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List of historians
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 specialised.
Chroniclers and annalists, though they are not historians in the true sense, are also listed here for convenience.
See also: List of historians by area of study , List of historians of the French Revolution , English historians in the Middle Ages
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 , (485 –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
Kalhana
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 )
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 )
Arrian , Greek history
Quintus Fabius Pictor , Roman history
Dionysius of Halicarnassus , Roman history
Ban Gu (Han-Dynastie )
Simi Guang (Sung-Dynastie )
Medieval historians/chroniclers
Jordanes , (6th century ), Goths
Procopius , (died c. 565 ), Byzantines
Gregory of Tours , (538 –594 ), Franks
Bede , (c. 632 –735 ), Anglo-Saxons
Adamnan , Irish historian, 625-704.
Nennius , shadowy historian of Wales
Tabari , 838 -923 , great Persian historian
Ibn Rustah , d. 903 , Persian historian and traveller
Asser, Bishop of Sherborne (died 908 /909 ) - Welsh monk, Life of Alfred
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
Gall Anonymous , Polish historian
Albert of Aix , historian of the First Crusade
Michael Psellus the Younger , (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 , great historian of Scandinavia
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
Ambrose the poet (fl. 1190s )
Geoffroi de Villehardouin , (c. 1160 –1212 )
Nicetas Choniates (died c. 1220 )
Matthew Paris , (died 1259 )
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 ), ecclesiatic history
Alphonsus A Sancta Maria , (1396 –1456 )
Johannes Longinus , 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 )
Raphael Holinshed , (died c. 1580 )
Caesar Baronius , (1538 –1607 )
Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni (1540 -1615 ), Indo-Persian historian
John Hayward , (1564 –1627 )
Early modern historians (1600 –1900 )
Michael O'Clery , Irish historian, c.1590 -1643 .
Cu Choigriche O Cleirigh, Irish historian, fl.1627 -1636 .
Fearfeasa O Maoilchonaire, Irish historian, fl.1627-1636.
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 ), ill-proportioned and inaccurate historian
Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim , (1694 –1755 ), Lutheran historian
Voltaire , (1694 –1778 ), French Enlightenment philosopher and historian
Edward Hasted , Kent
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
Johannes von Müller , (1752 –1809 )
Anton Tomaz Linhart , (1756 –1795 )
Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin , (1766 -1826 ), Russian Empire
John Lingard , (1771 –1851 ), England with a Catholic slant
Piers Mackesy , (1775 –1890 ), British and US military history
Teimuraz Bagrationi , (1782 –1846 ), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
John Colin Dunlop (c. 1785 –1842 )
François Guizot , (1787 –1874 ), French historian of general French, English history
George Grote , (1794 –1871 ), classical Greece
Leopold von Ranke , (1795 –1886 ), 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
Charles Upson Clark , Works on the History of Eastern Europe
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 and Roman
George Bancroft (1800 -1891 ), United States
Ludwig von Köchel , (1800 –1877 ), writer, composer, botanist, music historian
Alexis de Tocqueville , (1805 –1859 ) French historian, wrote 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
Grace Aguilar , (1816 –1847 ), Jewish 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 )
Antonio Cánovas del Castillo , (1828 –1897 ), Spanish historian
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)
Heinrich von Treitschke , (1834 –1896 )
Henry Adams , (1838 –1918 ), Democracy: An American Novel
Alfred Thayer Mahan , (1840 –1914 ), naval history
Frederic William Maitland , (1850 –1906 ), legal history
Simon Rutar , (1851 –1903 )
Arnold Toynbee , (1852 –1883 ), British
Paul Vinogradoff , (1854 –1925 ), later Roman Empire
Henri Pirenne , (1862 –1935 ), Belgian and medieval European history
Ivane Javakhishvili , (1876 -1940 ), Georgian historian
Mikheil Tsereteli , (1878 -1965 ), Georgian historian
Hegel , philosopher of history
Modern historians (after 1900)
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Irving Abella , Canadian historian & author
Robert G. Albion , maritime history
Gar Alperovitz , American historian, wrote Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima & Potsdam .
Stephen Ambrose , (1936 –2002 ), American historian, U.S. history.
