List of historians by area of study

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

By time period

Ancient history

• Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) – The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• Peter Green – Ancient Greece and Macedon
• Barbara Levick (born 1932, British) – Roman emperors
• Howard Hayes Scullard (1903-1983) – Roman civilization
• Ronald Syme (1903 – 1989) – Classical period

Medieval history

• Marc Bloch (1886-1944, French) – Medieval France
• John Boswell (1947-1994, American) – Homosexuality in the Middle Ages
• Norman Cantor (1930-2004)
• Georges Duby (1924-1996, French) – Specialized in the history of France between the Capets and the Valois
• F.L. Ganshof (1895–1980), Dutch – wrote on early medieval institutional history and feudalism
• Patrick Geary – early Middle Ages
• Johan Huizinga (Dutch) – Wrote 'Waning of the Middle Ages'
• Rev. F.X. Martin (Irish) – Mediævalist and campaigner
• Rosamond McKitterick – Frankish and Carolingian history
• Henri Pirenne (1862–1935) – the "Pirenne Thesis" of early Medieval development
• Eileen Power – Middle Ages
• Miri Rubin – social and religious history, 1100–1500
• Richard Southern (1912-2001)

By nation or geographical area

North America

History of Canada

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

See also List of Canadian historians.

History of the Caribbean

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

History of the United States

• Stephen Ambrose (1936-2002) – Biographer of Eisenhower
• George Bancroft (1800-1891) – wrote first large-scale history of the US
• Charles Beard (1874-1948)
• Bruce Catton – American Civil War
• David Herbert Donald
• Richard Hofstadter (1916-1970)
• David Lavender (1910-2003) – Western U.S.
• David McCullough (1933- ) – general study, most notable work is recent biography of John Adams
• Gary Moulton – prominent Lewis and Clark historian
• Harry W. Pfanz – American Civil War
• Arthur Schlesinger
• Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932) – Developed the Frontier Thesis
• C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999) – Southern United States
• Howard Zinn (1922- ) – Leftist historian of the United States

Europe

History of England and Britain

• Angus Calder – Great Britain
• Eamon Duffy – 15th-17th century religious history (not "the Reformation")
• Geoffrey Rudolph Elton – Tudor England.
• Edward Hasted – Kent
• Antonia Fraser – England
• J. H. Hexter – 17 th century England.
• Christopher Hill (1912-2003) – 17th century England
• John Edward Lloyd (1861-1947) – Early English history
• Lewis Bernstein Namier – 18th century politcs
• A. L. Rowse (1903-1997) – The history of Cornwall and Elizabethan England
• John Robert Seeley (1834-1895)
• David Starkey (born 1945) – Tudor historian and TV presenter
• E. P. Thompson, (1924–1993), historian of the British working class
• Lawrence Stone, The history of society and the family in England
• George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876–1962) – Prolific author on many periods of English history
• Retha M Warnicke (born 1939) – Tudor history and gender issues
• Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910-1997) – British historian

History of France

• Marc Bloch (1886-1944) – Medieval France
• Georges Duby (1924-1996) – Medieval France
• Lucien Febvre (1878-1956) – French historian.
• Alistair Horne – modern French military history.
• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie – history of the French peasantry.
• Michael Marrus – Vichy France
• Roland Mousnier – early modern France.
• John B. Wolf (1907-???) – French history

See also List of historians of the French Revolution.

History of Germany

• Gordon A. Craig
• Fritz Fischer
• Klaus Hildebrand
• Andreas Hillgruber
• Heinz Zollin Hohne
• Klemens von Klemperor
• Timothy Mason
• Friedrich Meinecke
• Hans Mommsen
• Wolfgang Mommsen
• George Mosse
• Gerhard Ritter
• Hans-Ulrich Wehler
• Heinrich von Treitschke
• A. J. P. Taylor
• Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914-2003) – British historian and peer who specialized on Nazi leadership and incorrectly verified the authenticity of The Hitler Diaries
• Henry Ashby Turner
• John Wheeler-Bennett

History of Ireland

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

History of Poland

• Norman Davies (1939-) – modern Polish history.
• Pawel Jasienica (1909-1970) – Polish amateur historian.
• Wickham Steed

History of Russia

• Nicholas Bethell
• Robert Conquest – The Soviet Union
• Roi Medvedev
• Richard Pipes – The Soviet Union
• Condoleezza Rice – Soviet Union
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (born 1918) – Russian historian responsible for forcing knowledge of Soviet atrocities on the world
• William Taubman – Nikita Khrushchev

