List of historians by area of study

This is a list of historians categorized by their area of study. See also List of historians.

Ancient history

 * Sedat Alp (1913, Veroia, The Ottoman Empire - 2006, Ankara, Türkiye) Hittitolog- Historian, Ancient Anatolian
 * Ekrem Akurgal (1911, Haifa, The Ottoman Empire- 2002, İzmir, Türkiye) Archaeologist- Historian, Ancient Anatolian
 * Leonie Archer (born 1955) – Graeco-Roman Palestine
 * Mary Beard (born 1955)
 * Anatoly Bokschanin (1903–1979) – Roman history
 * Fernand Braudel (1902, Luméville-en-Ornois, France - 1985, Cluses, France ) Roman history
 * Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton (1900–1903) – Roman history and prosopography
 * Halet Çambel (1916, Berlin, Germany- 2014, İstanbul, Türkiye) Archaeologist- Historian, Ancient Anatolian
 * Michael Crawford (born 1939)
 * Roland Étienne (born 1944, French) – Ancient Greece and Hellenistic period
 * Moses Finley (1912–1986)
 * Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) – The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
 * Adrian Goldsworthy (born 1969, British) – Roman history
 * Peter Green (born 1924) – Ancient Greece and Macedon
 * Herodotus
 * Keith Hopkins (1934–2004) - Roman history
 * Muazzez İlmiye Çığ (born 1914, Bursa-Türkiye) Sumerologist, Sumerian history
 * Josephus
 * Yuliya Kolosovskaya (1920–2002) – Roman history and Roman provinces of the Danube
 * Sergey Kovalev (1886–1960) – Hellenistic and Roman period
 * Mikhail Kublanov (1914–1998)
 * Barbara Levick (1931–2023) – Roman emperors
 * Livy
 * Ramsay MacMullen (1928–2022) – History of Rome
 * Nikolai Mashkin (1900–1950) – Roman history
 * Fergus Millar (1935–2019)
 * Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903) History of Rome
 * Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776–1831) – Roman history
 * Orosius
 * Tahsin Özgüç (1916, Kardzhali, The Ottoman Empire- 2005, Ankara, Türkiye) Archaeologist- Historian, Ancient Anatolian
 * Edward Togo Salmon (1905–1988) - Roman history
 * Howard Hayes Scullard (1903–1983) – Roman civilization
 * Mariya Sergeyenko (1891–1987) – Roman agriculture and daily life
 * Ram Sharan Sharma (1919–2011) – Ancient India
 * Elena Shtaerman (1914–1991) – Roman history
 * Suetonius
 * Ronald Syme (1903–1989) – Classical period
 * Tacitus
 * Joseph Tainter (born 1949)
 * Lily Ross Taylor (1886–1969) - Roman history
 * Thucydides
 * Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (born 1951)
 * Max Weber (1864–1920)
 * Xenophon
 * Polybius

Medieval history

 * John Van Antwerp Fine Jr. (born 1939) - American medievalist specialized in the history of Central and Southeastern Europe, and Balkans
 * Ram Sharan Sharma (1919–2011) – early medieval History of India
 * Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman (born 1940) – historian of medieval medicine
 * Placido Puccinelli (1609–1685, Italian) – Northern Italy in the 10th century and the Florentine church
 * Marc Bloch (1886–1944, French) – Medieval France
 * John Boswell (1947–1994, American) – Homosexuality in the Middle Ages
 * Norman Cantor (1930–2004)
 * Georges Duby (1924–1996, French) – Specialized in the history of France between the Capets and the Valois
 * François-Louis Ganshof (1895–1980), Belgian – wrote on early medieval institutional history and feudalism
 * Geoffrey of Monmouth
 * Giraldus Cambrensis
 * Johan Huizinga (1872–1945, Dutch) – cultural history, wrote Waning of the Middle Ages
 * Jacques Le Goff (1924–2014, French) – Middle Ages, particularly the 12th and 13th centuries
 * Rev. F. X. Martin (1922–2000, Irish) – Mediævalist and campaigner
 * Rosamond McKitterick (born 1949) – Frankish and Carolingian history
 * Henri Pirenne (1862–1935) – the "Pirenne Thesis" of early Medieval development
 * Eileen Power (1889–1940) – Middle Ages
 * Miri Rubin (born 1956) – social and religious history, 1100–1500
 * Steven Runciman (1903–2000) – the Crusades
 * Richard Southern (1912–2001)
 * Sidney Painter (1902–1960)
 * John Julius Norwich (1929–2018)
 * John V. Tolan (born 1959)
 * Chris Wickham (born 1950)
 * Retha Warnicke (born 1939)
 * Aaron Gurevich (1924–2006)
 * Jerome Lee Shneidman (1929–2008) – psychohistory
 * Michael Prestwich (born 1943)
 * Alessandro Barbero (born 1959)
 * Dick Harrison (born 1966)
 * Satish Chandra (1922–2017)
 * Irfan Habib (born 1931)
 * Michel Kaplan (born 1946, French) – Byzantinist
 * Gina Fasoli (1905–1992) – medieval cities, feudal society, and Lombardy

History of Canada

 * Donald Creighton (1902–1979) – Developed the Laurentian thesis
 * William J. Eccles (1917–1998) – History of New France
 * Lionel Groulx (1878–1967) – The history of Quebec in particular and French North America in general
 * Harold Innis (1894–1952) – Economic historian of Canada
 * Jack Granatstein (born 1939) – Political and Military historian of Canada
 * W.L. Morton (1908–1980) – Expert on western Canada

See also List of Canadian historians.

History of the Caribbean

 * Kamau Brathwaite (1930–2020)
 * Aviva Chomsky (born 1957)
 * C. L. R. James (1901–1989)
 * Lucille M. Mair (1924–2009)
 * Walter Rodney (1942–1980)
 * Eric Williams (1911–1981) – Focused on slavery and the slave trade, condemned imperialism
 * Betty Wood (1945–2021)

History of the United States

 * Henry Adams (1838–1918) – history of the United States in the presidential administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
 * Stephen Ambrose (1936–2002) – biographer of Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon
 * Edward L. Ayers (born 1953) – U.S. South, founder of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) and Digital Scholarship Lab
 * George Bancroft (1800–1891) – wrote first large-scale history of the US
 * Charles A. Beard (1874–1948) – revisionist history of Founding Fathers suggesting monetary motivations
 * Samuel Flagg Bemis (1891–1973) – U.S. foreign policy; won two Pulitzer Prizes
 * Ira Berlin (1941–2018) - Slavery
 * William Brandon (1914–2002) – historian of the American West and Native Americans.
 * Holly Brewer (born 1964) – early American History
 * Alan Brinkley (1949–2019) – historian of the Great Depression
 * David H. Burton - U.S. historian and biographer of presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft as well as Clara Barton and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
 * Bruce Catton (1899–1978) – American Civil War
 * William Cronon (born 1954) – American environmental history, the frontier in New England, and the American West
 * J. Frank Dobie (1888–1964) – historian of Texas and the Southwestern United States
 * David Herbert Donald (1920–2009)
 * W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) – historian of the Reconstruction
 * Drew Gilpin Faust (born 1947) – Civil War, culture of death, and the Confederacy
 * Robert H. Ferrell (1921–2018) – Harry S. Truman, the 20th-century U.S. presidency, World War I
 * Eric Foner (born 1943) – Civil War and Reconstruction
 * John Hope Franklin (1915–2009) – historian of African Americans
 * John A. Garraty (1920–2007) – biography
 * Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (1941–2007) – Southern slavery, women's history
 * Doris Kearns Goodwin (born 1943) - U.S. presidents, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
 * Richard Hofstadter (1916–1970) – Progressivism and U.S. political history
 * Daniel Walker Howe - political and intellectual history of the early republic and antebellum period
 * Peter Iverson – 20th century U.S. West/Native American history (emphasis in Navajo history)
 * Paul Johnson (born 1928) – author of A History of the American People and a biographer of George Washington
 * Winthrop Jordan (1931–2007) – African-American history
 * David Lavender (1910–2003) – Western United States
 * David McCullough (1933–2022) – general study, most notable work is recent biography of John Adams
 * James M. McPherson (born 1936) – American Civil War
 * Pauline Maier (1938–2013) – late Colonial, Revolution, Constitution
 * D. W. Meinig (1924–2020) – geographic history of America
 * Philip D. Morgan (born 1949) – slavery
 * David Nasaw (born 1945) – biography and U.S. cultural history
 * Francis Parkman (1823–1893) – historian of the French and Indian War
 * William B. Pickett (born 1940)
 * David Pietrusza (born 1949) - 20th century presidential elections; biography
 * Dominic Sandbrook (born 1974) – political history of the 1960s and 1970s
 * Arthur Schlesinger Sr. (1888–1965)
 * Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (1917–2007)
 * Cornelius Cole Smith, Jr. (1913–2004) – historian of Arizona, California and the Southwestern United States
 * Jean Edward Smith (1932–2019) – biography, foreign policy, political economy, constitutional law, legal history, and politics
 * Irma Tam Soong (1912–2001) – history of Chinese immigration in Hawaii
 * Frederick Jackson Turner (1861–1932) – developed the Frontier Thesis
 * Frank Vandiver (1925–2005)
 * Alexander Scott Withers (1792–1865) – primary accounts of colonial western Virginia conflicts
 * Sean Wilentz (born 1951) - political, social, and cultural history
 * Betty Wood (1945–2021) – early American history
 * Gordon S. Wood (born 1933) - American Revolution
 * C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999) – Southern United States
 * Howard Zinn (1922–2010) – political scientist and historian of the United States, known for A People's History of the United States

