This is a list of historians categorized by their area of study . See also List of historians .
By nation or geographical area
North America
See also List of Canadian historians .
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
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)
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 (born 1933) - 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
Latin America
See also Category:Historians of Latin America
Brazil
Chile
Peru
Europe
History of the British Empire
History of Croatia
See also List of historians of the French Revolution .
Lorenzo Arnone Sipari (born 1973) – social and environmental Italian history
R.J.B. Bosworth (born 1943) – Fascism, Mussolini
Benedetto Croce (1866–1952) – philosophy of history, modern Italian history
Vincent Cronin (1924–2011) – Renaissance art and Sicily
Renzo De Felice (1929–1996) – Fascism, biographer of Mussolini
John Foot (born 1964) – modern Italy history, The City
Emilio Gentile (born 1946) – Fascism
Carlo Ginzburg (born 1939) – witchcraft and agrarian cults, microhistory
Alessandra Kersevan (born 1950) – Italian concentration camps
Claudio Pavone (1920–2016) – Italian fascism, World War II, anti-fascism
Effie Pedaliu – Italian war crimes
John Pollard (born 1944) – The church and Fascism
Paul Ginsborg (born 1945) – The Risorgimento, Italian modern and contemporary history
Lucy Riall (born 1962) – The Risorgimento, Garibaldi, Sicily
Gaetano Salvemini (1873–1957) – Fascism, French Revolution
Denis Mack Smith (1920–2017) – Italian modern history
Arrigo Petacco (1929–2018) – Fascism
History of Moldova/Bessarabia
History of Romania
James Fall, 1682
William Robertson (1721–1793), 1763–1793
John Gillies (1747–1836), 1793–1836
George Brodie (1786–1967), 1836–1867
John Hill Burton (1809–1881), 1867–1881
William Forbes Skene (1809–1892), 1881–1893
David Masson (1822–1907), 1893–1908
Peter Hume Brown (1849–1918), 1908–1919
Robert Rait (1874–1936), 1919–1930
Robert Kerr Hannay (1867–1940), FRSE , 1930–1940
J. D. Mackie (1887–1978), OBE , 1958–1978
Gordon Donaldson (1913–1993), CBE , 1979–1993
Christopher Smout (born 1933), CBE , since 1993
Europe and Asia
Halil İnalcık (1916–2016), İstanbul, Türkiye), history of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey
İlber Ortaylı (born 1947, Bregen, Österreich), history of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey
Heath W. Lowry (born 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 (born 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), Ottoman statesman (Grand Vizier), history of the Ottoman Empire
Aşıkpaşazade (Âşıkpasazâde Derviş Ahmet Âşıkî) (yak. 1400, Amasya–yak. 1484), Ottoman Empire/ Türkiye) history of the Ottoman Empire
Ibn Kemal (Kemal Paşazade (ibn-i Kemâl)) (1468–1534, The Ottoman Empire/Türkiye), Ottoman statesman, history of the Ottoman Empire
Koçi Bey (Mustafa Koçi Bey) (?–1650, The Ottoman Empire/Türkiye), 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
Middle East
Central Asia
South Asia
History of the Indian Subcontinent
History of Pakistan
Far East
Africa
By general category
Environmental history
Food history
Academic protagonists in Australia's "history wars "
History of ideas, culture, literature, and philosophy
History of international relations
Michael Adas (born 1943) – colonialism and imperialism, global history
Jim Bennett (1947–2023) – mathematics, scientific instruments and astronomy
Stephen G. Brush (born 1935)
Vincent Cronin (1924–2011)
Allen G. Debus (1926–2009) – chemistry and medicine
A. Hunter Dupree (1921–2019) – botany; U.S. government policy on science and technology
Peter Galison (born 1955) – physics, philosophy, objectivity
John L. Heilbron (1934–2023) – physics, quantification, astronomy, religion and science
Richard L. Hills (1936–2019) – technology, steam power
Thomas P. Hughes (1923–2014) – technology
Evelyn Fox Keller (1936–2023) – science and gender, biology
Melvin Kranzberg (1917–1995) – technology
Daniel J. Kevles (born 1939) – science and politics, physics, biology, eugenics
Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996) – physics, "paradigm shifts "
James Mosley (born 1935) – printing
David F. Noble (1945–2010) – science and technology-based industrial development
Abraham Pais (1918–2000) – physics
Giuliano Pancaldi (born 1946) – Italian science
Theodore M. Porter (born 1953)
A. I. Sabra (1924–2013) – optics, Islamic science
George Sarton (1884–1956)
Jack Simmons (1915–2000) – railway history
Nathan Sivin (born 1931) – history of science in China
Kim H. Veltman (1948–2020) – science and art
M. Norton Wise (born 1940)
Media history
History of newspapers and magazines ,
History of radio , History of television , and
History of the Internet
Social history