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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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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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Stephen Kotkin

Stephen Kotkin is an American historian whose research concerns Russia, the Soviet Union, authoritarianism, and geopolit...

American Contemporary Biography Soviet

9.1 Excellent

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Christopher Browning

Christopher Browning is an American historian of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. His 1992 book Ordinary Men: Reserve Pol...

American Contemporary Holocaust Nazi Germany

9.1 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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Ira Berlin

Ira Berlin was an American historian of slavery and African American history who taught at the University of Maryland. H...

African American American Social 20TH Century

8.9 Great

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James Scott

James C. Scott was an American political scientist and anthropologist whose work examined states, peasants, resistance,...

American Contemporary Resistance Southeast Asian

8.9 Great

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William Cronon

William Cronon is an American environmental historian whose work connects ecological change with economic development, l...

Nature American Contemporary Environmental

8.9 Great

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Alan Taylor

Alan Taylor is an American historian of early American and Atlantic history who has written about colonization, slavery,...

American Contemporary Colonial Borderlands

8.9 Great

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John Lewis Gaddis

John Lewis Gaddis is an American historian whose scholarship focuses on the Cold War, international relations, and strat...

Cold War American Contemporary Strategic

8.8 Great

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Annette Gordon-Reed

Annette Gordon-Reed is an American historian and legal scholar whose work examines Thomas Jefferson, slavery, and the He...

American Contemporary Jefferson Biography

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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J.R. McNeill

J.R. McNeill is an American environmental historian whose work studies the interaction between ecological change and hum...

American Contemporary Environmental Atlantic

8.5 Great

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Rebecca Scott

Rebecca J. Scott is an American legal and social historian whose research examines slavery, emancipation, and citizenshi...

American Contemporary Legal Slavery

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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Stuart Schwartz

Stuart Schwartz is an American historian of colonial Latin America, with particular attention to Brazil, the Atlantic wo...

American Contemporary Colonial Latin American

8.3 Great

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Edward Baptist

Edward Baptist is an American historian whose research examines slavery, cotton production, and the development of capit...

American Contemporary Cotton Slavery

7.9 Good