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Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville was a French diplomat and historian renowned for his insightful analysis of American democracy in...

French American 19TH Century Political

9.2 Excellent

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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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Benedict Anderson

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20TH Century Theoretical Southeast Asian Irish 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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James Scott

James C. Scott was an American political scientist and anthropologist whose work examined states, peasants, resistance,...

American Contemporary Resistance Southeast Asian

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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C. Vann Woodward

C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999) was an American historian who wrote extensively about the post-Civil War South, race, segre...

American 20TH Century Political Race

8.6 Great

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Vine Deloria Jr.

Vine Deloria Jr. (1933-2005) was a Standing Rock Sioux scholar, writer, and activist whose work addressed Native America...

American Indigenous 20TH Century Political

8.2 Great

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Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. was an American historian and public intellectual whose writing centered on U.S. political his...

American 20TH Century Political Liberal

8.0 Great

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Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Kearns Goodwin is an American historian, author, and presidential biographer. Her books examine the leadership and...

American 20TH Century Political Presidential

8.0 Great

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Stanford Shaw

Stanford Jay Shaw (1930-2006) was an American historian whose work focused on the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Ottoman Egypt,...

American 20TH Century Political Ottoman

6.9 Fair