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NAME OCCUPATION SUMMARY BORN DIED  
Lord Acton Historian British historian 10-Jan-1834 19-Jun-1902 DEAD
Brooks Adams Historian The Law of Civilization and Decay 24-Jun-1848 13-Feb-1927 DEAD
Henry Adams Historian The Education of Henry Adams 16-Feb-1838 28-Mar-1918 DEAD
Herbert Baxter Adams Historian Coined the term political science 16-Apr-1850 30-Jul-1901 DEAD
Agathias Historian On the Reign of Justinian ? TBD DEAD
Charles McLean Andrews Historian The Colonial Period of American History 22-Feb-1863 09-Sep-1943 DEAD
Aventinus Historian Annals of Bavaria 04-Jul-1477 09-Jan-1534 DEAD
Andrew Bacevich Historian American Empire 1947 TBD ADD
Sir Richard Baker Historian Chronicle of the Kings of England 1568 18-Feb-1645 DEAD
George Bancroft Historian A History of the United States 03-Oct-1800 17-Jan-1891 DEAD
Hubert Howe Bancroft Historian Bancroft Library 05-May-1832 02-Mar-1918 DEAD
Jacques Barzun Historian From Dawn to Decadence 30-Nov-1907 TBD ADD
Charles A. Beard Historian The Rise of American Civilization 27-Nov-1874 01-Sep-1948 DEAD
Carl Becker Historian Everyman His Own Historian 07-Sep-1873 10-Apr-1945 DEAD
Michael Beschloss Historian The Conquerors 30-Nov-1955 TBD ADD
James Billington Historian 13th Librarian of Congress 01-Jun-1929 TBD ADD
Kai Bird Historian American Prometheus 1951 TBD ADD
Anthony Blunt Historian Art historian, Soviet spy 26-Sep-1907 26-Mar-1983 DEAD
Edmund Bolton Historian Hypercritica 1575 1633 DEAD
Daniel Boorstin Historian The Creators 01-Oct-1914 28-Feb-2004 DEAD
John Brand Historian Observations on Popular Antiquities 19-Aug-1744 11-Sep-1806 DEAD
Pierre de Brantôme Historian French historical writer, biographer 1540 15-Jul-1614 DEAD
Norman O. Brown Historian Life Against Death 25-Sep-1913 02-Oct-2002 DEAD
Arthur Bryant Historian Biographer of Samuel Pepys 18-Feb-1899 02-Jan-1985 DEAD
Alan Bullock Historian Historian of Hitler, Stalin 13-Dec-1914 02-Feb-2004 DEAD
Mary Brown Bullock Historian President of Agnes Scott College, 1995-2006 1945 TBD ADD
John Bernard Burke Historian Burke's Peerage 05-Jan-1814 12-Dec-1892 DEAD
Charles Burney Historian History of Music 07-Apr-1726 12-Apr-1814 DEAD
Caroline Bynum Historian Medieval historian 1941 TBD ADD
Florian Cajori Historian A History of Mathematics 28-Feb-1859 14-Aug-1930 DEAD
David Cannadine Historian Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy 1950 TBD ADD
Thomas Carlyle Historian The French Revolution 04-Dec-1795 05-Feb-1881 DEAD
Robert Caro Historian Biographer of Lyndon Johnson 30-Oct-1935 TBD ADD
Jean-François Champollion Historian Deciphered the Rosetta Stone 23-Dec-1790 04-Mar-1832 DEAD
Alfred Chandler Historian Business historian 15-Sep-1918 09-May-2007 DEAD
Edward Channing Historian A History of the United States 15-Jun-1856 07-Jan-1931 DEAD
Kenneth Clark Historian Civilisation 10-Jul-1903 21-May-1983 DEAD
Juan Cole Historian Sacred Space and Holy War 1952 TBD ADD
R. G. Collingwood Historian The Idea of History 22-Feb-1889 09-Jan-1943 DEAD
Henry Steele Commager Historian The American Mind 25-Oct-1902 02-Mar-1998 DEAD
Donald T. Critchlow Historian The Conservative Ascendancy 1948 TBD ADD
Ctesias Historian Persica ? TBD DEAD
George Ticknor Curtis Historian Constitutional History of the United States 28-Nov-1812 28-Mar-1894 DEAD
Ambrose D'évreux Historian L'Estoire de la Guerre Sainte 1190 1190 DEAD
George Dangerfield Historian The Strange Death of Liberal England 28-Oct-1904 26-Dec-1986 DEAD
Norman Davies Historian God's Playground 08-Jun-1939 TBD ADD
