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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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Raul Hilberg

Raul Hilberg was a prominent American historian specializing in the Holocaust and Nazi Germany. His work, particularly *...

American 20TH Century Holocaust Administrative

9.2 Excellent

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Natalie Zemon Davis

Natalie Zemon Davis was a Canadian-American historian whose work focused on social and cultural life in early modern Eur...

American Social Cultural 20TH Century

9.1 Excellent

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Bernard Bailyn

Bernard Bailyn was an American historian of colonial and revolutionary America. His research examined the political idea...

American Intellectual 20TH Century Colonial

9.1 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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Tony Judt

Tony Judt was a British-American historian whose research and writing addressed modern European political and intellectu...

European 20TH Century Political British American

9.0 Excellent

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Richard Hofstadter

Richard Hofstadter was an American historian of political and intellectual life who taught at Columbia University. His b...

American Intellectual 20TH Century Political

8.9 Great

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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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Gordon Wood

Gordon S. Wood is an American historian of the Revolutionary era and the early United States. His scholarship explores r...

American 20TH Century Political Revolutionary

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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Marshall Hodgson

Marshall G. S. Hodgson was an American historian of Islam and world history at the University of Chicago. His three-volu...

American 20TH Century Islamic World History

8.9 Great

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Robert Darnton

Robert Darnton is an American cultural historian known for research on eighteenth-century France, the Enlightenment, and...

American Cultural 20TH Century French Revolution

8.8 Great

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Alfred Crosby

Alfred W. Crosby was an American historian whose work examined how biological and ecological processes shaped world hist...

American Environmental 20TH Century World History

8.8 Great

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John Keegan

John Keegan (1934-2012) was a British military historian whose books examined how warfare was experienced and conducted...

Military Narrative 20TH Century British

8.6 Great

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Michael Howard

Sir Michael Howard was a British military historian whose work examined war, strategy, and the development of modern Eur...

Military 20TH Century British Strategic

8.6 Great

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David McCullough

David McCullough (1933-2022) was an American historian and author known for narrative biographies and works of United St...

Narrative American 20TH Century Biography

8.2 Great

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Samuel Eliot Morison

Samuel Eliot Morison was an American historian and Harvard professor whose books covered American maritime history, expl...

Narrative American 20TH Century Colonial

8.1 Great

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Kevin Starr

Kevin Starr (1940-2017) was an American historian, writer, and California State Librarian. He is best known for American...

Narrative American California Cultural

8.1 Great