History of Slovenia

• Bogo Grafenauer (1916--1995)

History of Yugoslavia

• Stephen Schwartz

The Middle East

• George Antonius (1891-1941) – Historian of Arab nationalism
• H. A. R. Gibb (1895-1971) – Editor, The Encyclopedia of Islam
• Bernard Lewis – History of Islam and the Middle East
• Albert Hourani
• Ibn Khaldun
• Walid Khalidi Palestinian historian
• David Pryce-Jones
• Ibn al-Tiqtaqa (b. circa 1262) Shi'i historian wrote Al-Fakhīr [1]
• ‘Ala’ al-Din ‘Ata Malik Juvayni (1226–1283) Ta’rīkh-I-Jahān Gushā (‘A History of the World-Conqueror Chingis Khān) [2]
• Rashid al-Din (circa 1247–1318) Jāmi‛-al-Tawārīkh (‘A Comprehensive Collection of Histories'), Ta’rīkh–i-Ghāzānī – a history of the Mongols and Turks [3]
• D. S. Margoliouth

Asia

History of China

• Li Ao (born 1935) – Historian, author, and politician and broadcaster in the Republic of China on Taiwan
• Sima Qian – Compiled Records of the Grand Historian

History of Korea

• Dae-sook Suh – Korean War and North Korea

History of India

• A. L. Basham
• Ranajit Guha
• John Keay
• Sumit Sarkar
• Percival Spear
• Romila Thapar
• Bipin Chandra

History of Japan

• Karl Friday

By historical viewpoint

Abolitionist

• George Washington Williams – Early African-American historian

Christianity

• Eusebius of Caesarea (~275–339) – "Father of Church history"
• Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim (1694-1755) – Lutheran historian of Christianity from its inception through the 18th century
• John Gilmary Shea (1824-1892) Father of American Catholic History

Mormonism

• B. H. Roberts – Latter-day Saint leader and historian
• Leonard J. Arrington (1917-1999) – LDS Church historian 1975-1982

Holocaust

• Yehuda Bauer
• Christopher Browning
• Lucy Davidowicz
• Michael Marrus
• Hans Mommsen

Marxist

• Eugene D. Genovese – Marxist historian of southern US history and slavery
• Ranajit Guha – Indian marxist historian
• Christopher Hill – 17th century England.
• Eric Hobsbawm – Marxist historian of the modern world.
• Timothy Wright Mason – Marxist historian who worked on the history of National Socialism and the German working-class.
• Maxime Rodinson French marxist historian on the history of islam
• Sumit Sarkar Indian marxist historian
• Edward Palmer Thompson British marxist historian, author of "The Making of the English Working Class"

Nazi

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

Anarchist

• Paul Avrich
• Murray Bookchin
• Max Nettlau
• Antonio Tellez
• Howard Zinn (born 1922)

Pacifist

• Ludwig Quidde (1858-1941) – Precient German pacifist and student of history who combined his specialties in his condemnation of Kaiser Wilhelm II

By general category

Art history

• Simon Schama (born 1945) – Art history
• Josef Strzygowski (born 1862) – Architectural history

Economic history

Military history

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

Naval history

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

Historiography

• Marc Bloch
• Fernand Braudel
• E. H. Carr
• Geoffrey Elton
• Pieter Geyl
• J. H. Hexter
• Leopold von Ranke

Gender and sexuality studies

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

History of ideas, literature, and philosophy

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

History of business

• Alfred Chandler

History of international relations

• Herbert Butterfield
• Gordon A. Craig
• John Lewis Gaddis, historian of the Cold War
• Lewis Bernstein Namier
• A. J. P. Taylor (1906-1990) – Historian of European International Relations

History of science and technology

• Peter Galison, physics, philosophy, objectivity
• John L. Heilbron, physics, quantification, astronomy, religion and science
• Thomas P. Hughes, technology
• Evelyn Fox Keller, science and gender, biology
• Daniel J. Kevles, science and politics, physics, biology, eugenics
• Thomas Kuhn, physics, "paradigm shifts"
• Abraham Pais, physics
• George Sarton

World history

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

Biography

• Alan Bullock (1914-2004) – Historian best known for his influential biography of Hitler
• Roi Medvedev – Stalin biographer
• Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881 – Friedrich the Great

By medium

Broadcasters

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