swap_horiz Ira Berlin Alternatives

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Marc Bloch

Marc Bloch was a prominent French historian of the 20th century. He is best known for his foundational work in Annales S...

French Social 20TH Century Medieval

9.2 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

9.2 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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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

9.1 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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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

9.1 Excellent

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Lucien Febvre

Lucien Febvre was a French historian who helped establish the Annales approach to history. In 1929 he co-founded the jou...

French Social Cultural 20TH Century

9.0 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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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

8.8 Great

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John Hope Franklin

John Hope Franklin was an American historian whose scholarship centered on African American history, the Civil War era,...

African American American Social 20TH Century

8.8 Great

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Charles Tilly

Charles Tilly was an American sociologist and historian whose research connected state formation, war, capital, collecti...

American Social 20TH Century State Formation

8.7 Great

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Ira Lapidus

Ira M. Lapidus was an American historian of the Islamic world and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley....

American Social 20TH Century Urban

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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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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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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Saidiya Hartman

Saidiya Hartman is an American scholar of literature and history whose work addresses slavery, its afterlives, African A...

African American American Contemporary Slavery

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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Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn was an American historian, political activist, and author whose work emphasized the experiences of workers,...

American Social 20TH Century Radical

7.7 Good