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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Lord Acton
Historian
10-Jan-1834 19-Jun-1902 British historian
Brooks Adams
Historian
24-Jun-1848 13-Feb-1927 The Law of Civilization and Decay
Charles Francis Adams, Jr.
Business
27-May-1835 20-May-1915 President of Union Pacific, 1884-90
Ephraim Douglass Adams
Historian
18-Dec-1865 1-Sep-1930 The Power of Ideals in American History
Henry Adams
Historian
16-Feb-1838 28-Mar-1918 The Education of Henry Adams
Herbert Baxter Adams
Historian
16-Apr-1850 30-Jul-1901 Coined term political science
Agathias
Historian
536 AD 582 AD On the Reign of Justinian
Patrick Allitt
Historian
26-Aug-1956   Religion in America Since 1945
David L. Anderson
Historian
1946   Trapped by Success
Fred Anderson
Historian
11-Apr-1949   Crucible of War
Perry Anderson
Editor
11-Sep-1938   Editor, New Left Review
Charles McLean Andrews
Historian
22-Feb-1863 9-Sep-1943 The Colonial Period of American History
Kenneth R. Andrews
Historian
26-Aug-1921 6-Jan-2012 Elizabethan Privateering
Joyce Appleby
Historian
9-Apr-1929   Capitalism and a New Social Order
David Armitage
Historian
1965   The Ideological Origins of the British Empire
Frederick B. Artz
Historian
19-Oct-1894 20-Jul-1983 Reaction and Revolution, 1814-1832
John Aubrey
Historian
12-Mar-1626 7-Jun-1697 English antiquary
Aventinus
Historian
4-Jul-1477 9-Jan-1534 Annals of Bavaria
Gerald Aylmer
Historian
30-Apr-1926 17-Dec-2000 The King's Servants
Andrew J. Bacevich
Historian
5-Jul-1947   American Empire
John H. Backer
Historian
18-Oct-1902 15-May-1985 Winds of History
Thomas A. Bailey
Historian
14-Dec-1902 26-Jul-1983 The American Pageant
Bernard Bailyn
Historian
9-Sep-1922   The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
Sir Richard Baker
Historian
c. 1568 18-Feb-1645 Chronicle of the Kings of England
George Bancroft
Historian
3-Oct-1800 17-Jan-1891 A History of the United States
Hubert Howe Bancroft
Historian
5-May-1832 2-Mar-1918 Bancroft Library
Lance Banning
Historian
24-Jan-1942 31-Jan-2006 Sacred Fire of Liberty
Harry Elmer Barnes
Historian
15-Jun-1889 25-Aug-1968 American conspiracy theorist
Robert Bartlett
Historian
27-Nov-1950   The Making of Europe
Jacques Barzun
Historian
30-Nov-1907 25-Oct-2012 From Dawn to Decadence
A. C. F. Beales
Historian
1905 16-Aug-1974 The History of Peace
Charles A. Beard
Historian
27-Nov-1874 1-Sep-1948 The Rise of American Civilization
Carl Becker
Historian
7-Sep-1873 10-Apr-1945 Everyman His Own Historian
Robert L. Beisner
Historian
8-Mar-1936   Twelve Against Empire
Hilaire Belloc
Author
27-Jul-1870 16-Jul-1953 The Bad Child's Book of Beasts
Max Beloff
Historian
2-Jul-1913 22-Mar-1999 Founder, University of Buckingham
John M. Belohlavek
Historian
3-Jan-1943   Let the Eagle Soar
Samuel Flagg Bemis
Historian
20-Oct-1891 26-Sep-1973 Scholar of diplomacy
Doron S. Ben-Atar
Historian
25-May-1957   The Origins of Jeffersonian Commercial Policy
Jules R. Benjamin
Historian
11-Jul-1938   The United States and Cuba
Michael Bentley
Historian
8-Dec-1948   The Liberal Mind, 1914-1929
Irving Bernstein
Historian
15-Nov-1916 25-Sep-2001 Labor historian
Michael Beschloss
Historian
30-Nov-1955   The Conquerors
Gary Dean Best
Historian
18-Sep-1936 12-Feb-2010 Herbert Hoover: The Postpresidential Years
James Billington
Historian
1-Jun-1929   13th Librarian of Congress
Kai Bird
Historian
2-Sep-1951   American Prometheus
Robert Bireley
Historian
26-Jul-1933   The Jesuits and the Thirty Years War
Herbert P. Bix
Historian
1938   Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Adriaan Blaauw
Astronomer
12-Apr-1914 1-Dec-2010 Evolving galaxies
David Blackbourn
Historian
1-Nov-1949   Populists and Patricians
James M. Blaut
Historian
20-Oct-1927 11-Nov-2000 The Colonizer's Model of the World
Ruth H. Bloch
Historian
15-Sep-1949   Visionary Republic
Henry Blumenthal
Historian
21-Oct-1911 17-Feb-1987 France and the United States
Edmund Bolton
Historian
c. 1575 c. 1633 Hypercritica
Daniel Boorstin
Historian
1-Oct-1914 28-Feb-2004 The Creators
John Bossy
Historian
30-Apr-1933   Christianity in the West
Kenneth Bourne
Historian
17-Mar-1930 13-Dec-1992 Britain and the Balance of Power
Claude G. Bowers
Diplomat
20-Nov-1878 21-Jan-1958 The Tragic Era
Julian P. Boyd
Historian
3-Nov-1903 21-May-1980 Princeton University Librarian, 1940-52
Paul S. Boyer
Historian
2-Aug-1935 17-Mar-2012 When Time Shall Be No More
Brendan Bradshaw
Historian
28-May-1937   And So Began the Irish Nation
William Reynolds Braisted
Historian
14-Mar-1918   The United States Navy in the Pacific
John Brand
Historian
19-Aug-1744 11-Sep-1806 Observations on Popular Antiquities
H. W. Brands
Historian
7-Aug-1953   Prolific historian, professor at UT-Austin
Pierre de Brantôme
Historian
c. 1540 15-Jul-1614 French historical writer, biographer
Fernand Braudel
Historian
