Historians flourishing post-1815, born post-1770 •
Lucy Aikin (1781–1864), English historical writer and biographer •
Lucas Alamán (1792–1853), Mexican historian, conservative statesman and writer •
Archibald Alison (1792–1867), English historian •
Thomas Arnold (1795–1842), English historian and educator •
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), French Revolution, Germany •
Simonas Daukantas (1793–1864), Lithuanian •
Charles Dezobry (1798–1871), French historian and historical novelist •
John Colin Dunlop (c. 1785–1842), Scottish historian •
George Finlay (1799–1875), Greece •
Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783–1847), Swedish nationalist historian •
François Guizot (1787–1874), French historian of general French, English history •
Henry Hallam (1777–1859), Medieval European history •
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), German philosopher of history •
Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835), German historian and polymath •
Isaak Markus Jost (1793–1860), Jewish history •
Joachim Lelewel (1786–1861), Polish historian •
Heinrich Leo (1799–1878), Prussian historian •
John Lingard (1771–1851), England •
Louis Gabriel Michaud (1773–1858), French •
Jules Michelet (1798–1874), French •
François Mignet (1796–1884), French historian of the Revolution, Middle Ages •
Christian Molbech (1783–1857), Danish history, founder of
Historisk Tidsskrift (1839) •
José María Luis Mora (1792–1853), Mexican priest, lawyer, historian, politician and liberal ideologist •
John Neal (1793–1876), US Revolutionary War and US literature •
Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776–1831), German historian •
František Palacký (1798–1876), Czech •
William H. Prescott (1796–1859), US historian of Spain, Mexico, Peru •
Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886), European diplomacy; influential German historian •
Adolphe Thiers (1797–1877), French historian of the Revolution, Empire •
George Tucker (1775–1861), US history •
Leopold Zunz (1794–1886), Jewish history
Historians born in the 19th century A •
Lord Acton (1834–1902), Europe •
Henry Adams (1838–1918), US 1800–1816 •
Lucia H. Faxon Additon (1847–1919), Oregon •
Grace Aguilar (1816–1847), Jewish history •
Robert G. Albion (1896–1983), maritime •
Mário de Andrade (1893–1945), Brazil, History of art •
Charles McLean Andrews (1863–1943), US; US colonial history •
Marie Célestine Amélie d'Armaillé (1830–1918), France •
Alfred von Arneth (1819–1897), history of the
Austrian Empire •
Mikhail Artamonov (1898–1972), founder of
Khazar studies •
William Ashley (1860–1927), British economic history •
Octave Aubry (1881–1946) •
François Victor Alphonse Aulard (1849–1928),
French Revolution and
Napoleon I •
Zurab Avalishvili (1876–1944), history of
Georgia and the
Caucasus B •
Dmytro Bahalii (1857–1932), Ukraine, Russia •
Jacques Bainville (1879–1936), France •
Meir Balaban (1877–1942), Polish-Jewish •
George Bancroft (1800–1891), U.S. to 1789 •
Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832–1918), western United States •
R. Mildred Barker (1897–1990), Shakers, religion •
Salo Baron (1895–1989), Jewish history •
Harry Elmer Barnes (1889–1968), World War I; ideas •
Wilhelm Barthold (1869–1930), Muslim and Turkic studies •
Volodymyr Ivanovych Barvinok (1879–1943), Ukraine •
Charles Bean (1879–1968), Australia in World War I •
Charles A. Beard (1874–1948), US, economic interpretation, historiography •
Mary Ritter Beard (1876–1958), US, women's history •
Carl L. Becker (1873–1945), Enlightenment •
Max Beer (1864–1943), Imperialism •
Winthrop Pickard Bell (1884–1965), Nova Scotia •
Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953), Europe •
Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), political history, social history and philosophy of history •
Ella A. Bigelow (1849–1917), Massachusetts, U.S. •
Karl Bittel (1892–1969), Germany •
I. M. E. Blandin (1838–1912), Southern U.S. •
Ernst Bloch (1885–1977), philosophy of history, political history and social history •
Marc Bloch (1886–1944), medieval France;
Annales School •
Herbert Eugene Bolton (1870–1953), Spanish-U.S. borderlands •
Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich (1873–1955), Soviet •
Amadeo Bordiga (1889–1970), political history and social history •
Erich Brandenburg (1868–1946), modern Germany •
George Williams Brown (1894–1963), Canada •
Otto Brunner (1898–1982), medieval and early modern Austria •
Geoffrey Bruun (1899–1988), Europe •
Arthur Bryant (1888–1985), Pepys; English warfare •
James Bryce, (1838–1922), Europe, America, Middle East •
Henry Thomas Buckle (1821–1862), England,
History of Civilization •
Serhii Buhoslavskyi (1888–1946), Ukraine, art history •
Edvard Bull Sr. (1881–1932), Norway •
Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897), art history, Europe, Renaissance •
John Hill Burton (1809–1881), Scottish Jacobin history •
J. B. Bury (1861–1927), classical, Europe
C •
Helen Cam (1885–1968), English medieval •
Pierre Caron (1875–1952), French revolution •
E. H. Carr (1892–1982), Soviet history, methodology •
Henri Raymond Casgrain (1831–1904), French Canada •
Antonio Cánovas del Castillo (1828–1897), Spanish historian •
David Cassel (1818–1893), Jewish studies •
Américo Castro (1885–1972), Spanish identity •
Bruce Catton (1899–1978), American Civil War •
Cesar de Bazancourt (1810–1865), Crimean War •
Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897–1999), India •
Boris Chicherin (1828–1904), Russian historian, history of Russian law •
Zakaria Chichinadze (1854–1931), Georgian literature •
V. Gordon Childe (1892–1957), archaeology •
Hiram M. Chittenden (1858–1917), US West, fur trade •
Giorgi Chubinashvili (1885–1973), Georgian art •
Winston Churchill (1874–1965), world wars, British Empire •
Augustin Cochin (1876–1916), French Revolution •
Stephen F. Cohen (1938–2020), Russia •
R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943), philosophy of history •
Christopher Dawson (1889–1970), historian and
interdisciplinarian •
Julian Corbett (1854–1922), British naval •
Vladimir Ćorović (1885–1941), Serbia •
Avery Craven (1885–1980), US South •
Edward Shepherd Creasy (1812–1878), warfare •
Benedetto Croce (1866–1952), historiography •
Margaret Campbell Speke Cruwys (1894–1968), Devon •
John Shelton Curtiss (1899–1983), Soviet Union
D •
Felix Dahn (1834–1912), medieval •
Angie Debo (1890–1988), Native American and Oklahoma history •
Léopold Delisle (1826–1910), French historian and librarian •
Bernard DeVoto (1897–1955), US West •
Margarita Diez-Colunje y Pombo (1838–1919), Colombia •
Edith Dobie (1887–1975), Great Britain •
William Dodd (1869–1940), US South •
David C. Douglas (1898–1982), Norman England •
Johann Gustav Droysen (1808–1884), German history •
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), Africa, African-American, slavery, political history, cultural history •
Sir George Dunbar (1878–1962), India •
Hermann Duncker (1874–1960), Social history, political history •
Ariel Durant (1898–1981), Europe •
Will Durant (1885–1981), Europe
E •
Norbert Elias (1897–1990), process of civilization •
Ephraim Emerton (1851–1935), medieval Europe •
Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), historical materialism
F •
Cyril Falls (1888–1971), military, world wars •
Lucien Febvre (1878–1956), France •
Keith Feiling (1884–1977), England, conservatism •
Herbert Feis (1893–1972), World War II diplomacy, international finance •
Charles Harding Firth (1857–1936), 17th-century England •
Herbert A. L. Fisher (1865–1940) •
Walter L. Fleming (1874–1932), US reconstruction •
Vilmos Fraknói (1843–1924), Hungary, Hungarian ecclesiastical history •
Edward Augustus Freeman (1823–1892), English politics •
Egon Friedell (1878–1938), cultural history of the modern age •
James Anthony Froude (1818–1894), Tudor England •
J. F. C. Fuller (1878–1966), military •
Frantz Funck-Brentano (1862–1947), France •
John Sydenham Furnivall (1878–1960), Burma, Southeast Asia •
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830–1889), antiquity, France
G •
François-Louis Ganshof (1895–1980), medieval history •
Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1829–1902), 17th-century England •
Alice Gardner (1854–1927), ancient history •
Luise Gerbing (1855–1927), history of
Thuringia •
Pieter Geyl (1887–1966), Dutch •
Ghulam Muhammad Ghobar (1897–1978), Afghanistan •
Lawrence Henry Gipson (1882–1970), British Empire before 1775 •
Arthur Giry (1848–1899), diplomacy •
Gustave Glotz (1862–1935), Ancient Greece •
George Peabody Gooch (1873–1968), modern diplomacy •
Herman Gorter (1864–1927), Political history, classical •
Emma Graf (1865–1926), Swiss women •
Heinrich Graetz (1817–1891), Jewish history •
Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937), Italy, political history, social history, cultural history, history of philosophy •
Timofey Granovsky (1813–1855), medieval Germany •
Elizabeth Caroline Gray (1800–1887),
Etruscan history •
John Richard Green (1837–1883), English •
Mary Anne Everett Green (1818–1895), English •
Arthur Griffiths (1838–1908), military history •
Ioseb Grishashvili (1889–1965), Georgian literature •
Lionel Groulx (1878–1967), Quebec •
René Grousset (1885–1952), Oriental history •
James Guillaume (1844–1916), Labor history •
Guo Moruo (郭沫若) (1892–1978), China
H •
Élie Halévy (1870–1937), modern Britain •
Louis Halphen (1880–1950), Middle Ages •
Clarence H. Haring (1885–1960), Latin American history •
B. H. Liddell Hart (1895–1970), military •
Charles H. Haskins (1870–1937), medieval •
Henri Hauser (1866–1946), French historian, economist, geographer •
Julien Havet (1853–1893), Middle Ages •
Paul Hazard (1878–1944), modern France •
Eli Heckscher (1879–1954), Swedish economic historian •
John Donald Hicks (1890–1972), American politics •
Auguste Himly (1823–1906), French history and geography •
Otto Hintze (1861–1940), German •
Serafima Hopner (1880–1966), Soviet •
Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), social history, cultural history, political history •
Mihály Horváth (1809–1878), Hungary •
Henry Hoyle Howorth (1842–1923), British historian and geologist •
Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866–1934), Ukrainian history •
Hu Sheng (1918–2000), Chinese •
Johan Huizinga (1872–1945), Dutch historian, author of
Waning of the Middle Ages I •
Ibn Zaydan (1873–1946), Moroccan historian •
Dmitry Ilovaisky (1832–1920), Russian history •
Marilla Baker Ingalls (1828–1902), Burmese missionary and historian •
Harold Innis (1894–1952), Canadian economic history
J •
Mohammed ibn Jaafar al-Kattani (1858–1927), Moroccan •
Muhammad Jaber (1875–1945), history of the
Levant and the
Middle-East •
William James (1780–1827), historian of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars •
