swap_horiz Nell Irvin Painter Alternatives

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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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Eric Foner

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American 20TH Century Political Reconstruction

9.2 Excellent

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Natalie Zemon Davis

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American Social Cultural 20TH Century

9.1 Excellent

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Ira Berlin

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African American American Social 20TH Century

8.9 Great

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Robert Darnton

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American Cultural 20TH Century French Revolution

8.8 Great

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Leon Litwack

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African American American Social 20TH Century

8.8 Great

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John Hope Franklin

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African American American Social 20TH Century

8.8 Great

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Joan Wallach Scott

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French American 20TH Century Theoretical

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Gerda Lerner

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American 20TH Century Feminist Womens History

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Drew Gilpin Faust

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American 20TH Century Civil War Gender

8.7 Great

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David Lowenthal

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American Heritage Cultural 20TH Century

8.5 Great

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Lynn Hunt

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American Cultural 20TH Century French Revolution

8.4 Great

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Linda Gordon

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American Social 20TH Century Gender

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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Nancy Cott

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American 20TH Century Womens History Gender

8.3 Great

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Thavolia Glymph

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African American American Contemporary Civil War

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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Kevin Starr

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Narrative American California Cultural

8.1 Great

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Daniel Boorstin

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American Intellectual Cultural 20TH Century

7.6 Good