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Historians
Recorders and interpreters of human history.
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Alexis de Tocqueville (born 1805, died 1859)
French political scientist and historian who studied American life and society.
- Wrote Democracy in America
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Allan Nevins (born 1890, died 1971)
American historian.
- Author of books on American history and political figures
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(The Venerable) Bede (born 673, died 735)
English scholar, historian and theologian.
- Wrote an ecclesiastical history of England
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Bernard A. De Voto (born 1897, died 1955)
American historian.
- Wrote The Crooked Mile and Mark Twain''s America
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Brooks Adams (born 1848, died 1927)
American historian and political theorist.
- Wrote Law of Civilization and Decay
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Charles A. Beard (born 1874, died 1948)
American historian and educator.
- Wrote American Government and Politics
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Edward Gibbon (born 1737, died 1794)
English historian.
- Wrote The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Francesco Guicciardini (born 1483, died 1540)
Florentine historian and statesman.
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Francis Parkman (born 1823, died 1893)
American historian.
- Traversed the Oregon Trail and wrote an account of it
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Frederick J. Turner (born 1861, died 1932)
American historian.
- Emphasized the significance of the frontier in American history
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George Bancroft (born 1800, died 1891)
American historian.
- Wrote a two-volume History of the United States
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George Otto Trevelyan (born 1838, died 1928)
English historian and statesman.
- Wrote The American Revolution, a six-volume history
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Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (born 1828, died 1893)
French philosopher, intellectual historian and critic.
- Wrote Origines de la France Contemporaine
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James H. Robinson (born 1863, died 1936)
American historian and educator.
- Devised new curricula and methods for teaching history
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Jared Sparks (born 1789, died 1866)
American historian. President of Harvard, 1849-53.
- Editor of North American Review
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Joseph Campbell (born 1904, died 1987)
American historian.
- Wrote extensively on mythology and folklore
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Oswald Spengler (born 1880, died 1936)
German writer on the philosophy of history.
- Wrote Decline of the West, in which he predicted the waning of Western civilization
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Samuel Eliot Morison (born 1887, died 1976)
American historian.
- Wrote The Oxford History of the United States
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Theodor Mommsen (born 1817, died 1903)
German classical scholar and historian.
- Wrote several histories of Rome and works on Roman law
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Thomas B. Macaulay (born 1800, died 1859)
English writer and statesman.
- Wrote a five-volume History of England
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Thomas Carlyle (born 1795, died 1881)
Scottish essayist, historian, philosopher and educator.
- Wrote Oliver Cromwell, Life of Schiller and History of Frederic the Great
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Van Wyck Brooks (born 1886, died 1963)
American essayist and critic.
- Studied the development of American culture, especially literature
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William James ''Will'' Durant (born 1885, died 1981)
American historian, philosopher and educator.
- With his wife, Ariel Durant, wrote The Story of Civilization
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William Hickling Prescott (born 1796, died 1859)
American historian.
- His near blindness didn''t keep him from producing many works on Spanish history
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Carter G. Woodson (born 1875, died 1950)
American historian. A pioneer in the field of black studies.
- Founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History
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Thomas S. Kuhn (born 1922, died 1996)
American historian of science.
- Wrote The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Historians
Recorders and interpreters of human history.
