This is a list of historians categorized by their area of study. See also List of historians and List of women historians by area of study.
By time period
Ancient history
Sedat Alp (1913, Veroia, The Ottoman Empire – 2006, Ankara, Turkey) Hittitolog- Historian, Ancient Anatolian Ekrem Akurgal (1911, Haifa, The Ottoman Empire- 2002, İzmir, Turkey) archaeologist – historian, Ancient Anatolian Leonie Archer (born 1955) – Graeco-Roman Palestine Mary Beard (born 1955) Sandra Boehringer (born 1972) – the history of sexuality, women and gender in classical Greece Anatoly Bokschanin (1903–1979) – Roman history Fernand Braudel (1902, Luméville-en-Ornois, France – 1985, Cluses, France ) Roman history Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton (1900–1993) – Roman history and prosopography Halet Çambel (1916, Berlin, Germany – 2014, İstanbul, Turkey) Archaeologist- historian, ancient Anatolian Michael Crawford (born 1939) Roland Étienne (born 1944, French) – Ancient Greece and Hellenistic period Moses Finley (1912–1986) Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) – The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Adrian Goldsworthy (born 1969, British) – Roman history Peter Green (1924–2024) – Ancient Greece and Macedon Herodotus Keith Hopkins (1934–2004) – Roman history Muazzez İlmiye Çığ (1914–2024, Bursa-Turkey) Sumerologist, Sumerian history Josephus Yuliya Kolosovskaya (1920–2002) – Roman history and Roman provinces of the Danube Sergey Kovalev (1886–1960) – Hellenistic and Roman period Mikhail Kublanov (1914–1998) Barbara Levick (1931–2023) – Roman emperors Livy Ramsay MacMullen (1928–2022) – History of Rome Nikolai Mashkin (1900–1950) – Roman history Fergus Millar (1935–2019) Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903) History of Rome Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776–1831) – Roman history Orosius Tahsin Özgüç (1916, Kardzhali, The Ottoman Empire – 2005, Ankara, Turkey) archaeologist – historian, Ancient Anatolian Edward Togo Salmon (1905–1988) – Roman history Howard Hayes Scullard (1903–1983) – Roman civilization Mariya Sergeyenko (1891–1987) – Roman agriculture and daily life Ram Sharan Sharma (1919–2011) – Ancient India Elena Shtaerman (1914–1991) – Roman history Suetonius Ronald Syme (1903–1989) – Classical period Tacitus Joseph Tainter (born 1949) Lily Ross Taylor (1886–1969) – Roman history Thucydides Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (born 1951) Max Weber (1864–1920) Xenophon Polybius
Medieval history
John Van Antwerp Fine Jr. (born 1939) – American medievalist specialized in the history of Central and Southeastern Europe, and Balkans Ram Sharan Sharma (1919–2011) – early medieval History of India Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman (born 1940) – historian of medieval medicine Placido Puccinelli (1609–1685, Italian) – Northern Italy in the 10th century and the Florentine church Marc Bloch (1886–1944, French) – Medieval France Uta-Renate Blumenthal (1935–2025, American) – Investiture Controversy and Pope Gregory VII. John Boswell (1947–1994, American) – Homosexuality in the Middle Ages Norman Cantor (1929–2004) Georges Duby (1924–1996, French) – Specialized in the history of France between the Capets and the Valois Johannes Fried (1942–2026, German) François-Louis Ganshof (1895–1980, Belgian) – wrote on early medieval institutional history and feudalism Geoffrey of Monmouth – Cleric and writer Giraldus Cambrensis Edward Grant (1926–2020) – European science in the Middle Ages Mary Dormer Harris (1867–1936, English) – medieval history of Coventry Johan Huizinga (1872–1945, Dutch) – cultural history, wrote Waning of the Middle Ages Jacques Le Goff (1924–2014, French) – Middle Ages, particularly the 12th and 13th centuries Suzannah Lipscomb (born 1978, English) – 16th century England and France Rev. F. X. Martin (1922–2000, Irish) – Mediævalist and campaigner Rosamond McKitterick (born 1949) – Frankish and Carolingian history