Ivane Javakhishvili (1876–1940),
Georgian historian •
Arthur Johnson (1845–1927), historian at Oxford University •
Ellen Jørgensen (1877–1948), Danish historian and historiographer •
J. B. Bury (1851–1927), Anglo-Irish historian of the Medieval Roman epoch.
K •
Sargis Kakabadze (1886–1967), Georgia, Middle Ages •
Samuel Kamakau (1815–1876), Hawaiian historian •
Adrian Kashchenko (1858–1921), Ukrainian historian •
Konstantin Kavelin (1818–1885), Russian historian, history of Russian laws •
Eckart Kehr (1902–1933), Germany, social history, economic history •
Korneli Kekelidze (1879–1962), Georgian literature •
François Christophe Edmond de Kellermann (1802–1868), French political historian •
Hans Kelsen (1881–1973), legal •
Philip Moore Callow Kermode (1855–1932),
Manx crosses and runic inscriptions •
Alexander William Kinglake (1809–1891), works on the
Crimean War •
William Kingsford (1819–1898), Canadian •
Vasily Klyuchevsky (1841–1911), Russian history •
David Knowles (1896–1974), English medieval •
Lilian Knowles (1870–1926), English economic historian •
Dudley Wright Knox (1877–1960), US naval historian •
Ludwig von Köchel (1800–1877), writer, botanist and music historian •
Mihail Kogălniceanu (1817–1891), Romanian •
Hans Kohn (1891–1971), European nationalism •
Nikodim Kondakov (1844–1925), Byzantine art •
Mehmet Fuad Köprülü (1890–1966), Turkish historian •
Yannis Kordatos (1891–1961), ancient, Byzantine history and modern Greece •
Myron Korduba (1876–1947), Ukraine •
Mykola Kostomarov (1817–1885), Russian and Ukrainian history •
Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), economics, sociology and political history •
Godefroid Kurth (1847–1916), Belgian historian •
Otto Kuusinen (1881–1964), Finland, political history, literary history
L •
Leonard Woods Labaree (1897–1980), editor of the Benjamin Franklin papers •
Harold Lamb (1892–1962), US •
Karl Lamprecht (1856–1915), German art and economic history •
William L. Langer (1896–1977), US historian, world and diplomatic history •
John Knox Laughton (1830–1915), British naval historian •
Ernest Lavisse (1842–1922), French history •
William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1838–1903), England and Ireland •
Georges Lefebvre (1874–1959), French Revolution •
Elisabeth Lemke (1849–1925) German history •
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924), labor, political history, cultural history, economic history, social history, history of philosophy •
Anna Lewis (1885–1961), southwestern US •
Liang Qichao (梁啓超, 1873–1929), Chinese and Western history and historiography •
John Edward Lloyd (1861–1947), Welshness •
Ferdinand Lot (1866–1952), Middle Ages •
John Lord (1810–1894), Middle Ages, ancient history, historical survey •
Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873–1962),
intellectual history •
Arthur R. M. Lower (1889–1988), Canadian •
György Lukács (1885–1971), history of literature, art history and philosophy of history •
Nikolai Lukin (1885–1940), France, Germany, economic history
M •
Thomas Macaulay (1800–1859), British •
R. B. McCallum (1898–1973) British •
J. D. Mackie (1887–1978), Scottish •
William Archibald Mackintosh (1895–1970), Canadian economic •
Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840–1914), naval •
Frederic William Maitland (1850–1906), English legal, medieval •
Ramesh Chandra Majumdar (1888–1980), Indian history •
Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979), social history, cultural history, political history •
José Carlos Mariátegui (1894–1930), Latin America, Peru, political history, economic history, history of philosophy •
J. A. R. Marriott (1859–1945), modern Britain and Europe •
Karl Marx (1818–1883), European society and economy •
Albert Mathiez (1874–1932), French Revolution •
Franz Mehring (1846–1919), political history, history of philosophy •
Friedrich Meinecke (1862–1954), German intellectual and cultural •
Krste Misirkov (1874–1926), Macedonian historian and author •
Auguste Molinier (1851–1904), Middle Ages •
Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903), Roman Empire •
Alfred Morel-Fatio (1850–1924), Spain •
Samuel Eliot Morison (1887–1976), naval, American colonial •
John Lothrop Motley (1814–1877), the Netherlands •
Lewis Mumford (1895–1988), cities
N •
Lewis Bernstein Namier (1888–1960), 18th-century British and 20th-century diplomatic history •
Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri (1835–1897), Moroccan •
J. E. Neale (1890–1975), Elizabethan England •
Theodor Neubauer (1890–1945), Germany, political history •
Allan Nevins (1890–1971), US political and business; Civil War; biography •
A. P. Newton (1873–1942), British Empire •
Nikolai Nikolsky, (1877–1959), Oriental studies, religious •
Stojan Novaković (1842–1915), Serbian
O •
Charles Oman (1860–1946), 19th-century military •
Herbert L. Osgood (1855–1918), American colonial
P •
K. M. Panikkar (1895–1963), Indian historian •
Anton Pannekoek (1873–1960), history of astronomy •
Cesare Paoli (1840–1902), Italian history •
Gaston Paris (1839–1903), Middle Ages •
Jane Marsh Parker (1836–1913), US history •
Francis Parkman (1823–1893), colonial North America •
Herbert Paul (1853–1935), 19th-century UK •
Henry Francis Pelham (1846–1907), Roman •
Arvīds Pelše (1899–1983), political history •
Samuel W. Pennypacker (1843–1916), Pennsylvania history •
Dexter Perkins (1889–1984), US history •
David Pietrusza (1949–), US history •
Ivy Pinchbeck (1898–1982), English women and children •
Henri Pirenne (1862–1935), Belgian and medieval European history •
Sergey Platonov (1860–1933), Russian •
Mikhail Pokrovsky (1868–1932), economics and Soviet history •
Albert Pollard (1869–1948), Tudor England •
Delia Lyman Porter (1858–1933), US history •
Datto Vaman Potdar (1890–1979), Indian historian •
Eileen Power (1889–1940), Middle Ages •
F. M. Powicke (1879–1963, English medieval •
H. F. M. Prescott (1896–1972), biographer of
Mary I of England and medieval History •
Adam Próchnik (1892–1942), Poland, French Revolution, social history
Q •
Jules Quicherat (1814–1882), Middle Ages
R •
David Riazanov (1893–1974), political history and history of philosophy •
William Pember Reeves (1870–1938), New Zealand •
Pierre Renouvin (1893–1974), diplomatic historian •
Herbert Richmond (1871–1946), British naval •
James Riker (1822–1889), New York •
B. H. Roberts (1857–1933), Mormon •
James Harvey Robinson (1863–1936), European •
James Rodway (1848–1926), British Guiana •
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), US west and naval history •
John Holland Rose (1855–1942), modern Europe, Britain and France •
Arthur Rosenberg (1889–1943), Imperial Germany, German Republic, political history •
Michael Rostovtzeff (1870–1952), ancient history •
Cecil Roth (1899–1970), Jewish history •
Hans Rothfels (1891–1976), modern German •
Roman Rosdolsky, (1898–1967), Eastern Europe •
Isaak Illich Rubin (1886–1937), history of economics •
Sergei Rudenko (1885–1969), Ukraine, Russian archaeology •
Simon Rutar (1851–1903), Slovenian •
Ilarion Ruvarac (1832–1905), Serbian
S •
Abram L. Sachar (1899–1993), modern European history •
Govind Sakharam Sardesai (1865–1959), Indian •
Ferenc Salamon (1825–1892),
Ottoman Hungary •
Richard G. Salomon (1884–1966), medieval and church •
Jadunath Sarkar (1870–1958), history of India •
George Sarton (1884–1956), history of science •
Gustave Schlumberger (1844–1929), French •
Otto Seeck (1850–1921), German •
John Robert Seeley (1834–1895), British Empire •
J. Salwyn Schapiro (1879–1973), fascism •
Arthur Schlesinger, Sr. (1888–1965), US social history •
Gershom Scholem (1897–1982), Jewish mysticism •
Moses Schorr (1874–1941), Polish-Jewish •
W. C. Sellar (1898–1951), co-author of
1066 and All That •
Victor Serge (1890–1947), Russia •
Ekaterina Shchepkina (1854–1938), Russia •
Andrey Shestakov, (1877–1941), Soviet history, agriculture •
Shin Chaeho (신채호, 1880–1936), Korean •
Adam Shortt (1859–1931), Canadian •
Endre Sík (1891–1978), Hungary •
Charlotte Fell Smith (1851–1937), English early modern •
Goldwin Smith (1823–1910), British and Canadian •
Justin Harvey Smith (1857–1930), Mexican–American War •
Sergey Solovyov (1820–1879), Russian historian •
Werner Sombart (1863–1941), Germany, economic history •
Oswald Spengler (1880–1936), world;
The Decline of the West •
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (1878–1953), labor, political history, economic history •
Stanoje Stanojević (1874–1937), Serbia •
Wickham Steed (1871–1956), Eastern Europe •
Moritz Steinschneider (1816–1907), Jewish studies and Jewish history •
Frank Stenton (1880–1967), English medieval •
Doris Mary Stenton (1894–1971), English medieval •
