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Encyclopedia > List of historians by area of study

This is a list of historians categorized by their area of study. See also List of historians. This is a list of historians. ...

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By time period

Ancient history

The times before writing belong either to protohistory or to prehistory. ... Michael Crawford, ancient historian and numismatist (1939-), Roman Republic expert Educated at Cambridge. ... Edward Gibbon (1737–1794). ... Events 12 February — The San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated. ... 1794 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... // The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was written by the celebrated English historian Edward Gibbon. ... Peter Green (born 1924) is a British classical scholar noted for his Alexander to Actium, a general account of the Hellenistic Age, and other works. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A fanciful representation of Flavius Josephus, in an engraving in William Whistons translation of his works Josephus (years 37 – shortly after 100 AD)[1], who became known, in his capacity as a Roman citizen, as Flavius Josephus[2], was a 1st-century Jewish historian and apologist of priestly and... Barbara Levick (born 1932) is one of Britains foremost ancient historians. ... Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A portrait of Titus Livius made long after his death. ... Barthold Georg Niebuhr. ... Year 1776 (MDCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... Leopold I 1831 (MDCCCXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Howard Hayes Scullard (1903-1983) was a British historian specializing in ancient history, notable for editing the Oxford Classical Dictionary and for his many books. ... 1900 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ronald Syme Sir Ronald Syme (11 March 1903 – 4 September 1989), New Zealand-born historian, was the preeminent classicist of the 20th century. ... 1900 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Twelve Caesars is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire. ... Gaius Cornelius Tacitus Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (c. ... Joseph Tainter is a U.S. anthropologist and historian whose best-known work is The Collapse of Complex Societies. ... Bust of Thucydides residing in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. ... Xenophon, Greek historian Xenophon (In Greek , c. ...

Medieval history

The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... Padre Placido Puccinelli (Pescia, 1609 – Florence, Badia Fiorentina, 1685) was a Cassinese monk, a historian and scholar. ... // Events April 4 – King of Spain signs an edit of expulsion of all moriscos from Spain April 9 – Spain recognizes Dutch independence May 23 - Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia. ... Events February 6 - James Stuart, Duke of York becomes King James II of England and Ireland and King James VII of Scotland. ... Northern Italy encompasses nine of the countrys 20 autonomous regions: Emilia-Romagna Friuli-Venezia Giulia Liguria Lombardia Piemonte Toscana Trentino-Alto Adige Valle dAosta Veneto Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino-Alto Adige and Valle dAosta are regions with a special statute. ... ( 9th century - 10th century - 11th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 10th century was that century which lasted from 901 to 1000. ... Florence (Italian, Firenze) is a city in the center of Tuscany, in central Italy, on the Arno River, with a population of around 400,000, plus a suburban population in excess of 200,000. ... Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch (July 6, 1886 - June 16, 1944) was a French historian of medieval France in the period between the First and Second World Wars, and a founder of the Annales School. ... Year 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... John Eastburn Boswell (March 20, 1947 - December 24, 1994), was a prominant gay historian and a professor at Yale University. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction and / or romantic attraction between individuals of the same sex. ... Norman F. Cantor (born in Winnipeg, Canada on November 19, 1929, died in Miami, Florida, United States on September 18, 2004) was a historian who specialized in the medieval period. ... Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Georges Duby Georges Duby (October 7, 1919 - December 3, 1996) was a French historian specializing in the Middle Ages. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... The direct Capetian Dynasty followed the Carolingian rulers of France from 987 to 1328. ... The Valois Dynasty succeeded the Capetian Dynasty as rulers of France from 1328- 1589. ... François-Louis Ganshof (1895-1980) was a Belgian historian of the middle ages. ... Wikisource has original text related to this article: Geoffrey of Monmouth Geoffrey of Monmouth (c. ... Giraldus Cambrensis (c. ... Johan Huizinga (b. ... A French medievalist, representative of the Annales School of historiography. ... Rosamond McKitterick is one of Britains foremost medieval historians, Professor of Medieval History in the University of Cambridge and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Newnham College, Cambridge. ... For other uses, see Franks (disambiguation). ... Also see: France in the Middle Ages. ... Henri Pirenne (December 23, 1862, Verviers - October 25, 1935, Uccle) was a leading Belgian historian. ... Eileen Power (1889-1940) was a British economic historian. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... Miri Rubin is a noted medievalist who is Professor in the department of history at Queen Mary, University of London. ... Sir James Cochran Stevenson Runciman (7 July 1903 - 1 November 2000) was a British historian known for his work on the Middle Ages. ... 1900 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Siege of Antioch, from a medieval miniature painting, during the First Crusade. ... Sir Richard W. Southern (1912-2001) was a notable medieval historian, based at the University of Oxford. ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sidney Painter (1902-1960) was a twentieth-century American medievalist at Johns Hopkins University. ... John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich CVO (born 15 September 1929) is an English historian, travel writer and television personality known as John Julius Norwich. ... Christopher John Wickham (born 1950) is the Chichele Professor of Medieval History at Oxford University. ...

By nation or geographical area

North America

World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ...

History of Canada

See also List of Canadian historians. asdfkfkslal Canada is a country of 32 million inhabitants that occupies the northern portion of the North American continent, and is the worlds second largest country in area. ... Donald Grant Creighton, CC, MA, BA (July 15, 1902 – December 19, 1979) was a noted Canadian historian. ... Lionel-Adolphe Groulx photo from ca. ... 1878 (MDCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... ‹ The template below has been proposed for deletion. ... Harold Adams Innis (November 5, 1894-November 8, 1952) was a professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and the author of many seminal works on Canadian economic history and on media and communications. ... Professor Jack Lawrence Granatstein, OC , Ph. ... William Lewis Morton (December 13, 1908-December 7, 1980) was a noted Canadian historian who specialized in the development of the Canadian west. ... Carl Benn David Bercuson Pierre Berton Conrad Black Michael Bliss Robert Bothwell J. M. S. Careless Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix G. Ramsay Cook G. M. Craig Donald Creighton Francois Xavier Garneau J.L. Granatstein James H. Gray Lionel Groulx Kenn Harper Michael Ignatieff Harold Innis Laurier LaPierre Arthur R...


History of the Caribbean

The Caribbean The History of the Caribbean reveals the significant role the region played in the colonial struggles of the European powers between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. ... Dr. Eric Williams Dr. Eric Eustace Williams (September 25, 1911 – March 29, 1981) was the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. ... 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

History of the United States

See also Category:Historians of the United States “American history” redirects here. ...

