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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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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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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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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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John Hope Franklin

John Hope Franklin was an American historian whose scholarship centered on African American history, the Civil War era,...

African American American Social 20TH Century

8.8 Great

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John Lewis Gaddis

John Lewis Gaddis is an American historian whose scholarship focuses on the Cold War, international relations, and strat...

Cold War American Contemporary Strategic

8.8 Great

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Annette Gordon-Reed

Annette Gordon-Reed is an American historian and legal scholar whose work examines Thomas Jefferson, slavery, and the He...

American Contemporary Jefferson Biography

8.8 Great

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Caroline Walker Bynum

Caroline Walker Bynum is an American historian of medieval Christianity whose work examines religious practice, bodily s...

American Contemporary Medieval Religious

8.7 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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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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Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder is an American historian whose research focuses on Central and Eastern Europe, nationalism, political vio...

American Contemporary Political Holocaust

8.6 Great

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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is an American historian whose work examines social history, gender, and everyday life in early A...

American Contemporary Social Colonial

8.6 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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Michael Klarman

Michael J. Klarman is an American legal historian and professor at Harvard Law School. His scholarship examines constitu...

American Contemporary Legal Constitutional

8.4 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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Peniel Joseph

Peniel E. Joseph is an American historian and public intellectual who studies African American history, civil rights, an...

African American American Contemporary Black Power

8.2 Great

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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