List of historians by area of study

By time period

Ancient history

• Sedat Alp Hittitolog- Historian, Ancient Anatolian
• Ekrem Akurgal Archaeologist- Historian, Ancient Anatolian
• Leonie Archer – Graeco-Roman Palestine
• Mary Beard
• Anatoly Bokschanin – Roman history
• Fernand Braudel Roman history
• Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton – Roman history and prosopography
• Halet Çambel Archaeologist- Historian, Ancient Anatolian
• Michael Crawford
• Roland Étienne – Ancient Greece and Hellenistic period
• Moses Finley
• Edward Gibbon – The History of the [Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire]
• Adrian Goldsworthy – Roman history
• Peter Green – Ancient Greece and Macedon
• Herodotus
• Keith Hopkins - Roman history
• Muazzez İlmiye Çığ Sumerologist, Sumerian history
• Josephus
• Yuliya Kolosovskaya – Roman history and Roman provinces of the Danube
• Sergey Kovalev – Hellenistic and Roman period
• Mikhail Kublanov
• Barbara Levick – Roman emperors
• Livy
• Ramsay MacMullen – History of Rome
• Nikolai Mashkin – Roman history
• Fergus Millar
• Theodor Mommsen History of Rome
• Barthold Georg Niebuhr – Roman history
• Orosius
• Tahsin Özgüç Archaeologist- Historian, Ancient Anatolian
• Edward Togo Salmon - Roman history
• Howard Hayes Scullard – Roman civilization
• Mariya Sergeyenko – Roman agriculture and daily life
• Ram Sharan Sharma – Ancient India
• Elena Shtaerman – Roman history
• Suetonius
• Ronald Syme – Classical period
• Tacitus
• Joseph Tainter
• Lily Ross Taylor - Roman history
• Thucydides
• Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
• Max Weber
• Xenophon
• Polybius

Medieval history

• John Van Antwerp Fine Jr. – American medievalist specialized in the history of Central and Southeastern Europe, and Balkans
• Ram Sharan Sharma – early medieval History of India
• Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman – historian of medieval medicine
• Placido Puccinelli – Northern Italy in the 10th century and the Florentine church
• Marc Bloch – Medieval France
• Uta-Renate Blumenthal – Investiture Controversy and Pope Gregory VII.
• John Boswell – Homosexuality in the Middle Ages
• Norman Cantor
• Georges Duby – Specialized in the history of France between the Capets and the Valois
• Johannes Fried
• François-Louis Ganshof – wrote on early medieval institutional history and feudalism
• Geoffrey of Monmouth
• Giraldus Cambrensis
• Johan Huizinga – cultural history, wrote Waning of the Middle Ages
• Jacques Le Goff – Middle Ages, particularly the 12th and 13th centuries
• Rev. F. X. Martin – Mediævalist and campaigner
• Rosamond McKitterick – Frankish and Carolingian history
• Henri Pirenne – the "Pirenne Thesis" of early Medieval development
• Eileen Power – Middle Ages
• Miri Rubin – social and religious history, 1100–1500
• Steven Runciman – the Crusades
• Richard Southern
• Sidney Painter
• John Julius Norwich
• John V. Tolan
• Chris Wickham
• Retha Warnicke
• Aaron Gurevich
• Jerome Lee Shneidman – psychohistory
• Michael Prestwich
• Alessandro Barbero
• Dick Harrison
• Satish Chandra
• Irfan Habib
• Michel Kaplan – Byzantinist
• Gina Fasoli – medieval cities, feudal society, and Lombardy
• Rachel Reid – Tudor history, Medieval Scotland

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 – 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

History of the Caribbean

• Kamau Brathwaite
• Aviva Chomsky
• C. L. R. James
• Lucille M. Mair
• Walter Rodney
• Eric Williams – Focused on slavery and the slave trade, condemned imperialism
• Betty Wood