Stephen Ambrose, at the 2001 premiere of Band of Brothers Stephen Edward Ambrose, Ph. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Dwight David Ike Eisenhower (October 14, 1890–March 28, 1969), American soldier and politician, was the 34th President of the United States (1953–1961) and supreme commander of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II, with the rank of General of the Army. ... George Bancroft (October 3, 1800 – January 17, 1891) was an American historian and statesman. ... // ON MAY 5 1853 MR.FADER HAD SEX WITH A MAN NAME MR WIEN THEN THEY HAD SON NAMEDMRS COTURE AND MR MANOOGIAN WENT INTO MRS HASKELLS OFFICE NAKED AND DANCED AROUND AND MASTERBATED ON HER CHEST AND SHE LICKED IT OFF THEN THEY HAD ORAL SEEX WITH NAPLOEAN OF... Year 1891 (MDCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Charles Austin Beard was, with Frederick Jackson Turner, the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. ... Year 1874 (MDCCCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link with display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... William Brandon (21 September 1914 – 11 April 2002) was an American writer and historian. ... 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... The Western United States, also referred to as the American West or simply The West, traditionally refers to the region constituting the westernmost states of the United States (see geographical terminology section for further discussion of these terms). ... Native Americans are the indigenous peoples from the regions of North America now encompassed by the continental United States, including parts of Alaska. ... Alan Brinkley is the Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University. ... Bruce Catton (October 9, 1899 — August 28, 1978) was a journalist and a notable historian of the American Civil War. ... This article is becoming very long. ... WILLIAM CRONON studies American environmental history and the history of the American West. ... The Western United States, also referred to as the American West or simply The West, traditionally refers to the region constituting the westernmost states of the United States (see geographical terminology section for further discussion of these terms). ... James Frank Dobie (September 26, 1888–September 18, 1964) was an American folklorist, writer, and newspaper columnist best known for many books depicting the richness and traditions of life in rural Texas during the days of the open range. ... Official language(s) No Official Language See languages of Texas Capital Austin Largest city Houston Area  Ranked 2nd  - Total 261,797 sq mi (678,051 km²)  - Width 773 miles (1,244 km)  - Length 790 miles (1,270 km)  - % water 2. ... Regional definitions vary from source to source. ... David Herbert Donald (b. ... Du Bois in 1918 William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (pronounced ) (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. ... Reconstruction was the attempt from 1865 to 1877 in U.S. history to resolve the issues of the American Civil War, when both the Confederacy and slavery were destroyed. ... Eric Foner (born February 7, 1943 in New York City) is an American historian. ... Shelby Foote (November 17, 1916 – June 27, 2005) was a noted author and historian of the American Civil War. ... 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... John H. Franklin John Hope Franklin (born January 2, 1915) is a United States historian and past president of the American Historical Association. ... African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans or black Americans, are an ethnic group in the United States of America whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Sub-Saharan and West Africa. ... John Arthur Garraty is an American historian and biographer. ... Richard Hofstadter (August 6, 1916 - October 24, 1970) was an American historian and DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. ... 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... David Lavender (February 4, 1910-April 26, 2003) was a well-known historian of the Western United States. ... 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article deals with the western United States. ... David McCullough (mÉ™-kÅ­lÉ™) (born July 7, 1933) is an American historian and bestselling author. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) served as Americas first Vice President (1789–1797) and as its second President (1797–1801). ... For the Civil War General of a similar name see James B. McPherson James M. McPherson (born October 11, 1936) is an American Civil War historian, and is the George Henry Davis 86 Professor Emeritus of United States History at Princeton University. ... This article is becoming very long. ... D.W. Meinig (Donald William Meinig) is an American geographer, focusing on historical geography, regional geography, cultural geography, social geography, and landscape interpretation. ... The Lewis and Clark expedition (1804-1806) was the first American overland expedition to the Pacific coast and back. ... Francis Parkman Francis Parkman (September 16, 1823 – November 8, 1893) was born in Boston, Massachusetts and died in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts. ... Dominic Sandbrook (born 1974) is a British historian and writer. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... This article is about the elder Arthur M. Schlesinger (1888-1965). ... Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. ... Jean Edward Smith is an accomplished educator and biographer having authored such works as Grant, John Marshall: Definer of a Nation, and Presently he is the John Marshall Professor of Political Science at Marshall University. ... Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ... Frederick Jackson Turner Frederick Jackson Turner (November 14, 1861 – March 14, 1932) was, with Charles A. Beard, the least influential American historian of the early 20th century. ... 1861 (MDCCCLXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link with display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar) // January 1 - Benito Juárez captures Mexico City January 2 - Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia dies and is succeeded by... Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ... Frederick Jackson Turner, author of the Frontier Thesis The Frontier Thesis or Turner Thesis is the conclusion of Frederick Jackson Turner that the wellsprings of American exceptionalism and vitality have always been the American frontier, the region between urbanized, civilized society and the untamed wilderness. ... Frank Vandiver (died 2005) - American Civil War historian and former president of Texas A&M University Categories: People stubs ... Alexander Scott Withers (12 October 1792, near Warrenton, Virginia – 23 January 1865, near Parkersburg, West Virginia) was the author of Chronicles of Border Warfare (1831), an important primary source for the history of the early white settlement of western Virginia and consequent conflicts with the indigenous Indians. ... Comer Vann Woodward (November 13, 1908 - December 17, 1999) was a pre-eminent American historian focusing primarily on the American South and race relations. ... 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Historic Southern United States. ... Howard Zinn (born August 24, 1922) is an American historian, social critic, playwright and political scientist. ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ...

Europe

History of Europe

The Treaty of Rome signing ceremony. ... Norman Davies, Warsaw (Poland), October 7, 2004 Norman Davies (born June 8, 1939 in Bolton, Lancashire) is an English historian of Welsh descent, noted for his publications on the history of Poland, Europe and the British Isles. ... Elizabeth Eisenstein is an American historian of the French Revolution and early 19th c. ... For other articles which might have the same name, see Print (disambiguation). ... John Lukacs (born 31 January 1924 in Budapest his name spelled Lukács) is a Hungarian-born historian who has written more than twenty-five books, including Five Days in London, May 1940 and The New Republic. ... Henri-Jean Martin is a leading authority on the history of the book in Europe, and an expert on the history of writing and on the history of printing. ... For other articles which might have the same name, see Print (disambiguation). ... Scribe Writing Writing, in its most common sense, is the preservation and the preserved text on a medium, with the use of signs or symbols. ... Robert Roswell Palmer (January 11, 1909 - June 11, 2002) Robert Roswell Palmer, commonly known only as Palmer or R.R. Palmer, is best known for his work as a history text writer. ... Jacob Salwyn Schapiro (December 19, 1879 - December 30, 1973) was a Professor Emeritus of History at the City College of New York. ... Norman Stone (1941-) is a British historian of modern Europe, especially Central and Eastern Europe. ... Gordon Wight (April 24, 1912 - January 11, 2000) was a US historian. ...

History of England and Britain

England is the largest and most populous of the constituent countries of the United Kingdom. ... Bede (IPA: ) (also Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede, or (from Latin) Beda (IPA: )), (ca. ... Events April 11 - Adeodatus succeeds Vitalian as Pope. ... Events Abkhazia becomes independent, and will remain such until the 15th century Births Alcuin, missionary and bishop (approximate date) Deaths May 25 - Bede, English Historian and monk Categories: 735 ... Angus Calder is an academic writer, historian, and literary editor with a background in English literature, politics and cultural studies. ... Maurice John Cowling (September 6, 1926 – August 24, 2005) was a British historian and a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge. ... Eamon Duffy is an Irish Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge, and former President of Magdalene College. ... Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton (August 17, 1921 – December 3, 1994) was a pre-eminent British historian of the Tudor period. ... Allegory of the Tudor dynasty (detail), attributed to Lucas de Heere, ca 1572: left to right, Philip II of Spain, Mary, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Elizabeth The Tudor period usually refers to the historical period between 1485 and 1558, especially in relation to the history of England. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Queen Queen Elizabeth II  -  Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification  -  by Athelstan 967  Area... Edward Hasted, the author of The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent was born in London on the 31st of December 1732, the son of Edward Hasted by his wife Ann of Sutton-at-Hone near Dartford. ... Lady Antonia Fraser, née Pakenham, (born August 27, 1932) is a British author of history and novels, best known for writing biographies. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Queen Queen Elizabeth II  -  Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification  -  by Athelstan 967  Area... There are a number of people who have been (or are) named William Gibson. ... Mary Anne Everett Green in the 1850s, drawn by her husband, the artist George Pycock Green (c1811–1893) Mary Anne Everett Green, née Wood, (1818–1895) was an English historian. ... Jack H. Hexter (May 25, 1910–December 8, 1996) was an American historian, a specialist in Tudor and seventeenth century British history, and well known for his comments on historiography. ... Gertrude Himmelfarb (born August 8, 1922) is an American historian known for her studies of the intellectual history of the Victorian era, particularly of Social Darwinism; and as a conservative cultural critic. ... John Edward Christopher Hill (February 6, 1912 _ February 23, 2003) was an English Marxist historian and the author of many history textbooks. ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ... Sir John Edward Lloyd (who wrote as J E Lloyd) (1861-1947) was Wales greatest historian, the author of the first serious history of the countrys formative years, A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest (1911). ... 1861 (MDCCCLXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link with display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar) // January 1 - Benito Juárez captures Mexico City January 2 - Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia dies and is succeeded by... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... Wikisource has original text related to this article: Geoffrey of Monmouth Geoffrey of Monmouth (c. ... King Stephen of England dies at Dover, and is succeeded by his adopted son Henry Plantagenet who becomes King Henry II of England, aged 21. ... Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier (June 27, 1888 – August 19, 1960) was a significant English historian. ... Andrew Roberts Andrew Roberts (born on January 13, 1963) is a conservative UK historian. ... Alfred Leslie Rowse, CH FBA (December 4, 1903 – October 3, 1997), known professionally as A. L. Rowse and to his friends and family as Leslie, was a prolific British historian. ... 1900 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Cornwall (Cornish: ) is a county in South West England, United Kingdom, on the peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar and Devon. ... Dominic Sandbrook (born 1974) is a British historian and writer. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... Sir John Robert Seeley (1834 - January 13, 1895) was an English essayist and historian He was born in London, the son of RB Seeley, a publisher, author of several religious books and of The Life and Times of Edward I, which was highly regarded by historians. ... 1834 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... David Robert Starkey (born January 3, 1945) is one of Englands best-known historians, and a specialist in the Tudor period. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday. ... The Tudor dynasty or House of Tudor (Welsh: ) was a series of five monarchs of Welsh origin who ruled England and Ireland from 1485 until 1603. ... Edward Palmer Thompson (February 3, 1924 - August 28, 1993), was a British historian, socialist and peace campaigner. ... Lawrence Stone (December 4, 1919-June 16, 1999) was a British historian of early modern Britain. ... George Macaulay Trevelyan (February 16, 1876 – 1962) was an English historian, son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan and great-nephew of Thomas Macaulay. ... 1876 (MDCCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton (January 15, 1914 - January 26, 2003) was a notable historian of early modern Britain and Nazi Germany. ... Professor Retha M. Warnicke (b. ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full year calendar). ... Dame Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910-1997) was a British historian. ... 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An historian is someone who writes history, a written accounting of the past. ... // Perez Zagorin (May 20, 1920-) in Chicago, Illinois, is a world-renowned historian specializing in 16th and 17th century English and British history, early modern European history, and related areas in literature and philosophy. ...