Joyce Appleby , seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, France, and United States history
Herbert Aptheker , (1915 –2003 ), African American history and slave revolts
Philippe Aries , French historian, medieval history in Europe
Leonard J. Arrington (1917 –1999 ), Mormon historian
Jonathan Atkins , American historian, pre-civil war U.S. history
Zurab Avalishvili , (1876 -1944 ), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
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Jacques Barzun , (born 1907 ), cultural history
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 .
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.
David Blackbourn .
Marc Bloch (1886 –1944 ), medieval France
Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 –2004 ), intellectual history, American history.
John Boswell , (1947 –1994 ), mediævalist and gay history
Paul Boyer , American historian, author of By the Bomb's Early Light .
Ferdinand Braudel .
Robin Briggs .
Miland Brown , American historian who maintains the World History Blog .
Peter Brown .
Alan Bullock , (1914 –2004 ).
Peter Burke .
J. B. Bury , classical history.
John Hill Burton , (1809 –1881 ), Scottish Jacobin history.
Jeffrey Burton Russell .
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Angus Calder , British historian, British history.
Otto Maria Carpeaux , (1900 –1978 ) foremost historian of Literature.
E. H. Carr , (1892 –1982 ) Soviet history, International Relations .
Lionel Casson .
Boris Celovsky , Czech-German relations.
Howard I. Chapelle , maritime history.
Iris Chang (1968-2004) Chinese in American & Japanese war crimes
Winston Churchill (1874 -1965 ) political, biographical, military history.
Robert Conquest , (born 1917 ) Russia, Soviet Union.
Gordon A. Craig (1913-) German history & diplomatic history.
Dan Cruickshank , British and architectural history, TV presenter.
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David B. Danbom .
Saul David , military history .
John Davies .
Norman Davies .
Vernon E. Davis , American historian, author of The Long Road Home: U.S. Prisoner of War Policy and Planning in Southeast Asia .
Esther Delisle (b. 1954), French-Canadian historian & author.
Isaac Deutscher , (1907 –1967 ) British historian and political biographer, Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin.
T.M. Devine , Scottish historian, author of The Scottish Nation: A History, 1700-2000 .
Robert Divine , diplomatic history.
David Herbert Donald
John W. Dower , American historian, author of War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War .
Georges Duby , (1924 –1996 ), Middle Ages.
Eamon Duffy , 15th-17th century religious history.
Trevor Dupuy .
Will Durant , author of the Story of Civilization series.
Geoff Eley .
John Elliott , (born 1941 ) Early Modern Spain.
Geoffrey Elton , Tudor England.
Peter Englund , (born 1957 ), Swedish historian.
Alf Evers , (1905-2004) American historian
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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 .
Joachim Fest , (born 1926 ), Nazi Germany.
Orlando Figes , (born 1957) Russia .
David Hackett Fischer , American economic historian, author of The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History .
Fritz Fischer , German historian.
Frances Fitzgerald , American journalist and historian, author of the influential Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and Americans in Vietnam .
Eric Foner , Reconstruction
Shelby Foote (1916 –), American Civil War
Michel Foucault , (1926 –1984 ), French historian of ideas / philosopher.
Elizabeth Fox-Genosvse cultural & social history, women's history and Southern history.
Walter Frank , (1905 –1945 ), Nazi historian and anti-Semitic writer.
H. Bruce Franklin American historian of the Vietnam War, wrote M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America .
Antonia Fraser , England.
Karl Friday , Heian Period Japan, early premodern Japanese warfare.
Sheppard Frere .
Bruno Fuligni .
Francis Fukuyama , (born 1955 ).
François Furet , French historian.
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John Lewis Gaddis , diplomatic history.
François-Louis Ganshof , medieval history.
Lloyd Gardner . diplomatic 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 mediavelist
Peter Green , ancient history
Lionel Groulx , (1878 –1967 ), priest, historian
Ranajit Guha , history of India and critical historiography
John Guy , leading Tudor specialist.
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Irfan Habib
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 Hermann American and British history.
Raul Hilberg , history of the holocaust
Klaus Hildebrand , 19th-20th German history.
Christopher Hill , (1912 –2003 ), 17th century England
Andreas Hillgruber , 20th German history.
Gertrude Himmelfarb (1924-) 19th century British intellectual, social and cultural history.
Eric Hobsbawm , (born 1917 ) British historian, labour history .
