Topics: History : Historians
Sites and categories for individuals now or formerly engaged in the professional and scholarly study of history.
Alexander Polyhistor
Lucius Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor, c. 105 BC - 35 BC. Erudite Greek scholar who was sold into slavery in Rome, later freed and made a Roman citizen.
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Ambrose, Stephen
Contains sites relating to the life and work of author and historian Stephen Ambrose.
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Appleby, Joyce
Joyce Appleby, Stanford '50 Claremont Ph.D. '66, has been a professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles since 1981, having started her career at San Diego State University in 1967.Writing on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England and France in addition to early America, she has had an abiding interest in how changing economic systems prompted new ways of thinking about human nature and social action.
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Boorstin, Daniel
Sites about the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and former Librarian of Congress.
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Diogenes Laertius
Diogenes Laertius (Laertios), fl. 3rd century AD. Late classical biographer, an important but often unreliable source on the history of ancient philosophy.
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Gibbon, Edward
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,
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Johnson, Paul
The British intellectual historian and journalist Paul Johnson has authored 28 books, including The History of Christianity (1976), The History of the Jews (1987), The Intellectuals (1988), and The Birth of the Modern Age (1991).
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Leuchtenburg, William
Currently a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Macaulay, Thomas
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches,
The History of England,
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Maier, Pauline
Currently the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Morison, Samuel Eliot
Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, USNR (1887-1976) was a distinguished naval historian, a 1961 recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences' Emerson-Thoreau Medal for distinguished literary achievement, and of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964.
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Nennius
Sites about the eighth century Celtic author.
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Parker, Geoffrey
Sites relating to the English historian Geoffrey Parker. Professor Parker is a specialist in Early Modern Europe, particularly Spain.
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Procopius of Caesarea
Sites about the sixth century Byzantine historian.
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Toynbee, Arnold
The economic historian and social reformer Arnold Toynbee (1852-1883) is chiefly known for The Industrial Revolution in England, and is sometimes credited with popularizing the term “industrial revolution.”
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Toynbee, Arnold Joseph
Arnold J. Toynbee (1889-1975) was a professor of international history at the University of London.His most famous work, A Study of History, was published in twelve volumes between 1934 and 1961 and traces the development of about two dozen civilizations.
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Zosimus
Zosimus is believed to have been a Byzantine, as he wrote in Greek and cited Greek sources.
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