List of historians

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This is a list of historians.

The names are grouped by order of the historical period in which they were writing, which is not necessarily the same as the period in which they specialized.

Chroniclers and annalists, though they are not historians in the true sense, are also listed here for convenience.

Contents

Ancient historians

Appian, Roman history
Dio Cassius, Roman history
Herodian, Roman History
Zosimus, Late Roman history
Fa-Hien, Chinese Buddhist monk and historian, author of A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms: Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Hein of his Travels in India and Ceylon (399–414), In Search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline
Gaius Acilius, Roman history
Lucius Ampelius, Roman history
Herodotus, (484–c. 420 BC), Halicarnassian (Persia), "Father of History"
Thucydides, (460–c. 400 BC), Peloponnesian War
Xenophon, (431–c. 360 BC), an Athenian knight and student of Socrates
Berossus, (4th century BC), Babylonian historian
Timaeus of Tauromenium, (c. 345–c. 250 BC), Greek history
Polybius, (203–c. 120 BC), Early Roman history (written in Greek)
Julius Caesar, (100–c. 44 BC), Gallic and civil wars
Flavius Josephus, (37–100), Jewish history
Sima Qian, (c. 140 BC), Chinese history
Livy, (c. 59 BC–AD 17), Roman history
Cremutius Cordus
Sallust, (86–34 BC)
Plutarch, (c. 46–120), would not have counted himself as an historian, but is a useful source because of his Parallel Lives of important Greeks and Romans.
Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, (c. 56–c. 120), early Roman Empire
Suetonius, (75–160), Roman emperors up to Flavian dynasty
Thallus, Roman history
Priscus, Byzantine history, 5th century
Eusebius of Caesarea, (c. 275–339) Christian history
Ammianus Marcellinus, (c. 325–c. 391)
Curtius Rufus, (c. 60-70), Greek history
Arrian, (c. 92-175), Greek history
Quintus Fabius Pictor, Roman history
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman history
Ban Gu, (Han Dynasty)

Medieval historians/chroniclers

Shen Yue, (441-513), History of the (Liu) Song Dynasty (420-479)
Jordanes, (6th century), Goths
Procopius, (died c. 565), Byzantines
Gregory of Tours, (538–594), Franks
Bede, (c. 672–735), Anglo-Saxons
Adamnan, Irish historian, 625-704
Nennius, shadowy historian of Wales
Paul the Deacon, (8th century), Langobards
Tabari, 838–923, great Persian historian
Ibn Rustah, d. 903, Persian historian and traveler
Asser, Bishop of Sherborne, (died 908/909) - Welsh monk, Life of Alfred
Einhard, (9th century) - Biography of Charlemagne
Notker, (9th century) - anecdotal Biography of Charlemagne
Regino of Prüm, (died 915)
Liutprand of Cremona, (922–972), Byzantine affairs
Al-Biruni, (973–1048), Persian historian
Geoffrey of Monmouth, churchman/historian
Thietmar of Merseburg, German, Polish, and Russian affairs
Nestor the Chronicler, author of the Russian Primary Chronicle
Gallus Anonymus, Polish historian
Albert of Aix, historian of the First Crusade
Michael Psellus, (1018–c. 1078)
Sima Guang, (1019–1086), historiographer and politician
Marianus Scotus, (1028–1082/1083), Irish chronicler
Guibert of Nogent, (1053–1124)
Florence of Worcester, (died 1118), English chronicler
Eadmer, (c. 1066–c. 1124), post-Conquest English history
Symeon of Durham, (died after 1129), English chronicler
William of Malmesbury, (c. 1080–c. 1143)
Anna Comnena, (1083–after 1148)
Usamah ibn Munqidh, (1095–1188)
Adam of Bremen, historian of Scandinavia
Kalhana, historian of Kashmir.
Ata al-Mulk Juvayni, (1226-83), Persian historian
Saxo Grammaticus, (12th century), Danish
Svend Aagesen, (12th century), Danish
Alured of Beverley, (12th century), English chronicler
William of Tyre, (c. 1128–1186)
William of Newburgh, (1135–1198), English historian called "the father of historical criticism"
John of Worcester, (fl. 1150s), English chronicler
Giraldus Cambrensis, (c. 1146–c. 1223)
Wincenty Kadlubek, (1161–1223), Polish historian
Ambroise, (fl. 1190s), Anglo-Norman poet, wrote verse narrative of the Third Crusade
Geoffroi de Villehardouin, (c. 1160–1212)
Nicetas Choniates, (died c. 1220)
Matthew Paris, (died 1259)
Salimbene di Adam, (1221–c. 1290), Italian
Jean de Joinville, (1224–1319)
Rashid al-Din, (1247–1317), Persian historian
ibn Khaldun, (1332–1406)
Piers Langtoft, (died c. 1307)
Abdullah Wassaf, 13th century, Persian historian
Jean Froissart, (c. 1337–c. 1405), chronicler
Dietrich of Nieheim, (c. 1345–1418), ecclesiastic history
John of Fordun, scottish chronicler (d. 1384 )
Alphonsus A Sancta Maria, (1396–1456)
Jan Długosz, Polish historian and chronicler
Philippe de Commines, French historian
Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi, d. 1454, Persian historian
John Capgrave, (1393–1464)
Christine de Pizan, (c. 1365–c. 1430), historian, poet, philosopher
Robert Fabyan, (died 1513)
Albert Krantz, (1450–1517)
Polydore Vergil, (c. 1470–1555), Tudor history
Sigismund von Herberstein, (1486–1566), Muscovite affairs
João de Barros, (1496–1570)
Josias Simmler, (1530–1576)
Paolo Paruta, (1540–1598), Venetian historian
Raphael Holinshed, (died c. 1580)
Hector Boece, Scottish philosopher and historian. Wrote "Historia Gentis Scotorum" (1465-1536)
Caesar Baronius, (1538–1607)
Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni, (1540–1615), Indo-Persian historian
John Hayward, (1564–1627)
Bahrey (1593), an Ethiopian monk and historian. Wrote Zenahu le Galla (History of the Galla, now Oromo)

