
  
• Jonathan Spence
  Jonathan Spence
  Jonathan D. Spence is a British-born historian and public intellectual specializing in Chinese history. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University from 1993 to 2008. His most famous book is The Search for Modern China, which has become one of the standard texts on the last several...
  
  
• Denis Twitchett - (1925–2006) Cambridge scholar, and editor of The Cambridge History of China
• Hans van de Ven
  Hans van de Ven
  Johan 'Hans' van de Ven is an authority on the history of 19th and 20th century China. He holds several positions at the University of Cambridge, where he is Professor of Modern Chinese History, Chairman of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Management Committee member of the East...
  
  
• Frederic Wakeman, Jr.
• Odd Arne Westad
  Odd Arne Westad
  Odd Arne Westad FBA is a Norwegian historian specialising in the Cold War and contemporary East Asian history....
  
   - Professor at the London School of Economics
  London School of Economics
  The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...
  
   and author of many books on China
• John Herman

Africa

• Larry Yarak
• Clapperton Mavhunga
• David Cohen
  David William Cohen
  David William Cohen is professor of history and anthropology and director of the International Institute at the University of Michigan. He specializes in East Africa and is a leader in the emerging field of historical anthropology....
  
  
• Nancy Rose Hunt

History of Australia

History of Australia

The History of Australia refers to the history of the area and people of Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding Indigenous and colonial societies. Aboriginal Australians are believed to have first arrived on the Australian mainland by boat from the Indonesian archipelago between 40,000 to...

• Manning Clark
  Manning Clark
  Charles Manning Hope Clark, AC , an Australian historian, was the author of the best-known general history of Australia, his six-volume A History of Australia, published between 1962 and 1987...
  
  
• Geoffrey Blainey
  Geoffrey Blainey
  Geoffrey Norman Blainey AC , is a prominent Australian historian.Blainey was born in Melbourne and raised in a series of Victorian country towns before attending Wesley College and the University of Melbourne. While at university he was editor of Farrago, the newspaper of the University of...
  
  
• Bujar Kocana
• Stuart Macintyre
  Stuart Macintyre
  Stuart Forbes Macintyre , Australian historian, academic and public intellectual, is a former Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. He has been voted one of Australia's most influential public intellectuals...
  
  
• Henry Reynolds
  Henry Reynolds (historian)
  Henry Reynolds is an eminent Australian historian whose primary work has focused on the frontier conflict between European settlement of Australia and indigenous Australians.-Education and career:...
  
  
• Frank Welsh

History of New Zealand

History of New Zealand

The history of New Zealand dates back at least 700 years to when it was discovered and settled by Polynesians, who developed a distinct Māori culture centred on kinship links and land. The first European explorer to discover New Zealand was Abel Janszoon Tasman on 13 December 1642...

• James Belich
  James Belich (historian)
  James Christopher Belich, ONZM is a New Zealand revisionist historian, known for his work on the New Zealand Wars.Of Croatian descent, he was born in Wellington in 1956, the son of Sir James Belich, who later became Mayor of Wellington. He attended Onslow College.He gained an M.A...
  
  
• Michael King
  Michael King
  Michael King, OBE was a New Zealand popular historian, author and biographer. He wrote or edited over 30 books on New Zealand topics, including The Penguin History of New Zealand, which was the most popular New Zealand book of 2004.-Life:King was born in Wellington to Eleanor and Commander Lewis...
  
  
• W. H. Oliver
  W. H. Oliver
  W.H. Oliver is a New Zealand historian and poet, born in Feilding, on 14 May 1925, the son of Cornish immigrants. He studied at Victoria University of Wellington and completed a PhD at Oxford University in 1953. He returned to New Zealand and lectured at University of Canterbury and Victoria,...
  
  
• William Pember Reeves
  William Pember Reeves
  The Hon. William Pember Reeves was a New Zealand statesman, historian and poet, who promoted social reform.-Biography:...
  
  
• J. G. A. Pocock
• Keith Sinclair
  Keith Sinclair
  Sir Keith Sinclair, CBE was a poet and noted historian of New Zealand.Born and raised in Auckland, Sinclair was a student at Auckland University College, which was then part of the University of New Zealand. He was awarded a Ph.D...
  
  

Christianity

Christianity

Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in canonical gospels and other New Testament writings...

• Eusebius of Caesarea
  Eusebius of Caesarea
  Eusebius of Caesarea also called Eusebius Pamphili, was a Roman historian, exegete and Christian polemicist. He became the Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine about the year 314. Together with Pamphilus, he was a scholar of the Biblical canon...
  
   (~275
  275
  Year 275 was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aurelianus and Marcellinus...
  
  –339
  339
  Year 339 was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Constantius and Claudius...
  
  ) - "Father of Church history"
• Alexander Campbell Cheyne
  Alexander Campbell Cheyne
  The Rev. Professor Alexander Campbell Cheyne , commonly known as A. C. Cheyne, was one of the foremost Scottish scholars of Church History, teaching at New College, Edinburgh from 1958 until his retirement in 1986....
  
  , Scottish Ecclesiastical Historian
• John Gilmary Shea
  John Gilmary Shea
  John Gilmary Shea was a writer, editor, and historian of both American history in general and American Catholic history specifically. Shea was born in New York City to James Shea, an Irish immigrant and school principal, and Mary Ann Shea. He studied at St...
  
   (1824–1892) Father of American CatholicHistory
• Barbara Thiering
  Barbara Thiering
  Barbara Thiering is an Australian nonfiction writer, historian, and Biblical exegete specialising in the origins of the early Christian Church. In books and journal articles, she challenges Christian orthodoxy, drawing on claimed new evidence that gives alternative answers to its supernatural...
  
   (born 1930) Rediscovered the "Pesher technique
  Pesher
  Pesher is a Hebrew word meaning "interpretation" in the sense of "solution". It became known from one group of texts, numbering some hundreds, among the Dead Sea Scrolls....
  
  "

Lutheranism

Lutheranism

Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the theology of Martin Luther, a German reformer. Luther's efforts to reform the theology and practice of the church launched the Protestant Reformation...

• Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim
  Johann Lorenz von Mosheim
  Johann Lorenz von Mosheim or Johann Lorenz Mosheim , German Lutheran church historian, was born at Lübeck on 9 October 1693 or 1694.- Biography :...
  
   (1694–1755) - Lutheran historian of Christianity from its inception through the 18th century

Mormonism

Mormonism

Mormonism is the religion practiced by Mormons, and is the predominant religious tradition of the Latter Day Saint movement. This movement was founded by Joseph Smith, Jr. beginning in the 1820s as a form of Christian primitivism. During the 1830s and 1840s, Mormonism gradually distinguished itself...

• Leonard J. Arrington
  Leonard J. Arrington
  Leonard James Arrington was an author, academic and the founder of the Mormon History Association. He is known as the "Dean of Mormon History" and "the Father of Mormon History" because of his many influential contributions to the field.-Biographical background:Arrington was born in Twin Falls,...
  
   - LDS Church historian 1975-1982
• B.H. Roberts
• Fawn M. Brodie
  Fawn M. Brodie
  Fawn McKay Brodie was a biographer and professor of history at UCLA, best known for Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History, a work of psychobiography, and No Man Knows My History, an early and still influential non-hagiographic biography of Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint...
  
  
• Richard Bushman
  Richard Bushman
  Richard Lyman Bushman is an American historian and Gouverneur Morris Professor of History emeritus at Columbia University. He is currently the Howard W. Hunter Visiting Professor in Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University...
  
  

The Papacy

History of the Papacy

The history of the papacy, the office held by the Pope as head of the Catholic Church, spans from the time of Saint Peter to present day.During the Early Church, the bishops of Rome enjoyed no temporal power until the time of Constantine...

• Ludwig von Pastor
  Ludwig von Pastor
  Ludwig Pastor, later Ludwig von Pastor, Freiherr von Campersfelden , was a German historian and a diplomat for Austria. He became one of the most important Roman Catholic historians of his time and is most notable for his History of the Popes...
  
  , wrote 40 volume history of the popes making extensive use of the Vatican Secret Archives
  Vatican Secret Archives
  The Vatican Secret Archives , located in Vatican City, is the central repository for all of the acts promulgated by the Holy See. The Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, having primal incumbency until death, owns the archives until the next appointed Papal successor...
  
  

Salvation Army

Salvation Army

The Salvation Army is a Protestant Christian church known for its thrift stores and charity work. It is an international movement that currently works in over a hundred countries....

• Rob Brettle (born 1963) Co-founder Christian Mission Historical Society
• Harry Hayes
  Harry Hayes
  Harry Hayes may refer to:*Juán Enrique Hayes , Argentine footballer*Enrique Ricardo Hayes, Argentine footballer and son of Juán Enrique Hayes*Harry Hays , Canadian politician*Harry T. Hays , American army officer...
  
  - founder Salvation Army Philatelic Society
• Glenn Horridge - Co-founder Christian Mission Historical Society

Counterfactual

• Niall Ferguson
  Niall Ferguson
  Niall Campbell Douglas Ferguson is a British historian. His specialty is financial and economic history, particularly hyperinflation and the bond markets, as well as the history of colonialism.....
  
  , Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals (1997).

Holocaust

• Yitzhak Arad
  Yitzhak Arad
  Yitzhak Arad , is an Israeli historian, retired IDF brigadier general and a former Soviet partisan who has served as director of Yad Vashem from 1972 to 1993...
  
  
• Yehuda Bauer
  Yehuda Bauer
  Yehuda Bauer is a historian and scholar of the Holocaust. He is a Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.-Biography:...
  
  
• Martin Broszat
  Martin Broszat
  Martin Broszat was a German historian specializing in modern German social history whose work has been described by The Encyclopedia of Historians as indispensable for any serious study of the Third Reich. Broszat was born in Leipzig, Germany and studied history at the University of Leipzig and...
  
  
• Christopher Browning
  Christopher Browning
  Christopher Robert Browning is an American historian of the Holocaust.-Education:Browning received his bachelor's degree from Oberlin College in 1968 and his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1975. He taught at Pacific Lutheran University from 1974 to 1999, eventually becoming...
  