History of Latin America
See also Category:Historians of Latin America
 * Jeremy Adelman (born 1960)
 * Marc Becker
 * David Brading (1936-2024)
 * Aviva Chomsky (born 1957)
 * James Dunkerley (born 1953)
 * Mark Falcoff (born 1941)
 * Ann Farnsworth-Alvear
 * Charles Gibson (born 1943)
 * Mike Gonzalez (born 1943)
 * Clarence H. Haring (1885–1960)
 * Daniel James (born 1948)
 * Kenneth Maxwell (born 1941)
 * William H. Prescott (1796–1859)
 * Peter Winn
 * John Wirth (1936–2002)
 * John Womack (born 1937)
 * Leslie Bethell (born 1937)

Brazil

 * Boris Fausto (1930–2023)
 * Lilia Moritz Schwarcz (born 1957)

Chile

 * Alonso de Góngora Marmolejo (1523–1575)
 * Pedro Mariño de Lobera (1528–1594)
 * Vicente Carvallo y Goyeneche (1742–1816)

Peru

 * Jorge Basadre (1903–1980)
 * Raúl Porras Barrenechea (1897–1960)
 * María Rostworowski (1915–2016)

History of Europe

 * Patricia Clavin (born 1964) – international relations and transnational relations
 * Norman Davies (born 1939) – Europe as a whole
 * Tony Judt (1948–2010) – post 1945
 * Elizabeth Eisenstein (1923–2016) – early printing and transitions in media
 * Julia P. Gelardi – royal history of 19th and 20th centuries
 * John Lukacs (1924–2019) – Cold War
 * Henri-Jean Martin (1924–2007) – early printing and writing
 * Effie Pedaliu – history of Italian war crimes and Cold War
 * Henri Pirenne (1862–1935) – Belgium
 * Walter Alison Phillips (1864–1950)
 * Andrew Roberts (born 1963) – Second World War
 * John Roberts (1928–2003) – Europe
 * J. Salwyn Schapiro (1879–1973)
 * Norman Stone (1941–2019)
 * Charlotte Zeepvat – royal history of 19th and 20th centuries

History of Albania

 * Stavro Skëndi (1905–1989)

History of Belgium

 * Henri Pirenne (1862–1935) – Middle Ages
 * Sophie de Schaepdrijver (born 1961) – World War I
 * Herman Van der Wee (born 1928) – social and economic history

History of Bosnia and Herzegovina

 * İbrahim Peçevi (1572–1650)
 * Antun Knežević (1834–1889)
 * Bono Benić (1708–1785)
 * Hamdija Kreševljaković (1888–1959)
 * Smail Balić (1920–2002)
 * Enver Redžić (1915–2009)
 * Marko Vego (1907–1985) – medievalist & archaeologists
 * Mustafa Imamović (1941–2017)
 * Salmedin Mesihović (born 1975) – medievalist & archaeologists

History of England and Britain

 * Donald Adamson (born 1939) – British
 * Robert C. Allen (born 1947) – British economic
 * Perry Anderson (born 1938) – British; European history
 * Leonie Archer (born 1955) – British
 * Karen Armstrong (born 1944) – religious
 * Gerald Aylmer (1926–2000) – British; administrative history
 * Bernard Bailyn (1922–2020) – Atlantic migration
 * Onyeka – Black Britons
 * The Venerable Bede (672–735) – Britain from 55 BC to 731 AD
 * Brian Bond (born 1936) – military
 * Asa Briggs (1921–2016) – British social.
 * Herbert Butterfield (1900–1979) – historiography
 * Angus Calder (1942–2008) – Second World War
 * David Cannadine (born 1950) – Modern Britain, British business and philanthropy
 * J.C.D. Clark (born 1951) – 18th century
 * Linda Colley (born 1949) – 18th century
 * Patrick Collinson (1929–2011) – Elizabethan England & Puritanism
 * Maurice Cowling (1926–2005) – 19th and 20th century politics
 * John Darwin (born 1948) – British Empire
 * John Davies (1938–2015) - Wales
 * Susan Doran – Elizabethan
 * Eamon Duffy (born 1947) – religious history of the 15th–17th centuries
 * Harold James Dyos (1921–1978) – urban
 * Geoffrey Rudolph Elton (1921–1994) – Tudor period
 * Charles Harding Firth (1857–1936) – political history of the 17th century
 * Antonia Fraser (born 1932) – 17th century
 * William Gibson (born 1959) – ecclesiastical history
 * Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1829–1902) – political history of the 17th century
 * Ruth Goodman (born 1963) – early modern
 * Andrew Gordon (born 1951) – naval
 * Geoffrey of Monmouth (died c. 1154) – England
 * Élie Halévy (1870–1937) - British 19th century
 * Edward Hasted (1732–1812) – Kent
 * Max Hastings (born 1945) – military, Second World War
 * J. H. Hexter (1910–1996) – England in the 17th century
 * Christopher Hill (1912–2003) – England in the 17th century
 * Gertrude Himmelfarb (1922–2019) – social and cultural history of the Victorian period
 * Eric Hobsbawn (1917–2012) – Marxist British history
 * David Hume (1711–1776) – Scottish Enlightenment philosopher and author of the six volume History of England (originally History of Britain)
 * Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609–1674) – English Civil Wars
 * John Edward Lloyd (1861–1947) – early Welsh history
 * Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) – English writer and historian whose most famous work was The History of England from the Accession of James the Second
 * John Morrill (born 1946) Seventeenth-century political and military history
 * Lewis Bernstein Namier (1888–1960) – political history of the 18th century
 * Kenneth Morgan (born 1934) – modern Wales
 * Steven Pincus – 17th and 18th century England
 * Andrew Roberts (born 1963) – Political biographies, 19th and 20th centuries
 * A. L. Rowse (1903–1997) – Cornish history and Elizabethan England
 * Dominic Sandbrook (born 1974) – Britain in the 1960s and after
 * John Robert Seeley (1834–1895) – British political history of the modern period
 * Jack Simmons (1915–2000) – railways, topography
 * Paul Slack (born 1943) – Early Modern British Social history
 * David Spring (1918–2004) - British 19th century
 * David Starkey (born 1945) – Tudor historian and TV presenter
 * Lawrence Stone (1919–1999) – English society and the history of the family
 * Keith Thomas (born 1933) – Early Modern English Society
 * E. P. Thompson (1924–1993) – British working class
 * George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876–1962) – English history (many different periods)
 * Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton (1914–2003) – Britain in the 17th century
 * Retha Warnicke (born 1939) – Tudor history and gender issues
 * Andy Wood (born 1967) – British social historian, 1500 to present
 * Daniel Woolf (born 1958) – Early Modern England and History of Historical Writing
 * Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910–1997) – British
 * G. M. Young (1882–1959) - Victorian England
 * Perez Zagorin (1920–2009) – 16th and 17th centuries