24-Aug-1902 27-Nov-1985 La méditerranée
Kinley J. Brauer
Historian
16-Apr-1935 12-Feb-2003 Cotton Versus Conscience
Robert Brenner
Historian
28-Nov-1943   The Boom and the Bubble
John Brewer
Historian
22-Mar-1947   The Sinews of Power
Peter Brock
Historian
30-Jan-1920 29-May-2006 Pacifism in the United States
Norman O. Brown
Historian
25-Sep-1913 2-Oct-2002 Life Against Death
Peter Brown
Historian
26-Jul-1935   The Rise of Western Christendom
Roger H. Brown
Historian
c. 1936   Republic in Peril: 1812
Stuart W. Bruchey
Historian
6-Aug-1917 20-Dec-2010 Enterprise: The Dynamic Economy of a Free People
P. A. Brunt
Historian
23-Jun-1917 5-Nov-2005 Social Conflicts in the Roman Republic
Arthur Bryant
Historian
18-Feb-1899 2-Jan-1985 Biographer of Samuel Pepys
James Bryce
Historian
10-May-1838 22-Jan-1922 The Holy Roman Empire
Jürgen Buchenau
Historian
31-Mar-1964   In the Shadow of the Giant
Henry Thomas Buckle
Historian
24-Nov-1821 29-May-1862 History of Civilisation in England
Alan Bullock
Historian
13-Dec-1914 2-Feb-2004 Historian of Hitler, Stalin
Mary Brown Bullock
Historian
1944   President of Agnes Scott College, 1995-2006
William Bundy
Government
24-Sep-1917 6-Oct-2000 Cold War advisor to JFK, LBJ
Jacob Burckhardt
Historian
25-May-1818 8-Aug-1897 The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
John Bernard Burke
Historian
5-Jan-1814 12-Dec-1892 Burke's Peerage
Michael Burleigh
Historian
3-Apr-1955   The Third Reich: A New History
Gilbert Burnet
Religion
18-Sep-1643 17-Mar-1715 Bishop of Salisbury
Richard L. Bushman
Historian
20-Jun-1931   Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
Herbert Butterfield
Historian
7-Oct-1900 20-Jul-1979 The Whig Interpretation of History
Caroline Bynum
Historian
1941   Medieval historian
Florian Cajori
Historian
28-Feb-1859 14-Aug-1930 A History of Mathematics
Charles W. Calhoun
Historian
24-Feb-1948   Conceiving a New Republic
A. E. Campbell
Historian
12-May-1929 2002 Great Britain and the United States
Charles S. Campbell
Historian
11-May-1911 17-Aug-2006 Anglo-American Understanding
David Cannadine
Historian
7-Sep-1950   Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy
Thomas Carlyle
Historian
4-Dec-1795 5-Feb-1881 The French Revolution
Robert Caro
Historian
30-Oct-1935   Biographer of Lyndon Johnson
E. H. Carr
Historian
28-Jun-1892 3-Nov-1982 The Twenty Years Crisis, 1919-1939
James Casey
Historian
1944   The Kingdom of Valencia
Sean Dennis Cashman
Historian
18-Sep-1943   America in the Gilded Age
Edward Caudill
Historian
16-Aug-1953   Darwinism in the Press
Andrew R. L. Cayton
Historian
9-May-1954   Ohio: The History of a People
David Cesarani
Historian
13-Nov-1956 25-Oct-2015 Eichmann: His Life and Crimes
Richard D. Challener
Historian
15-Nov-1923 23-Sep-2002 The French Theory of the Nation in Arms
Jean-François Champollion
Historian
23-Dec-1790 4-Mar-1832 Deciphered the Rosetta Stone
Alfred Chandler
Historian
15-Sep-1918 9-May-2007 Business historian
Edward Channing
Historian
15-Jun-1856 7-Jan-1931 A History of the United States
Charles Chatfield
Historian
11-Mar-1934 15-Jan-2015 Pacifism in America, 1914-1941
Michael T. Clanchy
Historian
28-Nov-1936   From Memory to Written Record
Alan Clark
Politician
13-Apr-1928 5-Sep-1999 Controversial, Conservative MP and minister
J. C. D. Clark
Historian
28-Feb-1951   English Society, 1688-1832
Manning Clark
Historian
3-Mar-1915 23-May-1991 A History of Australia
Parks M. Coble, Jr.
Historian
1946   Chinese Capitalists in Japan's New Order
Naomi W. Cohen
Historian
13-Nov-1927   Jews in Christian America
Warren I. Cohen
Historian
20-Jun-1934   America's Response to China
Norman Cohn
Historian
25-Jan-1915 31-Jul-2007 The Pursuit of the Millennium
Juan Cole
Historian
1952   Sacred Space and Holy War
Paolo E. Coletta
Historian
3-Feb-1916 22-May-2007 William Jennings Bryan
Linda Colley
Historian
13-Sep-1949   Britons: Forging the Nation
R. G. Collingwood
Historian
22-Feb-1889 9-Jan-1943 The Idea of History
James B. Collins
Historian
c. 1949   The State in Early Modern France
Henry Steele Commager
Historian
25-Oct-1902 2-Mar-1998 The American Mind
Benjamin Franklin Cooling III
Historian
8-Dec-1938   Gray Steel and Blue Water Navy
Cleveland Cram
Spy
21-Dec-1917 9-Jan-1999 History of the Counterintelligence Staff
Edward P. Crapol
Historian
29-Sep-1936   America for Americans
Michael Craton
Historian
20-Aug-1931   History of the Bahamas
Avery O. Craven
Historian
12-Aug-1885 21-Jan-1980 The Growth of Southern Nationalism
Donald T. Critchlow
Historian
18-May-1948   The Conservative Ascendancy
D. P. Crook
Historian
12-Jan-1937   Darwinism, War, and History
Alfred W. Crosby
Historian
15-Jan-1931   The Columbian Exchange
Roger Crowley
Historian
28-Jun-1951   Empires of the Sea
Ctesias
Historian
fl. 5th c. BC fl. 5th c. BC Persica
Richard N. Current
Historian
5-Oct-1912 26-Oct-2012 The Lincoln Nobody Knows
