Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index This is a list of historians. The names are grouped by order of the historical period in which they were writing, which is not necessarily the same as the period in which they specialised. Chroniclers and annalists, though they are not historians in the true sense, are also listed here for convenience. See also: List of historians by area of study, List of historians of the French Revolution Table of contents 1 Ancient historians 2 Medieval historians/chroniclers 3 Early modern historians (1600-1900) 4 Modern historians (after 1900) 5 Unsorted Ancient historians Appian, Roman history Dio Cassius, Roman history Gaius Acilius, Roman history Lucius Ampelius, Roman history Herodotus, (485- c.420 BC), Halicarnassian "Father of History" Thucydides, (c.460-400 BC), Peloponnesian War Xenophon, (431-c.360 BC), an Athenian knight and student of Socrates Polybius, (c.203-120 BC) Julius Caesar, (c.100-44 BC), Gallic and civil wars Flavius Josephus, (37-100), Jewish history Kalhana Sima Qian, (c.140 BC), Chinese history Livy, (c.59 BC-17 AD), Roman history Cremutius Cordus Sallust, (86-34 BC) Plutarch, (c. 46-120 AD) Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, (56-120), early Roman Empire Suetonius, (75-160) Eusebius of Caesarea, Christian history Ammianus Marcellinus, (c.325-c.391) Arrian Medieval historians/chroniclers Jordanes, (6th century), Goths Procopius, (died c. 565), Byzantines Gregory of Tours, (538-594), Franks Bede, (c. 632-735), Anglo-Saxons Nennius Geoffrey of Monmouth, churchman/historian Albert of Aix, historian of the first crusade Michael Psellus the Younger, (1018 - c. 1078) Sima Guang (1019-1086), historiographer and politician Guibert of Nogent (1053-1124) William of Malmesbury (c. 1080 - c. 1143) Anna Comnena (1083 - after 1148) Adam of Bremen Saxo Grammaticus, (12th century), Danish Svend Aagesen, (12th century), Danish William of Tyre (c. 1128 - 1186) Giraldus Cambrensis (c.1146 - c.1223) Ambrose the poet (fl. 1190) Geoffroi de Villehardouin, (c. 1160-1212) Nicetas Choniates (died c. 1220) Matthew Paris, (died 1259) Jean de Joinville, (1224-1319) ibn Khaldun Piers Langtoft, (died c. 1307) Jean Froissart, (c.1337 - c.1405), chronicler Alphonsus A Sancta Maria, (1396-1456) Johannes Longinus, Polish historian and chronicler Philippe de Commines, French historian Christine de Pizan, (c.1365-c.1430), historian, poet, philosopher Albert Krantz, (1450-1517) Polydore Vergil (c.1470-1555), Tudor history João de Barros (1496-1570) Josias Simmler, (1530-1576) Raphael Holinshed, (died c. 1580) Caesar Baronius, (1538-1607) John Hayward, (1564-1627) Early modern historians (1600-1900) Ludovico Antonio Muratori, (1672-1750), Italy Edward Gibbon, (1737-1794), Roman Empire Johannes von Müller, (1752-1809) Anton Tomaz Linhart, (1756-1795) George Grote, (1794-1871), classical Greece Leopold Von Ranke, (1795-1886), German William H. Prescott, (1796-1859), US historian of Spain, Mexico, Peru Jules Michelet, (1798-1874) Ludwig von Köchel, (1800-1877), writer, composer, botanist, music historian Theodor Mommsen, (1817-1903), Roman Empire Jacob Burckhardt, (1818-1897), art history Zacharius Topelius, (1818-1898) Henry Adams, (1838-1918), Democracy: An American Novel Arnold Toynbee, (1852-1883), British Henri Pirenne, (1862-1935), Belgian Alfred Thayer Mahan, (1840-1914), naval history Frederick W. Maitland, (1850-1906), legal history Simon Rutar, (1851-1903) Piers Mackesy, (1775-1890), British and US military history Modern historians (after 1900) Robert G. Albion, maritime history Gar Alperovitz Stephen Ambrose, (1936-2002), US history Isaiah Berlin, (1909-1997) - history of ideas Michael Beschloss - US historian Marc Bloch (1886-1944) - medieval France John Boswell, (1947-1994) - mediævalist and gay history Ferdinand Braudel Robin Briggs Peter Brown Alan Bullock Jeffrey Burton Russell Angus Calder - Great Britain Lionel Casson Howard I. Chapelle - maritime history Robert Conquest, Russia, Soviet Union David B. Danbom Saul David - military history John