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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Leon Litwack

Leon Litwack was an American historian of slavery, emancipation, Reconstruction, and African American life in the United...

African American American Social 20TH Century

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Joan Wallach Scott

Joan Wallach Scott is an American historian whose work has linked gender history with social, political, and intellectua...

French American 20TH Century Theoretical

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Gerda Lerner

Gerda Lerner was an Austrian-born American historian who helped establish women's history as an academic field in the Un...

American 20TH Century Feminist Womens History

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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

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Nell Irvin Painter

Nell Irvin Painter is an American historian whose scholarship examines race, slavery, politics, gender, and society in t...

African American American Cultural 20TH Century

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Kenneth Stampp

Kenneth Stampp was an American historian of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction who taught at the University of C...

American 20TH Century Civil War Reconstruction

8.4 Great

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Lynn Hunt

Lynn Hunt is an American historian whose scholarship examines the French Revolution, political culture, gender, and the...

American Cultural 20TH Century French Revolution

8.4 Great

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Linda Gordon

Linda Gordon is an American historian whose scholarship examines gender, family, social welfare, reproductive politics,...

American Social 20TH Century Gender

8.4 Great

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Stephanie McCurry

Stephanie McCurry is an American historian of the nineteenth-century United States whose research focuses on the Civil W...

American Contemporary Civil War Gender

8.4 Great

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Eugene Genovese

Eugene Genovese was an American historian of slavery and the antebellum South. His Marxist-informed scholarship examined...

American 20TH Century Marxist Slavery

8.3 Great

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Nancy Cott

Nancy F. Cott is an American historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States history, with particular atten...

American 20TH Century Womens History Gender

8.3 Great

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Thavolia Glymph

Thavolia Glymph is an American historian and professor at Duke University whose research examines slavery, the Civil War...

African American American Contemporary Civil War

8.3 Great