Early modern historians (
Michael O'Clery, Irish historian, c.1590–1643
Peregrine O'Duignan, Irish historian, fl.1627-1636
Seathrún Céitinn/Geoffrey Keating, d.1643, Irish historian
Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh, fl.1643–1671, Irish historian, annalist, genealogist
Daibhidh O Duibhghennain, Irish historian, fl.1651–1696/1706
Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, (1610–1688), Medieval and Byzantine historian and philologist
Ruaidhri O Flaithbheartaigh, Irish historian, 1629–1716/1718
Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, (1637–1698), ecclesiastical historian
Laurence Echard, (c.1670–1730), England
Ludovico Antonio Muratori, (1672–1750), Italy
Vasily Tatishchev, (1686–1750), first historian of modern Russia
Archibald Bower, (1686–1766), Rome
Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim, (1694–1755), Lutheran historian
Voltaire, (1694–1778), French Enlightenment philosopher and historian
Edward Hasted, Kent
Francisco Jose Freire (1719 – 1773), Portuguese historian and philologist
Mikhail Shcherbatov, (1733–1790), Russian historian
Edward Gibbon, (1737–1794), Roman Empire and Byzantium, one of the all-time greats
Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng, (1738–1801), Chinese historian, local histories and essays on historiography
Fray Iñigo Abbad y Lasierra (1745–1813) Spanish historian
Johannes von Müller, (1752–1809)
Anton Tomaz Linhart, (1756–1795)
Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, (1766–1826), Russian Empire
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, (1770–1831), German philosopher of history
John Lingard, (1771–1851), England
Barthold Georg Niebuhr, (1776–1831), German historian
Teimuraz Bagrationi, (1782–1846), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
John Colin Dunlop, (c. 1785–1842)
Joachim Lelewel, (1786–1861), Polish historian
François Guizot, (1787–1874), French historian of general French, English history
George Grote, (1794–1871), classical Greece
Leopold von Ranke, (1795–1886), European diplomacy; probably the greatest German historian
François Mignet, (1796–1884), French historian of the Revolution, middle ages
William H. Prescott, (1796–1859), US historian of Spain, Mexico, Peru
Adolphe Thiers, (1797–1877), French historian of the Revolution, Empire
Jules Michelet, (1798–1874), French
George Finlay, (1799–1875), Greece
Thomas Macaulay, (1800–1859), British
George Bancroft, (1800–1891), United States
Ludwig von Köchel, (1800–1877), writer, composer, botanist, music historian
Alexis de Tocqueville, (1805–1859) French historian, author of The Old Regime and the French Revolution, Democracy in America
Alexander William Kinglake, (1809–1891), works on the Crimean War
Edward Shepherd Creasy, (1812–1878), warfare
Timofey Granovsky, (1813–1855), medieval Germany
Grace Aguilar, (1816–1847), Jewish history
Nikolay Kostomarov, (1817–1885), Russian and Ukrainian history
Theodor Mommsen, (1817–1903), Roman Empire
Jacob Burckhardt, (1818–1897), art history, European history, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
Zacharias Topelius, (1818–1898)
Konstantin Kavelin, (1818–1885), history of Russian laws
Sergey Solovyov, (1820–1879), Russian historian
Auguste Himly, (1823–1906), French historian
Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, (1828–1897), Spanish historian
Boris Chicherin, (1828–1904), history of Russian laws
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, (1830–1889), antiquity, France
Justin Winsor, (1831–1897), editor of the Narrative and Critical History of America, (8 vols., 1884-89)
Dmitry Ilovaisky, (1832–1920), Russian history
Heinrich von Treitschke, (1834–1896)
Henry Adams, (1838–1918), US 1800-1816
Alfred Thayer Mahan, (1840–1914), naval history
Vasily Klyuchevsky, (1841–1911), Russian history
Nikodim Kondakov, (1844–1925), Byzantine art
Frederic William Maitland, (1850–1906), legal history
Cesare Paoli (1840-1902), Italian History
Simon Rutar, (1851–1903)
Paul Vinogradoff, (1854–1925), later Roman Empire
Faddei Zielinski, (1859–1944), Ancient Greece
Sergey Platonov, (1860–1933), Oprichnina and Time of Troubles
Henri Pirenne, (1862–1935), Belgian and medieval European history
Wilhelm Barthold, (1869–1930), Muslim studies, Turkology
Ivane Javakhishvili, (1876–1940), Georgian historian
Mikheil Tsereteli, (1878–1965), Georgian historian
Mary Wilhelmine Williams, (1878–1944), Latin America

