1. Angie Debo (1890)

American Historian

Historian who wrote many works about Indians and their relationship to U.S. settlers.

2. Allan Nevins (1890)

American Historian

Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian and journalist who did extensive writing on the events and figures of the Civil War.

3. Juanita Brooks (1898)

American Historian

The daughter of Mormon pioneers, she bravely researched a dark chapter of her people's history in preparation for the publication of her 1950 work, The Mountain Meadows Massacre. Her other...

4. Bruce Catton (1899)

American Historian

Award-winning American historian, author, and journalist who is best known for his three Civil War-themed trilogies. His writing features colorful characters and historical vignettes.

5. Perry Miller (1905)

American Historian

American historian and professor at Harvard University who founded the field of American Studies and released the famous book The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century in 1939.

6. Robert Conquest (1917)

American Historian

A British-American historian and author, he is most famous for The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties (1968). His other scholarly works include Where Marx Went Wrong (1970) and...

7. Karen Hess (1918)

American Historian

Known for her works The Taste of America (1977) and The Carolina Rice Kitchen: The African Connection (1992), this food and history writer was one of several founders of an...

8. Bernard Bailyn (1922)

American Historian

A Harvard-educated historian and author whose work focused on the American Revolution and the U.S. Colonial period, he was a two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for history.

9. Owen Connelly (1924)

American Historian

Known for his writings on the Napoleonic Wars and military history, this historian, author, and University of South Carolina professor published such titles as The Epoch of Napoleon and On...

10. Taylor Branch (1947)

American Historian

An American historian, he is best known for America in the King Years, a three-part biography of Martin Luther King Jr.. The work won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the...

11. Mary Frances Berry (1938)

American Historian

American writer, academic, and former president of the Organization of American Historians. An expert on social history and law, she also served as Chairwoman of the United States Commission on...

12. Eric Foner (1943)

American Historian

A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author, he is best known for his work on post-Civil War Reconstruction. He published his award-winning work, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, in 2010.

13. Joseph Ellis (1943)

American Historian

Notable for his Pulitzer Prize-winning historical book Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation and for his National Book Award-winning work American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, Ellis also wrote several...

14. Lynn Hunt (1945)

American Historian

Historian who specialized in gender history, human rights history, and the French Revolution. She spent much of her teaching career in the History Department at the University of California- Los...

15. Bruce Bartlett (1951)

American Historian

Historian who worked as a domestic policy adviser for Ronald Reagan.

16. Douglas Brinkley (1960)

American Historian

An author, scholar, professor, and history commentator for CBS news, he also served as co-editor of Vanity Fair and American Heritage. He received the Ann M. Sperber Award for his...

17. Carl Ryanen-Grant (1975)

American Historian

Carl Winslow Ryanen-Grant was the 1997 University Medalist at the University of California Berkeley. He received national media attention that year for academic successes realized while battling malignant melanoma. Born...

18. Paul J. Springer (1975)

American Historian

Paul J. Springer is an American author professor and military historian. Born in 1975 Springer attended Texas A&M University earning his PhD in Military History.

19. Berthe Marti (1904)

American Historian

Berthe Marie Marti was a Swiss-American scholar and teacher of classical and medieval Latin. Education and degrees: Baccalauréat Gymnase classique Cantonal Lausanne 1922; Licenciée-ès-lettres University of Lausanne 1925; MA in...

20. Nellie Snyder Yost (1905)

American Historian

Nellie Irene Snyder Yost was a historian and writer. She was an active member of the Nebraska State Historical Society serving for many years as its president and wrote 13...

21. David M. Potter (1910)

American Historian

David M. Potter was an American historian of the South. He was born in Augusta Georgia and graduated from Emory University in 1932. At Yale he worked with Ulrich Bonnell...

22. Emma Lou Thornbrough (Unknow)

American Historian

Emma Lou Thornbrough was born in Indianapolis Indiana. She was a pioneer among professional historians who have researched and published in the field of African-American history.

23. George Mosse (1918)

American Historian

George Lachmann Mosse was a German-born American cultural historian. The author of over 25 books on topics as diverse as constitutional history Protestant theology and the history of masculinity he...

24. Charlotte Erickson (1923)

American Historian

Charlotte J. Erickson was an American historian.

25. Kenneth Pomeranz (1958)

American Historian

Kenneth Pomeranz is University Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He received his B. A. from Cornell University in 1980 and his Ph. D. from Yale University in...

26. Robert Sobel (1931)

American Historian

Robert Sobel was an American professor of history at Hofstra University and a well-known and prolific writer of business histories.

