swap_horiz Wolfgang Mommsen Alternatives

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Leopold von Ranke

Leopold von Ranke was a prominent German 19th-century historian renowned for his rigorous approach to historical researc...

German 19TH Century Archival Political

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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Tony Judt

Tony Judt was a British-American historian whose research and writing addressed modern European political and intellectu...

European 20TH Century Political British American

9.0 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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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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C. Vann Woodward

C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999) was an American historian who wrote extensively about the post-Civil War South, race, segre...

American 20TH Century Political Race

8.6 Great

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Fritz Fischer

Fritz Fischer (1908-1999) was a German historian who specialized in modern German history and the origins of the First W...

German 20TH Century World War I War Guilt

8.6 Great

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Christopher Clark

Christopher Clark is an Australian historian who has held academic posts in Britain, including the position of Regius Pr...

German Contemporary Political World War I

8.6 Great

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Hans-Ulrich Wehler

Hans-Ulrich Wehler was a German historian whose work helped establish the Bielefeld School of social history. He emphasi...

German Social 20TH Century Structural

8.5 Great

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Emília Viotti da Costa

Emília Viotti da Costa was a Brazilian historian whose scholarship examined slavery, abolition, social hierarchy, and po...

20TH Century Political Brazilian Latin American

8.4 Great

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Geoffrey Elton

Geoffrey Rudolph Elton was a German-born British historian of Tudor England and a major scholar of political and constit...

20TH Century British Political Tudor

8.3 Great

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David Chandler

David P. Chandler is an American historian associated with Monash University and known for research on modern Cambodia....

American 20TH Century Political Cambodian

8.3 Great

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Vine Deloria Jr.

Vine Deloria Jr. (1933-2005) was a Standing Rock Sioux scholar, writer, and activist whose work addressed Native America...

American Indigenous 20TH Century Political

8.2 Great

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Detlev Peukert

Detlev Peukert (1950-1990) was a German historian of modern Germany whose work connected political history with the hist...

German Social 20TH Century Nazi Germany

8.2 Great

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Herbert Butterfield

Herbert Butterfield was a British historian and Christian thinker whose work examined how historians interpret the past....

20TH Century Historiography British Political

8.1 Great

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Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. was an American historian and public intellectual whose writing centered on U.S. political his...

American 20TH Century Political Liberal

8.0 Great

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Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Kearns Goodwin is an American historian, author, and presidential biographer. Her books examine the leadership and...

American 20TH Century Political Presidential

8.0 Great

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Hagen Schulze

Hagen Schulze (1943-2019) was a German historian and professor at the Free University of Berlin. His scholarship examine...

German 20TH Century Political National

8.0 Great

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Hugh Trevor-Roper

Hugh Trevor-Roper was a British historian whose research covered early modern Europe, British history, and Nazi Germany....

20TH Century British Political Nazi Germany

7.9 Good