  
• Lucy Dawidowicz
  Lucy Dawidowicz
  Lucy Schildkret Dawidowicz was an American historian and an author of books on modern Jewish history, in particular books on the Holocaust.-Life:...
  
  
• Norman Finkelstein
  Norman Finkelstein
  Norman Gary Finkelstein is an American political scientist, activist and author. His primary fields of research are the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust. He is a graduate of Binghamton University and received his Ph.D in Political Science from Princeton University...
  
  
• Henry Friedlander
  Henry Friedlander
  Henry Friedlander is a Jewish historian of the Holocaust noted for his arguments in favor of broadening the scope of casualties of the Holocaust....
  
  
• Saul Friedländer
  Saul Friedländer
  Saul Friedländer is an award-winning Israeli historian and currently a professor of history at UCLA.-Biography:...
  
  
• Martin Gilbert
  Martin Gilbert
  Sir Martin John Gilbert, CBE, PC is a British historian and Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford. He is the author of over eighty books, including works on the Holocaust and Jewish history...
  
  
• Israel Gutman
  Israel Gutman
  Israel Gutman is a Polish-born Israeli historian of the Holocaust.Israel Gutman was born in Warsaw, Poland. After playing an important role in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, he was deported to the Majdanek, Auschwitz and Mauthausen concentration camps. His older sister died in the ghetto. After...
  
  
• Daniel Goldhagen
  Daniel Goldhagen
  Daniel Jonah Goldhagen is an American author and former Associate Professor of Political Science and Social Studies at Harvard University. Goldhagen reached international attention and broad criticism as the author of two controversial books about the Holocaust, Hitler's Willing Executioners and...
  
  
• Raul Hilberg
  Raul Hilberg
  Raul Hilberg was an Austrian-born American political scientist and historian. He was widely considered to be the world's preeminent scholar of the Holocaust, and his three-volume, 1,273-page magnum opus, The Destruction of the European Jews, is regarded as a seminal study of the Nazi Final...
  
  
• Dov Levin
  Dov Levin
  Don Levin was an Israeli jurist and Supreme Court justice in the years 1982–1995.Levin was born in Tel Aviv to Eliyahu and Dvora Levin, in a family of rabbis and scholars, descendants of the Vilna Gaon and residents of Israel since the mid-19th century...
  
  
• Michael Marrus
  Michael Marrus
  Michael Robert Marrus is a Canadian historian of France, the Holocaust and Jewish history. He was born in Toronto and received his BA at the University of Toronto in 1963 and his MA and PhD at the University of California, Berkeley in 1964 and 1968...
  
  
• Hans Mommsen
  Hans Mommsen
  Hans Mommsen is a left-wing German historian. He is the twin brother of the late Wolfgang Mommsen.-Biography:He was born in Marburg, the son of the historian Wilhelm Mommsen and great-grandson of the Roman historian Theodor Mommsen. He studied German, history and philosophy at the University of...
  
  
• Dina Porat
  Dina Porat
  Dina Porat is a professor at Tel Aviv University. She is head of the Chaim Rosenberg School for Jewish Studies and of the Stephen Roth Institute and holds the Alfred P. Slaner Chair for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism. She is also a member of the Yad Vashem Scientific Advisory...
  
  
• R. J. Rummel
  R. J. Rummel
  Rudolph Joseph Rummel is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaii. He has spent his career assembling data on collective violence and war with a view toward helping their resolution or elimination...
  
  
• Hanna Yablonka
  Hanna Yablonka
  Hanna Yablonka is an Israeli historian and scholar of the Holocaust. She is a Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and staff historian for the Ghetto Fighters' House.-References:...
  
  

Marxist

• Eric Foner
  Eric Foner
  Eric Foner is an American historian. On the faculty of the Department of History at Columbia University since 1982, he writes extensively on political history, the history of freedom, the early history of the Republican Party, African American biography, Reconstruction, and historiography...
  
   - Marxist historian of the American Civil War
  American Civil War
  The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...
  
   and Reconstruction
• Eugene D. Genovese
  Eugene D. Genovese
  Eugene Dominic Genovese is an American historian of the American South and American slavery. He has been noted for bringing a Marxist perspective to the study of power, class and relations between planters and slaves in the South. His work Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made won the...
  
   - Marxist historian of southern US history and slavery
  Slavery
  Slavery is a system under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold, and are forced to work. Slaves can be held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase or birth, and deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to demand compensation...
  
  
• Ranajit Guha
  Ranajit Guha
  Ranajit Guha is a historian of South Asia who was greatly influential in the Subaltern Studies group, and was the editor of several of the group's early anthologies. He migrated from India to the UK in the 1960s, and currently lives in Vienna, Austria.His Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency...
  
   - Indian Marxist historian
• Christopher Hill - 17th century England.
• Eric Hobsbawm
  Eric Hobsbawm
  Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm , CH, FBA, is a British Marxist historian, public intellectual, and author...
  
   - Marxist historian of the modern world.
• Gerald Horne
  Gerald Horne
  Gerald Horne is an African American historian who currently holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. He received his PhD from Columbia University and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a frequent...
  
   - African American Marxist historian
• Timothy Wright Mason - Marxist historian who worked on the history of National Socialism
  Nazism
  Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...
  
   and the German working-class.
• Maxime Rodinson
  Maxime Rodinson
  Maxime Rodinson was a French Marxist historian, sociologist and orientalist. He was the son of a Russian-Polish clothing trader and his wife who both died in the Auschwitz concentration camp. After studying oriental languages, he became a professor of Ethiopian at EPHE...
  
    French Marxist historian on the history of Islam
  Islam
  Islam . The most common are and .   : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
  
  
• Sumit Sarkar
  Sumit Sarkar
  -Background:He belongs to one of Bengal's most enlightened and progressive Brahmo families. His father was Professor Susobhan Chandra Sarkar, a Head of Department of History at Presidency College, Calcutta and the founder Head of Department of the Department of History, []...
  
   Indian Marxist historian
• Edward Palmer Thompson British Marxist historian, author of "The Making of the English Working Class"

Nazi

Nazism

Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...

• Walter Frank
  Walter Frank
  Walter Frank was a Nazi historian, notable for his leading role in anti-Semitic research.-Life:Frank was born in Fürth, Kingdom of Bavaria. In his youth, he attended Julius Streicher rallies; his politics were heavily influenced by the Bavarian Soviet Republic and the Beer Hall Putsch...
  
   (1905–1945) - Nazi historian and anti-Semitic writer
• David Hoggan
  David Hoggan
  David Leslie Hoggan was an American historical writer, author of The Forced War: When Peaceful Revision Failed and other works in the German and English languages.-Early life:...
  
   (1923–1988)

Anarchist

• Paul Avrich
  Paul Avrich
  Paul Avrich was a professor and historian. He taught at Queens College, City University of New York, for most of his life and was vital in preserving the history of the anarchist movement in Russia and the United States....
  
  , USA 1931-2006. (Oral-)History of the US and Russia
• David Berry
  David Berry
  David Berry is the name of:* David Carson Berry , American music theorist and historian* David Berry , American inventor, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist* David Berry , Australian politician...
  
  , France, Movement in France.
• Murray Bookchin
  Murray Bookchin
  Murray Bookchin was an American libertarian socialist author, orator, and philosopher. A pioneer in the ecology movement, Bookchin was the founder of the social ecology movement within anarchist, libertarian socialist and ecological thought. He was the author of two dozen books on politics,...
  
   USA 1921-2006.Writer; Founder of "Social Ecology
  Social ecology
  Social ecology is a philosophy developed by Murray Bookchin in the 1960s.It holds that present ecological problems are rooted in deep-seated social problems, particularly in dominatory hierarchical political and social systems. These have resulted in an uncritical acceptance of an overly...
  
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• Ronald Creagh Editor of "Research on Anarchism" the interactive website/data base in various languages. (France)
• Hans Jürgen Degen, Germany, Writer, Editor of "Lexikon der Anarchie"
• Sam Dolgoff
  Sam Dolgoff
  Sam Dolgoff was an American anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist.Dolgoff was born in the shtetl of Ostrovno in Vitebsk, Russia, moving as a child to New York City in 1905 or 1906, where he lived in the Bronx and in Manhattan's Lower East Side where he died...
  
   USA 1902-1990, writer, activist, co-founder of Anarcho-Syndicalist Review
  Anarcho-Syndicalist Review
  Anarcho-Syndicalist Review is an American anarchist magazine, published two to four times a year, which focuses on anarcho-syndicalist theory and practice. The magazine was co-founded in 1986 by Sam Dolgoff....
  
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• Sébastien Faure
  Sébastien Faure
  Sébastien Faure was a French anarchist . He was a main proponent of the anarchist organizational form known as synthesis anarchism.- Biography :Before becoming a free-thinker, he was a seminarist...
  
   France, Encyclopedie Anarchiste, 4 volumes (1932–34)
• Joao Freire, Portugal, Movement of Portugal/CGT.
• Sharif Gemie, editor of "Anarchist Studies" (United Kingdom)
• David Goodway
  David Goodway
  David Goodway is a British historian and a respected international authority on anarchism and libertarian socialism. A student of Eric Hobsbawm, Goodway specialised in the history of Chartism in London and his work London Chartism is an acknowledged classic work on the subject...
  
  , (UK, writer, editor)
• Daniel Guérin
  Daniel Guérin
  Daniel Guérin was a French libertarian and author, best known for his work Anarchism: From Theory to Practice, as well as his collection No Gods No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism in which he collected writings on the idea and movement it inspired, from the first writings of Max Stirner in the...
  
  , France 1904-1988. writer, editor Libertarian Communist
• Robert Graham
  Robert Graham (historian)
  Robert Graham is a Canadian anarchist historian and writer. He is the editor of Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, a three-volume collection of anarchist writings from ancient China to the present day. Volume One, subtitled "From Anarchy to Anarchism", covers the period from...
  
  , (USA, writer, editor)
• Andrej Grubacic
  Andrej Grubacic
  Andrej Grubačić is a US-based anarchist theorist, sociologist, activist and lecturer with a Yugoslavian background who has written on anarchism and the history of the Balkans...
  