History of the United States

• Henry Adams – history of the United States in the presidential administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
• Stephen Ambrose – biographer of Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon
• Edward L. Ayers – U.S. South, founder of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities and Digital Scholarship Lab
• George Bancroft – wrote first large-scale history of the US
• Charles A. Beard – revisionist history of Founding Fathers suggesting monetary motivations
• Samuel Flagg Bemis – U.S. foreign policy; won two Pulitzer Prizes
• Ira Berlin - Slavery
• William Brandon – historian of the American West and Native Americans.
• Holly Brewer – early American History
• Alan Brinkley – 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 – 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
• Robert H. Ferrell – Harry S. Truman, the 20th-century U.S. presidency, World War I
• Eric Foner – Civil War and Reconstruction
• John Hope Franklin – historian of African Americans
• John A. Garraty – biography
• Elizabeth Fox-Genovese – Southern slavery, women's history
• Doris Kearns Goodwin - 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 – 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
• Paul Johnson – author of A History of the American People and a biographer of George Washington
• Winthrop Jordan – African-American history
• Willard L. King – biography and law
• David Lavender – Western United States
• David McCullough – general study, most notable work is recent biography of John Adams
• James M. McPherson – American Civil War
• Pauline Maier – 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
• William B. Pickett
• David Pietrusza - 20th century presidential elections; biography
• Dominic Sandbrook – political history of the 1960s and 1970s
• Arthur Schlesinger Sr.
• Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
• Cornelius Cole Smith, Jr. – historian of Arizona, California and the Southwestern United States
• Jean Edward Smith – biography, foreign policy, political economy, constitutional law, legal history, and politics
• Irma Tam Soong – history of Chinese immigration in Hawaii
• Frederick Jackson Turner – developed the Frontier Thesis
• Frank Vandiver
• Woodrow Wilson - pre-Colonial America to the early 20th century
• Alexander Scott Withers – primary accounts of colonial western Virginia conflicts
• Sean Wilentz - political, social, and cultural history
• Betty Wood – early American history
• Gordon S. Wood - American Revolution
• C. Vann Woodward – Southern United States
• Howard Zinn – political scientist and historian of the United States, known for A People's History of the United States
• Nathan Raab - Civil War and Presidential Documents, known for ''The Hunt for History''

Latin America

History of Latin America

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

Brazil

• Boris Fausto
• Lilia Moritz Schwarcz

Chile

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

Peru

• Jorge Basadre
• Raúl Porras Barrenechea
• María Rostworowski

Europe

History of Europe

• Patricia Clavin – international relations and transnational relations
• Norman Davies – Europe as a whole
• Tony Judt – post 1945
• Elizabeth Eisenstein – early printing and transitions in media
• Julia P. Gelardi – royal history of 19th and 20th centuries
• John Lukacs – Cold War
• Henri-Jean Martin – early printing and writing
• Effie Pedaliu – history of Italian war crimes and Cold War
• Henri Pirenne – Belgium
• Walter Alison Phillips
• Andrew Roberts – Second World War
• John Roberts – Europe
• J. Salwyn Schapiro
• Norman Stone
• Charlotte Zeepvat – royal history of 19th and 20th centuries

History of Albania

• Stavro Skëndi

History of Belgium

• Henri Pirenne – Middle Ages
• Sophie de Schaepdrijver – World War I
• Herman Van der Wee – social and economic history

History of Bosnia and Herzegovina

• İbrahim Peçevi
• Antun Knežević
• Bono Benić
• Hamdija Kreševljaković
• Smail Balić
• Enver Redžić
• Marko Vego – medievalist & archaeologists
• Mustafa Imamović
• Salmedin Mesihović – medievalist & archaeologists

