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W. E. B. Du Bois
American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)
Will Durant
American historian, philosopher and writer (1885–1981)
William L. Shirer
American journalist (1904–1993)
George Bancroft
American historian, statesman, founder of United States Naval Academy (1800-1891)
Daniel Pipes
American historian, writer, journalist and political scientist (born 1949)
William Hickling Prescott
American historian and Hispanist (1796–1859)
Francis Parkman
American historian (1823–1893)
Stephen Greenblatt
American literary critic, theorist and scholar
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
American literary critic, professor and historian (born 1950)
Daniel Goldhagen
American author and academic (born 1959)
Lothrop Stoddard
American white-supremacist historian, political scientist, journalist (1883–1950)
Nat Hentoff
American music critic, born 1925 (1925–2017)
John Lothrop Motley
American historian and diplomat (1814-1877)
Carroll Quigley
American historian (1910–1977)
Alfred W. Crosby
Historian, author, and professor (1931-2018)
William Wells Brown
American abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian (1814–1884)
Thomas Woods
American academic (born 1972)
Brooks Adams
American political writer (1848–1927)
John Boswell
American historian
Jill Lepore
American historian (b. 1966)
Allan H. Meltzer
American economist
Charles Francis Adams Jr.
American author and historian (1835–1915)
Herbert Baxter Adams
American educator and historian (1850-1901)
Lynn Thorndike
American historian of medieval science and alchemy (1882–1965)
Svetlana Alpers
artist, art historian and critic
Sebastian Junger
American author, journalist and documentarian
Crane Brinton
American historian
Theodore H. White
American historian and author (1915–1986)
Kenneth Setton
American medieval historian (1914-1995)
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
American historian
David K. Wyatt
historian (1937–2006)
Francis Otto Matthiessen
American academic (1902–1950)
Steven Zaloga
American historian
Ray Stannard Baker
American journalist (1870–1946)
Andrew Bacevich
United States Army officer
Gordon S. Wood
American historian
James Bamford
author and journalist
Langdon Warner
American explorer (1881–1955)
Theodore Ayrault Dodge
Union United States Army officer (1842–1909)
Justin Winsor
American librarian and historian (1831–1897)
Beaumont Newhall
American curator, art historian, writer and photographer (1908–1993)
Richard C. Lukas
controversial American historian (born 1937)
Alice Bache Gould
American historian (1868-1953)
William L. Langer
American historian
Alice Morse Earle
American historian (1851–1911)
Derk Bodde
American academic and sinologist (1909–2003)
John G. Palfrey
American clergyman, historian and politician (1796-1881)
Edward Washburn Hopkins
American historian and orientalist (1857–1932)
J. Franklin Jameson
American historian (1859–1937)
Charles Herbert Moore
American university professor, painter, and architectural historian (1840–1930)
Marie Boas Hall
American historian of science (1919 – 2009)
William Frederick Poole
American bibliographer and librarian (1821-1894)
Charles Warren
American legal scholar (1868-1954)
James MacGregor Burns
American historian and political scientist (1918–2014)
Isaiah Thomas
Massachusetts printer, publisher and journalist (1749-1831)
Herman Vandenburg Ames
Author and academic
Charles Callahan Perkins
American artist
William Cooper Nell
African-American journalist, historian (1816-1874)
Samuel Gardner Drake
United States historian and antiquarian (1798-1875)
Newton Arvin
literary critic (1900–1963)