List of historians by area of study Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

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

Table of contents

1 By time period 1.1 Ancient history 1.2 Medieval history 2 By nation or geographical area 2.3 North America 2.3.1 History of Canada 2.3.2 History of the Caribbean 2.3.3 History of the United States 2.4 Europe 2.4.4 History of England and Great Britain 2.4.5 History of France 2.4.6 History of Germany 2.4.7 History of Ireland 2.4.8 History of Poland 2.4.9 History of Russia 2.4.10 History of Slovenia 2.5 The Middle East 2.6 Asia 2.6.11 History of China 2.6.12 History of Korea 2.6.13 History of India 2.7 History of Japan 3 By historical viewpoint 3.8 Abolitionist 3.9 Christianity 3.9.14 Protestantism 3.9.15 Mormonism 3.10 Marxist 3.11 Nazi 3.12 Anarchist 3.13 Pacifist 4 By general category 4.14 Art history 4.15 Economic history 4.16 Military history 4.17 Naval history 4.18 Gender and sexuality studies 4.19 History of ideas, literature, and philosophy 4.20 History of business 4.21 History of international relations 4.22 History of science and technology 5 World history 6 Biography 7 By medium 7.23 Broadcasters

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
• Charles Beard (1874-1948)
• Bruce Catton - American Civil War
• 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 Great Britain

• Angus Calder - Great Britain
• Eamon Duffy - 15th-17th century religious history (not "the Reformation")
• Antonia Fraser - England
• Christopher Hill (1912-2003) - 17th century England
• John Edward Lloyd (1861-1947) - Early English history
• Alfred Leslie 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
• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie - history of the French peasantry
• John B. Wolf (1907-???) - French history

''See also List of historians of the French Revolution.

History of Germany

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

History of Ireland

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

History of Poland

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

History of Russia

• Robert Conquest - The Soviet Union
• Richard Pipes - The Soviet Union
• 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)

The Middle East

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

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
• John Keay
• Percival Spear
• Romila Thapar

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"

Protestantism

• Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim (1694-1755) - Lutheran historian of Christianity from its inception through the 18th century

Mormonism

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

Marxist

• Eric Hobsbawm - Marxist historian

Nazi

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

Anarchist

• Paul Avrich
• Murray Bookchin
• 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
• Leo Niehorster (born 1947) - World War II
• Peter Paret - Military history
• Cornelius Ryan (1920-1974) - World War II

Naval history

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

Gender and sexuality studies

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

History of ideas, literature, and philosophy

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

History of business

• Alfred Chandler

History of international relations

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

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

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

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