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Tacitus

Tacitus was a prominent Roman historian living during the early Imperial period. He is notable for his critical and ofte...

Classical Political Ancient Roman

9.2 Excellent

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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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Marc Bloch

Marc Bloch was a prominent French historian of the 20th century. He is best known for his foundational work in Annales S...

French Social 20TH Century Medieval

9.2 Excellent

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Fernand Braudel

Fernand Braudel was a prominent 20th-century French historian known for his work on long-term historical processes. He d...

French Mediterranean 20TH Century Economic

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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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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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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Jacques Le Goff

Jacques Le Goff was a French medieval historian associated with the Annales School and with the École des hautes études...

French Cultural 20TH Century Medieval

8.9 Great

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Livy

Livy, or Titus Livius, was a Roman historian who wrote Ab Urbe Condita Libri, a history of Rome from its legendary found...

Classical Narrative Ancient Roman

8.8 Great

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Joan Wallach Scott

Joan Wallach Scott is an American historian whose work has linked gender history with social, political, and intellectua...

French American 20TH Century Theoretical

8.8 Great

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Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie was a French historian associated with the Annales School, whose work combined social history wi...

French Social 20TH Century Peasant

8.7 Great

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Georges Duby

Georges Duby was a French medieval historian associated with the Annales school of historical writing. His research exam...

French Social 20TH Century Medieval

8.7 Great

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R.G. Collingwood

R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943) was an English philosopher, historian, and archaeologist whose work addressed the nature a...

Philosophical 20TH Century British Ancient

8.6 Great

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Josephus

Flavius Josephus (c. 37-c. 100 CE) was a Jewish priest, military commander, and historian who wrote in Greek under Roman...

Classical Ancient Religious Roman

8.5 Great

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Eugen Weber

Eugen Weber (1925-2007) was a Romanian-born historian who taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he...

French 19TH Century 20TH Century Rural

8.5 Great

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Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830-1889) was a French historian of the ancient world whose research emphasized the rel...

French Social 19TH Century Ancient

8.2 Great

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Dio Cassius

Dio Cassius, also known as Cassius Dio, was a Greek-speaking Roman senator and historian who lived during the late secon...

Classical Political Ancient Roman

8.1 Great

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Suetonius

Suetonius, formally Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, was a Roman biographer and writer active during the early second centur...

Classical Ancient Biographical Roman

7.9 Good

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Oswald Spengler

Oswald Spengler was a German historian and philosopher best known for The Decline of the West, published in two volumes...

German Philosophical 20TH Century World History

7.6 Good