Floyd Benjamin Streeter (1888–1956), Kansas, American West •
Dirk Jan Struik (1894–2000), history of mathematics •
William Stubbs (1825–1902), English law •
Alexander Svanidze (1886–1941), Ancient •
László Szalay (1813–1864), Hungarian historian
T •
Hippolyte Taine (1828–1893), French Revolution •
Frank Bigelow Tarbell (1853–1920), ancient art history •
Yevgeny Tarle (1874–1955), Russian historian •
A. Wyatt Tilby (1880–1948), Britain,
The English People Overseas •
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859), France •
Zeki Velidi Togan (1890–1970), Turkic history •
Zacharias Topelius (1818–1898) •
Thomas Frederick Tout (1855–1929), England •
Arnold J. Toynbee (1889–1975), world history,
A Study of History •
Heinrich Gotthard von Treitschke (1834–1896), German historian and nationalist •
George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876–1962), British •
Leon Trotsky (1879–1940), Soviet •
Mikheil Tsereteli (1878–1965),
Georgian historian •
Frederick Jackson Turner (1861–1932), US frontier •
Renáta Tyršová (1854–1937), Czech ethnography and art history
U •
Frank Underhill (1889–1971), Canadian
V •
Alfred Vagts (1892–1986), Germany, military •
Paul Vinogradoff (1854–1925), medieval England •
Vyacheslav Volgin (1879–1962), Communism
W •
Annie Russell Wall (1835–1920), English historian •
Spencer Walpole (1839–1907), English historian •
Max Weber (1864–1920), social history, history of religion, economic history •
Charles Webster (1886–1961), British diplomatic history •
Curt Weibull (1886–1991), Swedish historian •
Lauritz Weibull (1873–1960), Swedish historian •
Spenser Wilkinson (1853–1937), Britain, military historian •
Mary Wilhelmine Williams (1878–1944), Latin America •
James A. Williamson (1886–1964), Britain, maritime historian and historian of exploration •
Esmé Cecil Wingfield-Stratford (1882–1971), England •
Justin Winsor (1831–1897), America,
Narrative and Critical History of America •
Carl Frederick Wittke (1892–1971), US ethnics • Ernest
Llewellyn Woodward (1890–1971), British history and international relations •
Muriel Hazel Wright (1889–1975), Oklahoma, Native Americans •
George MacKinnon Wrong (1860–1948), Canadian
Y •
Yemelyan Yaroslavsky (1878–1943), Soviet Union •
Yi Byeongdo (이병도, 1896–1989), Korea
Z •
Nicolas Zafra (1892–1979), Philippines •
Mao Zedong (1893–1976), China, labor, economic history, political history, cultural history •
Johann Kaspar Zeuss (1806–1856), Celts •
Faddei Zielinski (1859–1944), ancient Greece
Historians born in the 20th century A •
Pavao Anđelić (1920–1985) Bosnian and Yugoslav archaeologist and historian •
Raouf Abbas (1939–2008), Egyptian •
Irving Abella (1940–2022), Canadian •
Aberjhani (born 1957),
African American,
Harlem Renaissance,
Literary •
Ervand Abrahamian (born 1940), Iran •
David Abulafia (born 1949), Mediterranean •
Omar Acha (born 1971), Argentina •
Erwin Ackerknecht (1906–1988), cultural history, social history •
Ezequiel Adamovsky (born 1971), Argentina •
Donald Adamson (1939–2024), Britain •
Theodor Adorno (1903–1969), cultural history, social history •
Teodoro Agoncillo (1912–1985), Philippines •
Donald Akenson (born 1941), Irish •
Risto Alapuro (1944–2022), Finland •
Dean C. Allard (1933–2018), US naval •
Robert C. Allen (born 1947), British economy •
James S. Allen (1906–1986), America •
Gar Alperovitz (born 1936), America, Hiroshima •
Louis Althusser (1918–1990), history of philosophy, political history, philosophy of history •
Ida Altman (born 1950), America, colonial Spain and Latin America •
Mor Altshuler (born 1957), Hasidism, Kabbalism, and Jewish messianism •
Abbas Amanat (born 1947) Iran, America •
Stephen Ambrose (1936–2002), World War II, U.S. political •
Mahdi Amel (1936–1987), Lebanon •
Yoshihiko Amino (1928–2004), Japan •
Henri Amouroux (1920–2007), French,
Nazi occupation of France •
Atholl Anderson (born 1943), New Zealand •
Benedict Anderson (1936–2015), Southeast Asia, intellectual and political history •
Perry Anderson (born 1938), British and European •
Joyce Appleby (1929–2016), U.S. early national •
Herbert Aptheker (1915–2003), African-American •
Leonie Archer (born 1955), England •
Philippe Ariès (1914–1984), French medieval, childhood •
Karen Armstrong (born 1944), British religious •
Andrea Aromatico (born 1966), Italian esotericism and Hermetic iconography •
Leonard J. Arrington (1917–1999), America, Mormons •
Thomas Asbridge (born 1969), Crusades •
Maurice Ashley (1907–1994), 17th-century England •
Steven Attewell (1984–2024), public policy in 20th century America •
Nick Avery (Immortal), Tudor History and all-round history legend •
Paul Avrich (1931–2006), Russian, the Anarchist movement •
Gerald Aylmer (1926–2000), 17th-century England •
Ali Azaykou (1942–2004), Moroccan •
Eiichiro Azuma (born 1966), US, Japan
B •
Alain Badiou (born 1937), history of philosophy •
Nigel Bagnall (1927–2002), Ancient Rome, Greece •
Bernard Bailyn (1922–2020), early America; Atlantic •
Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (1900–1975), archaeology and art history •
David E. Barclay (born 1948), German •
Juliet Barker (born 1958), late Middle Ages, literary biography •
Frank Barlow (1911–2009), medieval biography •
Linda Diane Barnes (living), US •
Geoffrey Barraclough (1908–1984), Germany, world •
G.W.S. Barrow (1924–2013), Scotland •
Walter Bartel (1904–1992), German political history •
H. Arnold Barton (1929–2016), Scandinavia •
Paul R. Bartrop (born 1955), Holocaust, genocide •
Jacques Barzun (1907–2012), cultural •
Jorge Basadre (1903–1980), Peru •
Leôncio Basbaum (1907–1969), Brazil •
Hanna Batatu (1926–2000), Palestinian, modern Iraq •
K. Jack Bauer (1926–1987), U.S. naval, military, and maritime •
Roland Bauer (1928–2017), Germany, political history •
Yehuda Bauer (1926–2024), Holocaust •
Stephen B. Baxter (1929–2020), late 17th – early 18th-century English •
David Bebbington (born 1949), Evangelicalism •
Antony Beevor (born 1946), World War II •
David Bell (living), Early Modern France, cultural history •
James Belich (born 1956), New Zealand •
Esther Benbassa (born 1950), Jewish history •
Abdelmajid Benjelloun (born 1944), Morocco •
Laurence Bergreen (born 1950), biography •
Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997), ideas •
Rowland Berthoff (1921–2001), American culture •
Giuseppe Berti (1901–1979), Italy, political history •
Michael Beschloss (born 1955), Cold War •
Juliette Bessis, (1925–2017), Tunisia •
Nicholas Bethell (1938–2007), Soviet •
Charles Bettelheim (1913–2006), political history, economic history •
Robert Bickers (born 1964), modern China and colonialism •
Judith Binney (1940–2011), New Zealand •
Anthony Birley (1937–2020), Ancient Rome •
Yael Bitrán (born 1965), musicology •
David Blackbourn (born 1949), German •
Geoffrey Blainey (born 1930), Australian •
Lesley Blanch (1904–2007), English •
Gisela Bock (born 1942), German feminist •
Brian Bond (1936–2025), British military •
Chrystelle Trump Bond (1938–2020), US dance historian •
Robert Bonfil (born 1937), Jewish history •
Daniel J. Boorstin (1914–2004), US •
Georges Bordonove (1920–2007), France •
Alfredo Bosi (1936–2021), Brazilian literature •
John Boswell (1947–1994), medievalist •
Robert Bothwell (born 1944), Canada •
Gérard Bouchard (born 1943), Canada •
Fay Bound Alberti (born 1971), histories of medicine, emotions, the body •
Joanna Bourke (born 1963), military •
Steven Bowman, Jewish history •
Paul S. Boyer (1935–2012), US morality •
Karl Dietrich Bracher (1922–2016), modern German •
Jim Bradbury (1937–2023), Middle Ages •
James C. Bradford (born 1944), US naval •
David Brading (1936–2024),
Mexican history •
William Brandon (1914–2002),
American West •
Ray Brassier (born 1965), philosophical history •
Fernand Braudel (1902–1985), world, Mediterranean •
Ahron Bregman (born 1958), Arab-Israeli conflict •
Michael Brenner (born 1964), Jewish history •
Robert Brenner (born 1943), US history, economic history, agriculture •
Bridget Brereton (born 1946), Trinidad and Tobago •
Holly Brewer (born 1964), early American history •
Carl Bridenbaugh (1903–1992), American colonial •
Asa Briggs (1921–2016), British social history •
Alan Brinkley (1949–2019), American 1930s •
David Brody (born 1930), American labor •
Timothy Brook (born 1951), China •
Martin Broszat (1926–1989), Nazi Germany •
Pierre Broué (1926–2005), Trotskyism •
Gregory S. Brown (living), Early Modern French History, Cultural History •
Peter Brown (born 1935), medieval •
Christopher Browning (born 1944), Holocaust •
Aleks Buda (1910–1993), Albania •
Nikolai Bugay (born 1941), Soviet Union •
Sérgio Buarque de Holanda (1902–1982), Brazil •
