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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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Jacob Burckhardt

Jacob Burckhardt was a prominent Swiss historian specializing in the Italian Renaissance. His work significantly shaped...

Swiss Renaissance 19TH Century Cultural

9.2 Excellent

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Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga was a Dutch historian renowned for his anthropological approach to studying medieval culture. His seminal...

Cultural 20TH Century Medieval Dutch

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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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

9.1 Excellent

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Jacques Le Goff

Jacques Le Goff was a French medieval historian associated with the Annales School and with the École des hautes études...

French Cultural 20TH Century Medieval

8.9 Great

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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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Robert Darnton

Robert Darnton is an American cultural historian known for research on eighteenth-century France, the Enlightenment, and...

American Cultural 20TH Century French Revolution

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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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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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

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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David Lowenthal

David Lowenthal was an American-born geographer and historian whose research examined heritage, collective memory, lands...

American Heritage Cultural 20TH Century

8.5 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

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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