This is a list of historians categorized by their area of study. See also List of historians.
By time period
Ancient history
- Barbara Levick (born 1932, British) - Roman emperors
- Peter Green - Ancient Greece and Macedon
- Howard Hayes Scullard (1903-1983) - Roman civilization
- Ronald Syme (1903 - 1989) - Classical period
Medieval history
- Marc Bloch (1886-1944, French) - Medieval France
- John Boswell (1947-1994, American) - Homosexuality in the Middle Ages
- Georges Duby (1924-1996, French) - Specialized in the history of France between the Capets and the Valois
- F.L. Ganshof (1895-1980), Dutch - wrote on early medieval institutional history and feudalism
- Patrick Geary - early Middle Ages
- Johan Huizinga (Dutch) - Wrote 'Waning of the Middle Ages'
- Rev. F.X. Martin (Irish) - Mediævalist and campaigner
- Rosamond McKitterick - Frankish and Carolingian history
- Henri Pirenne (1862-1935) - the "Pirenne Thesis" of early Medieval development
- Eileen Power - Middle Ages
- Miri Rubin - social and religious history, 1100-1500
By nation or geographical area
- Donald Creighton - Developed the Laurentian thesis
- Lionel Groulx (1878-1967) - The history of Quebec in particular and French North America in general
- Harold Innis - Economic historian of Canada
- J.L. Granatstein - Military historian of Canada
- W.L. Morton - Expert on western Canada
See also List of Canadian historians.
History of the Caribbean
- Eric Williams (1911-1981) - Focused on slavery and the slave trade, condemned imperialism
History of the United States
- Stephen Ambrose (1936-2002) - Biographer of Eisenhower
- Charles Beard (1874-1948)
- Bruce Catton - American Civil War
- Richard Hofstadter (1916-1970)
- David Lavender (1910-2003) - United States West
- David McCullough (1933- ) - general study, most notable work is recent biography of John Adams
- Gary Moulton - prominent Lewis and Clark historian
- Harry W. Pfanz - American Civil War
- Arthur Schlesinger
- Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932) - Developed the Frontier Thesis
- C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999) - Southern United States
- Howard Zinn (1922- ) - Leftist historian of the United States
Europe
History of Slovenia
- Bogo Grafenauer (1916--1995)
- Angus Calder - Great Britain
- Eamon Duffy - 15th-17th century religious history (not "the Reformation")
- Antonia Fraser - England
- Christopher Hill (1912-2003) - 17th century England
- John Edward Lloyd (1861-1947) - Early English history
- George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876–1962) - Prolific author on many periods of English history
- Alfred Leslie Rowse (1903-1997) - The history of Cornwall and Elizabethan England
- John Robert Seeley (1834-1895)
- David Starkey (born 1945) - Tudor historian and TV presenter
- E. P. Thompson, (1924-1993), historian of the British working class
- Retha M Warnicke (born 1939) - Tudor history and gender issues
- Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910-1997) - British historian
- Marc Bloch (1886-1944) - Medieval France
- Georges Duby (1924-1996) - Medieval France
- Lucien Febvre (1878-1956) - French historian
- Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie - history of the French peasantry
- John B. Wolf (1907-???) - French history
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- Brian Farrell (born 1929) - Irish political history, historian and emeritus Associated Professor of Politics, UCD
- Pawel Jasienica (1909-1970) - Polish amateur historian
- Robert Conquest - The Soviet Union
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (born 1918) - Russian historian responsible for forcing knowledge of Soviet atrocities on the world
- Richard Pipes - The Soviet Union
- William Taubman - Nikita Khrushchev
- Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914-2003) - British historian and peer who specialized on Nazi leadership and incorrectly verified the authenticity of The Hitler Diaries
- George Antonius (1891-1941) - Historian of Arab nationalism
- Bernard Lewis - History of Islam and the Middle East
- Albert Hourani
Asia
- Li Ao (born 1935) - Historian, author, and politician and broadcaster in the Republic of China on Taiwan
- Sima Qian - Compiled Records of the Grand Historian
History of Korea
History of India
- A. L. Basham
- John Keay
- Percival Spear
- Romila Thapar
By historical viewpoint
Abolitionist
- George Washington Williams - Early African-American historian
- Eusebius of Caesarea (~275–339) - "Father of Church history"
- Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim (1694-1755) - Lutheran historian of Christianity from its inception through the 18th century
Mormonism
- B. H. Roberts - Latter-day Saint leader and historian
- Leonard J. Arrington (1917-1999) - LDS Church historian 1975-1982
- Eric Hobsbawm - Marxist historian
Nazi
- Walter Frank (1905-1945) - Nazi historian and anti-Semitic writer
Socialist
- Howard Zinn (born 1922) - Socialist historian
Pacifist
- Ludwig Quidde (1858-1941) - Precient German pacifist and student of history who combined his specialties in his condemnation of Kaiser Wilhelm II
By general category
Art history
- Simon Schama (born 1945) - Art history
Economic history
Military history
Naval history
- Robert G. Albion - Maritime history
- Howard I. Chapelle - Maritime history
- Tyrone G. Martin - Historian of the USS Constitution and of the history of ironclads
- Samuel Eliot Morison (1887-1976) - Wrote History of United States Naval Operations in World War II and numerous works about the naval exploration of America
- Henry Newbolt (1862-1938) - Wrote The Naval History of the Great War
Gender and sexuality studies
- John Boswell (1947-1994, American) - Homosexuality in medieval times
- Retha M Warnicke (born 1939) - Gender issues
History of ideas, literature, and philosophy
- Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) - History of ideas
- Michel Foucault (1926 - 1984) - History of ideas
- Lewis Mumford (1895-1988) - History of technology
- Ivan Prijatelj (1875-1937) - Literary history
- France Kidric (1880-1950) - Literary history
History of business
History of international relations
- John Lewis Gaddis, historian of the Cold War
- A. J. P. Taylor (1906-1990) - Historian of European International Relations
History of science and technology
- Peter Galison, physics, philosophy, objectivity
- John L. Heilbron, physics, quantification, astronomy, religion and science
- Thomas P. Hughes, technology
- Evelyn Fox Keller, science and gender, biology
- Daniel J. Kevles, science and politics, physics, biology, eugenics
- Thomas Kuhn, physics, "paradigm shifts"
- Abraham Pais, physics
- George Sarton
World history
- Ferdinand Braudel (1902-1985) - Social and economic history
- Francis Fukuyama (born 1955) - "End of history" thesis
- Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882-1944) - World history and geography for younger readers
- Jackson J. Spielvogel - Pennsylvania State University, author of several major world history textbooks
- Arnold J. Toynbee (1889-1975) - Wrote landmark text A Study of History
Biography
- Alan Bullock (1914-2004) - Historian best known for his influential biography of Hitler
By medium
Broadcasters
- Tristram Hunt (born 1974) - Historian and Broadcaster (BBC2) best known for his four-part series on the English Civil War
- Michael Wood - Prolific historian and broadcaster who has authored more than sixty TV movies on various areas of history