Philip D. Curtin
Historian
22-May-1922 4-Jun-2009 The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census
George Ticknor Curtis
Historian
28-Nov-1812 28-Mar-1894 Constitutional History of the United States
Ambrose D'évreux
Historian
fl. 1190 fl. 1190 L'Estoire de la Guerre Sainte
Robert Dallek
Historian
16-May-1934   An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
George Dangerfield
Historian
28-Oct-1904 26-Dec-1986 The Strange Death of Liberal England
Samuel Daniel
Poet
1562 14-Oct-1619 The First Four Books of the Civil Wars
John Darwin
Historian
29-Jun-1948   After Tamerlane: The Global Story of Empire
Norman Davies
Historian
8-Jun-1939   God's Playground
R. R. Davies
Historian
6-Aug-1938 16-May-2005 Conquest, Coexistence and Change
Arrigo Caterino Davila
Historian
30-Oct-1576 26-May-1631 Istoria delle guerre civili di Francia
David Brion Davis
Historian
16-Feb-1927   The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
Alexander DeConde
Historian
13-Nov-1920   Entangling Alliance
Fran DeLorenzo
Historian
9-Oct-1929   Hobo ethnographer
Thomas Dempster
Historian
1579 6-Sep-1625 Scotia Illustrior
Carlo Denina
Historian
1731 5-Dec-1813 Delle revoluzioni d'Italia
Bernard DeVoto
Historian
11-Jan-1897 13-Nov-1955 Across the Wide Missouri
Wilhelm Dilthey
Philosopher
19-Nov-1833 1-Oct-1911 Methodology of the humanities
Diogenes Laërtius
Historian
fl. 3rd c. AD fl. 3rd c. AD Lives of Philosophers
Dionysius Exiguus
Religion
c. 470 AD c. 540 AD 6th century chronologer
Dionysius Halicarnassus
Historian
fl. 20 BC fl. 20 BC Roman Antiquities
William E. Dodd
Diplomat
27-Oct-1869 9-Feb-1940 US Ambassador to Nazi Germany
Justus D. Doenecke
Historian
5-Mar-1938   Storm on the Horizon
David Herbert Donald
Historian
1-Oct-1920 17-May-2009 Lincoln's Herndon
Jeffery M. Dorwart
Historian
1944   The Pigtail War
John W. Dower
Historian
21-Jun-1938   Embracing Defeat
John William Draper
Chemist
5-May-1811 4-Jan-1882 Radiant energy and portrait photography
Theodore Draper
Historian
11-Sep-1912 21-Feb-2006 The Roots of American Communism
Leonard Dudley
Historian
1943   The Word and the Sword
Jonathan R. Dull
Historian
15-Aug-1942   A Diplomatic History of the American Revolution
Foster Rhea Dulles
Historian
24-Jan-1900 11-Sep-1970 Prelude to World Power
James F. Dunnigan
Historian
Aug-1943   Military historian, wargame designer
Pierre Dupuy
Historian
27-Nov-1582 14-Dec-1651 Historian, Librarian to Louis XIV
Ariel Durant
Historian
10-May-1898 25-Oct-1981 The Story of Civilization
Will Durant
Historian
5-Nov-1885 7-Nov-1981 The Story of Civilization
Thomas G. Dyer
Historian
10-Oct-1943 28-Oct-2013 Theodore Roosevelt and the Idea of Race
David Edgerton
Historian
16-Apr-1959   The Shock of the Old
Lee Edwards
Historian
1-Dec-1932   Conservative historian
Gerald G. Eggert
Historian
12-Apr-1926 27-Dec-2012 Railroad Labor Disputes
Edward Eggleston
Novelist
10-Dec-1837 4-Sep-1902 The Hoosier School-Master
Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
Historian
11-Oct-1923 31-Jan-2016 The Printing Press as an Agent of Change
Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr.
Historian
15-Dec-1915 5-Feb-2000 The Decline of American Liberalism
C. C. Eldridge
Historian
16-May-1942   England's Mission
Geoff Eley
Historian
14-May-1949   Forging Democracy
Stanley M. Elkins
Historian
27-Apr-1925 16-Sep-2013 Slavery
Benjamin A. Elman
Historian
6-Sep-1946   Science in China, 1550-1900
G. R. Elton
Historian
17-Aug-1921 3-Dec-1994 The Tudor Revolution in Government
Mark Elvin
Historian
18-Aug-1938   The Pattern of the Chinese Past
Raymond A. Esthus
Historian
17-Mar-1925 2-Jan-2012 Theodore Roosevelt and Japan
George Ewart Evans
Historian
1-Apr-1909 11-Jan-1988 Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay
Richard J. Evans
Historian
29-Sep-1947   The Third Reich
Frank Eyck
Historian
13-Jul-1921 28-Dec-2004 Religion and Politics in German History
Harold Underwood Faulkner
Historian
25-Feb-1890 19-Jun-1968 American Economic History
Elizabeth A. Fenn
Historian
22-Sep-1959   Encounters at the Heart of the World
Niall Ferguson
Historian
18-Apr-1964   The House of Rothschild
John E. Ferling
Historian
1-Oct-1940   Adams vs. Jefferson
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Historian
6-Dec-1950   Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration
Orlando Figes
Historian
20-Nov-1959   A People's Tragedy
Samuel E. Finer
Historian
22-Sep-1915 9-Jun-1993 Theory and Practice of Modern Government
David Hackett Fischer
Historian
2-Dec-1935   Albion's Seed
Fritz Fischer
Historian
5-Mar-1908 1-Dec-1999 Blamed Germany for World War I
H. A. L. Fisher
Historian
21-Mar-1865 18-Apr-1940 The Medieval Empire
William J. Fishman
Historian
1-Apr-1921 22-Dec-2014 The Insurrectionists
John Fiske
Historian
30-Mar-1842 4-Jul-1901 Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy
Daniel B. Fleming, Jr.
