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Quentin Skinner

Quentin Skinner is a prominent British historian specializing in early modern political thought. His work focuses on the...

Intellectual 20TH Century British Early Modern

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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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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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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Richard J. Evans

Richard J. Evans is a prominent British historian specializing in twentieth-century Europe and Nazi Germany. His work si...

Contemporary Historiography British Nazi Germany

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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Odd Arne Westad

Odd Arne Westad is a Norwegian historian whose research focuses on the Cold War, international history, and the politica...

Cold War Contemporary Global Diplomatic

8.8 Great

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David Hackett Fischer

David Hackett Fischer is an American historian known for studying how migration, culture, institutions, and political id...

American Contemporary Cultural Colonial

8.7 Great

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Paul Kennedy

Paul Kennedy is a British historian whose work examines international relations, military strategy, and the long-term co...

Contemporary Strategic Diplomatic British American

8.6 Great

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J.R. McNeill

J.R. McNeill is an American environmental historian whose work studies the interaction between ecological change and hum...

American Contemporary Environmental Atlantic

8.5 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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Jack Rakove

Jack N. Rakove is an American historian of the American Revolution, the founding of the United States, and constitutiona...

American Contemporary Intellectual Constitutional

8.5 Great

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David Eltis

David Eltis is a historian of the Atlantic world whose research uses quantitative evidence to study the transatlantic sl...

Contemporary Quantitative Atlantic British American

8.4 Great

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Simon Schama

Simon Schama is a British historian and writer whose work combines political, cultural, and art history. His book "Citiz...

Narrative Contemporary Cultural Dutch

8.3 Great

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Alexander Woodside

Alexander Woodside is a historian whose scholarship examines Vietnam in relation to China and other East Asian societies...

Contemporary Canadian Intellectual East Asian

8.2 Great

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Carter Vaughn Findley

Carter Vaughn Findley is an American historian of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey. His research has focused on bure...

American Contemporary Intellectual Ottoman

8.2 Great

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David Bell

David A. Bell is an American historian of early modern Europe whose work focuses on France, the Enlightenment, nationali...

French American Contemporary Intellectual

8.2 Great

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Gerald Horne

Gerald Horne is an American historian and the Moores Professorship holder at the University of Houston. His research and...

African American American Contemporary Global

7.9 Good

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Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson is a Scottish-born historian and author whose work focuses on economic history, imperial history, finance...

Contemporary Empire Economic British American

7.7 Good