Richard Hofstadter , (1916 –1970 ), American political historian, intellectual historian, author of The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made It , The Age of Reform , and Anti-Intellectualism in American Life .
Richard Holmes .
Albert Hourani , Middle Eastern history.
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, wrote The Taming of the Samurai .
David John Cawdell Irving British historian, (born 1938 )
Jonathan Israel , British historian.
Herbert Adams Gibbons .
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Nikoloz Janashia , (1931 -1982 ), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
Simon Janashia , (1900 -1947 ), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
Pawel Jasienica , (1909 –1970 ), Polish historian, Polish history.
Marius Jensen , American historian, author of China in the Tokugawa World .
Amy Johnson (I) , American historian, modern Egpytian history
Paul Johnson (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 .
John Keegan , (born 1934 ) English historian, popular military history.
George F. Kennan , (a.k.a. 'X') American diplomat and historian, history of US-Soviet relations
Paul Kennedy , British historian, author of influential The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers .
Ian Kershaw , German history
Daniel J. Kevles , history of science, In the Name of Eugenics, and The Physicists .
France Kidrič , (1880 –1950 ), literary history.
Gabriel Kolko .
Thomas Kuhn , (1922 –1996 ), history of science, author of The Copernican Revolution , Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity , and the influential The Structure of Scientific Revolutions .
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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 Lefeber , diplomatic history.
Melvyn Leffler , modern international relations.
William Leuchtenburg , American political and legal history.
Barbara Levick , English historian; Roman emperors .
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie .
Li Ao , (born 1935 ), Chinese historian.
Leon F. Litwack , American history, African-American history, author of Been in the Storm so Long: The Aftermath of Slavery , and Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow .
James W. Loewen .
John Edward Lloyd .
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Sr. Margaret MacCurtain , Irish mediævalist
Charles B. MacDonald , World War II.
Kenneth Bruce McFarlane , English mediævalist
Robert Machray
Rosamond McKitterick .
Ramsay MacMullen .
Magnus Magnusson , Norse history.
Charles Maier .
Golo Mann (1909 –1994 )
Robert Mann , American historian of the Vietnam War , wrote A Grand Delusion: America's Descent into Vietnam .
Inga Markovits , author of Imperfect Justice: An East-West German Diary .
Timothy Mason , history of Nazi Germany
Tyrone G. Martin , USS Constitution .
Rev. F.X. Martin , Irish mediævalist and campaigner.
William McNeill .
Laurence Marvin American historian, French mediævalist
Yoshihisa Tak Matsutaka , wrote The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904-1932 .
Garrett Mattingly , early modern Europe.
Richard Maybury , United States, especially WWI, WWII, and the Middle East.
Friedrich Meinecke , German historian.
Hans Mommsen .
Wolfgang Mommsen .
Kenneth O Morgan .
Samuel Eliot Morison , naval history .
Benny Morris , Middle-Eastern history.
Gary Moulton , Lewis and Clark.
Roland Mousnier early modern France .
Lewis Mumford , (1895 –1988 ).
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Lewis Namier 18th century British history & 20th century Diplomatic history.
Leo Niehorster , military history.
Henry Newbolt , (1862 –1938 ).
Frank Ninkovich .
Robert Novick .
Charles Oman 19th century military history.
Gerard Oram , author of Military Executions during World War I .
Richard Overy , modern history.
Thomas Paterson .
Peter Paret , military history.
Geoffrey Parker (historian) , early modern military history.
Amos Perlmutter .
Harry W. Pfanz , U.S. Civil War.
Richard Pipes , conservative American historian, Russian and Soviet history.
J. H. Plumb , (1911 –2001 ), British historian of the 18th century.
Roy Porter , (1946 –2002 ), British historian, history of medicine .
Eileen Power , Middle Ages.
Ivan Prijatelj , (1875 –1937 ), literary history.
Ludwig Quidde , (1858 –1941 ), historian and pacifist.
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Jonathan Riley-Smith , Crusades.
Gerhard Ritter , German history.
B. H. Roberts , (1857 –1933 ), Mormon historian and leader.
William L. Rodgers .
Sue Rabbitt Roff , American science historian, author of Hotspots: The Legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki .
Alex Roland , history of technology.