Historian
28-Nov-1931 17-Dec-2001 Kennedy vs. Humphrey, West Virginia, 1960
Ralph Flenley
Historian
2-Jan-1886 21-Mar-1969 Modern German History
James Thomas Flexner
Historian
13-Jan-1908 13-Feb-2003 George Washington
Robert W. Fogel
Economist
1-Jul-1926 11-Jun-2013 Cliometrics
Eric Foner
Historian
7-Feb-1943   Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution
Philip S. Foner
Historian
14-Dec-1910 13-Dec-1994 History of the Labor Movement in the United States
Sarah Foot
Historian
23-Feb-1961   Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England
Shelby Foote
Author
17-Nov-1916 27-Jun-2005 Shiloh
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Mathematician
21-Mar-1768 16-May-1830 Fourier series
Thomas Frank
Author
21-Mar-1965   Founding editor, The Baffler
John Hope Franklin
Historian
2-Jan-1915 25-Mar-2009 From Slavery to Freedom
William W. Freehling
Historian
26-Dec-1935   Prelude to Civil War
Joshua B. Freeman
Historian
1949   In Transit
Henry Friedlander
Historian
24-Sep-1930 17-Oct-2012 The Origins of Nazi Genocide
Saul Friedländer
Historian
11-Oct-1932   Holocaust historian
Murray Friedman
Historian
15-Sep-1926 18-May-2005 Founder, Rosaline Feinstein Center
Joseph A. Fry
Historian
21-May-1947   Dixie Looks Abroad
Paul Fussell
Historian
22-Mar-1924 23-May-2012 The Great War and Modern Memory
John Lewis Gaddis
Historian
2-Apr-1941   George F. Kennan: An American Life
Alan Gallay
Historian
26-Nov-1957   The Indian Slave Trade
David J. Garrow
Historian
11-May-1953   Bearing the Cross
Timothy Garton Ash
Historian
12-Jul-1955   In Europe's Name: Germany and the Divided Continent
Willard B. Gatewood
Historian
23-Feb-1931 23-Oct-2011 Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880-1920
Peter Gay
Historian
20-Jun-1923 12-May-2015 The Enlightenment: An Interpretation
Lionel M. Gelber
Historian
13-Oct-1907 10-Aug-1989 The Rise of Anglo-American Friendship
Eugene D. Genovese
Historian
19-May-1930 26-Sep-2012 Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
Geoffrey of Monmouth
Historian
c. 1100 1155 Historia regum Britanniae
Edward Gibbon
Historian
8-May-1737 16-Jan-1794 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Felix Gilbert
Historian
21-May-1905 14-Feb-1991 To the Farewell Address
Martin Gilbert
Historian
25-Oct-1936 3-Feb-2015 Winston S. Churchill
Gildas
Historian
c. 516 AD c. 570 AD Earliest British historian
Mark T. Gilderhus
Historian
15-Nov-1941 22-Jan-2015 Pan American Visions
Graeme Gill
Historian
10-Dec-1947   Peasants and Government in the Russian Revolution
John R. Gillis
Historian
13-Jan-1939   Islands of the Mind
Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
Historian
21-May-1949   Gender and Jim Crow
Mark Girouard
Historian
10-Jul-1931   Architectural historian
Paul W. Glad
Historian
15-Aug-1926   The Trumpet Soundeth
Joscelyn Godwin
Historian
16-Jan-1945   Historian of the esoteric
Eric F. Goldman
Historian
17-Jun-1916 19-Feb-1989 The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson
E. H. Gombrich
Historian
30-Mar-1909 3-Nov-2001 Art and Illusion
Carlos de Singuenza y Góngora
Mathematician
20-Aug-1645 22-Aug-1700 Mathematician, historian of the New World
George Peabody Gooch
Historian
21-Oct-1873 31-Aug-1968 English Democratic Ideas in the 17th Century
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Historian
4-Jan-1943   Team of Rivals
Annette Gordon-Reed
Historian
19-Nov-1958   The Hemingses of Monticello
Paul Gottfried
Historian
12-Jan-1970   The Search for Historical Meaning
Lewis L. Gould
Historian
21-Aug-1939   The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
Norman A. Graebner
Historian
19-Oct-1915 10-May-2010 Empire on the Pacific
Jack P. Greene
Historian
12-Aug-1931   The Intellectual Construction of America
J. A. S. Grenville
Historian
11-Jan-1928 7-Mar-2011 Lord Salisbury and Foreign Policy
Erich S. Gruen
Historian
7-May-1935   The Last Generation of the Roman Republic
François Guizot
Head of State
4-Oct-1787 12-Oct-1874 Prime Minister of France, 1847-48
Kenneth J. Hagan
Historian
20-Feb-1936   American Gunboat Diplomacy and the Old Navy
Steven Hahn
Historian
18-Jul-1951   A Nation Under Our Feet
Christopher Haigh
Historian
28-Aug-1944   English Reformations
David Halberstam
Journalist
10-Apr-1934 23-Apr-2007 The Powers That Be
Oron J. Hale
Historian
29-Jul-1902 19-Jul-1991 The Great Illusion, 1900-1914
Edward Hall
Historian
c. 1495 1547 English chronicler
Henry Hallam
Historian
9-Jul-1777 21-Jan-1859 View of the Middle Ages
Oscar Handlin
Historian
29-Sep-1915 20-Sep-2011 The Uprooted
Barry Hankins
Historian
27-Oct-1956   Jesus and Gin
Victor Davis Hanson
Historian
5-Sep-1953   Carnage and Culture
William Henry Harbaugh
Historian
16-Jan-1920 28-Apr-2005 Power and Responsibility
Mary W. M. Hargreaves
Historian
1-Mar-1914 29-Aug-2008 Dry Farming in the Northern Great Plains
John Lamberton Harper
Historian
2-Oct-1950   American Visions of Europe
William V. Harris
Historian
13-Sep-1938   War and Imperialism in Republican Rome
Max Hastings
Journalist
28-Dec-1945   Editor of the Daily Telegraph, 1986-95
William P. Head
Historian
15-Oct-1949   America's China Sojourn
Daniel R. Headrick
Historian
2-Aug-1941   When Information Came of Age
Morrell Heald
Historian
16-Jul-1922 3-Jan-2014 Transatlantic Vistas
David Healy
Historian
1926   U.S. Expansionism
Thomas Hearne
Historian
Jul-1678 10-Jun-1735 Edited many English chronicles
Hecataeus of Miletus
Historian
fl. 5th c. BC fl. 5th c. BC Periegesis and Genealogiai
Ken Hechler
Politician
20-Sep-1914   Congressman from West Virginia, 1959-77
Hellanicus of Lesbos
Historian
fl. 5th c. BC fl. 5th c. BC 5th century historian of Lesbos
Herodian
Historian
c. 170 AD c. 240 AD History from Aurelius to Gordian III
Herodotus
Historian
c. 484 BC c, 425 BC The Histories