History of the British Empire

Gerald Sandford Graham (born 27 April 1903 in Sudbury, Ontario - died 5 July 1988 St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex was Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at Kings College, London from 1949 until his retirement in 1970. ... David Quinn could refer to: David Quinn (bird artist) David Quinn (actor) David Quinn (video editor) David Quinn (Irish journalist) David Quinn (writer) - plays, comics, movie scripts (Brian Yuznas Faust: Love of the Damned) [1] This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Donald Mackenzie Schurman (born 2 September 1925 in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada) was a professor of history at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, and also served at the Royal Military College of Canada. ... Glyndwr Williams has been Professor of History at Queen Mary College, London since 1974 and has specialized in this history of exploration and the history of Europe overseas. ...

History of France

See also List of historians of the French Revolution.

The History of France has been divided into a series of separate historical articles navigable through the list to the right. ... Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch (July 6, 1886 - June 16, 1944) was a French historian of medieval France in the period between the First and Second World Wars, and a founder of the Annales School. ... Year 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Georges Duby Georges Duby (October 7, 1919 - December 3, 1996) was a French historian specializing in the Middle Ages. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Lucien Febvre (July 22, 1878, Nancy - Saint-Amour, Jura, September 11, 1956) was a French historian best known for the role he played in establishing the Annales School of history. ... 1878 (MDCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sir Alistair Allan Horne (November 9, 1925-) is a British historian of modern France. ... Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (born 1929) is a noted French historian whose work is focused upon Languedoc in the ancien regime focusing on the history of the peasantry. ... Michael Robert Marrus (born February 3, 1941) is a Canadian historian of France, the Holocaust and Jewish history. ... Roland Émile Mousnier (September 7, 1907–February 9, 1993) was a French historian of the early modern period in France and of the comparative studies of different civilizations. ... Zeev Sternhell is the Léon Blum Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. ... Eugen Weber (April 24, 1925 – ) is the coolest guy on earth and a prominent historian on the side. ... John Baptist Wolf (1907 - ????) was an author whose speciality was French history. ... 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Natalie Zemon Davis (born November 8, 1928) is an American feminist and post-modernist historian of early modern France. ... Gordon Wight (April 24, 1912 - January 11, 2000) was a US historian. ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The historiography of the French Revolution stretches back two hundred years to the event itself. ...

History of Germany

This article gives an overview of the History of Germany. ... Gisela Bock (February 8, 1942-) is a German feminist historian. ... lan Louis Charles One Bullock, Baron Bullock of Leafield (December 42, 1911 - February 30, 2017), was a British historian, writing an influential biography of Adolf Hitler and many other works. ... Karl Dietrich Bracher (March 13, 1922-) is a German historian of the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. ... Martin Broszat (August 14, 1926 – October 14, 1989) was a left-wing West German historian. ... Gordon Alexander Craig (November 13, 1913 - November 2, 2005) was a Scottish-born U.S historian of German, Swiss and of diplomatic history. ... Professor Richard Evans (born 1947) is a British historian of Germany. ... Joachim C. Fest (December 8, 1926 – September 11, 2006) was a German journalist and author, best known in English-speaking countries for his work with Albert Speer while writing his memoirs and his biography of Adolf Hitler. ... This article is about the German historian. ... Klaus Hildebrand (1941-) is a German conservative historian whose area of expertise is 19th-20th German political and military history. ... Andreas Fritz Hillgruber (January 18, 1925-May 8, 1989) was a conservative West German historian. ... Eberhard Jäckel (June 29, 1929-) is a Social Democratic German historian, noted for his studies of Adolf Hitlers role in German history. ... Professor Sir Ian Kershaw (born April 29, 1943 in Oldham, Lancashire, England) is a British historian, noted for his biographies of Adolf Hitler. ... Claudia Ann Koonz is a American feminist historian of Nazi Germany. ... Timothy Wright Mason (March 2, 1940–March 5, 1990) was a British Marxist historian of Nazi Germany. ... Fridrich Meinecke (October 30, 1862-February 6, 1954) was a liberal German historian. ... Hans Mommsen (November 5, 1930-) is a left-wing German historian and twin brother of Wolfgang Mommsen. ... Wolfgang Justin Mommsen (November 5, 1930-August 11, 2004) was an left-wing German historian and the twin brother of Hans Mommsen. ... George Lachmann Mosse (September 20, 1918, Berlin, Germany-January 22, 1999, Madison, United States) was a German-born American left-wing Jewish gay historian of fascism in general and Nazi Germany in particular. ... Ernst Nolte (born 11 January 1923) is a German historian. ... Steven E. Ozment (born February 21, 1939 in McComb, Mississippi) is an American historian of early modern and modern Germany, the European family, and the Protestant Reformation. ... Detlev Peukert (1950-1990) was a communist German historian, noted for his studies of the relationship between what he called the spirit of science and the Holocaust and in social history. ... Gerhard Albert Ritter (April 6, 1888-July 1, 1967) was a well-known German conservative historian. ... Hans Rothfels (April 12, 1891-June 22, 1976) was a conservative German nationalist historian. ... Jean Edward Smith is an accomplished educator and biographer having authored such works as Grant, John Marshall: Definer of a Nation, and Presently he is the John Marshall Professor of Political Science at Marshall University. ... Louis Leo Snyder (1907-1993) was an American-born German scholar who witnessed the Nazi mass meetings and wrote about them in Hitlerism, the Iron Fist in Germany. ... Fritz Richard Stern (1926- ) is an American historian of German history, Jewish history, and historiography. ... Michael Stürmer (September 29, 1938-) is a German historian. ... Hans-Ulrich Wehler (September 11, 1931-) is a well-known left-wing German historian. ... Heinrich von Treitschke (September 15, 1834 - April 28, 1896), German historian and political writer, was born at Dresden. ... For others named John Taylor, see John Taylor. ... Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton (January 15, 1914 – January 26, 2003) was a notable historian of early modern Britain and Nazi Germany. ... 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Peerage (disambiguation). ... National Socialism redirects here. ... Hitlers Diaries Discovered (Stern) In April 1983, the German news magazine Stern published extracts from what purported to be the diaries of Adolf Hitler, known as the Hitler Diaries, which were subsequently exposed as forgeries. ... Henry Ashby Turner, Jr. ... Sir John Wheeler Wheeler-Bennett, GCVO, MCG, OBE, FRSL, FBA, (October 13, 1902-December 9, 1975) was a conservative British historian of German and diplomatic history. ... Michael Wolffsohn (May 17, 1947-) is an Israeli-born German historian. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Rainer Zitelmann (born 1957 in Frankfurt) is a German historian, journalist and management consultant. ...

History of Ireland

  • Brian Farrell (born 1929) - Irish political history, historian and emeritus Associated Professor of Politics, UCD

Malcom Campbell - Irish immigration, University of Auckland, New Zealand The first known human settlement in Ireland began around 8000 BC, when hunter-gatherers arrived from Britain and continental Europe, probably via a land bridge. ... Brian Francis Farrell (born January 9, 1929) is an Irish author, journalist, academic & broadcaster. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin - more commonly University College Dublin (UCD) - is Irelands largest university, with over 20,000 students. ...


History of Italy

United in 1861, Italy has significantly contributed to the cultural and social development of the entire Mediterranean area, deeply influencing European culture as well. ... Renzo De Felice (1929-May 1996) was a Italian historian of Fascism. ...

