List of historians

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)

  A

• 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

  B

• 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.
  

  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.
• 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.
  

  D-E

• 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
  

  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.
• 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.
  

  G

• 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.
  

  H-I

• 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.
  

  J-K

• 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.
  

  L

• 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.
  

  M

• 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).
  

  N-Q

• 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.
  

  R

• 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.
  

  S

• 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.
  

  T

• 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.
  

  W-Z

• 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.
  

  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