Alan Bullock (1914–2004), 1940s, Hitler studies •
Colin Bundy (born 1944), South Africa •
Peter Burke (born 1937), modern period, cultural history •
Michael Burlingame (born 1941), Abraham Lincoln •
J. P. T. Bury (1908–1987), modern France •
Briton C. Busch (1936–2004), British diplomatic and US maritime •
Richard Bushman (born 1931), US colonial and Mormon •
Jon Butler (born 1940), US religion •
Herbert Butterfield (1900–1979), historiography
C •
Xiao Chua (born 1984), Filipino history •
Sima Ćirković (1929–2009) Yugoslav and Serbian historian •
Claude Cahen (1909–1991), Islamic Middle Ages, social history •
Angus Calder (1942–2008), Second World War •
Philip L. Cantelon (born 1940), United States •
Edison Carneiro (1912–1972), Brazil, afro-brazilian, political history, cultural history •
Julio Caro Baroja (1914–1995), anthropologist • Sir
Raymond Carr (1919–2015), Spain and Latin America •
Richard Carrier (born 1969), ancient Rome; history of philosophy, science and religion •
Paul Cartledge (born 1947), classicist •
José Murilo de Carvalho (1939–2023), Brazil •
Lionel Casson (1914–2009), classicist •
Cornelius Castoriadis (1922–1997), social history, political history and philosophy of history •
Boris Celovsky (1923–2008), Czech-German relations •
David G. Chandler (1934–2004), British historian specializing in Napoleonic history •
Bipan Chandra (1928–2014), modern India •
Iris Chang (1968–2004), China •
Howard I. Chapelle (1901–1975), maritime •
François Châtelet, (1925–1985), philosophical history •
Maher Charif (living), Arabic intellectual history and political movements •
Yevhen Chernenko (1934–2007), Ukrainian archaeology •
Louis Chevalier (1911–2001), France •
Alexander Campbell Cheyne (1924–2006), Scotland •
Thomas Childers (born 1976), war and society, both world wars •
Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri (1935–2016), India •
I. R. Christie (1919–1998), Britain •
Robert M. Citino (born 1958), US military historian of Europe •
Alan Clark (1928–1999), both world wars •
Christopher Clark (born 1960), Prussia •
J. C. D. Clark (born 1951), British •
Manning Clark (1915–1991), Australia •
Oliver Edmund Clubb (1901–1989), China •
Yolande Cohen (born 1950), youth, women, Moroccan Jews •
Patrick Collinson (1929–2011), Elizabethan England and Puritanism •
Ann Gorman Condon (1936–2001), Canada •
Robert Conquest (1917–2015), Russia •
Margaret Conrad (born 1946), Canada •
Martin Conway (born 1960), British scholar of European history •
John Milton Cooper (born 1940), Woodrow Wilson •
Peter Cottrell (born 1964), Anglo-Irish •
Jeremy Cowan (1923–2013), Southeast Asia •
Mario Coyula Cowley (1935–2014), Cuban architecture •
Gordon A. Craig (1913–2005), German and diplomatic •
Catherine Crary (1909–1974), American Revolution •
Donald Creighton (1902–1979), Canadian •
Vincent Cronin (1924–2011), European and art history •
William Cronon (born 1954), US environmental •
Pamela Kyle Crossley (born 1955), China •
Roger Crowley (born 1951), Mediterranean Sea; Portuguese empire •
Dan Cruickshank (born 1949), Britain, architecture •
Robert M. Crunden (1940–1999), US cultural •
Gemma Cruz (born 1943),
Rizaliana, Philippines •
Barry Cunliffe (born 1939), archaeology •
Bruce Cumings (born 1943), East Asia, Korea •
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (born 1949), Bolivia
D •
Vahakn N. Dadrian (1926–2019), Armenia •
Robert Dallek (born 1934), 20th-century US presidents •
William Dalrymple (born 1965), Scottish •
David B. Danbom (born 1947), US rural •
Ahmad Hasan Dani (1920–2009), South Asia •
Robert Darnton (born 1939), 18th-century France •
Mahir Darziev (born 1957), Azerbaijan •
Saul David (born 1966), military •
John Davies (1938–2015), Wales •
Norman Davies (born 1939), Poland, Britain •
Kenneth S. Davis (1912–1999), Franklin D. Roosevelt •
Mike Davis (scholar) (1946–2022), Labor history, economic history •
Natalie Zemon Davis (1928–2023), early modern France, film •
R. H. C. Davis (1918–1991), Middle Ages •
Lucy Dawidowicz (1915–1990), Holocaust •
David Day (born 1949), Australia •
Renzo De Felice (1929–1996), Italian fascism •
Guy Debord (1931–1994), Cultural history, social history •
Carl N. Degler (1921–2014), US •
Len Deighton (born 1929), British military •
Esther Delisle (born 1954), French-Canadian •
Jean Delumeau (1923–2020), Catholic Church •
Jacques Derrida (1930–2004), Social history, history of philosophy •
Marcel Detienne (1935–2019), ancient Greece •
Alexandre Deulofeu (1903–1978), Catalan •
Isaac Deutscher (1907–1967), Soviet •
Tom Devine (1945-), Scottish •
Wu Di (吴迪, born 1951), China •
Igor M. Diakonov (1914–1999), Ancient Near East •
Hasia Diner (1946-), American-Jewish •
Arif Dirlik (1940–2017), China, economic history, cultural history •
Farrell Dobbs (1907–1983), Political history •
Jay P. Dolan (1936–2023), American Catholics •
David Herbert Donald (1920–2009), American Civil War •
Gordon Donaldson (1913–1993), Scotland •
Susan Doran (living), Elizabethan England •
Elisabeth Joan Doyle (1922–2009), 19th-century American and British history •
William Doyle (born 1932), French Revolution •
Georges Duby (1924–1996), Middle Ages •
William S. Dudley (born 1936), US naval •
Robert Dudley Edwards (1909–1988), Ireland •
Eamon Duffy (born 1947), 15th–17th-century religious •
Hermann Walther von der Dunk (1928–2018), 20th-century Dutch and German •
Mary Maples Dunn (1931–2017), early American, women's history •
Richard Slator Dunn (1928–2022), early American, slavery •
A. Hunter Dupree (1921–2019), US science and technology •
Trevor Dupuy (1916–1995), military •
Jean-Baptiste Duroselle (1917–1994), French diplomacy •
Enrique Dussel (1934–2023), Latin America •
Harold James Dyos (1921–1978), British urban
E •
Terry Eagleton (born 1943), political history, art history, cultural history •
Elizabeth Eisenstein (1923–2016), French Revolution, printing •
Geoff Eley (born 1949), German •
Mircea Eliade (1907–1986), history of religion •
John Elliott (1930–2022), Spanish •
Joseph J. Ellis (born 1943), early US •
David Eltis, transatlantic slave trade
Geoffrey Elton (1921–1994), Tudor England •
Peter Englund (born 1957), Sweden •
Robert Malcolm Errington (born 1939), Britain •
Richard J. Evans (born 1947), German social •
Alf Evers (1905–2004), America
F •
Frantz Fanon (1925–1961), history of colonialism •
Esther Farbstein (born 1946), Israeli, Holocaust •
Grahame Farr (1912–1983), maritime, south-west England •
Brian Farrell (1929–2014), Ireland •
Boris Fausto (1930–2023), Brazil •
John Lister Illingworth Fennell (1918–1992), medieval Russia •
Niall Ferguson (born 1964), military, business, imperial •
Božidar Ferjančić (1929–1998), medieval •
Florestan Fernandes (1920–1995), Brazil, social history, political history •
Robert H. Ferrell (1921–2018), US history, US presidency, World War I, US foreign policy and diplomacy, Harry S. Truman •
Marc Ferro (1924–2021), World War I •
Sérgio Ferro (born 1938), Architecture •
Joachim Fest (1926–2006), Nazi Germany •
David Feuerwerker (1912–1980), Jewish •
Heinrich Fichtenau (1912–2000), medieval, diplomacy •
David Kenneth Fieldhouse (1925–2018), British Empire •
Federico Brito Figueroa (1921–2000), Venezuela •
Orlando Figes (born 1957), Russian •
Robert O. Fink (1905–1988), classical •
Norman Finkelstein (born 1953), Israel, Palestine •
Moses Finley (1912–1986), ancient, especially economic •
David Hackett Fischer (born 1935), American Revolution, cycles •
Fritz Fischer (1908–1999), Germany •
Frances FitzGerald (born 1940), Vietnam, history textbooks •
Sheila Fitzpatrick (born 1941), Soviet Union •
Judith Flanders (born 1959), Victorian British social •
Simha Flapan (1911–1987), Israel •
Robin Fleming (born 1950s), medieval Britain •
David Flusser (1917–2000), early Christianity and Second Temple Judaism •
Robert Fogel (1926–2013), US economic, cliometrics •
Eric Foner (born 1943), Reconstruction •
Neil Foley (born 1965), US ethnic and racial history •
Philip S. Foner (1910–1994), US history, political history, labor history •
Shelby Foote (1916–2005), American Civil War •
Amanda Foreman (born 1968), Georgian England, American Civil War, women's history •
Michel Foucault (1926–1984), ideas •
Jo Fox (living), 20th-century film and propaganda •
Robin Lane Fox (born 1946), ancient •
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (1941–2007), US South, cultural and social, women •
Andre Gunder Frank (1929–2005), Latin America, economic history, agriculture •
Walter Frank (1905–1945), Nazi historian •
H. Bruce Franklin (1934–2024), Vietnam War •
Antonia Fraser (born 1932), England •
Frank Freidel (1916–1993), Franklin Roosevelt •
Joseph Friedenson (1922–2013), Holocaust •