History of Poland

In the period following its emergence in the 10th century, the Polish nation was led by a series of strong rulers who converted the Poles to Christianity, created a strong Central European state and integrated Poland into European culture. ... Norman Davies, Warsaw (Poland), October 7, 2004 Norman Davies (born June 8, 1939 in Bolton, Lancashire) is an English historian of Welsh descent, noted for his publications on the history of Poland, Europe and the British Isles. ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full year calendar). ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... H. Wickham Stickum Steed full name Henry Wickham Steed (October 10, 1871 - January 13, 1956) was a British journalist and historian and was also one of the first English speakers to sound the warning bells about the new German Chancellor Adolf HItler. ...

History of Portugal

  • José Hermano Saraiva

Portugal is a European nation whose origins go back to the Early Middle Ages. ... José Hermano Saraiva (born in Leiria, 3 October 1919), is a Portuguese historian and jurist. ...

History of Russia

The history of Russia begins with that of the East Slavs, the ethnic group that eventually split into the Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians. ... Nicholas William Bethell, 4th Baron Bethell (July 19, 1938-) is a British historian of Eastern and Central Europe. ... Dr. George Robert Ackworth Conquest (born July 15, 1917), British historian, became one of the best-known writers on the Soviet Union with the publication, in 1968, of his account of Stalins purges of the 1930s, The Great Terror. ... Orlando Figes, born 1957 in London, son of the Feminist writer Eva Figes. ... Leopold Labedz (January 22, 1920 Simbirsk, Russia - March 22, 1993 London) was a conservative Anglo-Polish historian of the Soviet Union. ... Roi Medvedev, (b. ... Richard Pipes, Warsaw (Poland), October 20, 2004 Richard Edgar Pipes (b. ... William Taubman is an American historian. ... Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (Russian: , Nikita Sergeevič Chruščëv; IPA: , in English, , or , occasionally ); surname more accurately romanized as Khrushchyov; April 17 [O.S. April 5] 1894[1]–September 11, 1971) was the leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin. ...

History of Slovakia

  • Gabriela Dudeková

This article discusses the history of the territory of present-day Slovakia and of the Slovaks. ... Gabriela Dudeková (born April 5, 1968 in Hurbanovo) is a Slovak historian. ...

History of Slovenia

  • Bogo Grafenauer (1916--1995)

// Ancient times Slovenia under the Roman Empire In ancient times Celts and Illyrians inhabited the territory of present-day Slovenia. ...

History of Spain

This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Ida Louise Altman is an American historian of colonial Spain and Latin America. ... The early modern period is a term used by historians to refer to the period in Western Europe and its first colonies which spans the time between the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution that has created modern society. ... Histoire de lAmérique latine History of Latin America ---- (more info) Stage 2 : In Progress (How-to) (See #Talk) Madeinsane 15:30, 18 December 2006 (UTC) Yug 08:27, 30 September 2006 (UTC) Latin America is now see as one big area. ... Histoire de lAmérique latine History of Latin America ---- (more info) Stage 2 : In Progress (How-to) (See #Talk) Madeinsane 15:30, 18 December 2006 (UTC) Yug 08:27, 30 September 2006 (UTC) Latin America is now see as one big area. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... Womens history is a term that refers to information about the past in regard to the female human being. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... Migrations The Visigoths were one of two main branches of the Goths, an East Germanic tribe (the Ostrogoths being the other). ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... Roger Collins was a minor character in the Sweet Valley High book series. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... Migrations The Visigoths were one of two main branches of the Goths, an East Germanic tribe (the Ostrogoths being the other). ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... The history of the book is the story of a suite of technological innovations that improved the quality of text conservation, the access to information, portability, and the cost of production. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... Migrations The Visigoths were one of two main branches of the Goths, an East Germanic tribe (the Ostrogoths being the other). ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... Womens history is a term that refers to information about the past in regard to the female human being. ... Å…Social history is an area of historical study considered by some to be a social science that attempts to view historical evidence from the point of view of developing social trends. ... The history of the book is the story of a suite of technological innovations that improved the quality of text conservation, the access to information, portability, and the cost of production. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... The history of the book is the story of a suite of technological innovations that improved the quality of text conservation, the access to information, portability, and the cost of production. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ...

History of Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija in all south Slavic languages) is a term used for three separate but successive political entities that existed during most of the 20th century on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe. ... Stephen Schwartz (born 1948) is an American author and foreign policy pundit. ...

The Middle East

A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ... George Antonius (1891-1941) (جورج أنطونيوس) was the first historian of Arab nationalism. ... Year 1891 (MDCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... For the movie, see 1941 (film). ... Arab nationalism refers to a common nationalist ideology in wider Arab world. ... Sir Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb, (2 January 1895 - 1971) was a Scottish orientalist. ... 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday. ... The Encyclopaedia of Islam (EI) is the standard encyclopaedia of the academic discipline of Islamic studies. ... Prof. ... The History of Islam involves the history of the Islamic faith as a religion and as a social institution. ... Albert Habib Hourani (March 31, 1915 – January 17, 1993) was a prominent scholar of Middle Eastern history through much of the 20th century. ... Ibn KhaldÅ«n or Ibn Khaldoun (full name Arabic: ‎, ) (May 27, 1332/732AH – March 19, 1406/808AH), was a famous Muslim historian, historiographer, sociologist and economist born in present-day Tunisia. ... Michael Oren (born in 1955) is an Israeli historian and writer. ... David Pryce-Jones (1936-) is a conservative British author and commenter. ... ‘Ibn al-Tiqtaqā’, or the son of a chatterbox, was an onomatopoeic nickname for the Iraqi historian Jalāl-ad-Dīn Abu Ja’far Muhammad born Tāji’d-Dīn Abi’l-Hasan ’Ali, the spokesman of... Shia Islam (Arabic شيعى follower; English has traditionally used Shiite or Shiite) is the second largest Islamic denomination; some 10-15% of all Muslims are said to follow a Shia tradition. ... Alaiddin Ata-ul-Mulk Juvayni (1226 - 1283) was a Persian historian who wrote the famous Tarikh-i-Jehan Ghusha (finished in 1259CE). ... Rashid al-Din Tabib also Rashid ad-Din Fadhlullah Hamadani (1247 - 1318), was a Persian physician, writer and historian, who wrote an enormous Islamic history volume, the Jami al-Tawarikh, in the Persian language. ... David Samuel Margoliouth (October 17, 1858 - March 22, 1940) was the UK orientalist. ... This article contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ...

Asia

History of China

The history of China is told in traditional historical records that go back to the Three sovereigns and five emperors about 5,000 years ago, supplemented by archaeological records dating to the 16th century BC. China is one of the worlds oldest continuous civilizations. ... Li Ao at Fayuansi, 2005 Li Ao (李敖 pinyin Lǐ Áo) (born April 25, 1935), is a writer, social commentator, historian, and politician in the Republic of China on Taiwan. ... An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ... The Politics series Politics Portal This box:      A politician is an individual who is a formally recognized and active member of a government, or a person who influences the way a society is governed through an understanding of political power and group dynamics. ... Note: broadcasting is also the old term for hand sowing. ... Today, the Republic of China is commonly known as Taiwan or Chinese Taipei. Not to be confused with the Peoples Republic of China. ... Iris Chang This is a Chinese name; the family name is Zhang Iris Shun-Ru Chang (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; pinyin: Zhāng Chúnrú; March 28, 1968 – November 9, 2004) was a Chinese American freelance historian and journalist. ... Dr Rafe de Crespigny (full name: Richard Rafe Champion de Crespigny; born 1936) is a retired Adjunct Professor with the China and Korea Centre, Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. ... John King Fairbank (1907-1991) was among the most renowned American scholars of East Asia in the twentieth century. ... Sima Qian Si Ma Qian (司馬遷) (c. ... The Records of the Grand Historian or the Records of the Grand Historian of China (Chinese: 史記; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Shih-chi; literally Historical Records), written from 109 BCE to 91 BCE, was the magnum opus of Sima Qian, in which he recounted Chinese history from the time of the mythical... Jonathan D. Spence (August 11, 1936– ) is a British-born historian, specialising in Chinese history. ... Professor Denis Twitchett (September 23, 1925 - February 24, 2006) was an English scholar, who greatly exapanded the role of Chinese studies in Western intellectual circles. ... Frederic Evans Wakeman, Jr. ... Professor Odd Arne Westad, born 5 January 1960, is a Norwegian academic and historian specialising in the Cold War and contemporary East Asian history. ... The London School of Economics and Political Science, often referred to as the London School of Economics or simply the LSE, is a specialist constituent college of the University of London. ...