History of England

• Donald Adamson – British
• Robert C. Allen – British economic
• Perry Anderson – British; European history
• Leonie Archer – British
• Karen Armstrong – religious
• Gerald Aylmer – British; administrative history
• Bernard Bailyn – Atlantic migration
• Onyeka – Black Britons
• The Venerable Bede – Britain from 55 BC to 731 AD
• Brian Bond – military
• Asa Briggs – British social.
• Herbert Butterfield – historiography
• Angus Calder – Second World War
• David Cannadine – Modern Britain, British business and philanthropy
• J.C.D. Clark – 18th century
• Linda Colley – 18th century
• Patrick Collinson – Elizabethan England & Puritanism
• Maurice Cowling – 19th and 20th century politics
• John Darwin – British Empire
• John Davies - Wales
• Susan Doran – Elizabethan
• Jennifer Kewley Draskau – Manx history, Tudor history
• Eamon Duffy – religious history of the 15th–17th centuries
• Harold James Dyos – urban
• Geoffrey Rudolph Elton – Tudor period
• Charles Harding Firth – political history of the 17th century
• Antonia Fraser – 17th century
• William Gibson – ecclesiastical history
• Samuel Rawson Gardiner – political history of the 17th century
• Ruth Goodman – early modern
• Andrew Gordon – naval
• Geoffrey of Monmouth – England
• Élie Halévy - British 19th century
• Mary Dormer Harris - medievalist, local history of Coventry
• Edward Hasted – Kent
• Max Hastings – military, Second World War
• J. H. Hexter – England in the 17th century
• Christopher Hill – England in the 17th century
• Gertrude Himmelfarb – social and cultural history of the Victorian period
• Eric Hobsbawn – Marxist British history
• David Hume – Scottish Enlightenment philosopher and author of the six volume History of England
• Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon – English Civil Wars
• John Edward Lloyd – early Welsh history
• Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay – English writer and historian whose most famous work was The History of England from the Accession of James the Second
• John Morrill Seventeenth-century political and military history
• Lewis Bernstein Namier – political history of the 18th century
• Kenneth Morgan – modern Wales
• Steven Pincus – 17th and 18th century England
• Andrew Roberts – Political biographies, 19th and 20th centuries
• A. L. Rowse – Cornish history and Elizabethan England
• Dominic Sandbrook – Britain in the 1960s and after
• John Robert Seeley – British political history of the modern period
• Jack Simmons – railways, topography
• Paul Slack – Early Modern British Social history
• David Spring - British 19th century
• David Starkey – Tudor historian and TV presenter
• Lawrence Stone – English society and the history of the family
• Keith Thomas – Early Modern English Society
• E. P. Thompson – British working class
• George Macaulay Trevelyan – English history
• Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton – Britain in the 17th century
• Retha Warnicke – Tudor history and gender issues
• Andy Wood – British social historian, 1500 to present
• Daniel Woolf – Early Modern England and History of Historical Writing
• Cicely Veronica Wedgwood – British
• G. M. Young - Victorian England
• Perez Zagorin – 16th and 17th centuries

History of the British Empire

• Antoinette Burton
• Robert Bickers
• Richard Drayton
• Gerald S. Graham
• Vincent T. Harlow
• Wm. Roger Louis
• P. J. Marshall
• David Quinn
• D. M. Schurman
• Archibald Paton Thornton
• 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

• Mikhail Borodkin
• Kesar Ordin
• Anthony F. Upton

History of France

• Marc Bloch – medieval France
• Jean-Jacques Becker - French historian of contemporary history
• Vincent Cronin – Louis XIV, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Napoleon, and Paris
• Natalie Zemon Davis – early modern France
• Georges Duby – medieval France
• Lucien Febvre – French historian
• Alistair Horne – modern French military history
• Julian Jackson – 20th century France
• Douglas Johnson – historian of modern France
• Simon Kitson – historian of Vichy France
• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie – history of the French peasantry
• Michael Marrus – Vichy France
• John M. Merriman - French Historian
• Jules Michelet – French historian
• Roland Mousnier – early modern France
• Robert Roswell Palmer – French revolution
• Robert Paxton – Vichy France
• Pierre Renouvin – French diplomatic history
• Andrew Roberts – Napoleon
• John C. Rule – 17th and 18th century France
• Zeev Sternhell – French fascism
• Richard Vaughan – Valois Burgundy
• Eugen Weber – modern French history
• John B. Wolf – French history
• Isser Woloch – 18th century France
• Gordon Wright
• Robert J. Young – the Third Republic