Henry Friedlander (1930–2012), Holocaust •
Saul Friedländer (born 1932), Holocaust •
Sheppard Frere (1916–2015), anthropologist, Roman Empire •
David Fromkin (1932–2017), Middle East •
Francis Fukuyama (born 1955), world •
Bruno Fuligni (born 1968), French history •
Amos Funkenstein (1937–1995), Jewish history •
François Furet (1927–1997), French Revolution •
Halima Ferhat (born 1941), Middle Ages of the
Maghreb G •
Femme Gaastra (born 1945), Dutch •
John Lewis Gaddis (born 1941), Cold War •
Lloyd Gardner (born 1934), US diplomatic •
Delphine Gardey (born 1967, gender and science) •
Robert Garland, (born 1947, Classical history) •
Edwin Gaustad (1923–2011), religion in America •
Peter Gay (1923–2015), psycho-history, Enlightenment and 19th-century social •
Eugene Genovese (1930–2012), US South, slavery •
Imanuel Geiss (1931–2012), 19th/20th-century Germany •
François Géré (born 1950), military •
Christian Gerlach (born 1963), Holocaust •
N.H. Gibbs (1910–1990), military •
William Gibson (born 1959), ecclesiastical history •
Martin Gilbert (1936–2015), Holocaust •
Carlo Ginzburg (born 1939), social history •
Martin Glaberman (1918–2001), US society and political history •
Jan Glete (1947–2009), Swedish •
Elizaveta I. Gnevusheva (1916–1994), Dutch India •
Eric F. Goldman (1916–1989), 20th-century US •
James Goldrick (1958–2023), Australian •
Adrian Goldsworthy (born 1969), ancient history •
David Hamilton Golland (born 1971), 20th-century US civil rights, public policy, labor •
Guillermo Gómez (born 1936), Philippine history •
Brison D. Gooch (1925–2014), 19th century Europe •
Ruth Goodman (born 1963), early modern period •
Doris Kearns Goodwin (born 1943), US presidential •
Andrew Gordon (born 1951), British naval history •
Yefim Gorodetsky (1907–1993), Soviet history •
Svetlana Gorshenina (born 1969), Central Asian history •
Kurt Gossweiler (1917–2017), Economics of fascism •
Lewis L. Gould (born 1939), US presidents and First Ladies •
Gerald S. Graham (1903–1988), British imperial •
Jack Granatstein (born 1939), Canada •
Michael Grant (1914–2004), ancient •
Abigail Green British historian of modern Europe •
Peter Green (1924–2024), ancient •
Vivian H.H. Green (1915–2005), Christianity •
John Robert Greene (born 1955), US presidency •
Roger D. Griffin (born 1948), fascism, political and religious fanaticism •
Boris Grushin (1929–2007), political history •
Ramachandra Guha (born 1958), India, environment •
Ranajit Guha (1923–2023), Indian •
Lev Gumilyov (1912–1992), Soviet •
Gunnar Gunnarson (1918–2002), Sweden •
Oliver Gurney (1911–2001), Assyria, Hittites •
John Guy (born 1949), Tudor England
H •
Jürgen Habermas (born 1929), Social history •
Rebekka Habermas (1959-2023), Historical anthropology •
Irfan Habib (born 1931), India •
Sheldon Hackney (1933–2013), US South •
Kenneth J. Hagan (born 1936), US naval •
John Haldon (born 1948), Byzantine Empire •
John Whitney Hall (1916–1997), Japan •
Bruce Barrymore Halpenny (1937–2015), World War II air war •
Orit Halpern, historian and cyberneticist •
Pekka Hämäläinen (born 1967), Native American history •
N. G. L. Hammond (1907–2001), ancient Greek history •
Nahema Hanafi (born 1983), modern and contemporary history •
Victor Davis Hanson (born 1953), ancient warfare •
Syed Nomanul Haq (born 1948), history and philosophy of science •
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976), Israeli, military, Medieval •
Donna Haraway (born 1944), History of consciousness •
Mohamed Harbi (1933–2026), Algeria •
Antoinette Harrell (born 1960), post-slavery
peonage of African-American sharecroppers •
Aroha Harris (born 1963), New Zealand •
Daniel Gibson Harris (1915-2007). Swedish naval •
Dick Harrison (born 1966), Swedish and Medieval •
Peter Harrison (born 1955), early modern intellectual •
Edgar Hartwig (born 1928), Germany, Political history •
Gerhart Hass (1931–2008), Germany •
Max Hastings (born 1945), military, WWII •
John Hattendorf (born 1941), maritime •
Ragnhild Hatton (1913–1995), 17th–18th-century European international •
Georges Haupt (1928–1978), Romania, Hungary, political history, labor history, history of literature •
Denys Hay (1915–1994), medieval and Renaissance Europe •
John Daniel Hayes (1902–1991), US naval •
Peter Hayes (born c. 1947), Holocaust •
Joel Hayward (born 1964), Islamic, maritime, military •
Ingo Heidbrink (born 1968), maritime history, history of technology •
Michael Heinrich (born 1957), philosophy •
Jean van Heijenoort (1912–1986), mathematical logic •
Klaus Hentschel (born 1961), historian of science and of visual cultures •
Ulrich Herbert (born 1951), modern Germany •
Jeffrey Herf (born 1947), Germany, Europe •
Arthur L. Herman (born 1956), America, Britain •
Michael Hicks (born 1948), late medieval England •
Raul Hilberg (1926–2007), Holocaust •
Klaus Hildebrand (born 1941), 19th/20th-century Germany •
Christopher Hill (1912–2003), 17th-century England •
Andreas Hillgruber (1925–1989), 20th-century Germany •
Richard L. Hills (1936–2019), technology •
Rodney Hilton (1916–2002), late medieval period •
Gertrude Himmelfarb (1922–2019), Britain •
Harry Hinsley (1918–1998), British intelligence, World War II •
Gerhard Hirschfeld (born 1946), 20th-century Germany, World War I, World War II •
Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012), labour; Marxism •
Thomas Lionel Hodgkin (1910–1982), Africa •
Marshall Hodgson (1922–1968), Islamic •
Peter Hoffmann (1930–2023), National Socialism •
Richard Hofstadter (1916–1970), US political •
David Hoggan (1923–1988), neo-Nazi •
Hajo Holborn (1902–1969), Germany •
Tom Holland (born 1968), Ancient Greece, Rome, Middle Ages •
C. Warren Hollister (1930–1997), Middle Ages •
George Holmes (1927–2009), medieval •
Richard Holmes (1946–2011), military •
Katrina Honeyman (1950-2011), economic •
Ed Hooper (born 1964), Southern Appalachia, Tennessee, Old South •
A. G. Hopkins (born 1938), Britain •
Keith Hopkins (1934–2004), ancient •
Michiel Horn (born 1939), Canada •
Alistair Horne (1925–2017), modern French •
Gerald Horne (born 1949), US history, African-American, political history, labor history •
Daniel Horowitz (born 1954), US cultural •
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz (born 1942), women •
Albert Hourani (1915–1993), Middle East •
Youssef Hourany (1931–2019), Lebanon, ancient •
Michael Howard (1922–2019), military •
Ray Huang (1918–2000), China •
Robert Hughes (1938–2012), Australia, cities •
Marnie Hughes-Warrington (born 1970), historiography, philosophy of history •
Gershon Hundert (1946–2023), Jewish, early modern Eastern Europe •
Andrew Hunt (born 1968), Cold War America •
Tristram Hunt (born 1974) •
Mark C. Hunter (born 1974), naval •
Paula Hyman (1946-2011), American-Jewish social history
I •
Moshe Idel (1947-), Jewish history •
Georg Iggers (1926–2017), Germany, Historiography •
Halil Inalcik (1916–2016), Ottoman Empire •
Kiyoshi Inoue (1913–2001), Japan •
Jonathan Israel (born 1946), Netherlands, Enlightenment, Jewry
J •
Eberhard Jäckel (1929–2017), Nazi Germany •
John Archibald Getty (1950–2025) •
Julian T. Jackson (born 1954), French •
C. L. R. James (1862–1935), Trinidad/England •
Harold James (born 1956), modern Germany •
Frederic Jameson (1934–2024), Social history, cultural history •
Nikoloz Janashia (1931–1982),
Georgia and Caucasus •
Simon Janashia (1900–1947), Georgia and Caucasus •
Ea Jansen (1921–2005), Finno-Ugric •
Marius Jansen (1922–2000), Japan •
Pawel Jasienica (1909–1970), Poland •
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones (born 1942), US intelligence •
Merrill Jensen (1905–1980), American Revolution •
Richard J. Jensen (born 1941), America •
Julio César Jobet (1912–1980), Chile •
Khasnor Johan (living), Malaysian historian •
Paul Johnson (1928–2023), Britain, Western civilization •
Robert Erwin Johnson (1923–2008), US naval •
Mauno Jokipii (1924–2007), Finnish, World War II •
A. H. M. Jones (1904–1970), later Roman Empire •
George Hilton Jones III (1924–2008), England •
Gwyn Jones (1907–1999), medieval •
Loe de Jong (1914–2005), Netherlands •
Tony Judt (1948–2010), 20th-century European, postwar
K •
Donald Kagan (1932–2021), ancient Greek •
George McTurnan Kahin (1918–2000), Southeast Asia •
Michel Kaplan (born 1946), French
Byzantinist •
Efraim Karsh (born 1953), Israel •
David S. Katz (born 1953), early modern England •
Alex J. Kay (born 1979), Nazi Germany •
Anna Keay (born 1974), early modern England •
Elie Kedourie (1926–1992), Middle East •
Rod Kedward (1937–2023), 20th-century France •
John Keegan (1934–2012), military •
Robin Kelley (born 1962), US history, African-American, political history •
John H. Kemble (1912–1990), US maritime •