History of the British Empire

 * Antoinette Burton
 * Robert Bickers (born 1964)
 * Richard Drayton (born 1964)
 * Gerald S. Graham (1903–1988)
 * Vincent T. Harlow (1898–1961)
 * Wm. Roger Louis (born 1936)
 * P. J. Marshall (born 1933)
 * David Quinn (1909–2002)
 * D. M. Schurman (1924–2013)
 * Archibald Paton Thornton (1921–2004)
 * Glyndwr Williams (born 1932)

History of Croatia

 * Johannes Lucius (1604–1679)
 * Pavao Ritter Vitezović (1652–1713)
 * Franjo Rački (1828–1894)
 * Tadija Smičiklas (1843–1914)
 * Vjekoslav Klaić (1849–1928)
 * Ferdo Šišić (1869–1940)
 * Nada Klaić (1920–1988)
 * Mirjana Gross (1922–2012)
 * Trpimir Macan (born 1935)
 * Ivo Banac (1947–2020)
 * Radoslav Katičić (1930–2019)

History of Finland

 * Kesar Ordin (1835–1892)
 * Mikhail Borodkin (1852–1919)

History of France

 * Marc Bloch (1886–1944) – medieval France
 * Jean-Jacques Becker (born 1928) - French historian of contemporary history
 * Vincent Cronin (1924–2011) – Louis XIV, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Napoleon, and Paris
 * Natalie Zemon Davis (born 1928) – early modern France
 * Georges Duby (1924–1996) – medieval France
 * Lucien Febvre (1878–1956) – French historian
 * Alistair Horne (1925–2017) – modern French military history
 * Julian Jackson (born 1954) – 20th century France
 * Douglas Johnson (1925–2005) – historian of modern France
 * Simon Kitson (born c. 1967) – historian of Vichy France
 * Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929–2023) – history of the French peasantry
 * Michael Marrus (born 1941) – Vichy France
 * John M. Merriman (born 1946) - French Historian
 * Jules Michelet (1798–1874) – French historian
 * Roland Mousnier (1907–1993) – early modern France
 * Robert Roswell Palmer (1909–2002) – French revolution
 * Robert Paxton (born 1932) – Vichy France
 * Pierre Renouvin (1893–1974) – French diplomatic history
 * Andrew Roberts (born 1963) – Napoleon
 * John C. Rule (1929–2013) – 17th and 18th century France
 * Zeev Sternhell (1935–2020) – French fascism
 * Eugen Weber (1925–2007) – modern French history
 * John B. Wolf (1907–1996) – French history
 * Isser Woloch (born 1937) – 18th century France
 * Gordon Wright (1912–2000)
 * Robert J. Young (born 1942) – the Third Republic
 * See also List of historians of the French Revolution.

History of Germany

 * Celia Applegate – music history and nationalism
 * David Blackbourn (born 1949)
 * Gisela Bock (born 1942)
 * Horst Boog (1928–2016) – military history
 * Karl Dietrich Bracher (1922–2016)
 * Martin Broszat (1926–1989)
 * Alan Bullock (1914–2004)
 * Robert Citino (born 1958) – military history
 * Gordon A. Craig (1913–2005)
 * Richard J. Evans (born 1947)
 * Joachim Fest (1926–2006)
 * Fritz Fischer (1908–1999)
 * Luise Gerbing (1855–1927), history of Thuringia
 * Deborah Hertz (born 1949)
 * Klaus Hildebrand (born 1941)
 * Andreas Hillgruber (1925–1989)
 * Jonathan House (born 1950)
 * Christian Hartmann (born 1959) – military history
 * Gerhard Hirschfeld (born 1946) – 20th century German social, World War I & II
 * Eberhard Jäckel (1929–2017)
 * Ian Kershaw (born 1943)
 * Klemens von Klemperer (1916–2012)
 * Ernst Klink (1923–1993) – military history
 * Claudia Koonz (born 1940)
 * Dieter Langewiesche (born 1943)
 * Timothy Mason (1940–1990)
 * Frank McDonough (born 1957)
 * Wendy Lower (born 1965) – history of National Socialism
 * Geoffrey P. Megargee (born 1959) – military history
 * Friedrich Meinecke (1862–1954)
 * Hans Mommsen (1930–2015)
 * Wolfgang Mommsen (1930–2004)
 * George Mosse (1918–1999)
 * Ernst Nolte (1923–2016)
 * Steven Ozment (1939–2019)
 * Detlev Peukert (1950–1990)
 * Koppel Pinson (1904–1961)
 * Gerhard Ritter (1888–1967)
 * Hans Rothfels (1891–1976)
 * David Schoenbaum (born 1935)
 * Jean Edward Smith (1932–2019)
 * Ronald Smelser (born 1942)
 * Louis Leo Snyder (1907–1993)
 * Fritz Stern (1926–2016)
 * David Stahel (born 1975)
 * Michael Stürmer (born 1938)
 * Heinrich von Treitschke (1834–1896)
 * A.J.P. Taylor (1906–1990)
 * Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914–2003) – British historian and peer who specialized on Nazi leadership and incorrectly verified the authenticity of The Hitler Diaries
 * Henry Ashby Turner (1932–2008)
 * Gerd R. Ueberschär (born 1943) – military history
 * Bernd Wegner (born 1949) – military history and history of National Socialism
 * Hans-Ulrich Wehler (1931–2014)
 * Wolfram Wette (born 1940) – military history and history of National Socialism
 * John Wheeler-Bennett (1902–1975)
 * Jay Winter (born 1945)
 * Michael Wolffsohn (born 1947)
 * Gordon Wright (1912–2000) – Germany – 19th and 20th centuries
 * David T. Zabecki (born 1947) – military history
 * Alfred-Maurice de Zayas (born 1947)
 * Rainer Zitelmann (born 1957)

History of the Habsburg monarchy

 * John Komlos (born 1944) – economic

History of Ireland

 * Mary Bonaventure Browne (after 1610–after 1670), Poor Clare and historian
 * Ann Buckley
 * Francis John Byrne (1934–2017)
 * John Clyn (fl. 1333–1349)
 * James Donnelly (born 1943) – Irish social history
 * Brian Farrell (1929–2014)
 * Roy Foster (born 1949)
 * Kathleen Hughes (1926–1977)
 * Geoffrey Keating
 * J.J. Lee (born 1942) – 20th century Ireland
 * James Francis Lydon (1928–2013)
 * F.S.L. Lyons (1923–1983) – modern Ireland
 * Oliver MacDonagh (1924–2002) – modern Ireland
 * Dermot MacDermot (1906–1989)
 * Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh (fl. 1643–1671)
 * Gilla Isa Mor mac Donnchadh MacFhirbhisigh (fl. 1390–1418)
 * Muirchu moccu Machtheni (fl. late 7th century)
 * Flann Mainistrech (died 1056)
 * F.X. Martin (1922–2000)
 * Kenneth Nicholls
 * Adhamh Ó Cianáin (died 1373)
 * Mícheál Ó Cléirigh (c. 1590–1643)
 * Dáibhí Ó Cróinín (born 1954)
 * Eugene O'Curry (1794–1862)
 * John O'Donovan (1806–1861)
 * Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin (died 1372)
 * Pilip Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin (fl. 1579–1590)
 * Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh (1629–1718)
 * Nollaig Ó Muraíle
 * Tírechán (fl. late 7th century)
 * Father Paul Walsh (1885–1941)
 * Sir James Ware (1594–1666)

History of Italy

 * Lorenzo Arnone Sipari (born 1973) – social and environmental Italian history
 * R.J.B. Bosworth (born 1943) – Fascism, Mussolini
 * Benedetto Croce (1866–1952) – philosophy of history, modern Italian history
 * Vincent Cronin (1924–2011) – Renaissance art and Sicily
 * Renzo De Felice (1929–1996) – Fascism, biographer of Mussolini
 * John Foot (born 1964) – modern Italy history, The City
 * Emilio Gentile (born 1946) – Fascism
 * Carlo Ginzburg (born 1939) – witchcraft and agrarian cults, microhistory
 * Alessandra Kersevan (born 1950) – Italian concentration camps
 * Claudio Pavone (1920–2016) – Italian fascism, World War II, anti-fascism
 * Effie Pedaliu – Italian war crimes
 * John Pollard (born 1944) – The church and Fascism
 * Paul Ginsborg (born 1945) – The Risorgimento, Italian modern and contemporary history
 * Lucy Riall (born 1962) – The Risorgimento, Garibaldi, Sicily
 * Gaetano Salvemini (1873–1957) – Fascism, French Revolution
 * Denis Mack Smith (1920–2017) – Italian modern history
 * Arrigo Petacco (1929–2018) – Fascism

