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

• Orosius
• Ram Sharan Sharma – Eminent Historian of Ancient India
• Leonie Archer – Graeco-Roman Palestine
• Michael Crawford (historian)
• Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) – The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• Adrian Goldsworthy (born 1969, British) – Roman history
• Peter Green – Ancient Greece and Macedon
• Josephus
• Herodotus
• Barbara Levick (born 1931) – Roman emperors
• Livy
• Ramsay MacMullen History of Rome
• Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903) History of Rome
• Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776–1831) – Roman history
• Howard Hayes Scullard (1903–1983) – Roman civilization
• Ronald Syme (1903–1989) – Classical period
• Suetonius
• Tacitus
• Joseph Tainter
• Thucydides
• Moses Finley
• Mary Beard
• Max Weber
• Fergus Millar
• Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
• Xenophon
• Polybius
• Anatoly Bokschanin (1903–1979) – Roman history
• Elena Shtaerman (1914–1991) – Roman history
• Nikolai Mashkin (1900–1950) – Roman history
• Muazzez İlmiye Çığ (1914, Bursa-Türkiye) Sumerologist, Sumerian history
• Fernand Braudel (1902, Luméville-en-Ornois- 1985, Cluses- France ) Roman history
• Mariya Sergeyenko (1891–1987) – Roman agriculture and daily life
• Sedat Alp (1913, Veroia, The Ottoman Empire - 2006, Ankara, Türkiye) Hittitolog- Historian, Ancient Anatolian
• Ekrem Akurgal (1911, Haifa, The Ottoman Empire- 2002, İzmir, Türkiye) Archaeologist- Historian, Ancient Anatolian
• Tahsin Özgüç (1916, Kardzhali,The Ottoman Empire- 2005, Ankara, Türkiye) Archaeologist- Historian, Ancient Anatolian
• Halet Çambel (1916, Berlin, Germany- 2014, İstanbul, Türkiye) Archaeologist- Historian, Ancient Anatolian
• Yuliya Kolosovskaya (1920–2002) – Roman history and Roman provinces of the Danube
• Mikhail Kublanov (1914–1998)
• Sergey Kovalev (1886–1960) – Hellenistic and Roman period

Medieval history

• Ram Sharan Sharma (born 1919) – early medieval History of India
• Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman – 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
• 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
• François-Louis Ganshof (1895–1980), Belgian – wrote on early medieval institutional history and feudalism
• Geoffrey of Monmouth
• Giraldus Cambrensis
• Johan Huizinga (1872–1945, Dutch) – cultural history, wrote Waning of the Middle Ages
• Jacques Le Goff (1924, French) – Middle Ages, particularly the 12th and 13th centuries
• 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
• Steven Runciman (1903–2000) – the Crusades
• Richard Southern (1912–2001)
• Sidney Painter
• John Julius Norwich
• John Tolan
• Chris Wickham
• Retha Warnicke
• Aaron Gurevich
• Michael Prestwich
• Dick Harrison

By nation or geographical area

North America

History of Canada

• Donald Creighton – Developed the Laurentian thesis
• William J. Eccles – History of New France
• Lionel Groulx (1878–1967) – The history of Quebec in particular and French North America in general
• Harold Innis – Economic historian of Canada
• Jack Granatstein – Political and Military historian of Canada
• W.L. Morton – Expert on western Canada

See also List of Canadian historians.

History of the Caribbean

• Kamau Brathwaite
• Aviva Chomsky
• Vincent K. Hubbard – writes about St. Kitts and Nevis
• C. L. R. James
• Lucille Mathurin Mair
• Walter Rodney
• Eric Williams (1911–1981) – Focused on slavery and the slave trade, condemned imperialism

History of the United States

See also Category:Historians of the United States

• Henry Adams (1838–1918) – the 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 – U.S. South
• 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
• William Brandon (1914–2002), historian of the American West and Native Americans.
• Alan Brinkley – Historian of the Great Depression
• Bruce Catton – American Civil War
• William Cronon – American environmental history, the frontier in New England, and the American West
• J. Frank Dobie – historian of Texas and the Southwestern United States
• David Herbert Donald
• W. E. B. Du Bois – historian of the Reconstruction
• Drew Gilpin Faust – Civil War, culture of death, and the Confederacy
• Eric Foner – Civil War and Reconstruction
• Shelby Foote – (1916–2005) – American Civil War
• John Hope Franklin – historian of African Americans
• John A. Garraty
• Elizabeth Fox-Genovese Southern slavery, women's history
• Richard Hofstadter (1916–1970) – Progressivism and U.S. political history
• 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- African-American history
• David Lavender (1910–2003) – Western U.S.
• David McCullough (born 1933) – general study, most notable work is recent biography of John Adams
• James M. McPherson – American Civil War
• Pauline Maier (b. 1938) – Late Colonial, Revolution, Constitution
• D. W. Meinig – geographic history of America
• Philip D. Morgan – slavery
• David Nasaw – biography and U.S. cultural history
• Francis Parkman – Historian of the French and Indian War
• Dominic Sandbrook (born 1974) – political history of the 1960s and 1970s
• Arthur Schlesinger Sr.
• Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
• Cornelius Cole Smith, Jr. (1913–2004) – historian of Arizona, California and the Southwestern United States
• Jean Edward Smith (born 1932) – biography, foreign policy, political economy, constitutional law, legal history, and politics
• Frederick Jackson Turner (1861–1932) – Developed the Frontier Thesis
• Frank Vandiver
• Alexander Scott Withers – Primary accounts of colonial western Virginia conflicts
• C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999) – Southern United States
• Howard Zinn (1922–2010) – Political scientist and historian of the United States, often critical of common policies.