Paul Murray Kendall (1911–1973), late Middle Ages •
Elizabeth Topham Kennan (born 1938), medieval •
George F. Kennan (1904–2005), US–Soviet relations •
James Kennedy (born 1963), Netherlands •
Paul Kennedy (born 1945), world, military •
W. Hudson Kensel (1928–2014), western America •
Ian Kershaw (born 1943), Nazi Germany, Hitler •
Daniel J. Kevles (born 1939), science •
Rashid Khalidi (born 1948), Palestine •
Khan Roshan Khan (1914–1988), Pakistan •
Khoo Kay Kim (1937–2019), Malaysia •
Kim Jung-bae (born 1940), Korea •
Michael King (1945–2004), New Zealand •
Patrick Kinross (1904–1976), Ottoman Empire •
Henry Kissinger (1923–2023), 19th-century Europe; late 20th-century •
Martin Kitchen (born 1936), modern Europe •
Simon Kitson (born c. 1967), Vichy France •
Klemens von Klemperer (1916–2012), Germany •
Oleg Khlevniuk (born 1959), Soviet Union •
Alfred Klahr (1904–1944), Austria •
Matti Klinge (1936–2023), Finnish •
Felix Klos (born 1992), American/Dutch, Modern European •
R.J.B. Knight (born 1944), British naval •
Yuri Knorozov (1922–1999), historical linguist •
Frank Kofsky (1935–1997), jazz •
Eberhard Kolb (born 1933), German •
Gabriel Kolko (1932–2014), US •
Claudia Koonz (born 1940), Nazi Germany •
Andrey Korotayev (born 1961), economic, Near East, Islamic and pre-Islamic •
Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi, (1907–1966), India •
Ernst Kossmann (1922–2003), Low Countries •
Conor Kostick (born 1964), medieval •
Stephen Kotkin (born 1959), Russia, Soviet Union •
Philip A. Kuhn (1933–2016), China •
Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996), science •
Robert Kurz (1943–2012), Social history, economic history •
Myoma Myint Kywe (1960–2021), Burmese writer and historian
L •
Dubravko Lovrenović (1956–2017) Bosnian and Yugoslav historian •
Benjamin Woods Labaree (1927–2021), U.S. colonial and maritime •
Leopold Labedz (1920–1993), Soviet •
Walter LaFeber (1933–2021), diplomatic, Cold War •
Brij Lal (1952–2021), Fiji •
K. S. Lal (1920–2002), Medieval India •
Đinh Xuân Lâm (1925–2017), Vietnam •
Andrew Lambert (born 1956), British naval •
Peter Lampe (born 1954), Hellenistic and late antiquity •
Ricardo Lancaster-Jones y Verea (1905–1983), haciendas in Western Mexico •
Dieter Langewiesche (born 1943), 19th–20th century, nationalism and liberalism •
Abdallah Laroui (born 1933), Maghreb •
David Lavender (1910–2003), American West •
Jacques Le Goff (1924–2014), medieval •
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929–2023), French •
Daniel Leab (1936–2016), 20th century •
Eusebio Leal (1942–2020), Cuba •
Robert Leckie (1920–2001), U.S. military •
Henri Lefebvre (1901–1991), France, history of ideas, social history •
Ulrich L. Lehner (born 1976), intellectual and cultural history •
Lee Ki-baek (1924–2004), Korean •
William Leuchtenburg (1922–2025), U.S. political and legal •
Barbara Levick (1931–2023), Roman emperors •
Moshe Lewin (1921–2010), Russia, Soviet Union •
Bernard Lewis (1916–2018), Oriental studies •
David Levering Lewis (born 1936),
African American,
Harlem Renaissance •
Li Minqi (born 1969), Chinese, social history, political history •
Li Ao (1935–2018), Chinese •
Raffaele Licinio (1945–2018), Medieval Italy •
Marcel Liebman (1929–1986), Marxism •
Peter Linebaugh (born 1942), Atlantic, British history, Irish history, labor history •
Kristen Lippincott ( 2026), art and cultural history •
Leon F. Litwack (1929–2021), America, African-American •
Xinru Liu (born 1951), Ancient Indian and Chinese •
Mario Liverani (born 1939), ancient Middle East •
David Loades (1934–2016), Tudor England •
Roger Lockyer (1927–2017), Stuart England •
James W. Loewen (1942–2021), America •
Elizabeth Longford (1906–2002), Victorian England •
Erik Lönnroth (1910–2002), Scandinavia •
Walter Lord (1917–2002), America •
Domenico Losurdo (1941–2018), political history •
John Lukacs (1924–2019), modern Europe •
Cesare Luporini (1909–1993), History of philosophy
M •
Joseph A. McCartin (born 1959), American labor •
Charles B. MacDonald (1922–1990), World War II •
Stuart Macintyre (1947–2021), Australia •
Piers Mackesy (1924–2014), British military •
Margaret MacMillan (born 1943), 20th-century international relations •
William Miller Macmillan (1885–1974), liberal South African historiography •
Ramsay MacMullen (1928–2022), Roman •
Heidrun E. Mader (born 1977), 2nd cent BCE – 2nd cent CE •
Magnus Magnusson (1929–2007), Norse •
Charles S. Maier (born 1939), 20th-century Europe •
Paul L. Maier (1930–2025), ancient history •
Pauline Maier (1938–2013), early America •
Leonid Makhnovets (1919–1993), Ukrainian literature •
Leonard Maltin (born 1950), film •
William Manchester (1922–2004), Churchill •
Golo Mann (1909–1994), general •
Susan Mann (born 1941), Canadian •
Susan L. Mann (born 1943), history of China and women •
Adel Manna (born 1947), Palestine in Ottoman period •
María Emma Mannarelli (born 1954), social •
Philip Mansel (born 1951), France, Ottoman Empire •
Manning Marable (1950–2011), African-American, political history •
Arthur Marder (1910–1980), British naval •
Ruy Mauro Marini (1932–1997), Latin America and economic history •
Michael Marrus (1941–2022), French and Jewish • Rev.
F. X. Martin (1922–2000), Irish medievalist and campaigner •
Henri-Jean Martin (1924–2007), the Book •
Luis Martínez-Fernández (born 1960), Cuba, the Caribbean •
Laurence Marvin (living), US, French medievalist •
Ezequiel González Mas (1919–2007), Spanish literature •
Timothy Mason (1940–1990), Nazi Germany •
Garrett Mattingly (1900–1962), early modern Europe •
Ernest R. May (1928–2009), 20th-century warfare and international relations •
Richard J. Maybury (born 1946), America, World War I, World War II, Middle East •
Arno J. Mayer (1926–2023), World War I and Europe •
Sarah Maza (born ), early modern and modern France •
Mark Mazower (born 1958), Balkans, Greece •
Santo Mazzarino (1916–1987), Ancient Rome •
David McCullough (1933–2022), US •
Forrest McDonald (1927–2016), early national America, presidency, business •
K. B. McFarlane (1903–1966), English medievalist •
William S. McFeely (1930–2019), American Civil War •
Randall H. McGuire (born 1951), archaeology •
Maurie McInnis (born 1966), Antebellum art and politics •
W. David McIntyre (1932–2022), Commonwealth, New Zealand •
Neil McKendrick (born 1935), modern economic and social history •
Ross McKibbin (born 1942), 20th-century Britain •
Rosamond McKitterick (born 1949), medieval •
William McNeill (1917–2016), world •
James M. McPherson (born 1936), American Civil War •
Michael McWilliam (born 1933), British Commonwealth •
Jon Meacham (born 1969), US presidency •
D. W. Meinig (1924–2020), US geography •
Giorgi Melikishvili (1918–2002), Georgia, Caucasus, Middle East •
Evaldo Cabral de Mello (born 1936), Dutch Brazil •
Russell Menard (living), colonial American •
Thomas C. Mendenhall (1910–1998), history of sport •
Josef W. Meri (born 1969), Islamic world, Jews •
John M. Merriman (1946–2022), France •
Barbara Metcalf (born 1941), India •
Roin Metreveli (born 1939), Georgia and Caucasus •
Michael A. Meyer, (1937-), Jewish history •
Rade Mihaljčić (1937–2020), medieval Serbia •
Ralph Miliband (1924–1994), political history, social history •
Perry Miller (1905–1963), US intellectual •
Giles Milton (born 1966), exploration •
Zora Mintalová – Zubercová (born 1950), food history and material culture of Central Europe •
Steven Mintz (born 1953), US family •
Yagutil Mishiev (1927–2024),
Derbent,
Dagestan, Russia •
Arnaldo Momigliano (1908-1987), ancient world •
Hans Mommsen (1930–2015), Germany •
Wolfgang Mommsen (1930–2004), Britain, Germany •
Indro Montanelli (1909–2001) general •
Simon Sebag Montefiore (born 1965), Russia, Middle East •
Theodore William Moody (1907–1984), Ireland •
Harri Moora (1900–1968), Estonian archaeology •
Franco Moretti (born 1950), Italy, literary history •
Edmund Morgan (1916–2013), American colonial and Revolution •
Kenneth O. Morgan (born 1934), British politics, Wales •
William J. Morgan (1917–2003), US naval •
Samuel Eliot Morison (1887–1976), US colonial and naval •
Benny Morris (born 1948), Middle East •
Ian Mortimer (born 1967), Middle Ages •
W.L. Morton (1908–1980), Canada •
George Mosse (1918–1999), German, Jewish, fascist, sexual •
Roland Mousnier (1907–1993), early modern France •
Mubarak Ali (born 1941), Pakistan •
Robert K. Murray (1922–2019), 20th century US •
David Muskhelishvili (born 1928), Georgia •
David N. Myers (1960-), Jewish history
N •
J. Milton Nance (1913–1997), American writer on the history of Texas •
Hernán Ramírez Necochea (1917–1979), Chile •
Joseph Needham (1900–1995), Chinese science and technology •
Antonio Negri (1933–2023), Political history •