History of Moldova/Bessarabia

 * Nicolae Iorga (1871–1940)
 * Ion Nistor (1876–1962)
 * Petre Cazacu (1873–1956)
 * Charles King (born 1967)
 * Igor Casu (born 1973)
 * Gh. Cojocaru (born 1963)

History of the Netherlands

 * Jaap R. Bruijn (born 1938)
 * Femme Gaastra (born 1945)
 * Pieter Geyl (1887–1966)
 * John Lothrop Motley (1814–1877)
 * Jonathan Israel (born 1946)
 * G. J. Renier (1892–1962)
 * Herbert H. Rowen (1916–1999)
 * Simon Schama (born 1945)

History of Poland

 * Norman Davies (born 1939) – modern Polish history
 * Robert I. Frost (born 1958) — modern Polish history
 * Pawel Jasienica (1909–1970) – Polish amateur historian
 * Wickham Steed (1871–1956)

History of Portugal

 * José Hermano Saraiva (1919–2012)
 * A. H. de Oliveira Marques (1933–2007) – early modern period
 * José Mattoso (born 1933) – medieval history
 * Fernando Rosas (born 1946) – contemporary history

History of Romania

 * Lucian Boia (born 1944)
 * Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu (1838–1907)
 * Nicolae Iorga (1871–1940)
 * Mihail Kogalniceanu (1817–1891)
 * Irina Livezeanu (born 1952)
 * David Mitrany (1888–1975)
 * Vladimir Tismaneanu (born 1951)
 * Alexandru D. Xenopol (1847–1920)
 * Alexandru Zub (born 1934)

History of Russia

 * Nicholas Bethell (1938–2007)
 * Robert Conquest (1917–2015) – Soviet Union
 * Vincent Cronin (1924–2011) – Catherine the Great
 * Orlando Figes (born 1959)
 * Patricia Kennedy Grimsted (born 1935) – post-Soviet archives
 * Geoffrey Hosking (born 1942)
 * Lindsey Hughes (1949–2007) - C17th and C18th
 * Leopold Labedz (1920–1993)
 * Roy Medvedev (born 1925)
 * Robin Milner-Gulland (born 1936) - cultural history
 * Richard Pipes (1923–2018) – Soviet Union
 * William Taubman (born 1941) – Nikita Khrushchev
 * Peter Kenez (born 1937) – Soviet Union and Soviet cinema
 * Robert Service (born 1947)
 * Adam Ulam (1922–2000)
 * Anne Applebaum (born 1964) – Gulag history
 * Sheila Fitzpatrick (born 1941) – everyday life under Stalinism
 * Nicolas Werth (born 1950) – political repressions
 * Nikita Petrov (born 1957) – political repressions
 * Viktor Danilov (1927–2016) – history of collectivization
 * Oleg Khlevniuk (born 1959) – Stalin and Politburo
 * Moshe Lewin (1921–2010) – collectivization
 * David Shearer (born 1957) – Stalinist repressions

History of Serbia

 * Vladimir Ćorović (1885–1941)
 * Sima Ćirković (1929–2009)
 * Rade Mihaljčić (1937–2020)
 * Stojan Novaković (1842–1915)
 * Stanoje Stanojević (1874–1937)
 * Jovan I. Deretić (1939–2021)

History of Scotland

 * G. W. S. Barrow (1924–2013)
 * Steve Boardman
 * Hector Boece (1465–1536)
 * George Buchanan (1506–1582)
 * Gilbert Burnet (1643–1715)
 * Tom Devine
 * John of Fordun
 * Christopher Harvie (born 1944)
 * Colin Kidd (born 1964)
 * Michael Lynch (born 1946)
 * Norman Macdougall
 * Rosalind Mitchison (1919–2002)
 * Richard Oram
 * T.C. Smout (born 1933) - Scottish social history
 * Nigel Tranter (1909–2000)
 * Christopher Whatley
 * Jenny Wormald (1942–2015)

Historiographer Royal of Scotland

 * James Fall, 1682
 * William Robertson (1721–1793), 1763–1793
 * John Gillies (1747–1836), 1793–1836
 * George Brodie (1786–1967), 1836–1867
 * John Hill Burton (1809–1881), 1867–1881
 * William Forbes Skene (1809–1892), 1881–1893
 * David Masson (1822–1907), 1893–1908
 * Peter Hume Brown (1849–1918), 1908–1919
 * Robert Rait (1874–1936), 1919–1930
 * Robert Kerr Hannay(1867–1940), FRSE, 1930–1940
 * J. D. Mackie (1887–1978), OBE, 1958–1978
 * Gordon Donaldson (1913–1993), CBE, 1979–1993
 * Christopher Smout (born 1933), CBE, since 1993

History of Slovakia

 * Vojtech Čelko (born 1946) – political and cultural history of Central Europe in the 20th century; history of Czechoslovak exile after 1948
 * Ladislav Deák (1931–2011) – foreign policy of Central European states and Yugoslavia in the interwar period; history of Hungarian-Slovak foreign relationships
 * Gabriela Dudeková (born 1968) – social policy of Austria-Hungary; situation of POWs and civilians in World War I; history of feminism and gender studies
 * Ivan Kamenec (born 1938) – Holocaust in Slovakia; diplomacy in Central Europe in the interwar period and during World War II
 * Adam František Kollár (1718–1783) – influential jurist, historian and ethnologist, who coined the term ethnology
 * Peter Kopecký – history of diplomacy and foreign policy of Slovakia
 * Juraj Marusiak (born 1970) – history of Slovak-Polish relationships; modern history of Central and Eastern Europe
 * Thomas Spira (1923–2005) – study of nationalism and ethnicity (born and raised in Slovakia)
 * Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795–1861) – philologist, poet, Slavist, literary historian and ethnographer
 * Štefan Šutaj (born 1954) – history of Hungarian minority in Czechoslovakia; Slovak civic (non-communist) political parties after 1945
 * Zora Mintalová – Zubercová (born 1950) – food history and material culture of Central Europe

History of Slovenia

 * Bogo Grafenauer (1916–1995)
 * Alessandra Kersevan (born 1950) – Italian concentration camps
 * Vasilij Melik (1921–2009) – Slovene Lands in the 19th century.
 * Jože Pirjevec (born 1940) – Foibe massacres
 * Milica Kacin Wohinz (born 1930) – Italianization of Slovenes between 1918 and 1943
 * Marta Verginella (born 1960) – history of the Slovene minority in Italy (1920–1947)

History of Spain

 * Ida Altman (born 1950) – Early modern Spain, colonial Latin America
 * Roger Collins (born 1949) – medieval history, Spain, Visigothic Spain, history of Muslim Spain
 * Rafael Núñez Florencio (born 1956)
 * Julian Ribera y Tarragó (1858–1934) – Spain, history of the Book, medieval history, history of Muslim Spain
 * Julia Pavón (born 1968) – medieval history of Navarra
 * Joseph Pérez (1931–2020) - history of the Spanish Empire.

