Founded in 1884, "for the promotion of historical studies, the preservation and collection of historical documents and artifacts, and the dissemination of historical research."
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Herbert Baxter Adams |
Historian |
16-Apr-1850 |
30-Jul-1901 |
Coined term political science |
| Charles McLean Andrews |
Historian |
22-Feb-1863 |
9-Sep-1943 |
The Colonial Period of American History |
| Joyce Appleby |
Historian |
9-Apr-1929 |
|
Capitalism and a New Social Order |
| Frederick B. Artz |
Historian |
19-Oct-1894 |
20-Jul-1983 |
Reaction and Revolution, 1814-1832 |
| Thomas A. Bailey |
Historian |
14-Dec-1902 |
26-Jul-1983 |
The American Pageant |
| Bernard Bailyn |
Historian |
9-Sep-1922 |
|
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution |
| Simeon E. Baldwin |
Politician |
5-Feb-1840 |
30-Jan-1927 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1911-15 |
| Jacques Barzun |
Historian |
30-Nov-1907 |
25-Oct-2012 |
From Dawn to Decadence |
| Charles A. Beard |
Historian |
27-Nov-1874 |
1-Sep-1948 |
The Rise of American Civilization |
| Carl Becker |
Historian |
7-Sep-1873 |
10-Apr-1945 |
Everyman His Own Historian |
| Samuel Flagg Bemis |
Historian |
20-Oct-1891 |
26-Sep-1973 |
Scholar of diplomacy |
| Michael Beschloss |
Historian |
30-Nov-1955 |
|
The Conquerors |
| David Blackbourn |
Historian |
1-Nov-1949 |
|
Populists and Patricians |
| Henry Blumenthal |
Historian |
21-Oct-1911 |
17-Feb-1987 |
France and the United States |
| Julian P. Boyd |
Historian |
3-Nov-1903 |
21-May-1980 |
Princeton University Librarian, 1940-52 |
| James Henry Breasted |
Archaeologist |
27-Aug-1865 |
2-Dec-1935 |
A History of Egypt |
| Nicholas Murray Butler |
Educator |
2-Apr-1862 |
7-Dec-1947 |
President of Columbia University, 1901-45 |
| Caroline Bynum |
Historian |
1941 |
|
Medieval historian |
| Andrew R. L. Cayton |
Historian |
9-May-1954 |
|
Ohio: The History of a People |
| Naomi W. Cohen |
Historian |
13-Nov-1927 |
|
Jews in Christian America |
| Phil Crane |
Politician |
3-Nov-1930 |
8-Nov-2014 |
Congressman from Illinois, 1969-2005 |
| William E. Dodd |
Diplomat |
27-Oct-1869 |
9-Feb-1940 |
US Ambassador to Nazi Germany |
| Edward Eggleston |
Novelist |
10-Dec-1837 |
4-Sep-1902 |
The Hoosier School-Master |
| Drew Gilpin Faust |
Educator |
18-Sep-1947 |
|
President of Harvard University |
| Eric Foner |
Historian |
7-Feb-1943 |
|
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution |
| John Hope Franklin |
Historian |
2-Jan-1915 |
25-Mar-2009 |
From Slavery to Freedom |
| William W. Freehling |
Historian |
26-Dec-1935 |
|
Prelude to Civil War |
| John Lewis Gaddis |
Historian |
2-Apr-1941 |
|
George F. Kennan: An American Life |
| Alan Gallay |
Historian |
26-Nov-1957 |
|
The Indian Slave Trade |
| John R. Gillis |
Historian |
13-Jan-1939 |
|
Islands of the Mind |
| Paul W. Glad |
Historian |
15-Aug-1926 |
|
The Trumpet Soundeth |
| J. David Hoeveler |
Educator |
31-Jul-1943 |
|
Watch on the Right |
| Michael J. Hogan |
Educator |
1943 |
|
President, University of Connecticut |
| W. Stull Holt |
Historian |
2-Oct-1896 |
12-Oct-1981 |
Treaties Defeated by the Senate |
| Akira Iriye |
Historian |
20-Oct-1934 |
|
Across the Pacific |
| J. Franklin Jameson |
Historian |
19-Sep-1859 |
28-Sep-1937 |
Dictionary of United States History |
| Oscár Jászi |
Sociologist |
2-Mar-1875 |
13-Feb-1957 |