Modern historians (after 1900)

A

Irving Abella, Canadian historian & author
Robert G. Albion, maritime history
Gar Alperovitz, American historian, Hiroshima
Ida Altman, American historian, colonial Spain & Latin America
Stephen Ambrose, (1936–2002), American; WW2, U.S. political, wrote Band of Brothers
Charles McLean Andrews, (1863–1943), American; U.S. colonial history
Joyce Appleby, American; US early national
Herbert Aptheker, (1915–2003), American; African American history
Philippe Aries, French; medieval; childhood
Leonard J. Arrington, (1917–1999), American; Mormons
Mikhail Artamonov, (1898–1972), founder of Khazar studies
Zurab Avalishvili, (1876–1944), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
Paul Avrich, Russian history, the Anarchist movement (chiefly in the United States)

B

Ahron Bregman, Arab-Israeli conflict
Yehuda Bauer, the Holocaust
David E. Barclay, German history
Harry Elmer Barnes, American historian.
G.W.S. Barrow, Scottish history
Jacques Barzun, (born 1907), cultural history
Hanna Batatu, Palestinian historian and author of an authoritative study of modern Iraq
Charles Bean, (1879–1968), Australia in World War I
Charles A. Beard, (1874–1948), American historian, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
Mary Ritter Beard, (1876–1958), American Historian and wife of Charles A. Beard
Charles Bergquist, American historian, Latin American and labor history, author of Labor in Latin America: Comparative Essays on Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, and Colombia
Isaiah Berlin, (1909–1997), history of ideas
Michael Beschloss, (born 1955) American historian and celebrity intellectual, history of the U.S. presidency
Nicholas Bethell, Soviet history
David Blackbourn
Geoffrey Blainey, Australian history
Marc Bloch, (1886–1944), medieval France.
Gisela Bock, German feminist historian.
Daniel J. Boorstin, (1914–2004), intellectual history, American history
John Boswell, (1947–1994), medievalist and gay history
Mark Bowden, wrote Black Hawk Down regarding the Battle of Mogadishu
Paul Boyer, American historian, author of By the Bomb's Early Light
Karl Dietrich Bracher, (1922-), modern German history
William Brandon, (1914–2002), historian of the American West and Native Americans
Fernand Braudel
Martin Broszat, (1926-1989) Nazi Germany
Miland Brown, American historian who maintains the [World History Blog]
Peter Brown
Christopher Browning, the Holocaust
Otto Brunner, medieval and early modern Austria
Alan Bullock, (1914–2004)
Peter Burke
Michael Burns - actor and historian
J. B. Bury, classical history
John Hill Burton, (1809–1881), Scottish Jacobin history
Herbert Butterfield, author of The Whig Interpretation of History