History of Sweden

 * Peter Englund (born 1957)
 * Anders Fryxell (1795–1881)
 * Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783–1847)
 * Jan Glete (1947–2009)
 * Carl Grimberg (1875–1941)
 * Dick Harrison (born 1966)
 * Ragnhild Hatton (1913–1995) – biographer of King Charles XII
 * Sten Lindroth (1914–1980)
 * Erik Lönnroth (1910–2002)
 * Olaus Magnus (1490–1557)
 * Samuel von Pufendorf (1632–1694)
 * Erik Ringmar (born 1960)
 * Michael Roberts (1908–1996)
 * John Robinson (1650–1723)
 * Curt Weibull (1886–1991)
 * Lauritz Weibull (1873–1960)

History of Yugoslavia

 * Ivo Banac (1947–2020)
 * Misha Glenny (born 1958)
 * Barbara Jelavich (1923–1995) – 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 (born 1933)
 * Catherine Samary – author of Yugoslavia Dismembered
 * Stephen Schwartz (born 1948)
 * Jozo Tomasevich (1908–1994)

History of The Republic of Turkey and Turkish Empires

 * Halil İnalcık (1916–2016), İstanbul, Türkiye), history of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey
 * İlber Ortaylı (born 1947, Bregen, Österreich), history of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey
 * Heath W. Lowry (born 1942, America), history of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey
 * Mehmet Fuat Köprülü (1890–1966, İstanbul, Türkiye), Turcologist and historian, history of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey
 * Yusuf Halaçoğlu (born 1949, Adana, Türkiye), history of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey
 * Reşat Ekrem Koçu (1905–1975, İstanbul, Türkiye), writer and historian, history of the Ottoman Empire
 * Ahmed Cevad Pasha (Kabaağaçlızade Ahmet Cevat Paşa) (1851–1900, İstanbul, Türkiye), Ottoman statesman (Grand Vizier), history of the Ottoman Empire
 * Aşıkpaşazade (Âşıkpasazâde Derviş Ahmet Âşıkî) (yak. 1400, Amasya–yak. 1484), Ottoman Empire/ Türkiye) history of the Ottoman Empire
 * Ibn Kemal (Kemal Paşazade (ibn-i Kemâl)) (1468–1534, The Ottoman Empire/Türkiye), Ottoman statesman, history of the Ottoman Empire
 * Koçi Bey (Mustafa Koçi Bey) (?–1650, The Ottoman Empire/Türkiye), Ottoman statesman, history of the Ottoman Empire
 * Katip Çelebi (Haci Halife Kalfa) (1609–1657, İstanbul, The Ottoman Empire/Türkiye), history of the Ottoman Empire

Middle East

 * George Antonius (1891–1941) – historian of Arab nationalism
 * Vincent Cronin (1924–2011) – study of the Faiqani tribe of South Persia
 * Neilson Debevoise (1903–1992) – history of the Parthian Empire
 * Caroline Finkel
 * Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb (1895–1971) – Editor, The Encyclopaedia of Islam
 * Bernard Lewis (1916–2018) – history of Islam and the Middle East
 * S.D. Goitein (1900–1985) - history of the Mediterranean; social history of the Medieval Islamic world
 * Albert Hourani (1915–1993)
 * ‘Ala’ al-Din ‘Ata Malik Juvayni (1226–1283) – Ta’rīkh-I-Jahān Gushā (A History of the World-Conqueror Chingis Khān)
 * Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406)
 * Walid Khalidi (born 1925) – Palestinian historian
 * D. S. Margoliouth (1858–1940)
 * Michael Oren (born 1955)
 * Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (circa 1247–1318) – Jāmi‛ al-Tawārīkh (Compendium of Chronicles), Ta’rīkh–i-Ghāzānī (a history of the Mongols and Turks)
 * Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg (1944–2000) – Achaemenid history
 * Ibn al-Tiqtaqa (born c. 1262) – Shi'i historian, wrote Al-Fakhīr

Central Asia

 * Denis Sinor (1916–2011), Hungarian-American historian of Central Asia
 * Edward A. Allworth (1920–2016), American historian specializing in Central Asia
 * Étienne de la Vaissière (born 1969), French specialist of Sogdian culture and early medieval Central Asia
 * Geoffrey Wheeler (1897–1990), British soldier and historian of Central Asia
 * Lola Dodkhudoeva (born 1951), Tajikistani historian specialising in medieval Central Asian affairs
 * Svetlana Gorshenina (born 1969), Uzbek specialist on Pre-Islamic Central Asia

History of the Indian Subcontinent

 * Muzaffar Alam (born 1947)
 * A. L. Basham (1914–1986)
 * Chris Bayly (1945–2015)
 * Dipesh Chakrabarty (born 1948)
 * Bernard Cohn (1928–2003)
 * Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1870–1958)
 * R. C. Majumdar (1884–1980)
 * Niharranjan Ray (1903–1981)
 * Datto Vaman Potdar (1890–1979)
 * Tryambak Shankar Shejwalkar (1895–1963)
 * Ram Sharan Sharma (1919–2011)
 * Nicholas Dirks
 * Ranajit Guha (1923–2023)
 * Ayesha Jalal (born 1956)
 * John Keay (born 1941)
 * Sumit Sarkar (born 1939)
 * Romila Thapar (born 1931)
 * Irfan Habib (born 1931 )
 * Thomas Metcalf (born 1934)
 * Barbara Metcalf (born 1941)
 * Percival Spear (1901–1982)
 * Bipan Chandra (1928–2014)
 * Gyan Prakash (born 1952)
 * Tanika Sarkar
 * Barbara Ramusack (born 1937)
 * Thomas Trautmann (born 1940)
 * K. K. Aziz (1927–2009)
 * Mubarak Ali (born 1941)
 * Mohammad Ishaq Khan (1946–2013)
 * NS Rajaram (1943–2019)
 * Sukumar Sen (linguist)
 * Suniti Kumar Chatterji

History of India

 * Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman (born 1940) – Unani historian

History of Pakistan

 * K. K. Aziz (1927–2009)
 * Imran Khan (born 1952)

History of Japan

 * William George Aston (1841–1911)
 * Gail Lee Bernstein (born 1939)
 * Harold Bolitho (1939–2010)
 * Hugh Borton (1903–1995)
 * Albert M. Craig (born 1927)
 * Sheldon Garon (born 1951)
 * Carol Gluck (born 1941)
 * Andrew Gordon (born 1952)
 * William Elliot Griffis (1843–1928)
 * John Whitney Hall (1916–1997)
 * Susan Hanley (born 1939)
 * Marius Jansen (1922–2000)
 * Donald Keene (1922–2019)
 * Joyce Lebra (1925–2021)
 * Jeffrey Mass (1940–2001)
 * Richard Ponsonby-Fane (1878–1937)
 * Tetsuo Najita (1936–2021)
 * Ian Nish (1926–2022)
 * Edwin O. Reischauer (1910–1990)
 * Donald Richie (1924–2013)
 * George Bailey Sansom (1883–1965)
 * Ernest Mason Satow (1843–1929)
 * Amy Stanley (born 1978)
 * Conrad Totman (born 1934)
 * Stephen Turnbull (born 1948)
 * Barak Kushner (born 1968)

History of Korea

 * Bruce Cumings (born 1943) – modern Korea
 * Carter J. Eckert
 * James Palais (1934–2006)
 * Il-yeon (1206–1289)
 * Kim Bu-sik (1075–1151) – early annalist
 * Kim Dae-mun
 * Lee Ki-baek (1924–2004)
 * James Hoare (born 1943)
 * Shin Chaeho (1880–1936) – ancient Korean history
 * Andre Schmid (born 1963)
 * Yu Deuk-gong (1749–1807) – Balhae
 * Odd Arne Westad (born 1960) – professor at the London School of Economics

History of China

 * Robert Bickers (born 1964) - modern China
 * Immanuel C.Y. Hsu (1923–2005) - modern China
 * John Herman (1889–1950)
 * Ann Paludan (1928–2014) – ancient China
 * Sima Qian – compiled Records of the Grand Historian
 * Chen Shou (233–297) – author of the Records of Three Kingdoms.
 * Jonathan Spence (born 1936)
 * Denis Twitchett (1925–2006) – Cambridge scholar, and editor of The Cambridge History of China
 * Hans van de Ven (born 1958)
 * Frederic Wakeman, Jr. (1937–2006)
 * Odd Arne Westad (born 1960) – professor at the London School of Economics and author of many books on China

History of Hong Kong

 * Steve Tsang (born 1959)

Africa

 * David Cohen (born 1943)
 * A. G. Hopkins (born 1938) – European colonialism and globalisation
 * William Miller Macmillan (1885–1974)
 * Jocelyne Dakhlia (born 1959) – political and cultural history of Islam in the Maghreb
 * Jan Vansina (1929–2017)

History of the Serers

 * Alioune Sarr (1908–2001), Senegalese specialist on Serer medieval history
 * Henry Gravrand (1921–2003), French specialist on Serer ancient history, Serer medieval history and Serer religion
 * Issa Laye Thiaw (1943–2017), Senegalese specialist on Serer general history and Serer religion
 * Alhaji Alieu Ebrima Cham Joof (1924–2011), Gambian specialist on Serer general history and history of Senegambia (Senegal and Gambia)
 * Marguerite Dupire (1920–2015), French scholar of Serer religion and history
 * Louis Diène Faye (born 1936), Senegalese scholar of Serer religion and history