Arrigo Caterino Davila Historian Istoria delle guerre civili di Francia 30-Oct-1576 26-May-1631 DEAD
Thomas Dempster Historian Scotia Illustrior 1579 06-Sep-1625 DEAD
Carlo Denina Historian Delle revoluzioni d'Italia 1731 05-Dec-1813 DEAD
Diogenes Laërtius Historian Lives of Philosophers ? TBD DEAD
Dionysius Halicarnassus Historian Roman Antiquities ? TBD DEAD
James F. Dunnigan Historian Military historian, wargame designer 00-Aug-1943 TBD ADD
Pierre Dupuy Historian Historian, Librarian to Louis XIV 27-Nov-1582 14-Dec-1651 DEAD
Ariel Durant Historian The Story of Civilization 10-May-1898 25-Oct-1981 DEAD
Will Durant Historian The Story of Civilization 05-Nov-1885 07-Nov-1981 DEAD
Élie Faure Historian History of Art 04-Apr-1873 31-Oct-1937 DEAD
Niall Ferguson Historian The House of Rothschild 18-Apr-1964 TBD ADD
John Ferling Historian Adams vs. Jefferson ? TBD ADD
John Fiske Historian Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy 30-Mar-1842 04-Jul-1901 DEAD
John Hope Franklin Historian From Slavery to Freedom 02-Jan-1915 TBD ADD
Saul Friedländer Historian Holocaust historian 11-Oct-1932 TBD ADD
Paul Fussell Historian The Great War and Modern Memory 22-Mar-1924 TBD ADD
Peter Gay Historian The Enlightenment: An Interpretation 20-Jun-1923 TBD ADD
Geoffrey of Monmouth Historian Historia regum Britanniae 1100 1155 DEAD
Edward Gibbon Historian Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 08-May-1737 16-Jan-1794 DEAD
Gildas Historian Earliest British historian ? TBD DEAD
Joscelyn Godwin Historian Historian of the esoteric 16-Jan-1945 TBD ADD
E. H. Gombrich Historian Art and Illusion 30-Mar-1909 03-Nov-2001 DEAD
Doris Kearns Goodwin Historian Team of Rivals 04-Jan-1943 TBD ADD
Lawrence Gowing Historian Art historian, biographer of Vermeer 1918 05-Feb-1991 DEAD
Edward Hall Historian English chronicler 1495 1547 DEAD
Henry Hallam Historian View of the Middle Ages 09-Jul-1777 21-Jan-1859 DEAD
Oscar Handlin Historian The Uprooted 29-Sep-1915 TBD ADD
Victor Davis Hanson Historian Carnage and Culture 05-Sep-1953 TBD ADD
Thomas Hearne Historian Edited many English chronicles 00-Jul-1678 10-Jun-1735 DEAD
Hecataeus of Miletus Historian Periegesis and Genealogiai ? TBD DEAD
Hellanicus of Lesbos Historian 5th century historian of Lesbos ? TBD DEAD
Herodian Historian History from Aurelius to Gordian III ? TBD DEAD
Herodotus Historian The Histories ? TBD DEAD
Gertrude Himmelfarb Historian Victorian Minds 08-Aug-1922 TBD ADD
Richard Hofstadter Historian Anti-Intellectualism in American Life 06-Aug-1916 24-Oct-1970 DEAD
Raphael Holinshed Historian Chronicles 1520 1580 DEAD
Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim Historian Febronius 27-Jan-1701 02-Sep-1790 DEAD
J. Franklin Jameson Historian Dictionary of United States History 19-Sep-1859 28-Sep-1937 DEAD
Merrill Jensen Historian The Articles of Confederaton 1905 30-Jan-1980 DEAD
Matthew Josephson Historian The Robber Barons 15-Feb-1899 13-Mar-1978 DEAD
Josephus Historian The Jewish War ? TBD DEAD
Donald Kagan Historian The Great Dialogue 1932 TBD ADD
John Keegan Historian The Face of Battle 15-May-1934 TBD ADD
Paul Kennedy Historian The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers 00-Jun-1945 TBD ADD
Gabriel Kolko Historian Century of War 1932 TBD ADD
William Leonard Langer Historian Our Vichy Gamble 16-Mar-1896 26-Dec-1977 DEAD
Richard Lepsius Historian German Egyptologist 23-Dec-1810 10-Jul-1884 DEAD
Gerda Lerner Historian The Woman in American History 30-Apr-1920 TBD ADD
Livy Historian Ab Urbe Condita ? TBD DEAD