  , Bulgarian history and Anarchism, lecturer at University of San Francisco
  University of San Francisco
  The University of San Francisco , is a private, Jesuit/Catholic university located in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1855, USF was established as the first university in San Francisco. It is the second oldest institution for higher learning in California and the tenth-oldest university of...
  
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• Peter Marshall
  Peter Marshall (author)
  Peter Marshall is an English philosopher, historian, biographer, travel writer and poet. He has written fifteen books which are being translated into fourteen different languages. He wrote, presented and partly filmed the 6-part HTV series 'Voyage Around Africa', first shown in 1994...
  
  , England 1946, historian, philosopher, writer (of 'Demanding the Impossible. A History of Anarchism, 1992).
• Chuck W. Morse
  Chuck W. Morse
  Chuck W. Morse is an American anarchist, academic, translator, editor, and writer. He founded the Institute for Anarchist Studies and The New Formulation: An Anti-Authoritarian Review of Books...
  
  , USA, Writer, Founder of "Institute for Anarchist Studies
  Institute for Anarchist Studies
  The Institute for Anarchist Studies is a non-profit organization founded by Chuck W. Morse following the anarchist-communist school of thought, in 1996 to assist anarchist writers and further develop the theoretical aspects of the anarchist movement...
  
  /IAS.
• Max Nettlau
  Max Nettlau
  Max Heinrich Hermann Reinhardt Nettlau was a German anarchist and historian. Although born in Neuwaldegg and raised in Vienna he retained his Prussian nationality throughout his life. A student of the Welsh language he spent time in London where he joined the Socialist League where he met...
  
  , 1865-1944, Austria, writer of "Geschichte der Anarchie", seven volumes.
• Barry Pateman
• Alex Prichard
• Abel Paz
  Abel Paz
  Abel Paz was a Spanish anarchist, former combatant and historian.Abel Paz was the pen name of Diego Camacho. He was born in Almería in 1921, and moved with his family to Barcelona in 1929...
  
  , (Spain, Civilwar, Durruti, CNT/FAI)
• José Peirats
  José Peirats
  José Peirats Valls was a Spanish anarchist, activist, journalist and historian.Peirats was born in the province of Valencia. He had a limited schooling in one of the working class rationalist schools which offered an alternative to mainstream education controlled by the clergy and state...
  
  , (Spain, Historian of the CNT/FAI)
• Jochen Schmück, Germany, Publisher, Founder of DadA - Datenbank des deutschsprachigen Anarchismus, webdata of German languages books on Anarchism and dadaweb.de.
• Alexandre Skirda
  Alexandre Skirda
  Alexandre Skirda was born in 1942. His mother was Ukrainian and his father was Russian. He is a historian and a translator, specializing in the Russian anarchist revolutionary movement. His writing is in French.-Books in French:...
  
  
• Peter Staudenmaier
• Horst Stowasser, Germany, Founder of "AnArchiv", Anarchistisches Dokumentationszentrum, Writer.
• Antonio Tellez
  Antonio Téllez
  Antonio Téllez Solá was a Spanish anarchist, journalist and historian.He fought on the Republican side against Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War. At the war's end in 1939, he went into exile in France...
  
  
• Dana Ward
  Dana Ward
  Dana Ward is a professor of Political Studies at Pitzer College, where he founded and maintains the Anarchy Archives and has taught since 1982. He was the Executive Director of The International Society of Political Psychology from July 1998 to the Fall of 2004...
  
  , Founder of "Anarchist Archives", Online Research on the History and Theory of Anarchism, (USA).
• George Woodcock
  George Woodcock
  George Woodcock was a Canadian writer of political biography and history, an anarchist thinker, an essayist and literary critic. He was also a poet, and published several volumes of travel writing. He founded in 1959 the journal Canadian Literature, the first academic journal specifically...
  
  
• Howard Zinn
  Howard Zinn
  Howard Zinn was an American historian, academic, author, playwright, and social activist. Before and during his tenure as a political science professor at Boston University from 1964-88 he wrote more than 20 books, which included his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United...
  
  

Pacifist

Pacifism

Pacifism is the opposition to war and violence. The term "pacifism" was coined by the French peace campaignerÉmile Arnaud and adopted by other peace activists at the tenth Universal Peace Congress inGlasgow in 1901.- Definition :...

• Ludwig Quidde
  Ludwig Quidde
  Ludwig Quidde was a German pacifist who is mainly remembered today for his acerbic criticism of German Emperor Wilhelm II. Quidde's long career spanned four different eras of German history: that of Bismarck ; the Hohenzollern Empire under Wilhelm II ; the Weimar Republic ; and, finally, Nazi...
  
   (1858–1941) - Prescient German pacifist and student of history who combined his specialties in his condemnation of Kaiser Wilhelm II

Architectural history

Architectural History

Architectural History is the main journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain .The journal is published each autumn. The architecture of the British Isles is a major theme of the journal, although it includes more general papers on the history of architecture. Member of...

• Marcus Vitruvius
  Vitruvius
  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio was a Roman writer, architect and engineer, active in the 1st century BC. He is best known as the author of the multi-volume work De Architectura ....
  
   Pollio (born ca. 80/70 BC?; died ca. 25 BC) Roman architect and engineer, author of De architectura
  De architectura
  ' is a treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect Vitruvius and dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus, as a guide for building projects...
  
  
• Leon Battista Alberti (born 1404; died 1472) Italian polymath, active in many fields, author of De Re Aedificatoria
  De Re Aedificatoria
  De re aedificatoria is a classic architectural treatise written by Leon Battista Alberti between 1443 and 1452. Although largely dependent on Vitruvius' De architectura, it was the first theoretical book on the subject written in the Italian Renaissance and in 1485 became the first printed book on...
  
   among others.
• Josef Strzygowski
  Josef Strzygowski
  Josef Strzygowski was a German art historian known for his theory on the influence of Early Christian Armenian architecture on the early Medieval architecture of Europe, outlined in his book, Die Baukunst der Armenier und Europa...
  
   (born 1862)
• Joseph Rykwert
  Joseph Rykwert
  Joseph Rykwert is Paul Philippe Cret Professor of Architecture Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, and is widely regarded as the most important architectural historian and critic of his generation. He has spent most of his working life in the United Kingdom and America...
  
   (born 1926)
• Manfredo Tafuri
  Manfredo Tafuri
  Manfredo Tafuri , an Italian architect, historian, theoretician, critic and academic, was arguably the world's most important architectural historian of the past fifty years...
  
   (1935–1994)
• David Watkin (historian)
  David Watkin (historian)
  David John Watkin, MA PhD LittD Hon FRIBA FSA is a British architectural historian. He is an Emeritus Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and Professor Emeritus of History of Architecture in the Department of History of Art at the University of Cambridge...
  
   (born 1941)
• Alberto Pérez-Gómez
  Alberto Pérez-Gómez
  Alberto Pérez-Gómez is an architectural historian and is also known as a theorist and a promoter of phenomenology. Born December 24, 1949 in Mexico City, Mexico, he graduated as an engineer and architect from the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico and pursued graduate studies in the history...
  
   (born 1949)

Art history

Art history

Art history has historically been understood as the academic study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e. genre, design, format, and style...

• Vincent Cronin
  Vincent Cronin
  Vincent Archibald Patrick Cronin, FRSL was a British historical, cultural, and biographical writer, best-known for his biographies of Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, and Napoleon, as well as for his books on the Renaissance.Cronin was born in Tredegar, Monmouthshire...
  
   (born 1924) - French and Italian art and architectural history
• Nicholas Pevsner (1903–1983) History of art and English architecture
• Simon Schama
  Simon Schama
  Simon Michael Schama, CBE is a British historian and art historian. He is a University Professor of History and Art History at Columbia University. He is best known for writing and hosting the 15-part BBC documentary series A History of Britain...
  
   (born 1945) - Art history
• Ichimatsu Tanaka
  Ichimatsu Tanaka
  was a prominent Japanese academic, an art historian, curator, editor, and sometime public servant who specialized in the history of Japanese art. He was born in .-Education:...
  
   ‎ (1895–1983), Japanese art history
• Yukio Yashiro
  Yukio Yashiro
  was a Japanese academic, art historian, Botticelli scholar and Director of the Institute for Art Research in Tokyo.In 1960, he became the founding director of the Museum of Japanese Art in Nara, Nara...
  
    (1890–1975), Japanese art history; Botticelli and the Florentine Renaissance ‎

Economic history

Economic history

Economic history is the study of economies or economic phenomena in the past. Analysis in economic history is undertaken using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and by applying economic theory to historical situations and institutions...

• Robert C. Allen
  Robert C. Allen
  Robert C. Allen is Professor of Economic History at Oxford University and a fellow of Nuffield College.He obtained his BA at Carleton College in 1969 and his PhD at Harvard University in 1975...
  
  
• Eli Heckscher
  Eli Heckscher
  Eli Filip Heckscher was a Swedish political economist and economic historian.-Biography:...
  
  
• Niall Ferguson
  Niall Ferguson
  Niall Campbell Douglas Ferguson is a British historian. His specialty is financial and economic history, particularly hyperinflation and the bond markets, as well as the history of colonialism.....
  
  
• Robert Fogel
  Robert Fogel
  Robert William Fogel is an American economic historian and scientist, and winner of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He is now the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions and director of the Center for Population Economics at the...
  
  
• David S. Landes
  David Landes
  David S. Landes is a professor emeritus of economics at Harvard University and retired professor of history at George Washington University. He is the author of Revolution in Time, The Unbound Prometheus, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, and Dynasties...
  
  
• W. W. Rostow
  Walt Whitman Rostow
  Walt Whitman Rostow was a United States economist and political theorist who served as Special Assistant for National Security Affairs to U.S. President Lyndon B...
  
  
• Ram Sharan Sharma
  Ram Sharan Sharma
  Ram Sharan Sharma was an eminent historian of Ancient and early Medieval India. He had taught at Patna University, Delhi University and the University of Toronto and was a senior fellow at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; University Grants Commission National Fellow...
  
