swap_horiz Marshall Hodgson Alternatives

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Ibn Khaldun

Ibn Khaldun was a 14th-century North African scholar and one of history’s earliest social scientists. His *Muqaddimah* o...

Medieval North African Islamic Sociological

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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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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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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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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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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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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William McNeill

William H. McNeill was a Canadian-American historian known for writing large-scale histories of interactions among socie...

American 20TH Century Comparative Disease

8.8 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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Alfred Crosby

Alfred W. Crosby was an American historian whose work examined how biological and ecological processes shaped world hist...

American Environmental 20TH Century World History

8.8 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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Janet Abu-Lughod

Janet Abu-Lughod (1928-2003) was an American sociologist and urban historian whose research connected city development w...

American 20TH Century Urban Islamic

8.5 Great

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Ross Dunn

Ross E. Dunn is an American historian known for his work in world history education and the history of the medieval Isla...

American Contemporary Islamic World History

8.0 Great

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Arnold Toynbee

Arnold Toynbee was a British historian best known for A Study of History, a twelve-volume comparative work published bet...

20TH Century Comparative British World History

7.7 Good