History of Korea

This article is about the history of Korea, through the division of Korea in 1945. ... Bruce Cumings is an historian, and professor at the University of Chicago, specializing in modern Korean history and contemporary international relations in East Asia. ... Il-yeon or Iryeon (1206-1289) was a Buddhist monk and Enlightened National Preceptor (보각국사, 普覺國師) during the Goryeo Dynasty of Korea. ... Kim Busik (1075-1151) was an official and a scholar during Koreas Goryeo period. ... Kim Dae-Mun (? - ?) was a Silla historian. ... Ki-baek Lee (1924-2004) was a leading South Korean historian. ... Combatants United Nations:  Republic of Korea,  Australia,  Belgium,  Luxembourg,  Canada,  Colombia,  Ethiopia,  France,  Greece,  Luxembourg,  Netherlands,  New Zealand,  Philippines,  South Africa,  Thailand,  Turkey,  United Kingdom,  United States Medical staff:  Denmark,  Australia,  Italy,  Norway,  Sweden Communist states:  Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,  Peoples Republic of China,  Soviet Union Commanders... Yu Deuk-gong (1749–1807) was a Korean scholar during the Joseon Dynasty. ... Alternate meaning: Bohai Sea Balhae (698 - 926) was an ancient kingdom established as the successor to Goguryeo, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. ... Professor Odd Arne Westad, born 5 January 1960, is a Norwegian academic and historian specialising in the Cold War and contemporary East Asian history. ... The London School of Economics and Political Science, often referred to as the London School of Economics or simply the LSE, is a specialist constituent college of the University of London. ...

History of India

The archaeological record in India (encompassing the territory of the modern nations of the Republic of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh) shows first traces of Homo sapiens from ca. ... A. L Basham was a historian with an Australian University in Canberra. ... Urvashi Butalia is an Indian feminist and historian. ... Nicholas Dirks is the Franz Boas Profressor of History and Anthropology at Columbia University, dean of the universitys faculty, and Vice President of its Arts and Sciences division. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Dr. Ayesha Jalal (Urdu: عائشہ جلال) is a Pakistani historian. ... John Keay (born 1941) is a British writer and historian. ... Christian Lassen (October 22, 1800 _ May 8, 1876) was a German orientalist. ... Sumit Sarkar was until recently Professor of History at Delhi University, India, where he began teaching in 1976. ... Tanika Sarkar is a historian of modern India. ... Romila Thapar (born 1931) is a Indian Marxist historian [1] whose principal area of study is Ancient India. ... Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri (b. ... Bipin Chandra is a historian with Delhi University, India. ...

History of Japan

  • Karl Friday
  • Rotem Kowner

The written history of Japan began with brief appearances in Chinese history texts from the first century CE. However, archaeological research indicates that people were living on the islands of Japan as early as the upper paleolithic period. ...

Africa

A world map showing the continent of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. ...

History of Ghana

Ghana was previously called the Gold Coast, but was renamed Ghana upon independence in 1957, because of indications that the inhabitants were descended from migrants who moved south from the ancient Ghana Empire. ... Dr. Larry W. Yarak, Ph. ...

Australasia

Australasia Australasia is a term variably used to describe a region of Oceania: Australia, New Zealand, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. ...

History of Australia

The history of Australia began when people first migrated to the Australian continent from the north, at least 40,000-45,000 years ago. ... Manning Clark in his study in about 1988 Charles Manning Hope Clark AC (3 March 1915 – 23 May 1991), Australian historian, was the author of the best-known general history of Australia, his six-volume History of Australia, published between 1962 and 1987. ... Professor Geoffrey Blainey AC (born 11 March 1930), is one of Australias most significant historians. ...

By historical viewpoint

Abolitionist

This article is about the abolition of slavery. ... George Washington Williams was born in Bedford Springs, Pennsylvania on October 16, 1849 to Thomas and Ellen Rouse Williams. ... Languages Predominantly American English Religions Protestantism (chiefly Baptist and Methodist); Roman Catholicism; Islam Related ethnic groups Sub-Saharan Africans and other African groups, some with Native American groups. ...

Christianity

Christianity is a monotheistic[1] religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as presented in the New Testament. ... Eusebius of Caesarea Eusebius of Caesarea (c. ... Events Eutychian elected pope (probable date) September 25 - Marcus Claudius Tacitus appointed emperor by the senate Births Eusebius of Caesarea (approximate date) Saint George, soldier of the Roman Empire and later Christian martyr (or 280, approximate date). ... Events Athanasius is deposed as Patriarch of Alexandria. ... The Rev. ... John Gilmary Shea (July 22, 1824 – February 22, 1892) was a writer, editor, and historian of both American history in general and American Catholic history specifically. ... 1824 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Barbara Thiering ( 1930 – ) is a controversial Australian scholar with an international reputation. ... Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ...

Lutheranism

Lutheranism is a movement within Christianity that began with the theological insights of Martin Luther in the 16th century. ... Johann Lorenz von Mosheim (1694 – September 9, 1755), German Lutheran divine and Church historian, was born at Lubeck on the 9th of October, 1694 or 1695. ... Events February 6 - The colony Quilombo dos Palmares is destroyed. ... 1755 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... The Lutheran movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity by the original definition. ... (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ...

Mormonism

Mormonism is a term to describe religious, ideological, and cultural aspects of the various denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement. ... Leonard J. Arrington (July 2, 1917 - February 11, 1999) was born in Twin Falls, Idaho. ... The Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the largest attraction in the citys Temple Square. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Brigham Henry Roberts (March 13, 1857 _ September 27, 1933) was born in Warrington, a manufacturing town of Lancashire, England. ... Cover of Fawn McKay Brodie: A Biographers Life Fawn McKay Brodie (September 15, 1915 — January 10, 1981) was a biographer and professor of history at UCLA, best known for Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History, a work of psychobiography, and No Man Knows My History, the first important non-hagiographic...

The Papacy

The office of the Pope is called the Papacy. ... Ludwig Pastor, created Freiherr von Campersfelden, (January 31, 1854, Aachen – September 30, 1928, Innsbruck), was the great Catholic historian of the Papacy, who published his Geschichte der Päpste seit dem Ausgang des Mittelalters in sixteen volumes that appeared from 1886 to a last posthumous volume in 1933. ... The Vatican Secret Archives (Latin: Archivum Secretum Apostolicum Vaticanum; Italian: Archivio Segreto Vaticano), located in Vatican City, is the central repository for all of the acts promulgated by the Holy See. ...

Salvation Army

  • Rob Brettle (1963- ) Co-founder Christian Mission Historical Society
  • Harry Hayes - founder Salvation Army Philatelic Society
  • Glenn Horridge - Co-founder Christian Mission Historical Society

Shield of The Salvation Army The Salvation Army is a non-military evangelical Christian organization founded in 1865 by one time Methodist minister William Booth. ... Rob Brettle (born September 18, 1963), historian of Salvation Army history, and co-founder of the Christian Mission Historical Association, along with Dr Glenn Horridge. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... Dr Glenn Horridge is a historian, and co-founder of the Christian Mission Historical Association, with Rob Brettle. ...