History of Germany

• Celia Applegate – music history and nationalism
• David Blackbourn
• Gisela Bock
• Horst Boog – military history
• Karl Dietrich Bracher
• Martin Broszat
• Alan Bullock
• Robert Citino – military history
• Gordon A. Craig
• Richard J. Evans
• Joachim Fest
• Fritz Fischer
• Luise Gerbing, history of Thuringia
• Deborah Hertz
• Klaus Hildebrand
• Andreas Hillgruber
• Jonathan House
• Christian Hartmann – military history
• Gerhard Hirschfeld – 20th century German social, World War I & II
• Eberhard Jäckel
• Ian Kershaw
• Klemens von Klemperer
• Ernst Klink – military history
• Claudia Koonz
• Dieter Langewiesche
• Timothy Mason
• Frank McDonough
• Wendy Lower – history of National Socialism
• Geoffrey P. Megargee – military history
• 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
• Ronald Smelser
• Louis Leo Snyder
• Fritz Stern
• David Stahel
• Michael Stürmer
• Heinrich von Treitschke
• A.J.P. Taylor
• Hugh Trevor-Roper – British historian and peer who specialized on Nazi leadership and incorrectly verified the authenticity of The Hitler Diaries
• Henry Ashby Turner
• Gerd R. Ueberschär – military history
• Bernd Wegner – military history and history of National Socialism
• Hans-Ulrich Wehler
• Wolfram Wette – military history and history of National Socialism
• John Wheeler-Bennett
• Jay Winter
• Michael Wolffsohn
• Gordon Wright – Germany – 19th and 20th centuries
• David T. Zabecki – military history
• Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
• Rainer Zitelmann

History of the Habsburg monarchy

• John Komlos – economic

History of Ireland

• Mary Bonaventure Browne, Poor Clare and historian
• Ann Buckley
• Francis John Byrne
• John Clyn
• James Donnelly – Irish social history
• Brian Farrell
• Roy Foster
• Kathleen Hughes
• Geoffrey Keating
• J.J. Lee – 20th century Ireland
• James Francis Lydon
• F.S.L. Lyons – modern Ireland
• Oliver MacDonagh – modern Ireland
• Dermot MacDermot
• Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh
• Gilla Isa Mor mac Donnchadh MacFhirbhisigh
• Muirchu moccu Machtheni
• Flann Mainistrech
• F.X. Martin
• Kenneth Nicholls
• Adhamh Ó Cianáin
• Mícheál Ó Cléirigh
• Dáibhí Ó Cróinín
• Eugene O'Curry
• John O'Donovan
• Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin
• Pilip Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin
• Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh
• Nollaig Ó Muraíle
• Tírechán
• Father Paul Walsh
• Sir James Ware

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, French Revolution
• Denis Mack Smith – Italian modern history
• Arrigo Petacco – Fascism

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 – modern Polish history
• Robert I. Frost — modern Polish history
• Pawel Jasienica – Polish amateur historian
• Wickham Steed

History of Portugal

• José Hermano Saraiva
• A. H. de Oliveira Marques – early modern period
• José Mattoso – medieval history
• Fernando Rosas – contemporary history

History of Romania

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

History of Russia

• Nicholas Bethell
• Robert Conquest – Soviet Union
• Vincent Cronin – Catherine the Great
• Orlando Figes
• Patricia Kennedy Grimsted – post-Soviet archives
• Geoffrey Hosking
• Lindsey Hughes - C17th and C18th
• Leopold Labedz
• Roy Medvedev
• Robin Milner-Gulland - cultural history
• Richard Pipes – Soviet Union
• William Taubman – Nikita Khrushchev
• Peter Kenez – 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

History of Serbia

• Vladimir Ćorović
• Sima Ćirković
• Rade Mihaljčić
• Stojan Novaković
• Stanoje Stanojević
• Jovan I. Deretić

History of Scotland

• G. W. S. Barrow
• Steve Boardman
• Hector Boece
• George Buchanan
• Gilbert Burnet
• Tom Devine
• John of Fordun
• Christopher Harvie
• Colin Kidd
• Michael Lynch
• Norman Macdougall
• Rosalind Mitchison
• Richard Oram
• T.C. Smout - Scottish social history
• 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, since 1993

History of Slovakia

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

History of Slovenia

• Bogo Grafenauer
• 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
• Rafael Núñez Florencio
• Julian Ribera y Tarragó – Spain, history of the Book, medieval history, history of Muslim Spain
• Julia Pavón – medieval history of Navarra
• Joseph Pérez - history of the Spanish Empire.