27. István Deák (1926)

American Historian

István Deák is a Hungarian-born American historian author and academic. Deak was born at Székesfehérvár Hungary. He was educated at a Catholic gymnasium in Budapest and began his university studies...

28. Irwin Unger (1927)

American Historian

Irwin Unger is an American historian and academic specializing in economic history the history of the 1960s and the history of the Gilded Age. He earned his Ph. D. from...

29. Robert M. Citino (1958)

American Historian

Robert M. Citino is an American historian at the University of North Texas. He is a leading authority on modern German military history with an emphasis upon World War II...

30. Lenoir C. Wright (Unknow)

American Historian

Lenoir C. Wright was a professor emeritus of History and Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where he taught Asian history and culture. Wright was born...

31. Speros Vryonis (Unknow)

American Historian

Speros Vryonis Jr. is an American historian of Greek descent and a specialist in Byzantine Balkan and Greek history.

32. Joan Kelly (1928)

American Historian

Joan Kelly was a prominent American historian who wrote on the Italian Renaissance specifically on Leon Battista Alberti. She earned a PhD at Columbia University in 1963 and served as...

33. Robert Pierce Forbes (1958)

American Historian

Robert Pierce Forbes is an American historian specializing in the politics and culture of the early American Republic and the impact of slavery on the development of American institutions and...

34. William J. Connell (historian) (1958)

American Historian

This article is about the historian. For the Nebraska Congressman see William James Connell. For the Pennsylvania Congressman see William Connell. William J. Connell is a historian and holder of...

35. Anna M. Cienciala (1929)

American Historian

Anna Maria Cienciala is a Polish-American historian and author. She specializes in modern Polish and Russian history. Graduating with a history doctorate in 1962 she taught at two Canadian universities...

36. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall (1929)

American Historian

Gwendolyn Midlo Hall is a prominent historian and public intellectual who focuses on the history of slavery in the Caribbean Latin America Louisiana Africa and the African Diaspora in the...

37. Robert Middlekauff (1929)

American Historian

Robert Middlekauff is a professor emeritus of colonial and early United States history at UC Berkeley. He is perhaps best known for The Glorious Cause a history of the American...

38. Stanford J. Shaw (1930)

American Historian

Stanford Jay Shaw was an American historian best known for his works on the late Ottoman Empire Turkish Jews and the early Turkish Republic. He has been described as one...

39. Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs (1930)

American Historian

Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs was a historian specializing in Isaac Newton's occult studies. Her works include The Foundations of Newtons Alchemy or the Hunting of the Green Lyon Alchemical Death...

40. Annette Gordon-Reed (1958)

American Historian

Annette Gordon-Reed is an American historian and law professor noted for changing scholarship on Thomas Jefferson regarding his relationship with Sally Hemings and children by her. Gordon-Reed was educated at...

41. Guenter B. Risse (1932)

American Historian

Guenter B. Risse is an American historian of science and medicine. The American Association for the History of Medicine awarded him the 1988 William H. Welch Medal for his book...

42. Robert Soucy (1933)

American Historian

Robert Soucy is an American historian specializing in French fascist movements between 1924 and 1939 French fascist intellectuals Maurice Barrès and Pierre Drieu La Rochelle European fascism twentieth-century European intellectual...

43. Gordon S. Wood (1933)

American Historian

Gordon S. Wood is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University and the recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Radicalism...

44. Seymour Drescher (1934)

American Historian

Seymour Drescher is an American historian and a professor at the University of Pittsburgh known for his studies on Alexis de Tocqueville and Slavery. Seymour Drescher has been publishing since...

45. Jill Ker Conway (1934)

American Historian

Jill Ker Conway AC is an Australian-American author. Well known for her autobiographies in particular her first memoir The Road from Coorain. She was also Smith College's first woman president...

46. Akira Iriye (1934)

American Historian

Iriye Akira is an historian of American diplomatic history especially United States-East Asian relations and international issues. He is the only Japanese citizen ever to serve as President of...

47. Jacob Lassner (1935)

American Historian

Jacob Lassner is the Philip M. & Ethel Klutznick Professor of Jewish civilization Emeritus at Northwestern University. and former Director of the Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies. Professor Lassner...

48. Hermann Eduard von Holst (1841)

American Historian

Hermann Eduard von Holst was a German-American historian.

49. Erich S. Gruen (1935)

American Historian

Erich Stephen Gruen is an American classicist and ancient historian. He was the Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics at the University of California Berkeley where he taught...

50. Frank J. Esposito (1941)

American Historian

John Esposito is an American historian educator and university administrator. He is the Distinguished Service Professor of History at Kean University in Union New Jersey. In the 2009 New Jersey...