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Alexis de Tocqueville

A French diplomat, historian and political thinker, Alexis de Tocqueville examined American democracy in the nineteenth...

French American 19TH Century Political

9.20 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

9.20 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

9.15 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

9.15 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

9.05 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

9.05 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

9.05 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

8.90 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

8.90 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

8.85 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

8.85 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

8.55 Great

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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

8.35 Great

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Emília Viotti da Costa

Emília Viotti da Costa was a Brazilian historian whose scholarship examined slavery, abolition, social hierarchy, and po...

20TH Century Political Brazilian Latin American

8.35 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

8.30 Great

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David Chandler

David P. Chandler is an American historian associated with Monash University and known for research on modern Cambodia....

American 20TH Century Political Cambodian

8.25 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

8.20 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

7.95 Good

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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

7.95 Good

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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

6.85 Fair