Famous Historians

• Adams, Henry

  The author of The Education of Henry Adams

• Carlyle, Thomas

  Author of Heroes and Hero-Worship

• Galfridus Monemutensis

  The 12th century author of 'Historia Regum Britanniae'

• Herodotus

  Ancient author of The Histories

• Hume, David

  Scottish skeptic who wrote A Treatise of Human Nature

• Isaacson, Walter

  The journalist/historian who wrote 'Steve Jobs' the bio

• Josephus

  Jewish historian of the 1st century

• Plutarch

  Author of Plutarch's Lives

• Tacitus

  Ancient Roman historian

• Tuchman, Barbara

  Author of The Guns of August

• Woodson, Carter G.

  The "Father of Black History"

• Zinn, Howard

  Boat-rocking U.S. historian

See: Index by Occupation