C

Angus Calder, British historian, British history
Otto Maria Carpeaux, (1900–1978) foremost historian of literature
E. H. Carr, (1892–1982) Soviet history, International Relations
Paul Cartledge, Classical Historian (5th Century Athens and Sparta, and Alexander the Great)
Carolyn Joyce Carty [1957- )Faith
Lionel Casson
Boris Celovsky, Czech-German relations
M. Chahin, Armenian history
Howard I. Chapelle, maritime history
Maher Charif, Palestinian historian specialising in modern Arab intellectual history and political movements
Iris Chang, (1968-2004) Chinese in American & Japanese war crimes
Guy Chet, Colonial America Warfare
Alexander Campbell Cheyne, Scottish Ecclesiastical Historian
Winston Churchill, (1874–1965) political, biographical, military history.
J. C. D. Clark, British historian of ideas.
Manning Clark, (1915–1991) pre-eminent in Australian history
Robert Conquest, (born 1917) Russia, Soviet Union
Nancy Cott, U.S. women's history
Gordon A. Craig, (1913-) German history & diplomatic history
Dan Cruickshank, British and architectural history, TV presenter

D-E

Robert Dallek, biographer of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson and John F. Kennedy
Vahakn N. Dadrian, Armenian genocide
David B. Danbom rural America
Robert Darnton
Lucy Dawidowicz, Jewish history and the Holocaust.
Saul David, military history
John Davies
Norman Davies, Polish and British history
Natalie Zemon Davis, feminist cultural historian, early modern France, film and history
Kenneth S. Davis, biographer of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Vernon E. Davis, Vietnam war
Graeme Davison, Australian Social Historian
David Day, Australian historian
Renzo De Felice, Italian fascism
Carl N. Degler
Esther Delisle, (b. 1954), French-Canadian historian & author
John Demos, early America
Isaac Deutscher, (1907–1967) biographer of Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin
Tom M. Devine, Scottish historian
Bernard DeVoto
Igor M. Diakonov, (1914–1999), Ancient Near East
Robert Divine, 20c diplomatic history
David Herbert Donald Lincoln and Civil War
Gordon Donaldson Scottish historian
John W. Dower, Japan in 1940s
Georges Duby, (1924–1996), Middle Ages
Eamon Duffy, 15th-17th century religious history
Trevor Dupuy
Will Durant, philosopher and author of the Story of Civilization series
Elizabeth Eisenstein, French Revolution, early printing, transitions in media
Geoff Eley
John Elliott, (born 1941) Early Modern Spain
Joseph J. Ellis biographer of US Founding Fathers
Geoffrey Elton, Tudor England
Peter Englund, Swedish
Richard J. Evans, German social history
Alf Evers, (1905-2004) American historian

F

Ronan Fanning, Irish historian
Brian Farrell, (born 1929)
Lucien Febvre, (1878–1956), French historian
Niall Ferguson, British historian, author of The Pity of War: Explaining World War I
Marc Ferro, French historian
Joachim Fest, (born 1926), Nazi Germany
Gerald Figal, (born 1962), 19th-20th Century Japan, Postwar Okinawa
Orlando Figes, (born 1957), Russia
Moses Finley, Historian of the Ancient World, especially Economic History
David Hackett Fischer, American economic historian, author of The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
Fritz Fischer, German historian
Frances Fitzgerald, American journalist and historian, author of Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and Americans in Vietnam
Robert Fogel, American economic history
Eric Foner, Reconstruction
Shelby Foote, (1916–2005), American Civil War
Michel Foucault, (1926–1984), French historian of ideas / philosopher
Robin Lane Fox, Oxford historian who has written on Alexander the Great and the Ancient World
Elizabeth Fox-Genosvse, cultural & social history, women's history and Southern history
Walter Frank, (1905–1945), Nazi historian and anti-Semitic writer
H. Bruce Franklin, American historian of the Vietnam War, author of M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America
Antonia Fraser, England
Henry Friedlander, Holocaust historian.
Saul Friedländer, history of the Holocaust
Karl Friday, Heian Period Japan, early premodern Japanese warfare
Sheppard Frere
David Fromkin
Bruno Fuligni
Francis Fukuyama, (born 1955)
François Furet, French historian