Holger H. Herwig
Historian
25-Sep-1941   Germany's Vision of Empire in Venezuela
Jack H. Hexter
Historian
25-May-1910 8-Dec-1996 On Historians
Thomas R. Hietala
Historian
1-Feb-1952   Manifest Design
Raul Hilberg
Historian
2-Jun-1926 4-Aug-2007 The Destruction of the European Jews
Christopher Hill
Historian
6-Feb-1912 23-Feb-2003 Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution
Carole Hillenbrand
Historian
1943   The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives
Gertrude Himmelfarb
Historian
8-Aug-1922   Victorian Minds
F. H. Hinsley
Historian
26-Nov-1918 16-Feb-1998 Cryptanalyst at Bletchley Park
Eric Hobsbawm
Historian
9-Jun-1917 1-Oct-2012 The Age of Revolution
Stanley Hoffmann
Historian
27-Nov-1928 13-Sep-2015 Gulliver's Troubles
Richard Hofstadter
Historian
6-Aug-1916 24-Oct-1970 Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
Michael J. Hogan
Historian
1-Oct-1943   President, University of Connecticut, 2007-10
Raphael Holinshed
Historian
c. 1520 c. 1580 Chronicles
James Holland
Historian
27-Jun-1970   Fortress Malta
J. Rogers Hollingsworth
Historian
26-Jul-1932   A Political Economy of Medicine
Michael F. Holt
Historian
8-Jul-1940   The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party
W. Stull Holt
Historian
2-Oct-1896 12-Oct-1981 Treaties Defeated by the Senate
Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim
Historian
27-Jan-1701 2-Sep-1790 Febronius
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
Poet
16-Mar-1581 21-May-1647 Dutch History
Alistair Horne
Historian
9-Nov-1925   Seven Ages of Paris
Reginald Horsman
Historian
24-Oct-1931   The Causes of the War of 1812
Tony Horwitz
Journalist
1959   Confederates in the Attic
Daniel Walker Howe
Historian
10-Jan-1937   What Hath God Wrought
Hrosvitha
Playwright
c. 935 AD c. 1000 AD Female medieval dramatist
David Hume
Philosopher
7-May-1711 25-Aug-1776 Empiricist nonpareil
Michael H. Hunt
Historian
c. 1943   Ideology and U.S Foreign Policy
William R. Hutchison
Historian
21-May-1930 16-Dec-2005 The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism
James H. Hutson
Historian
8-Aug-1937   Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
Akira Iriye
Historian
20-Oct-1934   Across the Pacific
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24-Mar-1938   Notorious Holocaust denier
Nancy Isenberg
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Harry V. Jaffa
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7-Oct-1918 10-Jan-2015 Crisis of the House Divided
J. Franklin Jameson
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19-Sep-1859 28-Sep-1937 Dictionary of United States History
Lisa Jardine
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12-Apr-1944 25-Oct-2015 Francis Bacon: Discovery and the Art of Discourse
Merrill Jensen
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16-Jul-1905 30-Jan-1980 The Articles of Confederaton
Robert Jervis
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1940   The Illogic of American Nuclear Strategy
Robert W. Johannsen
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22-Aug-1925 16-Aug-2011 Stephen A. Douglas
Robert David Johnson
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27-Nov-1967   Congress and the Cold War
Robert Erwin Johnson
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3-Feb-1923 28-Jan-2008 Guardians of the Sea
Manfred Jonas
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9-Apr-1927 25-Aug-2013 Isolationism in America, 1935-1941
Colin Jones
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12-Dec-1947   Paris: Biography of a City
Matthew Josephson
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15-Feb-1899 13-Mar-1978 The Robber Barons
Josephus
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37 AD 100 AD The Jewish War
Tony Judt
Historian
2-Jan-1948 6-Aug-2010 Postwar
Donald Kagan
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1-May-1932   The Great Dialogue
David E. Kaiser
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7-Jun-1947   No End Save Victory
Robert A. Kann
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11-Feb-1906 30-Aug-1981 The Multinational Empire
Lawrence S. Kaplan
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28-Oct-1924   NATO and the United States
John Keegan
Historian
15-May-1934 2-Aug-2012 The Face of Battle
Steven J. Keillor
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25-Apr-1948   Hjalmar Petersen of Minnesota
Morton Keller
Historian
1-Mar-1929   Regulating a New Economy
David M. Kennedy
Historian
22-Jul-1941   Freedom from Fear
Paul Kennedy
Historian
17-Jun-1945   The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Linda K. Kerber
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23-Jan-1940   Federalists in Dissent
Ian Kershaw
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29-Apr-1943   The Nazi Dictatorship
Jack T. Kirby
Historian
22-Aug-1938 6-Aug-2009 Mockingbird Song
Philip S. Klein
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10-Jun-1909 15-Feb-1993 President James Buchanan
Stephen F. Knott
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14-Jun-1957   Secret and Sanctioned
Dudley Wright Knox
Military
21-Jun-1877 11-Jun-1960 A History of the United States Navy
Richard Koebner
Historian
29-Aug-1885 28-Apr-1958 Empire
Hans Kohn
Historian
15-Sep-1891 16-Mar-1971 The Idea of Nationalism
Richard H. Kohn
Historian
29-Dec-1940   Eagle and Sword
Peter Kolchin
Historian
3-Jun-1943   American Slavery, 1619-1877
Gabriel Kolko
Historian
17-Aug-1932   Century of War
Walter LaFeber
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30-Aug-1933   The New Empire
Frank Lambert
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17-Apr-1943   The Barbary Wars
Ernest M. Lander, Jr.