History of Australia

 * Manning Clark (1915–1991)
 * Keith Windschuttle (born 1942)
 * Geoffrey Blainey (born 1930)
 * Stuart Macintyre (1947–2021)
 * Henry Reynolds (born 1938)
 * Frank Welsh (born 1931)
 * Andrew Moore

History of Fiji

 * Brij Lal

History of New Zealand

 * James Belich (born 1956)
 * Michael King (1945–2004)
 * W. H. Oliver (1925–2015)
 * William Pember Reeves (1857–1932)
 * J. G. A. Pocock (1924–2023)
 * Keith Sinclair (1922–1993)

History of Tonga

 * Sione Lātūkefu

History of Papua New Guinea

 * John Waiko (born 1945)

Abolitionist

 * George Washington Williams (1849–1891) – Early African-American historian

Counterfactual

 * Niall Ferguson (born 1964) – Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals (1997)

Marxist

 * Eric Foner (born 1943) – Marxist historian of the American Civil War and Reconstruction
 * Eugene D. Genovese (1930–2012) – Marxist historian of southern US history and slavery
 * Ranajit Guha (1923-2023) – Indian Marxist historian
 * Christopher Hill (1912–2003) – 17th century England
 * Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012) – Marxist historian of the modern world
 * Gerald Horne (born 1949) – African American Marxist historian
 * Timothy Wright Mason (1940–1990) – Marxist historian who worked on the history of National Socialism and the German working-class
 * Maxime Rodinson (1915–2004) – French Marxist historian on the history of Islam
 * Sumit Sarkar (born 1939) – Indian Marxist historian
 * Edward Palmer Thompson (1924–1993) – British Marxist historian, author of The Making of the English Working Class
 * Walter Rodney (1942–1980) – Marxist historian of Africa

Nazi

 * Walter Frank (1905–1945) – Nazi historian and anti-Semitic writer
 * David Hoggan (1923–1988)

Anarchist

 * Paul Avrich (1931–2006) – USA, oral history of the U.S. and Russia
 * Murray Bookchin (1921–2006) – USA, writer; founder of "social ecology"
 * Sam Dolgoff (1902–1990) – USA, writer, activist, co-founder of Anarcho-Syndicalist Review
 * Sébastien Faure (1858–1942) – France, Encyclopedie Anarchiste, 4 volumes (1932–1934)
 * David Goodway (born 1942) – UK, writer, editor
 * Daniel Guérin (1904–1988) – France, writer, editor Libertarian Communist
 * Robert Graham (born 1958) – USA, writer, editor
 * Andrej Grubacic – Bulgarian history and anarchism, lecturer at University of San Francisco
 * Peter Marshall (born 1946) – England, historian, philosopher, writer (of Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism, 1992)
 * Chuck W. Morse (born 1969) – USA, writer, founder of Institute for Anarchist Studies(IAS)
 * Max Nettlau (1865–1944) – Austria, writer of Geschichte der Anarchie, seven volumes
 * Abel Paz (1921–2009) – Spain, Civil war, Durruti, CNT/FAI
 * José Peirats (1908–1989) – Spain, historian of the CNT/FAI
 * Alexandre Skirda (1942–2020)
 * Antonio Tellez (1921–2005)
 * Dana Ward – founder of "Anarchist Archives", Online Research on the History and Theory of Anarchism, (USA)
 * George Woodcock (1912–1995)
 * Howard Zinn (1922–2010)

Pacifist

 * Ludwig Quidde (1858–1941) – Prescient German pacifist and student of history who combined his specialties in his condemnation of Kaiser Wilhelm II

Architectural history

 * Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (c. 80/70 BC?–c. 25 BC) – Roman architect and engineer, author of De architectura
 * Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) – Italian polymath, active in many fields, author of De Re Aedificatoria among others
 * Josef Strzygowski (1862–1941)
 * Joseph Rykwert (born 1926)
 * Manfredo Tafuri (1935–1994)
 * David Watkin (historian) (1941–2018)
 * Alberto Pérez-Gómez (born 1949)
 * Doğan Kuban (1926–2021) – architect, history of architecture and art history

Art history

 * Nurhan Atasoy (born 1934, Tokat, Türkiye) – Turkish and Islamic Art History
 * Vincent Cronin (1924–2011) – French and Italian art and architectural history
 * Oleg Grabar (1929–2011) – Islamic Art History
 * Catherine Mason – British computer and digital art history
 * Nicholas Pevsner (1903–1983) – History of art and English architecture
 * Alena Potůčková (1953–2018) – Czech art history
 * Simon Schama (born 1945) – Art history
 * Ichimatsu Tanaka (1895–1983) – Japanese art history
 * Renáta Tyršová (1854–1937) – Czech ethnography and art history
 * Yukio Yashiro (1890–1975) – Japanese art history; Botticelli and the Florentine Renaissance

Christianity

 * Eusebius of Caesarea (c. 275–339) – "Father of Church history"
 * Alexander Campbell Cheyne (1924–2006) – Scottish ecclesiastical historian
 * John Gilmary Shea (1824–1892) – father of American Catholic History
 * Bengt Hägglund (1920–2015) – historian of Christian theology
 * Barbara Thiering (1930–2015) – rediscovered the "Pesher technique"

Classical Antiquity

 * Werner Eck (born 1939)
 * Robert Malcolm Errington (born 1939)
 * Erich S. Gruen (born 1935)
 * Ronald Syme (1903–1989)
 * Robert Garland (born 1947)

Economic history

 * Robert C. Allen (born 1947)
 * Leah Boustan
 * Eli Heckscher (1879–1952)
 * Barry Eichengreen (born 1952)
 * Niall Ferguson (born 1964)
 * Robert Fogel (1926–2013)
 * Alexander Gerschenkron (1904–1978)
 * Claudia Goldin (born 1946)
 * Susan Howson (born 1945)
 * Harold James (born 1956)
 * John Komlos (born 1944)
 * Naomi Lamoreaux (born 1950)
 * David S. Landes (1924–2013)
 * Joel Mokyr (born 1946)
 * Thomas Piketty (born 1971)
 * W. W. Rostow (1916–2003)
 * Tirthankar Roy (born 1960)
 * Ram Sharan Sharma (1919–2011) – economic history of ancient India
 * Robert Skidelsky (born 1939)
 * R. H. Tawney (1880–1962)

Egyptology

 * Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert (born 1954)
 * Ludwig David Morenz (born 1965)
 * Richard B. Parkinson (born 1963)
 * William Kelly Simpson (1928–2017)
 * John W. Tait (born 1945)
 * Edward F. Wente (born 1930)
 * Penelope Wilson

Environmental history

 * Christopher Smout (born 1933)
 * William Cronon (born 1954) – Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison

Espionage

 * Christopher Andrew (born 1941)
 * John Barron (1930–2005)
 * John Earl Haynes (born 1944)
 * David Kahn (1930–2024)
 * Victor Suvorov (born 1947)
 * Nigel West (born 1951)

Food history

 * Sidney Mintz (1922–2015)
 * Massimo Montanari (born 1949)
 * Zora Mintalová – Zubercová (born 1950)

Gender history

 * John Boswell (1947–1994, American) – homosexuality in medieval times
 * Francisca de Haan (fl. 1998-) – Central, Eastern and South Eastern European Women's and Gender History
 * Nahema Hanafi (born 1983) - gender studies
 * George Mosse (1918–1999)
 * Marysa Navarro (born 1934) - feminism
 * Retha Warnicke (born 1939) – gender issues

Historiography

 * Ram Sharan Sharma (1919–2011)
 * Alphonse Balleydier (1810–1859)
 * Marc Bloch (1886–1944)
 * Fernand Braudel (1902–1985)
 * Herbert Butterfield (1900–1979)
 * E. H. Carr (1892–1982)
 * R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943)
 * Geoffrey Elton (1921–1994)
 * Richard J. Evans (born 1947)
 * Pieter Geyl (1887–1966)
 * J. H. Hexter (1910–1996)
 * Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929–2023)
 * Peter Novick (1934–2012)
 * Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886)
 * Hayden White (1928–2018)
 * Frank Ankersmit (born 1945)

Academic protagonists in Australia's "history wars"

 * Geoffrey Blainey (born 1930)
 * Stuart Macintyre (1947–2021)
 * Robert Manne (born 1947)
 * Henry Reynolds (born 1938)
 * Lyndall Ryan (1943–2024)
 * Keith Windschuttle (born 1942)