Hendrik Willem van Loon Historian Juvenile historian, Story of Mankind 14-Jan-1882 11-Mar-1944 DEAD
Arthur O. Lovejoy Historian The Great Chain of Being 10-Oct-1873 30-Dec-1962 DEAD
Staughton Lynd Historian Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism 22-Nov-1929 TBD ADD
Thomas Babington Macaulay Historian History of England 25-Oct-1800 28-Dec-1859 DEAD
James Mackay Historian Plagiarising historian 21-Nov-1936 12-Aug-2007 DEAD
Olaus Magnus Historian Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus 1490 1558 DEAD
Dumas Malone Historian Jefferson and His Time 10-Jan-1892 27-Dec-1986 DEAD
Manetho Historian Chronology of Egyptian dynasties ? TBD DEAD
Ammianus Marcellinus Historian Last important Roman historian ? TBD DEAD
Matthew Paris Historian Chronica Majora 1200 1259 DEAD
Arno J. Mayer Historian Marxist Jew, quasi-revisionist 19-Jun-1926 TBD ADD
David McCullough Historian The American Experience 07-Jul-1933 TBD ADD
John Bach McMaster Historian History of the People of the United States 29-Jun-1852 24-May-1932 DEAD
William H. McNeill Historian The Rise of the West 31-Oct-1917 TBD ADD
James M. McPherson Historian US Civil War historian 11-Oct-1936 TBD ADD
Jules Michelet Historian Histoire de France 21-Aug-1798 09-Feb-1874 DEAD
Perry Miller Historian The New England Mind 25-Feb-1905 09-Dec-1963 DEAD
Theodor Mommsen Historian Roman History 30-Nov-1817 01-Nov-1903 DEAD
Samuel Eliot Morison Historian Rear Admiral and naval historian 09-Jul-1887 15-May-1976 DEAD
Lewis Mumford Historian Technics and Civilization 19-Oct-1895 26-Jan-1990 DEAD
Joseph Needham Historian Science and Civilization in China 09-Dec-1900 24-Mar-1995 DEAD
Nennius Historian Historia Britonum ? TBD DEAD
Cornelius Nepos Historian De Viris Illustribus ? TBD DEAD
Allan Nevins Historian Civil War historian 20-May-1890 05-Mar-1971 DEAD
Sir Roger Newdigate Historian Established the Newdigate Prize 30-May-1719 23-Nov-1806 DEAD
Mark Noll Historian Christian historian 1946 TBD ADD
James E. Oberg Historian Space exploration historian 07-Nov-1944 TBD ADD
Orosius Historian Early Christian historian ? TBD DEAD
Otto of Freising Historian German chronicler and bishop 1114 22-Sep-1158 DEAD
Elaine Pagels Historian The Gnostic Gospels 13-Feb-1943 TBD ADD
Nell Irvin Painter Historian Creating Black Americans 02-Aug-1942 TBD ADD
Erwin Panofsky Historian Studies in Iconology 30-Mar-1892 14-Mar-1968 DEAD
Francis Parkman Historian France and England in North America 16-Sep-1823 08-Nov-1893 DEAD
Vernon Louis Parrington Historian Main Currents in American Thought 03-Aug-1871 16-Jun-1929 DEAD
Paolo Paruta Historian Official historian of Venice 14-May-1540 06-Dec-1598 DEAD
Ben Pimlott Historian Definitive biography of Elizabeth II 04-Jul-1945 10-Apr-2004 DEAD
J. H. Plumb Historian England in the Eighteenth Century 20-Aug-1911 21-Oct-2001 DEAD
Polybius Historian Histories ? TBD DEAD
William H. Prescott Historian The Conquest of Mexico 04-May-1796 28-Jan-1859 DEAD
Leopold von Ranke Historian Prominent 19th century German historian 12-Dec-1795 23-May-1886 DEAD
Richard Rhodes Historian The Making of the Atomic Bomb 04-Jul-1937 TBD ADD
Andrew Roberts Historian Eminent Churchillians 13-Jan-1963 TBD ADD
William Robertson Historian History of Scotland 19-Sep-1721 11-Jun-1793 DEAD
James Harvey Robinson Historian The Mind in the Making 29-Jun-1863 16-Feb-1936 DEAD
Sallust Historian Bellum Catilinae ? TBD DEAD
George Sarton Historian Introduction to the History of Science 31-Aug-1884 22-Mar-1956 DEAD
