List of historians by area of study
This is a list of historians categorized by their area of study. See also List of historians and List of women 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
See also :Category:Historians 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