Latin America

History of Latin America

See also Category:Historians of Latin America

• Marc Becker
• David Brading
• Aviva Chomsky
• James Dunkerley
• Mark Falcoff
• Ann Farnsworth-Alvear
• Charles Gibson
• Mike Gonzalez
• Clarence H. Haring
• Daniel James (historian)
• Kenneth Maxwell
• William H. Prescott
• Peter Winn
• John Wirth
• John Womack

Brazil

• Boris Fausto

Chile

• Alonso de Góngora Marmolejo
• Pedro Mariño de Lobera
• Vicente Carvallo y Goyeneche

Europe

History of Europe

• Norman Davies
• Tony Judt
• Elizabeth Eisenstein, early printing and transitions in media
• Julia P. Gelardi, royal history of 19th and 20th centuries
• John Lukacs
• Henri-Jean Martin, early printing and writing
• Effie Pedaliu, history of Italian war crimes and Cold war
• Henri Pirenne
• Walter Alison Phillips
• John Roberts (historian)
• Robert Roswell Palmer
• J. Salwyn Schapiro
• Norman Stone
• Gordon Wright
• Charlotte Zeepvat, royal history of 19th and 20th centuries

History of Belgium

• Henri Pirenne – Middle ages
• Sophie de Schaepdrijver – World War I

History of England and Britain

• The Venerable Bede (672–735) – Britain from 55 BC to 731 AD
• Angus Calder – Great Britain
• Linda Colley (born 1949) – British history
• Maurice Cowling – High political history
• Richard Drayton – British history
• Eamon Duffy – Religious history of the 15th–17th centuries (not "the Reformation")
• Geoffrey Rudolph Elton – England in the Tudor period
• Charles Harding Firth (1857–1936) – Political history of the 17th century
• Antonia Fraser – England
• Mary Anne Everett Green – Calendars of state papers and biographies
• William Gibson Ecclesiastical history
• Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1829–1902) – Political history of the 17th century
• Geoffrey of Monmouth (died circa 1154) – British history
• Edward Hasted – Kent
• J. H. Hexter – England in the 17th century
• Christopher Hill (1912–2003) – England in the 17th century
• Gertrude Himmelfarb – Social and cultural history of the Victorian period
• Eric Hobsbawn (1917–2012) – Marxist British history
• David Hume (1711–1776), Scottish Enlightenment philosopher and author of the six volume History of England (originally History of Britain)
• Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609–1674) – English Civil Wars
• John Edward Lloyd (1861–1947) – Early Welsh history
• Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) English writer and historian whose most famous work was The History of England from the Accession of James the Second
• Lewis Bernstein Namier – Political history of the 18th century
• Andrew Roberts – modern British history.
• A. L. Rowse (1903–1997) – Cornish history and Elizabethan England
• Dominic Sandbrook (born 1974) – Britain in the 1960s and after
• John Robert Seeley (1834–1895) – British political history of the modern period
• Jack Simmons (1915–2000) – British railway history, topography
• David Starkey (born 1945) – Tudor historian and TV presenter
• Lawrence Stone – English society and the history of the family
• E. P. Thompson, (1924–1993) – The British working class
• George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876–1962) – English history (many different periods)
• Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton – Britain in the 17th century
• Retha Warnicke (born 1939) – Tudor history and gender issues
• Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910–1997) – British historian
• Perez Zagorin – (born 1920) British/English history of the 16th and 17th centuries

History of the British Empire

• Richard Drayton
• Gerald S. Graham
• Vincent T. Harlow
• William Roger Louis
• P. J. Marshall
• David Quinn
• D. M. Schurman
• Archibald Paton Thornton (1921–2004)
• Glyndwr Williams

History of Croatia

• Johannes Lucius
• Pavao Ritter Vitezović
• Franjo Rački
• Tadija Smičiklas
• Vjekoslav Klaić
• Ferdo Šišić
• Nada Klaić
• Mirjana Gross
• Trpimir Macan
• Ivo Banac
• Radoslav Katičić