   Economic History of Ancient India
• R. H. Tawney
  R. H. Tawney
  Richard Henry Tawney was an English economic historian, social critic, Christian socialist, and an important proponent of adult education....
  
  

History of education

History of education

The history of education its part of the past and present teaching and learning. Each generation, since the beginning of human existence, has sought to pass on cultural and social values, traditions, morality, religion and skills to the next generation. The passing on of culture is also known as...

• David Hogan
  David Hogan
  David Hogan was a composer and musical director of CIGAP -- Le Choeur Int'l Gai de Paris -- a choir made up of men who loved music and wanted to show pride in their identity as gay men.A native of Virginia, Hogan graduated from the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University with a bachelor's...
  
  Professor of Education at the University of Tasmania.

Espionage

Espionage

Espionage or spying involves an individual obtaining information that is considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information. Espionage is inherently clandestine, lest the legitimate holder of the information change plans or take other countermeasures once it...

• Christopher Andrew
• John Barron
  John Barron (journalist)
  John Daniel Barron was a conservative American journalist and investigative writer. He is best remembered as the author of several books dealing with specifics of Soviet espionage.-Early years:...
  
  
• John Earl Haynes
  John Earl Haynes
  John Earl Haynes is an American historian who is a specialist in 20th century political history in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress...
  
  
• David Kahn
• Victor Suvorov
• Nigel West

Maritime history

Maritime history

Maritime history is the study of human activity at sea. It covers a broad thematic element of history that often uses a global approach, although national and regional histories remain predominant...

• Robert G. Albion
  Robert G. Albion
  Robert G. Albion was Harvard's first professor of Oceanic History and inspired two generations of maritime historians in the United States...
  
  
• William A. Baker
  William A. Baker
  William Avery Baker was a distinguished naval architect of replica historic ships and a maritime historian, who was curator of the Francis Russell Hart Nautical Museum at Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1963-1981.-Early life and education:The son of William Elisha Baker and his wife Margaret...
  
  
• Jaap R. Bruijn
  Jaap R. Bruijn
  Jacobus Ruurd "Jaap" Bruijn , is one of the best known and respected Dutch maritime historians. He was professor of maritime history at the University of Leiden from 1979 until his retirement in 2003...
  
  
• Howard I. Chapelle
  Howard I. Chapelle
  Howard Irving Chapelle was an American naval architect, and curator of maritime history at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.. In addition, he authored many books and articles books on maritime history and marine architecture.-Biography:...
  
  
• Femme Gaastra
  Femme Gaastra
  Femme Simon Gaastra was Professor of maritime history at the University of Leiden and a leading expert on the history of the Dutch East India Company.-Early life and education:...
  
  
• John Hattendorf
  John Hattendorf
  John Brewster Hattendorf is an American naval historian. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of more than forty books on British and American maritime history and naval warfare. In 2005, the U.S...
  
  
• John de Courcy Ireland
  John de Courcy Ireland
  John de Courcy Ireland was an Irish maritime historian and political activist.-Biography:Born in Lucknow, India, where his County Kildare native father served in the British Army, he was educated at Marlborough College, Oxford University and Trinity College Dublin, where he was awarded a PhD in 1951...
  
  
• Benjamin Woods Labaree
  Benjamin Woods Labaree
  Benjamin Woods Labaree is a leading historian of American colonial history and American maritime history. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut.-Early life and education:...
  
  
• Samuel Eliot Morison
  Samuel Eliot Morison
  Samuel Eliot Morison, Rear Admiral, United States Naval Reserve was an American historian noted for his works of maritime history that were both authoritative and highly readable. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1912, and taught history at the university for 40 years...
  
  
• J. H. Parry
  J. H. Parry
  John Horace Parry CMG, MBE was a distinguished maritime historian, who served as Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard University.-Early life and education:John Parry was the son of a teacher, Walter Austin Parry and his wife Ethel Piddock...
  
  
• Glyndwr Williams
  Glyndwr Williams
  Glyndwr Williams has been Professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London since 1974 and has specialized in this history of exploration and the history of Europe overseas. He was appointed a professor emeritus of the University of London in 1997.-Academic career:Williams earned his...
  
  

Media history

History of newspapers and magazines,
History of radio

History of radio

The early history of radio is the history of technology that produced radio instruments that use radio waves. Within the timeline of radio, many people contributed theory and inventions in what became radio. Radio development began as "wireless telegraphy"...

, History of television

History of television

The history of television records the work of numerous engineers and inventors in several countries over many decades. The fundamental principles of television were initially explored using electromechanical methods to scan, transmit and reproduce an image...

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History of the Internet

History of the Internet

The history of the Internet starts in the 1950s and 1960s with the development of computers. This began with point-to-point communication between mainframe computers and terminals, expanded to point-to-point connections between computers and then early research into packet switching...

• Albert Abramson (born 1922)
• Asa Briggs (born 1921)
• Knut Hickethier (born 1945)
• Frank J. Kahn (born 1938)

Military history

Military history

Military history is a humanities discipline within the scope of general historical recording of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, their cultures, economies and changing intra and international relationships....

• Correlli Barnett
  Correlli Barnett
  Correlli Douglas Barnett CBE FRSL is an English military historian, who has also written works of economic history, particularly on the United Kingdom's post-war "industrial decline".-Personal life:...
  
   - British military historian.
• Antony Beevor
  Antony Beevor
  Antony James Beevor, FRSL is a British historian, educated at Winchester College and Sandhurst. He studied under the famous military historian John Keegan. Beevor is a former officer with the 11th Hussars who served in England and Germany for five years before resigning his commission...
  
   - British military historian.
• Brian Bond
  Brian Bond
  Brian James Bond is a British military historian and professor emeritus of military history at King's College London.-Early life and education:...
  
   - First World War
• Caleb Carr
  Caleb Carr
  Caleb Carr is an American novelist and military historian.-Biography:A son of Lucien Carr, a former UPI editor and a key Beat generation figure, he was born in Manhattan and lived for much of his life on the Lower East Side. He attended Kenyon College and New York University, earning a B.A. in...
  
   - American military historian.
• Michael Carver
  Michael Carver, Baron Carver
  Field Marshal Richard Michael Power Carver, Baron Carver GCB, CBE, DSO & Bar, MC was a British soldier. He served as the Chief of the Defence Staff of the United Kingdom and thus the professional head of the British Armed Forces.-Army career:Educated at Winchester College, Michael Carver was...
  
   - British soldier & historian.
• Alan Clark
  Alan Clark
  Alan Kenneth Mackenzie Clark was a British Conservative MP and diarist. He served as a junior minister in Margaret Thatcher's governments at the Departments of Employment, Trade, and Defence, and became a privy counsellor in 1991...
  
   - British M.P. & historian.
• Martin van Creveld
  Martin van Creveld
  Martin Levi van Creveld is an Israeli military historian and theorist.Van Creveld was born in the Netherlands in the city of Rotterdam, and has lived in Israel since shortly after his birth. He holds degrees from the London School of Economics and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he has...
  
   - Israeli military historian.
• Saul David
  Saul David
  Julian Saul David, known popularly as Saul David, was born in 1966 in Monmouth, Wales and is an academic military historian and broadcaster. He is best known for his work on the Indian Mutiny and the Anglo-Zulu War, as well as for presenting and appearing in documentaries on British television...
  
   - Military history
  Military history
  Military history is a humanities discipline within the scope of general historical recording of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, their cultures, economies and changing intra and international relationships....
  
  
• N.H. Gibbs - Interwar period
• Adrian Goldsworthy
  Adrian Goldsworthy
  Adrian Keith Goldsworthy is a British historian and author who specialises in ancient Roman history.-Biography:Goldsworthy attended Westbourne School, Penarth...
  
   - British military historian.
• Jack Granatstein
  Jack Granatstein
  Jack Lawrence Granatstein, OC, FRSC is a Canadian historian who specializes in political and military history.-Education:Born in Toronto, Ontario, Granatstein received a graduation diploma from Le College militaire royal de Saint-Jean in 1959, his BA from the Royal Military College of Canada in...
  
   - Canadian military historian.
• Bruce Barrymore Halpenny
  Bruce Barrymore Halpenny
  Bruce Barrymore Halpenny is a widely respected English military historian and author, specialising in airfields and aircraft, as well as ghost stories and mysteries. He is also a broadcaster and games inventor.-Parents:...
  
   Writer and military historian
• Victor Davis Hanson
  Victor Davis Hanson
  Victor Davis Hanson is an American military historian, columnist, political essayist and former classics professor, notable as a scholar of ancient warfare. He has been a commentator on modern warfare and contemporary politics for National Review and other media outlets...
  
   - American classicist & military historian.
• Andreas Hillgruber
  Andreas Hillgruber
  Andreas Fritz Hillgruber was a conservative German historian. Hillgruber was influential as a military and diplomatic historian.At his death in 1989, the American historian Francis L...
  
   - German military historian.
• Richard Holmes
  Richard Holmes (military historian)
  Brigadier Edward Richard Holmes, CBE, TD, JP , known as Richard Holmes, was a British soldier and noted military historian, particularly well-known through his many television appearances...
  
   - British military history
• Alistair Horne
  Alistair Horne
  Sir Alistair Allan Horne is a British historian of modern France. He is the son of Sir James Horne and Lady Auriol Horne ....
  
   - British historian of French military history.
• Michael Howard
  Michael Howard (historian)
  Sir Michael Eliot Howard, OM, CH, CBE, MC, FBA is a British military historian, formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War and Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, and Robert A...
  
   - modern military history.
• John Keegan
  John Keegan
  Sir John Keegan OBE FRSL is a British military historian, lecturer, writer and journalist. He has published many works on the nature of combat between the 14th and 21st centuries concerning land, air, maritime, and intelligence warfare, as well as the psychology of battle.-Life and career:John...
  
   (born 1934, English) - Specializes in 20th-century wars
• Richard Landwehr
  Richard Landwehr
  Richard Landwehr has been the author of numerous books about the Waffen-SS, its foreign volunteers in particular. He has been putting out a magazine called Siegrunen on that topic "[f]or more than 25 years"....
  