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16-Dec-1915 17-Aug-2013 Reluctant Imperialists
Andrew Lang
Author
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William Leonard Langer
Historian
16-Mar-1896 26-Dec-1977 Our Vichy Gamble
Lester D. Langley
Historian
7-Aug-1940   The Banana Wars
Peter Laslett
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18-Dec-1915 8-Nov-2001 The World We Have Lost
Paul Gordon Lauren
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17-Feb-1946   The Evolution of International Human Rights
Jacques Le Goff
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Yur-Bok Lee
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15-Nov-1934   Diplomatic Relations Between the US and Korea
Margaret Leech
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Stanford E. Lehmberg
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23-Sep-1931 14-Jun-2012 Sir Thomas Elyot: Tudor Humanist
Richard W. Leopold
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6-Jan-1912 23-Nov-2006 Robert Dale Owen: A Biography
Jill Lepore
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27-Aug-1966   The Name of War
Richard Lepsius
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Gerda Lerner
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30-Apr-1920 2-Jan-2013 The Woman in American History
William E. Leuchtenburg
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28-Sep-1922   FDR scholar
Allan J. Lichtman
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4-Apr-1947   The Keys to the White House
Albert S. Lindemann
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19-May-1938   Esau's Tears
Gerald F. Linderman
Historian
13-Sep-1934   Embattled Courage
Arthur S. Link
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8-Aug-1920 26-Mar-1998 Wilson
Brian McAllister Linn
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14-Sep-1953   The Philippine War, 1899-1902
Livy
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Joseph Byrne Lockey
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2-Feb-1877 24-Sep-1946 Pan-Americanism: Its Beginnings
Rayford W. Logan
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7-Jan-1897 4-Nov-1982 The Negro in American Life and Thought
Fredrik Logevall
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1963   Embers of War
Mikhail Lomonosov
Poet
19-Nov-1711 15-Apr-1765 Early father of Russian poetry
Elizabeth Longford
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30-Aug-1906 23-Oct-2002 Victoria R. I.
Hendrik Willem van Loon
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14-Jan-1882 11-Mar-1944 Juvenile historian, Story of Mankind
Arthur O. Lovejoy
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10-Oct-1873 30-Dec-1962 The Great Chain of Being
John Lukacs
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31-Jan-1924   The Hitler of History
Gilbert L. Lycan
Historian
31-Dec-1909 11-Apr-1998 Alexander Hamilton and American Foreign Policy
Staughton Lynd
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22-Nov-1929   Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Historian
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Diarmaid MacCulloch
Historian
31-Oct-1951   Reformation: Europe's House Divided
James Mackay
Historian
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Olaus Magnus
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Dumas Malone
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William Manchester
Author
1-Apr-1922 1-Jun-2004 The Last Lion
Manetho
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C. Roland Marchand
Historian
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13-Nov-1940   Independence on Trial
George M. Marsden
Historian
25-Feb-1939   Jonathan Edwards: A Life
Lauro Martines
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22-Nov-1927   The Social World of the Florentine Humanists
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Kevin Mattson
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Ernest R. May
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Robert E. May
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6-Jul-1943   The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire
Thomas May
Poet
1595 13-Nov-1650 The History of the Long Parliament
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19-Jun-1926   Marxist Jew, quasi-revisionist
Adrienne Mayor
Historian
22-Apr-1946   The Amazons
John McCardell
Educator
17-Jun-1949   Vice Chancellor, University of the South
George B. McClellan, Jr.
Politician
23-Nov-1865 30-Nov-1940 Mayor of New York City, 1904-09
Drew R. McCoy
Historian
c. 1949   The Elusive Republic
David McCullough
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7-Jul-1933   The American Experience
John J. McCusker
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12-Aug-1939   The Economy of British America, 1607-1789
Forrest McDonald
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7-Jan-1927 19-Jan-2016 We The People: The Economic Origins of the Constitution
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17-Apr-1957   Appeasement and the British Road to War
Joseph E. McLean
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10-Jul-1915 30-Dec-1985 William Rufus Day
William G. McLoughlin
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11-Jun-1922 28-Dec-1992 New England Dissent
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William H. McNeill
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James M. McPherson
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Tennant S. McWilliams
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Horace Samuel Merrill
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Jules Michelet
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Richard Middleton
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1-Apr-1941   The Bells of Victory
Fergus Millar
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5-Jul-1935   Rome the Greek World, and the East
Perry Miller
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25-Feb-1905 9-Dec-1963 The New England Mind
William Lee Miller
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21-Apr-1926 27-May-2012 Arguing About Slavery
Theodor Mommsen
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R. I. Moore
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8-May-1941   The Birth of Popular Heresy
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17-Jan-1916 8-Jul-2013 The Puritan Dilemma
H. Wayne Morgan
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16-May-1934 29-Jan-2014 William McKinley and His America
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Stanley Morison
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Richard B. Morris
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24-Jul-1904 3-Mar-1989 The Peacemakers
John Lothrop Motley
Diplomat
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Lewis Mumford
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19-Oct-1895 26-Jan-1990 Technics and Civilization
Alun Munslow
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15-Dec-1947   Deconstructing History
Ivan Musicant
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18-Dec-1943 5-Mar-1999 Empire by Default
Lewis Namier
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David Nasaw
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18-Jul-1945   Schooled to Order
R. G. Neale
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7-Mar-1919 1-May-2004 Great Britain and U.S. Expansion
Joseph Needham
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9-Dec-1900 24-Mar-1995 Science and Civilization in China
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27-Nov-1947   Almost a Territory
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20-May-1890 5-Mar-1971 The War for the Union
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Historian
30-May-1719 23-Nov-1806 Established the Newdigate Prize
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Religion
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Roy Franklin Nichols
Historian
3-Mar-1896 12-Jan-1973 The Disruption of American Democracy
Frank A. Ninkovich
Historian
19-Dec-1944   The Diplomacy of Ideas
John Niven
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26-Oct-1921 14-Aug-1997 John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union
Albert A. Nofi
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6-Jan-1944   To Train the Fleet for War
Mary Nolan
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17-Jan-1944   The Transatlantic Century
Mark Noll
Historian
1946   Christian historian
Douglass C. North
Economist
5-Nov-1920 23-Nov-2015 Cliometrics
Gary North
Religion
1942   Reconstructionist Y2K Doomsayer
Phillips Payson O'Brien
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21-Aug-1963   British and American Naval Power
Robert L. O'Connell
Historian
27-Dec-1944   Of Arms and Men
Frank O'Gorman
Historian
12-Sep-1940   Voters, Patrons, and Parties
William L. O'Neill
Historian
18-Apr-1935 29-Mar-2016 Coming Apart
James E. Oberg
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7-Nov-1944   Space exploration historian
Marvin Olasky
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12-Jun-1950   The Tragedy of American Compassion
Peter S. Onuf
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6-Oct-1946   Jefferson's Empire
Anne W. Orde
Historian
1924 25-Feb-2015 The Eclipse of Great Britain
Orosius
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Robert Endicott Osgood
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14-Aug-1921 28-Dec-1986 Limited War
David M. Oshinsky
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1944   Polio: An American Story
Margaret J. Osler
Historian
27-Nov-1942 15-Sep-2010 Reconfiguring the World
Donald E. Osterbrock
Astronomer
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Otto of Freising
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Historian
20-Jan-1890 21-Oct-1956 King Cotton Diplomacy
Frank Lawrence Owsley, Jr.