G

John Lewis Gaddis, diplomatic history
François-Louis Ganshof, medieval history
Lloyd Gardner, diplomatic history
Franklin Garrett, history of Atlanta
Peter Gay, psychohistory, European Englightenment & 19th century social history
Eugene Genovese, (1930-) Southern history
Pieter Geyl, Dutch historian
Martin Gilbert
Carlo Ginzburg, pioneer of microhistory
Carol Gluck, American historian, author of Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period
Andrew Gordon
Bogo Grafenauer, (1916–1995), Slovene medievalist
A. Kirk Grayson, Ancient Middle East
Peter Green, ancient history
Vivian H. H. Green, (1915–2005), author of A New History of Christianity
Lionel Groulx, (1878–1967), priest, historian
Rene Grousset, wrote histories of Central Asia and the Near East
Ranajit Guha, history of India and critical historiography
Lev Gumilyov, (1912–1992), Soviet historian
John Guy, leading Tudor specialist

H-I

Irfan Habib
Harland Hagler, Early American, Old South
Dick Harrison, Swedish & Medieval history
Nicholas G. L. Hammond, Macedonia and Greece
Victor Davis Hanson, ancient warfare
Charles H. Haskins, Americans first medieval historian
Denys Hay, (1915–1994), medieval and Renaissance Europe
Jeffrey Herf, German and European history
Arthur Herman, American and British history
John Donald Hicks, American history
Raul Hilberg, history of the Holocaust
Klaus Hildebrand, 19th-20th German history
Christopher Hill, (1912–2003), 17th century England
Andreas Hillgruber, 20th German history
Richard L. Hills (born 1936), history of technology
Gertrude Himmelfarb, (born 1924) 19th century British intellectual, social and cultural history
Eric Hobsbawm, (born 1917) British historian, labour history
Marshall Hodgson,History of Islamic Civilization
Richard Hofstadter, (1916–1970), American political historian, intellectual historian, author of The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made It, The Age of Reform, and Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
David Hoggan, neo-Nazi historian.
Michael F. Hollander, automotive historian and journalist.
Richard Holmes, Military History.
Keith Hopkins, Ancient Historian and Sociologist.
William Hoskins, Landscape History
Albert Hourani, Middle Eastern history
Daniel Horowitz, United States intellectual history; history of consumer culture
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, history of women, sexuality, and higher education
Alistair Horne, modern French history
Michael Howard
Johan Huizinga, Dutch historian, author of Waning of the Middle Ages
Tristram Hunt, (born 1974)
Michael Ignatieff, (born 1947) author of Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond
Eiko Ikegami, Japanese historian, author of The Taming of the Samurai
David John Cawdell Irving, British historian, (born 1938)
Jonathan Israel, British historian
Herbert Adams Gibbons

J-K

Muhammad Jaber, (1875–1945), history of the Levant and the Middle-East
Eberhard Jäckel, Nazi Germany
Nikoloz Janashia, (1931–1982), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
Simon Janashia, (1900–1947), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
Pawel Jasienica, (1909–1970), Polish historian, Polish history
Francis Jennings, history of native American peoples
Marius Jensen, American historian, author of China in the Tokugawa World
Amy Johnson (I), American historian, modern Egyptian history
Paul Johnson, (born 1928), British Historian, Western civilization
Gwyn Jones, medieval history
Loe de Jong, Dutch historian, author of The Kingdom of the Netherlands during the Second World War
Gregory J. Kasza, American historian, author of The State and the Mass Media in Japan, 1918-1945
Tony Judt, British historian, specializing in contemporary European studies
Donald Kagan, ancient Greek history
John Keegan, (born 1934) English historian, popular military history
Hans Kelsen, legal history
Elizabeth Topham Kennan - medievalist and former president, Mount Holyoke College
George F. Kennan, (a.k.a. 'X') American diplomat and historian, history of US-Soviet relations
Paul Kennedy, British historian, author of influential The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Linda Kerber, women in Revolutionary America
Ian Kershaw, German history
Daniel J. Kevles, history of science, In the Name of Eugenics, and The Physicists
France Kidrič, (1880–1950), literary history
Vilen Khlgatyan, History of the ancient Near East
Gabriel Kolko
Claudia Koonz, women's history under Nazi Germany.
Thomas Kuhn, (1922–1996), history of science, author of The Copernican Revolution, Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, and the influential The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

