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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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Leopold von Ranke

Leopold von Ranke was a prominent German 19th-century historian renowned for his rigorous approach to historical researc...

German 19TH Century Archival Political

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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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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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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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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Francesco Guicciardini

Francesco Guicciardini was an Italian historian, diplomat, and political thinker of the Renaissance. His major work, Sto...

Italian Narrative Renaissance Political

8.6 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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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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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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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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Steven Hahn

Steven Hahn is an American historian of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States, with particular attention t...

African American American Contemporary Political

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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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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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

8.3 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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Woody Holton

Woody Holton is an American historian of the American Revolution, the early United States, and the political roles of wo...

American Contemporary Political Revolutionary

8.3 Great

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Francis Parkman

Francis Parkman was a nineteenth-century American historian and writer. He is known for The Oregon Trail, an account of...

Narrative American 19TH Century Colonial

8.1 Great

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Richard Graham

Richard Graham is a Brazilian-American historian whose work focuses on nineteenth-century Brazil. He taught at the Unive...

American Contemporary 19TH Century Political

8.1 Great