45 American historian stubs

James Peter Allen is an American Egyptologist, specializing in language and religion. He was curator of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1990 to 2006. In 2007, he became the Charles Edwin Wilbour Professor of Egyptology at Brown University. In 2008, he was elected president of the International Association of Egyptologists. A graduate of Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology, he received his PhD from the University of Chicago.

Tyler Anbinder is an American historian known for his influential work on the pre-civil war period in U.S. history.

Carl Sferrazza Anthony is an author and commentator in the United States. He has written several books on American First Ladies. He was a speechwriter for Nancy Reagan. He was the historian for the National First Ladies' Library and has made dozens of appearances on C-SPAN. He lives in California and has also written screenplays.

Christian Gerard Appy is a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is widely known as a leading expert on the Vietnam War experience. The most recent of his three books on the subject is American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity. It explores the war's impact on American politics, culture, and foreign policy from the 1950s to the Obama presidency.

Richard Allan Baker was the first Historian of the United States Senate, serving through August 2009. He directed the United States Senate Historical Office from the time of its creation in 1975.

Jean Barman is a historian of British Columbia. Born in Stephen, Minnesota, United States, Barman arrived in British Columbia in 1971. Her work The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia has been described as the "standard text on the subject [of British Columbia history]." She has received the Lieutenant Governor's Medal for historical writing, and the 2006 City of Vancouver Book Award. She is a professor emerita at the University of British Columbia, as is her husband, the historian of Brazil Roderick Barman.

Sven Beckert is Laird Bell Professor of American History at Harvard University, where he teaches the history of the United States in the nineteenth century, and global history. With Christine A. Desan, he is the co-director of the Program on the Study of Capitalism at Harvard University.

John F. Benton was the Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History, at the California Institute of Technology.

Robert Pierpont Blake was an American Byzantinist and scholar of the Armenian and Georgian cultures.

George Hubbard Blakeslee was an academic, professor of history and international relations at Clark University, and a founder of the Journal of Race Development, the first American journal devoted to international relations. This journal was later renamed the Journal of International Relations, which in turn was merged with Foreign Affairs.

Hal Brands is an American historian. He is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He graduated from Stanford University and earned a Ph.D. in history from Yale University. His father is the historian H. W. Brands.

The Reverend George Evans Brewer was an American historian, educator, legislator, and Baptist minister from the State of Alabama. He held office in the Alabama State Senate (1859–1863) and the Alabama House of Representatives (1857–1859), was elected to the office of Superintendent of Education of the County of Coosa, Alabama in 1856, and was appointed Adjutant General of Alabama by Governor Robert M. Patton in 1866.

Kim D. Butler is an American author and historian.

Edward Potts Cheyney, A.M., LL.D. (1861–1947) was an American historical and economic writer, born at Wallingford, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1883. He visited German universities and studied at the British Museum. The University of Pennsylvania conferred the degree of LL.D. on him in 1911.

John Tyler Christian (1854–1925) was a Baptist preacher, author and educator.

Frank Cifaldi is a video game preservationist, historian, and developer. He is the director of the Video Game History Foundation and has assisted in projects including Digital Eclipse's Mega Man Legacy Collection and The Disney Afternoon Collection remasters. He is also known for his extensive personal collection of video game periodicals. Cifaldi has also researched early video game advertising, early Nintendo prototypes, and the official Super Mario Bros. release date. He presented on games preservation at the 2016 Game Developers Conference. Cifaldi is additionally a former features editor of Gamasutra and a former host of the Retronauts podcast.

Daniel J. Cohen is an American historian. As of 1 June 2017 he is serving as dean of libraries and vice provost for information collaboration at Northeastern University. He was the Founding Executive Director of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). He was the director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media for 12 years, until leaving his position for the DPLA in 2013. His research work has focused around digital history and abstract mathematics being used in Victorian society to explain spirituality. In 2012 he was named one of the Chronicle for Higher Educations Tech Innovators.

Arthur Cole was an American historian. He specialized in the history of the American Civil War and taught at several universities over the course of his career, including University of Illinois, Ohio State University, Western Reserve University, and finally Brooklyn College, where he served as Chair of the History Department from 1950 to 1956 and retired as Professor Emeritus.

Robert Digges Wimberly Connor was an American historian and the first Archivist of the United States, 1934-1941.

Isaac Joslin Cox, Ph.D. (1873–1956) was an American professor of history.

Arthur Lyon Cross was an American historian specializing in English history. Born in Portland, Maine, he received his doctorate from Harvard and joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1899.

Robert Morse Crunden was an American historian. He was a professor of American studies and history at the University of Texas at Austin, and the author of many books.

Peter Demetz is an American literature scholar of Germany and a Sterling Professor emeritus at Yale University, and also a published author. He was formerly the Craig Distinguished Visiting Professor at Rutgers University.

Michael Denning is an American cultural historian and William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American Studies at Yale University. His work has been influential in shaping the field of American Studies by importing and interpreting the work of British Cultural Studies theorists. Although he received his Ph.D. from Yale University and studied with Fredric Jameson, perhaps the greatest influence on his work is the time he spent at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies working with Stuart Hall.