L

Leopold Labedz, Soviet history
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, French historian, pioneer in the fields of history from below and microhistory
Michael Laffan, Irish historian
David Lavender, (1910–2003), history of the American West
Walter LaFeber, diplomatic history
Melvyn Leffler, modern international relations
Jacques LeGoff, medieval French historian
William Leuchtenburg, American political and legal history
Barbara Levick, English historian; Roman emperors
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, French historian
Li Ao, (born 1935), Chinese historian
Basil Liddell Hart, British military historian.
Leon F. Litwack, American history, African-American history, author of Been in the Storm so Long: The Aftermath of Slavery, and Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow
Mario Liverani Ancient Middle East
James W. Loewen
John Edward Lloyd
John Lukacs, Hungarian-American historian of modern Europe.

M

Sr. Margaret MacCurtain, Irish medievalist
Charles B. MacDonald, World War II
Forrest McDonald early national US, presidency
K. B. McFarlane, English medievalist
Robert Machray
Rosamond McKitterick
Ramsay MacMullen, Roman history
Magnus Magnusson, Norse history
J. D. Mackie Scottish historian
Leonard Maltin, famous Disney historian
Charles Maier, 20th century Europe
Golo Mann, (1909–1994)
Robert Mann, American historian of the Vietnam War, wrote A Grand Delusion: America's Descent into Vietnam
Felix Markham, Napoleon Bonaparte
Inga Markovits, author of Imperfect Justice: An East-West German Diary
Timothy Mason, history of Nazi Germany
Henri-Jean Martin, history of the book, early printing, writing, libraries in France
Tyrone G. Martin, USS Constitution
Rev. F.X. Martin, Irish medievalist and campaigner
Michael Marrus, French and Jewish history
William S. McFeely - 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Grant: A Biography
James M. McPherson, very noteworthy US Civil War historian; wrote Battle Cry of Freedom
William McNeill, world history
Laurence Marvin, American historian, French medievalist
Yoshihisa Tak Matsutaka, wrote The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904-1932
Garrett Mattingly, early modern Europe
Arno J. Mayer, World War I and Europe
Richard Maybury, United States, especially WWI, WWII, and the Middle East
Friedrich Meinecke, German historian
Russell Menard, Colonial American
Barbara Metcalf, Indian subcontinent, Muslims of India and Pakistan
Perry Miller, intellectual historian
Hans Mommsen
Wolfgang Mommsen
Edmund Morgan American colonial and Revolution
Kenneth O. Morgan
Samuel Eliot Morison, naval history
Benny Morris, Middle-Eastern history
George Mosse, German, Jewish, fascist and sexual history
Gary Moulton, Lewis and Clark
Roland Mousnier, early modern France
Lewis Mumford, (1895–1988)