Theodore Roosevelt , imperialist American president and historian, War of 1812, frontier.
Sheila Rowbotham , (born 1943) Feminist and Socialist historian, author of Women, Resistance and Revolution (1972).
A. L. Rowse , (1903 –1997 ).
Miri Rubin , social history of Europe between 1100-1600.
Steven Runciman , Crusades.
Conrad Russell , historian of 17th century Britain.
Cornelius Ryan , (1920 –1974 ) American historian, World War II.
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Abram L. Sachar , (1899 –1993 )
George Sarton , (1884 –1956 ), history of science, The Study of the History of Science .
Norman Saul .
Michael Schaller .
Simon Schama , (born 1945 ), British historian and TV presenter, European and art history .
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. .
Howard Hayes Scullard (1903 –1983 ), ancient history.
Robert Service Soviet and Russian history.
Kenneth Setton , Crusades.
James J. Sheehan .
Michael Sherry .
William L. Shirer , American journalist and historian, author of Rise and Fall of the Third Reich .
Quentin Skinner .
Goldwin Smith , (1823 –1910 ), historian.
Thomas C. Smith , (1917 –2004 ), Japanese historian, author The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan .
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , (born 1918 ), Russian historian and novelist.
Christy Jo Snider , American historian.
Albert Soboul , (1913 –1982 ), French revolution.
Richard Southern , medieval historian.
Jonathan Spence , popular Chinese history.
Jackson J. Spielvogel , Pennsylvania State University.
Kenneth Stampp , American history, author The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South .
David Starkey , (born 1945 ), Tudor historian and TV presenter.
Frank Stenton , Anglo-Saxon historian.
Lawrence Stone early modern British social, economic and family histor.
Hew Strachan , military historian.
Ronald Syme , (1903 –1989 ), ancient history.
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J. L. Talmon ,(1916 -1980 ),Modern History , "The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy ."
A. J. P. Taylor , (1906 –1990 ), Historian of European International relations .
Romila Thapar , (born 1931), Ancient India
Hugh Thomas , Spanish Civil War, Cuba, Atlantic Slave Trade
E. P. Thompson , (1924 –1993 ), British Labour historian and peace activist, author of The Making of the English Working Class .
Elise Tipton , American and Australian hisotrian, author of Japanese Police State: Tokko in Interwar Japan .
John Toland , (1912-2004), won 1971 Pulitzer for The Rising Sun .
Conrad Totman , American historian, wrote A History of Japan .
Arnold J. Toynbee , (1889 –1975 ), A Study of History .
Marc Trachtenberg , Cold War history.
George Macaulay Trevelyan , (1876 –1962 ).
Hugh Trevor-Roper , (1914 –2003 ), British historian and peer, specialist on the Nazi leadership.
Barbara Tuchman , (1912 –1989 ) American historian, wrote Joe Stillwell and the American Experience in China .
Robert C. Tucker , Stalin.
Frederick Jackson Turner , (1861 –1932 ), American historian who developed the Frontier Thesis .
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Retha M Warnicke , (born 1939 ), Tudor history & gender issues.
Cicely Veronica Wedgwood , (1910 –1997 ).
Hans-Ulrich Wehler , German history.
Russell Weigley , military history.
Lieselotte Welskopf-Henrich .
John Wheeler-Bennett German history.
John Whyte , focused on Northern Ireland and on divided societies.
Robert Wiebe (1930-2000).
Peter Booth Wiley , American historian, author of Yankees in the Land of the Gods: Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan .
Eric Williams , (1911 –1981 ), Guianese historian, Caribbean history, anti-imperialist themes.
Glanmor Williams .
Mary Wilhelmine Williams .
William Appleman Williams .
Ian Wilson .
Heinrich August Winkler , (born 1938 ) German history.
Keith Windschuttle (1942-) Australian history & historiography.
John B. Wolf , French history.
Michael Wood .
C. Vann Woodward , (1908 –1999 ), southern United States
Robert M. Young , (born 1935 ), American historian, history of medicine and human sciences.
Natalie Zemon Davis , feminist cultural historian, early modern France, film and history
Howard Zinn , (born 1922 ) American historian, popular U.S. history, the Left in the U.S.
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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
See also: List of Canadian historians , Lists of authors , Historian