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
• Anthony F. Upton
• 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, history of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey
• İlber Ortaylı, history of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey
• Heath W. Lowry, history of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey
• Mehmet Fuat Köprülü, Turcologist and historian, history of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey
• Yusuf Halaçoğlu, history of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey
• Reşat Ekrem Koçu, writer and historian, history of the Ottoman Empire
• Ahmed Cevad Pasha , Ottoman statesman, history of the Ottoman Empire
• Aşıkpaşazade history of the Ottoman Empire
• Ibn Kemal , Ottoman statesman, history of the Ottoman Empire
• Koçi Bey , Ottoman statesman, history of the Ottoman Empire
• Katip Çelebi , history of the Ottoman Empire

Asia

Middle East

• George Antonius – historian of Arab nationalism
• Vincent Cronin – study of the Faiqani tribe of South Persia
• Neilson Debevoise – history of the Parthian Empire
• Caroline Finkel
• Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb – Editor, The Encyclopaedia of Islam
• Bernard Lewis – history of Islam and the Middle East
• S.D. Goitein - history of the Mediterranean; social history of the Medieval Islamic world
• Albert Hourani
• ‘Ala’ al-Din ‘Ata Malik Juvayni – Ta’rīkh-I-Jahān Gushā
• Ibn Khaldun
• Walid Khalidi – Palestinian historian
• D. S. Margoliouth
• Michael Oren
• Rashid-al-Din Hamadani – Jāmi‛ al-Tawārīkh, Ta’rīkh–i-Ghāzānī
• Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg – Achaemenid history
• Ibn al-Tiqtaqa – Shi'i historian, wrote Al-Fakhīr

Central Asia

• Denis Sinor, Hungarian-American historian of Central Asia
• Edward A. Allworth, American historian specializing in Central Asia
• Étienne de la Vaissière, French specialist of Sogdian culture and early medieval Central Asia
• Geoffrey Wheeler, British soldier and historian of Central Asia
• Lola Dodkhudoeva, Tajikistani historian specialising in medieval Central Asian affairs
• Svetlana Gorshenina, Uzbek specialist on Pre-Islamic Central Asia

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
• Nicholas Dirks
• Ranajit Guha
• Ayesha Jalal
• John Keay
• Sumit Sarkar
• Romila Thapar
• Irfan Habib
• Thomas Metcalf
• Barbara Metcalf
• Percival Spear
• Bipan Chandra
• Gyan Prakash
• Tanika Sarkar
• Barbara Ramusack
• Thomas Trautmann
• K. K. Aziz
• Mubarak Ali
• Mohammad Ishaq Khan
• NS Rajaram
• Sukumar Sen (linguist)
• Suniti Kumar Chatterji

  History of India

• Isabel Giberne Sieveking – Indian Mutiny
• Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman – Unani historian

  History of Pakistan

• K. K. Aziz
• Imran Khan

Far East

History of Japan

• William George Aston
• Gail Lee Bernstein
• Harold Bolitho
• Hugh Borton
• Jeremy Cowan
• Albert M. Craig
• Sheldon Garon
• Carol Gluck
• Andrew Gordon
• William Elliot Griffis
• John Whitney Hall
• Susan Hanley
• Marius Jansen
• Donald Keene
• Joyce Lebra
• Jeffrey Mass
• Richard Ponsonby-Fane
• Tetsuo Najita
• Ian Nish
• Edwin O. Reischauer
• Donald Richie
• George Bailey Sansom
• Ernest Mason Satow
• Amy Stanley
• Conrad Totman
• Stephen Turnbull
• Barak Kushner

  History of Korea

• Bruce Cumings – modern Korea
• Carter J. Eckert
• James Palais
• Il-yeon
• Kim Pusik – early annalist
• Kim Taemun
• Lee Ki-baek
• James Hoare
• Shin Chae-ho – ancient Korean history
• Andre Schmid
• Yu Deuk-gong – Balhae
• Odd Arne Westad – professor at the London School of Economics

  History of China

• Robert Bickers - modern China
• Immanuel C.Y. Hsu - modern China
• John Herman
• Ann Paludan – ancient China
• Sima Qian – compiled Records of the Grand Historian
• Chen Shou – author of the Records of Three Kingdoms.
• Jonathan Spence
• Denis Twitchett – 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

History of Hong Kong

• Steve Tsang

Africa

• David Cohen
• A. G. Hopkins – European colonialism and globalisation
• William Miller Macmillan
• Michael McWilliam – British Commonwealth
• Jocelyne Dakhlia – political and cultural history of Islam in the Maghreb
• Jan Vansina