N-Q

Lewis Bernstein Namier, 18th century British history and 20th century diplomatic history
Allan Nevins, US political and business history; Civil War
Leo Niehorster, military history
Henry Newbolt, (1862–1938)
Frank Ninkovich 20c
Ernst Nolte, fascism and communism
Robert Novick, historiography
David Oates, Ancient Middle East
Heiko Oberman, Reformation
Charles Oman, 19th century military history
Michael Oren, Modern middle east
Richard Overy, WW2
Steven Ozment, Germany
Michael Parenti, 20th-21st century political analyst and modern/classical historian.
Simo Parpola, Ancient Middle East
Thomas Paterson Cold War
Peter Paret, military history
Geoffrey Parker, early modern military history
Abel Paz Spanish anarchist movement
Henry Francis Pelham, Roman history
William Armstrong Percy, Medieval Europe and ancient Greek and Roman history. History of Homosexuality.
Amos Perlmutter
Hrvoje Petric, early modern history, environmental history, economic history
Detlev Peukert, historian of Alltagsgeschichte (history of everyday life) in the Weimar & Nazi eras.
Liza Picard, London
Henri Pirenne,belgian historian.
Harry W. Pfanz, U.S. Civil War
Boris B. Piotrovsky, (1908–1990), Urartu and Scythia
Richard Pipes, Russian and Soviet
J. H. Plumb, (1911–2001), British historian of the 18th century
Jeremy D. Popkin The French Revolution
Roy Porter, (1946–2002), history of medicine & Britain
Eileen Power, Middle Ages
Gordon W. Prange, American Historian, World War II Pacific, notably Pearl Harbor and Midway
H. F. M. Prescott (1896-1972), leading biographer of Mary I of England; Tudor England; medieval pilgrimages to the Holy Land
Ivan Prijatelj, (1875–1937), literary history
Janko Prunk, (1942 - ) Slovenian historian for modern history
Ludwig Quidde, (1858–1941), editor, pacifist

R

Jack N. Rakove, US Constitution and early politics
Henry A. Reynolds, Aboriginal - white relations in Australia
René Rémond, French political history
Susan Reynolds, critic of feudal concepts in medieval history
Richard Rhodes, The Manhattan Project, the Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, and the SS-Einsatzgruppen
Jonathan Riley-Smith, Crusades
Gerhard Ritter, German history.
Andrew Roberts, British history.
B. H. Roberts, (1857–1933), Mormon historian and leader
J. M. Roberts, European history
William L. Rodgers
Sue Rabbitt Roff, American science
Alex Roland, history of technology, military
José Luis Romero, Argentina
Ron Rosenbaum, Hitler
Theodore Roosevelt, War of 1812, frontier
Michael Rostovtzeff, ancient history
Hans Rothfels, modern German history
Sheila Rowbotham, (born 1943) Feminism Socialism
Elizabeth Ashman Rowe, Historiography of Scandanavian/Icelandic Annals; Med.Lit.
A. L. Rowse, (1903–1997)
Miri Rubin, social history of Europe between 1100-1600.
R. J. Rummel, genocide
Steven Runciman, Crusades
Conrad Russell, 17th century Britain
Cornelius Ryan, (1920–1974), World War II
Boris Rybakov, (1908–2001), leader of Soviet anti-Normanists

S

Abram L. Sachar, (1899–1993)
Edgar V. Saks, (1910–1984), Estonian Middle Ages
J. Salwyn Schapiro, fascism
Dominic Sandbrook, (born 1974), modern Britain and the United States
Usha Sanyal, Asian history, Islam and Sufism, especially Barelwi movement
George Sarton, (1884–1956), history of science
Norman Saul
Michael Schaller
Simon Schama, (born 1945), British historian and TV presenter, European and art history
Arthur Schlesinger, Sr.
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Andrew Jackson, New Deal, John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy; Pulitzer prize winner
Carl Schorske, Vienna, Modernism, intellectual history
Helena Schrader, Ancient Sparta, Knights Templar, Middle Ages, WWII German Resistance, WWII Women Aviators
Stephen Schwartz
Joan Scott US Feminism
Howard Hayes Scullard, (1903–1983), ancient history
Tom Segev, Israeli history
Charles G. Sellers Jacksonian era
Robert Service Soviet and Russian history
Kenneth Setton, Crusades
James J. Sheehan modern Germany
Michael Sherry US airpower
William L. Shirer, American journalist, expert on the Third Reich, wrote The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Quentin Skinner, early modern Britain
Theda Skocpol, Institutions and comparative method
Richard Slotkin, Environment
Goldwin Smith, (1823–1910), historian
Henry Nash Smith US cultural historian
Justin Harvey Smith, Mexican-American war; Pulitzer Prize winner
Merritt Roe Smith, US historian of technology
Thomas C. Smith, (1917–2004), Japanese historian, author The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan
T. C. Smout Scottish environmental and social historian
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, (born 1918), Russian historian and novelist
Louis Leo Snyder, German nationalism
Albert Soboul, (1913–1982), French revolution
Richard Southern, medieval historian
Jonathan Spence, Chinese history
Jackson J. Spielvogel, Pennsylvania State University
Kenneth Stampp, American history, author The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South
David Starkey, (born 1945), Tudor historian and TV presenter
James M. Stayer, German Reformation historian.
Wickham Steed, British historian of Eastern Europe.
Rowlee Steiner, American Ohio Railroad Historian
Jean Stengers, Belgian historian
Frank Stenton, Anglo-Saxon historian.
Fritz Stern, American historian of Germany & Jewish history.
Zeev Sternhell, history of fascism.
Lawrence Stone, early modern British social, economic and family history
Norman Stone, military history
Hew Strachan, military historian
Viktor Suvorov, Soviet historian
Ronald Syme, (1903–1989), ancient history

