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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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Carlo Ginzburg

Carlo Ginzburg is a prominent Italian historian specializing in the early modern period. He pioneered microhistory, exam...

Italian Cultural 20TH Century Early Modern

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Peter Gay

Peter Gay (1923-2015) was a German-born American historian known for studies of the Enlightenment, European bourgeois cu...

American Cultural 20TH Century Enlightenment

8.2 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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Daniel Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin was an American historian, writer, and the twelfth Librarian of Congress. He wrote widely on American...

American Intellectual Cultural 20TH Century

7.6 Good