History of the Serers

• Alioune Sarr, Senegalese specialist on Serer medieval history
• Henry Gravrand, French specialist on Serer ancient history, Serer medieval history and Serer religion
• Issa Laye Thiaw, Senegalese specialist on Serer general history and Serer religion
• Alhaji Alieu Ebrima Cham Joof, Gambian specialist on Serer general history and history of Senegambia
• Marguerite Dupire, French scholar of Serer religion and history
• Louis Diène Faye, Senegalese scholar of Serer religion and history

Oceania

History of Australia

• Manning Clark
• Keith Windschuttle
• Geoffrey Blainey
• Stuart Macintyre
• Henry Reynolds
• Frank Welsh
• Andrew Moore

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''

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 – Nazi historian and anti-Semitic writer
• David Hoggan

Anarchist

• Paul Avrich – USA, oral history of the U.S. and Russia
• Murray Bookchin – USA, writer; founder of "social ecology"
• Sam Dolgoff – USA, writer, activist, co-founder of Anarcho-Syndicalist Review
• Sébastien Faure – France, Encyclopedie Anarchiste, 4 volumes
• David Goodway – UK, writer, editor
• Daniel Guérin – France, writer, editor Libertarian Communist
• Robert Graham – USA, writer, editor
• Andrej Grubacic – Bulgarian history and anarchism, lecturer at University of San Francisco
• Peter Marshall – England, historian, philosopher, writer
• Chuck W. Morse – USA, writer, founder of Institute for Anarchist Studies
• Max Nettlau – Austria, writer of Geschichte der Anarchie, seven volumes
• Abel Paz – Spain, Civil war, 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,
• George Woodcock
• Howard Zinn

Pacifist

• Ludwig Quidde – 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 – Roman architect and engineer, author of De architectura
• Leon Battista Alberti – Italian polymath, active in many fields, author of De Re Aedificatoria among others
• Josef Strzygowski
• Joseph Rykwert
• Manfredo Tafuri
• David Watkin (historian)
• Alberto Pérez-Gómez
• Doğan Kuban – architect, history of architecture and art history

Art history

• Nurhan Atasoy – Turkish and Islamic art history
• C. Ondine Chavoya – Latino art history, Chicano art history, queer art history
• Vincent Cronin – French and Italian art and architectural history
• Oleg Grabar – Islamic art history
• Catherine Mason – British computer and digital art history
• Nicholas Pevsner – History of art and English architecture
• Alena Potůčková – Czech art history
• Simon Schama – Art history
• Ichimatsu Tanaka – Japanese art history
• Renáta Tyršová – Czech ethnography and art history
• Yukio Yashiro – Japanese art history; Botticelli and the Florentine Renaissance

Christianity

• Eusebius of Caesarea – "Father of Church history"
• Alexander Campbell Cheyne – Scottish ecclesiastical historian
• John Gilmary Shea – father of American Catholic History
• Bengt Hägglund – historian of Christian theology
• Barbara Thiering – rediscovered the "Pesher technique"

Classical Antiquity

• Werner Eck
• Robert Malcolm Errington
• Erich S. Gruen
• Ronald Syme
• Robert Garland

Economic history

• Robert C. Allen
• Leah Boustan
• Eli Heckscher
• Barry Eichengreen
• Niall Ferguson
• Robert Fogel
• Alexander Gerschenkron
• Claudia Goldin
• Susan Howson
• Harold James
• John Komlos
• Naomi Lamoreaux
• David S. Landes
• Joel Mokyr
• Thomas Piketty
• W. W. Rostow
• Tirthankar Roy
• Ram Sharan Sharma – economic history of ancient India
• Robert Skidelsky
• R. H. Tawney
• Peter Temin

Egyptology

• Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert
• Ludwig David Morenz
• Richard B. Parkinson
• William Kelly Simpson
• John W. Tait
• Edward F. Wente
• Penelope Wilson

