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James McPherson

James McPherson is a prominent American historian specializing in the 20th and 21st centuries. He’s particularly renowne...

Military American 20TH Century Civil War

9.2 Excellent

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Eric Foner

Eric Foner is a leading American historian specializing in the Reconstruction era and the history of slavery. His work s...

American 20TH Century Political Reconstruction

9.2 Excellent

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Robert Caro

Robert Caro is a prominent American historian specializing in twentieth-century political biographies. His meticulous re...

American 20TH Century Power Political

9.2 Excellent

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Ian Kershaw

Ian Kershaw is a prominent British historian specializing in Nazi Germany and twentieth-century warfare. His work focuse...

Contemporary British Biography Nazi Germany

9.2 Excellent

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David Brion Davis

David Brion Davis was an American historian of slavery and abolition and a longtime Yale professor. His three-volume stu...

American Intellectual 20TH Century Transatlantic

9.1 Excellent

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Stephen Kotkin

Stephen Kotkin is an American historian whose research concerns Russia, the Soviet Union, authoritarianism, and geopolit...

American Contemporary Biography Soviet

9.1 Excellent

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Christopher Browning

Christopher Browning is an American historian of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. His 1992 book Ordinary Men: Reserve Pol...

American Contemporary Holocaust Nazi Germany

9.1 Excellent

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Edmund Morgan

Edmund S. Morgan was an American historian of colonial and revolutionary America who taught at Yale University. His scho...

American 20TH Century Colonial Slavery

8.9 Great

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Ira Berlin

Ira Berlin was an American historian of slavery and African American history who taught at the University of Maryland. H...

African American American Social 20TH Century

8.9 Great

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William Cronon

William Cronon is an American environmental historian whose work connects ecological change with economic development, l...

Nature American Contemporary Environmental

8.9 Great

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Alan Taylor

Alan Taylor is an American historian of early American and Atlantic history who has written about colonization, slavery,...

American Contemporary Colonial Borderlands

8.9 Great

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Taylor Branch

Taylor Branch is an American historian and author whose work focuses on Martin Luther King Jr. and the United States civ...

Narrative American Contemporary Biography

8.7 Great

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Laurent Dubois

Laurent Dubois is an American historian whose work examines the Atlantic world, slavery, colonialism, and the history of...

American Contemporary Atlantic Slavery

8.5 Great

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Rebecca Scott

Rebecca J. Scott is an American legal and social historian whose research examines slavery, emancipation, and citizenshi...

American Contemporary Legal Slavery

8.4 Great

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Saidiya Hartman

Saidiya Hartman is an American scholar of literature and history whose work addresses slavery, its afterlives, African A...

African American American Contemporary Slavery

8.4 Great

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Stuart Schwartz

Stuart Schwartz is an American historian of colonial Latin America, with particular attention to Brazil, the Atlantic wo...

American Contemporary Colonial Latin American

8.3 Great

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David Garrow

David Garrow is an American historian and author whose work includes political biography, civil rights history, and the...

American Contemporary Legal Biography

8.3 Great

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Clayborne Carson

Clayborne Carson is an American historian associated with Stanford University and with the study of Martin Luther King J...

African American American Contemporary Biography

8.3 Great

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Edward Baptist

Edward Baptist is an American historian whose research examines slavery, cotton production, and the development of capit...

American Contemporary Cotton Slavery

7.9 Good

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Joseph Ellis

Joseph Ellis is an American historian known for studies of the United States founding era and early republic. His books...

American Contemporary Biography Founding Era

7.9 Good