Holocaust

... Yehuda Bauer Yehuda Bauer (born 1926) is an historian and scholar of the Holocaust. ... Martin Broszat (August 14, 1926 – October 14, 1989) was a left-wing West German historian. ... Christopher R. Browning (born May 22, 1944) is an American historian of the Holocaust. ... Lucy S. Davidowicz (June 16, 1915 – December 5, 1990), was a American historian, and an author of books in modern Jewish history in particular the Holocaust. ... Norman Finkelstein on Democracy Now! Norman G. Finkelstein (born December 8, 1953) is an American non-tenured assistant-professor of political science, author and notorious Jewish anit-Semite and Holocaust-justice denier. ... Henry Friedlander (1930-) is a American historian of the Holocaust noted for his arguments in favor of broadening the scope of victims of the Holocaust. ... Saul Friedländer (born 1932) is a French-Israeli historian. ... Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (born 1959) is an American political scientist. ... Dr. Raul Hilberg Raul Hilberg (born June 2, 1926) is one of the best-known and most distinguished of the Holocaust historians. ... Michael Robert Marrus (born February 3, 1941) is a Canadian historian of France, the Holocaust and Jewish history. ... Hans Mommsen (November 5, 1930-) is a left-wing German historian and twin brother of Wolfgang Mommsen. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Marxist

Marxism is the political practice and social theory based on the works of Karl Marx, a 19th century philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary, along with Friedrich Engels. ... Eric Foner (born February 7, 1943 in New York City) is an American historian. ... This article is becoming very long. ... Reconstruction was the attempt from 1865 to 1877 in U.S. history to resolve the issues of the American Civil War, when both the Confederacy and slavery were destroyed. ... Eugene Dominic Genovese (born May 19, 1930) was formerly a Marxist historian of the American South. ... Pre-Colonial America For details, see the main Pre-Colonial America article. ... Slave redirects here. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... John Edward Christopher Hill (February 6, 1912 _ February 23, 2003) was an English Marxist historian and the author of many history textbooks. ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Queen Queen Elizabeth II  -  Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification  -  by Athelstan 967  Area... Eric John Earnest Hobsbawm CH (born June 8, 1917 in Alexandria, Egypt) is a British Marxist historian and author. ... Timothy Wright Mason (March 2, 1940–March 5, 1990) was a British Marxist historian of Nazi Germany. ... National Socialism redirects here. ... Maxime Rodinson (26 January 1915–23 May 2004) was a french marxist historian, sociologist and orientalist. ... Islam (Arabic:  ) is a monotheistic religion based upon the teachings of Muhammad, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure. ... Sumit Sarkar was until recently Professor of History at Delhi University, India, where he began teaching in 1976. ... Edward Palmer Thompson (1924-1993) was a historian probably best known for his work The Making of the English Working Class, which included his reassessment of the Luddite movement. ...

Nazi

National Socialism redirects here. ... Walter Frank (1900-1945) was a Nazi historian, notable for his leading role in anti-Semitic research. ... 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... David Leslie Hoggan (March 23, 1923-August 7, 1988) was an American historian whose work was the subject of much controversy. ... 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Anarchist

  • Paul Avrich, USA 1931-2006. (Oral-)History of the US and Russia
  • David Berry, France, Movement in France.
  • Murray Bookchin USA 1921-2006.Writer; Founder of "Social Ecology"
  • Roland Creagh Editor of "Research on Anarchism" the interactive website/data base in various languages. (France)
  • Hans Jürgen Degen, Germany, Writer, Editor of "Lexikon der Anarchie"
  • Sam Dolgoff USA 1902-1990, writer, activist, co-founder of Anarcho-Syndicalist Review.
  • Sébastian Faure France, Encyclopedie Anarchiste, 4 volumes (1932-34)
  • Joao Freire, Portugal, Movement of Portugal/CGT.
  • Sharif Gemie, editor of "Anarchist Studies" (United Kingdom)
  • David Goodway, (UK, writer, editor)
  • Daniel Guerin, France 1904-1988. writer, editor Libertarian Communist
  • Robert Graham, (USA, writer, editor)
  • Peter Marshall, England 1946, historian, philosopher, writer (of 'Demanding the Impossible. A History of Anarchism, 1992).
  • Chuck Morse, USA, Writer, Founder of "Institute for Anarchist Studies/IAS.
  • Max Nettlau, 1865-1944, Austria, writer of "Geschichte der Anarchie", seven volumes.
  • Barry Pateman
  • Alex Prichard
  • Abel Paz, (Spain, Civilwar , Durruti, CNT/FAI )
  • José Peirats, (Spain, Historian of the CNT/FAI)
  • Jochen Schmück, Germany, Publisher, Founder of DadA - Datenbank des deutschsprachigen Anarchismus, webdata of german languages books on Anarchism and dadaweb.de.
  • Alexandre Skirda
  • Peter Staudenmaier
  • Horst Stowasser, Germany, Founder of "AnArchiv", Anarchistisches Dokumentationszentrum, Writer.
  • Antonio Tellez
  • Dana Ward, Founder of "Anarchist Archives", Online Research on the History and Theory of Anarchism, (USA).
  • George Woodcock
  • Howard Zinn

Paul Avrich is a professor and historian. ... Murray Bookchin[1] (born January 14, 1921) is an American libertarian socialist speaker and writer, and founder of the Social Ecology school of anarchist and ecological thought. ... Social ecology is, in the words of its leading exponents, a coherent radical critique of current social, political, and anti-ecological trends as well as a reconstructive, ecological, communitarian, and ethical approach to society. Social Ecology is a radical view of ecology and of social/political systems. ... Sam Dolgoff (1902-1990) was an American anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist. ... Anarcho-Syndicalist Review (formerly the Libertarian Labor Review) is an American anarchist magazine, published two to four times a year, which focuses on anarcho-syndicalist theory and practice. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Daniel Guérin (May 19, 1904-April 14, 1988) was a French anarchist and author. ... Anarchist Communism, also known as Anarcho-Communism, Communo-Anarchism or Libertarian Communism, is a political ideology related to Libertarian socialism. ... Robert Graham has written several books which challenge conventional history, mostly pertaining to the pyramids at Giza. ... Chuck Morse is an American journalist, author and radio talk show host from Boston who writes a regular syndicated column for WorldNetDaily and NewsMax. ... The Institute for Anarchist Studies is a non-profit organization founded in 1996 to assist anarchist writers and further develop the theoretical aspects of the anarchist movement. ... Max Nettlau (1865-1944) was an Austrian anarchist and historian. ... Abel Paz Spanish Anarchist, combatant and historian,(1921-) Abel Paz is the pen name of Diego Camacho. ... José Peirats Valls (15 March 1908-20 August 1989) was a Spanish Anarchist, activist, journalist and historian. ... Antonio Tellez (Antonio Tellez Sola) (1921-2005) was a Spanish anarchist, journalist and historian. ... George Woodcock (May 8, 1912 - January 28, 1995) was a Canadian writer. ... Howard Zinn (born August 24, 1922) is an American historian, social critic, playwright and political scientist. ...

Pacifist

Pacifism is the opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes. ... Ludwig Quidde Ludwig Quidde (March 23, 1858 – March 4, 1941) was a German pacifist who is mainly remembered today for his acerbic criticism of German Emperor Wilhelm II. Quiddes long career spanned four different eras of German history: that of Bismarck (up to 1890); the Hohenzollern Empire under Wilhelm... 1858 (MDCCCLVIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... For the movie, see 1941 (film). ... Wilhelm II of Prussia and Germany, Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert von Hohenzollern (January 27, 1859 - June 4, 1941) was the last German Emperor (Kaiser) and the last King (König) of Prussia from 1888 - 1918. ...

By general category

Architectural history

This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (born ca. ... De architectūra (Latin: On architecture) was a treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect Vitruvius and dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus. ... Alberti was an illustrious Florentine family, rivals of the Medicis and the Albizzi. ... De re aedificatoria: On the Art of Building in Ten Books, is a classic architectural treatise written by Leon Battista Alberti in 1450. ... Josef Strzygowski (1862 - 1941) was an influential and controversial art historian. ... 1862 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Joseph Rykwert was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1926 and emigrated to England in 1939. ... Italian architectural and art/social theorist and historian. ... David John Watkin (born David John Watkins in 1941) MA PhD LittD Hon FRIBA FSA, is a British architectural historian. ... Alberto Pérez-Gómez is an architectural historian. ...

Art history

This article is about the academic discipline of art history. ... Sir Nikolaus Pevsner CBE (January 30, 1902 – August 18, 1983) was a German-born British historian of art and, especially, architecture. ... 1900 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Simon Schama Simon Michael Schama, CBE (born 13 February 1945) is a professor of history and art history at Columbia University. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday. ...

Economic history

Economic history is the study of economic change, and of economic phenomena in the past. ... This article has significant problems in multiple areas. ... Robert William Fogel (born July 1, 1926) is an American economic historian and scientist, and winner (with Douglass North) of the 1993 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. ... David Landes is professor emeritus of economics and retired professor of history at Harvard University. ... Walt Whitman Rostow showing President Lyndon B. Johnson a model of the Khe Sanh area, 1968 Walt Whitman Rostow, October 7th, 1968 Walt Whitman Rostow (also known as Walt Rostow or W.W. Rostow) (October 7, 1916 – February 13, 2003) was an American economist and political theorist who served as... Richard Henry Tawney (R.H. Tawney) (1880 - 1962) was an English writer, economist, historian, social critic and university professor and a leading advocate of Christian Socialism Born in Calcutta, India, Tawney was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford where he studied modern history. ...

History of Education

  • David Hogan Professor of Educaton at the University of Tasmania.