   - military historian.
• B. H. Liddell Hart (1895–1970) Military History
  Military history
  Military history is a humanities discipline within the scope of general historical recording of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, their cultures, economies and changing intra and international relationships....
  
  
• Edward Luttwak
  Edward Luttwak
  Edward Nicolae Luttwak is an American military strategist and historian who has published works on military strategy, history and international relations.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1942) Military strategy
  Military strategy
  Military strategy is a set of ideas implemented by military organizations to pursue desired strategic goals. Derived from the Greek strategos, strategy when it appeared in use during the 18th century, was seen in its narrow sense as the "art of the general", 'the art of arrangement' of troops...
  
  
• Piers Mackesy
  Piers Mackesy
  Piers Gerald Mackesy is a British military historian who taught at the University of Oxford.-Early life and education:...
  
   - 18th century
• S. L. A. Marshall - American military historian.
• Leo Niehorster
  Leo Niehorster
  Leo Niehorster is the webmaster of World War II Armed Forces Orders of Battle and Organizations and the author of several books on World War II. Niehorster has a Ph.D., from Columbia Pacific University, in History. He has his masters and bachelor's degrees in business administration. He retired in...
  
   (born 1947) - World War II
• Peter Paret
  Peter Paret
  Peter Paret is American military, cultural & art historian with a particular interest in German history. Paret was born in Berlin, Germany, the son of Dr. Hans Paret and Suzanne Aimée Cassirer, who divorced in 1932...
  
   - Military history
  Military history
  Military history is a humanities discipline within the scope of general historical recording of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, their cultures, economies and changing intra and international relationships....
  
  
• Gordon Prange
  Gordon Prange
  Gordon William Prange was the author of several World War II-historical manuscripts which were published by his co-workers after his death in 1980. Dr...
  
  
• Gunther E. Rothenberg
  Gunther E. Rothenberg
  Gunther E. Rothenberg was an internationally known military historian. Although widely known for his books and journal articles on the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, Rothenberg also had a fifteen-year military career, serving in the British Army, the Haganah, and the United...
  
   (19232004) – Military history
• Gerhard Ritter
  Gerhard Ritter
  Gerhard Georg Bernhard Ritter was a conservative German historian.-Before the Third Reich:...
  
   - German military historian.
• Cornelius Ryan
  Cornelius Ryan
  Cornelius Ryan, was an Irish journalist and author mainly known for his writings on popular military history, especially his World War II books: The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 D-Day , The Last Battle , and A Bridge Too Far .-Early life:Ryan was born in Dublin and educated at Synge Street CBS,...
  
   (1920–1974) - World War II
• Digby Smith
  Digby Smith
  Digby Smith is a British military historian. The son of a British career soldier, he was born in Hampshire, England, but spent several years in India and Pakistan as a child and youth. As a "boy soldier," he entered training in the British Army at the age of 16...
  
   (1935- Napoleonic Wars
  Napoleonic Wars
  The Napoleonic Wars were a series of wars declared against Napoleon's French Empire by opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionised European armies and played out on an unprecedented scale, mainly due to...
  
   esp.
• Jean Edward Smith
  Jean Edward Smith
  Jean Edward Smith, Ph.D is professor at Marshall University and biographer. Currently he is the John Marshall Professor of Political Science at Marshall University and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto after having served as professor of political economy there for thirty-five years...
  
   (born 1932) - U.S. and German military historian.
• Hew Strachan
  Hew Strachan
  Brigadier Professor Hew Francis Anthony Strachan, DL, FRSE, FRHS is a Scottish military historian, well known for his work on the administration of the British Army and the history of the First World War...
  
   - British military historian.
• Gerhard Weinberg
  Gerhard Weinberg
  Gerhard Ludwig Weinberg is a German-born American diplomatic and military historian noted for his studies in the history of World War II. Weinberg currently is the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been a member of the...
  
   - U.S. military historian.
• Spenser Wilkinson
  Spenser Wilkinson
  Henry Spenser Wilkinson was the first Chichele Professor of Military History at Oxford University. While he was an English writer known primarily for his work on military subjects, he had wide interests...
  
  

Naval history

Naval history

Naval history is the area of military history concerning war at sea and the subject is also a sub-discipline of the broad field of maritime history....

• Robert G. Albion
  Robert G. Albion
  Robert G. Albion was Harvard's first professor of Oceanic History and inspired two generations of maritime historians in the United States...
  
   - Maritime history
  Maritime history
  Maritime history is the study of human activity at sea. It covers a broad thematic element of history that often uses a global approach, although national and regional histories remain predominant...
  
  
• Daniel A. Baugh
  Daniel A. Baugh
  Daniel Albert Baugh is "seen as the definitive historian of [British] naval administration." Baugh has defined his own contribution in explaining "My research field is mainly England, 1660-1840...
  
  
• Ulane Bonnel
  Ulane Bonnel
  Ulane Bonnel was a U.S. naval historian working in France, who played a major role developing professional connections between American and French naval historians and in founding both the scholarly journal Chronique d'histoire maritime and the French Commission of Maritime...
  
  
• Josiah Burchett
  Josiah Burchett
  Josiah Burchett was Secretary of the Admiralty in England, a position he held for almost fifty years . He was first a clerk to Samuel Pepys, the English civil servant famous for his diary...
  
  
• Montagu Burrows
  Montagu Burrows
  Montagu Burrows was an officer in the Royal Navy and subsequently the first Chichele Professor of Modern History at Oxford University...
  
  
• Geoffrey Callender
  Geoffrey Callender
  Sir Geoffrey Arthur Romaine Callender was an English naval historian and the first director of the National Maritime Museum from its opening in 1937 until his death in 1946....
  
  
• Howard I. Chapelle
  Howard I. Chapelle
  Howard Irving Chapelle was an American naval architect, and curator of maritime history at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.. In addition, he authored many books and articles books on maritime history and marine architecture.-Biography:...
  
   - Maritime history
• William Bell Clark
  William Bell Clark
  William Bell Clark was an advertising executive and self-taught naval historian, specializing in the period of the American Revolution, 1775-1783.-Early life and education:...
  
  
• Julian Corbett
  Julian Corbett
  Sir Julian Stafford Corbett was a prominent British naval historian and geostrategist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, whose works helped shape the Royal Navy's reforms of that era...
  
  
• William S. Dudley
  William S. Dudley
  William Sheldon Dudley is a naval historian of the United States Navy, who served as Director of Naval History and Director, Naval Historical Center, Washington, D.C...
  
  
• Michael Duffy
  Michael Duffy (historian)
  Dr. Michael Duffy is a naval historian, specialising in the Napoleonic war period. He is Reader in British History and Director of the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies at the University of Exeter.-Academic career:...
  
  
• Jan Glete
  Jan Glete
  Jan Glete was a Swedish historian. He was professor of history at the Stockholm University, specializing in 20th century Swedish industry and banking as well as the connection between state formation and naval history in early modern Europe.-Academic career:Glete spent his entire academic career...
  
  
• James Goldrick
  James Goldrick
  Rear Admiral James Vincent Purcell Goldrick AM, CSC is a senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy, author, and a naval historian. He currently holds the position of Commander Joint Education, Training and Warfare-Early life and education:...
  
  
• Andrew Gordon
  Andrew Gordon (naval historian)
  Andrew Gordon is a British naval historian.Dr. Gordon has a BSc in Economics from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and a PhD in War Studies from King's College London, University of London. Gordon is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and worked as consultant during the drafting of...
  
   - Battle of Jutland
  Battle of Jutland
  The Battle of Jutland was a naval battle between the British Royal Navy's Grand Fleet and the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet during the First World War. The battle was fought on 31 May and 1 June 1916 in the North Sea near Jutland, Denmark. It was the largest naval battle and the only...
  
  
• Barry M. Gough
  Barry M. Gough
  Barry Morton Gough is a Canadian maritime and naval historian. In more than a dozen books, and several hundred articles and reviews, he has worked to recast and reaffirm the imperial foundations of Canadian history...
  
  
• C. I. Hamilton
• John Hattendorf
  John Hattendorf
  John Brewster Hattendorf is an American naval historian. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of more than forty books on British and American maritime history and naval warfare. In 2005, the U.S...
  
  
• John Daniel Hayes
  John Daniel Hayes
  John Daniel Hayes, was a rear admiral in the United States Navy and a naval historian.-Naval career:...
  
  
• J. Richard Hill
  J. Richard Hill
  Rear Admiral John Richard Hill is a retired rear-admiral in the Royal Navy, a former chief executive of the Middle Temple, author, and editor of many books on naval affairs.-Early life and education:...
  
  
• William James
  William James (naval historian)
  William M. James was a British lawyer turned naval historian who wrote important naval histories of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1793-1815.-Career:...
  
  
• Paul Kennedy
  Paul Kennedy
  Paul Michael Kennedy CBE, FBA , is a British historian at Yale University specialising in the history of international relations, economic power and grand strategy. He has published prominent books on the history of British foreign policy and Great Power struggles...
  
  
• R.J.B. Knight
• Dudley W. Knox
• Andrew Lambert
  Andrew Lambert
  Andrew Lambert BA , MA, PhD, FRHistS is a British naval historian, who is currently Laughton Professor of Naval History in the Department of War Studies at King's College London.-Early life and education:...
  
  
• Harold D. Langley
  Harold D. Langley
  Harold David Langley is an American diplomatic and naval historian who served as associate curator of naval history at the Smithsonian Institution from 1969...
  
  
• John Knox Laughton
  John Knox Laughton
  Sir John Knox Laughton Kt was a British naval historian and arguably the first to argue for the importance of the subject as an independent field of study...
  
  
• Michael Lewis
  Michael Lewis (naval historian)
  Michael Arthur Lewis was a British naval historian, as well as a fiction writer, who was Professor of History and English at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich between 1934 and 1955.-Early life and education:...
  
  
• Christopher Lloyd
  Christopher Lloyd (naval historian)
  Charles Christopher Lloyd was a British naval historian, who served as Professor of History at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, 1962–1966.-Early life and education:...
  
  
• Alfred Mahan
• Arthur Marder
  Arthur Marder
  Arthur Jacob Marder was a highly regarded American historian specializing in British naval history in the period 1880 - 1945.-Early life and education:...
  