Mark E. Neely Jr. (born 1944), American Civil War •
Malcolm Neesam (1946–2022), history of
Harrogate,
North Yorkshire, England •
José Paulo Netto (born 1947), Brazil •
Cynthia Neville (living), late medieval, Scotland and England, Gaelic culture •
Thomas Nipperdey (1927–1992), 19th c. German history •
Ernst Nolte (1923–2016), German, fascism and communism
O •
Josiah Ober (living), ancient Greece •
Heiko Oberman (1930–2001), Reformation •
Ambeth Ocampo (born 1961), Philippines •
Tom O'Lincoln, (1947–2023), Australia •
W. H. Oliver (1925–2015), New Zealand •
Robin O'Neil (living), Holocaust •
Neil Oliver (born 1967) •
Jean-Marc Olivier (born 1961), aeronautics •
Vincent O'Malley (born 1967), New Zealand •
Melanie Oppenheimer (living), Australia •
Vincent Orange (1935–2012), military, World War II, aviation •
Michael Oren (born 1955), modern Middle East •
Margaret Ormsby (1909–1996), Canada •
İlber Ortaylı (born 1947), Turkey •
Marius Ostrowski (born 1988), European social democracy •
Fernand Ouellet (1926–2021), French Canada •
Richard Overy (born 1947), World War II •
Steven Ozment (1939–2019), Germany
P •
George Padmore (1903–1959), Africa •
Thomas Pakenham (born 1933), Africa •
Madhavan K. Palat (born 1947), Russia and Europe •
Ilan Pappé (born 1954), Israel •
Michael Parenti (1933–2026), US history, Ancient •
Peter Paret (1924–2020), military •
Geoffrey Parker (born 1943), early modern military •
Simo Parpola (born 1943), ancient Middle East •
J. H. Parry (1914–1982), maritime •
T. T. Paterson (1909–1994), archaeologist and sociologist •
Fred Patten (1940–2018), science fiction •
Stanley G. Payne (born 1934), Spain, fascism •
Abel Paz (1921–2009), Spanish anarchist •
Brian Pearce (1915–2008), •
William Armstrong Percy (1933–2022), Medieval Europe and ancient Greek and Roman, homosexuality •
Bradford Perkins (1925–2008), US diplomatic •
Detlev Peukert (1950–1990), everyday life in Weimar and Nazi eras •
John Edward Philips (born 1952), Africa •
Đặng Phong (1937–2010), Vietnam, economic history •
Liza Picard (1927–2022), London •
William B. Pickett (born 1940), US history, Dwight D. Eisenhower •
David Pietrusza (born 1949), US •
Boris B. Piotrovsky (1908–1990),
Urartu,
Scythia •
Richard Pipes (1923–2018), Russian and Soviet •
J.H. Plumb (1911–2001), 18th-century Britain •
J. G. A. Pocock (1924–2023), early modern intellectual •
Boris Ponomarev, (1905–1995), Soviet history •
Kwok Kin Poon (born 1949), Chinese
Southern and Northern dynasties •
Barbara Corrado Pope (born 1941), America,
Belle Époque, women's studies •
Boris Porshnev, (1905–1972), France •
Roy Porter (1946–2002), medicine, British social and cultural •
Moishe Postone (1942–2018), social history, political history, economic history and intellectual history •
Nikos Poulantzas (1936–1979), Political history •
Norman Pounds (1912–2006), geography and England •
Caio Prado Júnior (1907–1990), Brazil •
Gordon W. Prange (1910–1980), World War II Pacific •
Vijay Prashad (born 1967), India, cultural history, political history •
Joshua Prawer (1917–1990),
Crusades •
Jean-Claude Pressac (1944–2003), Holocaust •
Michael Prestwich (born 1943), medieval England •
Clement Alexander Price (1945–2014), America •
Francis Paul Prucha (1921–2015), American Indians •
Janko Prunk (born 1942), Slovenia •
Alenka Puhar (born 1945), Slovenia
Q •
Carroll Quigley (1910–1977), classical, western history, theorist of civilizations
R •
Marc Raeff (1923–2008), Russian Empire •
Alexander Rabinowitch (born 1934), Russia •
Werner Rahn (1939–2022), German naval •
Jack N. Rakove (born 1947), U.S. Constitution and early politics •
Jacques Rancière (born 1940), Social history, political history, history of philosophy •
Terence Ranger (1929–2015), Zimbabwe •
Arius Raposas (born 1996), Filipino and Asian history •
Šerbo Rastoder (born 1956), Montenegrin •
George Rawick (1929–1990), US history, slavery •
Marcus Rediker (born 1951), Piracy and the Middle Passage •
Helmut Reichelt (born 1939), Economic history, social history •
Robert V. Remini (1921–2013), Jacksonian U.S. •
René Rémond (1918–2007), French politics •
Francesco Renda, (1922–2013), Sicily •
Timothy Reuter (1947–2002), Medieval Germany •
Ofelia Rey Castelao (born 1956), Spanish Galician women •
Henry A. Reynolds (born 1938), Australia •
Susan Reynolds (1929–2021), medieval •
Richard Rhodes (born 1937), World War II, hydrogen bomb •
Nicholas V. Riasanovsky (1923–2011), Russia •
Darcy Ribeiro (1922–1997), Brazil •
Jonathan Riley-Smith (1938–2016), Crusades •
Blaze Ristovski (1931–2018), Macedonia •
Charles Ritcheson (1925–2011), Anglo-US relations 1775–1815 •
Gerhard A. Ritter (1929–2015), Germany •
Andrew Roberts (born 1963), Britain •
Geoffrey Roberts (born 1952), World War II, Soviet Union •
J. M. Roberts (1928–2003), Europe •
Jane Robinson (born 1959), women's history •
Nicholas A. M. Rodger (born 1949), British naval •
William Ledyard Rodgers (1860–1944), ancient naval •
Maxime Rodinson (1915–2004), oriental studies •
Walter Rodney (1942–1980), Guyana •
David Roediger (born 1952), political history, labor history, slavery •
Vadim Rogovin (1937–1998), Soviet Union, Trotskyism •
Theodore Ropp (1911–2000), military •
W. J. Rorabaugh (1945–2020), 19th and 20th-century US •
Ron Rosenbaum (born 1946), Hitler •
Charles E. Rosenberg (born 1936), medicine and science •
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld (1967-), Jewish history •
Stephen Roskill (1903–1982), British naval •
Maarten van Rossem (born 1943), 20th-century US •
María Rostworowski (1915–2016), Peruvian •
Constance Rover (1910–2005), feminism •
Sheila Rowbotham (born 1943), feminism, socialism •
Herbert H. Rowen (1916–1999), Netherlands •
A. L. Rowse (1903–1997), English •
Maximilien Rubel (1905–1996), political history •
Miri Rubin (born 1956), social, Europe 1100–1600 •
George Rudé (1910–1993), French revolution •
Robert W. Thurston (born 1949) •
R. J. Rummel (1932–2014), genocide •
Steven Runciman (1903–2000), Crusades •
Leila J. Rupp (born 1950), feminist •
Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell (1937–2004), 17th-century Britain •
Marina Rustow, Jewish history •
Cornelius Ryan (1920–1974), World War II, popular •
Boris Rybakov (1908–2001), Soviet
S •
Tatshat Sahakyan (1916–1999), Armenia •
Edgar V. Saks (1910–1984), Estonia •
Andrey Sakharov (1930–2019), Russia •
Anne Salmond (born 1945), Pacific and New Zealand anthropology and history •
Dominic Sandbrook (born 1974), recent Britain and America •
Theotônio dos Santos (1936–2018), Latin America, economic history •
Usha Sanyal (living), Asian, Islam, Sufism •
S. Srikanta Sastri (1904–1974), Indian •
Waltraut Schälike (1927–2021), philosophical history •
Simon Schama (born 1945), British, Dutch, US, French •
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (1917–2007), Andrew Jackson, New Deal, politics •
Karl Schlögel (born 1948), modern Russian history •
Rene Schmerling (1901–1967), Georgian art •
Jean-Claude Schmitt (born 1946), Middle Ages •
David Schoenbaum (born 1935), modern German and US–Israeli relations •
Ismar Schorsch (born 1935), Jewish history •
Carl Emil Schorske (1915–2015), Vienna, Modernism, intellectual •
Paul W. Schroeder (1927–2020), European diplomacy •
Wolfgang Schröder (1935–2010), Germany, labor •
D. M. Schurman (1924–2013), British imperial and naval •
Marjan Schwegman (living), Dutch •
Karl Schweizer (living), 18th-century European •
Dorothy Schwieder, (1933–2014), Iowa •
Joan Scott (born 1941), feminism •
William Henry Scott (1921–1993), Philippines •
Howard Hayes Scullard (1903–1983), ancient •
Jules Sedney (1922–2020), Surinamese historian and former prime minister •
Tom Segev (born 1945), Israel •
Lorelle D. Semley (born 1969), US historian of Africa •
Robert Service (born 1947), Soviet, Russian •
Dasharatha Sharma (1903–1976), Rajasthan •
Ram Sharan Sharma (1919–2011), ancient India •
Helena Sheehan (born 1944), political history •
James J. Sheehan (born 1937), modern Germany •
Michael S. Sherry (born 1945), 20c American military; LGBTQ •
William L. Shirer (1904–1993), 20c Europe, Third Reich •
Avi Shlaim (born 1945), Israel and the Middle East •
Ishimoda Shō (1912–1986), Ancient Japan •
He Shu (born 1948), Chinese cultural revolution •
Dhimitër Shuteriqi (1915–2003), Albanian literature •
Arkady Sidorov, (1900–1966), Russia •
Jack Simmons (1915–2000), English historian, railway history •
Keith Sinclair (1922–1993), New Zealand •
Helene J. Sinnreich (born 1975), Holocaust •
Nathan Sivin (1931–2022), China •
Quentin Skinner (born 1940), early modern Britain •
Alexandre Skirda (1942–2020), Russia •
Theda Skocpol (born 1947), institutions and comparative method; sociological •