Davies Norman Davies Robert Divine, diplomatic history Georges Duby, (1924-1996), Middle Ages Trevor Dupuy C. J. Everon, (born 1971) Ronan Fanning, Irish historian Brian Farrell, politics Lucien Febvre, (1878-1956), French historian Joachim Fest, (born 1926), Nazi Germany Orlando Figes, Russia Walter Frank, (1905-1945), Nazi historian and anti-Semitic writer Antonia Fraser, England Sheppard Frere Bruno Fuligni Francis Fukuyama, (born 1955) John Lewis Gaddis, diplomatic history Pieter Geyl, Dutch historian Martin Gilbert Peter Green - ancient history Lionel Groulx, (1878-1967), priest, historian Denys Hay (1915-1994), medieval and Renaissance Europe Christopher Hill, (1912-2003), 17th century England Eric Hobsbawm, British historian Richard Holmes Michael Howard Johan Huizinga, Dutch historian, wrote 'Waning of the Middle Ages' Tristram Hunt, (born 1974) Jonathan Israel, British historian Pawel Jasienica, (1909-1970), Poland Gwyn Jones, medieval history John Keegan - military history George F. Kennan - US-Soviet relations Paul Kennedy France Kidric, (1880-1950), literary history Michael Laffan - Irish historian David Lavender, (1910-2003), US West Melvyn Leffler, modern international relations Barbara Levick, English; specialising in Roman emperors Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie Li Ao, (born 1935), Chinese historian, author John Edward Lloyd Sr. Margaret MacCurtain, Irish mediævalist Charles B. MacDonald - World War II Rosamond McKitterick Ramsay MacMullen Magnus Magnusson, Norse Charles Maier Tyrone G. Martin, USS Constitution Rev. F.X. Martin - Irish mediævalist and campaigner William McNeill Kenneth O Morgan Samuel Eliot Morison - naval history Lewis Mumford, (1895-1988) Leo Niehorster, military history Henry Newbolt, (1862-1938) Frank Ninkovich Thomas Paterson Peter Paret - military history Amos Perlmutter Harry W. Pfanz - American Civil War Richard Pipes - Russia, Soviet Union Eileen Power - Middle Ages Ivan Prijatelj, (1875-1937), literary history Ludwig Quidde, (1858-1941), historian and pacifist William L. Rodgers Alex Roland, history of technology Theodore Roosevelt, War of 1812, frontier Sheila Rowbotham A L Rowse, (1903-1997) Steven Runciman - Crusades Cornelius Ryan - World War II Norman Saul Michael Schaller Simon Schama Arthur Schlesinger, Jr Howard Hayes Scullard (1903-1983), ancient history Robert Service Kenneth Setton - Crusades Michael Sherry Goldwin Smith, (1823-1910), historian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, (born 1918), Russian historian and novelist Jackson J. Spielvogel, Pennsylvania State University David Starkey, (born 1945), Tudor historian and TV presenter Frank Stenton, Anglo-Saxon historian Ronald Syme, (1903-1989), ancient history A J P Taylor, (1906-1990), Historian of European International Relations Hugh Thomas, Spanish Civil War E. P. Thompson, (1924-1993), British Labour historian Arnold J. Toynbee, (1889-1975), A Study of History George Macaulay Trevelyan Hugh Trevor-Roper, (1914-2003), specialist on Nazi leadership and British peer Robert C. Tucker, Stalin Frederick Jackson Turner, (1861-1932), US historian developed the Frontier Thesis Immanuel Velikovsky Retha M Warnicke, (born 1939), Tudor history & gender issues Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, (1910-1997) Russell Weigley - military history John Whyte - focused on Northern Ireland and on divided societies Eric Williams, (1911-1981), Caribbean historian, strongly anti-imperialist Glanmor Williams Mary Wilhelmine Williams John B. Wolf, French history Michael Wood C. Vann Woodward, (1908-1999), southern United States Howard Zinn Unsorted Pierre Vidal-Naquet, historian and Civil Rights activist Henri Raymond Casgrain, priest, author, historian Peter Englund, Swedish historian Justo Gonzalez, historian and theologian Claude Mossé, (Ms), historian Albert Soboul, historian Jean-Pierre Vernant, historian Pierre Vilar, historian See also: List of Canadian historians, Lists of authors simple:Historian This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.