History of Finland

• Kesar Ordin
• Mikhail Borodkin

History of France

• Julian T. Jackson (born 1954) – French historian
• Marc Bloch (1886–1944) – Medieval France
• Vincent Cronin – Louis XIV, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Napoleon, and Paris
• Georges Duby (1924–1996) – Medieval France
• Lucien Febvre (1878–1956) – French historian
• Alistair Horne – modern French military history
• Douglas Johnson (historian), historian of Modern France
• Simon Kitson, historian of Vichy France
• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie – history of the French peasantry
• Michael Marrus – Vichy France
• Jules Michelet (1798–1874) – French historian
• Roland Mousnier – early modern France
• Robert Paxton – Vichy France
• Pierre Renouvin-French diplomatic history
• John C. Rule-17th and 18th century France
• Zeev Sternhell – French fascism
• Eugen Weber – modern French history
• John B. Wolf (born 1907) – French history
• Natalie Zemon Davis – early modern France
• Isser Woloch – 18th century France
• Robert J. Young, the Third Republic
• Gordon Wright (1912–2000)

See also List of historians of the French Revolution.

History of Germany

• Gisela Bock
• Alan Bullock
• Karl Dietrich Bracher
• Martin Broszat
• Gordon A. Craig
• Richard J. Evans
• Joachim Fest
• Fritz Fischer
• Deborah Hertz
• Klaus Hildebrand
• Andreas Hillgruber
• Eberhard Jäckel
• Ian Kershaw
• Klemens von Klemperer
• Claudia Koonz
• Timothy Mason
• Frank McDonough
• Friedrich Meinecke
• Hans Mommsen
• Wolfgang Mommsen
• George Mosse
• Ernst Nolte
• Steven Ozment
• Detlev Peukert
• Koppel Pinson
• Gerhard Ritter
• Hans Rothfels
• David Schoenbaum
• Jean Edward Smith
• Louis Leo Snyder
• Fritz Stern
• Michael Stürmer
• Hans-Ulrich Wehler
• Heinrich von Treitschke
• A.J.P. Taylor
• Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914–2003) – British historian and peer who specialized on Nazi leadership and incorrectly verified the authenticity of The Hitler Diaries
• Henry Ashby Turner
• John Wheeler-Bennett
• Michael Wolffsohn
• Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
• Rainer Zitelmann

History of the Habsburg Monarchy

• John Komlos, economic

History of Ireland

• Tírechán, fl. late 7th century
• Muirchu moccu Machtheni, fl. late 7th century
• Flann Mainistrech, died 25 November 1056
• John Clyn, fl. 1333–1349
• Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin, d.1372
• Adhamh Ó Cianáin
• Gilla Isa Mor mac Donnchadh MacFhirbhisigh, fl. 1390–1418
• Pilip Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin, fl. 1579–1590
• Geoffrey Keating
• Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, c. 1590–1643
• Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh, fl. 1643–1671
• Sir James Ware, 1594–1666
• Mary Bonaventure Browne, Poor Clare and historian, b. after 1610, d. after 1670
• Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh, 1629–1718
• Eugene O'Curry, 20 November 1794 – 30 July 1862
• John O'Donovan, 25 July 1806 – 10 December 1861
• Father Paul Walsh, 19 June 1885 – 18 June 1941
• Dermot MacDermot, 1906–1989
• Kathleen Hughes, d. 20 April 1977
• F.X. Martin, 1922 – 13 February 2000
• James Francis Lydon, 1928–2013
• Brian Farrell b. 1929
• Francis John Byrne b. 1934
• Kenneth Nicholls
• Dáibhí Ó Cróinín
• Ann Buckley
• Nollaig Ó Muraíle

History of Italy

• Lorenzo Arnone Sipari, Social and Environmental Italian history
• R.J.B. Bosworth, Fascism, Mussolini
• Benedetto Croce, Philosophy of History, Modern Italian history
• Vincent Cronin, Renaissance Art and Sicily
• Renzo De Felice, Fascism, biographer of Mussolini
• John Foot, Modern Italy history, The City
• Emilio Gentile, Fascism
• Carlo Ginzburg, Witchcraft and Agrarian cults, microhistory
• Alessandra Kersevan, Italian concentration camps
• Claudio Pavone, Italian fascism, World War II, anti-fascism
• Effie Pedaliu, Italian war crimes
• John Pollard, The Church and Fascism
• Paul Ginsborg, The Risorgimento, Italian Modern and Contemporary history
• Lucy Riall, The Risorgimento, Garibaldi, Sicily
• Gaetano Salvemini, Fascism, The French Revolution
• Denis Mack Smith, Italian Modern history

History of Moldova/Bessarabia

• Nicolae Iorga
• Ion Nistor
• Petre Cazacu
• Charles King
• Igor Casu
• Gh. Cojocaru

History of the Netherlands

• Jaap R. Bruijn
• Femme Gaastra
• Pieter Geyl
• John Lothrop Motley
• Jonathan Israel
• G. J. Renier
• Herbert H. Rowen
• Simon Schama

History of Poland

• Norman Davies (born 1939) – modern Polish history
• Pawel Jasienica (1909–1970) – Polish amateur historian
• Wickham Steed