History of business

 * Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1918–2007)
 * Jan Glete (1947–2009) – Swedish business history
 * Allan Nevins (1890–1971)

History of ideas, culture, literature, and philosophy

 * Ram Sharan Sharma (1919–2011) – material culture in Ancient India
 * Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) – history of ideas
 * J.C.D. Clark (born 1951) – British historian of 18th century ideas
 * Jovan Deretić (1934–2002), Serbian literary history
 * Michel Foucault (1926–1984) – history of ideas
 * Peter Gay (1923–2015) – history of ideas
 * A.O. Lovejoy (1873–1962) - history of ideas
 * Lewis Mumford (1895–1988) – history of technology
 * Hüseyin Nihâl Atsız (1905–1975, İstanbul, Türkiye) – Turkology, Turkish Literature
 * Pertev Naili Boratav (Mustafa Pertev) (1907–1998) – Turkish folklorist, Ottoman and Turkish culture
 * Sedat Alp (1913–2006) – Hittitolo, historian, ancient Anatolian languages

History of international relations

 * Harry Elmer Barnes (1889–1968)
 * Herbert Butterfield (1900–1979)
 * E.H. Carr (1892–1982)
 * Gordon A. Craig (1913–2005)
 * John Lewis Gaddis (born 1941) – historian of the Cold War
 * Ragnhild Hatton (1913–1995) – historian of 17th- and 18th-century international relations
 * Klaus Hildebrand (born 1941)
 * Andreas Hillgruber (1925–1989)
 * Paul Kennedy (born 1945) – British historian, author of influential The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
 * William L. Langer (1896–1977)
 * Arno J. Mayer (1926–2023)
 * Lewis Bernstein Namier (1888–1960)
 * Paul W. Schroeder (1927–2020) – U.S. historian, 19th-century European international relations
 * Jean Edward Smith (1932–2019)
 * A.J.P. Taylor (1906–1990) – historian of European international relations
 * Harold Temperley, (1879–1939) – British historian, Cambridge, 19th- and early 20th-century diplomatic history, British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914 (ed.)
 * Ernest Llewellyn Woodward, (1890–1971)

History of science and technology

 * Michael Adas (born 1943) – colonialism and imperialism, global history
 * Jim Bennett (1947–2023) – mathematics, scientific instruments and astronomy
 * Stephen G. Brush (born 1935)
 * Vincent Cronin (1924–2011)
 * Allen G. Debus (1926–2009) – chemistry and medicine
 * A. Hunter Dupree (1921–2019) – botany; U.S. government policy on science and technology
 * Peter Galison (born 1955) – physics, philosophy, objectivity
 * John L. Heilbron (1934–2023) – physics, quantification, astronomy, religion and science
 * Richard L. Hills (1936–2019) – technology, steam power
 * Thomas P. Hughes (1923–2014) – technology
 * Evelyn Fox Keller (1936–2023) – science and gender, biology
 * Melvin Kranzberg (1917–1995) – technology
 * Daniel J. Kevles (born 1939) – science and politics, physics, biology, eugenics
 * Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996) – physics, "paradigm shifts"
 * James Mosley (born 1935) – printing
 * David F. Noble (1945–2010) – science and technology-based industrial development
 * Abraham Pais (1918–2000) – physics
 * Giuliano Pancaldi (born 1946) – Italian science
 * Theodore M. Porter (born 1953)
 * A. I. Sabra (1924–2013) – optics, Islamic science
 * George Sarton (1884–1956)
 * Jack Simmons (1915–2000) – railway history
 * Nathan Sivin (born 1931) – history of science in China
 * Kim H. Veltman (1948–2020) – science and art
 * M. Norton Wise (born 1940)

History of the papacy

 * Ludwig von Pastor (1854–1928) – wrote 40 volume history of the popes making extensive use of the Vatican Secret Archives

Holocaust

 * Götz Aly (born 1947)
 * Jean Ancel (1940–2008)
 * Yitzhak Arad (1926–2021)
 * David Bankier (1947–2010)
 * Omer Bartov (born 1954)
 * Paul R. Bartrop (born 1955)
 * Yehuda Bauer (born 1926)
 * Georges Bensoussan (born 1952)
 * Wolfgang Benz (born 1941)
 * Michael Berenbaum (born 1945)
 * Ruth Bettina Birn (born 1952)
 * Donald Bloxham
 * Randolph L. Braham (1922–2018)
 * Richard Breitman (born 1947)
 * Martin Broszat (1926–1989)
 * Christopher Browning (born 1944)
 * Michael Burleigh (born 1955)
 * David Cesarani (1956–2015)
 * Catherine Chatterley
 * Richard I. Cohen (born 1946)
 * John S. Conway (1929–2017)
 * David M. Crowe
 * Danuta Czech (1922–2004)
 * Szymon Datner (1902–1989)
 * Lucy Dawidowicz (1915–1990)
 * Terrence Des Pres (1939–1987)
 * Deborah Dwork
 * Leo Eitinger (1912–1996)
 * David Engel (born 1951)
 * Barbara Engelking (born 1962)
 * Richard J. Evans (born 1947)
 * Andrew Ezergailis (born 1930)
 * Esther Farbstein (born 1946)
 * Norman Finkelstein (born 1953)
 * Jack Fischel (born 1937)
 * Michael Fleming
 * Joseph Friedenson (1922–2013)
 * Henry Friedlander (1930–2012)
 * Saul Friedländer (born 1932)
 * Tuvia Friling (born 1953)
 * Christian Gerlach (born 1963)
 * Martin Gilbert (1936–2015)
 * Daniel Goldhagen (born 1959)
 * Jan Grabowski (born 1962)
 * Gideon Greif (born 1951)
 * Jan T. Gross (born 1947)
 * Israel Gutman (1923–2013)
 * Peter Hayes
 * Susanne Heim (born 1955)
 * Raul Hilberg (1926–2007)
 * Klaus Hildebrand (born 1941)
 * Eberhard Jäckel (1929–2017)
 * Miroslav Kárný (1919–2001)
 * Steven T. Katz (born 1944)
 * Ian Kershaw (born 1943)
 * Ernst Klee (1942–2013)
 * David Kranzler (1930–2007)
 * Shmuel Krakowski (1926–2018)
 * Erich Kulka (1911–1995)
 * Otto Dov Kulka (1933–2021)
 * Konrad Kwiet (born 1941)
 * Lawrence Langer (born 1929)
 * Jacek Leociak (born 1957)
 * Dariusz Libionka (born 1963)
 * Deborah Lipstadt (born 1947)
 * Peter Longerich (born 1955)
 * Richard C. Lukas (born 1937)
 * Eugen Kogon (1903–1987)
 * Michael Marrus (born 1941)
 * Jürgen Matthäus (born 1959)
 * Hans Mommsen (1930–2015)
 * Kurt Pätzold (1930–2016)
 * Franciszek Piper (born 1941)
 * Detlev Peukert (1950–1990)
 * Léon Poliakov (1910–1997)
 * Antony Polonsky (born 1940)
 * Dina Porat (born 1943)
 * Laurence Rees (born 1957)
 * Alvin H. Rosenfeld (born 1938)
 * Mark Roseman (born 1958)
 * John K. Roth
 * Livia Rothkirchen (1922–2013)
 * R. J. Rummel (1932–2014)
 * Tom Segev (born 1945)
 * Timothy D. Snyder (born 1969)
 * Nicholas Stargardt (born 1962)
 * Sybille Steinbacher (born 1966)
 * Alan E. Steinweis (born 1957)
 * Dan Stone (born 1971)
 * Robert Jan van Pelt (born 1955)
 * Nikolaus Wachsmann (born 1971)
 * Kenneth Waltzer (born 1942)
 * Rebecca Wittmann (born 1970)
 * David Wyman (1929–2018)
 * Hanna Yablonka (born 1950)
 * Leni Yahil (1912–2007)

Lutheranism

 * Johann Lorenz von Mosheim (1694–1755) – Lutheran historian of Christianity from its inception through the 18th century