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

Food history

• Sidney Mintz
• Massimo Montanari
• Zora Mintalová – Zubercová

Gender history

• John Boswell – homosexuality in medieval times
• Elizabeth Crawford – women's suffrage
• Francisca de Haan – Central, Eastern and South Eastern European Women's and Gender History
• Nahema Hanafi - gender studies
• George Mosse
• Marysa Navarro - feminism
• Retha Warnicke – gender issues

Historiography

• Ram Sharan Sharma
• Alphonse Balleydier
• 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">Australian history wars">history wars"

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

History of business

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

History of ideas, culture, literature and philosophy

• Ram Sharan Sharma – material culture in Ancient India
• Isaiah Berlin – history of ideas
• J.C.D. Clark – British historian of 18th century ideas
• Jovan Deretić, Serbian literary history
• Michel Foucault – history of ideas
• Peter Gay – history of ideas
• A.O. Lovejoy - history of ideas
• Lewis Mumford – history of technology
• Hüseyin Nihâl Atsız – Turkology, Turkish Literature
• Pertev Naili Boratav – Turkish folklorist, Ottoman and Turkish culture
• Sedat Alp – Hittitolo, historian, ancient Anatolian languages
• Marius Ostrowski - history of ideas and ideologies

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
• Arno J. Mayer
• Lewis Bernstein Namier
• Paul W. Schroeder – U.S. historian, 19th-century European international relations
• Jean Edward Smith
• A.J.P. Taylor – historian of European international relations
• Harold Temperley, – British historian, Cambridge, 19th- and early 20th-century diplomatic history, British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914
• Ernest Llewellyn Woodward,

History of science and technology

• Michael Adas – colonialism and imperialism, global history
• Jim Bennett – mathematics, scientific instruments and astronomy
• Stephen G. Brush
• 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"
• James Mosley – printing
• David F. Noble – science and technology-based industrial development
• Abraham Pais – physics
• Giuliano Pancaldi – Italian science
• Theodore M. Porter
• A. I. Sabra – optics, Islamic science
• George Sarton
• Jack Simmons – railway history
• Nathan Sivin – history of science in China
• Kim H. Veltman – science and art
• M. Norton Wise

History of the papacy

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

Holocaust

• Götz Aly
• Jean Ancel
• Yitzhak Arad
• David Bankier
• Omer Bartov
• Paul R. Bartrop
• Yehuda Bauer
• Georges Bensoussan
• Wolfgang Benz
• Michael Berenbaum
• Ruth Bettina Birn
• Donald Bloxham
• Randolph L. Braham
• Richard Breitman
• Martin Broszat
• Christopher Browning
• Michael Burleigh
• David Cesarani
• Catherine Chatterley
• Richard I. Cohen
• John S. Conway
• David M. Crowe
• Danuta Czech
• Szymon Datner
• Lucy Dawidowicz
• Terrence Des Pres
• Deborah Dwork
• Leo Eitinger
• David Engel
• Barbara Engelking
• Richard J. Evans
• Andrew Ezergailis
• Esther Farbstein
• Norman Finkelstein
• Jack Fischel
• Michael Fleming
• Joseph Friedenson
• Henry Friedlander
• Saul Friedländer
• Tuvia Friling
• Christian Gerlach
• Martin Gilbert
• Daniel Goldhagen
• Jan Grabowski
• Gideon Greif
• Jan T. Gross
• Elke Gryglewski
• Israel Gutman
• Peter Hayes
• Susanne Heim
• Raul Hilberg
• Klaus Hildebrand
• Eberhard Jäckel
• Miroslav Kárný
• Steven T. Katz
• Ian Kershaw
• Ernst Klee
• David Kranzler
• Shmuel Krakowski
• Erich Kulka
• Otto Dov Kulka
• Konrad Kwiet
• Lawrence Langer
• Jacek Leociak
• Dariusz Libionka
• Deborah Lipstadt
• Peter Longerich
• Richard C. Lukas
• Eugen Kogon
• Michael Marrus
• Jürgen Matthäus
• Hans Mommsen
• Kurt Pätzold
• Franciszek Piper
• Detlev Peukert
• Léon Poliakov
• Antony Polonsky
• Dina Porat
• Laurence Rees
• Alvin H. Rosenfeld
• Mark Roseman
• John K. Roth
• Livia Rothkirchen
• R. J. Rummel
• Tom Segev
• Timothy D. Snyder
• Nicholas Stargardt
• Sybille Steinbacher
• Alan E. Steinweis
• Dan Stone
• Robert Jan van Pelt
• Nikolaus Wachsmann
• Kenneth Waltzer
• Rebecca Wittmann
• David Wyman
• Hanna Yablonka
• Leni Yahil