History of Portugal

• José Hermano Saraiva
• A. H. de Oliveira Marques – Early Modern Period
• José Mattoso – Medieval History
• Rui Ramos – Contemporary History
• Fernando Rosas – Contemporary History

History of Romania

• Nicolae Iorga
• Alexandru D. Xenopol
• Irina Livezeanu
• Vladimir Tismaneanu
• David Mitrany
• Alexandru Zub
• Lucian Boia
• Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu
• Mihail Kogalniceanu

History of Russia

• Nicholas Bethell
• Robert Conquest – The Soviet Union
• Vincent Cronin – Catherine the Great
• Orlando Figes
• Patricia Kennedy Grimsted – post-Soviet archives
• Geoffrey Hosking
• Leopold Labedz
• Roy Medvedev
• Richard Pipes – The Soviet Union
• William Taubman – Nikita Khrushchev
• Peter Kenez –The Soviet Union and Soviet cinema
• Robert Service
• Adam Ulam
• Anne Applebaum Gulag History
• Sheila Fitzpatrick everyday life under Stalinism
• Nicolas Werth Political repressions
• Nikita Petrov Political repressions
• Viktor Danilov history of collectivization
• Oleg Khlevniuk Stalin and Politburo
• Moshe Lewin collectivization
• David Shearer Stalinist repressions
• Peter Solomon Soviet Justice under Stalin

History of Serbia

• Vladimir Ćorović
• Sima Ćirković
• Radoš Ljušić
• Rade Mihaljčić
• Stojan Novaković
• Stanoje Stanojević

History of Scotland

• G. W. S. Barrow
• Steve Boardman
• Hector Boece
• George Buchanan
• Gilbert Burnet
• Tom Devine
• John of Fordun
• Colin Kidd
• Michael Lynch
• Norman Macdougall
• Rosalind Mitchison
• Richard Oram
• Nigel Tranter
• Christopher Whatley
• Jenny Wormald

Historiographer Royal of Scotland

• James Fall, 1682
• William Robertson, 1763–1793
• John Gillies, 1793–1836
• George Brodie, 1836–1867
• John Hill Burton, 1867–1881
• William Forbes Skene, 1881–1893
• David Masson, 1893–1908
• Peter Hume Brown, 1908–1919
• Robert Rait, 1919–1930
• Robert Kerr Hannay, FRSE, 1930–1940
• J. D. Mackie, OBE, 1958–1978
• Gordon Donaldson, CBE, 1979–1993
• Christopher Smout, CBE, 1993–present

History of Slovakia

• Vojtech Čelko (1946) – political and cultural history of Central Europe in the 20th century; history of Czechoslovak exile after 1948
• Ladislav Deák (1931–2011) – foreign policy of Central European states and Yugoslavia in the interwar period; history of Hungarian-Slovak foreign relationships
• Gabriela Dudeková (1968) – social policy of Austria-Hungary; situation of POWs and civilians in World War I; history of feminism and gender studies
• Ivan Kamenec (1938) – Holocaust in Slovakia; diplomacy in Central Europe in the interwar period and during World War II
• Adam František Kollár (1718–1783) – influential jurist, historian and ethnologist, who coined the term ethnology
• Peter Kopecký – history of diplomacy and foreign policy of Slovakia
• Juraj Marusiak (1970) – history of Slovak-Polish relationships; modern history of Central and Eastern Europe
• Thomas Spira (1923–2005) – study of nationalism and ethnicity (born and raised in Slovakia)
• Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795–1861) – philologist, poet, Slavist, literary historian and ethnographer
• Štefan Šutaj (1955) – history of Hungarian minority in Czechoslovakia; Slovak civic (non-communist) political parties after 1945
• Zora Mintalová – Zubercová (1950) – food history and material culture of Central Europe

History of Slovenia

• Bogo Grafenauer (1916–1995)
• Alessandra Kersevan, Italian concentration camps
• Vasilij Melik, Slovene Lands in the 19th century.
• Jože Pirjevec, Foibe massacres
• Milica Kacin Wohinz, Italianization of Slovenes between 1918 and 1943
• Marta Verginella, history of the Slovene minority in Italy (1920–1947)

History of Spain

• Ida Altman – Early modern Spain, colonial Latin America
• Roger Collins–Medieval History, Spain, Visigothic Spain, History of Muslim Spain
• Julian Ribera y Tarragó – Spain, History of the Book, Medieval history, History of Muslim Spain

History of Sweden

• Peter Englund
• Anders Fryxell
• Erik Gustaf Geijer
• Jan Glete
• Carl Grimberg
• Dick Harrison
• Ragnhild Hatton, biographer of King Charles XII
• Sten Lindroth
• Erik Lönnroth
• Olaus Magnus
• Samuel von Pufendorf
• Erik Ringmar
• Michael Roberts
• John Robinson (1650–1723)
• Curt Weibull
• Lauritz Weibull

History of Yugoslavia

• Ivo Banac
• Misha Glenny
• Barbara Jelavich wrote extensively on Balkan history, along with her husband Charles Jelavich
• John R. Lampe author of Yugoslavia As History: Twice There Was a Country
• Stevan K. Pavlowitch
• Catherine Samary author of Yugoslavia Dismembered
• Stephen Schwartz
• Jozo Tomasevich

