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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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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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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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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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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is an American historian whose work examines social history, gender, and everyday life in early A...

American Contemporary Social Colonial

8.6 Great

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Leslie Bethell

Leslie Bethell is a British historian whose scholarship focuses on Brazil and the history of Latin America. He is partic...

Modern Contemporary British Colonial

8.5 Great

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Laurent Dubois

Laurent Dubois is an American historian whose work examines the Atlantic world, slavery, colonialism, and the history of...

American Contemporary Atlantic Slavery

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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Mary Beth Norton

Mary Beth Norton is an American historian of early American history whose work focuses on women, gender, politics, and c...

American Contemporary Colonial Gender

8.4 Great

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Colin Calloway

Colin Calloway is a British-American historian of Native American and early American history and a professor at Dartmout...

American Contemporary Indigenous Native American

8.4 Great

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Daniel Richter

Daniel K. Richter is an American historian of early North America and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. His...

American Contemporary Native American Colonial

8.4 Great

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John Demos

John Demos is an American historian of early American and colonial history, known for using detailed individual cases to...

American Contemporary Social Colonial

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