Arthur M. Schlesinger Historian The Rise of the City 27-Feb-1888 30-Oct-1965 DEAD
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Historian The Age of Roosevelt 15-Oct-1917 28-Feb-2007 DEAD
Gershom Scholem Historian Revolutionized the study of Kabbalah 05-Dec-1897 21-Feb-1982 DEAD
William L. Shirer Historian Rise and Fall of the Third Reich 23-Feb-1904 28-Dec-1993 DEAD
Richard Norton Smith Historian Presidential historian 1953 TBD ADD
Jonathan D. Spence Historian The Search for Modern China 11-Aug-1936 TBD ADD
Oswald Spengler Historian The Decline of the West 29-May-1880 08-May-1936 DEAD
Fritz Stern Historian German historian 02-Feb-1926 TBD ADD
Strabo Historian Greek geographer and historian ? TBD DEAD
Agnes Strickland Historian Lives of the Queens of England 1806 08-Jul-1874 DEAD
William Stubbs Historian Constitutional History of England 21-Jun-1825 22-Apr-1901 DEAD
William Stukeley Historian Stonehenge, a Temple Restored 07-Nov-1687 03-Mar-1765 DEAD
Johannes Stumpf Historian Swiss chronicler, theologian 23-Apr-1500 1578 DEAD
Suetonius Historian De Vita Caesarum ? TBD DEAD
Robert Surtees Historian History of Durham 1779 11-Feb-1834 DEAD
Tacitus Historian Historiae, Annals ? TBD DEAD
Hippolyte Taine Historian Origines de la France Contemporaine 21-Apr-1828 05-Mar-1893 DEAD
A. J. P. Taylor Historian The Origins of the Second World War 25-Mar-1906 07-Sep-1990 DEAD
Theopompus Historian Philippica ? TBD DEAD
E. P. Thompson Historian The Making of the English Working Class 03-Feb-1924 28-Aug-1993 DEAD
Thucydides Historian History of the Peloponnesian War ? TBD DEAD
Alexis de Tocqueville Historian Democracy in America 29-Jul-1805 16-Apr-1859 DEAD
John Toland Historian The Rising Sun 29-Jun-1912 04-Jan-2004 DEAD
Arnold Toynbee Historian A Study of History 14-Apr-1889 22-Oct-1975 DEAD
G. M. Trevelyan Historian England under Queen Anne 16-Feb-1876 21-Jul-1962 DEAD
Hugh Trevor-Roper Historian Historian fooled by fake Hitler diaries 15-Jan-1914 26-Jan-2003 DEAD
Barbara Tuchman Historian A Distant Mirror 30-Jan-1912 06-Feb-1989 DEAD
Frederick Jackson Turner Historian Frontier Thesis 14-Nov-1861 14-Mar-1932 DEAD
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Historian Conservative ideologue 31-Jul-1909 26-May-1999 DEAD
Sir Spencer Walpole Historian History of England from 1815 07-Feb-1839 07-Jul-1907 DEAD
Thomas Walsingham Historian Historia Anglicana ? 1422 DEAD
Mercy Otis Warren Historian History of the American Revolution 25-Sep-1728 19-Oct-1814 DEAD
Eugen Weber Historian The Western Tradition 24-Apr-1925 17-May-2007 DEAD
Allen Weinstein Historian US National Archivist 01-Sep-1937 TBD ADD
Theodore H. White Historian The Making of the President 06-May-1915 15-May-1986 DEAD
Sean Wilentz Historian The Rise of American Democracy 1950 TBD ADD
William Appleman Williams Historian The Tragedy of American Diplomacy 1921 06-Mar-1990 DEAD
Garry Wills Historian Lincoln at Gettysburg 22-May-1934 TBD ADD
Anthony à Wood Historian Oxford historian 17-Dec-1632 29-Nov-1695 DEAD
Cecil Woodham-Smith Historian Florence Nightingale 29-Apr-1896 16-Mar-1977 DEAD
C. Vann Woodward Historian The Strange Career of Jim Crow 13-Nov-1908 17-Dec-1999 DEAD
Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos Historian Historia Ecclesiastica 1320 1320 DEAD
Frances Yates Historian The Art of Memory 28-Nov-1899 29-Sep-1981 DEAD
Solomon Zeitlin Historian Dead Sea Scrolls debunker 1886 1976 DEAD
Howard Zinn Historian A People's History of the United States 24-Aug-1922 TBD ADD

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