Maritime history

 * Robert G. Albion (1896–1983)
 * William A. Baker (1911–1981)
 * Jaap R. Bruijn (born 1938)
 * Howard I. Chapelle (1901–1975)
 * Grahame Farr (1912–1983)
 * Femme Gaastra (born 1945)
 * John Hattendorf (born 1941)
 * John de Courcy Ireland (1911–2006)
 * Benjamin Woods Labaree (1927–2021)
 * Samuel Eliot Morison (1887–1976)
 * J. H. Parry (1914–1982)
 * Glyndwr Williams (born 1932)

Media history
History of newspapers and magazines, History of radio, History of television, and History of the Internet
 * Asa Briggs (1921–2016)

Military history

 * C.T. Atkinson (1874–1964), historian of the British Army and Marlborough's Army
 * Correlli Barnett (born 1927) – British military historian
 * Antony Beevor (born 1946) – British military historian
 * Brian Bond (born 1936) – First World War
 * Caleb Carr (born 1955) – American military historian
 * Michael Carver (1915–2001) – British soldier and historian
 * Alan Clark (1928–1999) – British M.P. and historian
 * Martin van Creveld (born 1946) – Israeli military historian
 * Saul David (born 1966) – Military history
 * N.H. Gibbs (1910–1990) – Interwar period
 * Adrian Goldsworthy (born 1969) – British military historian
 * Jack Granatstein (born 1939) – Canadian military historian
 * Bruce Barrymore Halpenny (born 1937) – writer and military historian
 * Victor Davis Hanson (born 1953) – American classicist and military historian
 * Andreas Hillgruber (1925–1989) – German military historian
 * Richard Holmes (1946–2011) – British military history
 * Alistair Horne (1925–2017) – British historian of French military history
 * Michael Howard (1922–2019) – modern military history
 * John Keegan (1934–2012, English) – specialised in 20th-century wars
 * Anthony Kemp (1939–2018) – English historian of history of World War II
 * Frederic Kidder (1804–1885) - American historian of New England including military operations
 * B. H. Liddell Hart (1895–1970) – military history
 * Edward Luttwak (born 1942) – military strategy
 * Piers Mackesy (1924–2014) – 18th century
 * S. L. A. Marshall (1900–1977) – American military historian
 * Jürgen Möller (born 1959) – German military historian
 * Peter Paret (1924–2020) – military history
 * Gordon Prange (1910–1980)
 * Gerhard Ritter (1888–1967) – German military historian
 * Cornelius Ryan (1920–1974) – World War II
 * Digby Smith (born 1935) Napoleonic Wars
 * Jean Edward Smith (1932–2019) – U.S. and German military historian
 * Hew Strachan (born 1949) – British military historian
 * Gerhard Weinberg (born 1928) – U.S. military historian
 * Spenser Wilkinson (1853–1937)

Mormonism

 * Leonard J. Arrington (1917–1999) – LDS Church historian 1975–1982
 * B.H. Roberts (1857–1933)
 * Fawn M. Brodie (1915–1981)
 * Richard Bushman (born 1931)

Naval history

 * Robert G. Albion (1896–1983) – maritime history
 * Daniel A. Baugh (born 1931)
 * Ulane Bonnel (1918–2006)
 * Josiah Burchett (1666–1746)
 * Montagu Burrows (1819–1905)
 * Geoffrey Callender (1875–1946)
 * Howard I. Chapelle (1901–1975) – maritime history
 * William Bell Clark (1889–1968)
 * Julian Corbett (1854–1922)
 * William S. Dudley (born 1936)
 * Michael Duffy
 * Jan Glete (1947–2009)
 * James Goldrick (born 1958)
 * Andrew Gordon (born 1951) – Battle of Jutland
 * Barry M. Gough (born 1938)
 * Kenneth J. Hagan (born 1936)
 * Paul G. Halpern (born 1937)
 * John Hattendorf (born 1941)
 * John Daniel Hayes (1902–1991)
 * J. Richard Hill (1929–2017)
 * William James (1780–1827)
 * Paul Kennedy (born 1945)
 * R.J.B. Knight (born 1944)
 * Dudley W. Knox (1877–1960)
 * Andrew Lambert (born 1956)
 * Harold D. Langley (1925–2020)
 * John Knox Laughton (1830–1915)
 * Michael Lewis (1890–1970)
 * Christopher Lloyd (1906–1986)
 * Alfred Mahan (1840–1914)
 * Arthur Marder (1910–1980)
 * Tyrone G. Martin (born 1930) – historian of the USS Constitution and of the history of ironclads
 * William J. Morgan (1917–2003)
 * Samuel Eliot Morison (1887–1976) – wrote History of United States Naval Operations in World War II and numerous works about the maritime exploration of the Americas
 * Henry Newbolt (1862–1938) – wrote The Naval History of the Great War
 * Michael Oppenheim (1853–1927)
 * Charles O. Paullin (1869–1944)
 * Werner Rahn (born 1939)
 * Bryan Ranft (1917–2001)
 * Clark G. Reynolds (1939–2005)
 * Herbert Richmond (1871–1946)
 * N.A.M. Rodger (born 1949)
 * Stephen Roskill (1903–1982)
 * John Darrell Sherwood (born 1966)
 * D.M. Schurman (1924–2013)
 * William N. Still, Jr. (born 1932)
 * Craig Symonds (born 1946)
 * David Syrett (1939–2004)
 * Geoffrey Till (born 1945)
 * Johan Carel Marinus Warnsinck (1882–1943)
 * Colin White (1951–2008)

Presbyterianism

 * D.G. Hart (born 1956)

Social history

 * David Rothman (1937–2020) — Father of American social history and the role of institutions in shaping history and society.
 * Ram Sharan Sharma (1919–2011) – social history of ancient India
 * Lloyd deMause (born 1931) – psychohistory
 * Gabriela Dudeková (born 1968)
 * Ruth Goodman (born 1963) – early modern, British social history

World history

 * Felipe Fernández-Armesto (born 1950)
 * Christopher Bayly (1945–2015) – British Empire and India
 * Ferdinand Braudel (1902–1985) – social and economic history
 * Will Durant (1885–1981) – author of The Story of Civilization
 * Francis Fukuyama (born 1955) – "End of history" thesis
 * Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882–1944) – world history and geography for younger readers
 * William McNeill (1917–2016) – author of The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community
 * Jürgen Osterhammel (born 1952)
 * John Roberts (1928–2003) – author of [History of the World
 * Ram Sharan Sharma (1919–2011)) – author of Vishwa Itihaas ki Bhumika in Hindi.
 * Jackson J. Spielvogel (born 1939) – author of several major world history textbooks
 * Arnold J. Toynbee (1889–1975) – wrote landmark text A Study of History
 * Immanuel Wallerstein (1930–2019)

Biography

 * Peter Ackroyd (born 1949) – Dickens, Blake, Thomas More, Eliot, Newton
 * James Boswell (1740–1795) – Samuel Johnson
 * Alan Bullock (1914–2004) – historian best known for his influential biography of Hitler
 * Robert Caro (born 1935) – Lyndon Johnson
 * Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) – Friedrich der Grosse (the Great)
 * Vincent Cronin (1924–2011) – Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, and Napoleon
 * Leon Edel (1907–1997) – Henry James
 * Richard Ellmann (1918–1987) – James Joyce
 * Erik Erikson (1902–1994) – psychoanalytic biographies of Luther and Gandhi
 * Roy Foster (born 1949) – W.B. Yeats
 * Joseph Frank (1918–2013) – Fyodor Dostoevsky
 * Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) – Charlotte Brontë
 * Stephen Greenblatt (born 1943) – Shakespeare
 * Ragnhild Hatton (1913–1995) – King Charles XII of Sweden and King George I of Great Britain
 * Walter Isaacson (born 1952) – Einstein
 * Ian Kershaw (born 1943) – historian well known for his influential study of Hitler
 * Ralph G. Martin (1920–2013) – Hubert H. Humphrey, Harry S. Truman, Edward VIII, Golda Meir, and John F. Kennedy
 * Roi Medvedev (born 1925) – Stalin
 * Susan Quinn (born 1940) – Marie Curie
 * Ron Rosenbaum (born 1946) – author of Explaining Hitler
 * Norman Sherry (1925–2016) – Graham Greene
 * Jean Edward Smith (1932–2019) – Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, John Marshall, and Lucius D. Clay
 * Suetonius – lives of the Caesars
 * Lytton Strachey (1880–1932) – Eminent Victorians
 * A.N. Wilson (born 1950) – Tolstoy