Historian
13-Jun-1928 13-Jan-2013 The Struggle for the Gulf Borderlands
Elaine Pagels
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13-Feb-1943   The Gnostic Gospels
Nell Irvin Painter
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2-Aug-1942   Creating Black Americans
Thomas Pakenham
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14-Aug-1933   8th Earl of Longford
R. R. Palmer
Historian
11-Jan-1909 11-Jun-2002 The Age of the Democratic Revolution
Francis Parkman
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16-Sep-1823 8-Nov-1893 France and England in North America
Herbert S. Parmet
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28-Sep-1929   Eisenhower and the American Crusades
Vernon Louis Parrington
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3-Aug-1871 16-Jun-1929 Main Currents in American Thought
Paolo Paruta
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William H. Pease
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31-Aug-1924 20-Jun-2013 The Web of Progress
Jaroslav Pelikan
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17-Dec-1923 13-May-2006 The Christian Tradition
Louis A. Pérez, Jr.
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5-Jun-1943   Cuba Between Empires, 1878-1902
Bradford Perkins
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6-Mar-1925 29-Jun-2008 Castlereagh and Adams
Dexter Perkins
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20-Jun-1889 12-May-1984 The Monroe Doctrine
Whitney T. Perkins
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28-Feb-1921 28-Jan-2005 Constraint of Empire
Andrew Pettegree
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16-Sep-1957   Reformation and the Culture of Persuasion
Fredrick B. Pike
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23-Dec-1926   Chile and the United States, 1880-1962
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4-Jul-1945 10-Apr-2004 Definitive biography of Elizabeth II
Colin Platt
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11-Nov-1934   The English Medieval Town
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16-Apr-1927 1987 Jewish Life in Twentieth-Century America
David M. Pletcher
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14-Jun-1920 22-Feb-2004 The Diplomacy of Involvement
J. H. Plumb
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20-Aug-1911 21-Oct-2001 England in the Eighteenth Century
Brenda Gayle Plummer
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20-Oct-1946   Haiti and the United States
J. G. A. Pocock
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7-Mar-1924   The Machiavellian Moment
Polybius
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Jeremy D. Popkin
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19-Dec-1948   Revolutionary News: The Press in France
David M. Potter
Historian
6-Dec-1910 18-Feb-1971 The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861
Ronald E. Powaski
Historian
15-Jun-1943   March to Armageddon
Lucas A. Powe, Jr.
Educator
25-Feb-1943   American Broadcasting and the First Amendment
Julius W. Pratt
Historian
25-Feb-1888 28-Jan-1983 Expansionists of 1812 and 1898
William H. Prescott
Historian
4-May-1796 28-Jan-1859 The Conquest of Mexico
Diana Preston
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1952   Before the Fall-Out
Henry F. Pringle
Historian
23-Aug-1897 7-Apr-1958 Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography
Francis Paul Prucha
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4-Jan-1921 30-Jul-2015 The Great Father
Elizabeth Brown Pryor
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15-Mar-1951 13-Apr-2015 Clara Barton: Professional Angel
Peter Putnam
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11-Jun-1920 23-Sep-1998 Keep Your Head Up, Mr. Putnam!
Carroll Quigley
Historian
9-Nov-1910 3-Jan-1977 Harvard professor, mentor to Bill Clinton
Howard H. Quint
Historian
3-Jan-1917 23-Jun-1981 The Forging of American Socialism
Jack N. Rakove
Historian
4-Jun-1947   Original Meanings
David Ramsay
Historian
2-Apr-1749 8-May-1815 The History of the American Revolution
Willard Sterne Randall
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13-Mar-1942   Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor
Leopold von Ranke
Historian
12-Dec-1795 23-May-1886 Prominent 19th century German historian
George Rawlinson
Historian
23-Nov-1812 7-Oct-1902 The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World
James R. Reckner
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7-Aug-1940   Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet
Laurence Rees
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19-Jan-1957   Their Darkest Hour
Robert V. Remini
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17-Jul-1921 28-Mar-2013 Andrew Jackson
Richard Rhodes
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4-Jul-1937   The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Nicholas V. Riasanovsky
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21-Dec-1923 14-May-2011 A History of Russia
Jonathan Riley-Smith
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27-Jun-1938   The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading
J. Fred Rippy
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27-Oct-1892 10-Feb-1977 Historical Evolution of Hispanic America
Norman K. Risjord
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25-Oct-1931   Representative Americans
Charles R. Ritcheson
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26-Feb-1925 8-Dec-2011 British Politics and the American Revolution
Adam Roberts
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29-Aug-1940   President of the British Academy
Andrew Roberts
Historian
13-Jan-1963   Eminent Churchillians
William Robertson
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19-Sep-1721 11-Jun-1793 History of Scotland
James Harvey Robinson
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29-Jun-1863 16-Feb-1936 The Mind in the Making
James P. Ronda
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30-May-1943   Lewis and Clark Among the Indians
Clinton Rossiter
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18-Sep-1917 11-Jul-1970 Constitutional Dictatorship
Murray Rothbard
Economist
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David B. Ruderman
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29-May-1944   Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key
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15-Apr-1937 14-Oct-2004 Fall of the British monarchies, 1637-1642
Sallust
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George Sarton
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31-Aug-1884 22-Mar-1956 Introduction to the History of Science
William F. Sater
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17-Nov-1937   Chile and the War of the Pacific
Norman E. Saul
Historian
26-Nov-1932   Distant Friends: The United States and Russia
Max Savelle
Historian
8-Jan-1896 12-Sep-1979 The Origins of American Diplomacy
Michael Schaller
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2-Jun-1947   The American Occupation of Japan
Simon Schama
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13-Feb-1945   Landscape and Memory
Arthur M. Schlesinger
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27-Feb-1888 30-Oct-1965 The Rise of the City