Europe and Asia

History of The Republic of Turkey and Turkish Empires

• Halil İnalcık(1916, İstanbul- Türkiye) History of the Ottoman Empire and The Republic of Turkey
• İlber Ortaylı (1947, Bregen- Österreich) History of the Ottoman Empire and The Republic of Turkey
• Heath W. Lowry (1942, America)History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey
• Mehmet Fuat Köprülü (1890 – 1966,İstanbul- Türkiye) Turcologist and Historian,History of the Ottoman Empire and The Republic of Turkey
• Yusuf Halaçoğlu (1949, Adana-Türkiye) History of the Ottoman Empire and The Republic of Turkey
• Reşat Ekrem Koçu (1905- 1975,İstanbul- Türkiye) Writer and Historian,History of the Ottoman Empire
• Ahmed Cevad Pasha (Kabaağaçlızade Ahmet Cevat Paşa) (1851- 1900, İstanbul- Türkiye) An Ottoman Statesman (Grand Vizier), History of the Ottoman Empire
• Aşıkpaşazade (Âşıkpasazâde Derviş Ahmet Âşıkî)(yak. 1400,Amasya - yak. 1484, The Ottoman Empire/ Türkiye) History of the Ottoman Empire
• Ibn Kemal (Kemal Paşazade (ibn-i Kemâl))(1468-1534,The Ottoman Empire/ Türkiye) An Ottoman Statesman,History of the Ottoman Empire
• Koçi Bey (Mustafa Koçi Bey)(?-1650,The Ottoman Empire/ Türkiye) An Ottoman Statesman, History of the Ottoman Empire
• Katip Çelebi (Haci Halife Kalfa) (1609-1657, İstanbul, The Ottoman Empire/ Türkiye) History of the Ottoman Empire

Asia

The Middle East

• George Antonius (1891–1941) – Historian of Arab nationalism
• Vincent Cronin – study of the Faiqani tribe of South Persia
• Heleen Sancisi Weerdenburg (1944–2000) – Achaemenid history
• Caroline Finkel
• Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb (1895–1971) – Editor, The Encyclopaedia of Islam
• Bernard Lewis – History of Islam and the Middle East
• Albert Hourani
• Ibn Khaldun
• Walid Khalidi Palestinian historian
• D. S. Margoliouth
• Michael Oren
• Ibn al-Tiqtaqa (b. circa 1262) Shi'i historian, wrote Al-Fakhīr
• ‘Ala’ al-Din ‘Ata Malik Juvayni (1226–1283) Ta’rīkh-I-Jahān Gushā (A History of the World-Conqueror Chingis Khān)
• Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (circa 1247–1318) Jāmi‛ al-Tawārīkh (Compendium of Chronicles), Ta’rīkh–i-Ghāzānī (a history of the Mongols and Turks)

South Asia

History of the Indian Subcontinent

• Muzaffar Alam
• A. L. Basham
• Chris Bayly
• Dipesh Chakrabarty
• Bernard Cohn
• Sir Jadunath Sarkar
• R. C. Majumdar
• Niharranjan Ray
• Datto Vaman Potdar
• Tryambak Shankar Shejwalkar
• Ram Sharan Sharma
• A. L. Basham
• Nicholas Dirks
• Ranajit Guha
• Ayesha Jalal
• Sumit Sarkar
• Romila Thapar
• Thomas Metcalf
• Barbara Metcalf
• Percival Spear
• Bipan Chandra
• Gyan Prakash
• Tanika Sarkar
• Barbara Ramusack
• Thomas Trautmann
• K. K. Aziz
• Mubarak Ali
• Mohammad Ishaq Khan

History of India

• Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, Unani historian

History of Pakistan

• K. K. Aziz
• Imran Khan

Far East

History of Japan

• William George Aston
• Harold Bolitho
• Basil Hall Chamberlain
• Albert M. Craig
• William Elliot Griffis
• John Whitney Hall
• Donald Keene
• Richard Ponsonby-Fane
• Ian Nish
• Jirō Osaragi
• Edwin O. Reischauer
• Donald Richie
• George Bailey Sansom
• Ernest Mason Satow
• Isaac Titsingh
• Stephen Turnbull
• Eiji Yoshikawa

History of Korea

• Bruce Cumings – modern Korea
• Carter J. Eckert
• James Palais
• Il-yeon
• Kim Bu-sik – early annalist
• Kim Dae-mun
• Lee Ki-baek – (1924–2004)
• James Hoare
• Shin Chaeho – The ancient Korean history
• Andre Schmid
• Yu Deuk-gong – Balhae
• Odd Arne Westad – Professor at the London School of Economics

