history - the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view"

annalist - a historian who writes annals

art historian - a historian of art

chronicler - someone who writes chronicles

scholar, scholarly person, student - a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines

Arendt, Hannah Arendt - United States historian and political philosopher (born in Germany) (1906-1975)

Baeda, Beda, Bede, Saint Baeda, Saint Beda, Saint Bede, St. Baeda, St. Beda, St. Bede, the Venerable Bede - (Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735)

Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle - Scottish historian who wrote about the French Revolution (1795-1881)

Durant, Will Durant, William James Durant - United States historian (1885-1981)

Eusebius, Eusebius of Caesarea - Christian bishop of Caesarea in Palestine; a church historian and a leading early Christian exegete (circa 270-340)

Franklin, John Hope Franklin - United States historian noted for studies of Black American history (born in 1915)

Gardiner, Samuel Rawson Gardiner - British historian remembered for his ten-volume history of England (1829-1902)

Edward Gibbon, Gibbon - English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794)

Herodotus - the ancient Greek known as the father of history; his accounts of the wars between the Greeks and Persians are the first known examples of historical writing (425-485 BC)

Flavius Josephus, Joseph ben Matthias, Josephus - Jewish general who led the revolt of the Jews against the Romans and then wrote a history of those events (37-100)

John Knox, Knox - Scottish theologian who founded Presbyterianism in Scotland and wrote a history of the Reformation in Scotland (1514-1572)

Livy, Titus Livius - Roman historian whose history of Rome filled 142 volumes (of which only 35 survive) including the earliest history of the war with Hannibal (59 BC to AD 17)

First Baron Macaulay, Lord Macaulay, Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay - English historian noted for his history of England (1800-1859)

Alfred Thayer Mahan, Mahan - United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914)

Frederic William Maitland, Maitland - English historian noted for his works on the history of English law (1850-1906)

John Bach McMaster, McMaster - United States historian who wrote a nine volume history of the people of the United States (1852-1932)

Mommsen, Theodor Mommsen - German historian noted for his history of Rome (1817-1903)

Barthold George Niebuhr, Niebuhr - German historian noted for his critical approach to sources and for his history of Rome (1776-1831)

C. Northcote Parkinson, Cyril Northcote Parkinson, Parkinson - British historian noted for ridicule of bureaucracies (1909-1993)

James Harvey Robinson, Robinson - United States historian who stressed the importance of intellectual and social events for the course of history (1863-1936)

Saxo Grammaticus - Danish historian who chronicled the history of Denmark (including the legend of Hamlet) (1150?-1220?)

Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Arthur Schlesinger, Schlesinger - United States historian (1888-1965)

Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr., Arthur Schlesinger, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Schlesinger - United States historian and advisor to President Kennedy (born in 1917)

Stubbs, William Stubbs - English historian noted for his constitutional history of medieval England (1825-1901)

Thucydides - ancient Greek historian remembered for his history of the Peloponnesian War (460-395 BC)

Arnold Joseph Toynbee, Arnold Toynbee, Toynbee - English historian who studied the rise and fall of civilizations looking for cyclical patterns (1889-1975)