  
• Tyrone G. Martin
  Tyrone G. Martin
  Tyrone Gabriel Martin is a retired United States Navy Commander, and a naval historian, most notable as an authority on the USS Constitution , of which he was the 58th Commanding Officer. Martin was born in Greenwich, Connecticut 5 June 1930 and commissioned an officer through the NROTC in 1952...
  
   - Historian of the USS Constitution
  USS Constitution
  USS Constitution is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy. Named by President George Washington after the Constitution of the United States of America, she is the world's oldest floating commissioned naval vessel...
  
  and of the history of ironclads
• William J. Morgan
  William J. Morgan (historian)
  William James Morgan was Senior Historian at the U.S...
  
  
• Samuel Eliot Morison
  Samuel Eliot Morison
  Samuel Eliot Morison, Rear Admiral, United States Naval Reserve was an American historian noted for his works of maritime history that were both authoritative and highly readable. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1912, and taught history at the university for 40 years...
  
   (1887–1976) - Wrote History of United States Naval Operations in World War II
  History of United States Naval Operations in World War II
  The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II is a 15-volume account of the United States Navy in World War II, written by eminent historian Samuel Eliot Morison and published by Little, Brown and Company between 1947 and 1962....
  
  and numerous works about the maritime exploration of the Americas
• Henry Newbolt (1862–1938) - Wrote The Naval History of the Great War.
• Michael Oppenheim
  Michael Oppenheim
  Michael Morris Oppenheim was the pioneer historian of English naval administration.-Early life and education:In 1874, Oppenheim entered University College Hospital Medical School...
  
  
• Charles O. Paullin
  Charles O. Paullin
  Charles Oscar Paullin was an important naval historian, who made a significant early contribution to the administrative history of the United States Navy.-Early life and education:...
  
  
• Werner Rahn
  Werner Rahn
  Werner Rahn , is a naval historian and former German naval officer.-Professional career:Werner Rahn entered the Naval Academy Mürwik and served at sea and ashore in a variety of appointments, reaching the rank of captain. He studied history at the University of Hamburg under Professor Dr...
  
  
• Bryan Ranft
  Bryan Ranft
  Bryan Ranft was an historian of the Royal Navy, who served as Professor of History and International Affairs at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, 1967-1977.-Early life and education:...
  
  
• Clark G. Reynolds
  Clark G. Reynolds
  Dr. Clark Gilbert Reynolds, B.A., M.A. , Ph.D. was an historian of naval warfare, with a particular interest in the development of U.S. naval aviation. In addition, he made contributions to the fields of world history, strategic history, and the history of maritime civilizations.-Biography:The...
  
  
• Herbert Richmond
  Herbert Richmond
  Admiral Sir Herbert William Richmond KCB was a prominent naval officer, who also served as Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at Cambridge University and Master of Downing College, Cambridge...
  
  
• N.A.M. Rodger
• Stephen Roskill
  Stephen Roskill
  Captain Stephen Wentworth Roskill, CBE, DSC, FBA, DLitt was a career officer in the Royal Navy, serving during the Second World War and, after his enforced medical retirement, served as the official historian of the Royal Navy from 1949 to 1960...
  
  
• John Darrell Sherwood
  John Darrell Sherwood
  John Darrell Sherwood is an American author who has published five books and numerous articles. He specializes in military history, but has also published articles on travel, and skiing.-Officers in Flight Suits:...
  
  
• D.M. Schurman
• William N. Still, Jr.
  William N. Still, Jr.
  William Norwood Still, Jr. , is an American maritime historian, who was the first director of the program in maritime history at East Carolina University and a noted author of works on Civil War history and U.S...
  
  
• Craig Symonds
  Craig Symonds
  Craig Lee Symonds is a retired professor and chairman of the history department at the United States Naval Academy...
  
  
• David Syrett
  David Syrett
  David Syrett was Distinguished Professor of History at Queens College, City University of New York in Flushing, New York and a widely respected researcher and documentary editor on eighteenth-century British naval history and the Battle of the Atlantic during World War Two.-Early life and...
  
  
• Geoffrey Till
  Geoffrey Till
  Geoffrey Till, FKC is a British naval historian and Professor of Maritime Studies in the Defence Studies Department of King's College London.-Early life and education:...
  
  
• Johan Carel Marinus Warnsinck
  Johan Carel Marinus Warnsinck
  J.C.M. Warnsinck was a Dutch naval officer and naval historian. Johan Carel Marinus Warnsinck was the son of the notary Cornelis Warnsinck and his wife, Tettje Halbertsma...
  
  
• Colin White
  Colin White (historian)
  Colin Saunders White , was director of the Royal Naval Museum, and was one of Britain's leading experts on Admiral Horatio Nelson and the Battle of Trafalgar....
  
  

Historiography

Historiography

Historiography refers either to the study of the history and methodology of history as a discipline, or to a body of historical work on a specialized topic...

• Ram Sharan Sharma
  Ram Sharan Sharma
  Ram Sharan Sharma was an eminent historian of Ancient and early Medieval India. He had taught at Patna University, Delhi University and the University of Toronto and was a senior fellow at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; University Grants Commission National Fellow...
  
  
• Marc Bloch
  Marc Bloch
  Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch was a French historian who cofounded the highly influential Annales School of French social history. Bloch was a quintessential modernist. An assimilated Alsatian Jew from an academic family in Paris, he was deeply affected in his youth by the Dreyfus Affair...
  
  
• Fernand Braudel
  Fernand Braudel
  Fernand Braudel was a French historian and a leader of the Annales School. His scholarship focused on three main projects, each representing several decades of intense study: The Mediterranean , Civilization and Capitalism , and the unfinished Identity of France...
  
  
• Herbert Butterfield
  Herbert Butterfield
  Sir Herbert Butterfield was a British historian and philosopher of history who is remembered chiefly for two books—a short volume early in his career entitled The Whig Interpretation of History and his Origins of Modern Science...
  
  
• E. H. Carr
• R. G. Collingwood
  R. G. Collingwood
  Robin George Collingwood was a British philosopher and historian. He was born at Cartmel, Grange-over-Sands in Lancashire, the son of the academic W. G. Collingwood, and was educated at Rugby School and at University College, Oxford, where he read Greats...
  
  
• Geoffrey Elton
  Geoffrey Rudolph Elton
  Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton was a German-born British historian, who specialized in the Tudor period.- Upbringing :...
  
  
• Richard J. Evans
  Richard J. Evans
  Richard John Evans is a British academic and historian, prominently known for his history of Germany.-Life:Evans was born in London, of Welsh parentage, and is now Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and President of Wolfson College...
  
  
• Pieter Geyl
  Pieter Geyl
  Pieter Catharinus Arie Geyl was a Dutch historian, well-known for his studies in early modern Dutch history and in historiography.-Background:...
  
  
• J. H. Hexter
  J. H. Hexter
  Jack H. Hexter was an American historian, a specialist in Tudor and seventeenth century British history, and well known for his comments on historiography.-Early career:...
  
  
• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
  Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
  Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie is a French historian whose work is mainly focused upon Languedoc in the ancien regime, particularly the history of the peasantry.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Peter Novick
  Peter Novick
  Peter Novick is an American historian, best known for writing That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession and The Holocaust in American Life...
  
  
• Leopold von Ranke
  Leopold von Ranke
  Leopold von Ranke was a German historian, considered one of the founders of modern source-based history. Ranke set the standards for much of later historical writing, introducing such ideas as reliance on primary sources , an emphasis on narrative history and especially international politics .-...
  
  
• Hayden White
  Hayden White
  Hayden White is a historian in the tradition of literary criticism, perhaps most famous for his work Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe...
  
  
• Frank Ankersmit
  Frank Ankersmit
  Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit is professor of intellectual history and historical theory at the University of Groningen....
  
  

Academic protagonists in Australia's "history wars

History wars

The history wars in Australia are an ongoing public debate over the interpretation of the history of the British colonisation of Australia and development of contemporary Australian society...

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• Geoffrey Blainey
  Geoffrey Blainey
  Geoffrey Norman Blainey AC , is a prominent Australian historian.Blainey was born in Melbourne and raised in a series of Victorian country towns before attending Wesley College and the University of Melbourne. While at university he was editor of Farrago, the newspaper of the University of...
  
  
• Stuart Macintyre
  Stuart Macintyre
  Stuart Forbes Macintyre , Australian historian, academic and public intellectual, is a former Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. He has been voted one of Australia's most influential public intellectuals...
  
  
• Robert Manne
  Robert Manne
  Robert Manne is a professor of politics at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.Born in Melbourne, Manne's earliest political consciousness was formed by the fact that his parents were Jewish refugees from Europe and his grandparents were victims of the Holocaust...
  
  
• Henry Reynolds
  Henry Reynolds (historian)
  Henry Reynolds is an eminent Australian historian whose primary work has focused on the frontier conflict between European settlement of Australia and indigenous Australians.-Education and career:...
  
  
• Lyndall Ryan
  Lyndall Ryan
  Lyndall Ryan is an Australian academic. She has held positions in Australian Studies and Women's Studies at Griffith University and Flinders University and is currently Foundation Professor of Australian Studies and Head of School of Humanities at the University of Newcastle...
  
  
• Keith Windschuttle
  Keith Windschuttle
  Keith Windschuttle is an Australian writer, historian, and ABC board member, who has authored several books from the 1970s onwards. These include Unemployment, , which analysed the economic causes and social consequences of unemployment in Australia and advocated a socialist response; The Media: a...
  
  

Gender history

Gender history

Gender history is a sub-field of History and Gender studies, which looks at the past from the perspective of gender. It is in many ways, an outgrowth of women's history.-Impact:...

• John Boswell (1947–1994, American) - Homosexuality in medieval times
• George Mosse
  George Mosse
  George Lachmann Mosse was a German-born American social and cultural historian. Mosse authored 25 books on a variety of fields, from English constitutional law, Lutheran theology, to the history of fascism, Jewish history, and the history of masculinity...
  