Morris Slavin (1913–2006), French Revolution •
Richard Slotkin (born 1942), US environment and West •
Cornelius Cole Smith, Jr. (1913–2004), military history,
American Old West •
Digby Smith (1935–2024), military •
Henry Nash Smith (1906–1986), US cultural •
Jean Edward Smith (1932–2019), US foreign policy, constitutional law, biography •
Page Smith (1917–1995), U.S. •
Richard Norton Smith (born 1953), US presidential •
T. C. Smout (born 1933), Scottish environmental and social •
John Smolenski, (born 1973), American colonial period •
Louis Leo Snyder (1907–1993), German nationalism •
Timothy D. Snyder (born 1969), Eastern Europe •
Albert Soboul (1913–1982), French revolution •
Nelson Werneck Sodré (1911–1999), Brazil, cultural history, political history, literature •
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008), Russian Gulag •
Pat Southern (born 1948), ancient Rome •
R. W. Southern (1912–2001), medieval •
E. Lee Spence (born 1947), shipwrecks •
Jonathan Spence (1936–2021), China •
Jonathan Sperber (born 1952), US historian of Europe. •
Jackson J. Spielvogel (born 1939), world •
Kenneth Stampp (1912–2009), U.S. South, slavery •
George Stanley (1907–2002), Canada •
David Starkey (born 1945), Tudor •
Leften Stavros Stavrianos (1913—2004), world •
James M. Stayer (1935–2025), German Reformation •
Valerie Steele (born 1955), fashion •
Jonathan Steinberg (1934–2021), US historian of Germany •
Jean Stengers (1922–2002), Belgian •
Fritz Stern (1926–2016), Germany and Jewish •
Zeev Sternhell (1935–2020), fascism •
William N. Still, Jr. (1932–2022), US naval •
Dan Stone (living), recent Europe •
Lawrence Stone (1919–1999), early modern British social, economic and family •
Norman Stone (1941–2019), military •
Hew Strachan (born 1949), military •
Barry S. Strauss (born 1953), ancient military •
Michael Stürmer (born 1938), modern German •
Ronald Suleski (born 1942), China •
Ronald Grigor Suny (born 1940), Soviet Union, Armenia, Russia •
Jean Suret-Canale, (1921–2007), Africa •
Viktor Suvorov (born 1947), Soviet Union •
Ronald Syme (1903–1989), ancient •
David Syrett (1939–2004), British naval
T •
Manfredo Tafuri (1935–1994), architecture •
Ronald Takaki (1939–2009), America, ethnic studies •
J. L. Talmon (1916–1980),
Modern,
The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy •
Ali Tandilava (1913–1985), Laz people •
Maik Tändler (born 1979), German psychology and political thought •
Alexander Tarasov, (born 1958), politics and society •
Alasdair and Hettie Tayler (1870–1937/1869–1951), Scotland •
A. J. P. Taylor (1906–1990), Britain, modern Europe •
Abdelhadi Tazi (1921–2015), Moroccan •
Adam J. Teller (1962-), Jewish history •
Antonio Tellez (1921–2005), Spanish Anarchism, anti-fascist resistance •
Harold Temperley (1879–1939), 19th and early 20th-century diplomacy •
Romila Thapar (born 1931), ancient India •
Françoise Thébaud (born 1952), history of women •
Stephan Thernstrom (1934–2025), US ethnic •
Barbara Thiering (1930–2015), Biblical •
Joan Thirsk (1922–2013), agriculture •
Hugh Thomas (1931–2017), Spanish Civil War, Atlantic slave trade •
Keith Thomas (born 1933), early modern Britain, culture •
E. A. Thompson (1914–1995), Ancient, medieval •
E. P. Thompson (1924–1993), British labor history •
Mark Thompson (born 1959), Balkans, World War I Italy •
Carl L. Thunberg (born 1963), Viking Age, Middle Ages •
Charles Tilly (1929–2008), Modern Europe; politics and society •
Louise A. Tilly (1930–2018), modern Europe; women, family •
José Ramos Tinhorão (1928–2021), Brazil, brazilian culture, music •
John Toland (1912–2004), World War I and World War II •
K. Ross Toole (1920–1981), Montana •
Adam Tooze (1967), economic history •
Ahmed Toufiq (born 1943), Moroccan •
Éric Toussaint (born 1954), Economic history •
Marc Trachtenberg (born 1946), Cold War •
Enzo Traverso, (born 1957), Holocaust, totalitarianism, historiography •
Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914–2003), Nazi; British •
Francesca Trivellato (1970-), Italian, Jewish early modern period •
Petro Tronko (1915–2011), Ukrainian history •
Gil Troy (born 1961), modern US, the Presidency •
Marcel Trudel (1917–2011), New France, slavery in Canada •
Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989), 20th-century military •
Robert C. Tucker (1918–2010), Stalin •
Peter Turchin (born 1957), Russian historian of historical dynamics •
Henry Ashby Turner, Jr. (1932–2008), 20th-century German •
Denis Twitchett (1925–2006), China •
David Tyack (1930–2016), US education
U •
Walter Ullmann (1910–1983), medieval •
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (born 1938), early America •
David Underdown (1925–2009), 17th-century England •
Mladen Urem (born 1964), Croatian literary •
Robert M. Utley (1929–2022), 19th-century US West
V •
Hans van de Ven (born 1958), Britain, modern China •
Frank Vandiver (1925–2005), US Civil War •
Jan Vansina (1929–2017), Belgium, Africa •
Horpyna Vatchenko (1923–2004), Ukraine •
Andrekos Varnava (born 1979), Australia, modern history •
Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914–2007), France, ancient Greece •
Paul Veyne (1930–2022), France, ancient Greece and Rome •
César Vidal Manzanares (born 1958), Spain •
Pierre Vidal-Naquet (1930–2006), France, ancient Greece, civil rights activist •
Pierre Vilar, (1906–2003), Catalonia •
Richard Vinen (born 1963), Britain •
Lynne Viola (born 1955), Soviet Union •
Emília Viotti da Costa (1928–2017), Brazil •
Jaime Vicens Vives (1910–1960), Spain •
Lise Vogel (born 1938), Art history
W •
P. B. Waite, (1922 –2020), Canadian politics •
John Waiko (1945–2024), Papua New Guinea •
J. Samuel Walker (living), nuclear energy and weapons •
Immanuel Wallerstein (1930–2019), world-systems theory •
Retha Warnicke (born 1939), Tudor and gender issues •
Peter Watson (born 1943),
intellectual history •
Eugen Weber (1925–2007), modern French •
Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910–1997), 16th and 17th-century Europe •
Hans-Ulrich Wehler (1931–2014), 19th-century German social •
Russell Weigley (1930–2004), military •
Gerhard Weinberg (born 1928), Germany, World War II •
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks ( 2026), European, gender and world history •
Roberto Weiss (1906–1969), Renaissance •
Emma J. Wells (born 1986),
church history •
Frank Welsh (1931–2023), British imperial •
Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich (1901–1979), Germany, US history, Ancient Greece •
Christopher Whatley (living), Scotland •
John Wheeler-Bennett (1902–1975), Germany •
John Whyte (1928–1990), Northern Ireland, divided societies •
Christopher Wickham (born 1950), medieval •
Robert H. Wiebe (1930–2000), American business and society •
Toby Wilkinson (born 1969), ancient Egypt •
Eric Williams (1911–1981), Guiana, Caribbean •
Glanmor Williams (1920–2005), Wales •
Glyndwr Williams (1932–2022), exploration •
Raymond Williams (1921–1988), Cultural history •
William Appleman Williams (1921–1990), US diplomacy •
John Willingham (born 1946), Texas •
Andrew Wilson (born 1961), Ukraine •
Clyde N. Wilson (born 1941), 19th-century US South •
Ian Wilson (born 1941), religious •
Keith Windschuttle (1942–2025), Australia; historiography •
Henry Winkler (born 1938), German •
Robert S. Wistrich (1945–2015), Anti-Semitism, Holocaust, Jews •
John B. Wolf (1907–1996), French •
Michael Wolffsohn (born 1947), German Jewish •
Herwig Wolfram (born 1934), medieval •
John Womack (born 1937), Latin American history,
Mexico history •
Gordon S. Wood (born 1933), American Revolution •
Ellen Meiksins Wood (1942–2016), Marxist political and economic history •
Michael Wood (born 1948), England •
C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999), American South •
Daniel Woolf (born 1958), Britain, historiography •
David Wootton (born 1952), intellectual history, history of science •
Lucy Worsley (born 1973), Britain •
Gordon Wright (1912–2000), modern France •
Lawrence C. Wroth (1884–1970), US printing
Y •
Yen Ching-hwang (顏清湟, born 1937), writer, works on Overseas Chinese history •
Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi (1932-2009), Jewish history •
Robert J. Young (born 1942), French Third Republic •
Robert M. Young (1935–2019), medicine
Z •
Gregorio F. Zaide (1907–1986), Philippines •
Adam Zamoyski (born 1949), Napoleonic era •
Anna Żarnowska (1931–2007), Polish historian •
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas (born 1947), German •
Yuri Zhukov (1938–2023), Soviet •
Howard Zinn (1922–2010), US •
Rainer Zitelmann (born 1957), German •
Vladislav M. Zubok (born 1958), Cold War •
Marek Żukow-Karczewski (born 1961), Poland, Kraków ==See also==