Lutheranism

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

Maritime history

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

Media history

• Asa Briggs

Military history

• C.T. Atkinson, historian of the British Army and Marlborough's Army
• 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. and 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 – specialised in 20th-century wars
• Anthony Kemp – English historian of history of World War II
• Frederic Kidder - American historian of New England including military operations
• B. H. Liddell Hart – military history
• Edward Luttwak – military strategy
• Piers Mackesy – 18th century
• S. L. A. Marshall – American military historian
• Jürgen Möller – German military historian
• Peter Paret – military history
• Gordon Prange
• Gerhard Ritter – German military historian
• Cornelius Ryan – World War II
• Digby Smith Napoleonic Wars
• Jean Edward Smith – U.S. and German military historian
• Hew Strachan – British military historian
• Gerhard Weinberg – U.S. military historian
• Spenser Wilkinson

Mormonism

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

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
• Daniel Gibson Harris
• 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
• Thomas Lediard
• 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 – wrote History of United States Naval Operations in World War II and numerous works about the maritime exploration of the Americas
• Henry Newbolt – 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

Presbyterianism

• D.G. Hart

Social history

• David Rothman — Father of American social history and the role of institutions in shaping history and society.
• Ram Sharan Sharma – social history of ancient India
• Lloyd deMause – psychohistory
• Gabriela Dudeková
• Ruth Goodman – early modern, British social history

Intellectual history

• Carolina Armenteros
• Herbert Butterfield
• David Lloyd Dusenbury
• Irena Grudzińska-Gross
• Gertrude Himmelfarb
• Russell Jacoby
• Richard Lebrun
• Pierre Manent
• Elliot Neaman
• Steven Ozment
• Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
• Jon H. Roberts
• Helena Rosenblatt
• Ellis Sandoz
• Larry Siedentop
• James Turner
• Richard M. Weaver
• Robert Wokler
• Richard Wolin

World history

• Felipe Fernández-Armesto
• Christopher Bayly – British Empire and India
• Ferdinand Braudel – social and economic history
• Will Durant – author of The Story of Civilization
• Francis Fukuyama – "End of history" thesis
• Hendrik Willem van Loon – world history and geography for younger readers
• William McNeill – author of The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community
• Jürgen Osterhammel
• John Roberts – author of History of the World
• [Ram Sharan Sharma ) – author of Vishwa Itihaas ki Bhumika in Hindi.
• Jackson J. Spielvogel – author of several major world history textbooks
• Arnold J. Toynbee – wrote landmark text A Study of History
• Immanuel Wallerstein

Biography

• Peter Ackroyd – Dickens, Blake, Thomas More, Eliot, Newton
• James Boswell – Samuel Johnson
• Alan Bullock – historian best known for his influential biography of Hitler
• Robert Caro – Lyndon Johnson
• Thomas Carlyle – Friedrich der Grosse
• Vincent Cronin – Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, and Napoleon
• Leon Edel – Henry James
• Richard Ellmann – James Joyce
• Erik Erikson – psychoanalytic biographies of Luther and Gandhi
• Roy Foster – W.B. Yeats
• Joseph Frank – Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Elizabeth Gaskell – Charlotte Brontë
• Stephen Greenblatt – Shakespeare
• Ragnhild Hatton – King Charles XII of Sweden and King George I of Great Britain
• Walter Isaacson – geniuses
• Ian Kershaw – historian well known for his influential study of Hitler
• Ralph G. Martin – Hubert H. Humphrey, Harry S. Truman, Edward VIII, Golda Meir, and John F. Kennedy
• Roi Medvedev – Stalin
• Susan Quinn – Marie Curie
• Ron Rosenbaum – author of Explaining Hitler
• Norman Sherry – Graham Greene
• Jean Edward Smith – Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, John Marshall, and Lucius D. Clay
• Suetonius – lives of the Caesars
• Lytton Strachey – Eminent Victorians
• A.N. Wilson – Tolstoy