  
• Retha Warnicke
  Retha Warnicke
  Retha Marvine Warnicke is an American historian and Professor of History at Arizona State University. Warnicke graduated with a B.A. from Indiana University, magna cum laude, in 1961. She then moved on to Harvard University, where she earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in 1963 and 1969, respectively...
  
   (born 1939) - Gender issues

History of ideas, literature, and philosophy

• Ram Sharan Sharma
  Ram Sharan Sharma
  Ram Sharan Sharma was an eminent historian of Ancient and early Medieval India. He had taught at Patna University, Delhi University and the University of Toronto and was a senior fellow at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; University Grants Commission National Fellow...
  
   (born 1919) - Material Culture in Ancient India
  History of India
  The history of India begins with evidence of human activity of Homo sapiens as long as 75,000 years ago, or with earlier hominids including Homo erectus from about 500,000 years ago. The Indus Valley Civilization, which spread and flourished in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent from...
  
  
• Isaiah Berlin
  Isaiah Berlin
  Sir Isaiah Berlin OM, FBA was a British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas of Russian-Jewish origin, regarded as one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century and a dominant liberal scholar of his generation...
  
   (1909–1997) - History of ideas
  History of ideas
  The history of ideas is a field of research in history that deals with the expression, preservation, and change of human ideas over time. The history of ideas is a sister-discipline to, or a particular approach within, intellectual history...
  
  
• J. C. D. Clark
  J. C. D. Clark
  Jonathan Charles Douglas Clark is a British historian of both British and American history. He received his undergraduate degreee at Downing College, Cambridge. Having previously held posts at Peterhouse, Cambridge and All Souls College, Oxford into 1996, he has since held the Joyce C...
  
  , British historian of 18th century ideas.
• Michel Foucault
  Michel Foucault
  Michel Foucault , born Paul-Michel Foucault , was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas...
  
   (1926–1984) - History of ideas
• Peter Gay
  Peter Gay
  Peter Gay is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and former director of the New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers . Gay received the American Historical Association's Award for Scholarly Distinction in 2004...
  
   (born 1923) - History of ideas.
• Lewis Mumford
  Lewis Mumford
  Lewis Mumford was an American historian, philosopher of technology, and influential literary critic. Particularly noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, he had a broad career as a writer...
  
   (1895–1988) - History of technology
  Technology
  Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
  
  
• Hasan Bülent Paksoy - History of Governance in Central Asian Literature.
• Ivan Prijatelj (1875–1937) - Literary history
• France Kidric (1880–1950) - Literary history

History of business

Business

A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...

• Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
  Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
  Alfred DuPont Chandler, Jr. was a professor of business history at Harvard Business School and Johns Hopkins University, who wrote extensively about the scale and the management structures of modern corporations. His works redefined business and economic history of industrialization...
  
  
• Jan Glete
  Jan Glete
  Jan Glete was a Swedish historian. He was professor of history at the Stockholm University, specializing in 20th century Swedish industry and banking as well as the connection between state formation and naval history in early modern Europe.-Academic career:Glete spent his entire academic career...
  
  , Swedish business history
• Allan Nevins
  Allan Nevins
  Allan Nevins was an American historian and journalist, renowned for his extensive work on the history of the Civil War and his biographies of such figures as President Grover Cleveland, Hamilton Fish, Henry Ford, and John D. Rockefeller.-Life:Born in Camp Point, Illinois, Nevins was educated at...
  
  

History of international relations

• Harry Elmer Barnes
  Harry Elmer Barnes
  Harry Elmer Barnes was a prominent American historian in the 20th century. A "progressive who had some classical liberal impulses," he was associated for virtually his entire career with Columbia University.-Early career:...
  
  
• Herbert Butterfield
  Herbert Butterfield
  Sir Herbert Butterfield was a British historian and philosopher of history who is remembered chiefly for two books—a short volume early in his career entitled The Whig Interpretation of History and his Origins of Modern Science...
  
  
• E. H. Carr
• Gordon A. Craig
  Gordon A. Craig
  Gordon Alexander Craig was a Scottish-American historian of German history and of diplomatic history.-Early life:...
  
  
• John Lewis Gaddis
  John Lewis Gaddis
  John Lewis Gaddis is a noted historian of the Cold War and grand strategy, who has been hailed as the "Dean of Cold War Historians" by The New York Times. He is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. He is also the official biographer of the seminal 20th...
  
  , historian of the Cold War.
• Ragnhild Hatton
  Ragnhild Hatton
  Ragnhild Marie Hatton, Ragnhild Marie Hatton, Ragnhild Marie Hatton, (born in Bergen, Norway on 10 January 1913 - died in London on 16 May 1995, was professor of International History at the London School of Economics...
  
  , historian of 17th and 18th century international relations
• Klaus Hildebrand
  Klaus Hildebrand
  Klaus Hildebrand is a German conservative historian whose area of expertise is 19th-20th century German political and military history.- Biography :...
  
  
• Andreas Hillgruber
  Andreas Hillgruber
  Andreas Fritz Hillgruber was a conservative German historian. Hillgruber was influential as a military and diplomatic historian.At his death in 1989, the American historian Francis L...
  
  
• Paul Kennedy
  Paul Kennedy
  Paul Michael Kennedy CBE, FBA , is a British historian at Yale University specialising in the history of international relations, economic power and grand strategy. He has published prominent books on the history of British foreign policy and Great Power struggles...
  
  , British historian, author of influential "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers"
• William L. Langer
  William L. Langer
  William Leonard Langer was the chair of the history department at Harvard University and the World War II volunteer head of the Research and Analysis branch of the Office of Strategic Services...
  
  , (1896–1977)
• Eduard Mark
• Arno J. Mayer
  Arno J. Mayer
  Arno Joseph Mayer is a United States Marxist historian originally from Luxembourg, who specializes in modern Europe, diplomatic history, and the Holocaust, and is currently Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Emeritus, at Princeton University.-Early life and academic career:Mayer was born into a...
  
  
• W.N. Medlicott
• Lewis Bernstein Namier
  Lewis Bernstein Namier
  Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier was an English historian. He was born Ludwik Niemirowski in Wola Okrzejska in what was then part of the Russian Empire and is today in Poland.-Life:...
  
  
• Paul W. Schroeder
  Paul W. Schroeder
  Paul W. Schroeder is an American historian and professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois, specializing in the late sixteenth- to twentieth-century European international politics, Central Europe, and the theory of history...
  
  , US historian, 19c European International Relations
  International relations
  International relations is the study of relationships between countries, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations , international nongovernmental organizations , non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations...
  
  
• Jean Edward Smith
  Jean Edward Smith
  Jean Edward Smith, Ph.D is professor at Marshall University and biographer. Currently he is the John Marshall Professor of Political Science at Marshall University and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto after having served as professor of political economy there for thirty-five years...
  
  
• A.J.P. Taylor (1906–1990) - Historian of European International Relations
  International relations
  International relations is the study of relationships between countries, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations , international nongovernmental organizations , non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations...
  
  
• Harold Temperley
  Harold Temperley
  Harold William Vazeille Temperley was a British historian, Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge from 1931, and Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge.- Overview :...
  
  , (1879–1939), British historian, Cambridge, 19c and early 20c century diplomatic history, "British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914" (ed.)
• Ernest Llewellyn Woodward
  Llewellyn Woodward
  Sir Llewellyn Woodward was a British historian. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford and after the First World War became a Lecturer in Modern History and fellow of All Souls College from 1919-1944 and a Fellow at New College from 1922-1939...
  
  , (1890–1971)

History of science and technology

History of science and technology

The history of science and technology is a field of history which examines how humanity's understanding of the natural world and ability to manipulate it have changed over the centuries...

• Michael Adas
  Michael Adas
  Michael Adas is an American historian and currently the Abraham E. Voorhees Professor of History at Rutgers University. He specializes in the history of technology, the history of anticolonialism and in global history.-Background:...
  
  , colonialism and imperialism, global history
• Vincent Cronin
  Vincent Cronin
  Vincent Archibald Patrick Cronin, FRSL was a British historical, cultural, and biographical writer, best-known for his biographies of Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, and Napoleon, as well as for his books on the Renaissance.Cronin was born in Tredegar, Monmouthshire...
  
  
• Allen G. Debus
  Allen G. Debus
  Allen George Debus was an American historian of science, known primarily for his work on the history of chemistry and alchemy. In 1991 he was honored at the University of Chicago with an academic conference held in his name. Paul H...
  
  , chemistry and medicine
• A. Hunter Dupree
  A. Hunter Dupree
  Anderson Hunter Dupree is a distinguished American historian and one of the pioneer historians of the history of science and technology in the United States.-Early Education and Education:...
  
  , botany; U.S. government policy on science and technology
• Peter Galison
  Peter Galison
  Peter Louis Galison is the Pellegrino University Professor in History of Science and Physics at Harvard University.Galison received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in both Physics and the History of Science in 1983. His publications include Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics ...
  
  , physics, philosophy, objectivity
• John L. Heilbron
  John L. Heilbron
  John Lewis Heilbron, born 17 March 1934, is an American historian of science best known for his work in the history of physics and the history of astronomy...
  
  , physics, quantification, astronomy, religion and science
• Richard L. Hills
  Richard L. Hills
  Richard Leslie Hills is an English historian who has written extensively on the history of technology, particularly steam power. He founded Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry....
  
  , technology, steam power
• Thomas P. Hughes
  Thomas P. Hughes
  Thomas Parke Hughes is an American Historian of Technology. He is an emeritus professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania and is a visiting professor at MIT and Stanford.He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1953....
  
  , technology
• Evelyn Fox Keller
  Evelyn Fox Keller
  Evelyn Fox Keller is an American physicist, author and feminist. She is currently a Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Keller has also taught at the State University of New York at Purchase, New York University and in the department of...
  
  , science and gender, biology
• Melvin Kranzberg
  Melvin Kranzberg
  Melvin Kranzberg was a professor of history at Case Western Reserve University from 1952 until 1971. He was a Callaway professor of the history of technology at Georgia Tech from 1972 to 1988....
  
  , technology
• Daniel J. Kevles
  Daniel Kevles
  Daniel J. Kevles is an American historian of science. He is currently the Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University, a position he assumed in 2001...
  