The Dissolution of the Habsburg Monarchy |
| Robert Erwin Johnson |
Historian |
3-Feb-1923 |
28-Jan-2008 |
Guardians of the Sea |
| Linda K. Kerber |
Historian |
23-Jan-1940 |
|
Federalists in Dissent |
| Richard H. Kohn |
Historian |
29-Dec-1940 |
|
Eagle and Sword |
| Peter Kolchin |
Historian |
3-Jun-1943 |
|
American Slavery, 1619-1877 |
| Gerda Lerner |
Historian |
30-Apr-1920 |
2-Jan-2013 |
The Woman in American History |
| John V. Lombardi |
Educator |
1942 |
|
President, Louisiana State University |
| Breckinridge Long |
Diplomat |
16-May-1881 |
26-Sep-1958 |
US Ambassador to Italy, 1933-36 |
| Richard W. Lyman |
Educator |
18-Oct-1923 |
27-May-2012 |
President of Stanford University, 1971-80 |
| Lauro Martines |
Historian |
22-Nov-1927 |
|
The Social World of the Florentine Humanists |
| Garrett Mattingly |
Historian |
6-May-1900 |
18-Dec-1962 |
Renaissance Diplomacy |
| John J. McCusker |
Historian |
12-Aug-1939 |
|
The Economy of British America, 1607-1789 |
| James M. McPherson |
Historian |
11-Oct-1936 |
|
Battle Cry of Freedom |
| Tennant S. McWilliams |
Historian |
12-Sep-1943 |
|
Hannis Taylor |
| Roy Franklin Nichols |
Historian |
3-Mar-1896 |
12-Jan-1973 |
The Disruption of American Democracy |
| John Niven |
Historian |
26-Oct-1921 |
14-Aug-1997 |
John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union |
| Mary Nolan |
Historian |
17-Jan-1944 |
|
The Transatlantic Century |
| Frank Lawrence Owsley, Jr. |
Historian |
13-Jun-1928 |
|
The Struggle for the Gulf Borderlands |
| Nell Irvin Painter |
Historian |
2-Aug-1942 |
|
Creating Black Americans |
| Dexter Perkins |
Historian |
20-Jun-1889 |
12-May-1984 |
The Monroe Doctrine |
| David M. Pletcher |
Historian |
14-Jun-1920 |
22-Feb-2004 |
The Diplomacy of Involvement |
| Brenda Gayle Plummer |
Historian |
20-Oct-1946 |
|
Haiti and the United States |
| Jeremy D. Popkin |
Historian |
19-Dec-1948 |
|
Revolutionary News: The Press in France |
| David M. Potter |
Historian |
6-Dec-1910 |
18-Feb-1971 |
The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861 |
| Edwin O. Reischauer |
Diplomat |
15-Oct-1910 |
1-Sep-1990 |
US Ambassador to Japan, 1961-66 |
| Robert V. Remini |
Historian |
17-Jul-1921 |
28-Mar-2013 |
Andrew Jackson |
| James Ford Rhodes |
Author |
1-May-1848 |
22-Jan-1927 |
History of the Civil War |
| J. Fred Rippy |
Historian |
27-Oct-1892 |
10-Feb-1977 |
Historical Evolution of Hispanic America |
| James Harvey Robinson |
Historian |
29-Jun-1863 |
16-Feb-1936 |
The Mind in the Making |
| Michael Schaller |
Historian |
2-Jun-1947 |
|
The American Occupation of Japan |
| Thomas D. Schoonover |
Historian |
27-May-1936 |
|
The United States in Central America |
| Jonathan D. Spence |
Historian |
11-Aug-1936 |
|
The Search for Modern China |
| Jonathan Sperber |
Historian |
26-Dec-1952 |
|
The European Revolutions, 1848-1851 |
| April R. Summitt |
Educator |
c. 1965 |
|
Contested Waters |
| Barbara Tuchman |
Historian |
30-Jan-1912 |
6-Feb-1989 |
A Distant Mirror |
| Frederick Jackson Turner |
Historian |
14-Nov-1861 |
14-Mar-1932 |
Frontier Thesis |
| Gerhard L. Weinberg |
Historian |
1-Jan-1928 |
|
The Foreign Policy of Hitler's Germany |
| Donald Weinstein |
Historian |
13-Mar-1926 |
13-Dec-2015 |
Savonarola and Florence |
| Justin Winsor |
Curator |
2-Jan-1831 |
22-Oct-1897 |
Librarian of Harvard University |
| Gordon S. Wood |
Historian |
27-Nov-1933 |
|
The Creation of the American Republic |