T

J. L. Talmon,(1916–1980), Modern History, "The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy"
A.J.P. Taylor, (1906–1990), Historian of European International relations
Antonio Tellez, (1921–2005), Spanish Anarchism and anti-fascist resistance
Romila Thapar, (born 1931), Ancient India
Barbara Thiering, (born 1930), Rediscovered the "Pesher technique" of early Christian history
Hugh Thomas, Spanish Civil War, Cuba, Atlantic Slave Trade
E. P. Thompson, (1924–1993), British Labour historian and peace activist, author of The Making of the English Working Class
Elise Tipton, American and Australian hisotrian, author of Japanese Police State: Tokko in Interwar Japan
John Toland, (1912-2004), won 1971 Pulitzer Prize for The Rising Sun and Pearl Harbor conspiracy theorist who wrote 'Infamy.'
Conrad Totman, American historian, wrote A History of Japan
Arnold J. Toynbee, (1889–1975), A Study of History
Marc Trachtenberg, Cold War history
George Macaulay Trevelyan, (1876–1962)
Hugh Trevor-Roper, (1914–2003), British historian and peer, specialist on the Nazi leadership
Barbara Tuchman, (1912–1989) 20c military
Robert C. Tucker, Stalin
Henry Ashby Turner, Jr., Weimar and Nazi Germany
Frederick Jackson Turner, (1861–1932), American historian who developed the Frontier Thesis
Michael J. Varhola, (born 1966), American author of Fire & Ice: The Korean War, 1950-1953, D-Day: The Invasion of Normandy (with Randy Holderfield), and Everyday Life During the Civil War.

W

Retha Warnicke, (born 1939), Tudor history & gender issues
Eugen Weber, modern French history
Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, (1910–1997) British
Hans-Ulrich Wehler, 19c German social history
Russell Weigley, military history
Gerhard Weinberg, World War Two.
Albert Weisbord
Lieselotte Welskopf-Henrich
Godfrey Wettinger, Maltese Medieval Historian
John Wheeler-Bennett, German history
John Whyte, focused on Northern Ireland and on divided societies
Robert Wiebe, (1930–2000) US Progressive Era
Peter Booth Wiley, American; Opening of Japan
Alexander Wilkinson,(born 1975)Early Modern European History, The History of the Book in France, Spain & Portugal, Mary Queen of Scots
Eric Williams, (1911–), Guianese historian, Caribbean history, anti-imperialist themes
Glanmor Williams
William Appleman Williams US diplomatic
Clyde N. Wilson, 19c American; John C. Calhoun
Ian Wilson
Heinrich August Winkler, (born 1938) German history
Keith Windschuttle, (born 1942) Australian history & historiography
Robert S. Wistrich, Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and Jews in the 20th Century, wrote Hitler and the Holocaust
John B. Wolf, French history
Gordon S. Wood, American Revolution
Michael Wood
C. Vann Woodward, (1908–1999), American South

X-Y-Z

Robert M. Young, (born 1935), American historian, history of medicine, and human sciences.
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, Cuban-American historian of the German expulsions after World War Two.
Howard Zinn, (born 1922) American historian, popular U.S. history, the Left in the U.S.
Rainer Zitelmann, German historian.

Unsorted

Pierre Vidal-Naquet, historian and Civil Rights activist
Henri Raymond Casgrain, priest, author, historian
Justo Gonzalez, historian and theologian
Claude Mossé, (Ms), historian
Jean-Pierre Vernant, historian
Pierre Vilar, historian
Eberhard Kolb, German historian
Mladen Urem, Croatian literary historian