Elizabeth Norton (English) – the House of Tudor Henri Pirenne (1862–1935) – the "Pirenne Thesis" of early Medieval development Eileen Power (1889–1940) – Middle Ages Miri Rubin (born 1956) – social and religious history, 1100–1500 Steven Runciman (1903–2000) – the Crusades Richard Southern (1912–2001) Sidney Painter (1902–1960) John Julius Norwich (1929–2018) John V. Tolan (born 1959) Chris Wickham (born 1950) Retha Warnicke (born 1939) Aaron Gurevich (1924–2006) Jerome Lee Shneidman (1929–2008) – psychohistoryPaul H. Elovitz, "The Life Experience and Scholarly Achievement of J. Lee Shneidman", Clio’s Psyche Vol. 15 No. 4 (March 2009) pp. 275–282. Michael Prestwich (born 1943) Alessandro Barbero (born 1959) Dick Harrison (born 1966) Satish Chandra (1922–2017) Irfan Habib (born 1931) Michel Kaplan (born 1946, French) – Byzantinist Gina Fasoli (1905–1992) – medieval cities, feudal society, and Lombardy Rachel Reid (1876–1952) – Tudor history, Medieval Scotland
By nation or geographical area
North America
History of Canada
Donald Creighton (1902–1979) – Developed the Laurentian thesis William J. Eccles (1917–1998) – History of New France Lionel Groulx (1878–1967) – The history of Quebec in particular and French North America in general Harold Innis (1894–1952) – Economic historian of Canada Jack Granatstein (born 1939) – Political and Military historian of Canada W.L. Morton (1908–1980) – Expert on western Canada
See also List of Canadian historians.
History of the Caribbean
Kamau Brathwaite (1930–2020) Aviva Chomsky (born 1957) C. L. R. James (1901–1989) Lucille M. Mair (1924–2009) Walter Rodney (1942–1980) Eric Williams (1911–1981) – Focused on slavery and the slave trade, condemned imperialism Betty Wood (1945–2021)
History of the United States
Henry Adams (1838–1918) – history of the United States in the presidential administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Stephen Ambrose (1936–2002) – biographer of Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon Edward L. Ayers (born 1953) – U.S. South, founder of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) and Digital Scholarship Lab George Bancroft (1800–1891) – wrote first large-scale history of the US Charles A. Beard (1874–1948) – revisionist history of Founding Fathers suggesting monetary motivations Samuel Flagg Bemis (1891–1973) – U.S. foreign policy; won two Pulitzer Prizes Ira Berlin (1941–2018) – slavery William Brandon (1914–2002) – historian of the American West and Native Americans. Holly Brewer (born 1964) – early American History Alan Brinkley (1949–2019) – historian of the Great Depression David H. Burton – U.S. historian and biographer of presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft as well as Clara Barton and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Bruce Catton (1899–1978) – American Civil War William Cronon (born 1954) – American environmental history, the frontier in New England, and the American West J. Frank Dobie (1888–1964) – historian of Texas and the Southwestern United States David Herbert Donald (1920–2009) W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) – historian of the Reconstruction Drew Gilpin Faust (born 1947) – Civil War, culture of death, and the Confederacy Robert H. Ferrell (1921–2018) – Harry S. Truman, the 20th-century U.S. presidency, World War I Eric Foner (born 1943) – Civil War and Reconstruction John Hope Franklin (1915–2009) – historian of African Americans John A. Garraty (1920–2007) – biography Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (1941–2007) – Southern slavery, women's history Doris Kearns Goodwin (born 1943) – U.S. presidents, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II Richard Hofstadter (1916–1970) – Progressivism and U.S. political history Daniel Walker Howe – political and intellectual history of the early republic and antebellum period Peter Iverson – 20th-century U.S. West/Native American history (emphasis in Navajo history) Paul Johnson (born 1928) – author of A History of the American People and a biographer of George Washington Winthrop Jordan (1931–2007) – African-American history Willard L. King (1893–1981) – biography and law David Lavender (1910–2003) – Western United States David McCullough (1933–2022) – general study, most notable work is recent biography of John Adams James M. McPherson (born 1936) – American Civil War Pauline Maier (1938–2013) – late Colonial, Revolution, Constitution D. W. Meinig (1924–2020) – geographic history of America Philip D. Morgan (born 1949) – slavery David Nasaw (born 1945) – biography and U.S. cultural history Francis Parkman (1823–1893) – historian of the French and Indian War William B. Pickett (born 1940) David Pietrusza (born 1949) – 20th-century presidential elections; biography Dominic Sandbrook (born 1974) – political history of the 1960s and 1970s Arthur Schlesinger Sr. (1888–1965) Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (1917–2007) Cornelius Cole Smith, Jr. (1913–2004) – historian of Arizona, California and the Southwestern United States Jean Edward Smith (1932–2019) – biography, foreign policy, political economy, constitutional law, legal history, and politics Irma Tam Soong (1912–2001) – history of Chinese immigration in Hawaii Frederick Jackson Turner (1861–1932) – developed the Frontier Thesis Frank Vandiver (1925–2005) Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) – pre-Colonial America to the early 20th century Alexander Scott Withers (1792–1865) – primary accounts of colonial western Virginia conflicts Sean Wilentz (born 1951) – political, social, and cultural history Betty Wood (1945–2021) – early American history Gordon S. Wood (1933–2026) – American Revolution C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999) – Southern United States Howard Zinn (1922–2010) – political scientist and historian of the United States, known for A People's History of the United States Nathan Raab (born 1978) – American Civil War and presidential documents, known for The Hunt for History
Latin America
History of Latin America
See also :Category:Historians of Latin America Jeremy Adelman (born 1960) Marc Becker David Brading (1936–2024) Aviva Chomsky (born 1957) James Dunkerley (born 1953) Mark Falcoff (born 1941) Ann Farnsworth-Alvear Charles Gibson (born 1943) Mike Gonzalez (born 1943) Clarence H. Haring (1885–1960) Daniel James (born 1948) Kenneth Maxwell (born 1941) William H. Prescott (1796–1859) Peter Winn John Wirth (1936–2002) John Womack (born 1937) Leslie Bethell (born 1937)
Brazil Boris Fausto (1930–2023) Lilia Moritz Schwarcz (born 1957)
Chile Alonso de Góngora Marmolejo (1523–1575) Pedro Mariño de Lobera (1528–1594) Vicente Carvallo y Goyeneche (1742–1816)
Peru Jorge Basadre (1903–1980) Raúl Porras Barrenechea (1897–1960) María Rostworowski (1915–2016)
Europe
History of Europe
Patricia Clavin (born 1964) – international relations and transnational relations Norman Davies (born 1939) – Europe as a whole Tony Judt (1948–2010) – post 1945 Elizabeth Eisenstein (1923–2016) – early printing and transitions in media Julia P. Gelardi – royal history of 19th and 20th centuries John Lukacs (1924–2019) – Cold War Henri-Jean Martin (1924–2007) – early printing and writing Effie Pedaliu – history of Italian war crimes and Cold War Henri Pirenne (1862–1935) – Belgium Walter Alison Phillips (1864–1950) Andrew Roberts (born 1963) – Second World War John Roberts (1928–2003) – Europe J. Salwyn Schapiro (1879–1973) Norman Stone (1941–2019) Charlotte Zeepvat – royal history of 19th and 20th centuries
History of Albania
Stavro Skëndi (1905–1989)
History of Belgium
Henri Pirenne (1862–1935) – Middle Ages Sophie de Schaepdrijver (born 1961) – World War I Herman Van der Wee (born 1928) – social and economic history
History of Bosnia and Herzegovina
İbrahim Peçevi (1572–1650) Antun Knežević (1834–1889) Bono Benić (1708–1785) Hamdija Kreševljaković (1888–1959) Smail Balić (1920–2002) Enver Redžić (1915–2009)