History of China

• Ann Paludan – (born 1928) – ancient China
• Chen Shou – The author of the Records of Three Kingdoms.
• Sima Qian – Compiled Records of the Grand Historian
• Jonathan Spence
• Denis Twitchett – (1925–2006) Cambridge scholar, and editor of The Cambridge History of China
• Hans van de Ven
• Frederic Wakeman, Jr.
• Odd Arne Westad – Professor at the London School of Economics and author of many books on China
• John Herman

Africa

• David Cohen
• William Miller Macmillan

History of the Serers

• Alioune Sarr (born 1908), Senegalese specialist on Serer medieval history
• Henry Gravrand (1921–2003), French specialist on Serer ancient history, Serer medieval history and Serer religion
• Issa Laye Thiaw (born 1943), Senegalese specialist on Serer general history and Serer religion
• Alhaji Alieu Ebrima Cham Joof (1924–2011), Gambian specialist on Serer general history and history of Senegambia (Senegal and Gambia)
• Marguerite Dupire (born 1920), French scholar of Serer religion and history
• Louis Diène Faye (born 1936), Senegalese scholar of Serer religion and history

Oceania

History of Australia

• Manning Clark
• Geoffrey Blainey
• Stuart Macintyre
• Henry Reynolds
• Frank Welsh

History of Fiji

• Brij Lal

History of New Zealand

• James Belich
• Michael King
• W. H. Oliver
• William Pember Reeves
• J. G. A. Pocock
• Keith Sinclair

History of Tonga

• Sione Lātūkefu

History of Papua New Guinea

• John Waiko

By historical viewpoint

abolitionist

• George Washington Williams – Early African-American historian

Counterfactual

• Niall Ferguson, Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals (1997)

Holocaust

• Yitzhak Arad
• Yehuda Bauer
• Martin Broszat
• Christopher Browning
• Lucy Dawidowicz
• Norman Finkelstein
• Henry Friedlander
• Saul Friedländer
• Martin Gilbert
• Israel Gutman
• Daniel Goldhagen
• Raul Hilberg
• Dov Levin
• Michael Marrus
• Hans Mommsen
• Dina Porat
• R. J. Rummel
• Hanna Yablonka

Marxist

• Eric Foner – Marxist historian of the American Civil War and Reconstruction
• Eugene D. Genovese – Marxist historian of southern US history and slavery
• Ranajit Guha – Indian Marxist historian
• Christopher Hill – 17th century England
• Eric Hobsbawm – Marxist historian of the modern world
• Gerald Horne – African American Marxist historian
• Timothy Wright Mason – Marxist historian who worked on the history of National Socialism and the German working-class
• 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
• Walter Rodney – Marxist historian of Africa

Nazi

• Walter Frank (1905–1945) – Nazi historian and anti-Semitic writer
• David Hoggan (1923–1988)

Anarchist

• Paul Avrich, USA 1931–2006. (Oral-)History of the US and Russia
• Murray Bookchin USA 1921–2006. Writer; Founder of "social ecology"
• Sam Dolgoff USA 1902–1990, writer, activist, co-founder of Anarcho-Syndicalist Review
• Sébastien Faure France, Encyclopedie Anarchiste, 4 volumes (1932–34)
• David Goodway, (UK, writer, editor)
• Daniel Guérin, France 1904–1988. writer, editor Libertarian Communist
• Robert Graham, (USA, writer, editor)
• Andrej Grubacic, Bulgarian history and Anarchism, lecturer at University of San Francisco
• Peter Marshall, England 1946, historian, philosopher, writer (of Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism, 1992)
• Chuck W. Morse, USA, Writer, Founder of "Institute for Anarchist Studies/IAS
• Max Nettlau, 1865–1944, Austria, writer of Geschichte der Anarchie, seven volumes
• Abel Paz, (Spain, Civilwar, Durruti, CNT/FAI)
• José Peirats, (Spain, Historian of the CNT/FAI)
• Alexandre Skirda
• Antonio Tellez
• Dana Ward, Founder of "Anarchist Archives", Online Research on the History and Theory of Anarchism, (USA)
• George Woodcock
• Howard Zinn

Pacifist

• Ludwig Quidde (1858–1941) – Prescient German pacifist and student of history who combined his specialties in his condemnation of Kaiser Wilhelm II

By general category

Architectural history

• Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (born ca. 80/70 BC?; died ca. 25 BC) Roman architect and engineer, author of De architectura
• Leon Battista Alberti (born 1404; died 1472) Italian polymath, active in many fields, author of De Re Aedificatoria among others.
• Josef Strzygowski (born 1862)
• Joseph Rykwert (born 1926)
• Manfredo Tafuri (1935–1994)
• David Watkin (historian) (born 1941)
• Alberto Pérez-Gómez (born 1949)
• Doğan Kuban (1926, Paris- France) Architect, History of Architecture and Art History

Art history

• Vincent Cronin (born 1924) – French and Italian art and architectural history
• Nicholas Pevsner (1903–1983) History of art and English architecture
• Simon Schama (born 1945) – Art history
• Ichimatsu Tanaka (1895–1983), Japanese art history
• Yukio Yashiro (1890–1975), Japanese art history; Botticelli and the Florentine Renaissance
• Nurhan Atasoy (1934,Tokat- Türkiye), Turkish and Islamic Art History
• Oleg Grabar (1929, Strasbourg- France; 2011,New Jersey- America) Islamic Art History

