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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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Quentin Skinner

Quentin Skinner is a prominent British historian specializing in early modern political thought. His work focuses on the...

Intellectual 20TH Century British Early Modern

9.2 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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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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Keith Thomas

Sir Keith Thomas is a Welsh historian of early modern England whose work combines social, cultural, and intellectual his...

Social Cultural 20TH Century British

8.8 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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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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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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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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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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Lawrence Stone

Lawrence Stone was a British historian associated with the study of early modern England and the development of social h...

Social Family 20TH Century Early Modern

8.1 Great

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Kevin Starr

Kevin Starr (1940-2017) was an American historian, writer, and California State Librarian. He is best known for American...

Narrative American California Cultural

8.1 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

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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