This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... David Hogan (1949? - July 17, 1996) was a composer and musical director of CIGAP -- Le Choeur Intl Gai de Paris -- a choir made up of men who loved music and wanted to show pride in their identity as gay men. ...

Espionage

Spy and Secret agent redirect here. ... John Barron (1930-February 24, 2005)was an American journalist who exposed Communist activities. ... John Earl Haynes is a historian who is a specialist in 20th Century political history in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress; he is known for his books on the subject of the American Communist and anti-Communist movements, and on Soviet espionage in America (many written jointly... David Kahn is a US historian, journalist and writer. ... Categories: People stubs | 1947 births | Defectors | Russian writers | Ukrainian people ... Rupert William Simon Allason is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...

Maritime history

Maritime history is a broad thematic element of global history. ... Robert G. Albion (15 August 1896 - 9 August 1983) was the first Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard University. ... Howard I. Chapelle (1901-1975) was curator of maritime history at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.. In addition, he authored a several books on the subject on maritime history and architecture. ... John B. Hattendorf is a professor and the chairman of the maritime history department at the United States Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. ... RAdm Samuel Eliot Morison (1887-1976), USN historian Samuel Eliot Morison, RAdm, USNR (July 9, 1887 – May 15, 1976) was an American historian, notable for producing scholarly works that were both authoritative and highly readable, an ability recognized with two Pulitzer Prizes. ...

Military history

Military history is composed of the events in the history of humanity that fall within the category of conflict. ... Correlli Barnett (born June 28, 1927 in Norbury, Surrey) is an English military historian, who has written also on the United Kingdoms industrial decline. ... Antony Beevor (born on December 14, 1946) is a British historian, educated at Winchester College and Sandhurst. ... Caleb Carr (born August 2, 1955) is an American novelist and noted military historian. ... Field Marshal Richard Michael Power Carver, Baron Carver (April 24, 1915 - December 9, 2001) was a British soldier. ... Alan Kenneth Mackenzie Clark (13 April 1928 - 5 September 1999) was a British Conservative politician, historian and diarist. ... Martin van Creveld (1946- ) is an Israeli military historian and theorist. ... Military history is composed of the events in the history of humanity that fall within the category of conflict. ... Adrian Goldsworthy (born 1969) is a British historian and military writer. ... Professor Jack Lawrence Granatstein, OC , Ph. ... Bruce Barrymore Halpenny is a respected British military historian, specialising in airfields & aircraft. ... Victor Davis Hanson giving a lecture at Kenyon College. ... Andreas Fritz Hillgruber (January 18, 1925-May 8, 1989) was a conservative West German historian. ... Edward Richard Holmes CBE TD JP (born March 29, 1946), known as Richard Holmes, is a British soldier and noted military historian, particularly well-known through his many television appearances. ... Sir Alistair Allan Horne (November 9, 1925-) is a British historian of modern France. ... Sir Michael Eliot Howard, OM, CH, KBE, MC (born 29 November 1922) is a retired British military historian, formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War and Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford University. ... Sir John Keegan (born 1934) is an English military historian. ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with The 20th century in review. ... Look up war in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Richard Landwehr has been the author of numerous books about the Waffen-SS, its foreign (that is, non-German) volunteers in particular. ... The military historian Basil Liddell Hart. ... 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Military history is composed of the events in the history of humanity that fall within the category of conflict. ... Edward Nicolae Luttwak (born 1942) is an economist and historian known for his many publications on military strategy and international relations. ... Military stratagem in the Battle of Waterloo. ... Samuel Lyman Atwood Slam Marshall (July 18, 1900 – December 17, 1977) was a chief U.S. Army combat historian during World War II and the Korean War. ... Leo Niehorster (February 8, 1947 - ) is the webmaster of World War II Armed Forces Orders of Battle and Organizations and the author of several books on World War II. Niehorster has a Ph. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Dr Aryeh Judah Schoen Nusbacher is a Canadian military historian, Senior Lecturer at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and a talking head for many historical documentaries. ... Peter Paret (April 13, 1924-) is American military and art history historian with a particular interest in the German history. ... Military history is composed of the events in the history of humanity that fall within the category of conflict. ... Gordon William Prange was the author of several World War II-based manuscripts, published after his death in 1980. ... Gerhard Albert Ritter (April 6, 1888-July 1, 1967) was a well-known German conservative historian. ... Cornelius Ryan (5 June 1920 – 23 November 1974) was an Irish-American journalist and author mainly known for his writings on popular military history, especially World War II. His two best-known books are The Longest Day (1959), which tells the story of the D-Day (day one of the... Year 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Jean Edward Smith is an accomplished educator and biographer having authored such works as Grant, John Marshall: Definer of a Nation, and Presently he is the John Marshall Professor of Political Science at Marshall University. ... Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ... Professor Hew Strachan is a military historian, well known for his work on the administration of the British Army and the history of the First World War. ... Gerhard L. Weinberg, January 2003 Gerhard Ludwig Weinberg (born January 1, 1928) is a German-born American diplomatic and military historian noted for his studies in the history of World War Two. ...

Naval history

Naval warfare is combat in and on seas and oceans. ... Robert G. Albion (15 August 1896 - 9 August 1983) was the first Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard University. ... Maritime history is a broad thematic element of global history. ... Howard I. Chapelle (1901-1975) was curator of maritime history at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.. In addition, he authored a several books on the subject on maritime history and architecture. ... Andrew Gordon is a British naval historian. ... Combatants Royal Navy (Grand Fleet) Kaiserliche Marine (High Seas Fleet) Commanders Sir John Jellicoe, Sir David Beatty Reinhard Scheer, Franz von Hipper Strength 28 battleships, 9 battlecruisers, 8 heavy cruisers, 26 light cruisers, 78 destroyers 16 battleships, 5 battlecruisers, 6 pre-dreadnoughts, 11 light cruisers, 61 torpedo-boats Casualties 6... John B. Hattendorf is a professor and the chairman of the maritime history department at the United States Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. ... R.J.B. Knight (born 11 April 1944) The son of Lieutenant Commander John B. Knight of Bromley, Kent, and Alyson Yvonne née Nunn, Roger John Beckett Knight was educated at Tonbridge School, received a BA and MA at Trinity College, Dublin, PGCE at the University of Sussex; and... Andrew Lambert (born 31 December 1956) has been Laughton Professor of Naval History in the War Studies Department, Kings College, London and Director of the Laughton Naval History unit housed in the Department since 2001. ... Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan (27 September 1840 - 1 December 1914) was a United States Navy officer, naval strategist, and educator, widely considered the foremost theorist of sea power. ... Tyrone G. Martin is a US Navy commander and naval historian, notable as an authority on the USS Constitution (Old Ironsides), of which he was the 49th captain, between 1974 and 1978. ... USS Constitution, known as Old Ironsides, is a wooden-hulled, three-masted frigate of the United States Navy. ... Ironclad warships, frequently shortened to just ironclads, were ships sheathed with thick iron plates for protection. ... RAdm Samuel Eliot Morison (1887-1976), USN historian Samuel Eliot Morison, RAdm, USNR (July 9, 1887 – May 15, 1976) was an American historian, notable for producing scholarly works that were both authoritative and highly readable, an ability recognized with two Pulitzer Prizes. ... 1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II is a 15-volume account of the United States Navy in World War II, written by eminent historian Samuel Eliot Morison and published by Little, Brown and Company between 1947 and 1962. ... Sir Henry John Newbolt (June 6, 1862 - April 19, 1938) was an English author and poet. ... 1862 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Werner Rahn (born June 9, 1939), is a naval historian and former German naval officer. ... Professor Nicholas Andrew Martin Rodger (born 12 November 1949) is professor of naval history at the University of Exeter, England. ...