  , science and politics, physics, biology, eugenics
  Eugenics
  Eugenics is the "applied science or the bio-social movement which advocates the use of practices aimed at improving the genetic composition of a population", usually referring to human populations. The origins of the concept of eugenics began with certain interpretations of Mendelian inheritance,...
  
  
• Thomas Kuhn
  Thomas Kuhn
  Thomas Samuel Kuhn was an American historian and philosopher of science whose controversial 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was deeply influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term "paradigm shift," which has since become an English-language staple.Kuhn...
  
  , physics, "paradigm shift
  Paradigm shift
  A Paradigm shift is, according to Thomas Kuhn in his influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions , a change in the basic assumptions, or paradigms, within the ruling theory of science...
  
  s"
• Stephen F. Mason, science
• David F. Noble
  David F. Noble
  David Franklin Noble was a critical historian of technology, science and education, best known for his seminal work on the social history of automation. In his final years he taught in the Division of Social Science, and the department of Social and Political Thought. at York University in...
  
  , science & technology-based industrial development
• Abraham Pais
  Abraham Pais
  Abraham Pais was a Dutch-born American physicist and science historian. Pais earned his Ph.D. from University of Utrecht just prior to a Nazi ban on Jewish participation in Dutch universities during World War II...
  
  , physics
• Theodore M. Porter
  Theodore M. Porter
  Theodore M. Porter is a professor who specializes in the history of science in the Department of History at UCLA.He has authored several books, including The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900; and Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life...
  
  
• A. I. Sabra
  A. I. Sabra
  Abdelhamid I. Sabra is a retired professor of the history of science specializing in the history of optics and science in medieval Islam....
  
  , optics, Islamic science
• George Sarton
  George Sarton
  George Sarton was a Belgian chemist and historian who is considered the founder of the discipline of history of science. He left Belgium because of the First World War and settled in the United States where he spent the rest of his life researching and writing about the history of science...
  
  
• Nathan Sivin
  Nathan Sivin
  Nathan Sivin , also known as Xiwen is an American author, scholar, sinologist, historian, essayist, and currently professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania...
  
  , history of science in China
• M. Norton Wise
  M. Norton Wise
  Matthew Norton Wise is a professor in the history of science at UCLA. He is also the co-director of the UCLA Center for Society and Genetics. He has famously attacked Gross and Levitt's book in which they perceive the obstruction of science by the Academic Left.In the fourth term of the academical...
  
  

Social history

• Ram Sharan Sharma
  Ram Sharan Sharma
  Ram Sharan Sharma was an eminent historian of Ancient and early Medieval India. He had taught at Patna University, Delhi University and the University of Toronto and was a senior fellow at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; University Grants Commission National Fellow...
  
   Social History of Ancient India
• Lloyd deMause
  Lloyd deMause
  Lloyd deMause, pronounced de-Moss , is an American social thinker known for his work in the field of psychohistory. He did graduate work in political science at Columbia University and later trained as a lay psychoanalyst...
  
  , psychohistory
  Psychohistory
  Psychohistory is the study of the psychological motivations of historical events. It attempts to combine the insights of psychotherapy with the research methodology of the social sciences to understand the emotional origin of the social and political behavior of groups and nations, past and present...
  
  
• Gabriela Dudeková
  Gabriela Dudeková
  Gabriela Dudeková is a Slovak historian.Dudeková lives and works in Bratislava, Nitra and Houston, Texas, USA. She has a degree in history from the Comenius University in Bratislava...
  
  

World history

• Felipe Fernández-Armesto
  Felipe Fernández-Armesto
  Felipe Fernández-Armesto is a British historian and author of several popular works of history.He was born in London, his father was the Spanish journalist Felipe Fernández Armesto and his mother was Betty Millan de Fernandez-Armesto, a British-born journalist and co-founder and editor of The...
  
  
• Will Durant
  Will Durant
  William James Durant was a prolific American writer, historian, and philosopher. He is best known for The Story of Civilization, 11 volumes written in collaboration with his wife Ariel Durant and published between 1935 and 1975...
  
   (1885–1981) - Author of The Story of Civilization
  The Story of Civilization
  The Story of Civilization, by husband and wife Will and Ariel Durant, is an eleven-volume set of books covering Western history for the general reader...
  
  
• Ram Sharan Sharma
  Ram Sharan Sharma
  Ram Sharan Sharma was an eminent historian of Ancient and early Medieval India. He had taught at Patna University, Delhi University and the University of Toronto and was a senior fellow at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; University Grants Commission National Fellow...
  
   (born 1919) - Author of Vishwa Itihaas ki Bhumika in Hindi
  Hindi
  Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...
  
  .
• Ferdinand Braudel (1902–1985) - Social and economic history
• Francis Fukuyama
  Francis Fukuyama
  Yoshihiro Francis Fukuyama is an American political scientist, political economist, and author. He is a Senior Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford. Before that he served as a professor and director of the International Development program at the School of...
  
   (born 1955) - "End of history" thesis
• Hendrik Willem van Loon
  Hendrik Willem van Loon
  Hendrik Willem van Loon was a Dutch-American historian and journalist.-Life:He was born in Rotterdam, the son of Hendrik Willem van Loon and Elisabeth Johanna Hanken. He went to the United States in 1902 to study at Cornell University, receiving his degree in 1905...
  
   (1882–1944) - World history and geography for younger readers
• William McNeill (born 1917) - Author of The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community
  The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community
  The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community is a popular work by Canadian historian William H. McNeill...
  
  
• Jackson J. Spielvogel
  Jackson J. Spielvogel
  Jackson Joseph Spielvogel is an associate professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University. His textbooks are commonly used in high school and college Western Civilization classes. Spielvogel holds a Ph.D., from Ohio State University, and specialized in Reformation history under the supervision...
  
   - Pennsylvania State University
  Pennsylvania State University
  The Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU, is a public research university with campuses and facilities throughout the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1855, the university has a threefold mission of teaching, research, and public service...
  
  , author of several major world history textbooks
• Arnold J. Toynbee
  Arnold J. Toynbee
  Arnold Joseph Toynbee CH was a British historian whose twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations, A Study of History, 1934–1961, was a synthesis of world history, a metahistory based on universal rhythms of rise, flowering and decline, which examined history from a global...
  
   (1889–1975) - Wrote landmark text A Study of History
  A Study of History
  A Study of History is the 12-volume magnum opus of British historian Arnold J. Toynbee, finished in 1961, in which the author traces the development and decay of all of the major world civilizations in the historical record...
  
  
• Immanuel Wallerstein
  Immanuel Wallerstein
  Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein is a US sociologist, historical social scientist, and world-systems analyst...
  
  
• Roisin McVeigh
• John Roberts (historian)
  John Roberts (historian)
  John Morris Roberts CBE was a British historian, with significant published works, well known also as the author and presenter of the BBC TV series The Triumph of the West .-Biography:...
  
   (1928–2003) - Author of History of the World
  History of the world
  The history of the world or human history is the history of humanity from the earliest times to the present, in all places on Earth, beginning with the Paleolithic Era. It excludes non-human natural history and geological history, except insofar as the natural world substantially affects human lives...
  
  

Biography

Biography

A biography is a detailed description or account of someone's life. More than a list of basic facts , biography also portrays the subject's experience of those events...

• Alan Bullock
  Alan Bullock
  Alan Louis Charles Bullock, Baron Bullock , was a British historian, who wrote an influential biography of Adolf Hitler and many other works.-Early life and career:...
  
   (1914–2004) - Historian best known for his influential biography of Hitler
• Thomas Carlyle
  Thomas Carlyle
  Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher during the Victorian era.He called economics "the dismal science", wrote articles for the Edinburgh Encyclopedia, and became a controversial social commentator.Coming from a strict Calvinist family, Carlyle was...
  
   (1795–1881 - Friedrich der Grosse (the Great)
• Vincent Cronin
  Vincent Cronin
  Vincent Archibald Patrick Cronin, FRSL was a British historical, cultural, and biographical writer, best-known for his biographies of Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, and Napoleon, as well as for his books on the Renaissance.Cronin was born in Tredegar, Monmouthshire...
  
   - Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, and Napoleon
• Ragnhild Hatton
  Ragnhild Hatton
  Ragnhild Marie Hatton, Ragnhild Marie Hatton, Ragnhild Marie Hatton, (born in Bergen, Norway on 10 January 1913 - died in London on 16 May 1995, was professor of International History at the London School of Economics...
  
  , biographer of King Charles XII of Sweden and King George I of Great Britain.
• Ian Kershaw
  Ian Kershaw
  Sir Ian Kershaw is a British historian of 20th-century Germany whose work has chiefly focused on the period of the Third Reich...
  
   (1943- Historian well known for his influential study of Hitler
• Roi Medvedev - Stalin biographer
• Ron Rosenbaum
  Ron Rosenbaum
  -Life and career:Rosenbaum was born into a Jewish family in New York City, New York and grew up in Bay Shore, New York. He graduated from Yale University in 1968 and won a Carnegie Fellowship to attend Yale's graduate program in English Literature, though he dropped out after taking one course...
  
   - author of Explaining Hitler.
• Jean Edward Smith
  Jean Edward Smith
  Jean Edward Smith, Ph.D is professor at Marshall University and biographer. Currently he is the John Marshall Professor of Political Science at Marshall University and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto after having served as professor of political economy there for thirty-five years...
  
   - author of biographies on Franklin D. Roosevelt
  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...
  
  , Ulysses S. Grant
  Ulysses S. Grant
  Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States as well as military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction periods. Under Grant's command, the Union Army defeated the Confederate military and ended the Confederate States of America...
  
  , John Marshall
  John Marshall
  John Marshall was the Chief Justice of the United States whose court opinions helped lay the basis for American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court of the United States a coequal branch of government along with the legislative and executive branches...
  
  , and Lucius D. Clay
  Lucius D. Clay
  General Lucius Dubignon Clay was an American officer and military governor of the United States Army known for his administration of Germany immediately after World War II. Clay was deputy to General Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1945; deputy military governor, Germany 1946; commander in chief, U.S....