Christianity

• Eusebius of Caesarea (c. 275–339) - "Father of Church history"
• Alexander Campbell Cheyne, Scottish Ecclesiastical Historian
• John Gilmary Shea (1824–1892) Father of American Catholic History
• Bengt Hägglund (born 1920), historian of Christian theology
• Barbara Thiering (born 1930) Rediscovered the "Pesher technique"

Lutheranism

• Johann Lorenz von Mosheim (1694–1755) – Lutheran historian of Christianity from its inception through the 18th century

Mormonism

• Leonard J. Arrington – LDS Church historian 1975–1982
• B.H. Roberts
• Fawn M. Brodie
• Richard Bushman

The Papacy

• Ludwig von Pastor, wrote 40 volume history of the popes making extensive use of the Vatican Secret Archives

Presbyterianism

• D.G. Hart

Economic history

• Robert C. Allen
• Eli Heckscher
• Niall Ferguson
• Robert Fogel
• John Komlos
• David S. Landes
• Joel Mokyr
• W. W. Rostow
• Ram Sharan Sharma – Economic History of Ancient India
• R. H. Tawney

Environmental history

• Christopher Smout
• William Cronon – Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Espionage

• Christopher Andrew
• John Barron
• John Earl Haynes
• David Kahn
• Victor Suvorov
• Nigel West

Maritime history

• Robert G. Albion
• William A. Baker
• Jaap R. Bruijn
• Howard I. Chapelle
• Femme Gaastra
• John Hattendorf
• John de Courcy Ireland
• Benjamin Woods Labaree
• Samuel Eliot Morison
• J. H. Parry
• Glyndwr Williams

Media history

History of newspapers and magazines, History of radio, History of television, and History of the Internet

• Asa Briggs (born 1921)

Military history

• Correlli Barnett – British military historian
• Antony Beevor – British military historian
• Brian Bond – First World War
• Caleb Carr – American military historian
• Michael Carver – British soldier and historian
• Alan Clark – British M.P. & historian
• Martin van Creveld – Israeli military historian
• Saul David – Military history
• N.H. Gibbs – Interwar period
• Adrian Goldsworthy – British military historian
• Jack Granatstein – Canadian military historian
• Bruce Barrymore Halpenny Writer and military historian
• Victor Davis Hanson – American classicist and military historian
• Andreas Hillgruber – German military historian
• Richard Holmes – British military history
• Alistair Horne – British historian of French military history
• Michael Howard – modern military history
• John Keegan (born 1934, English) – Specializes in 20th-century wars
• Richard Landwehr – military historian
• B. H. Liddell Hart (1895–1970) military history
• Edward Luttwak (born 1942) military strategy
• Piers Mackesy – 18th century
• S. L. A. Marshall – American military historian.
• Peter Paret – Military history
• Gordon Prange
• Gunther E. Rothenberg (1923 – 2004) – Military history
• Gerhard Ritter – German military historian
• Cornelius Ryan (1920–1974) – World War II
• Digby Smith (1935) Napoleonic Wars esp.
• Jean Edward Smith (born 1932) – U.S. and German military historian
• Hew Strachan – British military historian
• Gerhard Weinberg – U.S. military historian
• Spenser Wilkinson

Naval history

• Robert G. Albion – Maritime history
• Daniel A. Baugh
• Ulane Bonnel
• Josiah Burchett
• Montagu Burrows
• Geoffrey Callender
• Howard I. Chapelle – Maritime history
• William Bell Clark
• Julian Corbett
• William S. Dudley
• Michael Duffy
• Jan Glete
• James Goldrick
• Andrew Gordon – Battle of Jutland
• Barry M. Gough
• Kenneth J. Hagan
• Paul G. Halpern
• C. I. Hamilton
• John Hattendorf
• John Daniel Hayes
• J. Richard Hill
• William James
• Paul Kennedy
• R.J.B. Knight
• Dudley W. Knox
• Andrew Lambert
• Harold D. Langley
• John Knox Laughton
• Michael Lewis
• Christopher Lloyd
• Alfred Mahan
• Arthur Marder
• Tyrone G. Martin – Historian of the USS Constitution and of the history of ironclads
• William J. Morgan
• Samuel Eliot Morison (1887–1976) – Wrote History of United States Naval Operations in World War II and numerous works about the maritime exploration of the Americas
• Henry Newbolt (1862–1938) – Wrote The Naval History of the Great War
• Michael Oppenheim
• Charles O. Paullin
• Werner Rahn
• Bryan Ranft
• Clark G. Reynolds
• Herbert Richmond
• N.A.M. Rodger
• Stephen Roskill
• John Darrell Sherwood
• D.M. Schurman
• William N. Still, Jr.
• Craig Symonds
• David Syrett
• Geoffrey Till
• Johan Carel Marinus Warnsinck
• Colin White