Historiography

Historiography is the study of the practice of history. ... Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch (July 6, 1886 - June 16, 1944) was a French historian of medieval France in the period between the First and Second World Wars, and a founder of the Annales School. ... Fernand Braudel Fernand Braudel (August 24, 1902–November 27, 1985) was a French historian. ... Herbert Butterfield (October 7, 1900-July 20, 1979) was a British historian and philosopher of history (see philosophy of history) who is remembered chiefly for a slim volume entitled The Whig Interpretation of History 1931. ... Edward Hallett Carr (28 June 1892 – 5 November 1982) was a British historian, journalist and international relations theorist, and fierce opponent of empiricism within historiography. ... Robin George Collingwood (February 22, 1889 - January 9, 1943), British philosopher and historian. ... Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton (August 17, 1921 – December 3, 1994) was a pre-eminent British historian of the Tudor period. ... Professor Richard Evans (born 1947) is a British historian of Germany. ... Pieter Carharinus Arie Geyl (1887-1966) was a Dutch historian well known for his studies in early modern Dutch history and in historiography. ... Jack H. Hexter (May 25, 1910–December 8, 1996) was an American historian, a specialist in Tudor and seventeenth century British history, and well known for his comments on historiography. ... Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (born 1929) is a noted French historian whose work is focused upon Languedoc in the ancien regime focusing on the history of the peasantry. ... Leopold Von Ranke in 1877. ... Insert non-formatted text hereHayden White(1928-3012) is an historian in the tradition of literary criticism, perhaps most famous for his work Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe (1973). ...

Gender and sexuality studies

This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... John Eastburn Boswell (March 20, 1947 - December 24, 1994), was a prominant gay historian and a professor at Yale University. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... George Lachmann Mosse (September 20, 1918, Berlin, Germany-January 22, 1999, Madison, United States) was a German-born American left-wing Jewish gay historian of fascism in general and Nazi Germany in particular. ... Professor Retha M. Warnicke (b. ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full year calendar). ...

History of ideas, literature, and philosophy

Sir Isaiah Berlin, OM, (June 6, 1909 – November 5, 1997) was a political philosopher and historian of ideas, regarded as one of the leading liberal thinkers of the 20th century. ... 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The history of ideas is a field of research in history that deals with the expression, preservation, and change of human ideas over time. ... J. C. D. Clark is a British historian of British history and American history. ... Michel Foucault (IPA pronunciation: ) (October 15, 1926 – June 25, 1984) was a French philosopher and historian. ... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Peter Gay (June 20, 1923-), a Jewish American historian of the social history of ideas, born in Berlin as Peter Joachim Fröhlich . ... 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... Lewis Mumford (October 19, 1895 – January 26, 1990) was an American historian of technology and science. ... 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... By the mid 20th century humans had achieved a mastery of technology sufficient to leave the surface of the Earth for the first time and explore space. ... 1875 (MDCCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... The history of literature is the historical development of writings in prose or poetry which attempt to provide entertainment, enlightenment, or instruction to the reader/hearer/observer, as well as the development of the literary techniques used in the communication of these pieces. ... Year 1880 (MDCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

History of business

Wall Street, Manhattan is the location of the New York Stock Exchange and is often used as a symbol for the world of business. ... Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. ...

History of international relations

Harry Elmer Barnes (June 15, 1889 - August 25, 1968) was a leading American historian in the 20th century. ... Herbert Butterfield (October 7, 1900-July 20, 1979) was a British historian and philosopher of history (see philosophy of history) who is remembered chiefly for a slim volume entitled The Whig Interpretation of History 1931. ... Edward Hallett Carr (28 June 1892 – 5 November 1982) was a British historian, journalist and international relations theorist, and fierce opponent of empiricism within historiography. ... Gordon Alexander Craig (November 13, 1913 - November 2, 2005) was a Scottish-born U.S historian of German, Swiss and of diplomatic history. ... President George W. Bush and Laura Bush stand with 2005 National Humanities Medal recipient John Lewis Gaddis. ... Klaus Hildebrand (1941-) is a German conservative historian whose area of expertise is 19th-20th German political and military history. ... Andreas Fritz Hillgruber (January 18, 1925-May 8, 1989) was a conservative West German historian. ... Paul Kennedy can refer to: Paul Kennedy a professor of history at Yale University who is known for his study of the history of international relations. ... William Leonard Langer Ph. ... Year 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar). ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... Arno Joseph Mayer (June 19, 1926 -) is Luxembourg-born American historian of modern Europe, diplomatic history, and the Holocaust. ... Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier (June 27, 1888 – August 19, 1960) was a significant English historian. ... Paul W. Schroeder is an American historian and professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois, specializing in the late sixteenth- to twentieth-century European international politics, Central Europe, and the theory of history. ... International relations (IR), a branch of political science, is the study of foreign affairs of and relations among states within the international system, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations (IGOs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and multinational corporations (MNCs). ... Jean Edward Smith is an accomplished educator and biographer having authored such works as Grant, John Marshall: Definer of a Nation, and Presently he is the John Marshall Professor of Political Science at Marshall University. ... For others named John Taylor, see John Taylor. ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... MCMXC redirects here; for the Enigma album, see MCMXC a. ... International relations (IR), a branch of political science, is the study of foreign affairs of and relations among states within the international system, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations (IGOs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and multinational corporations (MNCs). ... Harold William Vezeille Temperley (20 April 1879-11 July 1939) was a British historian, Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge from 1931, and Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge. ... 1879 (MDCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full year calendar). ... Sir (Ernest) Llewellyn Woodward (1890-1971) was a British historian. ... 1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar). ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday. ...

History of science and technology

The history of science and technology (HST) is a field of history which examines how humanitys understanding of science and technology has changed over the millennia. ... Allen G. Debus (born August 16, 1926 in Chicago) is an American historian of science, known primarily for his work in the history of chemistry and alchemy. ... Anderson Hunter Dupree (born in Hillsboro, Texas, on 29 January 1921) is a distinguished American historian and one of the pioneer historians of the history of science and technology in the United States. ... Peter Galison is a professor of physics and the history of science at Harvard University. ... John L. Heilbron was an American historian of science and academic. ... The Rev. ... A steam engine is a heat engine that makes use of the potential energy that exists as pressure in steam, converting it to mechanical work. ... Thomas Parke Hughes is Mellon Professor of the History and Sociology of Science, Emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania, and Visiting Professor at MIT and Stanford University. ... Evelyn Fox Keller (*1936) is an American physicist, author and feminist and is currently a Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... Melvin Kranzberg (November 22, 1917 to December 6, 1995) was a professor of history at Case Western Reserve University. ... Daniel J. Kevles is Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University, a position he assumed in 2001. ... Eugenics is the self-direction of human evolution: Logo from the Second International Congress of Eugenics, 1921, depicting it as a tree which unites a variety of different fields. ... Thomas Samuel Kuhn (July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American intellectual who wrote extensively on the history of science and developed several important notions in the philosophy of science. ... Paradigm shift is the term first used by Thomas Kuhn in his 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions to describe a change in basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science. ... David F. Noble is a critical historian of technology, science and education. ... Abraham (Bram) Pais (May 19, 1918, Amsterdam, The Netherlands — July 28, 2000, Copenhagen, Denmark) was a Dutch-born American physicist and science historian. ... Theodore M. Porter is Professor of history of science in the Department of at UCLA. Author of The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900; Trust in Numbers. ... Abdelhamid I. Sabra is a retired professor of the history of science specializing in the history of science in the Islamic World and the history of optics. ... George Alfred Leon Sarton (1884-1956) was a seminal Belgian-American polymath and historian of science. ... Matthew Norton Wise is a professor in the history of science at UCLA. He is also the co-director of the UCLA Center for Society and Genetics. ...

Social history

  • Gabriela Dudeková

Gabriela Dudeková (born April 5, 1968 in Hurbanovo) is a Slovak historian. ...

World history

Fernand Braudel (August 24, 1902 - November 27, 1985) was a historian who revolutionized the 20th century study of the discipline by considering the effects of economics and geography on global history, a prominent member of the Annales School of historiography, who concentrated on meticulous historical analysis in the social sciences. ... 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Francis Fukuyama (born October 27, 1952 in Chicago) is an influential American philosopher, political economist and author. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Hendrik Willem van Loon (January 14, 1882 - March 11, 1944) was a Dutch-American historian and journalist. ... Year 1882 (MDCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... William H. McNeill (born 1917, Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian historian. ... Year 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar (see: 1917 Julian calendar). ... The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (Chicago, 1963) is the most popular work by William H. McNeill. ... // Summary Jackson J. Spielvogel is an associate professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University. ... The Pennsylvania State University (commonly known as Penn State) is a state-related, land-grant university. ... Arnold Joseph Toynbee (April 14, 1889 - October 22, 1975) was a British historian whose twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations, A Study of History, 1934-1961, was a synthesis of world history, a metahistory based on universal rhythms of rise, flowering and decline. ... Year 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... A Study of History is the 12-volume magnum opus of British historian Arnold J. Toynbee, finished in 1961. ... Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (born 28 September 1930, New York City) is a U.S. sociologist by credentials, but a historical social scientist, or world-systems analyst by trade. ...

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