Robert "Bob" Donnorummo is the Senior Research Associate and Associate Director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the Center for International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. His specialization is in Russian and Polish history, transitions, and nationalism. His recent publications have focused on the political and economic changes in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Ronald Edsforth is a Visiting Professor of History, and Chair of Globalization Studies in the MALS Department at Dartmouth College.

A. Roger Ekirch is University Distinguished Professor of history at Virginia Tech in the United States. He was a Guggenheim fellow in 1998. He is internationally known for his pioneering research into pre-industrial sleeping patterns that was first published in "Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-Industrial Slumber in the British Isles" and later in his book At Day's Close: Night in Times Past.

Don Edward Fehrenbacher was an American historian. He wrote on politics, slavery, and Abraham Lincoln. He won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics, his book about the Dred Scott Decision. In 1977 David M. Potter's The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861, which he edited and completed, won the Pulitzer Prize. In 1997 he won the Lincoln Prize.

David Dudley Field I was an American Congregational clergyman and historical writer. He was born in East Guilford, now Madison, Connecticut on May 20, 1781, the son of Timothy Field, an officer during the American Revolution. He graduated from Yale in 1802, and received Doctorate in Divinity degree from Williams College. He held pastorates at Haddam, Connecticut, and Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He wrote A History of the Town of Pittsfield, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts (1814), A Statistical Account of the County of Middlesex in Connecticut (1819), The Genealogy of the Brainerd Family, in the United States, with Numerous Sketches of Individuals (1857), Centennial Address with Historical Sketches of Cromwell, Portland, Chatham, Middle-Haddam, Middletown and its Parishes (1853), among other works. He married Submit Dickinson (1782-1861) in 1803, daughter of Noah Dickinson, who was a veteran of the French and Indian War and served in the Continental Army. They both raised nine children, four of whom achieved national prominence. He is buried at the Stockbridge Cemetery in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

Paul H. Freedman is the Chester D Tripp Professor of History at Yale University. He specializes in medieval social history, the history of Spain, the study of medieval peasantry, and medieval cuisine.

David Henry Fromkin was an American author, lawyer, and historian, best known for his historical account on the Middle East, A Peace to End All Peace (1989), in which he recounts the role European powers played between 1914 and 1922 in creating the modern Middle East. The book was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Fromkin has written seven books in total, with his most recent in 2007, The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners

Gary William Gallagher is an American historian specializing in the history of the American Civil War. Gallagher is currently the John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia. He produced a lecture series on the American Civil War for The Great Courses lecture series.

Clifton L. Ganus Jr. was an American theologian. He served as the third president of Harding College in Searcy, Arkansas from 1965–1987. He was president of the National Education Program, a conservative organization within the university that was later known as the American Studies Program. He previously was a professor of history, chair of the department of history and social science, and vice president of the college. Ganus died in Searcy, Arkansas in September 2019 at the age of 97.

Otis Livingston Graham Jr. (1935–2017) was an American historian, with a special interest in political history, immigration, and public history.

Reuben Aldridge Guild was the librarian of Brown University from 1848 to 1893. He was born in Dedham, Massachusetts.

John Henry Haaren was an American educator and historian.

Kenneth J. Hammond is Professor of History at New Mexico State University. Hammond was a student and Students for a Democratic Society leader at Kent State University from 1967 to 1970. He later (1985) completed his degree in Political Science, then studied Modern Chinese language at the Beijing Foreign Languages Normal School in Beijing. Hammond received an M.A. in Regional Studies -East Asia(1989), and a Ph.D in History and East Asian Languages (1994) from Harvard University. In 2007, Hammond was appointed director of the Confucius Institute, a cultural initiative funded in part by Hanban on the NMSU campus that is dedicated to studying and publicizing China and Chinese culture. He is the editor of the journal Ming Studies.

Charles Francis Jenkins was an American Quaker and historian.

Harry Pratt Judson was a U.S. educator and historian and the second president of the University of Chicago.

Steven James Keillor is a Minnesota historian and author. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D in American History from the University of Minnesota; currently, he is an adjunct professor at Bethel University. He lives in Askov, Minnesota and is the brother of Garrison Keillor.

Kevin Michael Kruse is an American historian who serves as professor of history at Princeton University. His research interests include the political, social, and urban/suburban history of 20th-century America, with a particular focus on the making of modern conservatism. Outside of academia, Kruse has attracted substantial attention and following for his Twitter threads where he provides historical context and applies historical research to current political events.

Stephen Guild Kurtz was an American academic and educator, who served as the eleventh principal of Phillips Exeter Academy.

Charles Edwards Lester or C. Edwards Lester (1815–1890) was an American author and diplomat.

Charles Herbert Levermore was an American academic and peace activist. He was a founder and the first president of Adelphi University from 1896 to 1912. He won the American Peace Award in 1924. He was corresponding secretary of the World's Court League in 1919, secretary of the League of Nations Union, and secretary of the New York Peace Society. He was a founding member of the Union League in New York City.

Floyd Levin was a jazz historian and writer whose articles were published in many magazines, including Down Beat, Jazz Journal International, American Rag, and Metronome.