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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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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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Fernand Braudel

Fernand Braudel was a prominent 20th-century French historian known for his work on long-term historical processes. He d...

French Mediterranean 20TH Century Economic

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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Benedict Anderson

Benedict Anderson was an Irish-born political scientist and historian who taught at Cornell University and specialized i...

20TH Century Theoretical Southeast Asian Irish American

9.0 Excellent

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Marshall Hodgson

Marshall G. S. Hodgson was an American historian of Islam and world history at the University of Chicago. His three-volu...

American 20TH Century Islamic World History

8.9 Great

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Georges Duby

Georges Duby was a French medieval historian associated with the Annales school of historical writing. His research exam...

French Social 20TH Century Medieval

8.7 Great

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Gerda Lerner

Gerda Lerner was an Austrian-born American historian who helped establish women's history as an academic field in the Un...

American 20TH Century Feminist Womens History

8.7 Great

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Drew Gilpin Faust

Drew Gilpin Faust is an American historian of the Civil War and a scholar of the nineteenth-century American South. Her...

American 20TH Century Civil War Gender

8.7 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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Lynn Hunt

Lynn Hunt is an American historian whose scholarship examines the French Revolution, political culture, gender, and the...

American Cultural 20TH Century French Revolution

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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Nancy Cott

Nancy F. Cott is an American historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States history, with particular atten...

American 20TH Century Womens History Gender

8.3 Great