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
- 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
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