List of historians by area of study - Definition and Overview

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")
• Edward Hasted - Kent
• 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
• 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"

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

• Eugene D. Genovese - Marxist historian of southern US history and slavery
• Ranajit Guha - Indian marxist historian
• Christopher Hill
• Eric Hobsbawm - Marxist historian
• Timothy Wright Mason - Marxist historian who worked on the history of national socialism
• 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
• 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