swap_horiz Francis Parkman Alternatives

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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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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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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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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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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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Jules Michelet

Jules Michelet (1798-1874) was a French historian whose writings connected political history with the experiences of ord...

Romantic French Narrative 19TH Century

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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Henry Adams

Henry Adams (1838-1918) was an American historian, writer, and political thinker from a prominent Massachusetts family....

American 19TH Century Cultural Medieval

8.5 Great

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Barbara Tuchman

Barbara Tuchman was an American historian and author who wrote narrative histories of World War I, medieval Europe, and...

Military Narrative American 20TH Century

8.4 Great

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Mary Beth Norton

Mary Beth Norton is an American historian of early American history whose work focuses on women, gender, politics, and c...

American Contemporary Colonial Gender

8.4 Great

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Colin Calloway

Colin Calloway is a British-American historian of Native American and early American history and a professor at Dartmout...

American Contemporary Indigenous Native American

8.4 Great

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Daniel Richter

Daniel K. Richter is an American historian of early North America and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. His...

American Contemporary Native American Colonial

8.4 Great

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Thomas Babington Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macaulay was a British historian, essayist, poet, and Whig politician. His "History of England from the...

Narrative 19TH Century British Political

8.3 Great

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Stuart Schwartz

Stuart Schwartz is an American historian of colonial Latin America, with particular attention to Brazil, the Atlantic wo...

American Contemporary Colonial Latin American

8.3 Great

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Jill Lepore

Jill Lepore is an American historian at Harvard University and a staff writer for The New Yorker. Her research and essay...

Narrative American Contemporary Cultural

8.3 Great

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John Demos

John Demos is an American historian of early American and colonial history, known for using detailed individual cases to...

American Contemporary Social Colonial

8.3 Great

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David McCullough

David McCullough (1933-2022) was an American historian and author known for narrative biographies and works of United St...

Narrative American 20TH Century Biography

8.2 Great

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Samuel Eliot Morison

Samuel Eliot Morison was an American historian and Harvard professor whose books covered American maritime history, expl...

Narrative American 20TH Century Colonial

8.1 Great

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George Bancroft

George Bancroft (1800-1891) was an American historian, Democratic politician, diplomat, and statesman. His principal his...

Narrative American 19TH Century Political

7.2 Good