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Historian
15-Oct-1917 28-Feb-2007 The Age of Roosevelt
Karl M. Schmitt
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22-Jul-1922   Mexico and the United States, 1821-1973
Gershom Scholem
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5-Dec-1897 21-Feb-1982 Revolutionized the study of Kabbalah
Thomas D. Schoonover
Historian
27-May-1936   The United States in Central America
Carl E. Schorske
Historian
15-Mar-1915 13-Sep-2015 Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture
Lars Schoultz
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23-Aug-1942   Beneath the United States
John H. Schroeder
Historian
13-Sep-1943   Shaping a Maritime Empire
Jason Scott
Historian
13-Sep-1970   GET LAMP, Sockington Cat
Sir Walter Scott
Author
15-Aug-1771 21-Sep-1832 Ivanhoe
Charles G. Sellers
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9-Sep-1923   James K. Polk
William L. Shirer
Historian
23-Feb-1904 28-Dec-1993 Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
David J. Silbey
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16-Jun-1968   A War of Frontier and Empire
Quentin Skinner
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26-Nov-1940   The Foundations of Modern Political Thought
Johann Sleidan
Historian
1506 31-Oct-1556 De statu religionis et republicae
Goldwin Smith
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13-Aug-1823 7-Jun-1910 Controversialist
Richard Norton Smith
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1953   Presidential historian
Homer E. Socolofsky
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20-May-1922 6-Sep-2005 The Presidency of Benjamin Harrison
Jonathan D. Spence
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11-Aug-1936   The Search for Modern China
Oswald Spengler
Historian
29-May-1880 8-May-1936 The Decline of the West
Jonathan Sperber
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26-Dec-1952   The European Revolutions, 1848-1851
Rolf Steininger
Historian
2-Aug-1942   Austria, Germany, and the Cold War
Fritz Stern
Historian
2-Feb-1926 18-May-2016 German historian
Philip Van Doren Stern
Author
10-Sep-1900 31-Jul-1984 It's A Wonderful Life
T. J. Stiles
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c. 1964   The First Tycoon
Richard Stites
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2-Dec-1931 7-Mar-2010 The Women's Liberation Movement in Russia
Lawrence Stone
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4-Dec-1919 16-Jun-1999 The Crisis of the Aristocracy
Strabo
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Agnes Strickland
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1806 8-Jul-1874 Lives of the Queens of England
William Stubbs
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21-Jun-1825 22-Apr-1901 Constitutional History of England
William Stukeley
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7-Nov-1687 3-Mar-1765 Stonehenge, a Temple Restored
Johannes Stumpf
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23-Apr-1500 1578 Swiss chronicler, theologian
Suetonius
Historian
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Thomas J. Sugrue
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24-Jul-1962   The Origins of the Urban Crisis
William Graham Sumner
Educator
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Robert Surtees
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1779 11-Feb-1834 History of Durham
Ronald Syme
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11-Mar-1903 4-Sep-1989 The Roman Revolution
Tacitus
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56 AD c. 120 AD Historiae, Annals
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21-Apr-1828 5-Mar-1893 Origines de la France Contemporaine
A. J. P. Taylor
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25-Mar-1906 7-Sep-1990 The Origins of the Second World War
Alan Taylor
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17-Jun-1955   The Internal Enemy
Harold Temperley
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20-Apr-1879 11-Jul-1939 The Foreign Policy of Canning
Studs Terkel
Author
16-May-1912 31-Oct-2008 Working
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Adolphe Thiers
Head of State
18-Apr-1797 3-Sep-1877 First President of the Third Republic
Keith Thomas
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2-Jan-1933   Religion and the Decline of Magic
E. P. Thompson
Historian
3-Feb-1924 28-Aug-1993 The Making of the English Working Class
Thucydides
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460 BC 400 BC History of the Peloponnesian War
George Ticknor
Educator
1-Aug-1791 26-Jan-1871 History of Spanish Literature
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29-Jul-1805 16-Apr-1859 Democracy in America
John Toland
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29-Jun-1912 4-Jan-2004 The Rising Sun
Arnold Toynbee
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14-Apr-1889 22-Oct-1975 A Study of History
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18-Dec-1921 8-Jan-2010 The Radical Republicans
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16-Feb-1876 21-Jul-1962 England under Queen Anne
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Historian
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30-Jan-1912 6-Feb-1989 A Distant Mirror
Frederick Jackson Turner
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14-Nov-1861 14-Mar-1932 Frontier Thesis
Edward Vallance
Historian
1975   A Radical History of Britain
Jan Vansina
Historian
14-Sep-1929   Oral Tradition as History
John Venn
Mathematician
4-Aug-1834 4-Apr-1923 Venn diagrams
Peter Viereck
Poet
5-Aug-1916 13-May-2006 Terror and Decorum
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
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31-Jul-1909 26-May-1999 Conservative ideologue
Friedrich von Schlegel
Philosopher
10-Mar-1772 12-Jan-1829 Founder of the German Romantic movement
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7-Feb-1839 7-Jul-1907 History of England from 1815
Thomas Walsingham
Historian
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Mercy Otis Warren
Historian
25-Sep-1728 19-Oct-1814 History of the American Revolution
Bernard Wasserstein
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Eugen Weber
Historian
24-Apr-1925 17-May-2007 The Western Tradition
Gerhard L. Weinberg
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1-Jan-1928   The Foreign Policy of Hitler's Germany
Allen Weinstein
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1-Sep-1937 18-Jun-2015 US National Archivist, 2005-08
Donald Weinstein
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13-Mar-1926 13-Dec-2015 Savonarola and Florence
Theodore H. White
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6-May-1915 15-May-1986 The Making of the President
Craig Steven Wilder
Historian
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Sean Wilentz
Historian
20-Feb-1951   The Rise of American Democracy
Eric Williams
Head of State
25-Sep-1911 29-Mar-1981 Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, 1956-81
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Historian
1963   The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy
Johann Winckelmann
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