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Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville was a French diplomat and historian renowned for his insightful analysis of American democracy in...

French American 19TH Century Political

9.20 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

9.05 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

9.05 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

9.05 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

9.05 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

8.90 Great

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William Cronon

William Cronon is an American environmental historian whose work connects ecological change with economic development, l...

Nature American Contemporary Environmental

8.90 Great

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James Scott

James C. Scott was an American political scientist and anthropologist whose work examined states, peasants, resistance,...

American Contemporary Resistance Southeast Asian

8.85 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

8.85 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

8.75 Great

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John Lewis Gaddis

John Lewis Gaddis is an American historian whose scholarship focuses on the Cold War, international relations, and strat...

Cold War American Contemporary Strategic

8.75 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

8.75 Great

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Taylor Branch

Taylor Branch is an American historian and author whose work focuses on Martin Luther King Jr. and the United States civ...

Narrative American Contemporary Biography

8.70 Great

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Caroline Walker Bynum

Caroline Walker Bynum is an American historian of medieval Christianity whose work examines religious practice, bodily s...

American Contemporary Medieval Religious

8.65 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

8.65 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

8.60 Great

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Robin D.G. Kelley

Robin D. G. Kelley is an American historian whose research addresses African American history, labor, radical politics,...

African American American Contemporary Radical

8.55 Great

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Ned Blackhawk

Ned Blackhawk is a Western Shoshone historian and professor at Yale University whose research concerns Indigenous people...

American Contemporary Indigenous Native American

8.55 Great

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Jack Rakove

Jack N. Rakove is an American historian of the American Revolution, the founding of the United States, and constitutiona...

American Contemporary Intellectual Constitutional

8.45 Great

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Carter Vaughn Findley

Carter Vaughn Findley is an American historian of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey. His research has focused on bure...

American Contemporary Intellectual Ottoman

8.20 Great