Historiography

• Ram Sharan Sharma
• Marc Bloch
• Fernand Braudel
• Herbert Butterfield
• E. H. Carr
• R. G. Collingwood
• Geoffrey Elton
• Richard J. Evans
• Pieter Geyl
• J. H. Hexter
• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
• Peter Novick
• Leopold von Ranke
• Hayden White
• Frank Ankersmit

Academic protagonists in Australia's "history wars"

• Geoffrey Blainey
• Stuart Macintyre
• Robert Manne
• Henry Reynolds
• Lyndall Ryan
• Keith Windschuttle

Gender history

• John Boswell (1947–1994, American) – Homosexuality in medieval times
• George Mosse
• Retha Warnicke (born 1939) – Gender issues

History of ideas, culture, literature, and philosophy

• Ram Sharan Sharma (born 1919) – Material Culture in Ancient India
• Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) – History of ideas
• J. C. D. Clark, British historian of 18th century ideas.
• Jovan Deretić (1934–2002), Serbian literary history.
• Michel Foucault (1926–1984) – History of ideas
• Peter Gay (born 1923) – History of ideas.
• Lewis Mumford (1895–1988) – History of technology
• Hasan Bülent Paksoy – History of Governance in Central Asian Literature.
• Hüseyin Nihâl Atsız (1905-1975,İstanbul- Türkiye)Turkology, Turkish Literature
• Pertev Naili Boratav (Mustafa Pertev) ( 1907, Zlatograd- Bulgaria - 1998, Paris- France)Turkish Folklorist,Ottoman and Turkish Culture
• Sedat Alp (1913, Veroia, The Ottoman Empire - 2006, Ankara, Türkiye) Hittitolog- Historian, Ancient Anatolian languages

History of business

• Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
• Jan Glete, Swedish business history
• Allan Nevins

History of international relations

• Harry Elmer Barnes
• Herbert Butterfield
• E. H. Carr
• Gordon A. Craig
• John Lewis Gaddis, historian of the Cold War.
• Ragnhild Hatton, historian of 17th- and 18th-century international relations
• Klaus Hildebrand
• Andreas Hillgruber
• Paul Kennedy, British historian, author of influential The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
• William L. Langer, (1896–1977)
• Arno J. Mayer
• Lewis Bernstein Namier
• Paul W. Schroeder, US historian, 19th-century European international relations
• Jean Edward Smith
• A.J.P. Taylor (1906–1990) – Historian of European international relations
• Harold Temperley, (1879–1939), British historian, Cambridge, 19th- and early 20th-century diplomatic history, British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914 (ed.)
• Ernest Llewellyn Woodward, (1890–1971)

History of science and technology

• Michael Adas, colonialism and imperialism, global history
• Vincent Cronin
• Allen G. Debus, chemistry and medicine
• A. Hunter Dupree, botany; U.S. government policy on science and technology
• Peter Galison, physics, philosophy, objectivity
• John L. Heilbron, physics, quantification, astronomy, religion and science
• Richard L. Hills, technology, steam power
• Thomas P. Hughes, technology
• Evelyn Fox Keller, science and gender, biology
• Melvin Kranzberg, technology
• Daniel J. Kevles, science and politics, physics, biology, eugenics
• Thomas Kuhn, physics, "paradigm shifts"
• David F. Noble, science & technology-based industrial development
• Abraham Pais, physics
• Theodore M. Porter
• A. I. Sabra, optics, Islamic science
• George Sarton
• Jack Simmons, railway history
• Nathan Sivin, history of science in China
• M. Norton Wise

Social history

• Ram Sharan Sharma Social History of Ancient India
• Lloyd deMause, psychohistory
• Gabriela Dudeková

Food history

• Sidney Mintz
• Massimo Montanari
• Zora Mintalová – Zubercová

World history

• Felipe Fernández-Armesto
• Will Durant (1885–1981) – Author of The Story of Civilization
• Ram Sharan Sharma (born 1919) – Author of Vishwa Itihaas ki Bhumika in Hindi.
• 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
• William McNeill (born 1917) – Author of The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community
• 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
• Immanuel Wallerstein
• John Roberts (historian) (1928–2003) – Author of History of the World

Biography

• Alan Bullock (1914–2004) – Historian best known for his influential biography of Hitler
• Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) – Friedrich der Grosse (the Great)
• Vincent Cronin – Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, and Napoleon
• Ragnhild Hatton, biographer of King Charles XII of Sweden and King George I of Great Britain.
• Ian Kershaw (1943-) Historian well known for his influential study of Hitler
• Ralph G. Martin (1920–2013), biographer of Hubert H. Humphrey, Harry S. Truman, Edward VIII, Golda Meir and John F. Kennedy
• Roi Medvedev – Stalin biographer
• Ron Rosenbaum – author of Explaining Hitler.
• Jean Edward Smith – author of biographies on Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, John Marshall, and Lucius D. Clay