List of historians by area of study

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 Ireland 2.4.7 History of Poland 2.4.8 History of Russia 2.5 Middle East 3 By historical viewpoint 3.6 Marxist 3.7 Nazi 3.8 Socialist 4 By general category 4.9 Military history 4.10 Naval history 4.11 Gender and Sexuality Studies 4.12 History of ideas, literature, and philosophy 4.13 History of International Relations 5 World history 6 Genealogy 7 Unsorted

By time period

Ancient history

• Barbara Levick (born 1932, British) - Roman emperors
• Peter Green - Ancient Greece and Macedon
• 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
• Georges Duby (1924-1996, French) - Specialized in the history of France between the Capets and the Valois
• Johan Huizinga (Dutch) - Wrote 'Waning of the Middle Ages'
• Rev. F.X. Martin (Irish) - Mediævalist and campaigner
• Eileen Power - Middle Ages

By nation or geographical area

North America

History of Canada

• J.M.S. Careless
• Donald Creighton - Developed the Laurentian thesis
• 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
• David Lavender (1910-2003) - United States West
• David McCullough (1933- ) - general study, most notable work is recent biography of John Adams
• Harry W. Pfanz - American Civil War
• 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
• 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
• David Starkey (born 1945) - Tudor historian and TV presenter
• E. P. Thompson, (1924-1993), historian of the British working class
• 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
• Lucien Febvre (1878-1956) - French historian
• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie - history of the French peasantry
• John B. Wolf (1907-???) - French history

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
• William Taubman - Nikita Khrushchev

Middle East

• George Antonius
• Bernard Lewis
• Albert Hourani

By historical viewpoint

Marxist

• Eric Hobsbawm - Marxist historian

Nazi

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

Socialist

• Howard Zinn (born 1922) - Socialist historian

By general category

Military history

• Saul David - military history
• John Keegan (born 1934, English) - Specializes in 20th-century wars
• Leo Niehorster (born 1947) - World War II
• Peter Paret - military history

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 International Relations

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

World history

• Ferdinand Braudel (1902-1985) - Social and economic history
• 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

Genealogy

• C. J. Everon (born 1971) - Family chronicle

Unsorted

• Robin Briggs
• Peter Brown
• Alan Bullock
• Jeffrey Burton Russell
• Lionel Casson
• David B. Danbom
• John Davies
• Norman Davies
• Trevor Dupuy
• Ronan Fanning, Irish historian
• Orlando Figes, Russia
• Sheppard Frere
• Francis Fukuyama, (born 1955)
• Pieter Geyl, Dutch historian
• Lionel Groulx, (1878-1967), priest, historian
• Richard Holmes
• Michael Howard
• Tristram Hunt, (born 1974)
• Jonathan Israel, British historian
• Michael Laffan - Irish historian
• Li Ao, (born 1935), Chinese historian, author
• Sr. Margaret MacCurtain, Irish mediævalist
• Charles B. MacDonald - World War II
• Rosamond McKitterick
• Ramsay MacMullen
• Kenneth O Morgan
• Ludwig Quidde, (1858-1941), historian and pacifist
• William L. Rodgers
• Sheila Rowbotham
• Steven Runciman - Crusades
• Cornelius Ryan - World War II
• Simon Schama
• Robert Service
• Goldwin Smith, (1823 - 1910), historian
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, (born 1918), Russian historian and novelist
• Frank Stenton, Anglo-Saxon historian
• George Macaulay Trevelyan
• Hugh Trevor-Roper, (1914-2003), specialist on Nazi leadership and British peer
• John Whyte - focused on Northern Ireland and on divided societies
• Glanmor Williams
• Mary Wilhelmine Williams
• Michael Wood